Posted on 03/13/2005 10:55:40 PM PST by elhombrelibre
I've seen it used that way. "Exercise your rights," for example.
(sigh)...Once again, Left = more government, right = less government. Fascism (derived from the latin word for 'group') is a construct of Benito Mussolini in 1919 in Italy to describe his new form of "centralized government", a LEFTIST ideal. So on the scale we see as we take more and more steps to the left we go from centrist to moderate liberal to liberal to FASCIST to socialist to Marxist to full on Commie.
Fascist = leftwinger. I really need to put this on a CD and just mail it out.
"Garance Franke-Ruta from the American Prospect suggested out loud that the blogging industry impose "community norms" to prevent libelous postings, like the ones recently revealed to be the handwork of Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich staffer Joseph Steffen..."
We already have them, it's called slander or libel.
And what, no mention of "Smirking Chimp"?
If I post on this thread, does that make me a blogger? (snicker)
Yup. :-)
You're right. Except for the Bunny-with-the-pancake-on-its-head vanities that crop up, FReepers do an excellent job of answering the five Ws when it comes to after-action reports and on-the-scene stuff. Of course, we have the luxury of follow-up questions so that the info remains as accurate as possible.
But in your example, "Exercise" is a verb, not an adjective.
It's not 'called' a forum. It IS a forum (or BBS). It is NOT A BLOG. A blog is an online web log, i.e., a DIARY of sorts, with regular posts from its owner. FR is not and never has been, to my knowledge, anything like that.
I'm very mannerly and I curtsy, and I don't have the hairy, nasty body of a man or thick, fumbling sausage-like fingers that routinely break the handles off of coffee cups at all. No no. I'm actually a sweet little girl in a paisley dress who says "Please" and "Thank You" and who's mother just ADORES me.
Who's your daddy, Lazmataz? Who's your poppa?
You gotta enjoy it when you can legitimately work that into a thread...LOL.
Not a common usage, but it is a legit one. See dictionary.com.
5 a. To absorb the attentions of, especially by worry or anxiety.
5 b. To stir to anger or alarm; upset: an injustice that exercised the whole community.
Like that guy "Publius" writing all those Federalist Papers ...
Didn't some guy named Ben Franklin, a few years back, write under many different pseudonyms? IIRC, he 'blogged' in his own newspaper in the colonies AND during his many years in England.
Franklin wrote as young women, old women, divorcees and so forth. He wrote editorial letters, at first to support the continued relationship between the states and King G...but as we know, he later supported the seperation in spite of the anguish it caused him and what was left of his family.
So you see, "blogging" has a LONG and established history of WE THE PEOPLE taking matters into our own hands...let's continue that fine tradition.
Smart E. Pantz, an old, one legged, blind man with no hair...
5 a. To absorb the attentions of, especially by worry or anxiety.
5 b. To stir to anger or alarm; upset: an injustice that exercised the whole community.
But the word is used as a verb in those examples, not an adjective. In the sentence I quoted, "exercised" is used as an adjective, like "angry", "perturbed" or "frightened". I don't find an adjective form of "exercised" at Dictionary.com.
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You're sweet?
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Yep, that's the right word. Great post. Thanks.
I should point out, were posted on the aptly named Free Republic...
Well, you have to remember that there's new theories of how to write a story. The inverted pyrmaid is still the best, IMHO.
I totally disagree with you.
No one does what you're talking about better than the New York Times. Their lede's are poetry, words sing, their kickers knock you down -- the writing is beauty beyond anything as pedestrian as "who, what, when, where". And yet, numbers are going down, trust is falling, the feeling of it being "my paper" like the feeling of it being "my team" dies.
You've bought into the sizzle being the steak, and so has the MSM. No, I don't want "great writing here" I want insight on a human scale. I want good people grappling with tough issues to make our lives and our communities better. I want both sides. I want information that's useful, not writer's groupthink. I want the engineer's appraisal of the space program, not the "English majors'" appraisal of the engineer's appraisal of the space program. ( Okrent )
What if all news had to be conveyed as cartoons? That selection process would leave out a fair number. So, how about some reporters being made into "write" people. They write the comments and insights of those who don't write. Broaden the base... make it really representative of the true diversity of ideas out there.
FreeRepublic is like that. Ideas are presented in all their hopeless ramblings and diversity. Real diversity, not the diversity of pigmentation. Not the "diversity" of what we do with what sex organ to some random orifice. They're presented with the diversity of ideas and experience from our many walks of life.
My chief and only desire was to express the loss of a Pope that meant the world to me. If you have any sense of respect, then I wish you would realise that 1.1 Billion of us are in a state of mourning.
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