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Friday, January 31, 2003 |
Shock and Awe: The Mother of all War Shows enlightened me to the existence of this new/old strategy to take advantage of overwhelming and uncontested power to break the spirit of the enemy (and any other potential enemies as well) and thereby gain complete and global supremecy.
Read about it here:
Rapid Dominance Strategy of War
Shock and Awe: Guernica Revisited
Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage
Will this be done in your name?
"The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass
destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a
country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use its
weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that
will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that I
strongly suspect it could set loose forces that we would deeply live
to regret."
Former U.N. arms inspector Richard Butler,
quoted by Reuters January 28, 2003
9:35:23 PM
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Today In History
January 31, 1940
Ida M. Fuller became the first person to receive an old-age monthly benefit check under the new Social Security law. She paid in $24.75 between 1937 and 1939 on an income of $2,484. Her first check was for $22.54.
Thanks to Workday Minnesota
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impecunious: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. impecunious [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Friday January 31, 2003
impecunious im-pih-KYOO-nee-uhs, adjective:
Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
Her father, Bronson, was a respected but impecunious New England transcendentalist who had "no gift for money making," according to Alcott's journal.
--"Blood and Thunder in Concord," New York Times, September 10, 1995
He had gotten to know Garibaldi during the impecunious soldier's last years and would send him woolen socks, underwear, and money.
--Tag Gallagher, The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini
It may be urged that an impecunious defendant would be unable to bear the expense of an appeal and would have to let it go by default.
--Charles C. Nott, Jr., "Coddling the Criminal," The Atlantic, February 1911
Impecunious is derived from Latin im-, in-, "not" + pecuniosus, "rich," from pecunia, "property in cattle, hence money," from pecu, "livestock."
Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, penniless. Find more at Thesaurus.com.
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