When you repeatedly use an adjective to emphasize your point, you are utilizing contrastive focus reduplication. Or, have you ever forgot a key word, phrase or name when trying to articulate a thought? This is referred to as lethologica. Check out some other words and phrases that will make you sound smarter in this edition of BuzzFeed.
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It’s a given that Hispanics make up a significant voting block for Democrats. But comedian Paul Rodriguez, like many Hispanics, are beginning to wake up and smell the hypocrisy of this not-so-cushy union. Rodriguez, in an electrifying address to the California Republican Assembly Convention a couple of years ago, comes to terms with his past political beliefs, double standards and stereotypes. At the crux of Rodriguez’s speech is the long-drawn-out stand-off between central California farmworkers and environmentalists over water rights. Listen in as Rodriguez gives his passionate speech,spiced with his vintage humor.
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Benny Hill stars in this episode of “The Handyman,” not so politically correct, but utterly refreshing. Hope to see you back here next Tuesday for another stroll through the lighter side of life.
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It’s officially been one week since the launch of the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, and early reviews have the White House cringing. In this edition of Reason TV, political commentator Peter Suderman discusses five reasons why Obamacare won’t save the nation.
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The House of Representatives voted unanimously to grant back pay to laid off federal workers as the result of the government shutdown. But there’s more, according to Joe Bereta and Elliott Morgan from SourceFed. It appears an entrepreneur from Detroit is offering free vibrators to these same federal workers to help them pass the time. Get the rest of the story on the sex toys in this edition of SourceFed.
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NewsBusted’s Jodi Miller reports that Republican Senator John McCain took to the Senate floor to blast Senator Ted Cruz’s filibuster against Obamacare. “Oh, wait a minute,” Miller says. “Shouldn’t that read former Republican senator.” Miller also touches on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Obamacare glitches, Dan Pfeiffer and Hassan Rouhani.
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Joe Dan Gorman takes aim at Obamacare and the 20,000-page monstrosity that it is in this edition of Intellectual Froglegs. “Nobody knows what’s in it. You can’t follow a 20,000-page law, no way,” Gorman says. “Nobody knows what they’re doing.”
The Obamacare masquerade has been nothing more than a shower of lies from Captain Destruct-O himself, as Joe Dan affectionately calls him. President Obama promised that if you have a health plan, Obamacare will lower your premiums (lie); if you don’t, you’ll get the same coverage as members of Congress (lie); employer premiums will fall by 3,000 percent (lie); you can keep your doctor or health care plan (lie).
Says Joe Dan, “I’m telling you, this is snake oil, mixed with Red Bull, sprinkled with crack.” Check out the entire video, which features a guest appearance by Wild Bill for America and the scoop on the upcoming Trucker’s Strike.
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Get your fill of triva-tastic information as John Green presents 79 of the most common mispronounced words in the English language. Among the doozies you hear every day are the word crepe, pronounced “crep” not “crape.” Or caramel, pronounced in three syllables, “ca-ra-mel” not “carmel.” Listen to 77 more correct pronunciations on this version of Mental Floss.
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Peter Schiff, political commentator for Yahoo!, insists that raising the debt ceiling would prove a devasting move for the government. “The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can’t pay our bills,” Schiff says. “If we could pay our bills, we wouldn’t have to borrow more money. Because we’re broke and can’t pay for anything, we have keep going deeper and deeper in debt until the world wakes up and realizes how broke we are, that we’re never going to pay anybody back and that everybody stops lending us money, and so the only buyer of treasury debt is the Federal Reserve, and that’s where the game ends.”
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In this edition of Zefrank1, the nimble frog leaps into the limelight. The frog boasts a transparent eyelid, relies on its permeable skin for oxygen and sheds its skin every couple of days before eating it. Tune in for more amazing true facts about this graceful amphibian.
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