Tammy sends along this pic from the dog slumber party last night:
Apparently everyone else is away, too, so I thought I would throw up an all-purpose open thread before I am occupied for the day. If anything interesting happens, fill us in. Also, college football.
BTW- the lexicon still has definitions that need to be filled out, as well as some of the definitions need to be cleaned up a little bit. We need an example for rebunking, and some of the entries need sourcing.
Also, if there are any glaring omissions, chuck them in here.
tams
Two dogs snuggled together… Check! California King Water Bed… Check! Tammy having no room to sleep… Check! They are rested, I am not… It was an all night slumber party. If Sam got up, Lily got up… If Lily moved, Sam moved… If Sam barked, Lily barked… And so on…
Off for a few hours and when I return the girls will be making an appearance at the Comfort Music Fest here in Morgantown to benefit the Cancer Center – Where I work – More pictures and many stories will follow later on…
robertdsc
Sam reminds me of my parents’ dearly departed Scooter. He looked much the way Sam does.
Bootlegger
It’s raining pretty hard here so I’m forced to stay in and watch soccer and college football all day. I’m now officially withholding my productivity–going Galt. I should head down to the Better Beef store and get me some all natural grass fed beef for the smoker. Maybe a brisket or chuck.
kid bitzer
i put this in a thread two back, but it seems to be a dead thread now, so i’ll repost:
proposal for the balloon juice dictionary:
Rule of Law!
A rule stating that only Democrats have to follow the law.
During the Clinton impeachment farce, Republican leaders chanted “rule of law! rule of law!” in order to argue that Clinton must be impeached for a technicality based on a triviality or the entire structure of American society would crumble into anarchy.
As it has become evident that the Bush crime syndicate may have violated laws related to torture, wire-tapping, and other serious crimes, the Republicans have argued that there must be no investigation of any of these crimes, or the entire structure of American society will crumble into anarchy. (See: IOKIYAAR).
Brian
On “Burkean Bells”: I need a reference for which Burke and why he was invoked in the context of the quote used. I still don’t get the reference.
Warren Terra
Some terms still missing:
We are all Georgians now
Tuzla Tigress (must link to tbone/tripletee’s Clinton Diaries)
Holy Joe (is Joementum there?)
Moonie Times
… I guess Arugula didn’t make the cut?
linda
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc sued Morgan Stanley on Friday for breach of contract, saying the Wall Street firm owed it $245.4 million for protection it bought on a loan.
wonder if they’ll be forced to arbitration….
The Grand Panjandrum
@kid bitzer: Yes! Rule of Law was all I heard on RW talk radio for the entire time the Bush v. Gore election unwound. Of course it was forgotten the moment those ratfuckers were declared the winners.
Now that I mentioned ratfucker I think that HST was the first person I remember using the word as defined. It was sometime in the late 60’s or early 70’s Rolling Stone articles he wrote from the Political Desk. But the wikipedia definition may have the best authority in this case, as it goes back to the Nixon administration dirty tricks.
Bootlegger
@The Grand Panjandrum: According to that link it actually goes back to USC student government elections and/or soldiers picking through their rations. But yeah, I read it first from HST.
Demo Woman
@tams: lol Have a good day!
demkat620
It’s supposed to be another perfect day here in SEPA. I plan to open my windows and do some fall cleaning and then grab a book, get a chair and sit outside and watch the kids play.
Skepticat
Please consider adding:
NSFW (No safe for work) Warning to prevent opening a video or audio file in circumstances where one would not want the content overheard, especially as it might draw attention to one’s dereliction of duty.
Tenther
Those under the delusion that the tenth amendment to the Constitution, which concerns states’ rights, makes almost everything done by the federal government unconstitutional. May also be considered to reflect the fact that many of them are using less than a tenth of their supposed intelligence to deal with these issues.
Activist judges
Those who make any legal ruling with which wingnuts don’t agree.
Astroturf
Activities called grass roots that actually have been ginned up and promoted by corporate/media organizations
Sorry, I can’t source any of them, as They Are Everywhere.
Do blue dogs and yellow dogs need explanation, or are they considered political rather than internet phrases?
