I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Mercury!
suggestion: place a permanent link on your blog for it, so it can always be found.
pretty handy in these days of extremely shrill wingnuttery.
Thanks for posting this! I have never seen this before. It explains a few expressions I have been curious about. It should be a permalink.
New entry:
draft: "something libruhls who hate Amerka bring up whenever they want to criticize Bush"
I swear I remember Jennifer being the creator of The Clenis™.
hamletta,
I think you're correct. I credited her for it about a year ago in this post, citing a comment that is no longer available.
To all the Republicans who want to ignore how millions of Americans have been pressured and squeezed through three years of the Bush Depression, and are now stuck with trillions of dollars of unpayable debt, and saddled with a useless and misguided occupation.
Shame on you.
Read the rest on Jim's blog...
Winger alert! Kathleen Parker, the same columnist who advocated shooting the Democratic presidential candidates and nuking he Suni Triangle, now writes that the torture of Iraqi prisoners is Hollywood's fault for releasing racy movies! These nuts never cease to amaze me. Again, send parker some love: her e-mail is Kparker@kparker.com. These creeps won't admidt they were wrong about the war and they are loosing touch with reality at this point. They need a good reality check.
Gay Marriage - a term to justify abandonment of the constitution.
Which constitution? The one that the US once had? That old thing, we got rid of that years and years ago.
1980 - the year the rest of the country outgrew and discarded the backwards mindset that you liberals seem determined to cling to :D
Atrios,
This would be a great tool for us if you provided a permalink to it. It would help me navigate the murky waters of wingnuttery that is so common these days.
Thanks!
2001-- the year democracy died and religious zealotry became mainstream.
Would anyone here agree with me that Cheney/Feith and that secret operation out of the VP’s office is really at the bottom of this abhorrence? I say this with Woodward’s book in mind. He does show the presence of this extra-govt. function of the VP’s office. Can anyone here verify this for me?
Posted by: Medea at May 8, 2004 03:42 AM
And why did Powelll call the folks around Cheney "The Gestopo"
Thanks! Hadn't seen this. Explains alot. Copied out all 15 pages to keep desk side, and emailed it to my friends.
Love the term "applepiety" among others.
Wonderful fun.
Thanks for the latest Kathleen Parker update. She gives Coulter a run for her money for the title of "Most Ridiculous Woman in America" title. And yes, I sent her some love...
Hey, check it out, I'm in there with 'shooting for the moon'. Damn I rule.
You need one for Nedra Pickler.
Pickled: Tweety pickled when he
mentioned Kerry's medals when the
topic was the coming higher interest
rates.
Bush Preparing to Invade Cuba
http://
www.heraldsun.news.com.au...55E1702,00.html
>>>>Bush Cuba pro-democracy push
From correspondents in Washington
07may04
US military planes will broadcast pro-democracy messages into communist Cuba as part of a nearly $US60 million ($82.31 million) plan President George W Bush endorsed today to "hasten" Cuban leader Fidel Castro's ouster.
Washington will also tighten restrictions on Cuban-Americans' cash remittances to family members on the island and limit back-and-forth visits families may make between the United States and Cuba to one every three years, officials said.
The goals are to: "undermine" the ageing Castro's plans that his brother, Raul, succeed him; speed up Cuba's transition to democracy; and put in place US programs and policies in anticipation of what Washington sees as the eventual defeat of Cuban communism, they said.
This "is a strategy that says we're not waiting for the day of Cuban freedom, we are working for the day of freedom in Cuba", Bush said after meeting with the panel, which he created six months ago to recommend a tougher line on Havana.
The Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, headed by Secretary of State Colin Powell, aimed "to hasten the day that Cuba will be a free country", he said.
TWAT (tm) - The War Against Terrorism
That think you were so eager to get into last night, but now you don't want to look at it and wonder why it seemed such a big deal at the time.
That's awesome. I'll have to bookmark that so I can come back to it. If nothing else, it gives some good word options to use.
