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Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Thursday, December 01, 2011
What "Be Wrong" With Modern Black Culture???
It's CULTURAL...Not RACIAL...
Doesn't anyone but me have a problem with people like this?
A product of your TAX DOLLARS producing future so-called citizens that will
VOTE
Doesn't anyone but me have a problem with people like this?
A product of your TAX DOLLARS producing future so-called citizens that will
VOTE
Monday, October 03, 2011
What We Teach Kids Today
No Wonder The Country Is Full Of An Ever Growing Wimpy, Dumbass Population...
Having been on vacation for two weeks, and being busy as hell when I'm not on vacation, I realized that I haven't done any political correctness commentary in a while about the insanity of our limp wristed, pantie waisted, sniveling, booger eating tree hugging society and the idiots in charge of running things these days.
So this morning I present this story about a 6th grade football player hit with "Madre-Hill" Rule which stops him from playing football at his best because it makes the other kids look bad and possibly hurts their "self esteem."
MALVERN, AR - Malvern hasn't seen a football player like this for a long time.
"He is going to score almost every time he touches the ball," said Wilson Intermediate School Principal Terri Bryant.
At the young age of 11-years-old, Demias Jimerson reminds a lot of people of Razorback great Madre Hill.
"If you were looking at them you would say they were very much similar," said Darryl Baker, who coached Hill and now referees Jimerson's games. "I mean they both run really fast, good kids, run with the same style."
Like Jimerson, Hill attended Wilson Intermediate School and dominated the football field so thoroughly, the league invoked what came to be known as the Madre Hill Rule. Once Hill scored three touchdowns, if his team had a 14-point lead, officials banned him from scoring any more touchdowns.
"I got, kinda got shocked because I didn't know that was gonna happen, but it did," said Jimerson. Adding, "I'm ok with it."
Principal Bryant, the defacto commissioner of the Wilson Intermediate Football League, says the rule isn't meant to punish Jimerson. It's there to help the other fifth and sixth graders on the field develop as football players too.
"The other players on both teams, 21 are just left sort of, this is all Demias," she said. "So that's why the Madre Hill Rule has been implemented."
You see, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is where we are in this country at all levels of our society and politics.
"Spread the wealth" is the motto, and we pass laws and in this case make rules trying to ensure success for everyone while in the process limiting success for those who work harder or have a talent for a given endeavor.
Suppose the other 21 kids never work out and are giant lard assed idiots that eat every meal at McDonalds and hardly show up for practice?
And suppose that little Demias Jimerson, like Tom Hanks' character Forrest Gump, is considered a "running fool" and gets up every morning and eats a good breakfast and runs all day everywhere he goes and plays football in his back yard in pick up games in between league games.
Is it really fair to him to force him to sit on the sidelines while his fellow so called "team mates" play an inferior form of the game?
I swear to the good Lord above this kind of crap is creaping through our society and political system, and it's coming to get YOU and ME before I die.
Already President Obama is out there telling the idiots that went to High School with me and you and didn't study and/or dropped out that it isn't "FAIR" that we have nice cars and nice houses and good health insurance and 401K's and take vacations and don't have to live from "paycheck to paycheck"
This is the exact same thing being taught to a 6th grader, just using a different form of currency...points made on a football field instead of dollars made in business or working a good job.
This kind of crap makes my ever greying, ever balding head spin at near orbital rotational velocity...YOU KNOW?
I have to go now before I spoil all of my good attitude gained at the beach last week.
(And feel free to continue bitching and complaining on my behalf if you so desire.)
Having been on vacation for two weeks, and being busy as hell when I'm not on vacation, I realized that I haven't done any political correctness commentary in a while about the insanity of our limp wristed, pantie waisted, sniveling, booger eating tree hugging society and the idiots in charge of running things these days.
So this morning I present this story about a 6th grade football player hit with "Madre-Hill" Rule which stops him from playing football at his best because it makes the other kids look bad and possibly hurts their "self esteem."
MALVERN, AR - Malvern hasn't seen a football player like this for a long time.
"He is going to score almost every time he touches the ball," said Wilson Intermediate School Principal Terri Bryant.
At the young age of 11-years-old, Demias Jimerson reminds a lot of people of Razorback great Madre Hill.
"If you were looking at them you would say they were very much similar," said Darryl Baker, who coached Hill and now referees Jimerson's games. "I mean they both run really fast, good kids, run with the same style."
Like Jimerson, Hill attended Wilson Intermediate School and dominated the football field so thoroughly, the league invoked what came to be known as the Madre Hill Rule. Once Hill scored three touchdowns, if his team had a 14-point lead, officials banned him from scoring any more touchdowns.
"I got, kinda got shocked because I didn't know that was gonna happen, but it did," said Jimerson. Adding, "I'm ok with it."
