Tag Archives: Semantics

Bradley Manning, Guy Fawkes, and the star chamber awaiting Julian Assange

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Eric Verlo

You wonder what Elizabethan era failed coup plotter Guy Fawkes means to Anonymous. Their now iconic mask is actually an image under license from the film V FOR VENDETTA. The mask’s smirk connotes an elusive rabble-rouser and perhaps mocks Guy’s … Continue reading →

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Mr Smith goes to #FuckYouWashington

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Eric Verlo

The netizens are revolting. On the eve of US “austerity measures” the Twitterverse is crowdsourcing its ire against the de facto seat of world government. The unprintable hashtag won’t trend on social networks — it’s alleged, even as momentum builds … Continue reading →

Posted in Semantics | Tagged Alleged, Art, ATF, austerity, BUILDS, Censorship, CIA, Crow, Crowdsourcing, Democracy, Gates, Government, Humanity, Injustice, Interest, internet, Justice, mass murder, Media, Murder, NPR, Politics, Profanity, Semantics, social networks, Trains, Twitter, Usury, Washington, Washington DC, Writing | Leave a comment

The least of teargas effects are tears

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Eric Verlo

Teargas has become a misnomer of course.What’s being used so liberally to suppress demonstrations, to be graphically specific, is vomit-inducing PUKE-GAS. It’s a nausea agent, a respiratory inhibitor, and except when used by the paramilitary police-state, “teargas” is prohibited chemical … Continue reading →

Posted in Semantics | Tagged demonstration, demonstrations, Graphic, IRA, liberal, Military, Paramilitary, police, Police State, Protest, Rally, Rap, Semantics, tear gas, War | Leave a comment

I just got an email from Pres. Obama

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Eric Verlo

I just got an email from President Obama. He wants me to lead. He says the politicians in Washington won’t do their job unless I do their job for them. At face value, that’s just weird. Are constituents to imagine … Continue reading →

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If you have to ask for whom the fat lady sings, it is not for Tahrir Square.

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Eric Verlo

–And to really mix my malaprops, she sings for them that bought her. If there was one variable which got away from the underdogs of Egypt’s Jan25 Revolution, it was who would referee the endgame. While Hosni Mubarak’s stunning defiance … Continue reading →

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Poetry of Barack Obama invokes MLK but pays true homage to Rod McKuen

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Eric Verlo

Jesus what a bore! Remember when SNL lampooned Sarah Palin’s first prime time TV interview by reenacting it verbatim? They could do that with Obama’ humorless addresses, I think it would make great theater, but the joke’s already abysmally old. … Continue reading →

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US vexed Swiss will support peace not peacekeeping or peace enforcement

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Eric Verlo

In a Dec 2, 2008 diplomatic cable released by Aftenposten, the US ambassador to Switzerland reports that US-Swiss relations “lack the natural intimacy and trust” because, he laments: “U.S. and Swiss soldiers never fought side-by-side in a war, no … Continue reading →

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In Tennessee, ACLU = Terrorists

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Eric Verlo

The Memphis Homeland Security fusion center has a map listing the Tennessee ACLU as a “Terrorist Event.” Compound that with what a ranking senator (R-AL) has called the “ACLU DNA.” It goes beyond semantics when the label of terrorist means … Continue reading →

Posted in Semantics | Tagged ACLU, Andy Borowitz, Biden, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, DIA, DNA, Global War on Terror, Homeland, homeland Security, human rights, Journalism, Map, Media, President, Rights, Security, Semantics, Tennessee, terror, Terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, Wikileaks | Leave a comment

Hillendale Farm bursts pastoral cliche

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Eric Verlo

The recall of salmonella-tainted eggs reaches half-billion as second farm implicated. Wait a minute, we’re only up to two farms? What kind of “farm” yields 250 million eggs? Not one you’d picture called Sunny Farms, or Sunny Meadow, or Wholesome … Continue reading →

Posted in Headlines | Tagged agriculture, ALF, Chicken Farms, contamination, eggs, Factory Farms, Food, Pastora, Recall, Salmonella, Semantics | 4 Comments

Futbol or Football, it’s all about us

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Eric Verlo

Americans already have a “football” and so come into conflict with a majority of the world when our television broadcasters have to say “soccer” and assuage the confusion of US viewers when confronted by everyone else’s “football.” And ironic too, … Continue reading →

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What freedom means to me: not what it used to

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Eric Verlo

As the next ships are mobilized to challenge the siege of Gaza, NYC supporters of Israel paraded a “True Freedom Flotilla” around the harbor. This point may already be moot, “Freedom” doesn’t mean what it used to. Operation Iraqi Freedom … Continue reading →

