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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:14 PM
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Suggestions for Rethuglican Dictionary web page?
Just started working on it. I've been confused by all the new words that the rethugs keep coming up with. So far I uploaded the following:

Rethuglican Dictionary

Academic Bill of Rights: System of identifying, containing, and/or eliminating liberal teachers and professors.

As Stanley Fish, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago wrote about the bill in the Chronicle of Higher Education , Feb. 10, 2004:

"Someone is going to say, let's monitor those lefty professors and keep tabs on what they're saying; and while we're at it, let's withhold federal funds from programs that do not display `ideological balance' (`balance' is also an unworthy academic goal); and let's demand that academic institutions demonstrate a commitment to hiring conservatives; and let's make sure that the material our students read is pro-American and free of the taint of relativism; and let's publish the names of those who do not comply. This is not a hypothetical list; it is a list of actions already being taken. In fact, it is a list one could pretty much glean from the Web site of State Senator John K. Andrews Jr., president of the Colorado Senate (http://www.andrewsamerica.com/), a site on which the Academic Bill of Rights is invoked frequently."
EVIL: This label is often used as a popular Excuse for Violating Individuals Liberties. Contemporary examples are "Axis of Evil, The Great Satan," or "Evil Empire." Used for any individual, group, or country that opposes a leader predisposed to religious exhortation.
Intellectual Elitism: Label used for anyone who would dare to challenge conservative views or doctrine with any conplex theorizing beyond name callling, challenges to one's patiotism, religious ferver, or sexual orientation.

Part of the effort by Right Wingers to suppress attempts by the middle or lower classes to achieve by any other means other then by greed.

See also Academic Bill of Rights above.
More coming soon ...
http://ediablo.com/rethugdictionary.html

I'll keep checking back for any new ideas. Thanks.:evilgrin:



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JohnLocke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:15 PM
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1. 'Free speech zones,' 'historical document,' 'trusted ally'
Edited on Sat Apr-10-04 03:15 PM by JohnLocke
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:37 PM
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2. Oooh, I like "free speech zones"
Free Speech Zones: Cordoned area with heavy police presence where protesters are "encourage" to gather far from the eyes or ears of those they are protesting.

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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 03:46 PM
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3. Class Warfare
End of Line.
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 04:33 PM
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5. Yeah, that's often used
Class Warfare: Any criticism or jokes about the upper ruling class are spurious attacks on those who earned the right (or were God anointed) to be considered better then rest of humanity.

However criticism or jokes about welfare mothers, Union members, various ethnic groups, intellectuals, etc., are warranted and encouraged (i.e., get over it).

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drumwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 04:07 PM
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4. my contributions to a Rethug Dictionary
Edited on Sat Apr-10-04 04:09 PM by drumwolf
"Freedom" - (1) American military supremacy (2) killing towelheads

"Supporting the troops" - see "Freedom"

"terrorist" - anyone who's not a neocon

"anti-American" - see "terrorist"

"evil" - see "anti-American"

"activist judges" - any judge who has a point of view to the left of Scalia or Clarence Thomas. NOT someone who tries to impose his/her ideological agenda; Roy Moore is NOT an "activist judge", for example.
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-10-04 04:51 PM
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6. How about "Ditto"
Ditto!: Affirmation of the mutual propensity for flatulence between two dittoheads (flatulent fans of Rush Limbaugh).


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