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Word for the Day, Tuesday October 22, 2013

Posted on 10/22/2013 5:38:23 AM PDT by SoothingDave

Word For The Day, October 22, 2013



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".

eristic [e-ris-tik]

-adj
1.Also, er·is·ti·cal. pertaining to controversy or disputation; controversial.

-n
2. a person who engages in disputation; controversialist.
3. the art of disputation.

[1630–40; < Greek eristikós, equivalent to erist ( ós ) (verbid of erízein, derivative of éris discord) + -ikos -ic]


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To: hobbes1; Hegewisch Dupa
No it isn't.
21 posted on 10/22/2013 6:25:10 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

Is too.

(I love that skit)


22 posted on 10/22/2013 6:26:28 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: hobbes1

Of COURSE you do!


23 posted on 10/22/2013 6:27:24 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

Isn’t there a zero tolerance policy about bringing intellectual processes to class?


24 posted on 10/22/2013 6:29:50 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: xsmommy

what Hobbes and SD said...


25 posted on 10/22/2013 6:31:28 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: secret garden

After all, If I am going to argue with you, I have to take a contrary position!


26 posted on 10/22/2013 6:32:41 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: secret garden

I probably toldja this, but my 8 year old, knows the whole Witch skit, from Holy Grail.

And I wonder why he has problems in Science class. ;-)


27 posted on 10/22/2013 6:34:55 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: Hegewisch Dupa
An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

Drops the mic, walks away...
28 posted on 10/22/2013 6:37:54 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: SoothingDave

Don’t you just hate it when people overuse **eristics** & other punctuation??!!!


29 posted on 10/22/2013 6:37:55 AM PDT by mikrofon (Diacritically Speaking...)
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To: hobbes1

The best part of that skit is watching Cleese’s expressions.


30 posted on 10/22/2013 6:39:25 AM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

No it isn’t


31 posted on 10/22/2013 6:42:26 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: secret garden

And, no it osn’t


32 posted on 10/22/2013 6:43:19 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: secret garden
Drops the mic, walks away...

Awesome

33 posted on 10/22/2013 6:47:50 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Hegewisch Dupa

No it isn’t.


34 posted on 10/22/2013 6:51:54 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: hobbes1

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/10/barack_obama_spins_healthcare_gov_problems_the_president_s_message_may_make.html

Before the site was launched, the president said it would make signing up for health care as easy as making a plane reservation. When, after a few rocky days that turned out to be too rosy, the administration dropped the airline analogy. Now the experience more closely approximates the saga of having your flight delayed. First, the airline tells you it will be a half hour, then it stretches it to an hour, then two, then you’re offered a voucher for a drink. After four hours, it dawns on you that the plane is never taking off. They continue to assure you it will—just before they cancel your flight.


35 posted on 10/22/2013 8:05:08 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy

I’m so sorry to hear that-I take it there is no way to cure her problem? I hope at least it can be made better in the short term-she is such a young dog yet-you will let us know how she is doing, please?


36 posted on 10/22/2013 8:23:59 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: SoothingDave

I’ve tested, and built and rolled out tons of software.

Here’s the thing.

Every state has online enrollment for Medicaid, and social service networks at the state level, generally are tied into all other state services (like Unemployment...etc)

So, really all we are talking about is a common access front end, because the flat file on the backend, is clearly already formatted.

This should have been an extension of the Medicaid software.

This is more disgusting than most people realize.


37 posted on 10/22/2013 8:24:36 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: SoothingDave

The eristic nature of Obamacare
Is partly the way it’s written-
It demands you buy anti-venom for
A stranger before they are bitten

And even though your chances
Of tripping on a venomous snake
Are astronomical at the best
You’ll pay from what you make

For the snakebites, drug rehab,
The abortion and/or the birth
Of more ‘rat plantation workers
To wander aimless over the earth


38 posted on 10/22/2013 8:39:14 AM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: hobbes1

Remember they also have to tie in to the IRS and other agencies. But yes, it is always easier to start with something that is working and build from there.


39 posted on 10/22/2013 10:09:48 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: hobbes1

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3082018/posts

What we just said.


40 posted on 10/22/2013 10:30:08 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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