Word for the Day, Monday, February 22, 2016

2/22/16 | xs

[xsmommy]

Word For The Day, Monday, February 22, 2015— passel

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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”. passel noun 1. a group or lot of indeterminate number: a passel of dignitaries. origin:1825-35; alteration of parcel Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

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[xsmommy]

well yeah, that too...

[xsmommy]

Father DeCelles on Justice Scalia. he and Paul Scalia were classmates, it appears.

[tioga]

So far, all are staff issues....not Cruz himself.

[xsmommy]

oh ok, so that excuses it? has he fired the people involved? there are allegations of lies by Cruz himself all over twitter. like i said all of the candidates are extremely flawed, you just pick the flaw that you can live with when you pull the lever, but to act like others making different choices are less principled or thinking less for themselves is just wrong. i know he probably wears it as a badge of honor, but he has NO one other than Steve King, from Congress endorsing him. i think unlikable is a detriment to being elected to office.

[xsmommy]

this is pure crap from the Left. the people i have spoken to who find him unlikable are republicans. i would not solicit a lib opinion on any pub candidate.

[xsmommy]

FR has gone totally around the bend. Sane people are getting scarcer than hens teeth! the IF YOU DON"T AGREE WITH MY CANDIDATE YOU ARE A RAGING RINO AND DON"T DESERVE TO LIVE crowd reigns surpreme on FR.

[NeoCaveman]

we had dinner with Rand Paul and his wife Kelly last night

I am incredibly jealous. That is freaking awesome.

[SoothingDave]

The thing about this one is how entirely implausible the entire thing is, and how eager partisans were to spread it around as gospel.

We’re supposed to believe a candidate for President, just casually walks through a hotel breakfast room and expresses contempt for the Bible.

C’mon people. Have a little belief in the complete non-evilness of your fellow man.

[NeoCaveman]

I really don’t get the animating principle behind a Kasich run

You and me both :-)

[SoothingDave]

Yep, dinner with the high and mighty one night. Getting out of speeding tickets the next day. ;-)

[NeoCaveman]

Yep, dinner with the high and mighty one night. Getting out of speeding tickets the next day. ;-)

Life is good.

[xsmommy]

it was ridic on its face, don’t believe ANY of them would do it, which makes it all the more reprehensible that Cruz operatives would be pushing such a horrible story. and ok, so it’s staff... if obama’s staff does something do we not impute it to the top of the food chain? so yeah, you have scumbags pushing nasty lies, it’s going to bite you in the ass, mr candidate.

[xsmommy]

i pled guilty!!

[xsmommy]

he was across the table of 8 from me and i have a bad cold with some laryngitis so i couldn’t really engage him on what he thinks is going to happen. were i next to him, i would have.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Ithaca is gorges!

[Travis T. OJustice]

LOL, nice.

[Texan5]

I envy you your dinner companions...

In Hawaii they worship Obama
But will that remain the same
When Obama settles down to be
The island king in all but name?

Will they be just as enchanted
Or just indignant and appalled
When their hero’s electric fences
And intruder alarms are installed?

Or will they become offended by
All of the armed guards at the gate
Or the passel of minions he brings
To just golf with him in their state?

I refuse to read most of the sniping-it makes my teeth itch-I’m just delighted that Jeb Bush folded his tent and left the field, even though the amount of money he spent to fail has to have his donors reeling in shock...

[leaning conservative]

He looks doughy & soft. How do you get to be that old & not have a small bit of cragginess in your face? He is the guy you PRAYED the bottle would never point to when you played spin the bottle. The creepiness factor is high. Oh, I ate a passel of do- si- dos today....mmmmm......

[Travis T. OJustice]

OK, ladies of WFTD, are any of you “leaving the kitchen” to support Kasich?

I can’t believe he said that.

[Texan5]

I absolutely howled when I read the kitchen comment of Kasich’s-I don’t leave a jobsite during work time or the kitchen when cooking dinner-and I wouldn’t support him in any case-the man is obviously out of touch with reality...