Posted in Semantics | Tagged America, Exercise, freedom, Freedom Flotilla, Freedom of Speech, Gaza, Globalization, IRA, Iraq, Israel, NYC, Opera, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Oslo, Parade, Semantics, Siege of Gaza, War | 1 Comment

Robert Fisk and the language of power, danger words: Competing Narratives

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Eric Verlo

Celebrated reporter -and verb- Robert Fisk had harsh words, “danger words” he called them, for host Al-Jazeera where he gave an address about the language of power which has infected newsman and reader alike. Beware your unambiguous acceptance of empty … Continue reading →

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With Daniel Pearl Act, US warns others to respect press freedoms, of WSJ only

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Eric Verlo

President Obama signed off on the Daniel Pearl Freedom of Press Act, surrounded by friends and colleagues of the former WSJ reporter who was slain in pursuit of al-Qaeda, while infiltrating Pakistan as if working for one of America’s loudest … Continue reading →

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Bananagrams true lowercase scrabble

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Marveline

SNL’s Weekend Update poked fun at a tragic development in the world of word games. SCRABBLE rescinded its famous prohibition on proper names and places, leaving SNL to suggest that JENGA should let us use glue. Was traditional Scrabble (let’s … Continue reading →

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Paperhanging and intensified targeting of Dark-Skinned Americans by DHS

Posted on January 30, 2010 by Brother Jonah

So, predictably (thus, often predicted) Darker Skinned Americans are now, in an unofficially official manner, targeted by “law” Enforcement once more merely because of our “dark brooding menacing swarthy appearance”. A matter of Fear which often visits the Ruling Class. … Continue reading →

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A bird in the hand is worth health care and a climate consensus in the bush

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. It’s better than nothing. We’re getting it from all direction now, from Copenhagen to the health care bill. The message is delivered by experienced elder statesmen whose benevolence we do not question … Continue reading →

Posted in That's Rich | Tagged Art, Bush, climate, Climate Change, COP15, Copenhagen, Fashion, Forward, Gettysburg, Halls, Health, health care, Health care reform, nothing, Obama, POW, power, Race, Semantics, Stakeholders, War | 1 Comment

Johnny Damon the myth of sports news

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Local news on TV gets a scant few minutes of coverage, where the story of the day vies with weather to edge out everything else that isn’t fluff. In national news, interviewees can seldom get an answer in edgewise before … Continue reading →

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Three meals away from revolution

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Eric Verlo

The phrase is oft quoted, but no one knows who originated it –or, even if it’s true. It could just be an old pharah’s wives tale. But Obama buys it: from the people who brought you hope.gov we’ve now come … Continue reading →

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No Teabagger, Glenn Beck is a Teabag

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Eric Verlo

We’ve been calling them teabaggers, the impulsive naysayers to reform and a rededicated social conscience; so named because they decry “taxation without representation.” Having lost the election of 2008, their idiocy is no longer represented in Washington by someone they … Continue reading →

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Company wolves in nonpartisan clothing

Posted on August 21, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Would you believe it? Not My Tribe is “nonpartisan!” We favor neither Republican or Democrat, although current usage presumes you are of course one or the other, it’s just that you’ve agreed not to show bias. Nonpartisan is not “non-aligned.” … Continue reading →

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Edmund Burke and the prevalent evil

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Everyone wants to quote Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.” I just heard it evoked by NPR, raising the alarm about a rash of albino murders in Tanzania, ostensibly … Continue reading →

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NEVER FORGET: Israel was STOLEN from the Palestinians!

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Thomas Mc

ZioNazis still blockading food and medicine from Gaza, a war crime. Israel blocking cash from entering Gaza. Nuremburg tribunals are too good for the Zionist Nazis who did this. Israeli Nazis are a threat to the whole world. The black … Continue reading →

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Is Charles Manson getting out in 2012? Absolutely!

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Eric Verlo

Today on the public radio, I heard PRI’s Matthew Bell pose a question for the program The World. “Is President Bush underrated?” His verdict: “Absolutely!” Well the answer wasn’t Bell’s, actually. But the attribution fell outside the sound bite: Bell … Continue reading →

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North Pole-tergeists from Christmas Passed

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Marie Walden

A highlight of the Christmas season every year is gathering my big family together under one roof — my children, my parents, five siblings and their spouses, and twelve (thirteen by year’s end!) nieces and nephews. Everyone is married now, … Continue reading →

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Holy Land claimants want DNA pedigree

Posted on October 17, 2008 by Eric Verlo

OMG-d. In their continuing effort to rationalize Israel’s right to exist as a European Jewish colonial authority over the lesser Palestinian Semites, Zionists are reconstituting a DNA claim check to redeem their lost Judea. Researchers are hoping to link today’s … Continue reading →

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