Principal Bryant, the defacto commissioner of the Wilson Intermediate Football League, says the rule isn't meant to punish Jimerson. It's there to help the other fifth and sixth graders on the field develop as football players too.
"The other players on both teams, 21 are just left sort of, this is all Demias," she said. "So that's why the Madre Hill Rule has been implemented."
You see, Ladies and Gentlemen, this is where we are in this country at all levels of our society and politics.
"Spread the wealth" is the motto, and we pass laws and in this case make rules trying to ensure success for everyone while in the process limiting success for those who work harder or have a talent for a given endeavor.
Suppose the other 21 kids never work out and are giant lard assed idiots that eat every meal at McDonalds and hardly show up for practice?
And suppose that little Demias Jimerson, like Tom Hanks' character Forrest Gump, is considered a "running fool" and gets up every morning and eats a good breakfast and runs all day everywhere he goes and plays football in his back yard in pick up games in between league games.
Is it really fair to him to force him to sit on the sidelines while his fellow so called "team mates" play an inferior form of the game?
I swear to the good Lord above this kind of crap is creaping through our society and political system, and it's coming to get YOU and ME before I die.
Already President Obama is out there telling the idiots that went to High School with me and you and didn't study and/or dropped out that it isn't "FAIR" that we have nice cars and nice houses and good health insurance and 401K's and take vacations and don't have to live from "paycheck to paycheck"
This is the exact same thing being taught to a 6th grader, just using a different form of currency...points made on a football field instead of dollars made in business or working a good job.
This kind of crap makes my ever greying, ever balding head spin at near orbital rotational velocity...YOU KNOW?
I have to go now before I spoil all of my good attitude gained at the beach last week.
(And feel free to continue bitching and complaining on my behalf if you so desire.)
Friday, August 26, 2011
The Death Of Common Sense
I've Missed Him For Quite A While Now...
I found this Essay on the BBC Website:
"Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm:
Life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault.
Common sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults are in charge not children)
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of an 8 year old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student, but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims,
Common sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common sense finally gave up the will to live, after a women failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common sense was preceded in death, by his parents, truth and trust
His wife, discretion
His daughter, Responsibility
His son, reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers
I know my rights
I want my rights
I want it now
I’m a victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on.
If not, join the majority and do nothing."
Now look at this story on FoxNews:
Clergy Banned From 9/11 Ceremony
Religious leaders are calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse course and offer clergy a role in the ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor in former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration, said he's outraged. Mr. Washington organized an interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," said Mr. Washington, who has suffered severe medical problems connected to the time he spent at Ground Zero."
Looking at the above essay, and then reading that story, I couldn't have said it better myself.
I believe that we are in deep trouble as a people and as a country when we are so concerned about not hurting the feelings of our enemy (the muslims) that we ban all clergy from a memorial service for the victims of Muslim Jihad.
How about you?
I found this Essay on the BBC Website:
"Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm:
Life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault.
Common sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults are in charge not children)
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of an 8 year old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch, and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
Common sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student, but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Common sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims,
Common sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
Common sense finally gave up the will to live, after a women failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
Common sense was preceded in death, by his parents, truth and trust
His wife, discretion
His daughter, Responsibility
His son, reason.
He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers
I know my rights
I want my rights
I want it now
I’m a victim.
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on.
If not, join the majority and do nothing."
Now look at this story on FoxNews:
Clergy Banned From 9/11 Ceremony
Religious leaders are calling on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to reverse course and offer clergy a role in the ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Rudy Washington, a deputy mayor in former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's administration, said he's outraged. Mr. Washington organized an interfaith ceremony at Yankee Stadium shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
"This is America, and to have a memorial service where there's no prayer, this appears to be insanity to me," said Mr. Washington, who has suffered severe medical problems connected to the time he spent at Ground Zero."
Looking at the above essay, and then reading that story, I couldn't have said it better myself.
I believe that we are in deep trouble as a people and as a country when we are so concerned about not hurting the feelings of our enemy (the muslims) that we ban all clergy from a memorial service for the victims of Muslim Jihad.
How about you?
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Slippery Slope...Part MCMVXII
Everybody Needs To Get A Grip...
I've been following this story for the past week or so now:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100320/ap_on_bi_ge/us_wal_mart_racial_comment
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.
The boy, whose name is not being released because he is a juvenile, grabbed one of the courtesy phones at Walmart's Washington Township store Sunday evening and calmly announced: "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now," police said.
The teen was arrested Friday and released to the custody of his parents; police did not know whether he had a lawyer.
"This was an extremely disturbing event on many levels," Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said at a news conference. "Any statements like these that can cause harm or grave concern must be addressed as quickly we possibly can."
Dalton said the case would be handled in juvenile court in neighboring Atlantic County, where the boy lives. He would not say whether the boy has a criminal record, citing the teen's age, and would not disclose the teen's race, saying that did not factor into the investigation.