Re: Terry Schiavo. It was not the DNR order that her parents fought, it was her husband’s attempt to have her feeding tube removed.
jon
Lightning Bolts and Golfclaps: a gathering of protesters that elicits nothing but dismissal. Example: “Fox News is all over those Tea Party protests, but to me it’s nothing but Lightning bolts and golfclaps.”
Source.
mai naem
Dictionary adds –
Peggy Noonan – Magic Dolphin Lady.
Upper Down – When the Repubs were asking for a “simple up or down” vote regarding Bush’s wingnut judicial noms.
Toe tapper -You have wide stance but not toe tapper regarding Larry Craig.
The Grand Panjandrum
@Bootlegger: Yep. I should have been more clear in my comment.
jon
Carrie Prejean’s Love Connection: this guy. He’s not gay, not a racist, and not very smart.
demkat620
@jon: Oh my god. That guy is a jackass.
But seriously, I had no idea “dip” was tobacco until I saw the bottle.
I thought he was talking about french onion dip, or ranch.
Dip! Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
@th&nayle
A couple of things…
First, I don’t see “This is good news for John McCain” in the lexicon. With yesterday’s revelations about Iran’s nuclear program, this would seem rather apropos. The good news for the rest of us is, he’s not POTUS (and neither is W.)
Second, Lily appears to have deliberately turned away from the camera in that pic, as if to say,”I only let my Dad take my picture. And YOU are NOT my DAD!
cleek
Up Or Down Vote! A hypocritical demand made by Senate Republicans when they couldn’t get their preferred nominee out of committee – they preferred to give the candidate a vote in the full Senate and just skip all that silly committee formality. It’s a privilege they don’t feel the need to extend to other Senate matters, however.
2th&nayle
Let me try that again. Doh!
2th&nayle
Crap and Crapola! Just wait till I get out of moderation! You just wait! You’ll see!
margarita
Zombie Lies: Journalism by urban legend. “No matter how hard we try to kill them, they keep coming back to eat our brains.”
Appears to originally refer to the proposition that Jack Abramoff gave money indiscriminately to both Democrats and Republicans. Others include: Gov. Bob Casey was barred from the 1992 Democratic National Convention because he opposed abortion rights. And Bill Clinton held up the tarmac at LAX for four hours while getting a haircut.
Also, I dropped a couple of tweaks to 101st Chairborne and Bobo, I think, in the “Bleg” thread yesterday.
cleek
@demkat620:
it’s an oldie. we were using it back when i was in HS, in the 80s.
Penfold
Anybody else see that Greenwald linked to the dictionary in his latest post?
Penfold
@Brian
I’m assuming he was referring to Edmund Burke, often credited as the founder of modern (Anglo-American) conservatism. Pro-American Revolution, anti-French Revolution. Interestingly, also against the horrendous acts abroad of the Empire, as I recall, so one wonders how someone like Bobo deputizes Burke into their argument. Oh, no, wait. I don’t really have to wonder; I’m talking about David f-ing Brooks.
For better info than I can remember from school, Wikipedia seems to have a pretty good article on Burke:
Brick Oven Bill
People have five senses, some six. At a minimum, a healthy person can see, hear, taste, smell, and feel.
“We cannot reward short term greed.”
-President Obama at the G20
Note the term ‘short term greed’. Compare and contrast with Goldman Sachs’ corporate motto ‘long term greed’.
The Obama Administration owns the government printing presses. Obama’s Treasury Secretary is Goldman Sachs’ former regulator at the New York Fed, and man proven to be unethical. The Chief of Staff is a Goldman Sachs’ lobbyist. Goldman Sachs’ stock has tripled in value since Obama has been seated.
This is a corrupt government. Their downfall will be their arrogance.
Penfold
Link fail, because I am an idiot. Let’s try that again.
Edmund Burke
Bill H
Don’t even tell me what football games are on today; I’m going to the races in Perris today. Fifteen degree banks on a half-mile dirt track. My nephew and I make the trip once per year, and I’ve been looking forward to it for weeks. They changed the schedule and my favorite classes aren’t running, but I don’t care; they will be loud, they will be fast, and they will be racing on dirt. See you tomorrow for the NFL games.
demkat620
@cleek: I was in HS in the 80’s but I must have missed that whole smokeless tobacco thingy.
