Posted on 03/22/2013 5:00:54 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”.
Crasis
Noun (plural - crases)
For word freaks: the fusion or contraction of two adjacent vowels into one
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
It’s FRiday! The sun was out yesterday...waiting for any sign of it this morning....no sign of spring yet, just more snow this morning.
Let no crasis go to waste.
LOL A++
CVS isn’t doing anything different than any other company that wants to controls its costs.
If I want to be on the top health care plan my company offers, I have to jump through similar hoops. It’s actually quite rational to not “group” together people who smoke and are overweight and refuse to try exercising with those who are reasonably attentive to their health.
The company and I are partners in paying for health care. This saves both of us money.
This is not the same as excluding those with conditions or diseases beyond their control. This is about choices people make.
Companies (for now) are under no obligation to provide any insurance. So trying to save money (for them and their employees) by grouping like this is completely fine.
Now, if and when Obamacare mandates that you get in your daily time on the treadmill, or that you eat your veggies, then it’s a different issue.
I already get those calls....I just lie if I feel like it. It’s none of their biz. Cannot fathom that I need a nanny taking care of me. I get extra healthcare money for providing this info now. Wait till they just have full access to your efile personal health info on line from your doctor.
ok, class...I will be in the teacher’s lounge having a catered breakfast. BBIAB
Which is no different from "fining" those who don't comply.
Either way, it is a free company in a free market making decisions freely about how and if it wants to provide benefits to its employees who freely decide to work there.
It's simply not totalitarian. People, even FReepers, are acting like the company owes it to its employees to give them the best health insurance with nothing expected in return. It's an entitlement mentality.
Again, once there is only the federal gov't making all of the health insurance decisions for everyone in the country, then it will be totalitarian to withhold what is your "right" unless you eat your broccoli.
An ObamaCourt’s liberal crasis
Where merit is never the basis
Pick ethnicity, gender
If a guy—a rear ender
Must select from minority races
FReep and FReeper are examples of crases.
A+++ LMAO
http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/3708615-74/whiskey-bottles-hill#axzz2OHrP7goL
Signs that you might have a drinking problem.
i’m sure she can collect that judgment on him no problem...
I can see maybe being curious enough to drink from one bottle. But 52 bottles!? That’s a cry for help.
I knew there would be an interest in this meaning. A++
Snow-brrr! It is partly sunny and 71 here...
The crasis of the budget
The ‘rat senate submitted
Was so full of, um, fiction
I’m surprised it was submitted
Patty Murray is an airhead
Whose world is a unicorn park-
She can’t do simple math because
Her head is in a place that’s dark
She admits it never balances-
She doesn’t try to fudge it-
If they just want more to spend
There’s no point in any budget...
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