P&M Tërm Dèfînitions

[Virgil Showlion]

For newcomers who may not be familiar with all the political lingo.

Term		Definition
healthcare inequality		refusing to pay for somebody else's healthcare
family planning		planning not to have a family
reproductive rights		the right to kill your unborn child
pro-choice		support for the right to kill unborn children
fetus		inhuman being that magically becomes human at some point prior to parturition
post-birth abortion		infanticide
intergenerational sex		pedophilia
civil union		secular marriage
gay marriage		civil union, with added mockery of God by performing the ceremony in a church
immigration laws		expensive toilet paper
fiscal cliff		negligible tax hike
deep spending cuts		reduced spending increases
war on women		refusing to subsidize abortion and abortifacients
female Republican		woman waging war on herself
climate change legislation		carbon credits
sustainability initiatives		carbon credits
global climate solutions		carbon credits
denial		opposing carbon credits
TOTUS		de facto leader of the United States of America
massive voter fraud		thirteen American citizens and one confused Mexican voting twice
affirmative action		racism of low expectations
independents		exceedingly rare souls clinging to the notion of a functional American democracy
true fiscal conservative		radical
debt ceiling		updating goalpost that ensures US bankruptcy is occurring on an expedited schedule
economic recovery		recovery in stock prices due to $3.8 trillion in QE, and sufficient time elapsed for millions to drop off extended unemployment rolls
enlightenment		entropy
deadlock		doing nothing
compromise		agreeing to do next to nothing
our grandchildren		ourselves
trickle-down economics		popular economic theory that equates prosperity with screwing the middle and lower classes
compassionate conservatism		warmongering

I'll add new definitions as required.

[Deleted]

I can think of a few words and definitions worth sharing...

[Deleted]

I am reminded of the perennial classic, Aesop's "The Fox and the Grapes".

That said, I ponder why it is that some people are so obsessed with the contents of other people's uteruses? People who oppose abortion of unwanted pregnancies are perfectly free to eschew such procedures for themselves, why do they feel an imperative to deny that choice to everyone else?
Or is the repeated focus on the issue merely a cheap trick to increase posting activity on internet message boards?
Increased traffic = increased ad revenue?

[Green Eyed Lady]

massive voter fraud thirteen American citizens and one confused Mexican voting twice

LOL!! (runs for paper towels to clean Diet Pepsi off my monitor)

[Green Eyed Lady]

People who oppose abortion of unwanted pregnancies are perfectly free to eschew such procedures for themselves, why do they feel an imperative to deny that choice to everyone else?

The same way we feel it's imperative to deny someone the choice of walking in a bank and killing a bank teller. Because it's murder. And it's not good enough to just say, "I won't murder, but I don't care what you do."

But you are right. This has been done!

[Peace Of Mind]

massive voter fraud thirteen American citizens and one confused Mexican voting twice

LMAO!!! But we may have had a different President had that not happened! Or the win would have been a landslide.

[Virgil Showlion]

That said, I ponder why it is that some people are so obsessed with the contents of other people's uteruses?

Because those "contents" happen to be a living human being?

This isn't the thread to debate whether or not this should be a right. Suffice it here that calling it a general "choice" rather than an incredibly specific choice isn't fooling anybody.

LMAO!!! But we may have had a different President had that not happened! Or the win would have been a landslide.

Pedro is sorry.

His English is a little sketchy and he thought the polling booth was the restroom.

[mmhmm]

For any "newbies" who happen to stroll by, be aware those are Virgil's term definitions, not P&M's term definitions. On P&M, people have their own minds and define their acronyms using those minds, not Virgil's.

[Virgil Showlion]

Mine just happen to be more accurate.

ETA: I mean come on. "War on women"?

How can people even repeat that and hold their head up? Notwithstanding the fact that the battle is clearly across ideological lines and not across gender lines, you'd think people would have more respect for the term "war".

War is death, blood and carnage, not a party's objection to paying for their fellow countrymen's abortifacient drugs.

"War on women" makes a mockery of real wars on women: war rape, FGM, sexual slavery, etc. Anyone who uses the same term to describe these as they do to describe a principled objection to funding abortions is debasing themselves.

Other terms, like "debt ceiling", "family planning", "reproductive rights" are textbook Orwellian, and everyone knows it.

[mmhmm]

Mais oui!

[Deleted]

I am reminded of a hubristic statement made on this message board: "Don't doubt me- EVER!"

Will the title of this thread, too, be altered repeatedly, in the process of it being perpetuated by its creator?

[mmhmm]

Nov 7, 2012 16:00:04 GMT -5 @patiencetried said:

I am reminded of a hubristic statement made on this message board: "Don't doubt me- EVER!"

Will the title of this thread, too, be altered repeatedly, in the process of it being perpetuated by its creator?

