Entitlement, Most Toxic Word

[From article]
During this election year, we are destined to hear many words that are toxic in the way they misrepresent reality and substitute fantasies that can win votes.
One of these words is "entitlement." To hear some politicians tell it, we are all entitled to all sorts of things, ranging from "affordable housing" to "a living wage."
But the reality is that the human race is not entitled to anything, not even the food we need to stay alive. If we don't produce food, we are just going to starve. If we don't build housing, then we are not going to have housing, "affordable" or otherwise.
[. . .]
If we are all "entitled" to things, irrespective of whether we produce anything ourselves, then the question becomes: Why are some people getting so much more than others?

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/02/09/toxic-words-n2116546/page/full

Toxic Words
Thomas Sowell

Feb 09, 2016

Definitions By Politicians

Asking politicians to define their words is a fun academic exercise. I'd like to see the White House, Al "FBI loves me" Sharpton, Jesse "Show me the money" Jackson and Eric "White people are cowards" Holder define what they mean by racism.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/what_does_great_mean_mr_trump.html

January 27, 2016
What Does 'Great' Mean, Mr. Trump?
By Bruce Walker

Amnesty International Uses Loaded Words To Denigrate Israel But Remains Neutral On Same Acts By Russia

Extreme differences by Amnesty International describing air strikes by Russia compared to same strikes by Israel indicates bias in this alleged watchdog organization. 



http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/why_does_amnesty_international_use_such_different_language_describing_civilian_casualties_for_russian_and_israeli_airstrikes.html

December 27, 2015
Why does Amnesty International use such different language describing civilian casualties for Russian and Israeli airstrikes?
By Thomas Lifson

Civil Rights Lawyer At Harvard University Acts Like Humpty Dumpty

Has one race exclusive use of the word race? What is the definition of that word? The profiled lawyer does not say. Working with no definition allows any argument to succeed. 



Is that how lawyers argue out of court? Rahsaan D. Hall "defended Harvard’s consideration of race [undefined] as a factor in its admissions processes. [. . .] Hall maintained that Harvard [is] in compliance with the legal precedent set by the Supreme Court" but provides no citation. Perplexed at appeals to law when it suits the argument, but ignoring law as the White House and the Department of Justice do when that suits them. Curious that Hall argues as if progressive voters have difficulty obtaining voter IDs, but non progressive voters do not. Does that mean ability is based on ideology?



[From article]
defended Harvard’s consideration of race as a factor in its admissions processes,
[. . .]



Hall maintained that Harvard’s holistic admissions processes were in compliance with the legal precedent set by the Supreme Court.
[. . .]
Commenting on voter identification laws, Hall questioned whether statistical evidence supports the prevalence of voter fraud.
[. . .]



“The whole notion of the ‘voter integrity movement’ is a ruse to get to the real issue of denying people, most of whom are inclined to vote progressively, access to the polls.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/10/7/civil-rights-lawyer-admissions/

Civil Rights Lawyer Defends Use of Race in Harvard Admissions
By DAPHNE C. THOMPSON,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
October 7, 2015

What The White House Really Meant

One of several phrase translations

http://twitchy.com/2015/01/21/now-it-makes-more-sense-john-stossel-translates-obamas-sotu-speech/

NOW it makes more sense: John Stossel translates Obama’s #SOTU speech
Posted at 9:54 am on January 21, 2015
by Twitchy Staff

Banning Words Is Impossible

[From article]
Cuomo charged that Bundy’s remarks were the opposite of King’s peace-loving message, which provoked the rancher to concede that his wording may have been poorly chosen. “Maybe I sinned and maybe I need to ask forgiveness and maybe I don’t know what I actually said,” he said. “But you know when you talk about prejudice, we’re talking about not being able to exercise what we think and our feelings. We don’t have freedom to say what we want.”
“If I say ‘negro’ or ‘black boy’ or ‘slave,’ if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be offensive, then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done yet,” he continued. “I should be able to say those things and they shouldn’t offend anybody. I didn’t mean to offend them.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bundy-if-people-were-offended-by-negro-then-mlk-hasnt-got-his-job-done-yet/

