“Mandation” Comes From The Book Of Palin
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America’s Idiot and Fox News front woman Sarah Palin has made up a new word (at least not in our Jesus hating dictionaries) to attack President Obama.
Plus, isn’t mandation something that eventually leads to gay marriage?
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Um…wait, I think “Mandation” is an famous porn movie about interracial love. But why would Sarah know about that…?
Seriously, Oliver, you gotta stop making that bitch wink at me. It hurts.
Matt:
I was thinking along those lines, too. Does anyone else besides “The Quittah from Wasilla” know what she is talking about? She’s obviously good at reading a teleprompter. Winging it on the fly? Not so much!!
The nuns told us that too much mandation would make you go blind.
Is there a real dictionary which has this, and not wiki answers?
Of course: Conservadictionary, which currently resides in a server in Kevin H.’s large intestine.
Mandation it turns out is at least used in scholarly publications, so whether or not it ‘is’ a word is thus contextual:
Oh, hey! “Conservadictionary” gets 87 hits on Google. I thought I made it up, but apparently it’s a real word, too!
While mandation may be a word, its usage here is patently incorrect. Taking the entire sentence into context, the correct word to use here would have been mandate.
See, e.g.:
“Since August more Americans have paid more attention to the bill and more Americans are becoming more concerned. It hadn’t been a matter of he not being able to explain his policy with government take over and mandation of health care, but Americans understanding what is in there not liking it and sending that message via the three recent republican sweeps…”
vs.
“Since August more Americans have paid more attention to the bill and more Americans are becoming more concerned. It hadn’t been a matter of he not being able to explain his policy with government take over and mandate of health care, but Americans understanding what is in there not liking it and sending that message via the three recent republican sweeps…”
She is discussing the President’s individual healthcare mandate, which she has criticized before. In order for the word “mandation” to fit, she would have to say “the public’s mandation of healthcare” — becasue no one is alleging that the President is being condemned to an involuntary servitude or is unable to choose his own healthcare, right?
Furthermore, if I may respond to Ms. Palin’s critiques of the individual mandate — we all agree that no one should be denied healthcare because of a preexisting condition. The only way for this to work is if we require everyone to have healthcare — otherwise, people would only buy healthcare once they got sick. It’s basic game theory.
And a necessary component to this individual mandate should be a low-cost option — otherwise, health insurance companies could feasibly continue to raise premiums, as we would be required to pay them.
“Common sense conservatism”? I’d say that healthcare reform, not necessarily remaking the whole system or establishing a government takeover (which the bill does not do — read it, seriously) — which would be radical — is essentially, common sense and conservative.
Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts.
Mandation (man-day-shun): “Fix’n a messed up economy makes mandation. And mandation leads to hate. And hate leads to sufferin. And sufferin leads to godless communism, ya’ll. Get a brain, Morans!”
Bill Shine sees starbursts
I thought it was treason to criticize the “Commander and Chief” during wartime. Lock her up with five deferments Dick.
Maybe she was thinking of Mandingo.
Glad to see Ken Norton’s great addition to American culture has not been forgotten.
If you do it twice, do you get a letter of co-mandation?
Does Palin the hell even know what SHE’S talking about?
There’s a John Valby line I could quote, but I won’t go there…
Thanks for taking care of business there, D.
She’s accusing the president of pushing man dating?
Figures–Liberals always react instead of checking on things they aren’t familiar with–like big words for example.
Silly Liberals, “mandation” is a word and she used it correctly within the context. Now, go back to smoking your weed and chanting “yes we can” and try not to hurt you brains too much with actual thinking or research.
That could be truthological, but I geuss it depends on the ramifimeaningfulcation of the suxtapositional details there within……
whats a “Jesus hating dictionary”? never saw one of those. the fact it doesn’t collaberate 1800 year old gibberish relayed telepathically to men who used camel turds to keep warm? imagine that
Right, there is some truthiness here.
The word has been around in the context of health coverage since 1989.
Take a look at the title of this Journal article from 1989.
http://cbr.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/21/6/17
[quote]Healthcare for the Uninsured: Is Mandation the Answer?*
Carson E. Beadle
William M. Mercer Meidinger Hansen, Inc.
The 37 million people in the United States who have no healthcare insurance pose a major social problem, but is legislation that requires employers to provide a minimum amount of healthcare coverage for employees the solution?
Compensation & Benefits Review, Vol. 21, No. 6, 17-23 (1989)[/quote]
Mandation is a word and has not been invented by Sarah Palin.
http://www.ukho.gov.uk/ProductsandServices/ElectronicCharts/Pages/10steps.aspx
http://www.informaworld.com/index/904725504.pdf
http://www.tax.org.uk/showarticle.pl?id=8023
So Sarah uses the word. Oliver calls her stupid for using a made-up word. Turns out that the word is real, is the word used by academics and analysts.
So who’s stupid, again?
The American people are so uneducated that they are ready to give up their 1st Amendment rights. The Obama administration is taking full advantage of these people and here is a video to prove just how dumb people are. You will just shake your head in amazement!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tznR4wPeS4M&feature=player_embedded
“but with the particular Power in whose territory the property has become situated by cession or mandation” – John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of Peace
http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Keynes/kynsCPNotes.html (note #16)
Anyone familiar with Keynesian economics knows this word. Sorry to hear that so many of you are illiterate. The word has been around a long time. Ignorance is no excuse for hatred.
“Mandation” is in Webster’s Unabridged dictionary: “Mandation – act of mandating.” We have a copy at work. Go to the library and see for yourself – just make sure it says “Unabridged” on the cover.
Sarah was right and the people who were too lazy to look it up in a real dictionary, not just a free online one, were wrong.