Topic: Words: Then and Now

[warpmine]

Words are living things: squiggling, wriggling and giggling like a hunnert-year-old constitution thingamajig....

Bailout
Then: Ejecting from a failing aircraft before it crashes
Now: Injecting money into a crony too-big-to-fail bank before it crashes

Crony
Then: Someone a pal would share a drink with
Now: Someone a pol will share taxpayer money with

Freedom
Then: You do what you want
Now: You do what we want

Poverty
Then: A lack of the basic necessities of life
Now: A lack of the newest iPhone

Racism
Then: Resentment of one's skin color
Now: Resentment of one's political views

Tax
Then: A means of funding the services provided by the government
Now: A means provided to the government to screw you if you don't buy health insurance

Journalism:
Then: All the news that's fit to print
Now: All the news that fits our narrative, we print

Evolution
Then: A scientific theory explaining the development of complex creatures from simpler ones
Now: A journalistic theory explaining the development of simplistic legal opinions from supposedly complex supreme court justices

Investment
Then: A person risking some of his own money in hopes of a positive return
Now: A politician risking a lot of the public's money which he's positive won't be returned

Environmentalism:
Then: A movement seeking to preserve the earth for future generations
Now: A movement seeking to kill off future generations to preserve the earth

Mortgage
Then: A loan made to a mature, responsible person for the purpose of purchasing a house
Now: A loan made to an immature, irresponsible person for the purpose of making politicians feel good

Ambition
Then: Spending billions to build a rocket to take men to the moon and break rocks
Now: Spending billions to build a train to take men from Bakersfield to Fresno which will never break ground

Woman
Then: A human with female sex organs and sexual characteristics
Now: A human with female sex organs and sexual characteristics who votes Democrat

Wedding
Then: An occasion to celebrate with gifts to the new bride and groom
Now: An occasion to celebrate with a donation to Barack Obama

Change
Then: "Change back from your dollar," an ad campaign for selling hamburgers
Now: "Change you can believe in," an ad campaign for selling a meathead

Clown
Then: Symbolic head of McDonalds
Now: Actual head of the US
Courtesy of http://www.thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/words-then-and-now-t9220.html
 

[Predator Don]

This shouldn't be funny.....lol

[Pandora]

This shouldn't be funny.....lol

The secret ingredient in good humor - a truth.  Heheh.

[charlesoakwood]

 

[Libertas]

I see proof of those "new" meanings everywhere.

[Weisshaupt]

Liberal World Magic is fundamental to their world view -- a great article on Lakoff's new book can be found here.

Lakoff is also the reason why liberals and conservatives never seem to be able to communicate with each other. This frustrating problem is no accident, nor a natural result of differing ideologies simply not seeing eye to eye. Rather, it’s a conscious behavior explicitly recommended by Lakoff over the years, and one which he hammers home repeatedly in The Little Blue Book. Page 43 contains the book’s core message:



“Never use your opponent’s language….Never repeat ideas that you don’t believe in, even if you are arguing against them.”

So central is this notion to Lakoff’s thesis that his publicist sent out a list of “The 10 Most Important Things Democrats Should Know” with each review copy, and guess what comes in at #1:



“Don’t repeat conservative language or ideas, even when arguing against them.”

And many politicians, pundits and talking heads have taken Lakoff’s recommendation to heart. This is why conservatives and liberals can’t seem to have the simplest conversation: liberals intentionally refuse to address or even acknowledge what conservatives say. Since (as Lakoff notes) conservatives invariably frame their own statements within their own conservative “moral frames,” every time a conservative speaks, his liberal opponent will seemingly ignore what was said and instead come back with a reply literally out of left field.

They do this on purpose- because the last thing they want is people actually talking and communicating  and thinking.

[Libertas]

Look at what the statist asshats call the bills they introduce.  You can damn well bet that whatever pleasant-sounding euphamisms they use are designed to destroy the target population, not help it.  If anybody gets residuals it will be by feeding off of the rotting innocent carcas they just created!

A wise leader and a wise party would preface every idea of the left with words like "The discredited practice of...", "By changing an illegal act into an apparently lawful..." and things like that.

But under RINOcrats we can dispense with any pretense that our so-called leaders understand the concepts of Total War in the political sense, let alone the military sense...

Embrace the horror, it can only go further downhill from here...

[warpmine]

Das Ende!

Load your weapons and don't wait for the word go.....take them son-of-bitches out.

Cya