05.7.2008 | 7:00 pm | Political Correctness, Politics
Michael Bates writes:
I hope I’m not a misogynist, but I hate Hillary and I think I have good reasons. My number one reason is that if future generations look back at our society, a society in which supposedly everybody has the chance to be president, and they see a succession of presidents that goes like this: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton, (Is Jeb Bush next and then will Chelsea be ready?) they will without a doubt conclude that democracy stopped functioning and that bothers me a lot.
The next thing that bothers me about Hillary is that she has been a power broker in Washington for thirty years and therefore must be owned by many special interests and I am tired of being governed by special interests. I could list a bunch of other reasons, but I recently got hammered for being a misogynist because of my views. Do my views really make me a misogynist?
Yes, Michael, of course you’re a misogynist. And a racist and probably a homophobe too. Because approximately 100% of the time you start wining an argument with a far left liberal they’re going to start name calling, and they don’t have enough imagination to come up with anything but those tired old standards.
The race card is their favorite, of course. Don’t like Islam? They’ll call you a racist. Point out that Islam isn’t a race, and they’ll insist that you must hate Arabs. Like all demagogues, they don’t respond to reason, logic or common sense. You have a better chance of success teaching the concept of square roots to an Irish Setter. (Gasp. Was that a slur on the Irish?)
I have a long list of reasons I despise Hillary, but to a true lefty, none of them matter. When shared my opinion with a far left friend of mine her reply was, “What’s the matter, don’t you like strong women?” Sheesh. If course I like strong women. That’s one of my reasons for hating Hillary - she isn’t one. A strong woman would never spend decades chained to a serial philanderer. She might forgive him for cheating on her the first time. Maybe she should have forgiven him the second time. But when he did it for the third time a strong woman would have told him the honeymoon was over, although in there case, they still had four days left.
But when a lefty calls you a racist, misogynist or homophobe, don’t despair. Instead, you should celebrate. It means they’re desperate because you’ve backed them into a corner and they have no rational response to you. They’ll never admit that, of course, because in their fantasy word they are always right, and therefore always win every debate. But you’ll know better.
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05.2.2008 | 10:38 pm | Political Correctness, Very Old Jokes
Three women from the isle of Lesbos are shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that gay women call themselves Lesbians. Or if not shocked, at least bitchy about it. They’re suing the “Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece” over their name.
“My sister can’t say she is a Lesbian,” said Dimitris Lambrou. “Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos,” he said.. . .
Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. “But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years,” said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church.
Waaaaaa. What’s next, suing publishers in Holland for the story of the little Dutch boy who stuck his finger in the. . . naw, too easy.
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02.3.2008 | 4:47 pm | Political Correctness, Ridiculous, Nanny Nation, Big Brother
How many mouth-breathing brain-dead adults can you find in this picture?
A fourteen year old boy in Lewisville Texas applied some hand sanitizer that was on his fifth grade teachers desk. He smelled it, but evidently inhaled too deeply.
The school officials called the cops, who hauled him into the police department, photographed and fingerprinted him. The DA charged him with delinquency, claiming he smelled the stuff “induce a condition of intoxication, hallucination and elation.”
Eventually the charges were dropped, but not until the boy’s father hired a lawyer and the story received media attention.
It’s not surprising that a school administrator would do this - they are almost always anal retentive dull normals with less imagination than a Britney Spears lyricist. But any cop with a double digit IQ should have laughed the thing off, called the school official a disparaging name, and then snickered about it over donuts back at the station. Instead, he hauled the kid in and treated him like a criminal. The police chief should have stopped it right there, but he didn’t. The prosecutor should have cited the police for being assholes and ended it there. But it wasn’t until lawyers and the media were called in that any of the authoritarians backed down.
The school officials, the cop, the chief and the prosecutor should all get together - in the unemployment line.
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01.20.2008 | 5:28 pm | Political Correctness, Big Brother
Some German smokers are showing how upset they are with the new smoking ban by sporting a black t-shirt decorated with a yellow Star of David, with “Smoker” written across the star. This has upset just about every Jewish group in existence.
