Noprah

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Noprah: "Just say "NO" to Oprah's health advice.

References: Criticisms and controversies and Newsweek: Why 'Oprah' advice could make you sick.









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Boyloon

Boyloon: Sings like an angel, looks like a dragoon.

References/Commentary: Susan Boyle, dragoon and Boyle second on ‘Talent’. We hate to be cruel, but... (she will still become rich, we're sure...)...we apologize to absolutely everyone in the world.

Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2009





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Cadi11ac or Cad11ac

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Cadi11ac / Cad11ac: The unfortunate (and rather tragic) combination of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and GM's high-end, luxury vehicle division. Suggested pronunciation: cad-ih-eleven-ack or cad-eleven-ack.

References: No - we are not waiting with wicked glee for the bankruptcy of GM nor any of its divisions. This website is authored and edited by former Detroiters with relatives formerly employed (since retired) by GM. But (unlike the O-POD) we're fairly certain of the economic chaos that is sure to follow after this one. Actually, we're fairly depressed over it. GM bosses discuss bankruptcy plan, GM files for bankruptcy,announces plant closings and Interactive timeline: GM's road to bankruptcy.

Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2009, Monday, June 1, 2009

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Cypherdactyly or Cryptodactyly

Cypherdactyly / Cryptodactyly: Literally, "blank - or unknown - fingers". The quality of lacking fingerprints.

References: Cancer patient held at U.S. airport for missing fingerprint , Capecitabine and Man with prosthetic arms says bank turned him away because he couldn't provide thumbprint.

Bit.ly link for this post: http://bit.ly/4fG6cj

Revised/Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2009

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Suspensus Habeas Corpus

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Suspensus Habeas Corpus: (1) Literally, a suspension of Habeas Corpus and related laws and rights (for a prolonged period of time) - usually in the event of political expediency. (2) Based on President Obama's revelation of "prolonged detention" policy in his speech on National Security, yesterday, Thursday, May 22, 2009. See also: Extensus Habeas Corpus and Habeas Corpus longinquus detineo.



References: ‘Prolonged detention’ , Rachel, Habeas Corpus, National security showdown, Countdown, House, Senate refuse to close Gitmo, Andrea Mitchell, Suspensus Habeas Corpus and Extensus Habeas Corpus.









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Extensus Habeas Corpus

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Extensus Habeas Corpus: (1) Literally, "You may have the body/person for an extended period (of time)." Based on President Obama's revelation of "prolonged detention" policy in his speech on National Security, yesterday, Thursday, May 22, 2009. (2) To be held without charge nor due process of law for an unspecified period of time. See also: Habeas Corpus longinquus detineo.

References: Habeas Corpus longinquus detineo, ‘Prolonged detention’ , Rachel, Habeas Corpus, National security showdown, Countdown, House, Senate refuse to close Gitmo, Andrea Mitchell, Suspensus Habeas Corpus and Extensus Habeas Corpus.









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Habeas Corpus longinquus detineo

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Habeas Corpus longinquus detineo: (Not meant to be a humorous definition, sort of a "cold fuzzy".). (1) Literally (?) "you may have/detain the body (person) for a prolonged period of time" - based on President Obama's revelation of "prolonged detention" policy in his speech on National Security, yesterday, Thursday, May 22, 2009. (2) To be held without charge nor due process of law for an unspecified period of time.

References: ‘Prolonged detention’ , Rachel, Habeas Corpus, National security showdown, Countdown, House, Senate refuse to close Gitmo, Andrea Mitchell, Suspensus Habeas Corpus and Extensus Habeas Corpus.










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Non-Warm Fuzzies or Cold Fuzzies

Non-Warm Fuzzies / Cold Fuzzies: The exact opposite of "warm fuzzies". Negative feelings engendered by negative commentary, sarcasm, satire and the like towards the recipient audiences' feelings about their leadership, friends, and so on and so on... Example: "Hey, I definitely felt some non-warm fuzzies when I read your column Is Obama like Twobama and Bushama? And More for Thursday, May 21, 2009 and the definitions Twobama and Bushama.

