Somebody clue me please....

[Plucketeer]

26. " Statistically any DU jury is majority Sanders supporters"

Really? Well that's interesting. So there's NO chance THIS jury was weighted with Hillarites - or are jurors selected from those who respond, based on what "camp" they fall into? Let's be honest - anything is possible.


"Offensive, sexist and juvenile effort at invoking the b-word."

Let's break this down and analyze it a bit...

"Offensive" - If you're a Clinton supporter, you're going to be offended if someone suggests your favorite is a lackey of corporations. I get that. Even if it IS true, I get that it offends Hillary's supporters. The aim of my alerted comment was to reaffirm my support for someone who will work for the people who fund the respective campaigns. (and remember! As Mitt assured us last campaign: Corporations ARE people, my friend!) There's a particular shade of glasses worn by many around here that let in only selected wave lengths of light. And while it's strictly speculation, I'll bet some of them have been offended when I've suggested that we'd be better off selecting the next president by their allegiances and record rather than solely on their gender.

So - about that B-word I'm now vilely guilty of.... What if I'd have said "psittacine" instead of canine? What invocation would I be guilty of then? I honestly can see pisttacine being appropriate. Fact is, I know pisttacines really well. And there IS a common connotation that's oft times used in referring to politicians as pisttacines (or their more common name - which I'm certain the intellect here will readily recognize). But using that reference has no gender suggestivity to it. Or maybe my alerter can point out to me - what does their Websters Unabridged book of elastic insinuations have to say about the sexual innuendo of pisttacine.

And what about "Feline"? No - no - oh GOD no - that would invoke as horrified a response as canine - what with the slang that ties women to female cats.

How about "puppet"? Are there any connotations to "puppet" that could ire a particular candidate's supporter? I mean, besides the obvious ones. I'm asking about gender-suggestive connotations of puppet. See - I wanna be able to tip-toe thru the politically correct, linguistic minefield that DU is turning into.

LOL!!! I just now reflected on the many posts of late about real DU veterans being muted or given the boot from here. And I had thought - surely - such a fate won't befall a goofy, little crowd heckler like me! But the bug spray, bug zapper, flyswatter phenomenon that's infecting this place like a plague of locusts is a statement in itself of the growing intolerance here. It was probably just a matter of time before someone pointed at me and twisted my rhetoric to indicate that I am one who's not swallowed the DWS Kool-ade - and consequently needs to be whacked into line. "Hey! Someone tell that idiot that this is DU - not D/SU!

Words have meaning - often several meanings (See "liberal&quot . And oft times, words that have been around for ages have been twisted to mean things they never ever did when they were initially coined or recognized. But to convict me of INSINUATING an offensive connotation based on some insecure sort's personal interpretation - what the hell has become of this place? I mean - REALLY? You could SEE just how my synapses worked in less than adroit ways to slip a misogynistic slight past the DU word police??? Hey DU is DU. But in the real world - folks have spent DECADES of their innocent lives in prison thanks to what jurors tried to read into a suspect's mind. Often lead to THAT reading by the slant of the prosecutor! Insinuating that I was invoking the "B-word" is really a stretch as well as an indication of the insecurities of the accuser. Of course, there's probably quite a number of innocent folks incarcerated because of what jurors "read" into suggestive testimony and ill-founded fears.

No - no... I get it. I'm a juvenile nitwit and seven folks (do I HAVE TO call them "peers"?) have convicted me of slandering the anointed one (DAMN! There I go again! - is it possible to alert on myself? Is there anything gender-insinuating about "anointed"?) Please - some word-nick - do the "Right" thing here. Deny this cretin his voice!