Posted on 01/07/2014 5:03:06 AM PST by SoothingDave
Word For The Day, Tuesday January 7, 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".
vortex [vawr-teks]
-n, pl vortices, vortexes
1.a whirling mass of water, especially one in which a force of suction operates, as a whirlpool.
2.a whirling mass of air, especially one in the form of a visible column or spiral, as a tornado.
3.a whirling mass of fire, flame, etc.
4.a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.
5.something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it:
[1645–55; < Latin, variant of vertex vertex]
And did anyone catch Downton Abbey?
Why is it Mrs Crowley can bring a total stranger into her house for rehabilitation, but she can’t hire her dad son’s butler till he finds another position?
And didn’t the plot of season one revolve around the fact that Mary, as a woman, can’t inherit Downton. Now it turns out with a handwritten letter from her dead husband that she can?
He’s got a great voice.
When you say getting, you mean yarn and needles, right ;)
She got fired? That’s hardly progressive of Kaiser Bill.
Yes, and that demeanor.
I’d be in the Principals ofc. In about 10 seconds, and none of them want to see me lol...
The only ones that don’t know me ....YET...are in the High School, and that’s because #1 son is a standout citizen.
I’ve physically threatened one dean of discipline, in a meeting bc he seemed to misunderstand the difference between battery and self defense, so I offered to demonstrate it (you’d have loved that, the door was open, and I was halfway across the table...and the entire ofc staff heard it, and it caused the Principal to come sprinting into the room) and another at the district level, with a lawsuit, by offering to take the parental handcuffs off number one son, bc some little jag-off was verbally abusing him for a year.
That crap in the schools, is one area where I brook no crap, there are many places where you can let stuff slide...that ain’t one of them,
(#1 is 6’3”, lifts daily, plays lacrosse,football and baseball, and is well trained in the violent elimination of an opponent)
Not letting kids pee,,,what in the world have we become?
And Chicago? They don’t have bigger issues?
This is in the Zero Tolerance vein ( which is how I wound up with the Dean of Discipline)
Sorry for the rant. The petty School District bureaucrat stuff rattles my cage.,,lol
Yes, it was evident in Beverly Hill Cop, but as he aged, it all came together.
Immediately. He’s a commie, but not stoopid. He knows he’s going to have press problems, since every one covering him, is in his tax the rich gun sights, so she was expendable. And as I said, demonstrably stupid.
8 million people in the city, and thats the one she picks?
From the sucking Obamacare vortex
There is no protection, no Gore-tex
It has pulled ratings down
Making liberals frown
And question O’s cerebral cortex
OMG — those graphics are chilling. Why is nobody doing anything about this? Is the whole government fraudulent?
We know Harriet Jones has a heart of gold, and she can rehab for a short period but not for a long-term commitment as an employee. I like the changes in Bates and Branson(the youngest in our house’s favorite)The nanny was awful, wasn’t she? And Thomas is up to his usual tricks. Sorry, I meant Barrow.
Love that guy. Always plays GREAT characters.
That whole program (The Five) is an embarrassment. I even turned it off on the radio yesterday (Serius). Eric Bolling and Andrea Tanteros are the only members of the group with any brains at all. I used to like Kimberly Guilfoyle, but she talks like an idiot lately, as does Dana Perino. Is this supposed to be Fox’s answer to The View? (another program so stupid that I’ve never even made it through an entire hour.)
Ummmm...Yes?
well of course they are saying that she was only supposed to be there through his election, but i think they are giving her cover.
fantastic!!!
I don’t know Mrs Crowley’s finances, but that would be the only reason I could think of. Maybe she doesn’t need a butler, but noblesse oblige and all that. It all seems cold, which is what we are supposed to think. I suppose it’s commentary on the ones “left behind” as positions in traditional “service” declined.
Thomas remains an ass.
Anna is going to get in trouble facilitating Rose’s flirting.
Was that the Dowager’s butler who screwed over Moseley?
If the lords and ladies knew the stuff the servants got up to!
KG and Perino need to go. Gutfeld,Bolling,Beckel, and Tantaros are ok.
They really need a better Fifth. Dana Perino is better suited to spot appearances where her experiences are relevant.
Kimberly is the most conservative of the women, and she’s very smart, but she’s gone silly lately. Two failed marriages make me wonder, same with Juliet Huddy. Whether it’s poor judgement or whoring around on one side or the other, it does make me think something is not quite right. The NYs eve bit with Beckel was weird, and she kissed him on the mouth at midnight, and i saw stuff on Twitter making it seem like they were a couple, but i think that was just a bit, and not for real. I do like Dana and i love Gutfeld.
Maggie is my favorite character, by far.
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