References: Is Obama like Twobama and Bushama? And More for Thursday, May 21, 2009.






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Wysiwygama or Wysigama

Wysiwygama / Wysigama: The unfortunate portmanteau of wysiwyg and Obama. Example: Are we really seeing the real Obama - that is, the Wysiwygama - up there on the stage?

References: Michael Isikoff on Rachel Maddow (5/20/09) on Obama Secret Meeting w Human Rights Groups, Is Obama like Twobama and Bushama? And More for Thursday, May 21, 2009, Twobama and Bushama.






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Twobama

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Twobama: (1) The reported/reputed difference observed in Barack Obama's private and public personas. For more, see Michael Isikoff's reports on Rachel (5/20/2009) and the secret Obama meetings with Human Rights Groups. See also: Bushama. And: Does Barack Obama really have two sides to his personality? Is he wandering the halls of the White House into the wee hours of the morning talking to the presidential portraits of Washington and Lincoln a la Richard Nixon? God, we hope not. Stewie: Yes we do! Yes we do! Dictionary: Stop it! (3) Holding out on government documents thereby dashing the "transparency in government" promise.

References: Michael Isikoff on Rachel Maddow (5/20/09) on Obama Secret Meeting w Human Rights Groups, Government won’t release wiretap documents , Gov't Refuses To Release Wiretap Document and Bushama.

Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2009






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Israel-Palestine

Israel-Palestine: If we are "ever" to have peace in the Middle East, it seems some parties will have to relent and give in to the suggested two-state system for a proposed unified Israel with Palestine. (1) The combined 2-state statehood of Israel and Palestine. (2) The bringing about of the (1) via the Pax Obama. (3) The metaphor for the unwanted (by the controlling state...) joining of two city-states, country-states or otherwise recognized boundaried national sovereign entities through mutual hate and disrepect brought about "diplomatically" by some more powerful sovereign entity (e.g. the US). (4) Another metaphor: the potential advantage seen by the state of Israel in defense against a hostile nuclear attack from an Arabic nation by joining with another Arabic state.

References (Updated: 5/29/2009): US pressures Israel on two-state plan,Obama presses Abbas, Israel on West Bank and Pax Obama.

More References: Iran 'test launches' mid-range missile and Report: U.S. Confirms Iran Missile Success.

Updated: May 20, 2009










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Mislicense

Mislicense: (1) Actually, we do have a word to cover this already - malpractice. But in light of the complaint of disbarment requested for several former "Bushies", we thought a new wording was important to bring more light to the seriousness of these alleged crimes and charges. (2) The facile or misapplication of law or legal documents to give the appearance of legality to political actions, philosophies and so on. (More on this one later). Reference: Complaint seeks disbarment of Bush lawyers.




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Chisade

Chisade: (1) The unfortunate and tragic portmanteau of chicanery and crusade. (2) Giving the appearance (especially to one's critics and just about every one else in the world...) of conducting a religious crusade - and not truly a war - by supplying reports and other documents of the same with religious images and or quotations. (3) The conducting of said item (2) through the application of such devices as religious ideology, trickery, chicanery, cupidity, vacuity, confutation, obfuscation, and so on and so on... Reference: Donald Rumsfeld's Holy War.




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Proreduction

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Proreduction: (1) A serious play on the words reduction and reproduction. Regarding President Obama's speech at Notre Dame yesterday, Sunday, May 17, 2009, on the topics of reducing unwanted pregnancies in tandem with the reduction of abortions. (2) A philosophical/political/theological middle-ground between pro-life and pro-choice ideologies and forces. References: Obama calls for 'fair-minded' abortion debate, Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 and U.S. Const. Amend. XIV. (* Abortifacient agents).





