Baggin' Bu$h Is, Like, Creepin' And Falsin' The Chickenhead Exogals! Truthiness!
by pessimist
He like jumps the couch! Soooo cruisazy! And his exogal, Laura?
WTF did I just say? That's a question that should be asked of a lot of people - especially King George, any member of the Bu$h family, any member of Bu$hCo, and anyone who supports them. I will look at a situation where Laura Bu$h could have used some confrontation.
Luckily for us, some are taking that task on. One is a freshman delegate in the Virginia Assembly, and another is a veteran blogger.
But before I can get to these real issues, I need to explain the language I used in the title on the flip side.
SO NOT CHICKENHEADS: Actually, like so not interested in creepin’ and falsin’ on their lollipops or baggin’ their friends ...None of which will make sense to anyone other than the average 16-year-old girl from southern California, ... But the rest of us should pay attention to her inane babbling for, according to an academic study, this US teen is the most powerful influence on the evolution of the English language around the world.
She has, according to Sali Tagliamonte, associate professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto, ensured the success of new phrases including, among others, ... “exogal” (an extremely thin contemporary) ... and “lollipops” (attractive young men) ...
Tagliamonte’s research was among findings being discussed in early January at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society in New Mexico, whose academic membership voted “truthiness” (defined as the quality of stating concepts one wishes or believes to be true, rather than the facts) as the word or phrase of 2005.
According to Michael Adams, a professor at North Carolina State University who specialises in lexicology, “truthiness” meant “truthy, not facty”. He explained the essence of the term thus: “The national argument right now is, one, Who’s got the truth? and, two, Who’s got the facts? Until we can manage to get the two of them back together again, we’re not going make much progress.”
But, as Tagliamonte’s work has shown, most contenders came from young women. They include ... “chickenhead” (an ugly girl) and ... “creepin’ and falsin’” (cheating and lying in a relationship), and “baggin’” (bullying).
When her work was published in the Journal of Pragmatics in June last year, Tagliamonte said, “One of the most pervasive findings of sociolinguistics is that when you have language changing, women tend to lead the change. They pick up the new form and they carry it forward probably about a generation ahead of the guys.”
The American Dialect Society also noted the Hollywood actor Tom Cruise’s inadvertent contributions to our language, and coined a new term, “Cruiselex”, to describe this. Cruiselex phrases include “jump the couch” (to exhibit strange or frenetic behaviour; it stems from the actor’s antics on TV talkshow host Oprah Winfrey’s in-studio couch as he talked about his love for fiancée Katie Holmes) and “Cruisazy” (to exhibit crazy behaviour).
The previous year’s overall winner was “red, blue and purple states”. In the 2004 US presidential election, voters in red states favoured Republicans, those in blue states favoured Democrats, and residents of purple states were undecided.
Now that I've defined the language, let's apply it!
Laura like hates baggin' on her lollipop! Sooooo Cruisazy!
US first lady irked by criticism of Bush AIDS plan
U.S. first lady Laura Bush opened a four-day trip to West Africa on Sunday full of praise for the continent's first elected woman president [Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf - ed.], but irritated by criticism of promoting abstinence to help combat AIDS.President George W. Bush has proposed a $15 billion emergency plan to help stem its spread in Africa and the Caribbean, but critics have complained the program leans too heavily on the promotion of abstinence and fails to place enough emphasis on condoms.
"I'm always a little bit irritated when I hear the criticism of abstinence, because abstinence is absolutely 100 percent effective in eradicating a sexually transmitted disease," Bush said.
Opponents contend that money under the Bush program is often siphoned off to faith-based groups that preach abstinence ...
"I think it's a very fair divide," Laura Bush said.
In a part of the world where one in three people had a sexually transmitted deadly disease and in countries "where girls feel obligated to comply with the wishes of men," women needed to know that abstinence was a choice, Bush said.
Would that truthiness include advice for the women of Jesusland whose husbands tend to support your lollipop?
As if!
Regardless, the Republican radical religious seek to expand their truthiness anywhere they can get to:
Conservatives Step Up Activities Overseas
From Peru to the Philippines to Poland, U.S.-based conservative groups are increasingly engaged in abortion and family-planning debates overseas, emboldened by their ties with the Bush administration and eager to compete with more liberal rivals. The result is that U.S. advocacy groups are now waging their culture war skirmishes worldwide as they try to influence other countries' laws and wrangle over how U.S. aid money should be spent.Liberal activists believe long-term trends, notably the empowerment of women through education and jobs, work in their favor throughout much of the world. But they acknowledge that U.S. conservatives have gained clout overseas _ and intimidated some foreign advocacy groups _ because of their influence on Bush administration policies.
