WHAT IS THE MEANING OF "SUSPEND"?

 

John Edwards said that he was going to "suspend" his campaign for president. As a trial lawyer, he chooses words carefully. The following is the 2nd paragraph from an email he sent his supporters today:

"Earlier today, I suspended my campaign for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. I made this announcement from where our journey began just over 12 months ago: New Orleans."

 

Dictionary definition:

Main Entry: sus·pend
Function: verb
Pronunciation: s&-'spend
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French suspendre to hang up, interrupt, from Latin suspendere, from sub-, sus- up + pendere to cause to hang, weigh
transitive senses
1 : to debar temporarily from a privilege, office, or function <suspend a student from school>
2 a : to cause to stop temporarily <suspend bus service> b : to set aside or make temporarily inoperative <suspend the rules>
3 : to defer to a later time on specified conditions <suspend sentence>
4 : to hold in an undetermined or undecided state awaiting further information <suspend judgment> <suspend disbelief>
5 a : HANG ; especially : to hang so as to be free on all sides except at the point of support <suspend a ball by a thread> b : to keep from falling or sinking by some invisible support (as buoyancy) <dust suspended in the air>
6 a : to keep fixed or lost (as in wonder or contemplation) b : to keep waiting in suspense or indecision
7 : to hold (a musical note) over into the following chord
intransitive senses
1 : to cease operation temporarily
2 : to stop payment or fail to meet obligations

PORKHEAD ON SPENDING

Bush’s tough talk on pork spending criticized

http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3339746

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Bush thinks he will restore fiscal responsibility by limiting "pork" earmarks in the Fed budget. This from the idiot-in-chief who led the country into a stupid and cruel war that has been paid for by several trillions of dollars of debt, mostly owed to foreign powers.

The restoration of fiscal sanity by saving "small change" is like trying to control a forest fire by peeing on it.

 

STUPID!

SOMTHING TO SKIP TOMORROW

THE SNAKE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama, as winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary, is now the leader in the race for the Democratic nomination to run for President of the United States. For one, such as myself, who grew up under Jim Crow rules, this is a most remarkable development.

 

The Republicans will rant and rave that this "person" (read black person) doesn't have the experience to be President. These are the same people who voted for and elected George W Bush as president who, as we all know not only lacked experience, but worse lacked the intelligence to be a good president, and has given us 7 years of the worst presidency in our history.

 

No matter who wins the election for President, recovery from the disaster of the Bush administration will be long and difficult, and we will suffer the pain of it for a generation or more.

PRINTING MONEY

The Fed is going to print some money to send out to people in the hope it will "stimulate the economy", and forestall inevitable economic turndown.

GIVE

ME

A

BREAK

I can see it now. A lot of the checks (printed money) will be of a denomination that will buy a new flat screen tv set that's made in China. Do you see what's happening here? The "printed money" comes from more debt, some no doubt owed to China who gets interest on the money we owe them and profit from the goods we buy from them.

In the long run, how will this help our economy?

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!

Todays Deficit is Tomorrow's Debt

Budget deficit will hit $250B in 2008

The budget deficit will grow to $250 billion this year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/01/budget-deficit.html

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The 2008 budget deficit will soon be added to the trillions of dollars in debt due to the Bush Idiocracy and their stupid war and economic policies.

To paraphrase ancient wisdom, the debts of the fathers will be paid by their children for generations to come.

THE WAY IT IS

The truth according to Tom Toles. San Francisco Chronicle, 1-20-08