I am a liberal

[MGKrebs]

...or at least I strive to be.

lib·er·al __Pronunciation Key__(lbr-l, lbrl)
adj.
1.
a. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.

con·ser·va·tive __Pronunciation Key__(kn-sûrv-tv)
adj.
1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.
3. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate.

So sue me.

IF the media has a liberal bias, isn't their view worth considering, them being among the most well informed of our citizens?
IF the educators have a liberal bias, isn't their view worth considering, them being among the best educated of our citizens?

 

[The Finman]

Cool...Then You SHould Be Familiar With The "Liberal Lexicon"!

A:(archaic) the grade indicating excellence during
the less-enlightened, competitive era of education
Aardvark: endangered species
Abalone: endangered species
Abandon: what conservatives do with their social responsibilities
Abase: what should be done with standards of all kinds
Aberrant: conservative
Aberration: the popularity of Ronald Reagan
Abhorrent: the popularity of Ronald Reagan
Abnormal: (archaic) in less enlightened times, not normal
A-bomb: weapon used by United States to destroy peaceful people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Abomination: Reaganomics
Abortion: most important civil right; sacrament of radical feminism
Abracadabra: what liberals say when creating new programs
Absentee: the way rich Republicans vote; should be made illegal
Abstain (archaic): the way sex education used to be taught
Abstract: the way liberals think
Absurd: trickle-down economics
Academia: a place where great ideas flourish
Academic Freedom: freedom of student or teacher to hold or express
views without fear of arbitrary interference, except when such ideas are
deemed racist, bigoted, homophobic, insensitive, chauvinistic, jingoistic,
imperialistic, religious, conservative, or politically incorrect
Academy Award: recipients get to make great political speeches and wear red ribbons
Accomplishment: what the government allows you to do
Acculturation: term of arch-conservative Bill Buckley; thus off limits
Acetone: hazardous waste
Achievement: what the government allows you to do
Acid: what liberals ingested frequently in the 1960s
ACLU: official guarantor of all constitutional rights
Acquittal: what ACLU tries to get in all criminal cases
Ad Hominem: an attack against a liberal
Adolescence: best time to give away condoms
Aerosol: destroyer of the ozone layer
Afghanistan: The Soviets' Vietnam
Agitprop: news
AIDS: virus that occurred because of Reagan and Bush
AIDS Epidemic: what Reagan and Bush caused
AIDS research: what Reagan and Bush refused to fund
Air Conditioning: destroyer of the ozone layer
Algore: environmental expert and spiritual guru
All-American: exclusionary
Alligator: endangered species
American Dream: what Reagan and Bush destroyed
Americans: those who profited unfairly in the 1980's
Americans for Democratic Action:
non-partisan group that evaluates politics fairly
Androgynous: describes a group deserving special civil-rights protection
Animals: a collection of endangered species
Antelope: endangered species
Apathy: why more liberals don't vote
Arch-conservative: all conservatives
Archenemy: Rush Limbaugh
Arch-liberal: columnist
Art: something gov't needs to subsidize without regard to standards
Asbestos: the most dangerous substance known to man
Assimilation: opposite of multiculturalism; should be discouraged
Atheism: our official religion
Automobile: greatest threat to the planet (besides people) - Algore


B: the kind of motion pictures Ronald Reagan made
Baboon: endangered species
Back Alley: where all abortions took place before Roe v. Wade
Balanced News Story: opportunity to quote two liberals and give one personal opinion
Bible: dangerous book that should be removed from school libraries
Bicycle: the preferred method of travel, besides walking
Bigot: someone winning an argument with a liberal
Bisexual: lifestyle deserving special civil-rights protection
Blasphemy: saying anything critical about Mother Earth
Boy Scouts of America: subversive paramilitary organization
Budget Cuts: what causes homelessness and poverty
Budget Deficit: the result of Reaganomics
and the reason for tax increases and higher spending