Example: "Can a philosophy of proreduction help reduce the abortion and birth rates"?









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SPOD

SPOD: Second President (US) of Diversity - acronym. (To be filled by a player named later...). Covered this in our previous post.





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O-POD or I-POD or F-POD

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O-POD / I-POD / F-POD: (1) Original President (US) of Diversity or Initial President of Diversity or First President of Diversity. (Barack Obama). (You probably saw this one coming if you read our previous post). Not a new acronym, but appears to be a new definition. Again, we wanted to avoid using the last acronym, because there might be those inclined to associate it with an unfortunate expletive. We hope not. We love him almost as much as Michelle Obama. (2) The middle acronym is an indirect reference to President Obama's love of his Blackberry and being a "techie or tekkie".

Which leads us to wonder, who will be the SPOD (Second President of Diversity)?









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O-FLOD or I-FLOD or F-FLOD

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O-FLOD / I-FLOD / F-FLOD: Original- or Initial- or First-First Lady of Diversity. (Michelle Obama). Not a new acronym, but appears to be a new definition. We wanted to avoid using the last acronym due to the obvious opportunities to those to use an unfortunate expletive or two in the redefinition of the same. Of course, it could also be redefined to read: "First-First Lady of Divinity". Which we wouldn't want, because we have just fallen head over heels in love (no, no, not that kind of love...gee whiz...) with our First Lady as most people have.





Which leads to the next acronym, the S-FLOD: the Second First Lady of Diversity. Or will it be the F-FMOD: the First-First Man of Diversity? We wonder...









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CWhyA

CWhyA: A questionable "eggcorn" related to our two previous entries (at least): The P-Moment and CQA. Indeed, why have such an agency if the intelligence is questionable?






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CQA or C?A

CQA: Central Questionable Agency. That derivative substitution of Questionable for Intelligence in reference to our previous entry: The P-Moment. In other words, if the intelligence from the CIA is questionable (since the Tenet era...at least) is a name change appropriate - or perhaps an epithet veiled in sarcasm?

References: George Tenet, Karl Christian Rove, Pelosi says CIA lied on 'torture', Exculpatory, Rachel (Maddow), Philip D. Zellikow on Rachel Regarding Torture Memo and Testimony of May 13, 2009, Zelikow Memo, The Z-Moment, Zelikow advocates independent investigation into torture policies, Senate testimony sheds light on alleged torture, Philip D. Zelikow, Ex-FBI agent criticizes harsh terrorism tactics, Former FBI Agent: Enhanced Interrogations 'Ineffective, Harmful', FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY: Gonzales Imposed Brutal Interrogation Tactics, Alberto Gonzales, Ali Soufan (Wikipedia), Malcolm Nance on Rachel Regarding Ineffectiveness of Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse on Countdown Regarding Senate Hearings on Interrogation/Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Wolffe Commentary on Countdown Regarding Interrogation/Torture Hearings/Proceedings, waterboarding , torture, zelcupatory, zelli non culpa, and Obama defends abuse photos U-turn




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The P-Moment

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The P-Moment: (1) Yes, the unfortunate reference to Ms. Pelosi's refutation that she (and other members of Congress) were informed about the waterboarding procedures being used on political detainees. (2) That moment in political and/or public discourse where the public is forced/almost forced to see the light of day and/or other insights into a major, growing scandal. See also: Pelosi: CIA misled me on waterboarding,

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Pelosi raises stakes in detainee debate,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30760398/,

Pelosi says CIA lied on 'torture', and/or

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8050930.stm.





