AT LEAST 51 PEOPLE KILLED BY MILE-WIDE TORNADO THAT CHURNED THROUGH **

HOMES AND BUILDINGS IN MOORE, OK, WERE ESPECIALLY AFFECTED, AND VEHICLES **

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB SUFFERS EXTENSIVE DAMAGE FROM **

MOORE, ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY, WAS ONE OF THE TOWNS HIT BY A MAY **

VOLUNTEERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS COMBING THROUGH DEBRIS IN MOORE, OK, **

NEIGHBORHOODS FLATTENED AND HOMES BLOWN APART IN THE OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB **

SHARDS OF WOOD, CARS AND INSULATION STREWN ACROSS THE AREA **

FEMA CLOSELY MONITORING STORMS AND THEIR DAMAGE IN MOORE, OK, AND **

HOMELAND SECURITY SECY JANET NAPOLITANO COORDINATING WITH OK GOV MARY **

OBAMA ADMIN URGES ALL THOSE IN AFFECTED AREAS TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF **

THE MILE-WIDE TORNADO THAT HAS STRUCK THE OKLAHOMA CITY SUBURB OF MOORE HAS **

STORM WAS LIKELY AT LEAST OF EF4 STRENGTH, THE SECOND HIGHEST RATING **

SEVERAL CHILDREN PULLED OUT OF RUBBLE ALIVE AT PLAZA TOWERS ELEMENTARY **

RESCUE WORKERS LIFTED CHILDREN FROM THE RUBBLE BEFORE PASSING THEM DOWN A **

HOSPITALS TREATING MORE THAN 120 PATIENTS AFTER OKLAHOMA TORNADO, INCLUDING **

MOST PATIENTS ARE BEING ADMITTED TO UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA MEDICAL CENTER **

OKLAHOMA POLICE TELL FOX NEWS THAT AT LEAST FOUR WERE KILLED AT A 7-11 **

BUILDINGS LEVELED, FIRES SPARKED BY THE TORNADO, WHICH RAVAGED THE OKLAHOMA **

MOORE MEDICAL CENTER, THE ONLY HOSPITAL IN MOORE, ALSO SUFFERED EXTENSIVE **

THE CENTER EVACUATED 30 PATIENTS TO TWO OTHER HOSPITALS IN NORMAN, OK **

MORE THAN 20 STUDENTS ARE MISSING BELIEVED TO BE IN THE RUBBLE OF THE **


 

STOP!! IT IS LESS THAN 24 HOURS and ALREADY THE MEDIA and PUNDITS HAVE DESTROYED IT (and showed they are listening only to themselves!) (PS – too much coffee for me!)

I always liked the word ‘bold.’  It is easy to say, punchy and to the point.  And now?  If I hear another person on TV or in print describe the Gov Romney selection of Rep Ryan as ‘bold,’ I may throw my TV through the window.  What is wrong with us in the media and with pundits?  Can’t we come up with another word to describe the choice?  When you hear everyone say the same thing or describe something with the same word in a short period of time (24 hours), you know these are not original thoughts but rather repeating what was heard elsewhere.  Think about it – what are the odds that everyone comes to the same conclusion that the word ‘bold’ best describes the selection?  There are other words, synonyms….how about audacious?  Why aren’t other words used?  Because it is not the popular word that people are passing around to each other.  OK…I know, I have had too much coffee and just having some fun with you.  :)

Here is from book of synonyms:

old (vs. timid)

audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing

daredevil, temerarious

emboldened

foolhardy, heady, rash, reckless

heroic, heroical

nervy

overreaching, vaulting

overvaliant







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