Rich Wheeler's Political Glossary

Rich's Political Glossary

Created: sometime in 1996; - Last update: 8 April 2002

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."

- - - - - -- - - - - - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Algore
The liberal realization of Dan Quayle's media-created image.

AIDS Education
Curricula designed to help students accept their latent gay or lesbian tendencies, to help students see the vital contributions to society made by gays and lesbians, and to promote the need for increased contributions to projects which promote the self-esteem, self-awareness, and health of the gay/lesbian community.

Anti-biased
Beyond non-biased, having a perspective opposite to those of traditional biases (e.g., designed to affirm minority persons and to assist members of dominant groups to realize the full weight of their oppressive histories).

Art
Any creative endeavor whose purpose is to subvert social and moral norms in the pursuit of the glorious progressive cause of liberation.

Artist
A creative and liberated person whose skills are devoted to freeing others from the repressive burden of social and moral norms; a person employed by the government to create or perform art.

Assault Weapon (often prefixed dangerous or deadly)
Any firearm; esp., any firearm which might threaten the safety of safety investigators during visits to the domiciles of suspected criminals (e.g., owners of assault weapons or readers of The Bible).

Bab.bitt \'bab-*t\
1. n : a babbitt-metal lining for a bearing
2. babbitt vt : to line or furnish with babbitt metal Bab.bitt \'bab-*t\; \-*-tre-\ n [George F. Babbitt, character in the novel Babbitt (1922) by Sinclair Lewis] : a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards - Bab.bitt.ry n
3. babbitt n. [Bruce B., Secty.] : an administration of the executive branch which conforms unthinkingly to politics as usual (q.v. Clinton).

Bias-free screening device
A test which ensures equal scores for all racial, ethnic, and gender-orientation, through such methods as deletion of impedimentary challenges (e.g., hard questions), addition of culturally relevant and comprehension-adjusted challenges (e.g., "Ef de honky be layin' down de Franklin fo' a baggie, an' ta man, he be gibben back fibe G-W's, how much do ta man gots himsef?"), and use of culturally-adjusted outcome assignment (e.g., a white male with half of the answers correct scores 50%, while a black male with half of the answers correct receives the richly-deserved, esteem-affirming score of 100%).

Body count
1. List of people who have died under questionable circumstances in Clintong-scandal cover-ups; estimates range from 50 to the thousands;
2. List of people who have been intimidated or robbed of evidence in Clintong-scandal cover-ups;
3. The number of women who claim to have been raped by William Clintong (several are known, many have duplicate listings under def. no. 1 and 2 above;
4. The number of women in Willie Clintong's collection of little black books; estimates range from several hundred to several thousand.

Buchanan
A loud, fierce-looking, but harmless weapon, known for firing off volleys of populist rhetoric to both the right and the left; useful for splitting Republican logs.

Bum
1. (n., obsolete) See 'homeless person' 2. (v., obsolete) See 'solicit' 3. (n., Brit. coloquial) buttocks

Clymer
(derogatory; after NY Times reporter Adam Clymer) a__hole (e.g., "Geraldo is a major league Clymer.")

Clintong, Willie Yam
A prolific chef know for his flip-flop flapjacks, half-baked coreless apples, baby finger sandwiches, and Whitewater whine; a large number of guests have mysteriously died after eating at his table; poor sanitary practices have resulted in massive spillage of ballistic and nuclear ingredients and recipes.

Competency Testing
See Standardized Testing

Comprehensive
Womb to tomb

Confidential
Free from the constraints of parental knowledge or consent

Conservative Womyn
Not real womyn, conservative womyn are victims of brainwashing by a patriarchal, machoist society.

Controlled Substance
Dangerous organic compounds such as opiates or THC (a component of cannibis) which Bill Clinton never sniffed or inhaled; liberal ideology points out that consumption of such is a victimless crime and should be legalized (Contrast vitamins)

Counter-heckler
Member of the audience who shouts back at hecklers. (Bush had to yell at one point as counter-hecklers shouted the protesters down. - "President promotes volunteerism in police and emergency services," Scott Lindlaw, AP, 4/8/02)

Creative Expression
Obscenity

Culturally Sensitive
Recognizing that the values and heritage of minority cultural groups are superior to, and often the source of, those of Eurocentric culture

Deleterious Programs
Privatization, performance contracting, tax credits for tuition to private and parochial schools, voucher plans, and evaluation of school or teacher performance by private groups; Antonym: beneficial programs (e.g., explicit sex education, R-rated videos, environmental awareness training, diversity training)

Democrats, Democratic Party
An amalgam of Communists, Socialists, and other ignorant people; also known as Democrits (democrat + hypocrit) and Demonic-Acts.

