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Fox — 3/14/2004 8:23:40 PM (archived)

This week's feature:

appeasement

NOUN: 1a. An act of appeasing. b. The condition of being appeased. 2. The policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace.

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appease

TRANSITIVE VERB: 1. To bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe. 2. To satisfy or relieve: appease one's thirst. 3. To pacify or attempt to pacify (an enemy) by granting concessions, often at the expense of principle.

I'm not exactly sure why Ed is still boiling mad over Neville Chamberlain - my guess is, he wasn't even born at the time. But, in his usual rabid way, he's siezed this word and won't let it go, despite the fact that he's misusing it. It apparently pisses Ed off that [a] the application of massive military force won't work; he can't convince everyone that it will by interminably repeating it; so he brandishes "appeasement" in the hope it will inflame others' passions to match his own.

The simple truth is, Al Quaeda hasn't issued a list of demands that, if met, would cause them to cease what they do. There's no appeasing them, or others like them; no concessions to be granted. If Ed weren't so concentrated in denial of his own, he might recognize this in others:

[b]fanatic

NOUN: A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.

[source for definitions, as always: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000., at bartleby.com]

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The irresponsible Ed - Raoul - 3/13/2004 10:21:24 PM
- re: The irresponsible Ed - gbaikie - 3/14/2004 8:00:30 AM
  - The 3000 dead of 911 were not looking for anything different than the commuters in Madrid - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 12:31:09 PM
- Appeasers are the irresponsible ones. - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 3:18:17 AM
  - Them speaking German would be preferable to Arabic. - Lee - 3/17/2004 8:01:56 AM
  - you fucking moron - r.l. - 3/15/2004 11:25:36 AM
    - re: you fucking moron - t - 4/28/2004 5:54:19 PM
      - What a brilliant, and timely, contribution - R.L. - 4/29/2004 4:40:28 PM
        
        re: What a brilliant, and timely, contribution - Tom Brosz - 4/30/2004 5:05:20 AM
    - Well dumb fuck, saddam took power in the 1970's...so another of Carter's great moves for peace - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 1:31:21 PM
      - You are an embarrassment to the right - r.l. - 3/16/2004 1:42:55 AM
        
        puleeez, don't change Ed........ - Publius - 3/16/2004 3:07:24 AM
      - LOL!!! - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 3:54:59 PM
        
        lol@u. You asked a specific question, get an answer you don't like so you just link off - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 5:38:00 PM
        
        Confused Ed? Why don't you read this thread when you sober up... - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 6:41:47 PM
        
        wanna check your history? - gbaikie - 3/16/2004 12:19:51 AM
        
        Notice that he is too stupid to know he is wrong? (n/t) - ebnelson - 3/18/2004 5:59:58 AM
        
        Before you start calling out people for being stupid - Tony - 3/18/2004 6:07:47 PM
        
        Its hopeless, Tony- its worse than beating a dead horse - Davin L. - 3/19/2004 5:02:33 AM
        
        I was trying to be helpful. :-) - Tony - 3/19/2004 5:10:01 AM
        
        OhBoy! TweedleDee AND TweedleDumb! all in one thread - Davin L. - 3/16/2004 1:15:26 AM
        
        Dumb and Dumber. Each struggling for the "Dumber". (n/t) - Bowser - 3/16/2004 3:36:27 AM
        
        It's amazing that a dog can talk, but still waiting some indication of intelligence. (n/t) - gbaikie - 3/16/2004 5:57:31 AM
        
        Whereas you are such a paragon of stupidity, you have actually done the impossible WRT to the question of the existence of your own intellect - Davin L. - 3/16/2004 4:15:47 PM
      - Hey, the little guy even remembers some of his old words! Great sign. (n/t) - Bowser - 3/15/2004 1:55:39 PM
        
