Word: meaninglessness
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...Hollywood stunned as Bush wins in landslide! Residents vote to secede from the United States to establish their own elite country, believing their perspective better represents typical Americans than meaningless votes. Alan R. Kemp Atlanta...
...President has learned anything, it is that p.r. triumphs can quickly fade or even sour. Although his Thanksgiving gambit played well at home, reviews were decidedly mixed in Iraq. As word of Bush's visit filtered across Baghdad, some Iraqis applauded the news, but many either dismissed it as meaningless or chided the U.S. President for never leaving the military base or meeting with any Iraqis. "I am very proud he came, but he should have come inside the real Baghdad," says Shuan Gharib, 32, a waiter. Says Alah Ghanam, 31, as he stands guard outside a western Baghdad restaurant...
...objective terminology and not rhetoric. A classic example was Ari Fleischer’s April 2002 nonsensical term “homicide bombers” to describe Hamas suicide attacks. Fleischer was exhibiting that classic Bush-administration courage by scoring rhetorical points against terrorists, but the actual term is meaningless and even counterproductive. What bomber is not homicidal? The term “suicide bomber” exists to distinguish between terrorists who kill themselves and those who don’t. The distinction is important in dealing with terror, since the former are more powerful and more motivated...
...need to be identified. He cites a pink lamb's-wool sweater sold in Copenhagen that's decorated with pompons of dog fur: "No one in Europe would buy these products if they knew." In cases where the trim is identified, Stevenson says, importers concoct all sorts of exotic, meaningless names, like gae-wolf, sobaki and goupee. Even if the E.U. cracked down on imports, verification is cumbersome and expensive. The curing process used on many skins destroys DNA, so it would be difficult to prove that pelts came from cats or dogs. And China is showing no interest...
Rather than agree to a meaningless level of access to the PDBs, the 9/11 commission should demand full disclosure from the White House. If the administration refuses to be more forthcoming, the panel should make use of its subpoena powers, which it has already deployed to procure important documents from the Federal Aviation Administration and the Pentagon. The security of high-level intelligence is imperative, but that security is more than sufficiently guaranteed within the auspices of the independent investigative commission. Our leaders must not forget that it is the physical security of the United States that is paramount...