Disenfranchisement
Failure to adequately fool-proof ballots or voting machines;
antonym: protecting the integrity of the voting process (q.v.);
Note: If the ballots are designed by Republicans, d. is the work of the VRWC. If the ballots are designed by Democrats, d. is the fault of racist Republicans.

Diversity
Division; the organized correction of the dominance of injust domination by evil white males and by treacherous right-wing non-whites.

Equity Feminist
A feminist whose goal is the promotion of the equality of womyn's rights including those of conservative womyn. Confused by alleged differences between scumbags (q.v.) and womyn, equity feminists support the outdated, sexist, and Victorian notions of Freedom of Association, privacy (except as it applies to a womyn's right to put out a contract on parasitic tissues), and animal attraction between the sexes.

Evil
Resistant to the principles of progressivism; a mythical negative value used by obsolete religions to limit people's self-realization.

Exscind \ek-'sind\
vt [L exscindere, fr. ex- + scindere to cut, tear - more at SHED] : to cut off or out : EXCISE; WRT dealing with machoists, the Bobbitt method; as in, "Until Bill's poll numbers improve, Dick Morris has exscinded Bill's dating privileges."

Feminazi
Not to be confused with feminists (and without need to be distinguished from feminine, a feminazi is a feminist leader whose goal in life is to see to it that as many abortions take place as possible. According to Rush Limbaugh, there are less than a dozen feminazis in the whole country. Rush is an incurable optimist.

Feminine
The aesthetic attribute used by some womyn to manipulate and dominate scumbags; also an aid used by submissives to enhance the enjoyment of lesbian (q.v.) relationships.

Feminist
A persyn who sees womyn as a distinct social, political, and economic class (unless the womyn happen to make the mistake of being conservative (q.v.)).

Feminoid
See gender feminist.

Gay
A single-word oxymoron describing one of the unhappiest groups of people; specifically, women trapped men's bodies and men who prefer women trapped in men's bodies; generically used, also includes men trapped in women's bodies and women who prefer men trapped in women's bodies; by extension, a powerful, vociferous, and violent lobbying group for socialists.

Gender Feminism
A feminist whose goal is to promote womyn over other gender groups. Unlike equity feminists, gender feminists are not hampered by the misogynist fable that womyn and men have complementary differences. Instead, they seek to abolish male-only associations, want unrestricted access to men's bathrooms and professional male athlete's locker rooms, and have no animal attraction.

Gender Feminist
See lesbian.

Gentleman
See Male chauvinist pig.

Global Education
Counseling designed to help future citizens find their place in the new world order, free from nationistic arrogance

gorgon \'go.r-g*n\ \go.r-'go--ne--*n, -ny*n\
n [L Gorgon-, Gorgo, fr. Gk Gorgo-n] cap 1: any of three snaky-haired sisters in Greek mythology whose glance turns the beholder to stone
2: an ugly or repulsive woman
3: supporter of Algore
4: a feminist - gorg.on.ian aj

Gun Control
The incremental disarmament of the unwashed masses, necessary for maintenance of the peace from ultranationalist counterprogressives after the success of the coming glorious socialist revolution.

Gun Rights
The attempt by hateful ultranationalists to extend to untrained civilians the right of the police, National Guard, and Internal Revenue Service to bear arms counterprogressives after the success of the coming glorious socialist revolution.

Health Services
Abortion and training in use of contraceptives

Heb.e.tate \'heb-*-.ta-t\ \.heb-*-'ta--sh*n\ vt [L hebetatus, pp. of hebetare, fr. hebet-, hebes dull]
1. to make dull or obtuse 2. the didactic methodology of the Nat'l Ed. Assoc. - heb.e.ta.tion

Hillary, Hil-liar-y, Hitlary
Former First Persyn, Bill Clintong's domestic partner, and unofficial co-president. The Black Pope of American feminism and the Clintong administration due to her unprecedented, unelected, non-appointed, unconfirmed, unaccountable, and unrevealed behind-the-scenes power. See open marriage.

