;Posted on 04/17/2013 5:20:45 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, April 17, 2013-- sinuous
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
sinuous [sin-yoo-uh s]
adjective
1. having many curves, bends, or turns; winding: a sinuous path.
2. indirect; devious: sinuous questions.
3. characterized by a series of graceful curving motions: a sinuous dance.
4. Botany . sinuate, as a leaf.
Origin: 1570–80; < Latin sinuōsus
sinus: a curve; bend.
Related forms
sin•u•ous•ly, adverb
sin•u•ous•ness, noun
sub•sin•u•ous, adjective
un•sin•u•ous, adjective
un•sin•u•ous•ly, adverb
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Good morning!
Mornin’, sunny and slightly cool this morning. Promises to be a great day.
We had some thunderstorms last night. Before that, I cut some more grass. The push mower started on the second pull.
The only silver lining in the cloud of the horror in Boston is the fact that Obama and his ilk will be distracted for a few days and unable to focus on which items in the Bill of Rights they can obliterate.
By the way, as a math major, I smiled at your "divide by zero" tagline.
Speaking of Obamacare, I just got an email from an online insurance provider which included this Q and A:
Q: Can I be required to pay more for my coverage based on my health status in 2014?
A: You cannot be rated up based on your health status, but you can still be required to pay higher premiums based on your age, tobacco use, and where you live.
So a 400 lb. 30 year-old with hypertension and diabetes will pay lower premiums than a 60 year-old who runs 5 miles a day and weighs the same 165 lbs. that he did in high school. Only democrats could come up with crap like this.
Democrats wanted to limit how much young healthy people would pay, so they made it illegal for there to be too much price differential between the oldest and youngest customers’ prices.
Of course, in reality this will raise the rates youngsters pay.
Quinn’s first law: Liberalism always achieves the exact opposite of its stated intent.
The whole notion of not paying more for a pre-existing condition is oxymoronic. Insurance was originally designed to help people pay for a future event, not to fund an existing one. Try calling GEICO to get collision insurance after you’ve been in a wreck. Or have your spouse call MetLife and see about getting some life insurance for you after you’ve kicked the bucket.
I think they set the max as 3 times the minimum.
So if mine was 200 and the oldest was 1,000, now mine goes to 350 for a 75% increase.
The entire thing needs to be blown up and built from scratch. Health insurance should be for coverage against catastrophic events. You know, like it was actually insurance. Have a heart attack, break a leg. You get paid from the group pooling its resources against the unlikely-but-inevitable happenstance.
A free market in goods and services for the rest.
(And true charity for those who need help, of course.)
It should be like car insurance. If I get into a wreck, I get paid from the pooled resources.
If I need new tires, I buy them myself in a free market.
The way in which amoral and immoral behaviors have been insinuated into our laws and normalized in our culture is patently SINuous…
So where you live is considered to be hazardous to your health? Let me guess, Texas is more dangerous than San Francisco?
You can’t really blame them, though. We know they don’t understand the difference between things like “cost” and “price.”
And that, even if you eschew evil “profits,” you need to have enough revenue to cover costs.
No, but the doctor in NY costs more than the one in Podunk. His real estate, labor etc. are more expensive.
My Mother was just recently saying that exact thing - our health insurance was basically just for hospitalization and she paid the doctor monthly. Of course they didn’t have all the expensive testing back then. On an interesting side note of “things to come” - my sister’s insurance company has a new service where you call in and tell a doctor your symptoms (upper respiratory) and he calls in a prescription without ever having seen you in person.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3008827/posts
Speaking of which, Walter Williams on the subject today.
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