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I posted this on another thread using another word but upon reflection It occured to me that if one wanted to start a new curse word the word "Barak' would work far better than the original. So in the interest of furthering the development of profanity science here is the latest word to be bleeped when broadcast. Proper use of the word “Barak” through history “Where did all of the “barak” concrete sales go.” Mort Zlotnik concrete contractor in Babel “Those “barak” Americans just won't “barak” give up” British General Edward Pakenham at the battle of New Orleans 1814 “Where...

CHRISTIAN Democrat MP Fred Nile has warned of the risks of allowing Muslims to serve in Australia's armed forces. The Rev Nile says last week's killing spree in the United States in which an army officer shot dead 13 people should cause "all associated with the free world's military forces to feel serious concern". The NSW MP and former army officer said the Australian Defence Force could already harbour Muslim personnel who may be a threat to their comrades in arms.

You know you've made it when you're in the dictionary. But you know you've made it in a humorous way when you appear in the Urban Dictionary. UrbanDictionary.com, which tracks pop culture terms, has added one more: Scozzafavaed. Referring to Dede Scozzafava, the moderate Republican assemblywoman who pulled out of New York's District 23 race and threw her support behind the Democrat. To be "Scozzafavaed", as defined by UrbanDictionary.com, is to be "Purged of moderation, e.g., within in a Congressional district." It can also mean "Inadvertently revealed internal chaos, e.g., within in a political Party." As an adjective: "Doomed due...

After four years of Civil War, approximately 630,000 deaths and over 1 million casualties, General Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant, at the home of Wilmer and Virginia McLean in the town of Appomattox Court House,Virginia on April 9, 1865...

Obama chooses his words to dodge any deeds Irwin Stelzer: American account Veni, vidi, dixi. That about describes President Obama’s week. Five, count them, five Sunday morning talk shows, a comedy talk show on Monday, followed by talks at an international conference on climate change, at the UN General Assembly to apologise for America's sins before he moved into the Oval Office, at a session on nuclear disarmament, at the Security Council, and at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. To be followed by talks with the Iranians, on their terms, later this week. On the global warming front the president...

n a deliciously ironic piece, Joanthan Weisman at the Wall Street Journal talks about how the Democrats spent literally years poll-testing and trying to find just the right words and phrases to sell nationalized health care. In other words, they wanted to know how to fool enough people into thinking it was not nationalized health care. The problem is that you can call something a warm, creamy treat, but that doesn't mean it isn't a still pile of crap.

HITLER QUOTES REVEAL OBAMA and REGIME 1 Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it 2 How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” 3 All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” 4 “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” 5 By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. 6 “It is always more...

The Democrats are into the word game again. Everything they are, and everything they promote, and everything they intend to force into our way of life is hidden in words.PROGRESSIVE not LIBERALPRO CHOICE not ABORTIONINVESTMENT not TAXMOB not CONCERNED CITIZENSSENATOR not MA'AM GAY not HOMOSEXUAL HOMOPHOBIC not MORAL REVULSION To mention a few that come to mind. Democrats have a Madison Avenue mentality with a Goebbles bent. .. "Tell a lie enough times it eventually becomes truth." Words influence the uneducated and uninformed just as words entice impulse buying in the marketing of a product or service.HOPE and CHANGE or...

THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG THE BLOG TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH, 2009 AT 6:55 AM Facts Are Stubborn Things Posted by Macon Phillips Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things." Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions. In this video, Linda Douglass, the communications director for the White House’s Health Reform Office, addresses one example that makes it look like the President intends to...

WASHINGTON – It's a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran. After week upon week in which plenty of other people on the planet interpreted Sotomayor's past comments, the Supreme Court nominee at last got a chance to deconstruct her own words Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Fingers splayed, palms flat, hands bouncing up and then deliberately pressing down to the table, Sotomayor elaborated, clarified, expanded, retracted. She drew loopy circles on her paper; she ran rhetorical circles around her past words. "I didn't intend to suggest ..." she explained. "What I was speaking about ..." she offered. "As I...

 As Rush says ... "Words have meaning."Posters are responsible for what they post. THINK before you post. If you post, YOUR words stand!