Ho-hummer
(Obsolete) An uninteresting event;
A practice of the Clintong administration employing the services of a professional sex therapist.

Hobo
(Obsolete) An itinerantly occupied inter-urban explorer; compare 'homeless person'

Homeless Person
A domestically deprived urban explorer

Icar.ian \ik-'ar-e--*n, -'er-; i--'kar-, -'ker-\
aj : of, relating to, or characteristic of Icarus : soaring too high for safety : inadequate for an ambitious project : Bill Clinton's (and Algore's) qualifications for the executive office

Incentative
Bushism spoken by John F. Kennedidy in 1962 in which he promoted tax-rate cuts incentive. Compare strategery.

Lesbian
noun The highest lifeform and the natural leaders of feminists in America, lesbians form the biological relationships God intended her creations to enjoy. Members of the lesbian species occur having either of two genders: dominant and submissive. Procreation is accomplished by recruiting victims of machoists. Also, adjective, of or pertaining to lesbians.

Liberal
A person who is generous with other people's money; a person who is tolerant, compassionate, and kind whenever there is an attempt to lower standards; a person who will permit any form of expression, so long as that expression is not critical of the lowering of standards or the transfer of property from achievers to non-achievers.

Libertarians
Adherants to a philosophy that government should mind its own business; a political party promoting libertarianism; connotes an idealistic rejection of all members of the PIMPS (q.v.), and therefore also known as Liberty Fairyanism.

Liberty
Freedom of the mind from everything socially constructed so that one reconnects with the natural -- that is, becomes adequately prepared to receive the wise, healthy, and responsible teachings of the elite, politically correct, peace-loving people of the moderate Democratic Party and its educational arms, the National Education Association, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the coalition of socially responsible media.

Libophrenic
[Liberal + -phrenia]: Having the tendency to arrive at positions based on intuitive, emotive, right-brained thinking (or feeling, as the case may be) rather than through deductive, rational, left-brained logic. Since libophrenic thinking cannot accommodate data which requires logical processing, true libophrenics react to such data either by ignoring it or by becoming belligerent. -- libophrenia noun: A disorder of the mind characterized by libophrenic tendencies. -- libomorph noun: An argument which makes sense to a libophrenic person.

Lothario \lo--'thar-e--.o-, -'ther-, -'tha:r-\
n [Lothario, seducer in the play The Fair Penitent (1703) by Nicholas] often cap Rowe : SEDUCER, a politician of the Democratic Party

Machoist
A male sexist who uses attributes formerly classified as masculine to attract and exploit womyn, machoists often believe in the myth of male superiority.

Male chauvinist pig
(obsolete) See scumbag.

Marijuana
What Bill Clinton never inhaled; conservatives say Clinton didn't need to inhale because he sucks

Nationalistic Arrogance
See patriotism

National Mini Convention Political Party (NMCPP)
The newest "third" party, dedicated to restoration of Constitutional government by people adhering to traditional Christian values, as intended by the founders of America.

NEA
1. National Education Association, a union whose prime goal is more jobs and more schools that require more tax funding (as contrasted with the mistaken belief that the goal should be education); the missionary priesthood charged with promoting socialist humanism in Public Education (q.v.).
2.: National Endowment for the Arts, a quasi-governmental board whose goal is to channel taxpayers' assets into support for forms of expression which are otherwise oppressed by the discriminatory free-market system and censored by dangerous ultra-radical right-wing fundamentalist extremists.

Obfuscation
1. The practice of injecting confusion into a discussion by changing the focus of discussion; using nebulous, cryptic, foreign, or misdefined terms; or by making ad hominem attacks against one's opponent in debate. (Note: An ad hominem attack against a liberal is known as hate speech, whereas an ad hominem attack against a conservative is considered a responsible journalism.) 2. A didactic technique employed by the Democratic Party to interpret and clarify current events and ideology. (See spin.)

Open marriage
A tolerant, compassionate, marital arrangement between the co-presidents wherein, when Hillary goes out of town, Clinton gets to invite a bimbo over for the night; and when Clinton goes out of town, Hillary, likewise, gets to invite a bimbo over for the night.