C:
Cabinet: panel of top presidential advisers that should "look like America"
Caldicott, Helen: expert on nuclear weapons and the environment
Campaign Promises: lies told to get elected
Capital punishment: cruel, unusual, and barbaric practice
Cataclysm: what the planet is headed for unless people listen to Algore
Censorship:
1. When parents try to influence which books are used in schools
2. When gov't refuses grants to artists because their work is obscene
Centrists: liberal Democrats
Change: something to work toward whenever Republicans are in office
Choice: something good when it comes to
abortion, something bad when it comes to education
Clinton, Bill: co-president elected in 1992,
re-elected in 1996, and impeached in 1999...
Clinton, Hillary Rodham: health-care / education expert; co-president
Cohabitate: same as marriage
Collective Bargaining: negotiation between workers and oppressors
Colorado: hate state
Columbus, Christopher: originator of genocide, racism,
sexism and homophobia against Native American peoples
Columbus Day: indigenous people's day
Communist: idealist
Conspiracy: what happens whenever two or more right-wingers gather together
Constitution: outmoded document
written by dead, white, male, homophobic slave owners
Contributions: confiscating the American people's hard-earned income,
by force if necessary, so there can be increased government spending.
Cop: armed mercenary; needs constant supervision by civilian review boards
Crazy: rationally challenged
Crime: something caused by economic
inequities, societal alienation, and too many guns
Crocodile: endangered species
Cub Scout: junior member of a subversive, homophobic, paramilitary organization

D:
Death: cessation of life caused by cars, refrigerators, air conditioning,
greed, overpopulation, capitalism, big business and Republicans
Debauchery: a style of art particularly deserving of federal funding
Declaration of Independence: a historical document that should not
be read or displayed in public schools because of its overt religious nature
Defendant: an innocent victim of America's justice system
Defense: the only area of the federal budget that can always be cut
Deficit: caused by tax cuts and overspending on the military
Deficit Reduction: increased taxation and spending on social programs
Dellums, Ron: military expert
Dementia: condition of a solid voting block for liberalism
Democratic Party: captive of liberalism since 1972
Deodorant: destroyer of the ozone layer
Dependency: what liberals foster for their own empowerment; a social condition caused by Republican lack of compassion
Depravity: a popular art form deserving of federal subsidy
Discrimination: the worst sin any human could commit
Diversity: when liberals of all ethnic persuasions get together
Dolphin: the most intelligent and noble of all nature's creatures
Dykes on Bikes: a nonprofit public interest group

E:
Eagle: endangered species
Eagle Scouts: if the Boy Scouts are a dangerous, homophobic,
sexist, paramilitary organization, these are their Green Berets
Earth: the source of all life
Ecology: one of the great religions
Education: indoctrination
Elephant: endangered species
Emmy Award: an opportunity for making great political speeches and wearing red ribbons
English: one of several languages spoken in America
Enigma: why aren't liberals more popular?
Entitlement: a glorious part of the federal budget you can never cut
Environment: our first and highest duty is to protect it
Environmentalists: clergy socialists who care about the planet
Equality: primary goal of education; achieved by fostering mediocrity, sameness
Esteem: very important, especially the "self" variety
Ethics: the way liberals behave
Euthanasia: everybody's right
Evangelicals: dangerous right-wing zealots
Evolution: the way we got here
Exclusion: Republican's byword. Is the party of it
Extinction: what we're facing if we don't listen to Algore
Extremists: Republicans

F: a grade that no one should ever get under any circumstances
Fairness: spreading pain and misery equally
Faith: something you need lots of to be a liberal
Family: any group of people living together
Family Income: everything you earn, plus money you could earn by renting out your house
Family Planning: abortion on demand
Family Values: code words for male chauvinism and homophobia
Fascist: synonym for "conservative"
Father: non-vital member of the family
Federal Government: vital member of the family,
primary bread-winner; the best place to make most decisions
Feminist: spokesperson for all women
Fetus: unviable tissue mass
First Lady: co-president
Freedom: hedonism. Eliminating it is the goal of conservatism
Fundamentalists: they want to impose their morality on us all

 

[The Finman]

Continued...

