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2013-07-31 -Land of the Free

Obama Admin to Create 'Nudge' Squad to Shape Americans' Behavior

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Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-31 10:50|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 ....it all depends what the meaning of "nudg" is....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-07-31 13:36|| 2013-07-31 13:36|| Front Page Top

#2 ....er, nudge....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-07-31 13:36|| 2013-07-31 13:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I think the IRS piloted this program starting in 2010 by nudging the Tea Party.

Posted by airandee 2013-07-31 14:59|| 2013-07-31 14:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Nudge back.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-07-31 15:36|| 2013-07-31 15:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Under the Yiddish variant, the whole Obumble Administration is the Nudge Squad:

(A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg)

noodge or nudzh or nudge

PRONUNCIATION:
(nooj)

MEANING:
verb tr.: To pester; to nag.
verb intr.: To whine.
noun: One who pesters and annoys with persistent complaining.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Yiddish nudyen (to pester, bore), from Polish nudzic. The word developed a variant spelling 'nudge' under the influence of the English word 'nudge'. A cousin of this word is nudnik (a boring pest). First recorded use: 1960.

Snark of the day

Posted by Dopey Sinatra 2013-07-31 15:53|| 2013-07-31 15:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Delightful, Dopey Sinatra. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2013-07-31 17:06|| 2013-07-31 17:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Is the Nudge Squad going to be sequestered, too?

I wonder of some of those folks taking a few days off without pay could expect full-time employment with the Nudge Squad?

Good thing the government has plenty of money!

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-31 17:40|| 2013-07-31 17:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I think they've already started ... I've noticed a rash of concern trolls on some of the blogs that I frequent. All very nice, very concerned, just dripping with the milk of human kindness, telling us that we have nothing to fear.

At least, I hope it's the milk of human kindness that they are dripping with. I'm a nice person, and I don't like to make vicious assumptions about the thick whitish fluid dripping from their chins ...

(Hey, NSA guy monitoring Rantburg? I'm going to make fettucini with shrimp and baby tomatoes tonight - there's gonna be extra. If you are hungry around 6:30, stop by and I'll make up a plate for you. You know the address.)

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2013-07-31 18:43|| http://ncobrief.com 2013-07-31 18:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Will one of the goals be to "nudge" known Tea Party activists into the hereafter so that the Dems can appropriate said Tea Party activists' votes in subsequent elections?

Posted by Korora 2013-07-31 20:34|| 2013-07-31 20:34|| Front Page Top

#10 What they can't nudge they'll shove...

Posted by Steve White 2013-07-31 21:03|| 2013-07-31 21:03|| Front Page Top

#11 This will not end well, one way or another.

Posted by gorb 2013-07-31 22:56|| 2013-07-31 22:56|| Front Page Top

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