;Posted on 04/14/2014 4:58:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 4/14/14
;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".
bien-pensant; noun; adj.
1.Right-thinking, orthodox, conformist; conservative. [quotations ▼] 2010, Bagehot, The Economist, 23 Aug 2010: He hopes Mr Abbott wins the election in part because it would, he says, annoy bien-pensant British journalists and Leftists who oppose the Australian's positions on things like abortion, gay marriage or climate change. 2.Someone who accepts and/or espouses a fashionable idea after it has been established and maintains it without a great amount of critical thought.
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Etymology: French ; from bien, well + present participle of penser, to think
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
because, of course, i meant it literally...
Playing like he was never gone too!
I’ve seen a bunch of those but I can’t see him dealing with another volatile Russian after Radulov.
It may be a small point, but...every thing you mentioned gets brought about by private money.
Except the roads.
Toll roads are an abomination, the gas tax should be a sufficient funding vehicle for road construction and maintenance....
What’s next, we pay the military a fee to protect is and our goods first?
(Yes, reductio ad absurdum)
Sort of.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2011/12/07/9272989-firefighters-let-home-burn-over-75-fee-again
;-)
You don’t need to be reactionary-I’m just about the last person who thinks anyone should pay the government for anything but maintaining the military and maybe a well-run postal service-but certainly not holding land and leasing it out to people who farm or ranch.
If the fed could only own the land with military installations, and everything else is private, that would put a stop to all this crap. And my family are small ranchers in south Texas, not even close to the several thousand acres the Bundys own, so my info on grass leases is limited-and there isn’t a great deal of public land in Texas-but most of Nevada appears to belong to the fed....
It was my understanding that the Bundy family leased additional public land, to graze additional cattle because there isn’t enough vegetation and water on his acreage to increase his herd there. He agreed to pay XXX for this grass/land lease.
Supposedly, there was a dispute, the government didn’t meet the terms of the lease, so he didn’t pay, and then they insisted he remove the cattle because of some tortoise that is apparently more important than humans or cattle, but that turned out to be bogus. He lost in court, the whole thing went bad, and the ass****s at BLM and the rest decided to try to play Waco again, but forgot this is not the Clinton years, and got their bluff called by a bunch of real people. So they gave back the cattle, went away mad, and everybody will end up back in court.
All I suggested was that maybe if everybody helped him pay the back lease fees, he will be without blemish in court and can get a better result-like make the BLM go away once and for all and not bother any ranchers again. It is always good to be paid up-in this case, if he is, he might be able to get a judge to award him the money plus damages...
It just never stops-may God punish him...
Well, technically speaking, the Code of Hammurabi specified not only the first civil penalties for bad engineering and bad designs in an earthquake zone, but the actual physical penalties (death if an occupant was killed in a falling house!) as well.
It is sobering to walk the mountain passes in Spain on the original Roman cobblestones of the original Roman roads.
Shouldas, couldas, and wouldas aside the land is clearly Federal property.
It’s probably a good idea to get the feds out of so much land ownership. But withholding rent and refusing to recognize the legal title of the landowner is not a winning strategy.
That’s why having the grazing fees paid up to date puts a fresh coat of I’m-the-wronged-party on Bundy, and makes it look better for them, or at least it would to me if I were a judge.
Someone needs to make a ruling or two that start making the fed think it may be best to begin divesting themselves of a lot of those lands...
Yes, I think it needs to be part of a platform of smaller gov’t in general.
I am not from the west and can not imagine having the 900 pound gorilla as the principal landowner in any state.
The random antiquities are what blew me away on my first visit to Rome. Seeing it on hillsides in Spain must be amazing.
I’m totally in agreement-for a good example of a bad example, look at all the empty buildings the fed owns-
un-leased, just sitting and bringing in no income, all paid for with taxpayer dollar$$$$. the only thing that 900 pound gorilla should own is the cage it needs to be kept in...
The company I worked for till 2000 leased a space in one of those fed owned ones in suburban SA-there was an EEOC office in it, that took up 1/2 of the 1st floor, but that was the only fed office in it. The building had 4 stories, and 50 suites, but besides the company I worked for, there was only an attorney’s office, an office with 3 architects, a fire safety company and an interior designer’s office-all on the 2nd floor. The 3d and 4th floor were empty for the 5 years we were there-it was like a ghost place.
And you know all the little bureaucrats the building was built for are in some newer building that the feds also paid for.
It’s like someone’s brother-in-law works in construction or something.
Well, it's when the the roadside historical marker credits the “new bridge” with being built in 1650 by a local bishop to replace a bridge restored in 1250 after the “old bridge” collapsed in 750 that sobers you up ....
No, I didn’t take the pics, but it is a good reminder to be careful on our roads. I have been to many accidents in my ambulance and it is scary. Stay safe.
Last I heard, the driver of the small demolished smart car was in ICU. Driver of the minivan was going to be ok.
We just covered the first chapters of Romans in Bible study....it is spelled out right there that gay lifestyle is a sin...no excuses for clergy to be gay. None at all.
OK, so DH has been so closed mouthed about cancer the evil C word. He waits till I text him the date of my surgery....knowing I was meeting with surgeon this morning....THEN he tells me he has a second biopsy a week after my surgery is scheduled for. NOW he tells me? DUH! DH, Dear Husband, is almost DUH. Interesting...there must be some hidden meaning there somewhere.
What will he do with a second biopsy that he did not do with the first? Did he not tell you he’d been back to the dr?
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