G:
Gangs: organizations of disadvantaged inner-city youths
Gergen, David Rodham: responsible Republican
Giraffe: endangered species
Global Cooling: excuse for higher taxes, more spending, and bigger government
Global Warming: see global cooling, a synonym
God: a construct of primitive Americans to justify their bigotry and homophobia; the only thing you can't talk about in schools
Good Book: Heather has Two Mommies
Googoplex: goal for federal budget
Gorbachev, Mikhail: savior of the world who single-handedly ended the Cold War
Government: panacea. Has the answers for most problems
Gridlock: checks and balances in government; GOP tool to impede progress
Growth:
1. The liberalization of the views of office-holders who spend enough time in DC
2. When related to the economy, something created only in the public sector

H:
Hate: What motivates conservatives
Hate Speech: any speech that defends the values of mainstream America
Health Care: latest civil right; more to come
Heath-Care Reform: rationing health care to cause longer
lines, poor quality of care, and increased government spending
Heir: someone who inherits your tax bill
Help: what the government is there to do for you
Hero or Heroine: anyone who attacks conservatives, e.g., Anita Hill
Heterosexual: the only lifestyle not deserving special rights
Hill, Anita: expert on sexual harassment
Hocus-pocus: words uttered to make new jobs programs work
Hollywood: where our dreams come true
Homophobia: mental illness
Homosexual: alternative lifestyle deserving special civil-rights protection
Humanism: one of the world's great religions

I:
Idealists: visionaries
Inclusion: everybody but white males and conservatives
Internal Revenue Service: the compassion police
Internationalism: the way all global disputes should be settled
Intolerance: must be done away with, except as pertains to conservative ideas
Investment: increased government spending

J:
Jeffords, Jim: Vermont Senator who asserted "independence" from the GOP and dependence on the Democrats, thus saving us from the evil George W. Bush

K:
King, Rodney: expert on nonviolence and getting along with one another


L: the only grade necessary in public schools; indicates learning is taking place
Labels: what conservatives try to stick liberals with
Left: center
Legerdemain: the way liberals stay in power
Lerner, Michael: spiritual leader of liberalism
Lesbian: member of discriminated-against
minority group in need of special civil-rights protection
Liberal: centrist visionary radical
Liberal Arts: what they teach you in college
Lie: strategic deception; spin
Limbaugh, Rush: the most dangerous man in America
Litmus test: something liberal presidents - but not conservative
ones - should use in choosing U.S. Supreme Court justices

M:
Marriage: domestic partnership
Marxism: foundation for liberal economics
Middle Class: rich
Military:
1. Federal Jobs program.
2. Good place to conduct social experiments
Morality:
1. Something only liberals can be trusted to impose
2. Defined by individual choice

N:
NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of (Liberal) Colored People
Nazis: conservatives
Neo-conservatives: traitors
News Story: opportunity to give a personal opinion
1980's: Decade of Greed
1960's: era of optimism
Nonpartisan Group: Democratic special interest group
NOW: National Organization for (Liberal) Women

O:
Omniscient: the federal government

P:
Patriot: a person who will fight to the death to defend his fellow flag-burner
Patriots: liberals
Peace: achieved through better understanding among peoples
People: creatures that imperil the world
Personal Responsibility: code words for racism and homophobia
Phillips, Kevin: responsible conservative
Planet: what liberals call the world
Pluralism: two or more liberal views
Politics of Meaning: politics of taxation
Poverty: root cause of crime and urban despair
Prayer: the only kind of speech the first Amendment doesn't protect
Press: our best friend
Private sector: vicious, greedy, lust-ridden segment of our economy that competes with government for people's revenues
Progressives: socialists

Q:
Quotas: Equalizing things by judging people on skin color (see racial profiling)

R:
Racists: conservatives
Reagan, Ronald: personification of evil; created greed and despair in the 1980s
Red Ribbons: the way to cure AIDS
Republicans: party of the rich
Revenue Enhancement: taxes
Rhinoceros: endangered species
Rich: anyone with a job in the private sector
Rich Republicans: redundant; they're all rich
Right: wrong
Right wing: conservative
Rugged Individualism: code words for greed and selfishness