Damn wingnuts. I guess, while they ruin the country, we at least get a bit of humor from their insanity.
A small consolation, though.
- Joel
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Nightmares For Sale - You're Damn Right I'm Angry!
Ted; Is this how the Bushkoviks are going to court the latin vote?
Attila the Neocon
You can find "neocon" between "nazi" and "nitwit" in the dictionary.
And you can find Attila between asswipe and auto-eroticist.
Just sent that mother to "print"--good reading. Need to have a hard copy by my bedside. Thanks.
I keep wondering how these folks sleep at night, unless they're totally sedated. I am so sad.
1980 - the year the rest of the country outgrew and discarded the backwards mindset that you liberals seem determined to cling to :D
August 19, 1934. The year the rest of the country outgrew and discarde the backward mindset that you liberals seem determined to cling to.
Sept. 27, 1933 changed everything. Why don't the social democrats and liberals see this?
Hey! I came up with Penis Glennvy. Credit where credit is due.
Hey! I didn't get credit for my coinage ("Neonanism")! I coined it while considering Phil Agre's careful forensic reconstruction of the way that the "Gore claimed to have invented the internet" lie came into being.
The broad mass of a nation does not consist of diplomats, or even professors of political law, or even individuals capable of forming a rational opinion; it consists of plain mortals, wavering and inclined to doubt and uncertainty. As soon as our own propaganda admits so much as a glimmer of right on the other side, the foundation for doubt in our own right has been laid. The masses are then in no position to distinguish where foreign injustice ends and our own begins. In such a case they become uncertain and suspicious, especially if the enemy refrains from going in for the same nonsense, but unloads every bit of blame on his adversary. Isn't it perfectly understandable that the whole country ends up by lending more credence to enemy propaganda, which is more unified and coherent, than to its own?
Suggestion:
Liebercan - A fawning neo-con Republican disguised as a Democratic Senator.
Usage - "He/she's a Liebercan, so what do you expect?"
i will jump on the 'please make this permanent' bandwagon
also, one term i have always wondered about that isnt in there is "South Park Republican/Conservative"
anyone want to explain it to me?
Bush Praises Rummy for Testimony He Did Not See
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said the president's aides gave him updates about Rumsfeld's testimony "a few times" but that Bush did not watch or listen to it from his red, white and blue bus. Bush phoned Rumsfeld in the evening to praise his testimony.
And, from the same article,
The Ignorant Support Bush
"I'll definitely vote for him," said Penny Veach, who snagged a ticket to Bush's speech from a friend and heard the president before she drove to Muscatine, Iowa, to meet her husband, Jamie, one of the reservists. Her husband "has great admiration for the president, and so do I," said Veach, who owns a beauty salon. "It just seems like he has good morals. He goes to church. It seems like he is on the right track."
"Feith-Based Initiative" n: an action taken based on ideological grounds, wrapped in altruistic language, and easily disproved by obvious facts
don't be such a pussy, gene. buck up, pal: your world-music CDs are in the mail.
wÒÓ†-
Love the banner.
i'll bet you $10,000, dipshit, that Kerry doesn't have a new job come November. If you wanna take me up on this bet, request further info.
i knew it, gene: you're forever the gutless little pussy.
"tWinkerbell Theorem" n: the idea that any situation is much better than appears, and will get even better if focus on the good news is amplified and enough people believe in a positive outcome
South Park Republicans are conservatives who think that modern (err.. edgy) culture reflects conservative values, even while it actually mocks it. See, South Park Republicans recognise their ideals while a scene is being set in a comedy routine, but they're too dull to get the punchline which completes the gag and punctures their viewpoint.
If you're cruel you might want to read this deluded take on South Park Republicanism.
If they ever update it, I'd lobby to have them add Bushamentalism.
Gotta get a couple standards in there, like "Chewbacca Defense" and "Godwin's Law". But that's tremendous.
Niewart: You're a fucking idiot. You really ought to think before typing.
