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Word for the Day, FRiday, March 19, 2010 - Polemic
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Posted on 03/19/2010 5:19:55 AM PDT by tioga


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”.

Polemic

Noun

    1. A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
    2. A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation.

Adjective - Polemical

    Of or relating to a controversy, argument, or refutation.

Adverb - Polemically


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.

The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)

Practice makes perfect.....post on....

Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)

Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister

Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate


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The polemical health care bill has placed the Republicans into a goal line stand to protect our health care system. Go Team!
1 posted on 03/19/2010 5:19:55 AM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Gabz; Guenevere; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Commando FRiday is here......March madness has begun.


2 posted on 03/19/2010 5:20:43 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

When my headset microphone went out, I had to resort to a pole mic.


3 posted on 03/19/2010 5:22:27 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: tioga; xsmommy

Butt if its a commando Friday, where the xcess polemickery dancing?


4 posted on 03/19/2010 5:23:16 AM PDT by Robert A. Cook, PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: MrB

(Robt ran into MrB when the classroom opened. Oopsie.)


5 posted on 03/19/2010 5:24:00 AM PDT by Robert A. Cook, PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

LOL


6 posted on 03/19/2010 5:26:46 AM PDT by tioga
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To: MrB

grrroooaaaannn.

A+


7 posted on 03/19/2010 5:27:19 AM PDT by tioga
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To: xsmommy
ooohhh......there is a wolf in the FOX hen house....

"We prefer people in the tent not dumping on other people in the tent," he added. Ailes warned that people who found it hard to stand in Beck’s shadow had another option besides denigrating their own team. "If I couldn’t defend the family, I’d leave,” he said. “I’d go to another family."

....and they want to shoo them out. This should prove interesting.

8 posted on 03/19/2010 5:31:44 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

We try to bring down this bill with polemic
Before freebies become epidemic
Healthcare for so many more
Yet on the CBO score
We save money; they must be alchemic


9 posted on 03/19/2010 5:33:22 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (Barack Obama: Government:: Bernie Madoff: Finance)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

nah, they are just LIARS!

A+++


10 posted on 03/19/2010 5:34:54 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

The Undocumented Pres_ _ent Barack Hussein Obama
polemically has attacked Personal responsibility,
the Principle of God and Israel over Jerusalem,
the Primacy of the superlative American health system,
and all Protective shields defending the American People.


11 posted on 03/19/2010 5:35:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: tioga

grrrrr


12 posted on 03/19/2010 5:37:18 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: Diogenesis

he is a busy little bee

A+


13 posted on 03/19/2010 5:37:58 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Polemic...Half Polish/Half Irish?


14 posted on 03/19/2010 5:38:29 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: tioga

I fear we will lose this battle not because of the polemic arguments, but because of the underhandedness of that b**ch Pelosi.


15 posted on 03/19/2010 5:38:56 AM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: hobbes1

oh, oh. Big East didn’t exactly shine last night. your team lost? SU plays tonight.


16 posted on 03/19/2010 5:39:32 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Bees do good. The undocumented Pres_ _ent has done no good.


17 posted on 03/19/2010 5:39:46 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: hobbes1

ROTFLMAO!

A+++


18 posted on 03/19/2010 5:39:55 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Who at Fox has their panties in a bunch?


19 posted on 03/19/2010 5:40:25 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: theDentist

A+

the queen bee herself...let’s hope she is dethroned in November. I cannot WAIT!


20 posted on 03/19/2010 5:41:36 AM PDT by tioga
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To: SoothingDave

I don’t know....but I have my eyes and ears to the ground.


21 posted on 03/19/2010 5:42:47 AM PDT by tioga
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To: SoothingDave
lots of speculation on this thread.
22 posted on 03/19/2010 5:46:26 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga
A quote from The Crisis, written by pamphleteer and polemicist, Thomas Paine...

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.

23 posted on 03/19/2010 5:47:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (Note to the 216th vote: Your name will live in infamy.)
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To: mewzilla

A+++


24 posted on 03/19/2010 5:53:50 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

great word going into this weekend.


25 posted on 03/19/2010 5:54:22 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

i vote that it’s Shemp.


26 posted on 03/19/2010 5:55:14 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

Somebody with a car that looks like mine tried to rob a bank last week. Ordinarily, this would be funny because the bank robber was an obese and stupid white female, who left when the teller told her that the bank had run out of money. But now the local polemic department has taken an interest in my car every time they see it.


27 posted on 03/19/2010 5:58:44 AM PDT by sig226 (Bring back Jimmy Carter!)
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To: xsmommy

like I was saying on the thread......if it were a big name like shemp or hannity, they can complain directly to the big guy in private.....must have been an underling without access to use a public meeting to do it.


28 posted on 03/19/2010 5:58:58 AM PDT by tioga
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To: sig226

oh NO!