The smokers are in the right church, but most definitely in the wrong pew. Comparing their government to the way Hitler treated Jews is offensive and inappropriate. They should be comparing their government to the way Hitler treated smokers. The parallels are chilling.
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01.7.2008 | 12:35 am | Political Correctness
Nope. Not any more.
Sweden’s Army (yes, they have one) had an insignia featuring a lion, viewed from the side. He was obviously a boy lion. Evidently some of the women didn’t like that, so they demanded he be neutered. (Ain’t that just like a woman.) He was.
Christian Braustein, of the army’s Tradition Commission, said: “We were forced to cut the lion’s willy off with the aid of a computer.”
Remind me, when was the last time Sweden won a war? How likely are they to win another, when they advertise to the world they’re dickless?
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11.23.2007 | 10:51 pm | Political Correctness, Pop Culture, Nanny Nation
When my kids were little I watched Sesame Street with them, and some of the jokes were obivously aimed at adults. I remember Cookie Monster, sitting in a big leather chair in a library, smoking a pipe and announcing, “This Is Alastair Cookie, bringing you Monster Piece Theater.” My kids didn’t know why I was laughing - that joke wasn’t in there for them.
Some of the original shows have been released on DVDs, but according to this article (sent to me by Michael Tighe of thecheapstudent.com) they carry a warning: ““These early ‘Sesame Street’ episodes are intended for grown-ups, and may not suit the needs of today’s preschool child.”
Cookie Monsters pipe was too offensive. According to Carol-Lynn Parente, “That modeled the wrong behavior” — smoking, eating pipes — “so we reshot those scenes without the pipe, and then we dropped the parody altogether.” Oscar was too grouchy. Parente said, ““We might not be able to create a character like Oscar now,” she said.
And the pussification of America continues. . .
Of course, it’s not limited to America. In Australia, Santas are being told to say “ha ha ha” instead of ‘ho, ho, ho” because someone might misunderstand and think he’s calling someone a whore. I’m sorry, if you’re that easily offended, if your brain is so poorly developed that you find that offensive, rest assured that we’re far more offended at your stupidity than you are at this innocuous phrase. And you’re probably a ho too.
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10.20.2007 | 10:34 pm | Police State, Political Correctness, Nanny Nation, Big Brother
When Michael Graham took his daughter to the pediatrician for a routine checkup, he wasn’t expecting that she’d be grilled about his drinking. He didn’t expect the doctor would ask his kid if he and his wife got along well, or if either of them used drugs, or of he made his daughter “feel uncomfortable”, but that’s what happened. (Note, you can read the whole article by clicking on the numbers at the bottom of the page.)
He goes on to tell the story a five year old who was asked if her parents had a gun. When she said yes the doctor grilled her for more details; he wanted to know what kinds of guns the parents had, how many they had, and how they were stored.
As if that weren’t bad enough, the doctor then called the police and reported everything he had learned.
An errant doc? A nosy exception to the rule? Nope. These are not isolated instances. They are, in fact, required.
This policy document, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, establishes a policy requiring doctors to not only hound their young patients, but to question them about anything their parents do. The following are direct quotes from the policy paper:
“Pre-teens as well as teenagers should be interviewed privately during each office visit with the reassurance of confidentiality and a discussion of its limits. Even an apparently straightforward complaint such as headache or sore throat may be associated with an underlying substance abuse problem.”
“It may be helpful to begin with questions about the patient’s attitude toward use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs within his or her environment (home, school, and friends) rather than probing personal beliefs or habits.”
“Inquiry regarding the extent of tobacco, alcohol, or other drug use by peers and family should be a part of the routine history of every child who is seen in the pediatrician’s office.”
What happens when the kids get something wrong? When I was growing up my father had a beer with every evening meal. One beer, never two, and I never saw him drunk, or even tipsy. Yet, if I were asked, as a five year old kid, about Dad’s drinking I probably would have said “Dad drinks beer every day.” Of course, back then, pediatricians weren’t acting as the eyes and ears of Big Brother.
