Posted on 01/21/2002 6:01:33 AM PST by RikaStrom
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”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....
repudiate \re*pyoo"dee*ate\ transitive verb
repudiated, repudiating, repudiates
repudiative; adjective
repudiation; noun
repudiator; noun
1. To reject the validity or authority of: “Chaucer... not only came to doubt the worth of his extraordinary body of work, but repudiated it” (Joyce Carol Oates).
2. To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
3. To refuse to recognize or pay: repudiate a debt.
4a. To disown (a child, for example).
4b. To refuse to have any dealings with.
5. To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. --Prynne.
6. To divorce, put away, or discard, as a wife, or a woman one has promised to marry.
His separation from Terentis, whom he repudiated not long afterward. --Bolingbroke.
7. To refuse to acknowledge or to pay; to disclaim; as, the State has repudiated its debts.
Etymology: Latin repudiatus, past participle of repudiare, from repudium rejection of a prospective spouse, divorce, probably from re- + pudEre to shame. Date: 1545
While MLK's dream was laudable, it has been warped by the current day civil rights movement. Randall Robinson is speaking at Syracuse University today, xshub's alma mater, and the title of his speech is "The Dream and the Debt". Xshub is explaining to xsteen what that speech is going to be about and the distinctions between MLK's dream and Randall Robinson's dream about REPARATIONS!
"The British had no complaints about their treatment," the spokesman said Monday. "They are in good physical health."
"There were no gags, no goggles, no shackles while the detainees are in their cells. They only wear shackles when they are outside," he added.
He said the men had been able to speak "freely and without inhibition," and had asked for messages to be passed to their families, which British officials were now doing.
This clearly repudiates any claims of human rights violations.
Kinda like I miss my wisdom teeth.
Sorry to get in the middle of your little discussion on al-Qaeda, but I would like to propose the following in honor of this day:
As part of my repudiation of the NAACP, I shall henceforth call said group "al-Kweisi"
Another place I'm not going!!!!!!!
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Boy, it's good to be back.
did you get much snow this weekend?
We went on the great mitten hunt here on Saturday - could not find Jax' mittens for anything, and Daddy wasn't able to find any when he was at the store - so good mommy that I am, I pulled out the yarn and crochet hook and proceeded to make her a new set. I was about half way through the finishing seam on the second one when she hollers "Daddy i found one and the other!!!!"
Her mittens were underneath a magazine less than 18 inches from where i had just sat for nearly 3 hours making her a pair of mittens. SHEESH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw your "welcome back" on Friday's thread, but only saw it this a.m.
I am so glad to be back in my office.
I do not have the day off, but Mrs. CD does... and, it's her birthday!
Maybe she will have time to join in some rallies, marches, etc., today! /sarcasm
Yes, that raid was a nice Easter present from the Klintoon "let's not bomb duting Ramadan" administration. I still loath that man and his cronies.
What about the possibility that Queada is the base word and the Al and Arab are the designations?
So if the group of terrorists are the Queada then the Al-queada is a distinct group within the larger group?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020118-10.html
National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2002 by the President of the United States of America a Proclamation
This Nation was founded upon the belief that every human being is endowed by our Creator with certain "unalienable rights." Chief among them is the right to life itself. The Signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their own lives, fortunes, and honor to guarantee inalienable rights for all of the new country's citizens. These visionaries recognized that an essential human dignity attached to all persons by virtue of their very existence and not just to the strong, the independent, or the healthy. That value should apply to every American, including the elderly and the unprotected, the weak and the infirm, and even to the unwanted.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that, "[t]he care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." President Jefferson was right. Life is an inalienable right, understood as given to each of us by our Creator.
President Jefferson's timeless principle obligates us to pursue a civil society that will democratically embrace its essential moral duties, including defending the elderly, strengthening the weak, protecting the defenseless, feeding the hungry, and caring for children -- born and unborn. Mindful of these and other obligations, we should join together in pursuit of a more compassionate society, rejecting the notion that some lives are less worthy of protection than others, whether because of age or illness, social circumstance or economic condition. Consistent with the core principles about which Thomas Jefferson wrote, and to which the Founders subscribed, we should peacefully commit ourselves to seeking a society that values life -- from its very beginnings to its natural end. Unborn children should be welcomed in life and protected in law.
On September 11, we saw clearly that evil exists in this world, and that it does not value life. The terrible events of that fateful day have given us, as a Nation, a greater understanding about the value and wonder of life. Every innocent life taken that day was the most important person on earth to somebody; and every death extinguished a world. Now we are engaged in a fight against evil and tyranny to preserve and protect life. In so doing, we are standing again for those core principles upon which our Nation was founded.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Sunday, January 20, 2002, as National
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Sanctity of Human Life Day. I call upon all Americans to reflect upon the sanctity of human life. Let us recognize the day with appropriate ceremonies in our homes and places of worship, rededicate ourselves to compassionate service on behalf of the weak and defenseless, and reaffirm our commitment to respect the life and dignity of every human being.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
BRAVO!
Happy Day!
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