In the first six months of the Obama administration, we have witnessed an assault on the truth of a magnitude not seen since the Nixon Watergate years. The prevarication is ironic given the Obama campaign’s accusations that the Bush years were not transparent and that Hillary Clinton, like her husband, was a chronic fabricator. Remember Obama’s own assertions that he was a “student of history” and that “words mean something. You can’t just make stuff up.” Yet Obama’s war against veracity is multifaceted. Trotskyization. Sometimes the past is simply airbrushed away. Barack Obama has a disturbing habit of contradicting his...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-gYIL0w5O8 http://www.whitehouse.gov/WeeklyAddress/Audio/2009/05/20090516-WGFXZP/20090516_Weekly_Address.mp3 # Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/EMBARGOED-WEEKLY-ADDRESS-President-Obama-Says-Progress-on-Clean-Energy-and-Healthcare-Reform-Will-Lay-New-Foundation/ THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary EMBARGOED UNTIL 6:00 AM ET, SATURDAY, May 16, 2009 WEEKLY ADDRESS: President Obama Says Progress on Clean Energy and Healthcare Reform Will Lay New Foundation WASHINGTON – This week, President Barack Obama praised individuals representing different perspectives for coming together to address the challenges of building a clean energy economy, reforming the healthcare system and laying a new foundation for the long-term strength of our economy. Utility companies and corporate leaders are working with environmental advocates and labor...

CORONADO — Vice President Joe Biden spent the day with Navy personnel yesterday, thanking them for their service and announcing plans to expand homeowners assistance to military families with $555 million from the economic stimulus package. Speaking aboard the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan, docked at Coronado Naval Base, Biden said military families and civilian Defense Department employees who recently sold their homes at a loss are in particular need of financial assistance. “In the middle of a credit and housing crisis, we recognize that military families cannot generally choose, to put it mildly, when they move,” he said. ... “That's...

THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG   Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 at 12:10 pm "Words and Deeds" Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, drops by to talk about progress on ethics and transparency since the President was sworn in. The President promised across-the-board change in Washington and all of us in the White House have been pleased to help deliver. In the ethics and government reform arena, we have worked hard to help the President impose strict new ethics rules for all employees; foster a culture of compliance and respect for the law; promote greater transparency (including...

Obama Worship Goes Into Overdrive as 100-Day Mark Approaches By P.J. Gladnick (Bio | Archive) April 25, 2009 - 09:06 ET You're not seeing things and it is not a spoof picture from The Onion or any other satirical website. The image you see to the right (larger version below the fold) is a painting by artist Michael D'Antuono called "The Truth" that will be officially unveiled at Union Square in New York City on April 29 to mark President Barack Obama's hundreth day in office. Here are the details from the official press release: Can You Handle 'The Truth'?...

Separated at birth ?

After more than a century of tedious work, the end is finally near for a group of University of Wisconsin researchers. They're creating a regional dictionary, for the entire country and cataloging all of our similarities and our differences. It all started back in 1889, when the American Dialect Society began to write the Dictionary of American Regional English. Joan Houston Hall, the Chief Editor says, "there is nothing like it anywhere else." For eight decades, the project went virtually nowhere, until Professor Frederick Cassidy got involved. That's when the project picked up steam. "There will always be regional and...

Some of the oldest words in use in have been identified by scientists studying the evolution of language. English and Indo-European words including 'I', 'we', 'two' and 'thou' have changed so little in tends of thousands of years that ancient hunter-gatherers would have been able to understand them. Researchers have also identified several words that could die out within 1,000 years because they are likely to evolve into different forms. They include "throw", "stick", "dirty", "guts" and "squeeze" which could all be out of use by the year 3000. Mark Pagel, of the University of Reading, who is leading the...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress/ THE BRIEFING ROOM Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 at 9:01 pm Remarks of President Barack Obama -- Address to Joint Session of Congress Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Address to Joint Session of Congress Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I’ve come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and women in this great chamber, but to speak frankly and directly to the men and women who sent us here. I know...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/23/Owning-up-to-what-we-owe/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 pm Owning up to what we owe This is big -- the President today promised that by the end of his first term, he will cut in half the massive federal deficit we've inherited. And we'll do it in a new way: honestly and candidly. "This will not be easy. It will require us to make difficult decisions and face challenges we've long neglected," President Obama said. "But I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/18/Setting-the-bar-high/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 3:28 pm Setting the bar high Just looking at Recovery.gov, it might not be immediately clear what an enormous undertaking it will be to ensure that the transparency and accountability that the President expects will be upheld. It's going to require an unprecedented level of vigilance, a fundamental shift in the way the federal government spends your tax dollars, from the Oval Office down to every department and agency awarding funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That's why Peter...

Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. Proverbs 12:18 A woman called her husband and told him she was in an auto accident. "What’s the damage to the car?" the husband asked. "I don’t know. They towed it away." "So where are you calling from?" he asked. "The hospital." Oops! Have you ever wanted to take back something you said immediately after it came out of your mouth? We have all done it. Careless words. Unkind words. Thoughtless words. If we catch ourselves, we try to salvage the situation. Most of the time,...

University publishes 15 words we <3 to hate for 2009 By David Chartier | Published: January 01, 2009 - 08:00AM CT Just in time for the new year, Lake Superior State University has delivered on its decades-old tradition of publishing a "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness." The annual, jocular list began in 1976, with words and phrases like "meaningful" (which lost all of its meaningfulness at the time) and "call for resignation" as a publicity stunt to promote the university's existence. Since then it has grown into a crowdsourced list of...

Lake Superior State University "maverick" word-watchers, fresh from the holiday "staycation" but without an economic "bailout" even after a "desperate search," have issued their 34th annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness. This year's list may be more "green" than any of the previous lists and includes words and phrases that people from "Wall Street to Main Street" say they love "not so much" and wish to have erased from their "carbon footprint."

A fascinating new atlas, featuring cities that are renamed to reflect their etymological origins, is now on sale. Etymologists and wordsmiths will take particular interest in a new set of maps going on sale in time for Christmas. The traditional names for the world's cities, countries, rivers and mountains have been altered on an atlas to reflect their origins and literal meaning. Chicago, for example, is renamed Stink Onion and Cameroon is called the Land of Shrimps. The logic behind each place name is explained on the back of the maps. Cameroon comes from the Portuguese word camaroes, meaning...

Heading the list was the expression 'at the end of the day', which was followed in second place by the phrase 'fairly unique'. The tautological statement "I personally" made third place – an expression that BBC Radio 4 presenter John Humphreys has described as "the linguistic equivalent of having chips with rice." Also making the top 10 is the grammatically incorrect "shouldn't of", instead of "shouldn't have". The phrases appear in a book called Damp Squid, named after the mistake of confusing a squid with a squib, a type of firework. The researchers who compiled the list monitor the use...

We have Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Auto…(Big Government)…why not Big Word? Seems like lexicographical mergers and acquisitions have occurred without anyone saying a, well, a word. I noticed as I was perusing my gigantic dictionary last night that it is not merely “Webster’s;” it is “Random House Webster’s” unabridged. Pretty soon we’ll see OED engulfing them all. I don’t think bigger is better when it comes to our weird and funny language. The process of admitting new words to the lexicon is an organic one, to be sure (just think about how easily we all use Google as a...

CANTON A local audience will hear what has been labeled the "closing argument speech" from Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. In a release issued Sunday afternoon, Obama's campaign said the senator will deliver a speech that "lays out the choice in this election and details how he will fix our economy and bring the change we need to Washington." In the statement headlined "Obama to Deliver Closing Argument Speech in Canton," Obama's campaign contends that "after twenty-one months and three debates, Senator McCain still has not been able to tell the American people a single major thing he'd do differently...

"I CAN HAZ AMERICA?" went the caption on a photo of a wide-eyed Sarah Palin that circulated on the Internet soon after John McCain chose the Alaska governor to be his running mate. A few years ago, the caption would have been incomprehensible. But today almost any Web logger in America could tell you that the reference is to lolcats, the ironically cutesy, "laugh-out-loud" photos of cats on top of which deliberately misspelled captions are superimposed. Traditionally the cat in such photos asks for a cheeseburger. So popular have lolcats become that there is now a wiki — a collaboratively...

