{"id":662,"date":"2009-02-08T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/09\/words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of\/"},"modified":"2009-02-08T10:20:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T17:20:27","slug":"words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Words that rhyme with stimulus&#8230;  sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Words and phrases that rhyme with stimulus (well&#8230;\u00a0 sort of).<\/p>\n<p><strong>under the bus<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 Where Obama has thrown all his big talk about new energy investment making the USA energy independent in ten years.\u00a0 No nuclear.\u00a0 No exploration.\u00a0 No drilling.\u00a0 No tens or hundreds of billions for research into alternate energy sources.\u00a0 No &#8220;Manhattan project&#8221; for energy.\u00a0 (If not now, when?)\u00a0 Nothing but overpriced &#8220;green&#8221; cars for the government that no one else can buy, or wants to.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Incubus\" target=\"_blank\">incubus<\/a><\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 Don&#8217;t open your door to strangers, whether or not they claim to be elected.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Succubus\" target=\"_blank\">succubus<\/a> <\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 Ditto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>upper crust<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 What all the congress critters think they are<\/p>\n<p><strong>full of pus<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 Well, the &#8220;stimulus&#8221; does stink, to put it politely.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nmakes me cuss<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 when I think about how much my kids and grandkids will spend paying back this payoff to Democrat-supporting special interest groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In God We Trust<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 But for some folks, not lately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>money lust<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 &#8217;nuff said<\/p>\n<p><strong>no muss no fuss<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 Obama&#8217;s idea of &#8220;bi-partisanship&#8221; is &#8220;give me what I want because I won the election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>tremulous<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 The feeling I have when I think about how disastrous the &#8220;stimulus&#8221; plan is for our future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C++<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 The object oriented computer programming language that will be used to calculate how much money the stimulus will REALLY cost.\u00a0 Consider:\u00a0 when you buy a house over thirty years you may pay as much as three times the actual cost of the house when you include interest on the loan, at common interest rates.\u00a0 More, much more, if the rates go up.\u00a0 The stimulus package is going to cost two or three times its face value before it&#8217;s paid back.\u00a0 In essence, we&#8217;re &#8220;borrowing&#8221; (well, stealing) a couple trillion from our kids and grandkids so we can have congress give away a trillion today.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no rush<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 to pay it back.\u00a0 So they want us to believe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>minibus<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 what I&#8217;ll have left to live in when it&#8217;s all over.\u00a0 I call shotgun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>moondust<\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 the street name for the substance some of our congress creeps have been ingesting?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Necklacing\" target=\"_blank\">necklace<\/a><\/strong> &#8212;\u00a0 The very latest in multicultural jewelry.\u00a0 But you have to buy extra carbon credits to wear it&#8230;.\u00a0 or give it as a gift.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-662\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-662\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-662\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of\/?share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of\/?share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/08\/words-that-rhyme-with-stimulus-sort-of\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Words and phrases that rhyme with stimulus (well&#8230;\u00a0 sort of). under the bus &#8212;\u00a0 Where Obama has thrown all his big talk about new energy investment making the USA energy independent in ten years.\u00a0 No nuclear.\u00a0 No exploration.\u00a0 No drilling.\u00a0 No tens or hundreds of billions for research into alternate energy sources.\u00a0 No &#8220;Manhattan project&#8221; 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