Patriotism
Nationistic arrogance, the primary hindrance to peace and international cooperation; a malosophy which should be treated with ample doses of remedial global education

Perot
A noisy, colorful bird, easily distinguished by the large appendages on each side of its head and the rarity of plumage on its crown; the chameleon of the bird family, male Perots occupy ever-expanding territories.

PIMPs
Practically Identical Major Parties (i.e., the Democrits and, after arrival in Washington, the Wepublicans)

Politicus Liberalis
A cold-blooded, predatory species that charms its victims into bondage before draining them of their lifeblood.

Postmodernism
The logical conclusion of the enlightened rejection of Christianity, that we live in a universe without God, that nature is all there is, and that morality is whatever one's culture constructs it to be.

Progressive
The attribute of being or having one or more of the goals of the glorious socialist revolution.

Protecting the integrity of the voting process
Blocking distribution or disqualifying ballots of conservative demographic groups (e.g., overseas military)
antonym: disenfranchisement (q.v.)

Pterodacdole ('ter-a-'dak-dol)
A species of fossilized politician indigenous to the District of Columbia having a body structure offset so that it is slightly closer to the right wing than to the left; known to be an aggressive and heroic defender of its territory in youth, but seldom leaving the swamp of compromise after onset of advanced maturity.

Public Education
The government-controlled indoctrination arm of the glorious socialist revolution; emphasis on personal and group outreach, as contrasted with Public Television; also know as the Church of Secular Humanism.

Reporter
The conscience of the nation

Republicans
Also known as Wepublicans, We-Flubbed-Agains.

Revenue
Tax

Risky... scheme
Any policy opposed by Algore (e.g., a risky tax scheme).

Rush, Rush Limbaugh
A big, lovable fuzzball who occupies the much-maligned Atilla the Hun Chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. A.k.a. Doctor of Democracy, Rush is the privately insecure but charmingly boastful host of Rush Limbaugh, the Television Show and the Rush Limbaugh [radio] Show, broadcast by the Excellence in Broadcasting (EIB) Network from high atop the EIB Building in New York City. Distinguished by faux braggadocio, being absurd to illustrate absurdity, and broadcasting data, quotes, and media clips that have been filtered out by the dominant, liberal media.

School
An institution for young people where the repressive, patriarchal values are unlearned and replaced with enlightened, progressive values.

Scumbag
Either a male equity feminist or a machoist.

Sex
The ultimate reality, because it is instinctual and uncontrollable, the motive force of our beings, our ultimate identity. ( -- film professor Linda Williams)

Silence, moment of
An attempt to violate the separation of church and state and the imposition of religion on public school students

Spin (alt.: spin control)
An applied obfuscation technique used by the Clinton Administration to prevent or correct interpretation of events from extremist viewpoints.

Solicit
To offer someone the opportunity to make a contribution (term applies to homeless persons, politicians, and domestic surrogates)

Standardized Testing
The of metrics to compare one student, staff member, school, or district with another; a threat to fair placement, ranking and promotion of union mem- er, educators.

Strategery
Bushism Strategy, plan for overcoming resistance to an action or policy. Compare risky... scheme.

Temporary Increase in Revenues
A permanent tax increase which requires periodic renewal.

Transsexual
A mutilated person whose native sexuality has been terminated. See gay.

Transvestite
1. An adult male who still plays dress-up with mommy's clothes; 2. a stock broker who frequently moves his investments around.

Unable to support
(Rep. Henry Waxman (D), 1 March 2001) euphemism: Taking the Fifth (e.g., the witness was unable to support the investigation into Pardongate)

Values, family values
Social principles which Bill Clinton must promote in order to remain in good graces with the head of his family.