Bundy: If People Were Offended by ‘Negro,’ Then MLK ‘Hasn’t Got His Job Done Yet’
by Andrew Kirell
10:18 am, April 25th, 2014

It Means Whatever I Want It to Mean At The Time

In all of the literature, speeches and wisdom of Al "FBI loves me" Sharpton, Jesse "Show me the money" Jackson, Eric 'White people are cowards" Holder, Barack "Typical white person" Obama, the Congressional Black Chorus Girls, Chris "Tingles" Matthews, and US Rep. John "Stop arresting black boys" Conyers is there any definition of the "racism" that causes white police to arrest blacks teens? 

[From article]
Saturday night the president was telling members of the Congressional Black Caucus about how police are constantly picking on black people. For no reason whatsoever.
And this racial disparity means police have to change -- arresting fewer black people, for starters. Or more white people.
[. . .]
At almost the exact moment the president was repeating this standard litany of racial grievance, two black suspects in Ferguson shot a cop. They did not appreciate it when the cop found them burglarizing a business.
[. . .]
to some members of this largely white neighborhood group. Several did not deny the criminals were black. Or deny black violence was astronomically out of proportion in Minneapolis. They just denied that anyone should notice.
[. . .]
Same in Seattle: Just a few days before the president’s speech, a large group of black people surrounded and taunted and beat a gay white man walking through a park in a predominately white neighborhood.
A surprising number of people at the KOMO news web site declared the victim was at fault because he had no business being in that park in the middle of the day. He was probably trying to buy drugs or cause trouble, said another.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/09/racial_disparity_is_a_bitch.html

September 29, 2014
Racial Disparity is a Bitch
By Colin Flaherty

White House Occupied By Orwellian Official

[From article]
For instance, in his Tuesday statement that US airstrikes that have expanded into Syria, Obama studiously avoided any discussion about his domestic legal authority to conduct these strikes. That dirty work was apparently left up to anonymous White House officials, who told the New York Times’s Charlie Savage that both the Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF) from 2001 (meant for al-Qaida) and the 2002 war resolution (meant for Saddam Hussein’s Iraq) gave the government the authority to strike Isis in Syria.
In other words: the legal authority provided to the White House to strike al-Qaida and invade Iraq more than a dozen years ago now means that the US can wage war against a terrorist organization that’s decidedly not al-Qaida, in a country that is definitely not Iraq.
[. . .]
Then on Tuesday, Buzzfeed’s Evan McMorris-Santoro reported that the Pentagon is “confident” that no civilians were killed in any of the initial airstrikes in Syria, despite a credible report to the contrary. But we have no idea what that actually means either. The White House previously embraced a re-definition of “civilian” so it could easily deny its drone strikes were killing anyone than “militants” in Yemen, Pakistan, and elsewhere,
[. . .]
White House has “an extremely narrow definition of combat … a definition rejected by virtually every military expert.” According to the Obama administration, the 1600 “military advisers” that have steadily been flowing in Iraq fall outside this definition, despite the fact that “military advisers” can be: embedded with Iraqi troops; carry weapons; fire their weapons if fired upon; and call in airstrikes. In the bizarro dictionary of war employed by this White House, none of that qualifies as “combat”.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/24/obama-misleading-war-isis-syria

Is Obama misleading the world to war? Depends how you define 'misleading'
When it comes to military strikes against Isis in Syria, his administration’s strategy relies on what the meaning of ‘is’ is
Trevor Timm
theguardian.com

Wednesday 24 September 2014 06.45 EDT

Changing Meanings of Words

[From article]

Whole words that meant one thing for generations now have completely different meanings, and nothing unhinges a culture faster than the loss of shared language/terminology.
[. . .]
There is a reason those who plot to undo American Exceptionalism have worked so hard to capture the language. And we won’t preserve liberty for future generations until we take it back.

http://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2014/08/23/the-american-exceptionalism-dictionary-n1881597

The American Exceptionalism Dictionary
Steve Deace

Aug 23, 2014

Are We Losing The Word Schmuck?????

Can you believe we might lose "SCHMUCK"?