"The collaboration of right-wing NGOs and the Bush administration far exceeds any collaboration between pro-choice family groups and the Clinton administration," said Frances Kissling, president of Catholics for a Free Choice. "We never had that kind of hand-in-glove relationship."
She said the Bush administration, with limited power to impose conservative social policies at home, has implemented some foreign-aid restrictions demanded by the religious right _ such as the so-called "global gag rule" that denies federal family-planning money to any foreign group that even discusses the possibility of abortions for clients.
"The far right says, 'Jump,' and the administration says, 'How high?'" complained Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat ...
American conservatives have strongly supported Bush administration policies emphasizing abstinence as a favored strategy in overseas HIV/AIDS prevention programs. U.S.-based groups focusing on abstinence have received grants for prevention work in Africa, in some cases drawing criticism that political ties overcame their lack of expertise.
Activists on both sides trace the rise of overseas conservative action to the mid-1990s, after anti-Communism faded as a cause and anti-abortion, anti-feminist groups began engaging in major U.N. conferences _ often taking stands in opposition to the Clinton administration.
Luckily for the world, reality-based opposition is arising - and the source of the opposition should be someone to watch:
Awesome Slam of "Marriage Amendment" by Freshman Delegate
by lowkell
dailykos.com
Jan 15, 2006
This speech, by freshman Virginia Delegate David Englin (D-45), is so good it deserves to be broadcast all over the Commonwealth.For that matter, David Englins' words deserve to be distributed anywhere state or national legislatures are discussing "defense of marriage" measures. In reality, as we all know, these are nothing but pandering to homophobic bigotry and far right-wing social "conservatives" (aka, the bedroom police).
Here, Del. Englin - a strong Progressive and "fighting Dem" if I've ever met one - takes it right to the hypocrites and moral cowards.
Now here's the speech (bolding added [mostly in the original - ed.] for emphasis):
Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this resolution. .... I'm in the minority, perhaps even in my own caucus. I also sleep very well at night knowing that at some point in the future of this great Commonwealth, those of us of my opinion will be judged to have been on the right side of history.But let's for a moment forget about the question of same-sex marriage, because this amendment addresses much more than that. We need to be clear and honest: This amendment also outlaws civil unions and domestic partnerships and other similar private legal arrangements.
We have heard from the other side that this constitutional amendment is necessary to protect conventional marriage.I am blessed with a beautiful and brilliant wife who is the love of my life. In June, Shayna and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary, and I would fight with every ounce of my strength anything that would threaten my marriage.So I would like to know, how exactly civil unions and domestic partnerships and other similar arrangements threaten my marriage? We have heard from the other side that this amendment will protect families.Shayna and I are blessed with a strong and bright six-year-old son, Caleb, and we have a strong family. .... I want nothing more than to protect my family. I spent 12 years wearing the uniform of the United States Air Force to protect my family. I've been in harm's way to protect my family.So I would like to know, how exactly do civil unions and domestic partnerships and other similar arrangements threaten my family? Because if they do, I will be the first one to stand up and fight, because nobody better threaten my family. Moreover, we have heard from the other side that this amendment must pass sooner rather than later, as if there is some kind of crisis that is more important than issues like transportation or education or health care. ....Yet Virginia law already makes same-sex marriage and civil unions and domestic partnerships illegal. So if this amendment doesn't help protect my marriage, and doesn't help protect my family, and if it doesn't even change the status of same-sex marriage and civil unions and domestic partnership contracts, then what exactly does this amendment do?I submit to my fair-minded colleagues that this amendment sends a message. And that message is, if you are gay, or lesbian, or even a man and a woman living together and committed to each other who are not married, you are not welcome in the Commonwealth of Virginia.And who are these people whom we are shutting out in the cold? * They are my dear friends Karen and Sue, who have been together for years and are as loving and committed to each other as any husband and wife.* They are my friend Lou, who served with me at the Pentagon, and continues to serve our country today.
* They are Father Mychal Judge - the gay priest who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 while ministering to fallen firefighters.
* They are Mark Bingham - a gay passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 - who fought back against Al Queda hijackers and sacrificed his life to save others.
* They are Ronald Gamboa and his partner Dan Brandhorst, who, along with their 3 year old son David, were killed when Al Quaeda flew United Airlines Flight 175 into the World Trade Center.
