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Word For The Day, Wednesday, March 19, 2014-- jawboning

Posted on 03/19/2014 4:46:08 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, March 19, 2014-- jawboning

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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".

jawboning [jaw-bohn-ing]

hear it pronounced

n : the use of public appeals and other forms of spoken persuasion (as by a president) to influence the actions of others.

Origin: 1480–90; jaw + bone

Related forms

jaw•bone, jaw•boned verb

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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.




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“Vast amounts of stimulus money and White House jawboning have done little to move the unemployment needle.”—MICHAEL NOER, FORBES, SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
1 posted on 03/19/2014 4:46:08 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Homework time!


2 posted on 03/19/2014 4:47:15 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
As by a president

The jawbone is connected to the assbone, in this case.

3 posted on 03/19/2014 4:56:14 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I prefer to use that word as a verb in reference to the old hero Samson:

“The idiot Democrat senators who voted for this should be taken out back and jawboned about the head and shoulders until they get some sense knocked into them...”


4 posted on 03/19/2014 5:01:08 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

The President has tasked John Podesta to do his “jawboning” on Climate change. Mr. Podesta has designed an App that will create an electronic simulation of what climate change will do to our own areas of the country. The question is: will anybody believe this fiction?


5 posted on 03/19/2014 5:03:30 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: SoothingDave
A++

gold

Indeed, the current occupant of the White House does seem to suffer from cranial-rectal inversion.

6 posted on 03/19/2014 5:05:45 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: Abathar
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silver

The jawbone of an ass is a fitting weapon to use against asses.

7 posted on 03/19/2014 5:07:07 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
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bronze

Lie to the entire world? There's an app for that.

8 posted on 03/19/2014 5:08:16 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Rain and snow predicted for today with a high of 40 degrees. And we are supposed to have all of our heating units removed and replaced from off the roof of our plant! Cranes arriving in 45 minutes. We’ll see how it goes.


9 posted on 03/19/2014 5:20:11 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
The jawboner in chief, predictably, not making much of an impression on Pooty Poot.
10 posted on 03/19/2014 5:23:35 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Mr. Podesta has designed an App that will create an electronic simulation of what climate change will do to our own areas of the country. The question is: will anybody believe this fiction?

Believe that Podesta designed an app?

No. No one will believe that.

11 posted on 03/19/2014 5:26:49 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy
A++
12 posted on 03/19/2014 5:27:34 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

that guy is way too muscular to be obams! and pooty looks great in prison stripes!


13 posted on 03/19/2014 5:30:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: SoothingDave

That was an abbreviated way of describing Podesta’s plan. The important “take away” is that Podesta has hired someone to create an App to appeal to the younger folks to convince them of the horrors of climate change. They know that the older generations are too wise and experienced to believe this fol de rol. But, they think that they still have a chance to convince the millions who play with Apps all day.


14 posted on 03/19/2014 5:33:50 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Yeah, those sanctions are really doing the job, said the jawboner in chief.
15 posted on 03/19/2014 5:38:42 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I couldn’t come an agreement on the terms of the company I had a contract with, so after March 31st I will be a former jawboning, independent businessman again.


16 posted on 03/19/2014 5:40:44 AM PDT by lefty-lie-spy (Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
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To: secret garden

A++
Since the dems can’t run on the success of Obamacare, and they can’t run on foreign policy success, and they can’t run on the economy, and they can’t run on the absence of scandals, all they can do is make stuff up: climate change, war on women, minimum wage (and now overtime wages) and the like. The people who are dumb enough to fall for this drivel were already dem voters. Independents who give a modicum of thought to the process cannot possibly vote democrat. And, conservatives will be motivated to turn out in droves to get these imbeciles out of office.


17 posted on 03/19/2014 5:49:34 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: lefty-lie-spy

A+
Good luck.


18 posted on 03/19/2014 5:50:17 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (lib-pocrisy: requiring photo ID at a march protesting photo IDs for voters.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
A++ Since the dems can’t run on the success of Obamacare, and they can’t run on foreign policy success, and they can’t run on the economy, and they can’t run on the absence of scandals, all they can do is make stuff up: climate change, war on women, minimum wage (and now overtime wages) and the like. The people who are dumb enough to fall for this drivel were already dem voters. Independents who give a modicum of thought to the process cannot possibly vote democrat. And, conservatives will be motivated to turn out in droves to get these imbeciles out of office.

And all of that will be counter-balanced by massive vote fraud. The political Right should be doing EVERYTHING it can RIGHT NOW to get vote fraud reduced. Requiring ID, voter roll audits, huge grassroots push to get volunteers to monitor polling places, etc etc etc.

19 posted on 03/19/2014 5:59:09 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

i hope you are right, but the American people have disappointed me before. I cannot underestimate their stupidity.


20 posted on 03/19/2014 5:59:26 AM PDT by xsmommy
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