Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03

1/28/03

[Bella_Bru]

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....

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obdurate\OB-du-rit; OB-dyu-rit\, adjective:

1. Hardened in feelings, especially against moral or mollifying influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
2. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable.

Etymology: Obdurate is from Latin obduratus, past participle of obduro, obdurare, to be hard against, from ob-, intensive prefix + durus, hard.

Synonyms: Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn; obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible; unsusceptible.

Usage: Obdurate, Callous, Hardened. Callous denotes a deadening of the sensibilities; as, "a callous conscience." Hardened implies a general and settled disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and sympathy; as, "hardened in vice." Obdurate implies an active resistance of the heart and will against the pleadings of compassion and humanity.

Good Morning Class. Welcome to School!

[Bella_Bru]

I don't suppose any of you are still up?

[Bella_Bru]

The FR Insomnia Club.

[Bella_Bru]

Ping-o-rama

[MeekOneGOP]

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[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', Teach ! Mornin', everybody !!

52 degrees right now, heading for about 70 today. I bet maybe even warmer than that?...

Have a cup while you FReep !

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I was out yesterday. I went to a friends for the Super Bowl Sunday and my brakes had problems, so I couldn't post on FR yesterday. Brakes fixed now and now I'm back...

[xsmommy]

um i wasn't. but now i am. morning, teachy

[camle]

another early am, teach?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I'm here...for a moment

[hobbes1]

!

[LonePalm]

First? Top Ten?

Printed on 100% recyclable phosphor.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[xsmommy]

Kudos to Bishop Weigand, for calling Gov. Davis to task last week for his fraudulent Catholicism. The obduracy of Catholics with respect to the tenets of their faith, must be shaken. Neither faithless politicians, nor run of the mill Catholics, should be left pretending that they are believers, when they do not hold with the fundamental beliefs of the Church.

Bishop Weigand counseled Davis and any abortion advocate to "abstain from receiving Holy Communion until he has a change of heart." Stung by the bishop's directive, the governor's office fired back: "There are a lot of Catholics who are pro-choice. Does the bishop want all Catholics to stop receiving Holy Communion? Who's going to be left in church?"

The answer, governor, to the first question is, yes – if you are no longer in communion with the teachings of the Church, stay in your seat. Receiving Holy Communion is serious business. St. Paul taught that those who receive communion unworthily drink judgment upon themselves (I Corinthians 11). A Catholic receiving communion signifies his union with Christ and the Church.

Gov. Davis and other "Catholic" politicians like Nancy Pelosi or John Kerry who trumpet their support for abortion are not in union with the Church. Their reception of communion is like reciting your wedding vows while having an affair. Such politicians seek respectability by claiming a religious affiliation, but they have sanctioned the legal killing of millions of children. Let them attend a partial-birth abortion on Saturday afternoon and see, then, if they can approach the altar on Sunday.

The answer to second question "Who's going to be left in church?" is: faithful Catholics. The governor has confused political power and the Church, worrying about how many people (votes? dollars?) would be left in the pews if abortion proponents who attend Catholic parishes staged an exodus.

Those who obdurately refuse to accept the tenets of the Catholic church need to LEAVE IT!

[CholeraJoe]

Commuter airline passengers who are obdurate about revealing their weight will no longer be allowed to fly.

FAA Wants Airlines to Weigh Certain Passengers

[xsmommy]

this isn't an unreasonable request. you have to be weighed for heliocopter flights, so they can apportion the weight around the thing to make sure it flies straight.

[CholeraJoe]

When I flew Sandpiper Air from Nantucket to Hyannis, they weighed us and used big telephone directories to balance the weight.

No bull. The TV show "Wings" was based on a real air service.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Wow, did you see the line that the Beech that crashed was within 100 pounds of it's maximum weight? Scary......

[xsmommy]

yeah, get a few women to lie about their weight and you end up in the ocean!

[TheGrimReaper]

I don't know about you, but when I have insomnia....
...I can hardly sleep at all!
8-|

[TheGrimReaper]

Obtusius obduratus upchuckus...

[VRWCmember]

Good Morning Miss Bella.

[CholeraJoe]

get a few women to lie about their weight

A few??