NEW YORK-Saying he could no longer stand idly by while a vital part of American culture is lost forever, activist and Broadway producer Mel Brooks has founded a private nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the word "schmuck."

An emotional Brooks stopped short of kvetching at a schmuck fundraiser Monday.

"Schmuck is dying," a sober Brooks said during a 2,000-person rally held in his hometown of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Monday. "For many of us, saying 'schmuck' is a way of life. Yet when I walk down the street and see people behaving in foolish, pathetic, or otherwise schmucky ways, I hear only the words 'prick' and 'douche bag.' I just shake my head and think, 'I don't want to live in a world like this.'"

The nonprofit, Schmucks For Schmuck, has compiled schmuck-related data from the past 80 years and conducted its own independent research on contemporary "schmuck" usage. According to Brooks, the statistics are frightening: Utterances of the word "schmuck" have declined every year since its peak in 1951, and in 2006, the word was spoken a mere 28 times-17 of these times by Brooks himself. The study indicates that today, when faced with a situation in which one can use a targeted or self-deprecating insult to convey a general feeling of disgust, people are 50 times more likely to use the word "jerk" than "schmuck," 100 times more likely to use "dick," and 15,000 times more likely to use "f******g a**shole."

Perhaps more startling, only 23 percent of men know what schmuck means, and only 1.2 percent of these men are under the age of 78. If such trends continue, Brooks estimates that by 2015, such lesser-used terms as "imbecile," "dummy," "schlub," and "contemptible ne'er-do-well" will all surpass schmuck, which is projected to completely disappear by the year 2020 or whenever Brooks dies.

"We must save this word!" Brooks said to thunderous applause as those in attendance began chanting "Schmuck! Schmuck! Schmuck!" "How will we be able to charmingly describe someone who acts in an inappropriate manner? Especially given the tragic loss of the word 'schmegeggie' in 2001. So I urge you: Tonight, when you get home, please, call up your family, your friends, your loved ones, and tell them they're a bunch of schmucks."

Hundreds turned out at a Boca Raton, FL demonstration to show their support for the dying word.

"I've never told anyone this before," Brooks added, choking back tears, "but my father was a schmuck."

The foundation has already raised more than $20 million, thanks to donations from supporters such as Jackie Mason, Albert Brooks, the Schtupp Institute, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI), and the Henny Youngman Endowment for the Preservation of Schmekel. The money will go toward projects aimed at reintegrating "schmuck" into the English lexicon, including billboards and flyers plastered with the word "schmuck," the upcoming 5K Schlep for Schmuck Awareness, and a new Mel Brooks film.

"The world cannot afford to lose this valuable and versatile word," Brooks told reporters during a charity auction in Manhattan's Upper West Side Tuesday, where attendees bid for the chance to have a private lunch with Brooks and repeatedly call him a schmuck. "You can be a poor schmuck, a lazy schmuck, a dumb schmuck, or just a plain old schmuck. A group of people can be collectively referred to as schmucks. You can call someone a schmuck, and you can be called a schmuck. You can even call yourself a schmuck." Plus, it's just so fun to say, Brooks added. "Schmuck."

Many of the foundation's volunteers say they share Brooks' passion for the word "schmuck," as well as his outrage that it is slowly disappearing from everyday use. They claim that if they do not act now, the trend could create a snowball effect.

"Today it's schmuck, tomorrow it might be toochis," said SFS volunteer Harry Steinbergman, 82. "What's next, schlemiel? Putz? Schlimazel?"

Steinbergman went on to classify this scenario as farcockteh.

It's scary. In the future, how will someone get my attention?

Former US Rep. Television Host Censored For Discussion of Offending Word

[From article]
'Just got kicked off the air until further notice. Tried to have honest discussion about racist terms and management censored my language,' he said.