29 posted on 03/19/2010 5:59:27 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga
Two known polemics who have no common sense blather about why the big zero is not winning the popularity game.
30 posted on 03/19/2010 6:01:05 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: tioga

i don’t think it’s an underling, were it an underling i don’t think that Roger would have said anything publicly, he would have called the peon in or had their supervisor do it, and say shut up. i think it’s an on air personality. Shemp has been more and more blatant in his leftism during his 3pm show, it seems to both xshub and i. he’s been Ping me O over the healthcare mess by continually saying, let’s just pass it and move on yada yada, as if it’s an inevitability that he’s bored with talking about. i think he’s somewhat reckless and outspoken and may have said something anti-beck either on air, or out in the open on the set somewhere and has been tattled on.i’d love to see his fruity @$$ move to CNN


31 posted on 03/19/2010 6:01:21 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

i rhink it’s the opposite.


32 posted on 03/19/2010 6:02:38 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: sig226

guess that has put the shy-boss to your hotrodding and doing wheelies around town... ; )


33 posted on 03/19/2010 6:03:16 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

what time is SU on, do you know? it was WUNNERFUL to see the hoyums routed last evening.


34 posted on 03/19/2010 6:04:01 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

My little Chevy Malibu four-banger couldn’t hot rod around town if I duct taped a jet engine to it. :)


35 posted on 03/19/2010 6:04:35 AM PDT by sig226 (Bring back Jimmy Carter!)
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To: secret garden

A+++ the liberal nutcases are so wrapped up in promoting health care, they deny that we just don’t want it.


36 posted on 03/19/2010 6:04:44 AM PDT by tioga
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To: sig226

and you know that about the jet engine, bc i bet you tried! LOL!


37 posted on 03/19/2010 6:05:15 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

oh, I HOPE it was shep or even geraldo. either one can go IMHO. Hannity is noticeably silent on beck as well. time will tell, as it’s human nature to gossip.


38 posted on 03/19/2010 6:07:15 AM PDT by tioga
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To: secret garden

i can’t even listen to a liberal blather without wanting to commit violence, i am that infuriated over all of this. there was a thread earlier this AM, a vanity, by a freeper who said he was just going to disassociate himself with everyone who supports these socialists, be they family or friend. luckily i have no family to disassociate and i don’t talk politics with friends with whom i know i disagreed politically, but i can sure identify with the guy’s rant.


39 posted on 03/19/2010 6:07:29 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

hannity i think would have more sense and would be less inclined to bash a fellow conservative, even if he thinks them misguided. Shemp, being a lib, no doubt buys into the leftwing mantra on Beck, and i would guess was heard parroting it aloud somewhere. can’t you just hear him making some snide, snarky remark on the set of the aft show of his? he has been waaaay out of the closet on his political orientation if not sexual orientation, of late.


40 posted on 03/19/2010 6:09:42 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: tioga

i don’t think shemp cares for Mr O either, and i think has made little digs at him, both at 3pm and as lead-ins to Mr O’s show. you never see Mr O having shemp on, and it really seems like Bill has almost everyone from the fox fam he has any respect for at all, on in some capacity.


41 posted on 03/19/2010 6:11:30 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

yeah, BORe does promote FOX personalities....it’s Hannity who doesn’t do that much. means Hannity is more insecure than BORe is ...LOL


42 posted on 03/19/2010 6:14:14 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Team....Team...I don’t need no stinking Brackets ?????

See explanation...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2472848/posts?page=132#132


43 posted on 03/19/2010 6:17:44 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: hobbes1

xsfrosh was excited to go to school today to rag on the Gtown fans in her class after they were ROUTED last night. there’s a kid whose dad went to Gtown, undergrad and law school, and has season tix to their games. xsfrosh and he go at it over SU/Gtown constantly.


44 posted on 03/19/2010 6:20:47 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
oh, yeah...I DID notice that rant. take a gander at our CIC fill out his selections...
45 posted on 03/19/2010 6:21:17 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Yup. Not just a muslim, but a gay misspelling one at that.

Imagine the consternation if Dubya had done that.


46 posted on 03/19/2010 6:22:22 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: hobbes1

but he can pronounce pockistan


47 posted on 03/19/2010 6:23:25 AM PDT by tioga
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To: hobbes1

it would have been on the front page of every paper had W done that.


48 posted on 03/19/2010 6:23:34 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Yeah. Everyday for a week.


49 posted on 03/19/2010 6:24:44 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you don't have to...." ;)
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To: SoothingDave; secret garden

xshub went to the Kings-Blackhawks game last night and texted me that they had topless icegirls. i don’t think i believe him! he enjoyed the game and said he made friends with blackhawk fans sitting around him.


50 posted on 03/19/2010 6:27:24 AM PDT by xsmommy
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