16 definitions by yoova
It is when a country attacks another country (or entity) that it fears may plan to attack it later. In other words, it takes action not because of factual threat but of mere potential risk. The precautionary principle is also applied when someone is detained or jailed not because of what he has actually done but because of what the government or police think he may potentially do.
The United States attacked and occupied Iraq using the Precautionary Principle. Nothing would prevent it to use the same principle to attack Iran.
by yoova October 4, 2006
Calling a telephone company or a financial institution and obtaining sensitive, personal information about a customer by deceiving the company into believing that you are that customer.
It was revealed that Hewelett Packard was spying on its board of directors and hired lawyers to obtain information on personal phone calls. The lawyers used pretexting to trick phone companies into releasing that information.
by yoova September 14, 2006
verb. To condoleezzarice: Skillfully manoever around hairy questions without answering them directly.
The prosecutor was tough, but the defendant was able to condoleezzarice himself out of every questions masterfully.
by yoova August 24, 2006
Cocky speaker who makes excessive use of redundancies and nonsensical statements and still comes across as someone who knows his shit.
His words have a peculiar hypnotic quality that after you hear him speak you suddenly feel the irresistible urge of bombing a few arab countries. He is a Rumsfeld.
by yoova August 24, 2006
Used by certain political groups or agents. Freakshow politics is a divisive type of strategy that capitalizes on extreme aspects -usually negative ones- of the political opponent and utilizing those thru media and propaganda to attack that opponent's character and reputation instead of tackling the real facts and issues at hand.
by yoova October 4, 2006
When husbands rush to cover for a wife's embarassing behaviour -during a PMS bout for example- in a party or at the mall by apologizing profusely to everyone present and sheepishly picking up after the mess she leaves behind.
Paul: Hey Jim, is that your wife picking up the FootLocker guy by the nose-ring and hitting him with a running shoe on the head?
Jim (shooting towards the store): Damage cuntrol, damage cuntrol...
Jim (shooting towards the store): Damage cuntrol, damage cuntrol...
by yoova October 7, 2006
Someone mythicates when he thinks he can lie and confabulate for a high purpose, but for a strange human psychological quirk, he ends up believing that those fantasies he made up are true. This happens more than often among political and religious movements leaders and thinkers.
Mythicate - When Rumsefeld declared that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction, he was mythicating thru his teeth.
by yoova October 5, 2006