His mistake is he believes that offensive use of words is evenly applied. They are only used to censor non leftist speakers and to discredit them. It is called the Hypocracy.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2663385/Republican-radio-host-kicked-air-using-racist-slurs-discussion-offensive-words.html

Republican radio host kicked off air for using racist slurs in discussion about offensive words

By JOSHUA GARDNER



PUBLISHED: 01:39 EST, 20 June 2014 | UPDATED: 04:58 EST, 20 June 2014

Reality Is What I say It Is, Nothing More

[From article]

Barack Obama, the first president shaped by the celebratory culture in which every child who plays soccer gets a trophy and the first whose campaign speeches were his qualification for the office, perhaps should not be blamed for thinking that saying things is tantamount to accomplishing things, and that good intentions are good deeds. So, his presidency is useful after all, because it illustrates the perils of government run by believers in magic words and numbers.

[. . .]

Many of the words and numbers bandied by Obama and his administration may reflect an honest belief that the world is whatever well-intentioned people like them say about it. So, Obama’s critics should reconsider their assumption that he is cynical. It is his sincerity that is scary.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-president-obamas-magic-words-and-numbers/2014/02/07/220fbc04-8f76-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html

President Obama’s magic words and numbers
By George F. Will

Published: February 7

Distorting Language, Misguided Speech

[From article]
In sports, when have you heard a coach explain or excuse a black player's poor performance by blaming it on a "legacy of slavery" or on that player's being raised in a single-parent household? When have you heard sports standards called racist or culturally biased? I have yet to hear a player, much less a coach, speak such nonsense.
[. . .]
In future elections, they will be able to claim that anyone who campaigns on cutting taxing and spending is a racist. That's what Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said in denouncing the Republican 1994 call for tax cuts. He said, "It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' anymore. (Instead,) they say, 'Let's cut taxes.'"

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns082113.php3#.UhmXJ900jDo
   
Jewish World Review
August 21, 2013/ 15 Elul, 5773
Progressives and Blacks
By Walter Williams

Liberal Word Usage Is Confused

[From article]
Liberals suffer confusion and cognitive dissonance because the rest of us don't help explain things to them.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/williamns050113.php3#.UYtczd00i6Y

Jewish World Review
May 1, 2013/ 21 Iyar, 5773
Liberal Suffering and Confusion
By Walter Williams

Words Matter

Words Matter, exposing campaign lies

http://wordsmatter2012.com/

They're Only Words

They're Only Words

It is amazing that so many voters in the USA still support Barack Obama. He is the most deceptive, and unscrupulous President I have ever seen. I began watching Presidents in 1952 when Dwight Eisenhower was a candidate. He remains my favorite President especially because as he left office he warned of the growing dangers from the military industrial complex, but also less known the academic research complex. When I learned logic an example of what the syllogism is, was explained like this. All politicians are liars. John is a politician. Therefore, John is a liar.

So the fact that a politician lies is no surprise. But the way that Obama lies is just laughable. Whenever his opponents accuse him of doing, saying or being something. He just issues a statement, that he is not doing, saying or being what they accuse him of. Words have little meaning. That is a character trait of the Kennedy Cult which I saw close up for many years. They adopted me when I was a student at Columbia University in 1968. They used me and abused me. I've read that I am not the only person so abused by those delightful sons, and daughters of Joe Kennedy the Ambassador to England, the Chairman of the SEC and the Chairman of the Maritime Commission, after he was a bootlegger. One of them gave it away when I questioned his comments. He said, "They're just words." It took me a while to understand what he meant and what he was doing. To him lies were unimportant, because he was only using words to lie. He did not use guns or knives to kill a person. It was just words.

I realized he was not the only person to have that moral standard. I encountered it many times over the years especially when it affected me and my life. In August 2012 the US Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, Democrat, of Nevada said that he was told that Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney did not pay any taxes for ten years. Gerry Doyle who hosts a radio show from Las Vegas calls Reid, "Whorehouse Harry." Rush Limbaugh calls him "Dingy Harry." Mr. Reid did not provide any evidence for his oblique accusation. Howie Carr, Boston Radio Talk Show Host and Boston Herald columnist said it reminded him of what Lyndon Johnson said during a campaign. Johnson's advisor said to LBJ, "We don't have anything bad to say about [his opponent]. Johnson said "We'll say he [has sex with] animals." His aide said "But that's not true, we can't prove it." Johnson replied, "I know. I just want to see him deny he's [having sex with] animals."