More References: Karl Christian Rove, Pelosi says CIA lied on 'torture', Exculpatory, Rachel (Maddow), Philip D. Zellikow on Rachel Regarding Torture Memo and Testimony of May 13, 2009, Zelikow Memo, The Z-Moment, Zelikow advocates independent investigation into torture policies, Senate testimony sheds light on alleged torture, Philip D. Zelikow, Ex-FBI agent criticizes harsh terrorism tactics, Former FBI Agent: Enhanced Interrogations 'Ineffective, Harmful', FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY: Gonzales Imposed Brutal Interrogation Tactics, Alberto Gonzales, Ali Soufan (Wikipedia), Malcolm Nance on Rachel Regarding Ineffectiveness of Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse on Countdown Regarding Senate Hearings on Interrogation/Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Wolffe Commentary on Countdown Regarding Interrogation/Torture Hearings/Proceedings, waterboarding , torture, zelcupatory, zelli non culpa, and Obama defends abuse photos U-turn









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Waterboard-Gate Affair or Scandal

Waterboard-Gate Affair: Referential name (similar to The Watergate Affair) for the scandal over waterboarding, torture, in violation of 3rd Geneva Convention Article 13 and repeated unproductive abuse of U.S. political detainees and presumed terrorists such as: Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheik Muhammad and others. (Unproductive based on recent testimony such as that given by Ali Soufan behind a screen with his voice altered).

References: Exculpatory, Rachel (Maddow), Philip D. Zellikow on Rachel Regarding Torture Memo and Testimony of May 13, 2009, Zelikow Memo, The Z-Moment, Zelikow advocates independent investigation into torture policies, Senate testimony sheds light on alleged torture, Philip D. Zelikow, Ex-FBI agent criticizes harsh terrorism tactics, Former FBI Agent: Enhanced Interrogations 'Ineffective, Harmful', FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY: Gonzales Imposed Brutal Interrogation Tactics, Alberto Gonzales, Ali Soufan (Wikipedia), Malcolm Nance on Rachel Regarding Ineffectiveness of Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse on Countdown Regarding Senate Hearings on Interrogation/Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Wolffe Commentary on Countdown Regarding Interrogation/Torture Hearings/Proceedings, waterboarding , torture, zelcupatory, zelli non culpa, Watch Senator Carl Levin Smack Down Chemissions on MSNBC and David Shuster and David Corn smack down on GOP Mouthpiece (Terry Jeffrey) on Government Torture Memos, Watch Erich Muller (“Mancow”) Defend his Waterboarding “Stunt” (Successfully, we thought…) on Countdown on MSNBC and Obama defends abuse photos U-turn

Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2009






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Zelcupatory or Zelli Non Culpa

Zelcupatory / Zelli Non Culpa: (1) The portmanteau of exculpatory and Philip D. Zelikow. Where the hero reveals the evidence that he/she is non-complicit in the sanctioning or action of waterboarding or torture. (2) The exculpatory evidence or exonerating evidence demonstrating that the hero of the story is not complicit, accessory nor in another criminal capacity responsible for officially sanctioned criminal actions and the like.

References: Exculpatory, Rachel (Maddow), Philip D. Zellikow on Rachel Regarding Torture Memo and Testimony of May 13, 2009, Zelikow Memo, The Z-Moment, Zelikow advocates independent investigation into torture policies, Senate testimony sheds light on alleged torture, Philip D. Zelikow, Ex-FBI agent criticizes harsh terrorism tactics, Former FBI Agent: Enhanced Interrogations 'Ineffective, Harmful', FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY: Gonzales Imposed Brutal Interrogation Tactics, Alberto Gonzales, Ali Soufan (Wikipedia), Malcolm Nance on Rachel Regarding Ineffectiveness of Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse on Countdown Regarding Senate Hearings on Interrogation/Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Wolffe Commentary on Countdown Regarding Interrogation/Torture Hearings/Proceedings, and Obama defends abuse photos U-turn




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The Z-Moment

The Z-Moment: (1) The one moment in his statement where apparently Philip D. Zelikow effectively brings down everybody - Democrats and Republicans alike (excepting himself) - in regards to the Zelikow Memo described in the same video tape from The Rachel Maddow show of Wednesday, May 13, 2009. (2) The one moment where the hero - like Zelikow or even the hero of California, Zorro - threatens to bring down all the bad guys and their accessories in one fell swoop or statement.

