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Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 10, 2013-- quisling

Posted on 07/10/2013 5:45:20 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, July 10, 2013-- quisling

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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".

quisling [kwiz-ling]

hear it pronounced

noun

a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.

Origin: 1940; after Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), pro-Nazi Norwegian leader

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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Vidkun Quisling’s name became synonymous with “collaborator,” just as a “Lewinsky” became a euphemism for an act that, according to Bill Clinton, is not sex. It would not surprise me if a well-written, honest history of the present era uses “Obama” as a verb that means “to turn the greatest country in the world into a socialist banana republic.”
1 posted on 07/10/2013 5:45:20 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Homework time!

If anyone wants on (or off) the PING LIST, please let me know.


2 posted on 07/10/2013 5:46:18 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

3 posted on 07/10/2013 5:47:18 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
U.S. Constitution, Article IV, Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every state in the union a republican form of government,

AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM AGAINST INVASION."


4 posted on 07/10/2013 5:47:31 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Quislings... aren't they CUTE?

5 posted on 07/10/2013 5:48:59 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Ed Snowden is a quisling, or plays one on TV.


6 posted on 07/10/2013 5:49:56 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Travis McGee
A++

gold

Two Quislings

No Waiting.

7 posted on 07/10/2013 5:53:00 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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silver

I think the one on the left is a spy from another brood.

8 posted on 07/10/2013 5:54:48 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Yep, he seems “out of place”.


9 posted on 07/10/2013 5:55:30 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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bronze

I wonder what quisling show he was on. Maybe "The Price is Right."

10 posted on 07/10/2013 5:58:37 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

There is something weird about his whole story.

Although I my working theory is he’s an idealistic guy who got in over his head. Note to self: Never let the wikileaks people plan your travel itinerary.


11 posted on 07/10/2013 6:07:48 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
I wonder what quisling show he was on. Maybe "The Price is Right."

That's a good one!

12 posted on 07/10/2013 6:07:51 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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There is also something weird about the way his story has been reported. Such as, how many times has he been tagged as a "high school drop out"? Then we find out that he left high school early because he'd already fulfilled all the requirements and entered college early. Suddenly he went from being a dumb a$$ to being a smart cookie. I wonder where the truch lies?
13 posted on 07/10/2013 6:12:17 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

truch = truth


14 posted on 07/10/2013 6:13:32 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The drop out meme was stupid. He wouldn’t have pulled the kind of salray he did if he was a dummie.

That meme was pushed by politicians (evil) and by journalists (lazy).

But in someways I think it just all looks too staged, like something out of central casting.


15 posted on 07/10/2013 6:20:39 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

It is curious that he left a job paying $200k and took a job paying $100k for the access to NSA files unless he had nefarious plans in the back of his mind.


16 posted on 07/10/2013 6:28:10 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: NeoCaveman

I liked the tweet that said he could always go back to his job as model for Lenscrafters.


17 posted on 07/10/2013 6:29:56 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

LOL. He totally looks like the computer geek you’d expect to see in the movie made about this. Which is part of what seems odd to me.


18 posted on 07/10/2013 6:38:33 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (DC, it's Versailles on the Potomac but without the food and culture)
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To: NeoCaveman

Because my husband and I lived in Berkeley during the 1960s and were associated with the University (as students) and my husband with the Radiation Lab (as an employee) an old friend of my husband’s sent us the book “Subversives” by Seth Rosenfeld.

The book is based on FBI files that the author spent 27 years getting through FOIA requests. I thought I was pretty aware of what was going on in Bezerkley at the time we llived there, but I had NO IDEA.

I’ve just started this fascinating read, and I do not know where it is going; but I was surprised in the first pages to find that the (then) president of the University (Clark Kerr) had been under FBI surveillance for years. And that Ronald Reagan had an ongoing pact with J. Edgar Hoover dating to Reagan’s early Hollywood days.

So, who knows what Ed Snowden was really doing? And what our government knew about him?


19 posted on 07/10/2013 6:39:08 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

In some places, it’s raining and drizzling
While in others, quite sunny & sizzling.
This is normal each year,
But we’re told we should fear
That it’s OUR doing, sayeth the Quisling.


20 posted on 07/10/2013 7:17:55 AM PDT by mikrofon (Humpday BUMP-dy)
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