Rachel,
the South Park Conservatives are like the Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monsters. They only exist in the minds of John Leo and other Hacks who have never actually watched the show.
If anything, it is anti-politically correct which I am fine with. But if people who say they are really conservative actually watched it they would make a bigger deal than they did Janet Jacksons boobie.
Ummmmmmmmm, Atrios giv me his throbbing turkee bone.
Oh, here's one!
Gene: the most scathing insult that a mind enfeebled by a lifetime of Republicanism can think of. Example: "your name is gene, gene, because you are named gene, so there, gene."
Anonymous, where's the 'Gene' thing come from? I think I might have seen you trying to out Atrios as being Gene Lyons, but you've also called Atrios a 'nerdy PE teacher'. Am I misremembering about the Gene Lyons thing?
Seventeen Members of Congress
The man with the torture photos contacted them.
We need a list of names.
The irony, Mr. [William] Lawson said, is that the public spectacle might have been avoided if the military and the federal government had been responsive to his claims that his nephew was simply following orders. Mr. Lawson said he sent letters to 17 members of Congress about the case earlier this year, with virtually no response, and that he ultimately contacted Mr. Hackworth's Web site out of frustration, leading him to cooperate with a consultant for "60 Minutes II."
[snip]
He shared his frustration in his March 23 e-mail message to Mr. Hackworth's Web site, writing: "We have contacted the Red Cross, Congress both parties, Bill O'Reilly and many others. Nobody wants to touch this."
That was great, should be linked here, but it is LONG overdue for an update.
OT: If y'all haven't stumbled on this yet, it may make an interesting substitute for tinyurl at times. Find out for yourselves:
EvilURL
Only trouble is, you have to cut & paste the new URL yourself.
i call gene, gene, 'cause it makes me laugh. i know he's really a loser substitute PE coach from Philly who begs his stupid minions for gifts. now go fuck yourself, moron.
Thanks for this; I've bookmarked.
How about adding qWagmire?
I like http://hugeurl.com and I would post an example of it, but that would break Haloscan and people would flame me.
anonymii - (n., plural of anonymous) Identification of trolls who are about to post something so stupid that even their normal wingnut moniker can't hide.
i call gene, gene, 'cause it makes me laugh. i know he's really a loser substitute PE coach from Philly who begs his stupid minions for gifts. now go fuck yourself, moron.
You know what? You know what?
I was wrong. I'm wrong now. Atrios is wrong. Anonymous. Thank you. You have enlightened me. You have convinced me of the error of my ways.
I now intend to vote for George Bush and spend every spare moment of my time warning my fellow Americans about the dangers of libralism and the 5th column to our brave project for democracy in the Middle East.
And to think, up until the moment you intified Atrios as "Gene" I was a leftist. God how dumb I was.
Long Live George Bush!!!
I'm pleased to see my definition isstill in the dictionary, and that it is the only one containing the word shit.
"Perle Harbor" n: the use of an avoidable national tragedy to gain support for your Feith-Based Initiatives
Tour'olling: Sudden outbursts, similar to Tourettes Syndrome, but in trolling format. See: well, our pal who thinks Atrios = Gene really... over and over and over again.
Please also give a nod to Patriotic Correctness, the act of saying that which one thinks of as being acceptably patriotic, rather than what is objectively true. I first heard Jello Biafra use it in a speech, but before that I don't know it's providence...
Anybody got a definition for The Last Strawman Argument? Something to do with Mr. Sullivan's support for boy king even as the king calls for a certain amendment to the Constitution?
An update on the Duck-Rabbit Problem regarding Chenron and Supremacist Scalia?
