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sad sally

(2,627 posts)
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 05:41 PM Aug 2012

If you want a smile or maybe even a little laugh, take a look at "A Devil's Dictionary"

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Class warfare: a technique by which teachers, nurses, firemen, and cashiers are believed to be oppressing derivatives traders and CEOs, which includes unreasonably complaining that their wages aren't keeping up with the cost of their health insurance.

Conservative: a person profoundly respectful of heritage, tradition, and old-fashioned values while preaching the revolution and strip-mining the Grand Canyon for high-sulfur coal.
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Elites: insufferable, overeducated snobs who are not real Ameri­cans and may in fact be French. Mitt Romney (Harvard MBA and JD) and George W. Bush (Yale, Harvard) have often criti­cized such scoundrels.

Empower: If an American worker loses his pension or Social Se­curity, he is empowered.

more here:http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10739-mike-lofgren-a-devils-dictionary

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If you want a smile or maybe even a little laugh, take a look at "A Devil's Dictionary" (Original Post) sad sally Aug 2012 OP
Not Bad At All, Ma'am.... The Magistrate Aug 2012 #1
... Scuba Aug 2012 #2
 

Scuba

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Wed Aug 8, 2012, 06:13 PM
Aug 2012

Free-market capitalism: the economic system by which Halli­burton gets sole-source, cost-plus government contracts.


Job creators: the truly creative engines of economic growth in our society: real-estate flippers, mortgage-backed securities bundlers, leveraged buyout specialists, dividend drawers, and hedge-fund billionaires.


Patriot: someone who loves America more than he loves the ma­jority of the people living therein.



Washington spending: the bad sort of spending that doesn't go toward earmarks to campaign contributors, subsidies to big oil, or the military's half-trillion-dollar budget. Everyone knows the Pentagon is across the Potomac in Virginia, not in Washington.

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