Little Timmy's Election Year Dictionary (Abridged)

Ambivalent- having ”mixed feelings about someone or something; being unable to choose between two (usually opposing) courses of action.
Balanced- being in harmonious or proper arrangement or adjustment, proportion, etc.
Bigot- a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race.
Bigotry- stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.
Bipartisan- representing, characterized by, or including members from two parties or factions.
Buy-to acquire by exchange or concession, to buy favor with flattery, to hire or obtain the services of, to bribe.
Cheat- to deceive; influence by fraud, to elude; deprive of something expected.
Cheater- a person or thing that cheats.
Contribute- to give (money, food, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc.
Contributor- a person who contributes money, assistance, etc.
Citizen- an inhabitant of a city or town, especially one entitled to its privileges or franchise, an inhabitant, or denizen.
Citizenship- the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, and duties of a citizen, the character of an individual viewed as a member of society; behavior in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen.
Competent- adequate but not exceptional.
Conservative- disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change.
Conservation- the careful utilization of a natural resource in order to prevent depletion.
Deceit- an act or device intended to deceive; trick; stratagem, the quality of being deceitful; duplicity; falseness.
to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude.
Decide- to determine or settle (something in dispute or doubt).
Decision- the act of or need for making up one's mind.
Dishonest- not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief.
Fair- free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice.
Fascism- any ideology, movement, programme, tendency, etc, that may be characterized as right-wing, chauvinist, authoritarian, etc.
Fascist- a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.
Fact- something that actually exists; reality; truth, something known to exist or to have happened, a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true.
Factual- based on or restricted to facts.
False- uttering or declaring what is untrue: a false witness, not faithful or loyal; treacherous: a false friend.
Falsehood- something false; an untrue idea, belief, etc.
Fear- a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined.
Fearmonger- a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
Flipflop- to change suddenly, as from one side or party to another.
Free- exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one's will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted.
Freedom- exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etc., the power to determine action without restraint, political or national independence.
Hatemonger- one who arouses hatred for others.
Honest- honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair: an honest person, showing uprightness and fairness: honest dealings.
Honesty- truthfulness, sincerity, or frankness, freedom from deceit or fraud.
Honor- honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions.
Incompetent- not possessing the necessary ability, skill, etc. to do or carry out a task; incapable.
Integrity- adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
Interests- a business, cause, or the like in which a person has a share, concern, responsibility, etc.
Liberal- relating to or having social and political views that favor progress and reform; giving and generous in temperament or behavior; tolerant of other people.
Liberty- the power of choosing, thinking, and acting for oneself; freedom from control or restriction.
Lie- a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
Manipulate- to manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner: to manipulate people's feelings.
Mislead- to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray; to lead into error of conduct, thought, or judgment.
Morality- conformity, or degree of conformity, to conventional standards of moral conduct.
Myopic- unable or unwilling to act prudently; shortsighted; lacking tolerance or understanding; narrow-minded.
Nationalism- exaggerated, passionate, or fanatical devotion to a national community.
Outsourcing- paying another company to provide services which a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform.
Pander- a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others.
Patriot- a person who vigorously supports his country and its way of life.
Patriotism- devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty.
Politics- any activity concerned with the acquisition of power, gaining one's own ends, etc.
Prejudice- unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
Racism- the belief that races have distinctive cultural characteristics determined by hereditary factors and that this endows some races with an intrinsic superiority over others.
Right- ( sometimes capital ) of, designating, supporting, belonging to, or relating to the political or intellectual right; conservative or reactionary: the right wing of the party.
Righteous- morally justifiable or right, especially from one's own point of view.
Steal- to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force; to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Subtilise- to elevate in character; sublimate, to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.
Tax- a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc.
Trick- a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat.
True- being in accordance with the actual state or conditions; conforming to reality or fact; not false; sincere; not deceitful.
Truth- conformity with fact or reality; verity: the truth of a statement; a verified or indisputable fact, proposition, principle, or the like.
Virtue- moral excellence; goodness; righteousness; conformity of one's life and conduct to moral and ethical principles; uprightness; rectitude.
Wrong- deviating from truth or fact; erroneous: a wrong answer; not correct in action, judgment, opinion, method, etc., as a person; in error.

Work In Progress...

This is a mockup of an idea I've been haulin' around in my head for about fifteen years, but never executed. A couple weeks ago, I sculpted the figure from a clay-like material that you can fire at home in your oven. It's about an inch and a half long. The butterfly was made by another. This is actually a screen image of a butterfly on my tablet, with my tiny sculpt just laid on top of it. The actual butterfly is around four and a quarter inches across. Once I scratch up about forty bucks I can purchase this butterfly mounted in a simple shadow box. Then I'll have a couple small decisions to make and I can assemble the finished product. I'll let y'all see how it turns out...
Fish

Daddy Long Legs

     So, over the weekend, I'm out movin' around, doin' what I do on the weekends- stayin' in constant motion, bein' careful to not  accomplish too much.  (If you actually "accomplish" too much, in too short a period of time, then you limit your future options.  The best tack is to start as many things as come to mind, then leave them is various states of  incompletion.  This way, your options forward are nearly limitless.)

     But, I digress.

     So, I'm movin' through the garage and some motion catches my eye: low on the wall, nearly on the floor.  I look down an see a pair of daddy long legs, their spindly legs entangled, their tiny oval-shaped primary bodies touching.  My initial reaction is to look away, embarrassed.  (I thought they might be doin' it.)  Then, mammal reason/curiosity gets the best of me, and I am compelled to look closer.  After a two second study, I realize that this is a conflict.  A conflagration. 

     This begged a plethora, (yes, I used that), of questions.

     First, what do a couple of spindly spiders have to fight about?  A girlfriend?  What could she be that's worth fightin' for?  Gotta be as ugly as they are.  In fact, gotta be exactly as ugly as they are.  They all look the same, right?  Wait a minute- is this a couple males fightin', or a couple females mix in' it up?  Or, is this a primal "domestic" dispute?  Is there even such a thing?  You know it ain't a fight over "stuff".  These are spiders.  And like most bugs, they would be considered poor, due to their lack of possessions.  (An't got no house.  Ain't even got pockets.)

     That brings us back to the basic point:  Maybe spiders don't need a good reason, or even a bad one.  Maybe they would fight simply because they're in the same place at the same time.  Maybe it's in their nature.  The only way I can stop the confrontation would be to crush them both.  An incredibly simple solution.  Then again, it ain't really none of my business.  So, if this be the case, then the identity of the victor is inconsequential.

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