OT, but check out this piece of shit article in the NY Times on Teresa Heinz Kerry.
http://tinyurl.com/3xn7c
The front page of the Times summarizes it thusly: "The idea of a first lady who gives out $70 million in private grants has intensified focus on Teresa Heinz Kerry's record." Like, there's something somehow troubling about a person who gives away lots of money. A quick read through the article, which is mostly straight reporting about THK's philanthropic role, shows that the "intensified focus" comes from a Scaife-funded outfit that doesn't like Heinz money going to environmental groups like Greenpeace. Holy shit, what an irrelevant part of the story for the Times to put in the blurb. So typical, and I apologize for the OT rant, but it pisses me off -- right-wing crackpots raise "troubling" questions about a Democrat, NY Times stenographers go right to work. Sickening.
Teresa Heinz Kerry's record
Intensified focus on her record?
Atrios: you must explain the origin of this dictionary. This is pure genius.
Lieberman's Razor:
The idea that the worse the outrages that the USA and Israel committ, the bigger the chance that we can apologize and, thus, prove the superiority of our civilization.
Here's the evil url for my site: http://evilurl.com/oralSEXEVIL
Not that this means anything, but every South Park viewer I know votes Republican and hates Hillary Clinton with a pathology that has no basis in anything rational. Many, but not all, are also Howard Stern listeners. I do not know one Democrat who watches South Park. Naturally, YMMV.
Of course, none of these people would watch the Daily Show on a bet. Not even the Republicans I know who have turned against Bush because of Howard Stern would even give the Daily Show a try, no matter how often I recommend it.
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ANTITERRORISM, n. A modern effort to make heroism both impossible and unnecessary.
saved to my fav. my fav. list is gett'n kind of long. least now i have a clearer idea of what Clenis means.
OT, but anyone who hasn't done so yet, should check out billmon for several posts about "what they knew and when they knew it" i'm starting to believe these boys may be taking the hard fall. and woeful tho the press may be, they'll latch on to this, 'cause their is gonna be a lot of blood in the water. hmm...
bloodwaterthe presses propensity to be whipped into a frenzy...
what's hunter say? "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" any way check out billmon.
i call gene, gene, 'cause it makes me laugh. i know he's really a loser substitute PE coach from Philly who begs his stupid minions for gifts. now go fuck yourself, moron.
Pssst. Anonymous.
TYRANNY, n. Government which builds institutions for the purpose of committing slaughter. Its counterpart works the other way around.
I have a couple to add:
Purityrannical - imposing a moral code on people who likely didn't ask for one (my favorite word once to describe Bill Bennett)
Urinalism - yellow journalism taken to extreme toxicity.
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wOOt - I love you.
(sorry Mrs. wOOt and baby wOOt - I can't help it.)
oops, should be Clayton Williams in the above post
RUMMY ACHE , n. Intestinal pain caused by acute Pentagonese, viz., lies, arrogance, shifting blame, abusing language, similar to feelings that come from being in a room alone with two Munch paintings, one Hopper water color and a VCR of any recent speech by John Warner.
and that was meant for a different thread
It looks like I coined one this week, at least, a Google search on the complete phrase turned up nothing:
"Esprit de gung ho"
As in this post, where I wrote...
"Well, the bad news for Mr. Tenet, of course, is that decisions to invade countries have considerably more weight than solving a high school algebra problem. I am similarly dismayed by Mr. Tenet's esprit-de-gung-ho when, later in the book, he strong-arms Bush's questions regarding a questionable WMD case by brushing it off as 'It's a slam dunk, Mr. President.' "
Frank - Oh that's a very good one.
Yo, Anonymous:
You'll be happy to note that not only have I deleted your latest excretion in my threads, I've banned your sorry ass.
Have a nice day.
You'll be happy to note that not only have I deleted your latest excretion in my threads, I've banned your sorry ass.
Oh, David, that only gives Fremlin great joy.
OT: Wes Clark on MTP tomorrow.
To "read the goat-book" to choke in frozen panic during a catastrophe.