What difference does it make, patience. You're not forced to read it. As to hubristic statements ... hmmm ... let's leave that on another thread, shall we? Thanks, ever so.

[Virgil Showlion]

Trickle down economics: Screw the middle and lower classes
Compassionate Conservative: Warmongering idiot

I'll add these two to the list.

The middle two are incorrect, and the final three are something that one or two politicians stated once, not definitions used repeatedly ad nauseum on the board.

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

Term Definition
Obamanomics Trickle up poverty

[chiver78]

Nov 7, 2012 16:10:03 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Trickle down economics: Screw the middle and lower classes
Compassionate Conservative: Warmongering idiot

I'll add these two to the list.

The middle two are incorrect, and the final three are something that one or two politicians stated once, not definitions used repeatedly ad nauseum on the board.

wait, the definitions have to be accurate? shit, you've got some editing to do there, Virgil.

[Virgil Showlion]

Nov 7, 2012 16:18:06 GMT -5 Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ said:

Term Definition
Obamanomics Trickle up poverty

You may be right, but give the man four more years to prove you wrong. :-\

[Virgil Showlion]

Nov 7, 2012 16:21:18 GMT -5 chiver78 said:

Nov 7, 2012 16:10:03 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

I'll add these two to the list.

The middle two are incorrect, and the final three are something that one or two politicians stated once, not definitions used repeatedly ad nauseum on the board.

wait, the definitions have to be accurate? shit, you've got some editing to do there, Virgil.

Challenge any you want, provided you supply a valid reason for your objection. "It's just wrong" need not apply.

[The Captain]

Whether or not I agree with the definitions;

Do I even need to point out the irony of a Canadian who is better informed of US politics then most Americans....

[Green Eyed Lady]

Separation of Church and State = don't you dare mention God or we'll sue

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

Nov 7, 2012 16:25:45 GMT -5 Green Eyed Lady said:

Separation of Church and State = don't you dare mention God or we'll sue

Actually the US Constitution has no such verbiage.

[Virgil Showlion]

Do I even need to point out the irony of a Canadian who is better informed of US politics then most Americans

Most Americans don't realize that the mirror between Canada and the US is one-way. We get your TV shows, your commentators, your news magazines, your newspapers, your radio, your political ads, your movies. Your scandals feature in our newspapers. Your election was headline news for this past week in our newspapers and on our TV stations.

Any political message board is 90% or more American. 95% or more of the political blogosphere concentrates on American politics. Your elections last for two freakin' years, while ours are over in about four weeks.

You guys are ten times our size. You own some ridiculous percentage of our businesses and assets. Frankly, we get more coverage on your issues than we do on our own, as a simple matter of our proportional sizes.

The fact that nothing comes back through that one-way mirror, well... what are we going to do? Whine? Imply that Americans are ignorant dolts? Enumerate the reasons why we think Canadians are more worldly?

Those approaches might work for Ms. Weltz, but some of us have better things to do. :-\

[vandalshandle]

I believe in less government interference in our lives=I believe in legislating my morality for your life.

[Green Eyed Lady]

Actually the US Constitution has no such verbiage.

P&M does, tho, and that's the subject here.

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

Nov 7, 2012 16:45:48 GMT -5 Green Eyed Lady said:

Actually the US Constitution has no such verbiage.

P&M does, tho, and that's the subject here.

[vandalshandle]

class warefare=raising my taxes, as opposed to raising your taxes.

[The Captain]

Pay their fair share : Have the most productive further subsidize the least productive

[vandalshandle]

nanny state=government assistance to anyone other than us hurricane victims

[kittensaver]

Separation of Church and State = you're kidding, right? Our God is better than your God and the rest are just unwashed heathens going to hell.

[The Captain]

Nov 7, 2012 16:39:24 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Do I even need to point out the irony of a Canadian who is better informed of US politics then most Americans

Most Americans don't realize that the mirror between Canada and the US is one-way. We get your TV shows, your commentators, your news magazines, your newspapers, your radio, your political ads, your movies. Your scandals feature in our newspapers. Your election was headline news for this past week in our newspapers and on our TV stations.

Any political message board is 90% or more American. 95% or more of the political blogosphere concentrates on American politics. Your elections last for two freakin' years, while ours are over in about four weeks.

You guys are ten times our size. You own some ridiculous percentage of our businesses and assets. Frankly, we get more coverage on your issues than we do on our own, as a simple matter of our proportional sizes.

The fact that nothing comes back through that one-way mirror, well... what are we going to do? Whine? Imply that Americans are ignorant dolts? Enumerate the reasons why we think Canadians are more worldly?

Those approaches might work for Ms. Weltz, but some of us have better things to do. :-\

Hey, at least I follow the Quebec secessionist movement, does that count for anything?

[Deleted]

Winning in a landslide = coming close to but not actually winning