government worker

An oxymoron. Government does not work, and no-one in government works for you.

As a government worker he spent his 35 hours a week in the office emailing friends, surfing the net and periodically pretending to be busy by interfering with some innocent citizen's life.

by A civil servant June 23, 2006

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pop goes the weasel

In a game of Whack-A-Weasel there are a couple of holes from which weasels pop their heads out randomly.

Your goal is to smack a weasels head with a hammer in order to push it back to its hole.

You have to consider, that hitting a weasel with a hammer in the face is not quite a challenge and of course humiliating for the poor animal.

The phrase "Pop! Goes the weasel." in terms of conflict resolution describes the effortless humiliation of another person.

The phrase does not refer to a fight being fair or not.

You could use this phrase to comment a situation in which you owned.

Casey get's into an fight with Josh. Now it seems that Josh has quite an unfair advantage because of his upper body strength and nutrition. Yet as Case lands a powerful kick in his ball sack, Josh collapses and cries like a baby. Casey comments : "pop goes the weasel"

(Well, not because she whacked his weasel but because it was quite effortless, you know.)

by S.Sinclair August 4, 2013

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big government social conservative

A conservative who backs the enactment of invasive, usually expensive laws which allow for the government to regulate or micromanage the behavior, relationships or identity of private citizens, or to prohibit government recognition of certain of these traits, based upon the need to "preserve" said individual's idealized "natural" or "godly" order for society (or to create social programs - usually of the "feel good" type - pursuant to such ideals of a "Moral Majority").

Usually a conservative who uses a religious case or justification for why the government must pass legislation (or engage in international conflicts, such as the "War on Drugs") in order to play "moral police" with the citizenry or world.

Such conservatives' self-described credentials as "conservative" are often questioned or sometimes rejected by fiscal conservatives and right-libertarians (including the Grover Norquist anti-tax types) because of such programs take up fiscal resources for potentially never-ending or unwinnable wars. Of course, when culture wars are being fought both in the US and abroad by non-government entities (such as churches), the fiscal conservatives and libertarians are often quiet and compliant for as long as *government* money is not being directed to such wars; the richer of the BGSCs (e.g., Pat Robertson) have free license to carry out such wars.

"The social conservative leaders who advocate using government to achieve their aims always push the GOP to embrace big government whenever the GOP takes power. Here's how it works:

1. Republicans gain control based on promises of limited government.

2. We get a few years of somewhat limited government, especially if the president is a Democrat.

3. We then watch the biggest statists in America -- big government social conservatives -- demand that the federal government "do something" about every perceived social ill in America.

4. We then watch the GOP respond to social con threats by becoming 100% statist. Every time the GOP gains ascendancy, it eventually decides it ought to use the power of the federal government to force "conservative" (in quotes because big government is never conservative) goals. It assumes that other conservatives will just toe the line (like the OP suggests).

5. Voters then kick the GOP out of power.

6. We then watch the GOP at least pretend to believe in small government (many in the coalition will simply wish to limit power of Dems, thus forming an accidental coalition).

7. Repeat"

-- Rich Muny, BigGovernment.com (Breitbart-owned outlet)

by RayneVanDunem November 26, 2010

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