The Freeway Blogger has a couple of good ‘uns:
http://www.freewayblogger.com/weblog.htm
Rumsfail v., 1. To self-destruct, melt-down or implode under the weight of one's own arrogance. 2. To fail spectacularly, particularly in matters of warfare or diplomacy; to plunge into chaos. 3. Absolute, unmitigated disaster of national or international proportions and consequence; policy failure so utterly abject and miserable as to approach the realm of the epic. "Although long considered to be a costly and murderous fiasco, the prisoner abuse scandal revealed the war in Iraq to be nothing short of a rumsfailure." See also: "Karma"
Chim·peach v., 1. To eliminate an enemy or malefactor, or to rectify a near fatal error or terrible mistake. 2. To remove from high office, through judicial review or public referendum, a dangerous imbecile, odious fraud, or chimpanzee. 3. To reclaim the soul of one's country by reversing or redressing a grievous historical injustice, as in "After Whitewater, Bush's lies about Iraq give us no choice but to chimpeach the murdering bastard, unless we want the whole goddam world to think that the lives of our sons and daughters are less significant than lying about a blowjob."
Speaking of John Warner, his 'performance' on Larry King was fabulous. Every question Larry asked Warner answered with an endless recitation of his importance, experience, worthiness and general noblity. You couldn't even remember the question when he was done praising himself. Larry didn't seem to mind.
To "read the goat-book" to choke in frozen panic during a catastrophe.
anon | Email | Homepage | 05.08.04 - 7:30 pm |
Thas' a good un! Thas' a good un!
Moosie like!
Working on the Chen(ey) Gang:
Haliburton employee
Diet Cokie:
Conventional wisdom spouted by a Cokie Roberts wannabe femjournalhack.
"read the goat-book" is absolutely "wÒÓ†iful"
zeke post about Tersa Kerry reminded me about the interview with Baba Wawa last nite.
I was impressed with the way she was direct and focused on what she said! She sounds and acts a free-spirit that is not confined to the roles delegated by politics and political machinery. While she expressed her support for her husband's campaign and her duties as First Lady when he is elected, I got the impression that she has her own agenda for her personal side. And if anyone questions her, they know where they can go!
Life in the West Wing will be interesting for a change.
regards
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Bush bus-trip Pretending to travel by bus while actually using Air Force One.
take the Bush-bus: fly
Whoa. New news. The AP's turned.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Denouncing increased official secrecy, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley unveiled a plan Friday for a media advocacy center to lobby in Washington for open government.
"The powerful have to be watched, and we are the watchers," Curley said, "and you don't need to have your notebook snatched by a policeman to know that keeping an eye on government activities has lately gotten a lot harder."
At every level of government, records are being sealed and requests for information denied, and courts are imposing gag orders and sealing documents, Curley said, speaking in the Hays Press-Enterprise Lecture series.
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the news media remained largely silent on important issues, including secret arrests of suspects of Middle Eastern descent and closed deportation hearings, he said.
"That was an extraordinary time for the country," he said. "It's entirely understandable - and reasonable - that the press and public were willing to step back for a time and give the government room to address an unknown and frightening threat."
But Curley warned that a continued relaxation of vigilance by news organizations "could become a dangerous habit if we allow it to take hold, dangerous for us and the society in which we play such a critical role."
"The government is pushing hard for secrecy," he said. "We must push back equally hard for openness. I think it's time to consider establishment of a focused lobbying effort in Washington."
Curley acknowledged his advocacy proposal is potentially controversial.
"I know that some in the journalism community would strongly disapprove of a project of this kind," he said. "They believe the role of journalists is to remain strictly impartial, and that express backing for even the best intended legislation would compromise that role. I respectfully disagree."
Quaylesque -- Incompetance due to stupidity as in, "The neocon's promote a quaylesque approach to foreign policy." Synonym: Bushonian.
HillbulliesN. Proud West Virginians and the efficacy of broomsticks.
Homorpheus: To pretend that you're straight by opposing gay rights. See "Paul Cameron."
Parkeradicate: to advocate the killing of anyone you dislike for political reasons. See "Kathleen Parker"
Homorpheus: To pretend that you're straight by opposing gay rights. See "Paul Cameron."