S:
School: indoctrination center
School Choice: code words for dismantling public schools
Secularism: one of the world's great religions
Self-esteem: the most important lesson we can teach in schools (besides how to put on a condom)
Share: steal
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: a non-profit, tax-exempt public-interest corporation
Socialism: economic democracy
Soviet Union: a place where socialism failed because the right people weren't in charge
Special Interests: people who disagree with liberals
Spending cut: what you promise gullible conservatives to justify higher taxes
Spotted Owls: excuse for turning loggers into herb gardeners
Suburbs: dangerous bastions of racism, exclusion, gun ownership; should be dismantled

T:
Taxes: lifeblood of liberalism
Taxpayer: rich person
Thanksgiving: day we give thanks to the indigenous people of America for saving the Pilgrims
Topsoil: capitalism is destroying it all
Town Meeting: taxpayer-subsidized public-relations campaign

U:
Undocumented Worker: potential Democratic voter
Unicorn: endangered species
Utopia: our goal

W:
War: obsolete way of settling disputes
Washington, D.C.: where most problems are solved; should be the fifty-first state
Water Buffalo: 1. Endangered species; 2. Racial epithet
Women: feminists
Workers: what liberals, socialists and communists call employees

X: The drug of choice by current liberals (see acid)

Y: Chromosome: A politically incorrect chromosome

Z:
Zero: The amount of money that the rich should keep after taxes (see middle class)

 

[vraiblonde]

Where'd you get your dictionary, Maynard - France? You left a few out...

lib·er·al Pronunciation Key (li'-ber-el, li'-brel)
adj.

• Tending to give freely; generous: a liberal benefactor.
• Not strict or literal; loose or approximate: a liberal translation.
• Obsolete. Morally unrestrained; licentious. <-------

con·ser·va·tive Pronunciation Key (ken-sûr'-ve-tiv)
adj.

• Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate.
• Tending to conserve; preservative: the conservative use of natural resources.

You'd have been disappointed if I let you get away with that, wouldn't you have?

 

[Heretic]

Ok I disagree with the statement that the media is some of our most well informed citizens.

The big names in media get to be who they are because either they are very attractive, very smooth talking, or on occasion a good reporter. Generally the good reporters are pushed behind the scenes because they are not attractive enough etc.

Our educators being the most educated I also tend to disagree with that, to a point. Its funny that the educators in fields that are considered for the "smart people" are usually much more conservative (medicine, law, engineering, etc). But there is a mixture in these fields.

Now when I took my liberal arts requirements in college most of the professors were very liberal but let me ask you what the hell kind of job does someone with a sociology degree get other than teaching it?

Your definitions are flawed in my opinion, most of the so called liberals that I have met have been the most closed minded hypocritical people that I have ever met, really no different than the "religious right" or what ever the hell you want to call people like Jerry Falwell.

Its liberals and religious conservatives that keep me out of either major political party, they are one in the same just different issues.

 

[MGKrebs]

Well Heretic, we may actually agree on something for once.

There are certainly radical liberals who "toe the party line" no matter what. I figure that the radicals on both sides cancel each other out, and it's us who think independently who actually advance the culture, if I may be so bold.

The definitions came from dictionary.com.

I'm not going to argue who "the liberal media" is, because I'm just repeating a consistent conservative stereotype. But I will say that if you consider 'the media" the talking heads on TV, who give us our information in 30 second sound bites, you're already screwed. This of course is the very thing I am fighting against. We have to THINK, we have to participate, we have to care, for democracy to work. We may disagree, but if we disagree after considering the subject, more power to ya'. There are plenty of smart conservatives. (But Ann Coulter is not one of them.)

BTW, I like the Dykes on Bikes bit. heehee!

 

[MGKrebs]

Yeah, Vrai, but...

that's pretty lame, highlighting an "OBSOLETE" definition of liberal. Step it up, will ya'?

 

[Heretic]

I just got done watching a local news show (Baltimore-DC channel) and it was quite good actually. There were no opinions thrown in, they didnt have all the fancy stuff that the networks have but they did just what I expected they told me what is going on.