I was lighting up the tobacco.
SiubhanDuinne
Glaring omissions in the Lexicon: Furminator. Neti pot.
cincyanon
The source for “Tinkerbell…” is also the source for “Clap Louder”, Crooked Timber. Clap Louder was made a regular part of the lexicon with Atrios’ regular use of the phrase.
“SCLM” was first used by Eric Alterman in his book “What Liberal Media” and became a part of the lexicon by regular use of commentators in blog threads.
“Joke Line” is a put down of Joe Klein of Time Magazine and refers to his consumption and reiteration of the republican, beltway CW without the benefit of existing contrary facts on the ground. Klein’s learning curve established by blogging at Time Magazine and interacting with readers seems to have diminished the use of the phrase. First use may have been by Digby or a commentator in a thread.
RedKitten
@tams: that photo is just the cutest thing I have ever seen — it’s so nice to see that those two get along so well. Plus, Lily is beyond adorable, and Sam is the type of dog who makes me squee, talk baby talk, and generally make an ass out of myself.
It is flipping COLD here today, kids. We’re having a yard sale, and I had Samuel in his bunting bag, and the rest of us were looking at the bunting bag with envy. Mind you, we could have conducted the yard sale while all wearing Snuggies, but I’d be worried that people would stay away, thinking that we’re some strange cult selling old cassette tapes, ashtrays, and dishware.
Skepticat
Re: Lexicon, a pony
Is there any connection here to the optimistic view of a pile of manure? There must be a pony in there somewhere! (Sorry, again, no idea on a source. It seems to have become general folk wisdom.)
cathaireverywhere
Saw a good movie last night that you football fans might enjoy:
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29. Here’s the NYT review:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/movies/19harv.html
Off to the county fair today!
Laura W
That One
I’m not feeling very articulate this morning and it’s probably been defined well in one of the zillions of other lexicon threads but someone needs to do something brilliant with what was my favorite moment in all of the zillions of town hall debates. Odd how today it feels like it was one of the “early”, subliminal “other” references that have just escalated into acceptably overt, blatant, scary shit now:
HuffPo has a nice summary of it with the video here.
Mention needs to be made of how the logo was immediately created and circulated. I vote that the logo image go up in the lexicon, it was just that powerful of a meme.
Laura W
@Laura W: I gather more than two links sends you into mod hell so here is another version of the That One logo and a t-shirt with it as well.
AhabTRuler
@Laura W: Problems for Bitsy, we are now up against the Colbert nation.
koszmic
I have a suggestion for the dictionary, as I find it funny whenever I see it on BJ: Orly? Yarly!
Or some version thereof.
wasabi gasp
That One: The exclamation of a child pointing at a black and white cookie through the glass in the bakery of lost hopes and broken dreams.
Laura W
@AhabTRuler: Lassie wept. So damn discouraging.
@wasabi gasp: Also damn discouraging, yet also damn brilliant.
gbear
I’m surprised that the word ‘Hater’ isn’t in the dictionary yet. I would define the word as ‘Commenters who disparage the friends and favorites of John Cole’. /snark
AhabTRuler
@Laura W: We have also learned that Henry has a predilection for trying to climb plants and trees that are woefully inadequate at supporting his weight. He also managed to break of many of the leaves from one of my African Violets. Sigh. Kitties. OTOH, he is so damn cute that I think it might actually cause me to have a stroke.
Nutella
For the lexicon:
States Rights
Wingnut code phrase that tries to give the impression that they are dedicated to the strict construction of the constitution. The idea that actions of state governments take precedence over actions of the federal government, but only when those state actions are more right-wing. For example, where is the states’ rights shouting from the right about
this? Or this? But the federal stimulus money led to calls for secession.
Nutella
And where did “Won’t Someone Think Of The Children?” get started?
Laura W
@gbear: ‘Commenters who disparage
the friends and favorites of John ColeTunch’AhabTRuler
@Nutella: Simpsons. IIRC, usually uttered by Reverand Lovejoy’s wife, but on at least one occasion, by Moe.
JGabriel
Also, too addendum: excessive use of the word that.