* They are David Charlebois - the co-pilot of American Airlines Flight 77 - which crashed into the Pentagon when Al Qaeda tried to kill me and my comrades who were on duty inside the Pentagon at the time.
They are friends and neighbors and teachers and doctors and soldiers and loving parents who want nothing more than to live life without fear that the government will tear their families apart. I'm a student of history, and I find our Founding Fathers to be a great source of wisdom on many matters, so I want to close my remarks by reading from a letter that great Virginian named George Washington wrote more than two centuries ago:"The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind . . . a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens. May the Children of the Stock of Abraham who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid."Ladies and gentlemen, I implore you, be strong and of good courage and vote down this resolution.
Final comments by lowkell:
Wow. Good for you, David. I'm proud that I worked to help send you to Richmond; you ROCK!David Englin has a bright future ahead of him, that's all I have to say. Now, if the Democratic Party could only find a few more - or a few HUNDRED more - David Englins out there, we'd be in great shape.
I have a lot of respect for veteran blogger Steve Gilliard. He has suffered the slings and outrageous freeper slight arrows as long as any of the other major progressive bloggers, and his experiences have led him to make some spicy observations about those who sling those outrageous arrows.
DISCLAIMER: these opinions are not necessarily shared by Left Coaster posters, so if you don't like what you are reading, take it up with Steve!
The loneliness of the Keyboard Kommando
After reading Jim Wolcott's beatdown of the folks at Ass Clown Media, I started to wonder who these people are and what bothered me about their approach to politics. Then I thought back to high school and realized that all of the proto-Republicans were guys, nerds, who were physically slight, not fat, and had even less hope of getting laid than I and my friends did. They weren't popular or funny or even pleasant to be around. They were, for lack of a better word, schmucks.Now, years later, these guys like the NRO staff, talk tougher than a room of SEALs trying to impress Vegas showgirls. They want to hang and kill traitors, confront liberals.
As a black guy, you learn to size these folks up quickly. They may whisper nigger under their breath, but when confronted, they run like little girls. You know they're punks.These guys are conflicted. They don't have any personal courage. They know they're supposed to, but they cringe at the idea of confrontation. But they create this image of machismo which makes people laugh.
Ever seen a Freeper rally? You could wet one with a few water balloons. No, Freeperland is for the frustrated Wal-Mart manager with the cheating wife and fat kids. He rails against the world.
Instead of sucking up to the jocks, they want to suck up to people in power. So they worship Bush, not because they agree with him, but because they need that power in their powerless life. They feel stomped on by everyone, but they feel like big men online or in their little chickenhawk rallies.
They think liberals are these weed smoking 1960's rejects and who cringe at any possible physical confrontation.
The women are even worse. Come on, Ann Coulter cries when people toss shit at her!
Look, you can be black and a Christian, but once you join their side, they will treat you like vermin.
Then there is the group I called the shit-scared cowards, .... They were liberals when it was cool, then switched teams, thinking that would be cool. Their reason: fear of a brown planet. Only problem, it wasn't cool, and their former friends now mock them. They have to embrace the failed president and his reactionary ideas because there is nowhere else to go. They bluster, but will not confront liberals because they can't. They shake and bluster and run their mouths, but that's it.
Peter Daou has a long piece on how blogs should work better with the Dems, but many liberals miss the point. On our side of the fence, we mobilize support, raise money and get the attention of the media and deal with the Dems on our terms. The right sees bloggers as junior partners, to do what they are told without question. We want to be seen as equals. Personally, I can live without central direction from the party.
The difference is simple, while the right wails and whines about Daily Kos, they can't reproduce it. They can't tolerate disagreements while working for a common cause. They get angry when people don't go along with them ... because their egos can't handle it. They suffer from a case of fragile ego disease.Which is why so many freaked out over Brokeback Mountain. The idea of two gay cowboys posed a challenge to their own sense of machismo. ... I'm not going to see it because I don't see love stories and Jen likes sci-fi. ... But to NRO, you would have thought it was gay recruitment time from their reaction.
So all they can do is imagine the Turner Diaries coming to life, killing liberals instead of blacks, hanging them from the street lamps. Of course, that just feeds into their fantasies of omnipotence, imagining swatting their boss with a +9 power sword as they do in an MMO, or conquering imaginary Muslim foes like they do in Rainbow Six, when in reality, they're Melvin, the guy who eats tuna at his desk at lunch.
I'm speechless, but I'll bet you aren't! What have you got to say?
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