;Posted on 01/08/2014 5:02:12 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, January 8, 2014-- demimonde
;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".
demimonde [dem-ee-mond, French: duh-mee-mawnd]
noun
1. (esp in the 19th century) those women considered to be outside respectable society, esp on account of sexual promiscuity
2. any social group considered to be not wholly respectable.
3. prostitutes or courtesans in general.
4. a group whose activities are ethically or legally questionable: a demimonde of investigative journalists writing for the sensationalist tabloids.
5. a group characterized by lack of success or status: the literary demimonde.
Origin:
[C19: from French, literally: half-world]
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Thanks, but it wasn’t, and this is being written in the first person, and it is not a mystery-more of a personal journey.
I am all about liberty and anti-govt control, but there are health concerns that the lefties conveniently ignore as long as it isn’t their ox being gored.
Better: I wanted to save the world.
I never said it was safe. Sometimes people had field parties, or out in the woods. But I had a small social circle, so cruising around was usually it.
According to Hobbes you can’t possibly be pro liberty if you oppose legalization. In fact you de facto support the contraception mandate if you oppose legalization.
Chief Justice Roger Taney disagreed with me.
Did that make him right?
How about the gun grabbers, like Nanny Bloomberg, Obama, and Rahm the Ballet queen..does that make them right?
(Irony note. That asshole Bloomberg that ran as a Republican, just gave 2.5 mil to a Dem super pac)
Put down the hay bale and the army of straw men. Majority of Dems support dope majority conservative republicans oppose it. Fact.
That’s right.
Freedom of conscience, is..the heart of the first amendment.
Prohibition, short of actual dire consequence, is an abuse of power.
Legalize incest polygamy and bestiality then. Nothing dire there.
Your family is gathering around the bong better go join them.
So what. Thats not a straw man argument.
Polls, do not determine right and wrong.
You either embrace constitutional philosophical principles, or you do not.
Turn on the 5 right now. Beckel is railing against handguns. Is that right, if 51% agree.
Look, you’re way brighter than I am, but your taking a lefty illogical position.
Once you need to retreat, to health,children, etc....you’ve conceded the philosophical bankruptcy of your position.
Polygamy? I could give a rats ass.
Bestiality, is not a victimless crime.
Counselor, I would expect you to know the difference.
They’d all be dead.as I said, thats a household issue, not an excuse for government control
Government should induce an ordered society.
Not coerce it.
Republicans are not immune from supporting bad ideas. In fact, many confuse the resistance to change with a resistance to change without good reason and careful deliberation.
My idiot stepsisters and their hoard of illegitimate kids smoke..... so yeah I agree, I see it as a very low class thing to do
Just call me a judgmental philosophically bankrupt bitch LOL I totes agree.
A victim is in the eye of the beholder, you dismiss some and embrace others.
Which?
I’ll gladly entertain an answer to any question..when you answer one of mine..
Teenagers are not allowed to drink anywhere.
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