        And you are still a neverwuzzer - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 5:39:25 PM
    - I meant that in a good way - r.l. - 3/15/2004 11:33:12 AM
  - re: Are you commuting every day to Madrid for work? - Raoul - 3/14/2004 10:14:30 AM
    - Uh, Raoul, the Al Qaeda declared war on the West - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 12:26:03 PM
      - Europe has been dealing with terrorist acts on European soil for decades. - Mary Anne - 3/14/2004 4:30:18 PM
        
        Did I miss something? - Fox - 3/14/2004 5:18:08 PM
        
        re: Did I miss something? - gbaikie - 3/14/2004 10:01:25 PM
        
        re: nations - Raoul - 3/15/2004 9:49:00 PM
        
        re: nations - gbaikie - 3/15/2004 11:59:56 PM
        
        Not you!!! (n/t) - Bowser - 3/15/2004 4:49:31 PM
      - re: AQ is NOT a country - Raoul - 3/14/2004 3:55:30 PM
        
        Did the Germans quit fighting before they lost? - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 6:12:49 PM
        
        Ask the Soviet survivors of the Battle of Berlin. - Lee - 3/18/2004 6:33:19 AM
        
        History, Ed? - Davin L. - 3/17/2004 9:35:53 PM
        
        As a matter of fact, they did. - Fox - 3/14/2004 8:57:55 PM
        
        Reading more of your reply - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 4:31:00 AM
        
        Some did, many did not - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 4:25:20 AM
        
        re: Iraq was not responsible for 9/11 - Raoul - 3/14/2004 8:39:14 PM
        
        re: Iraq was not responsible for 9/11 - gbaikie - 3/14/2004 10:29:32 PM
- Wrong tree, Raoul. - Bowser - 3/14/2004 1:03:41 AM
  - Cowardly appeasement fits you well, bowser - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 3:21:56 AM
    - "Poultroons"? And what part of the chicken is that, ed? (n/t) - Bowser - 3/14/2004 3:30:30 AM
      - Your favorite part (n/t) - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 3:44:37 AM
        
        OOOh! that snappy come back was so intelligent that I just HAVE to book-mark it for future re-use - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 4:33:14 PM
        
        DavinL, you are jsut the greatest thing to happen ever - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 5:42:47 PM
        
        See! I knew I could teach you something! - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 6:44:38 PM
- Wondered how long it would take to blame this on Bush. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/13/2004 10:48:31 PM
- re: How dare you!!!!!!!!! - D. Spires - 3/13/2004 10:35:28 PM
  - re: Next aim? - Raoul - 3/14/2004 10:18:59 AM
    - re: Does Marocco support international terrorism . . . ? - D. Spires - 3/15/2004 10:19:55 PM
    - War against those who declared war on the West is OK, I hope? - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 12:33:00 PM
      - re: My point is that troops are inefficient - Raoul - 3/14/2004 4:00:19 PM
        
        Israeli measures don't seem to do that much good - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 6:26:57 PM
        
        re: Indeed, Israel is going through a deep recession - Raoul - 3/14/2004 8:44:49 PM
        
        Deconstruciton of their state, the goal of the Palestinians, will casue a deeper recession - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 4:33:26 AM
  - The siren song of appeasment is very powerful right now. - ebnelson - 3/14/2004 3:19:26 AM
    - Welcome to "Ed's Word of the Week" - Fox - 3/14/2004 8:23:40 PM
      - Spain fits defintion #3 perfectly - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 1:36:04 PM
      - And that's a nice word. A long one. Now for the spelling, and meaning. - Bowser - 3/15/2004 2:44:19 AM
        
        The dictionary definition si posted for you dumbfuck liberals on current events - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 1:33:23 PM
        
        As I said before Ed - Davin L. - 3/15/2004 3:42:28 PM
      - Really? - RobVG - 3/14/2004 10:48:15 PM
        
        The left has given AQ their first victory - ebnelson - 3/15/2004 1:34:47 PM
        
        Cause - effect. - Bowser - 3/15/2004 12:24:58 AM
      - re: Welcome to "Ed's Word of the Week" - gbaikie - 3/14/2004 10:41:57 PM

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