[xsmommy]

i just got one of those nauseating chain emails from someone celebrating GIRLFRIENDS day (oh GAG ME!). But there was a cute graphic that would be appropriate to post at this point, of 2 little girls standing in front of a scale, and one says to the other "don't step on it, it makes you cry". but it isn't an html thing that would allow me to copy.

[VRWCmember]

But there was a cute graphic that would be appropriate to post at this point, of 2 little girls standing in front of a scale, and one says to the other "don't step on it, it makes you cry".

You mean this one?

[VRWCmember]

Damn! I'm good!

[xsmommy]

yes, gosh, vast, where do you find this stuff?

[VRWCmember]

As it happens, I remembered having seen that cartoon at my favorite site for a wild collection of miscellaneous images, audioclips, videos and all around assortment of stuff!

[xsmommy]

did you get the HAPPY GIRLFRIENDS day email letter too????

[TheGrimReaper]

Not so much as a "good morning, grimmy"???

Fine. My memory is long.
[Just like some of my other features]

[xsmommy]

oh geez, did i forget to say buenos dias to mi chico favorito? GOOD MORNING, GRIMMY, HOW ARE YOU TODAY?/singsong voice

[xsmommy]

and if you were a woman, your reaction to the preceding post would be. hm, if i had to ask you to say good morning, you didn't really mean it, it wasn't heartfelt.

[TheGrimReaper]

am i revealing too much of my inner psyche here?

No... just your standard-issue stereotypical female behavior patterns.

[hobbes1]

probably.

[xsmommy]

well all i can say is that i recognize i have them, that they are insufferable and that i feel them every day of my life and xshub puts up with a lotta crap.

[xsmommy]

well if i am being too revealing, you can just avert your eyes, darling....

[TheGrimReaper]

Yep...utterly dumbfounded.
8-/

[xsmommy]

i can also assure you that i am well worth the aggravation.

[TheGrimReaper]

i can also assure you that i am well worth the aggravation

Well, there IS an experiment to test that assertion.....

[VRWCmember]

did you get the HAPPY GIRLFRIENDS day email letter too????

No. Like I said, I've seen that cartoon before and recognized your description of it. I thought it was cute and remembered where I had seen it.

[xsmommy]

: )

[xsmommy]

that experiment is carried on in the xshousehold. you get just the tiniest smidge of what aggravation i can cause. the fact that xshub has remained married to me for almost 18 years is a testament to my redeeming qualities...; )

[VRWCmember]

that experiment is carried on in the xshousehold. you get just the tiniest smidge of what aggravation i can cause. the fact that xshub has remained married to me for almost 18 years is a testament to my redeeming qualities...; )

Like your culinary prowess?

[VRWCmember]

HAPPY GIRLFRIENDS day email letter

Did it include an order form for the Girlfriend Remote Control?

[TheGrimReaper]

a testament to my redeeming qualities

Or... an iron-clad prenuptual agreement hanging over xshub's head.
[Although I'm sure your redeeming qualities are plentiful.

[xsmommy]

OMG, LMAO!

[xsmommy]

you mean the one that says what's mine is mine, what's ours is mine and what's his is mine?

[TheGrimReaper]

If Poppin' Fresh was wearing pants, he would have just crapped in 'em.
)8-o

[TheGrimReaper]

That's the one.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

If you look in the dictionary under "obdurate" you will see a picture of Saddam Hussein. No matter what the evidence, he never gives in. When inspectors tried to interview the Iraqi scientists, they were given the runaround. If the interview had been scheduled for the afternoon, Saddam sang out, "Morning!" If the interview was set for the morning, Saddam chanted, "Evening." I guess he is holding their families as hostages, and once he has found them, he'll never let them go.

[doubled]

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20030128-67395668.htm

"The Daschle-Democrats are on the war path on the
economy. They are crassly rooting against a recovery, and
they are working like armies of wood ants behind the scenes
to erode any and all of President Bush's economic initiatives
— including most prominently his bold tax cut plan. Anything
that would hasten an economic growth revival before the
2002 elections, they reflexively oppose."

Demorcrats are quite obdurate
And they continue to berate,
But Bush's new man,
And economic plan,
Will help keep America great.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Saddam chanted "Evening!"

High-fiving ya for the power groaner!