Bidenip

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Bidenip: Whenever loveable Joe Biden says something unfortunate, like the stuff about the flu pandemic. The Vice-President is "comedy gold". Gee whiz...


References: Note to Joe: Don't reveal top-secret secrets

Updated: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, you know, we think we might be on to something here...Keep it up, Joe - we need the material...




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Reductio ad Obamum

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Reductio ad Obamum: The logical (?) process and/or philosophy used to render all things to President Obama. Reference: The American Political Handbook, Wednesday, April 29, 2009.







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Specfection

Specfection: Political defection from one political party to another - for political or personal expediency.

Reference: Veteran GOP Sen. Specter switches parties.

FOM: Ex-Specter-Ate






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Specterlation

Specterlation: The political calculation(s) conducted by all sides just prior to and after the party-switching (or specfection) by the enigmatic Senator Arlen Specter.





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Narcowar

Narcowar: Not an original word, but still worth posting. The rather tragic portmanteau of narcotics and war. Reference: 7 Mexican cops shot dead in 60-minute span.




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Panboring or Pannui

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Panboring / Pannui: The rather unfortunate portmanteaus of Pandemic and boring and ennui. With reference to what may be the overblown media portrayal currently being put out by the various media outlets regarding the Swine Flu outbreak of this year. We're very sorry - we do apologize to absolutely everybody in the world.

If you care to, you can view more of our thoughts and rationalizations on this topic in our sister publications: The American Political Handbook and/or Bring Back The Dodo!

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Indian Condom

Indian Condom: (1) A double-size condom. (2) An extra-large size condom. (3) A bragging, self-referential joke by one who exclaims to require a twice-normal size condom for their anatomical requirements. Reference: Condoms 'too big' for Indian men.

Example: "Do you have any Indian Condoms?" "What is that, sir?" "You know, twice the normal size! Extra large!"




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Silicone Embolism

Silicone embolism: Not a new term, but perhaps one the public should be more familiar with. Definition: The result of severe clinical reaction up to and including death from the injection of liquid silicone for cosmetic purposes. References: NYT: A possibly deadly route to beauty and Silicone embolism syndrome, (http://www.chestjournal.org/content/127/6/2276.abstract).




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Bushama

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Bushama: Yes, we know we are offending the sensibilities of many of Obama's crowd, but we are somewhat offended by the decision of the new Administration to protect the old Administration regarding certain policies and activities as regarding torture. (1) The apparent morphing of the old and new administrations. (2) The rather shocking portmanteau of Bush and Obama. (3) The rather shocking realization that the Obama Administration may be defending the Bush Administration in certain illicit areas of US law.

References: Obama Aide: No Prosecution of Bush Officials for Torture Policy, U.N. Official: No Pass For Torturers, Government won’t release wiretap documents , Gov't Refuses To Release Wiretap Document and Obama keeps some Bush secrets.


Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2009








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Caterpillar

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Caterpillar: Not a new word, but a new meaning with a new symbolism. As of yesterday, we aquired the new knowledge that our administrations have avowed and allowed and defended of/to the use of insects (caterpillars in at least one case) to the use of torture of its political prisoners. Definitions: (1) The introduction of insect(s) onto the skin of a detainee/prisoner for the purposes of making the same believe that the insect(s) have a venomous sting. (2) The symbol of the use of covert - and now overt - torture by the US on its political detainees and prisoners. (3) A now legally acceptable practice of cruel and unusual political punishment in the USA.

Example: "Did you inform the prisoner that they had a caterpillar in their head bag?". "Yes. Yes we did".










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Financius Interruptus or Finnuptus

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Financius Interruptus / Finnuptus: (1) The involuntary conclusion of fingasm (or climax) or other overtly adult act(s) due to the currently unbearable psychological and financial crisis. (2) Sort of the psychological-financial equivalent of involuntary coitus interruptus. (3) The inability to achieve adult satisfaction due to fingidity.









