;Posted on 04/14/2014 4:58:00 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 4/14/14
;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".
bien-pensant; noun; adj.
1.Right-thinking, orthodox, conformist; conservative. [quotations ▼] 2010, Bagehot, The Economist, 23 Aug 2010: He hopes Mr Abbott wins the election in part because it would, he says, annoy bien-pensant British journalists and Leftists who oppose the Australian's positions on things like abortion, gay marriage or climate change. 2.Someone who accepts and/or espouses a fashionable idea after it has been established and maintains it without a great amount of critical thought.
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Etymology: French ; from bien, well + present participle of penser, to think
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
He does not say one word to me or his mother. He has forbidden me to bring up the subject, so how could I know? It would be common sense to tell me his plans BEFORE I go to the doctor to get my surgery date.
BTW, I liked the surgeon a lot, I felt very confident in him. He will be cleaning up the bone spurs on the back of my knee caps, too. AND, after I recover, I can hang from my inversion table again. That is a relief.
oh, he has a new doctor...we shall see how that goes....what if he finally agrees to surgery himself? Oh, well. Am I supposed to stop my life altogether for him? I did that last year and it got me no where.
Prayer is working. I am grateful for that.
I say his refusal to act on his own condition absolves you from needing to feel any guilt over taking care of your knees.
Thanks. I went into a funk when I heard, but I told him to move his date up so he was done before my surgery. It would be six weeks after the biopsy before he could have his prostate out, so there is time for me to get started and on the road to recovery.
It’s been tough enough to finally make the decision to move forward....roadblocks are not necessary, IMHO.
Toute notre dignité consiste donc en la pensée. C’est de là qu’il faut nous relever et non de l’espace et de la durée, que nous ne saurions remplir. Travaillons donc à bien penser : voilà le principe de la morale.
Yes I was going to ask if he could move it up. It is good he’s going to act.
A++++ excellent
That building was bought already built by the fed-it was right on a major highway in the city, as are a bunch of others they own.
I think they must have engaged in a lot of incorrect speculation and bought buildings near/on highways/freeways, thinking that if there was a convenient government office, everybody will come to it. I suppose they never gave a thought to the fact that government offices are lousy anchor businesses-they do not attract buyers of anything...
There is a whole business park full of fed-owned buildings with one or two fed offices-including DPS, IRS and DMV-and nothing else in them-off a major expressway in SA-it has been like that for over 20 years...
There could be one of several, but only he knows his agenda-you can only look at the clues. One is that he is worried about your knee surgery and wants to scare you into getting to 100% quickly. And good for you, telling him to move the date to accommodate you, as you have been on this string so long.
Well, for the last biopsy they told him to bring someone to drive him home...so that was when he told me it was being done that time. I will not be driving that soon after my surgery to be counted on for his driver this time around.
However, toll roads continue to charge tolls long after they are paid for so they end up making money for repairs and updates. Toll roads relieve traffic on the non-toll roads, therefore, those of us who willingly pay tolls to avoid traffic lights or start/stop traffic benefit those who do not pay since we lighten the traffic on those surface roads.
So, you are comfy with the government scamming taxpayers, ?
Interesting...
“We’ll remove the tolls once the road is paid for.......”
20 years later...
“NOT”
I am aware that they claim they will remove the toll booths once the roads are paid for - which would mean SOME people pay for the road that others will later get to drive for free. Isn’t that sort of like the rich paying more and the non-paying getting the benefit? Are you for handouts?
Thanks for the prayers for Mom and the good wishes for us.
Thanks for the good wishes. We managed to pack up her apartment in one day and gave everything that we didn’t ship home to my husband’s sister and nieces, or to the Salvation Army. It was an ordeal, but we got it done and got home at midnight last night.
Now, there is the matter of the obituary! I’ve already written it, but I couldn’t get the picture to attach (from the “road”) so I have to rework it and resubmit it today. Talk about EXPENSIVE! This is just a modest sized obit (500 words), and the local newspaper wants $2000 to run it! No wonder my uncle refused to have one written and published about him! He also refused a funeral.
We opted for cremation for many reasons. They charged $1400. She already owned her burial plot, and the cemetery demanded another $1400 to inter the cremains when they are ready.
I’m planning to write and publish a memorial booklet to send to the family and her remaining friends. But, I can’t believe that a simple cremation with no service and burial in a plot she already owns would amount to $5000, plus my expenses for printing and mailing the book. She’d “roll over in her grave” if she knew.
The biggesr shock is the cost of the obituary. She supplied that newspaper with numerous young journalists over the years who won awards for them. They should run it for free, or at a steep discount! Now I know why you see so many people standing in the street waving placards asking for donations for “funeral expenses” every time I visit her town.
And her taxes? I wrote a check from her trust for more than $20,000 for state and federal taxes while I was there. All because this year her estate had pretty much recovered all the money it had lost in the stock market since Obama was elected (2009). This despite massive medical deductions.
I thank God that she managed her money well, otherwise I’d be standing in the street with a placard begging for money!
I think that I’ll try to contact the newspaper directly to ask about the obit today, just to check whether the funeral society is trying to rip me off on the price.
Thank you for your thoughts, and condolences to you, as well.
I once knew a man named (title) Dr. Lawyer.
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