References: Exculpatory, Rachel (Maddow), Philip D. Zellikow on Rachel Regarding Torture Memo and Testimony of May 13, 2009, Zelikow Memo, Zelikow advocates independent investigation into torture policies, Senate testimony sheds light on alleged torture, Philip D. Zelikow, Ex-FBI agent criticizes harsh terrorism tactics, Former FBI Agent: Enhanced Interrogations 'Ineffective, Harmful', FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY: Gonzales Imposed Brutal Interrogation Tactics, Alberto Gonzales, Ali Soufan (Wikipedia), Malcolm Nance on Rachel Regarding Ineffectiveness of Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse on Countdown Regarding Senate Hearings on Interrogation/Torture, Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Wolffe Commentary on Countdown Regarding Interrogation/Torture Hearings/Proceedings, Watch Senator Carl Levin Smack Down Chemissions on MSNBC and David Shuster and David Corn smack down on GOP Mouthpiece (Terry Jeffrey) on Government Torture Memos, Watch Erich Muller (“Mancow”) Defend his Waterboarding “Stunt” (Successfully, we thought…) on Countdown on MSNBC, and Obama defends abuse photos U-turn






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Zelikow Memo

Zelikow Memo: (1) The one, single, damning, non-exonerating, non-exculpatory memo or document in the whole Waterboard-Gate Affair demonstrating the attempt to block Bush Administration-sanctioned torture, the denial of the same and the attendant coverup of the same. (2) A single, damning, non-exonerating, non-exculpatory document or piece of evidence that brings down (or threatens to bring down) an entire artifice of false and possibly criminal official policy built on lies, confutation and obfuscation.


References: Exculpatory, Rachel (Maddow), Philip D. Zellikow on Rachel Regarding Torture Memo and Testimony of May 13, 2009, The Z-Moment, Zelikow advocates independent investigation into torture policies, Senate testimony sheds light on alleged torture, Philip D. Zelikow, Ex-FBI agent criticizes harsh terrorism tactics, Former FBI Agent: Enhanced Interrogations 'Ineffective, Harmful', FBI WHISTLEBLOWER TESTIMONY: Gonzales Imposed Brutal Interrogation Tactics, Alberto Gonzales, Ali Soufan (Wikipedia), Malcolm Nance on Rachel Regarding Ineffectiveness of Torture,
Sheldon Whitehouse on Countdown Regarding Senate Hearings on Interrogation/Torture,
Sheldon Whitehouse, Richard Wolffe Commentary on Countdown Regarding Interrogation/Torture Hearings/Proceedings, Watch Erich Muller (“Mancow”) Defend his Waterboarding “Stunt” (Successfully, we thought…) on Countdown on MSNBC, Watch Senator Carl Levin Smack Down Chemissions on MSNBC and David Shuster and David Corn smack down on GOP Mouthpiece (Terry Jeffrey) on Government Torture Memos, Watch Erich Muller (“Mancow”) Defend his Waterboarding “Stunt” (Successfully, we thought…) on Countdown on MSNBC and Obama defends abuse photos U-turn

Updated: Sunday, May 31, 2009








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Chemania

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Chemania: The rather disturbing portmanteau of Cheney and mania. (1) Of an elevated politician's mood when apparently defending their rather scandalous (and very illegal actions ) in political office via political discourse, dialogue, interview and so on. (2) The resulting linking of said official to their rather scandalous actions through such elevated dialogues.

References: Analysis: Why is Dick Cheney so chatty all of a sudden?, Washington diary Is Dick Cheney the new face of the Republicans?, Ex-Bush official testifies on waterboarding, Ex-Bush Official Lobbied Against Torture , and Alleged prisoner abuse photos to be released .

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