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Fingasm

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Fingasm: The rather obvious portmanteau of orgasm + financial. (1) The ultimate goal and/or needed quasi-sexual-financial release leading to relief from the currently unbearable psychological and financial crisis. (2) The financial-crisis equivalent to relief of the same via sexual release. (3) The inspiration we all felt to the reaction obtained by Elizabeth Warren in her final response to John Stewart's almost-penetrating (sorry, unintended pun...) questioning during last night's (Wednesday, April 15, 2009) Daily Show.

Brief editorial: We inadvertently referred to Jon Stewart's interview questions as "almost-penetrating" due to Ms. Warren's almost completely deer-in-the-headlights response to all but one of his questions (the last one, Wednesday, April 15, 2009).






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Fingid

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Fingid: What should have been an obvious portmanteau of frigid + financial (crisis) to sex therapists cum (sorry, inadvertent pun...) financiers and the like. Definitions: (1) Quasi-sexual-financial condition resulting in missed fingasm or a financius interruptus (finnuptus, for short) due to the currently psychologically and financially unbearable economic climate. (2) Frigidity caused by the currently psychologically and financially unbearable economic climate. (3) Inability to achieve fingasm (or orgasm) due to the currently unbearable psychologically and financially economic climate or other oppressive sociological climate [See Diane Keaton's character's ("Luna") line in Woody Allen's cult-classic Sleeper: "In the future, we're all frigid"].






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Protaxination

Protaxination: The rather obvious portmanteau of procrastination + taxation combined on this, Tax Day, April 15 (USA). Definition: Waiting until this day, or later, to file one's tax returns.




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Deresourcing or desimonization

Deresourcing or desimonization: In our previous entry, we discussed the portmanteau piraculation (or piraculate). The suggestion was that overpopulation pressures for declining resources (such as fish, and other marine and maritime resources) apparently resulted in the use of piracy by country-states such as Somalia. This appears to be directly contrary to the work of the late Julian Lincoln Simon, The Ultimate Resource.






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Piraculate or Piraculation

Piraculate / Piraculation: A portmanteau of piracy and (over)population. We have almost all of us recently witnessed the rather thrilling climax of the siege of the Maersk Alabama and the dramatic rescue of Captain Richard Phillips. The derivation of this/these new word(s) comes about from the development of piracy in a country-state like Somalia faced with the need of an overpopulated world feeding off of their fishing and sea territories and thus forcing them to new - and illegal - ventures. Somalia and countries like Somalia are faced with the rather grim prospect of supporting themselves without their traditional and sovereign rights to making a livelihood off of their own coastline(s) and resources. We propose piraculation is one end result of this.

Definition: The descent into or reduction to an idea, notion, philosophy, state and/or activities associated with piracy as a consequence of deresourcing and/or desimonization.

For more see the BBC Article: Attenborough warns on population . And the Wikipedia Article: Overpopulation. More on piracy, see David Cordingly's rather excellent book: "Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates". (Note: We apologize for the Amazon ad, we had wanted to use Google Books, but our public IP address provider's use of SmartFilter prevented us from doing so).

More: See the Urban Dictionary's Definition of Piracracy.

Updated/Revised: Tuesday, April 14, 2009

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Griditration or Gridthreat

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Griditration/Gridthreat: (1) Infiltration of a nation's power grid (e.g., in this case, the USA!) allegedly by a foreign power. Purportedly to be used as an "equalizer" in the event of war with the alleged foreign power or superpower nation. (2) Is this related to the mysterious purpose(s) and evolution (?) of the Conficker WormVirus? Reference(s): Cyberspies infiltrate US power grid and Hackers reportedly have embedded code in power grid. (3) And if and when the war does start, we think we'll know for sure... (4) We guess we'll also know for sure if this website is suddenly and mysteriously blocked...

See also our posting "The Coming Cyberwar and the Failing Health of an Ill Kim Jong Il and More for Thursday, April 9, 2009".








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