Sign-Uses of '05

THE YEAR IN SIGN USES -2005

SINGLES (single signs to designate things, events, situations in the year’s news.)

Neocon -- catalysts of terror war, mostly Jews and Catholics, now trying to slither away into history’s footnotes, as opposed to naming an era of degradation

Israel - from: 2001 - Anthrax attack
2002 – shooting Bethlehem Church of The Nativity bellringer
2003 – shooting Sheik Yasin; incites Fallujah uprising in Iraq
Abu Ghraib; Arafat?
2004 – AIPAC spies (Franklin, Mobbs)
2005 – Libby, Bolton, Abramoff, Irving (corruption)


Iraq Insurgents democratic elections

Religion The Unborn homosexuality hate

“-gates” Libby, Guckert twistedness

Schiavo “persistent vegetative state” ‘pro-life’ repulsive grotesquerie

JPII (Polish Pope’s demise)

John Roberts (Scalito)

Deep Throat (Woodstein)

Sheehan

Katrina (Ophelia, Rita) The Awakener FLOODS “Tipping Point”

Abuses by agencies, supported by Bush Admn.:
- lying propaganda
- spying on citizens
- imprisonment w/o due process
- torture of prisoners

Media melt
- Darth’s OK
- Jacko walks
- BTK at Wichita, Kansas (baby ripped from mother’s womb)
- NYTimes, Judith Miller
- Crime on TV child murder, celebrities, polioce brutality

Jeff Bewkes CEO at Time-Warner (Sopranos, Sex in the City); Roger Ailes multimillion bonus at Fox cable TV news network

Sickness

Bird Flu from Far East Asia, coming at’cha


DOUBLE SIGN-USES (coupled S*’s compressed in ‘two-tone’ designator; ‘spinning’ the referent)

-Compassionate conservatism
-intelligent design
-bleeding heart liberals
-War on terror (a mental state)
(but see also: “gay homosexuals”, or “gays”; “pro-lifer’s moment of conception” and “the unborn”)