--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > authfriend wrote: > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > >>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > >> > >> > >>>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, MDixon6569@ wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>In a message dated 6/15/06 11:56:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > >>>>shempmcgurk@ writes: > >>>> > >>>>Ann Coulter's comments about the 9/11 widows > >>>> > >>>>...or... > >>>> > >>>>Hillary Clinton returning a campaign donation to Wal-Mart. > >>>> > >>>>No doubt in my mind what's more offensive... > >>>> > >>>>Shemp, you've got it wrong like the so many other liberals. > >>>>It's not the 911 windows , as in all of them. It's 4 in > >>>>particular that decided to interject themselves into the world > >>>>of politics based upon their victimhood, that Coulter criticized. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>By saying, among other things, that they were > >>>"enjoying their husbands' deaths" and suggesting > >>>their husbands must have been playing around with > >>>other women. > >>> > >>>(These would be the women, just for the record, whose > >>>activism resulted in the 9/11 commission to determine > >>>what really happened--despite the ferocious resistance > >>>of the Bush administration.) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>And there have been other widows that have come out and > >>>>defended Ann Coulters remarks. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>So I guess *these* widows have been enjoying their > >>>husbands' deaths, presumably because they had been > >>>playing around with other women. > >>> > >>> > >>There are times, Judith, when your talent for invective > >>is well-placed, and well-deserved. This is one of them. > >> > >> > > > >I'd suggest you check the definition of > >"invective," by the way; in this case it > >doesn't fit very well. And it isn't quite > >clear what you might mean by "your talent > >for" it "is well-placed, and well-deserved." > >The "invective," such as it is, may be well > >placed on, and well deserved by, Coulter; > >but not my *talent* for it. (Note that one > >doesn't need hyphens in this construction.) > > > What about the use of the phrase "war on terror." You cannot have a war > on an adjective
?? Terror is a noun. The problem with the phrase is that it's *metaphorical*, like "war on drugs" or "war on poverty." You can't then say "We're at war," and take advantage of all the various things that become possible during wartime, because "We're at war" is *not* metaphorical. but the right uses it all the time and because it has > become a reference point the left even uses it. I guess it has become a > "colloquial expression." > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/iDk17A/hOaOAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