The larger media outlets manipulate and sensationalize stories to increase ratings. The most specific example I can think of is the Rodney King video, what most channels fail to show is the first minute or so of the video of King attacking officiers. Im not saying what the officiers did was right but I am saying the media manipulated its viewers by only showing part of the story because it was a better story taht way.

So forgive me if I don't believe the media is what it should be.

 

[vraiblonde]

Re: Yeah, Vrai, but...

Originally posted by MGKrebs
that's pretty lame, highlighting an "OBSOLETE" definition of liberal. Step it up, will ya'?

Oui, Monsieur !

Probably the only reason it's obsolete is because the libs tweaked the dictionary for hate-speech like they're trying to do everything else.

 

[Kyle]

lib·er·al __Pronunciation Key__(lbr-l, lbrl)
adj.
1.
a. Not limited to or by any authority, concerns, courtesies, or principles; free from bigotry (except for the “accepted forms” of bigotry against Christians (or most religions), those who’ve served their country in the armed forces, those who have achieved success, conservatives and minorities that don’t conform to the liberal platform.
b. Favoring proposals for change (regardless if it’s good change or bad change), open to bizarre ideas for regression, and intolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; closed-minded.
c. Those that believe you shouldn’t work for what you have. (See: Getting something for nothing)

con·ser·va·tive __Pronunciation Key__(kn-sûrv-tv)
adj.
1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change for the sake of change.
2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.
3. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate. (prepare for the worst and hope for the best – Thanks Ben )

So sue me.

IF the media has a liberal bias, isn't their view worth considering, them being among the most well informed of our citizens? Well informed? More like well Indoctrinated!


IF the educators have a liberal bias, isn't their view worth considering, them being among the best educated of our citizens? Ahhh! The freak show doing the indoctrination! The purveyors of drivel instead of math, English, science and history! Yeah! They’re a real good pattern to emulate.

 

[jimmy]

worst... thread... ever....

 

[vraiblonde]

Worse than the "Circus" thread? I think not!

Where ya been, Jimmy? I bet Jetmonkey that you'd been over at the DU trying to get re-programmed.

 

[jimmy]

Been working, actually, for a change. I've got some down time this morning so I figured I'd come out to play...but crap. I couldn't let this one go with all the little definitions and "clever" word play....yuck.

 

[Kyle]

Originally posted by jimmy
Been working, actually, for a change. I've got some down time this morning so I figured I'd come out to play...but crap. I couldn't let this one go with all the little definitions and "clever" word play....yuck.

Awww! C'mon, Jimmy! I remember you using a little word play yourself in more than a few threads.

I figured what's good for the goose...

 

[Bruzilla]

Media people are the best informed of all of us? Yeah, ask them about their desires to interview the latest entry to Women's tennis bio'd in SI.

Teachers are the best educated? I guess you'll be looking up a high school Health teacher to perform your next surgical operation. What foolishness.

I think that Tommy Lee Jones (a Liberal) said it best in "Men In Black" when he said "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." I think that applies to all types of people.

 

[MGKrebs]

Wow. I'm famous!

Originally posted by jimmy
worst... thread... ever....

As thread starter, do I get a plaque or something?

 

[vraiblonde]

Sorry, Maynard. This is NOT the worst thread we've ever had on here by any stretch. Those scamps over in the Meet & Greet and Dating have had MUCH worse threads than this.


We had a 50-some-odd pager about the so-called Anti-Discrimination act that our illiustrious Governor, King Parris, handed down to us. Talk about ugly! Yikes!

 

[jimmy]

That's true, Vrai...that crap gets way ridiculous...

Oh and Krebs, that wasn't a slight at you. First of all, any excuse to quote simpsons, I'll put you on notice right now, I will take.

Secondly, it just stems from my DEEP hatred of mudslinging using "clever" little barbs at the other side that come accross more as children taunting eachother in dodge ball, than it does adults engaged in real dialouge...

 

[vraiblonde]

Jimmy, I find it interesting that you consider dictionary definitions "clever little barbs".

 

[jimmy]

I think they are "clever little barbs" when they are misapplied to try and point out something derrogatory about the other person, yes I do.