Jon asked me to comment on the debate over the "water" bond currently being proposed in the Legislature. Since there really is no water bond being proposed, the debate is a false one. We are already in a water crisis it is true. Democrats have done nothing to alleviate that crisis since sometime in Jerry Brown administration in the 70's, that is true as well. About 6 bonds have passed since 1996 claiming to be water bonds, and they got Republican votes to get on the ballot because somewhere in the language of the bond, someone wrote the word water....

While some might be undecided on who to vote for this coming Election Day, for others it’s a no-brainer. Although the news media would like us to believe otherwise, there is still an enormous political gap between the Left and the Right.

BARACK OBAMA (2/16/08): "Don't tell me words don't matter." BARACK OBAMA (6/29/06): "I strongly support public financing." BARACK OBAMA (2/26/08): "I will sit down with John McCain and make sure that we have a system that works for everybody." BARACK OBAMA (4/27/08): "I have promised that I will sit down with John McCain and talk about can we preserve a public system." BARACK OBAMA (6/19/08): "We've made the decision not to participate in the public-financing system for the general election." CHYRON: "Mr. Obama is breaking his word." (The Washington Times, 6/20/08) BARACK OBAMA (2/16/08): "Don't tell me words don't matter."...

An animated butterfly’s flight to a rainbow and children sing and praise our one and only all mighty God.

One of the great moments among many in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is when we find the young Albert Brooks manning the phones in the campaign office of the man we know (and he does not) to be a double-dyed phony. On behalf of the empty and grinning Sen. Palantine, he is complaining to a manufacturer of lapel buttons. "We asked for buttons that said, 'We Are the People.' These say, 'We Are the People.'… Oh, you don't think there's a difference? Well, we will not pay for the buttons. We will throw the buttons away." Part of the joke...

Much is being made of Barack Obama’s oratory skills. True, he is quite good when it comes to captivating a crowd of sycophants and this includes the lemmings in the mainstream media. But if words matter, as Obama (and surreptitiously Duval Patrick) claims they do, then we must acknowledge that in this case words do make the man, in this case Mr. Obama must be judged in his words and in the deeds that back-up those words. Ironically, I agree with Mr. Obama when he says that words matter. One of the harshest criticisms I have had of the Bush...

It was sad, watching the two remaining contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination engage in a civil little sparring match Thursday night. Because it was hard not to note, once again, the long slow decline of political debate in this country since Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas thought out and fought out the great issues of their day. Those were real debates rather than a joint press conference. I would rather have heard less from my colleagues in the ever-intrusive media and more from the candidates themselves. It would be a step up if the press weren't involved in...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio - Ignoring her crushing loss in Wisconsin to rival Barack Obama, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton pressed her case Tuesday that the Illinois senator offers little more than talk. "It's about picking a president who relies not just on words, but on work, hard work, to get America back to work," Clinton said at a labor rally here. "Someone who's not just in the speeches business." After his victory speech, Clinton called Obama to congratulate him and the two spoke briefly. The New York senator tried to battle back from her ninth straight loss to Obama since the Super...

Australians add new words to dictionary By Nick Squires In Sydney  Last Updated: 1:20pm GMT 10/01/2008       They gave the world budgie smugglers, sanger, arvo and barbie*, but Australians have shown themselves to be endlessly inventive, with a new collection of words and phrases added to the rich repository of Strine. The country’s biggest online dictionary, Macquarie, has included the 85 words or phrases in its latest online edition and wants Australians to vote for the one they consider most influential or apposite.   Toad juice anyone? They are grouped in 17 categories, from business to travel, and...

Lake Superior State University 2008 List of Banished Words This year, in a gesture of humanitarian relief, the committee restores "truthiness," banned on last year's list, to formal use. This comes after comedians and late-night hosts were thrown under the bus and rendered speechless by a nationwide professional writers' strike. The silence is deafening. PERFECT STORM – "Overused by the pundits on evening TV shows to mean just about any coincidence." – Lynn Allen, Warren, Michigan. "I read that 'Ontario is a perfect storm,' in reference to a report on pollution levels in the Great Lakes. Ontario is the name...