While it is reasonable for a doctor to make further inquiries if there are signs of abuse or he suspects something is wrong, this kind of fishing is unconscionable. Since this is official policy, parents should never leave their kids alone with their pediatrician.
Isn’t that sick?
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10.10.2007 | 9:55 pm | Political Correctness, Junk Science, Nanny Nation, Big Brother
In a semi-free country like the US it’s difficult to impose tyranny in one fell swoop. It has to be done slowly, little by little, baby step by baby step. And it’s important that those first few steps seem reasonable.
The first anti-smoker law was passed in the sixties. It demanded smoking and non-smoking sections in airplanes. That seems pretty reasonable, and it was passed with little objection. If someone said “In a couple of decades this will lead to it being illegal to have a smoke in a bar,” everyone would have laughed at him. And if he said “In forty years this will lead to it being illegal to smoke in your own home” he’d have been written off as being batshit crazy.
This week the city of Belmont CA passed a law that does just that. If you live in an apartment or a in a condo you’ve paid for, your private property, it will soon be illegal to smoke in it.
Fellow citizens, how long are we going to put up with this kind of shit? What will it take to wake up the American Sheeple?
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08.22.2007 | 12:59 pm | Political Correctness, Ridiculous
The Mayor of Cincinnati won’t fire off a starter pistol to signal the beginning of an upcoming road race, because he doesn’t like the symbolism.
“I think the symbolism is just bad,” he said. “It’s just something I don’t do.”
The mayor says he’s going to blow a whistle instead.
Last year the city had 87 homicides, and this is his solution.
Pathetic, isn’t it? Starter pistols don’t kill people, people with starter pistols. . . no, that doesn’t work either. You can’t kill someone with a starter pistol unless you beat them to death with it.
One of the race’s organizers said “We’re just happy to have the mayor I don’t care if he wants to bang pots and pans together.”
What? Doesn’t she realize a cast iron frying pan makes a great homicide weapon? I’ll bet at least a few of those 87 homicides were done with kitchen utensils.
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07.31.2007 | 9:45 pm | Yeah - That'll Work, Political Correctness, Ridiculous
If you eat meat, neither of these people will have sex with you.
They call themselves Vegansexuals, because they wouldn’t want to call themselves something ridiculous, and think they’re making a point by refusing to have sex with carnivores.
Can you think of a better reason to order a thick, juicy steak?
The woman is the one on the left. Probably.
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07.10.2007 | 12:24 am | Political Correctness, Politics
“When correctly viewed
Everything is lewd”
- from “Smut” by Tom Lehrer
The City of Keizer, Oregon, put up cement posts to protect pedestrians from traffic. But some residents are complaining that they look like. . . boys things.
The solution – they’re going to fit them with collars and connect them with chains. No, that won’t look more suggestive.
If that doesn’t work the mayor, rather than telling the idiots who are complaining to grow up, is ready to remove and discard the barriers, wasting $20,000 of the tax payers money.
They should be happy they don’t live in Amsterdam.
Thanks to the members of the Jref forums for pointing out this story.
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06.19.2007 | 6:30 pm | Political Correctness, Big Brother
Most architectural drawings show people in the picture. It’s the easiest way to show scale, show the building in use, and make it look more real.The people in such drawings are either drawn by artists or Photoshoped in, using stock images. Simple. Harmless. No big deal, right?
Wrong. Now the PC crowd is whining about pictures that don’t show enough minorities wandering around the place.
And it gets worse. According to HUD drone Bryan Greene, “. . . if there’s a series of ads and they seem to communicate that a place is limited to persons of one background, it could potentially violate the Fair Housing Act.” No complaint has been filed in this case, but if you read between the lines he seems to be inviting someone to file one. Our nanny government is looking to protect us from the horrors of drawings that aren’t politically correct.
Isn’t it nice to know that Big Brother’s drones have enough free time on their hands to worry about something this stupid and trivial?
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