;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....
I remember watching it with my dad when I was little.
xsteen just last week got rollerblades from Overstock.com, and she and xsfiance went rollerblading on the C&O canal path, she said they went about 4 miles and it was an excellent workout. he has his roller hockey skates, but i imagine he still looked like a goober.
Been there. The very real definition of the Bleeding Heart. God give you peace and perspective, and eventually, joy.
Yeah, it was on saturdays or sundays, on the two or 3 channels we used to get.
Oh yeah, this is State Staff Ranger for the Oregon BLM Michale Roop.
http://cdn.grumpyelder.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Michael-Roop-BLM.jpg
He saw fit to tackle 57 year old cancer survivor Margaret Bundy Houston from behind with no warnign. What did she do the cause this? Watering the cows.
Contact info:
State Staff Ranger Mike Roop, BLM,
Oregon State Office, 333 SW. 1st Ave.,
Portland, Oregon, 97204, 503–808–6410
or michael_roop@blm.gov
Scumbag.
friggin militarized bureaucrats. Grrrr.
World has gone crazy!
My condolences. My uncle passed as well....Mass is today....
I am very sorry for your loss.
Easier access.
Weeeellll, ya gotta figure that, for all of the fairy tales about princesses and frogs and dragons and kings and queens, most of all people ver born have bien-pensants.
Or smiths, fellers, farmers, carpenters, shepherds, clerks, millers, .... So house come there ain’t no people named “Engineer”?
I would think of you and yours, and have little concern for very few else there, honestly.
I get where you’re coming from, but there are many on both sides of the aisle who feel the same.
someone had to invent the engine in order for there to be engineers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3144201/posts
Here is a synopsis from the Blaze. I have not been following closely at all.
Whatever else the gov’t might be up to, it just strikes me as foolish to stop paying grazing fees for the use of public land and then, decades later, act surprised that the gov’t decides to evict your cattle.
It's also said that even avowed Liberals live their lives bien-pensant en passant ...
A++++ gonna change your name to FRANKafon. ; )
it’s generally a mistake to consider anything a monolith. the fedgov and the DC area contain quite a few conservatives mixed in. delighting in death and destruction is just nasty.
May your mom RIP. Prayers for you all. It’s been a bit rough closing up her house and putting her in a nursing home, now this. Stay strong.
This bien-pensant met with the surgeon this morning. June 17th is the date set for the deed. Starting to become more real.
you will do great and will wonder why you didn’t do it sooner, i bet.
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