I was struck by a thought about the use of loaded words while reading a few threads recently. We had a story/ thread on a New Hampshire couple who was protesting taxes. The media described their home as a “compound”. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853401/posts Then we hear of criminals on the Armed Citizen ping list here at FR. The most famous loaded word there is “alleged”. Watching the Discovery Channel, I am amused by the musings of the writers. A theory, however improbable is made to be the truth by oft inserted words:” If, then, possibly, maybe, etc” Let’s see what the collective...

WASHINGTON, May 29, 2007 – Iranian delegates advocated a peaceful and secure Iraq during a weekend meeting, but Iran’s actions on the ground aren’t in synch with its stated policies and principles, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker told reporters yesterday. Crocker said Iraq, Iran and the United States all expressed a common goal for Iraq during yesterday’s meeting in Baghdad, hosted by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. “There was pretty good congruence right down the line -- support for a secure, stable, democratic, federal Iraq, in control of its own security (and) at peace with its neighbors,” Crocker...

In his book, “Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War”, one of the subjects that J. Michael Waller discusses is how this enemy is adept at using language to further their cause. As part of their campaign they are effectively using certain words and phrases to associate with their organizational goals and activities. This strategy is implemented to manipulate both the subconscious and conscious acceptance and reinforcement of those terms by their supporters and enemies alike. The purpose of this effort is to better position themselves in the mindsets of these audiences, i.e. empowering their supporters and weakening...

OSLO, Norway - Simmering tension between the U.S. and Russia over European missile defense boiled over Thursday at a meeting of NATO diplomats after President Vladimir Putin threatened to freeze Russia's compliance with an arms control treaty. Hours after Putin and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice traded long-distance barbs on the growing divide between the former Cold War foes, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov added to the fire in a lengthy diatribe against the United States and NATO. Like Putin, Lavrov spoke of suspending participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, which regulates deployment of military aircraft, tanks and...

A Northwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit was canceled Friday evening because a crew member used inappropriate language, Northwest media relations manager Roman Blahoski said. Flight 1190, carrying 180 passengers, was scheduled to land at Detroit Metropolitan Airport at 6:18 p.m., Blahoski said. Passengers who were able to pay out of their pocket to buy a one-way ticket to Detroit may make it late Friday or Saturday, while others are waiting to be accommodated.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2007 – Two nonprofit groups that support servicemembers are inviting amateur and professional photographers to look through their viewfinders with a patriotic eye for the 2007 “I Love America Day Photo Contest.” The organizations -- “Flags Across the Nation” and the “Military Family Network” – both are members of America Supports You, a Defense Department program highlighting the ways Americans and the corporate sector support the nation’s servicemembers. Through its Community Connections Partnership program, of which Flags Across the Nation is a member, the Military Family Network supports the grassroots efforts of military-friendly organizations across the...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

The word of the year? You be the decider!http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061128/od_nm/word_dc Tue Nov 28, 8:00 AM ET Will "landslide" win by a landslide? Will "sectarian," "vendetta" or "decider" be named 2006's word of the year? Merriam-Webster Inc., publisher of a leading U.S. dictionary, is asking visitors to its Web site -- http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/06words.htm -- to pick the "one single word that sums up 2006." The voting began November 20 and concludes on December 4, Arthur Bicknell, a spokesman for the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company, said in a telephone interview. "We've been getting literally thousands of submissions," he said. Bicknell said the company, which is...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans unveiled an advertisement on Friday featuring the image and words of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and a warning to voters that "these are the stakes" in the November 7 election. The Republican National Committee ad, first shown on its Web site and scheduled for airing on cable television early next week, also includes images of al Qaeda fighters in training and other al Qaeda leaders. "What is yet to come will be even greater," the ad quotes bin Laden as saying, before concluding with the words: "These are the stakes. Vote November 7." President...