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JGabriel
@Nutella:
That one is old. I think it might even predate the internet. The original source is probably film, maybe television or books. Certainly, prudes and other wingers have been using the “Think of the children!” scare tactic going back to at least the 19th century.
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Bootlegger
@demkat620: We called it “dip” back when I did it in high school (early 80’s). You can tell a moran of course by the degree to which they blame legislation on the executive branch: “Obama banned…”
Bootlegger
@Penfold: Yeah, very cool.
Mike in NC
Recommendations for the lexicon: teleprompter and lipstick on a pig
henqiguai
@JGabriel (#48):
Yeah, but the best snarky invocation I can recall is from Blazing Saddles.
bedtimeforbonzo
The Carrie Prejean mention up above made me think of opposite marriage as an entry for the dictionary.
JGabriel
Brick Oven Bill:
Geithner was tasked with running the NY Fed. Unlike Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, who was CEO of Goldman Sachs.
Jesus, BOB, that is one fucking idiotic argument.
FYI, the people in charge of regulating Goldman Sachs would have been primarily the SEC, rather than the Fed.
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Warren Terra
I didn’t see one for Diaper Dave (Vitter)
Do we need one for “I for one welcome our new ___ overlords”?
Also, @LauraW, #36
Usually three hyperlinks is safe, more will moderate yer post.
Steeplejack
@AhabTRuler:
Damn! We’re in a tight spot.
Sorry, can’t find the requisite clip of George Clooney in hairnet from O Brother, Where Art Thou?
. . .Okay, yeah, I did. (At 1:00 in the trailer.)
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Just assuaged my anger a little by going and voting for Bitsy. She’s up to 1,692. Get out there and vote, people. This is the last day of the voting week. We’ve got to get her over the top before the Colbert Nation hordes get mobilized.
JGabriel
gbear:
Uh, that could be pretty much everyone who comments who here, at one time or another. Let’s not forget that some of the most famous threads on Balloon Juice are the ones where John’s own commenters turned on him en masse.
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gocart mozart
Lou Dobbs = Loud Obbs
Sorry no source
Laura W
@Warren Terra: Thank you. I have serious Shit For Brains Syndrome so far today.
JGabriel
@gocart mozart:
First place I saw it was Eschaton. Don’t know if Atrios is the originator or not, though.
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Emma Anne
@JGabriel:
John is the only blogger I know who say that people need to say “fuck you” to him sometimes to get him to rethink things.
Cruel Jest
Lexicon: Caribou Barbie should be attributed to TBogg.
Then again, we can probably attribute everything to TBogg and not be far wrong.
Brachiator
@Cruel Jest:
The first person I heard refer to Palin as Caribou Barbie was comedian/talk show host Stephanie Miller, but I don’t think she claimed to have been the first to use the description.
matoko_chan
gak! i put these on the wrong thread
IANARIAC—
I Am Not A Republican—I Am A Conservative
1. Lame attempt to scrape the bushcheney off the speakers shoe when no one is looking.
2. Perpetuation of the mythology that McCain/Palin lost because McCain and Bush were republicans and not “real” conservatives.
3. The Republican 2008 Epic Wipe can be wholly attributed to republicans being “not conservative enough”.
Failboat—the GOP
Failcake—conservative philosophy in contemporary American culture.
Baking another failcake —any attempt by Patrick Ruffini, the TAS bloggers, McMeghan or Douchehat, or the now defunct Culture 11 to create persuasive argument for becoming a republican.
Young Cons
young talentless conservative choads attempting to penetrate hiphop culture. see, failcake
Young Republicans—group of pushing-40 conservative choads pretending to represent the 18-29 demographic. See Audra Shay.
Morbo
Not looking good on defense for the ‘rines today. Or any day really… I don’t particularly remember WVU under RichRod, did they ever have a solid defense?
Polish the Guillotines
Ratfucking is mis-attributed to Karl Rove. It’s from the Pre-Watergate era and was coined by a cadre of College Republicans who eventually worked on the Nixon campaign. It was brought to public attention by Woodward and Bernstein in All the President’s Men. The tactic was used by future College Republican, Karl Rove, in similar fashion prior to and during the Bush administration.
