Posted on 10/02/2012 4:56:20 AM PDT by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, October 2, 2012
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".
hustings [huhs-tingz]
-n
1. (before 1872) the temporary platform on which candidates for the British Parliament stood when nominated and from which they addressed the electors.
2. any place from which political campaign speeches are made.
3. the political campaign trail.
4. Also called hustings court . a local court in certain parts of Virginia.
[before 1050; Middle English, Old English < Old Danish hūs-thing house meeting. See house, thing2]
Yes, Arnold was using Fox and Friends and his book as his hustings in his feeble attempt to woo Maria back into his home.
Have you been in Texas lately? We’ve had an epidemic of West Nile Virus....
Hustings
Real simple. Some tings are man tings and some tings are women tings, hus tings and herse tings.
That was an awesome sermon. Loved it.
Given Cosby's brush-ups with Obama in the past over race policy,
support for The One now would be just so much Hustings-bull…
It’s kind of a shock to see him humbled like this. Seems Maria is including him in all events involving the kids. Gracious of her.
I just saw the clip from the debate where Scott Brown tell Fauxcohauntus that he is not a student in her classroom. Good zinger, he got booed though. How are things on the ground there?
Humbled? He’s had 16 yars to be humbled. No, I think he’s a politician who was caught red handed, and he is just saying what he thinks needs to be said at the moment. Maria is a politician too, and is toying with his affections. I hope they work it out, but I doubt that he’ll be a changed man.
In the mean time he’s ruined at least 8 lives, not counting his own.
eeks, he was in Houston recently as i recall!
The bottom line was that it was the MAID, older, unattractive....and a son. He kept both in his home with his wife and children. He was despicable. Cannot fathom ever taking him back with the betrayal so personal.
will you watch the debate tomorrow PM? xshub and i agreed it’s impossible, we won’t be able to stand it. he said it would be worse than watching an SU basketball game live [and this from someone who walked around the outside corridor of the Superdome at the final four bc of his inability to sit in his seat and watch it live]i MAY be able to handle following it on Twitter, depending on how it goes!
Wonder if she was tested for HIV; with him no better than a alleycat, who the heck knows what he was bringing home disease-wise.
Regarding election MONTH: my husband and I have already voted. I have the dubious honor of being the first person in my municiipality to wreck my ballot and had to trek to City Hall and ask for a new one. I got to rip my old one in half and place it into the “spoiled ballot” bag — all by its lonesome. I voted September 20 the day after my ballot arrived in the mail.
I had used a felt pen marker to show how determined I was in my vote, and the ink bled through, spoiling the reverse side. The election workers are supposed to re-make my absentee ballot in that case, but I don’t trust them. So, I remade my own ballot, using a ball point pen.
The reason I vote early is because I work at the polls on election day and it will be a full day with no time to travel to my own polling place to cast my ballot. My husband has no good excuse for voting early, other than I won’t be home to remind him to go to the polls.
Oh, I am watching. Will watch in the kitchen and commandeer the computer, too.
I ask again: why does Obumbum need to go to Vegas to practice? He could go to Camp David. He has many rooms in the WH. He has an empty mansion in Chicago. Does he just like to spend our money? That’s a rhetorical question. I don’t expect an answer. I wonder where Michelle is during these practice sessions?
what an odd mix though, it says it has a replica of the Ponte Vecchio, which is in Florence? usually those hotels stay pretty close to theme.
Yes, my ballot will probably be waiting for me when I get home as Election Month starts today in Ohio.
I’ll probably be working at the polling place like you on election day.
well Nevada is a swing state for one thing, so that’s a reason to be there. He doesn’t need to go anywhere exotic for sure, but i can understand wanting to get away from your normal routine when preparing for something like that. preparing for oral arguments before an appellate court is not dissimilar from what he is doing, and i would prefer doing that elsewhere than my house, mainly to avoid the distractions. he appears to have even less self control than i do as far as concentrating, and he is going to be distracted no matter where he is.
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