See if you can find out how many times the term "I'm sick of homosexuality being rammed down my throat" on Front Page or Townhall.
'Mission Accomplished' Sucessful multi-generational transfer of wealth to self, close family and friends. Also known as 'the gift that keeps on giving'.
Pssst. Anonymous
woot, i like the birds, i like the tits, but that one is my favorite.
Hey! I came up with Penis Glennvy. Credit where credit is due.
Hey, I came up with deus ex rectum!
OT but big: DOD orders KBR (Halliburton) to cut off soldiers e-mail access. See Corrente
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Quayl:
To correct someones correct spelling.
Busharoo
vomit
hat/cattle ratio
gap between Bush Executive promise and reality. Example: Promising an average of 370,000 jobs a month, and delivering, so far, an average of 120K gives a hat/cattle ratio of 3
Blast and damn.
Corrente
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holden, you, and old hat, taught me how important links are, great link. and there was a guy who always posted drip..drip..drip.. after clarkes book he changed it to trickle but i think the Gusherers are getting ready to Come like to know who those 17 members of congress were. They knew, they all knew.
KRISTOLLNACHT n. The Weekly Standard staff meets in a synagogue to stress ideology over profit but decides instead to burn copies of all previous editorials.
I didn't see Grain of Galt in the dictionary; I liked that one because I was about to come up with something similar, but Jesse beat me to it.
The Trent Lott Defense, n. Making a baboon-assed stupid state, generally about race, and apologizing not for the statement, but basically for getting caught making it. I.E., anytime someone says, "Well, I apologize if my comments offended anyone, that certainly wasn't my intention."
Backslider, you've identified two forms of the non-apology apology. I think your quotation is a great example of putting the problem on the listener; but your definition would do better with a different example, such as Rumsfeld yesterday, e.g., the problem was that it got to the media. I think.
And Tena, glad you liked my coinage. The thing that really drove me bonkers, for those who didn't click through to my blog post, was Woodward's (Tenet's?) language of 'taking a whack at it.' What was Iraq, a game of "Whack A Mole"?
Anyone know what Atrios charges to list you in his blog roll? 
Anonomotapeia: An Anonymous poster who sounds like what they're full of.
B.C.
The origin and meaning of the anagram are unknown, with authorities even divided between Bush/Cheney and Better than Christ.
Classwarring liberals! SHUT UP!
Classwarring liberals! SHUT UP!
A Rahim n. 1. Pompous bloviator. 2. Santorum guzzler.
Take your pick.
You are now being Racist, LJ. You will lose your liberal polycorrectcred! oooh, you are so envious of achievement and hard work, aren't you? Well, keep it up.... it's all-American.
excellent boobies!
See if you can find out how many times the term "I'm sick of homosexuality being rammed down my throat" on Front Page or Townhall.
Boy, that gag reflex really sucks, doesn't it?
I had no idea I had an entry in there. Someone was even kind enough to inquire about its origin. For the record however, I feel the definition isn't really warranted. I never really accused Atrios of bigotry. My whole shtick is making fun of those, e.g. Atrios, who are perhaps a bit too hasty to attribute to bigotry the views of people with whom they disagree, however strongly. Whoever wrote the entry got it upside down. Sometimes Atrios reads like an Old MacDonald verse. Here a bigot, there a bigot, everwhere a bigot bigot!! E-I-E-I-O.
if it bleats like a bigot ...
Cavuto, n.
A character described as being from writer's own life but is in reality
fictional, a two-dimensional stereotype invented to drive the point
of the column through for the duller readers. For example, in a
column that claims that pundits are not to be trusted in their
pessimistic economic predictions, the cavuto would be a college-era
friend who always had an fancypants opinion on everything but was
usually wrong. At the same time, the cavuto is gives the column a
nice folksy feel, as if the writer and the reader were chatting about
a mutual friend.
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