Here are suggested new meanings, or changes, in words or phrases we all use, based on life experience and a sense of humor:
For those past 70, a “good night’s sleep” is not 8 hours, but 4 or 5 hours.
“Randon House,” a publisher who picks books to be published randomly.
“Dollywood” to replace Hollywood, which is not full of holly trees, but filled with beautiful live dolls that fill the streets, pretty and preening, like saplings.
The second assault on Benedict XVI makes me think there should be a retirement age for Popes. Say, 75. If Benedict had been 75 or less, it’s doubtful that a female attacker could have brought him to the floor by pulling at his garment. Popes need physical as well as mental vigor (he recently suffered some disability with a leg). The figure of a venerable Pope has attraction, but a more youthful church leader draws more.
The second assault on Benedict XVI makes me think there should be a retirement age for Popes. Say, 75. If Benedict had been 75 or less, it’s doubtful that a female attacker could have brought him to the floor by pulling at his garment. Popes need physical as well as mental vigor (he recently suffered some disability with a leg). The figure of a venerable Pope has attraction, but a more youthful church leader draws more.
For people who are in great pain and acknowledged by doctors to be dying, I find no moral problem in giving them drugs to induce sleep and also keep them free from pain in the dying process. Such action seems justified. I don’t believe that our Maker who gave us the great gift of life would want us to spend our final days in intolerable pain. That would not make sense.
For 2 years in a row, the same woman has set out to assault Pope Benedict XVI in Rome and this year she was successful. The woman is a 25 year old Swiss-Italian who has a history of mental illness. Wearing a red jacket, she vaulted over a barrier in St. Peter’s Basilica, as the Pope’s procession began to walk down the aisle, landed at the Pope’s feet, and grabbed his robe causing him to fall. The Pope who is 82, got up, recovered himself, and continued on his way to the altar.
Where, in God’s name, were the fabled Swiss Guards, the Vatican gendarmes, his private police, and the Italian police? To add insult to injury, afterwards Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said he did not know whether the Vatican would pursue any legal action.
Two attempts to assault, one successful, by the same woman and the spokesman spoke thus. What are they waiting for? If they don’t bring charges, this madwoman could try it again, and next time it could be much more serious, with a gun.
MERRY XMAS TO ALL! Including every human creature of whatever nation or land; also, animals–cats, dogs, elephants, camels, monkeys; also, insects–ants, mosquitoes, bees; also, creatures that crawl–worms, reptiles; and innumerable others in nature. Christians are celebrating the birth of their God and Agebuster invites all of you to join in!
It would help all of us past 70 to keep an eye on him, Senator Robert C. Byrd, a 92 year-old Democrat from West Virginia. In bad health, in a wheelchair, he was pushed on to the Senate floor, on December 22, to deliver a vital vote on the health-care bill. It was the third time in one week that he appeared to vote. For his age and determination to partake, he is inspiring. He may well be the greatest living US Senator.
Somewhere, I came across this word and looked it up. It’s pronounced se-NEK-de -key and means, the whole as used for a part, as the law for police officer (law is the synecdoche). Or, a part is used for the whole, as cutthroat for assassin (cutthroat is the synecdoche). You might say, uh, uh, uh…you’re right.! I’ve tried to use it in a sentence and can’t. Classify it as another piece of useless information.
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