Vegan
A strict vegetarian, who eats neither meat nor dairy products, from one of the planets of Vega in the constellation Lyra

Vegetable
See Algore

Vegetarian
Someone who only eats liberals

Vertebra
One of the bony segments composing the spinal column, beginning with cervical (neck) vertebrae and terminating in caudal (tail) vertebrae; contrary to viscious rumors, Bill Clinton does have a backbone, as evidenced by his ability to turn tail and run during the Vietnam conflict

Victim
1. Anyone who has committed a crime 2. One that is tricked or duped into voting for a Democrat

Virile
Why female reporters support Bill Clinton

Virgin
The only non-bacteriological endangered species whose eradication has been intentionally assisted by liberalism; since the replacement rate is so high, liberals have also targeted the control of pre-natal virgins; according to liberal ideology, virginity is the single greatest contributor to illegitimacy and venereal disease

Vitamins
Dangerous organic compounds which Clinton appointee David Kessler of the FDA is seeking to declare and ban as controlled substances (Compare controlled substance)

Volunteer
Someone who used to support Ross Perot

Voucher (school voucher)
A check written to rich people to pay for segregationist indoctrination of their children, taken from the pockets of poor people, threatening the solvency of the greatest educational system known to mankind

Vow
Undefined, obsolete term; used in music, as in, "when the vow breaks..."

Whitewater
1. A river in Arkansas; 2. a real estate development scam used by FOBs to channel illegal campaign contributions and bribes to a prominent politician in a desperate bid to get him out of Arkansas state government; it worked

Will of the people, the
Democratic policy

Working family
Chronically unemployed, welfare recipients, government employees, or others dependent on government entitlements

ya.hoo \'ya--(.)hu:, 'ya:-\
n cap 1: a member of a race of brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels who have the form and all the vices of man (e.g., Roberta Achtung-berg) 2: an uncouth or rowdy person 3: What Bill Clinton said when Gennifer Flowers said, "Let's order a pizza."

Bonus Section!

An Illustrative Glossary of Economic Systems

Anarchy
You have two cows. Your neighbors take the cows and kill you.

Feudalism
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk and the plague kills you.

Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows.
After dividing it between the workers, the welfare class, the students, the military, and the government, the cooperative gives you your share of the milk.

Bureaucratic Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are cared for by doctors and engineers.
You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government provides you as much cheese as the regulations say you should need.

Bureaucracy
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

Utopian Communism
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

Soviet Communism
You had two cows, but you gave them up for the promise of pure communism. Some of your neighbors help you take care of the cows when they feel like it, but the government takes all the milk. The government promises to sell you as much milk and eggs as the regulations say you need.
As you reach the head of the line, you discover that you didn't need any eggs and that you needed sour milk.

Cambodian Communism
You have two cows. The government takes both, lets you eat the grass in the pasture, and shoots you when you leave.

Dictatorship
You have two cows. The government drafts you and feeds the cows to your company. You get luck; you get a foot of tripe and one ear.

Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors make you give the milk to the poor and minorities.

Democratic Republic
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to take the milk and give it to the poor and minorities.

Bureaucratic Democracy
You have two cows. OSHA makes you build a $40,000 compost structure for the manure. The FDA makes you use a special soap to clean the animals. The EPA fines you $80,000 when the soap kills an endangered worm that lived in the manure pile. The EEOC fines you $120,000 for not making the hay loft wheel-chair accessible. The Corp. of Engineers bars the cows from the pasture, declaring it seasonal wetlands, and the Dept. of the Interior confiscates the manure pile, declaring an endangered worm habitat. A Clinton judge makes you pay $24,000 to each of five protesters for the hardships they endured while protesting to save the worm.
You sell the farm to a Japanese conglomerate at the bankruptcy auction and vote for a politician who promises to take more of the remaining farmers' milk to give to you. You drink the milk. You discover one of those worms smiling up at you from the bottom of the carton.

Feminist Democracy
You have two cows. One aborts her calf and the other dresses like a bull. They trample you while shouting, "WHO'RE YOU CALLING COWS, BUSTER?"

Marriage
You have two cows. Your wife trades them for a new dress and promises ten more for new curtains.

Main Street Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. They make little cows.

Wall Street Capitalism
You have two cows. The guy with the bulls takes over and fires you.

Palestinian Democracy
You have two cows. Your beloved Chairman, Arafat, hides from Israeli fire behind one cow, then straps twenty pounds of TNT to the other....
The first cow is killed by the bullets. The second cow blows up along with one cow and two calves at a Jewish Cow Mitzvah. Beloved Chairman Arafat gives you a slingshot and Saddam Hussein gives you $25 compensation for the second dead cow.


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