That is what it appears that Reid is doing on behalf of the President. It is how Obama runs campaigns. It is a repeat of his state senate campaign and his campaign for US Senate in Illinois. He reveals personal matters and exploits private actions of his opponents. He never had anything positive to run on, besides his gift of being such a smooth liar, a quality he shares with psychopaths.

It is also what six crime families and Communists from six states did to me. It is why I notice these things and can even articulate them. Reid places Romney in the position of a man who is asked, "Are you still beating your wife?" He demands that Romney disprove an unsubstantiated allegation. It diverts attention from the lack of anything Obama can say about his time as President. He has no real world experience and it shows not only in domestic issues but also with the failures internationally.

In my case several despicable allegations were made about me, putting me in the same situation having to prove they are not true. This began when I was a student in law school running out of money I saved from working as a computer programmer. The Dean of the law school refused to give me any money telling me, "If you were black or Hispanic I could give you money. But you're not and I can't."

Even after I complained about being harassed after 40 years to taxpayer funded elder services agencies they demanded "Can you prove you are not mentally ill?" I mean that suggests that they think it is OK to harass a person who is mentally ill. These are taxpayer funded agencies and professionals who listen to lies and character assassination, but ignore complaints about criminals attacking an elder person. Even with the allegations of disability the disability agencies also ignored complaints about police abuses of an allegedly disabled person. So it shows how words do have an effect beyond just words as the Kennedy cult believes.

These character assassins destroyed my career, my reputation and my life using just words. They used sophisticated techniques being employed in a Presidential campaign. I never ran for office. I was a student when the slander began. A delightful married biracial couple, a white lesbian and a black homosexual, members of the victim groups who are always right and always a victim, said they were my friends. For 30 years they told everyone I met and everyone I knew that I was a retired drug dealer. Who needs enemies with friends like that? But I have plenty of enemies standing in line to take their shot at having me arrested, or killed.

Where do you go when the FBI is slandering a civilian? I only have this blog. When I wrote about my experiences to periodicals they sent me letters saying they did not have enough room, which is where I got the name for my blog. In previous lives it was a news letter and a cable access TV show. Now it is just this.

It is my only venue to fight against 42 years of police and FBI abuses in mostly three states. What makes this ludicrous is that local police believe what their political bosses tell them, want to arrest me, and did several times. They attack me after the FBI used me to fight organized crime for 15 years and did not pay me one cent. Howie Carr's new book, Hitman tells about criminals who lived as FBI informants and lived well. One hitman who admitted 20 homicides, served 12 years or about 7 months for each murder. When he was released from prison the government gave him $20,000 to start his new life. Criminal FBI informants joined in harassing me with local police, crime families and Communists. Bookies come up to me to tell me, "You're not so important now." Huh? If I am so unimportant why are all of these sociopaths harassing me?

Few of these geniuses read books. They know and care little about the abominations in Boston by a group of criminal FBI agents working with organized crime. They committed up to 40 homicides, and framed four white men for a murder they knew they did not commit. Yet local, state and US officials remain clueless about these crimes, homicides, by men who walk around with FBI badges and taxpayer purchased weapons. It is one example of how clueless citizens are. And this is where the greatest concentration of colleges is located with Harvard University and MIT in one city. There are five law schools, several schools of government and journalism schools, in the Boston area, where professionals say little to nothing about FBI murders.

So with that environment how likely is it that anyone cares about 42 years of abuse and harassment? If FBI homicides do not get their interest what will? Oh you say a man who disagrees with same sex marriage, that is of national concern whipped up by journalist criminals who work with the criminals among politicians and police.

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http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061150984&format=&page=2&listingType=col#articleFull

No more Mittster nice guy!
It’s time to fight back against Dirty Harry
Boston Herald
By Howie Carr
Sunday, August 5, 2012

Words Lament Stupidity

http://biggovernment.com/gopelka/2011/01/21/the-word-community-speaks-out-on-tucson-shooting-ban-stupidity-not-us/

The Word Community Speaks Out on Tucson Shooting: Ban Stupidity, Not Us
by Gregg Opelka
BigGovernment.com
January 21, 2011