Possible Entries:
Agent Flowbee (Larry Johnson of No Quarter — major PUMA, purveyor of the “Whitey Tape” rumor, once favored by the Left for his strident defense of Valerie Plame Wilson)
Possible Definition for “Thrown Under the Bus” — A slang expression for sacrificing or scapegoating someone else in order to save your own hide. Made popular with wingnuts and PUMAS in the 2008 election as catch-all accusation against Barak Obama any time he distanced himself from someone thought to be politically toxic. Earliest application may have been Gateway Pundit or Powerline referring to Obama’s speech on racism in which he is said to have “thrown his grandmother under the bus.”
Polish the Guillotines
@Brachiator: I also thought Caribou Barbie was from Stephanie Miller. She should at least be credited for helping to popularize it.
Skepticat
@JGabriel: I like to think that I originated it once I saw his twitter handle (loudobbs), but I’m sure more people than I picked up on it quickly. Sooo appropriate. There are a number if twit’s names that might be mentioned.
Should “srsly” (or however it’s spelled) be included?
Skepticat
@Skepticat: “of twit’s names”, not “if twits.” Yes, now that you mention it, I really do miss the edit feature.
Just Some Fuckhead
@JGabriel:
Rush Limbaugh uses it a lot.
As in, “Man, I am horny and hopped up on V1agra. Let’s go to the Dominican Republic, think of the children..”
Seriously, he used it a lot to disparage liberals who, it used to seem, hung every progressive argument on “the children.”
Just Some Fuckhead
Oops, I used the V-word and went into moderation. And boy was it a good one. Oh well, use yer imaginations and then laugh heartily.
asiangrrlMN
@AhabTRuler: I don’t know if you saw my comment on Henry last night, but I am seriously tempted to kit-nap him. Good thing I don’t know where you live.
@Just Some Fuckhead: The v-word? Oh, I can think of so many.
@tams: Way too adorable. Sounds like a sleepless night for you, though.
redbeardjim
@JGabriel:
redbeardjim
@JGabriel:
I first saw “Loud Obbs” in an Eschaton comment thread, left by Merkin Patriot.
Delia
@Polish the Guillotines:
Agent Flowbee should definitely be included, and I think that’s a BJ exclusive.
But I’m for deleting “thrown under the bus.” We had a thread on overused phrases whose use should immediately be banned, and that one was right at the top of my list.
McMartin
Came into the thread to offer a definition of my own, since I saw it was missing; this is pretty good. All I can really add is that during the actual 2008 election the PUMAs described nearly everything Barack Obama did or did not do involving Hillary Clinton as either being a Slap In The Face or Throwing Her Under The Bus.
I recall there being an image of a bus made of slapping hands that accompanied some posts on the topic here, but my archive searching capability is sadly weak.
Anne Laurie
@demkat620:
“Dip”, like “chaw”, goes back at least to Mark Twain. I remember being told that using “dip” as an insult meaning dumb or unsophisticated refers to the perceived rural idiocy of twentieth-century tobacco-chewers who hadn’t switched to the comparatively more sophisticated (urban) pre-packaged cigarettes.
Delia
@Anne Laurie:
Don’t know anything about the tobacco references. In my younger days we would refer to someone who was both stupid and annoying as a “dip” or more strongly as a “dipshit.” No one ever discussed the origins of the terms.
Steeplejack
@Delia:
But I’m for deleting “thrown under the bus.” We had a thread on overused phrases whose use should immediately be banned, and that one was right at the top of my list.
Sorry, can’t resist this: you’re actually saying that “thrown under the bus” should be thrown under the bus? Wow, that’s, like, so meta . . .
Polish the Guillotines
@Steeplejack: Heh. Indeed.
Hey… that should be an entry.
Redshift
A small addition — “I, for one, welcome our new ___ overlords” is a play on the Kent Brockman quote from the Simpsons episode“Deep Space Homer” — “I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords!”
Redshift
Another addendum: “Wingnut welfare” was coined by Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake in 2005.
Redshift
Since several of the definitions note which logical fallacy they are examples of, I would add that “Strict Constructionist” is an example of the logical fallacy argument from authority, since proponents believe they “win” by declaring that their position is that of the Founders.