The 16-year-old has been charged with harassment and bias intimidation.
and I've stood it as long as I can stand it remaining silent.
Say that you're a middle aged dumpy, ever greying, ever balding, more than a little off of your fighting weight white dude, and you're walking through a Best Buy or Food City minding your own business.
Then say that suddenly you hear the in-store intercom crackle to life and someone then proceeds to blither out something like "all you angry old Anglo/European/American white bastards need to leave the building right now."
What would you do if you were an angry old Anglo/European/American white bastard?
Well, speaking from the position of having some inside knowledge of the ever growing minority of people with (ever shrinking) testicles looking at things from that perspective, I, personally, would assume that there was some idiot in the store...employee or not...which had gotten ahold of the PA system and two seconds later I'd turn my head and continue on my way looking at USB cables or Micro SD memory cards or possibly for a good deal on boneless chicken breasts.
Then by the grace of God I might actually manage to remember the (non)event long enough to recount it to some of my friends and family...that there was some idiot in a store last week... and I might blog about it, but most likely I'd forget the (non)event long before I had time to call the police and file a report and demand legal action.
Pretty simple, huh?
But TODAY, in the year 2010, in the cracks and crevasses of our once great Republic (not Democracy) if the EXACT same thing happens at WalMart...bastion of government liberal/progressive/socialist and Union Leader hatred (sorry for the redundancy) nation wide...
if the people/persons...the so-called "victims" of the perceived public slight/insult/or otherwise general racially induced commentary... happens to be a member of a Government/societal protected race/class of citizens, the managers and so-called "authorities" are apparently forced to run around like their hair is on fire, conduct an expensive government witch hunt, and in this case manage to find and lock up a 16 year old kid...and after much public indignation and hoopla...proceed to PROSECUTE HIM for something loosely called "harassment and Bias."
What the $#@! is this teaching the American people?
...and who the *$%# are passing these laws in the first place?
Dammit Ladies and Gentlemen, someone--a kid...probably a white male else there'd be no story here...acted in a socially unacceptable and boorish manner, but locking the stupid little bastard up and trying him in juvenile court?
Pluuuuuuuease...
Let the little shit-head finish growing up and let him keep acting this way and doing this kind of ignorant crap, and then let him go totrade school college and find out that he isn't invited to join a fraternity, and when he buys his first trailer moves in to a neighborhood with a clubhouse and home owner's association let him find that he and his wife get left off of all of the Christmas party guest lists, but don't LOCK THE IDIOT UP for picking up a phone and talking for five seconds.
He didn't yell "FIRE" and cause a stampede...
He was just young and stupid and and I guarandamtee you if ANYONE else of any other RACE/GENDER had done the exact same thing there'd be no NEWS STORY here.
Was it WRONG?
Yes...absolutely YES.
But was it CRIMINAL?
You decide for yourself, but you know where I stand here...
Is it just me?
I've been following this story for the past week or so now:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100320/ap_on_bi_ge/us_wal_mart_racial_comment
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. – A 16-year-old boy who police said made an announcement at Walmart ordering all black people in the southern New Jersey store to leave was charged with harassment and bias intimidation, authorities said Saturday.
The boy, whose name is not being released because he is a juvenile, grabbed one of the courtesy phones at Walmart's Washington Township store Sunday evening and calmly announced: "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now," police said.
The teen was arrested Friday and released to the custody of his parents; police did not know whether he had a lawyer.
"This was an extremely disturbing event on many levels," Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said at a news conference. "Any statements like these that can cause harm or grave concern must be addressed as quickly we possibly can."
Dalton said the case would be handled in juvenile court in neighboring Atlantic County, where the boy lives. He would not say whether the boy has a criminal record, citing the teen's age, and would not disclose the teen's race, saying that did not factor into the investigation.
The 16-year-old has been charged with harassment and bias intimidation.
and I've stood it as long as I can stand it remaining silent.
Say that you're a middle aged dumpy, ever greying, ever balding, more than a little off of your fighting weight white dude, and you're walking through a Best Buy or Food City minding your own business.
Then say that suddenly you hear the in-store intercom crackle to life and someone then proceeds to blither out something like "all you angry old Anglo/European/American white bastards need to leave the building right now."
What would you do if you were an angry old Anglo/European/American white bastard?
Well, speaking from the position of having some inside knowledge of the ever growing minority of people with (ever shrinking) testicles looking at things from that perspective, I, personally, would assume that there was some idiot in the store...employee or not...which had gotten ahold of the PA system and two seconds later I'd turn my head and continue on my way looking at USB cables or Micro SD memory cards or possibly for a good deal on boneless chicken breasts.
Then by the grace of God I might actually manage to remember the (non)event long enough to recount it to some of my friends and family...that there was some idiot in a store last week... and I might blog about it, but most likely I'd forget the (non)event long before I had time to call the police and file a report and demand legal action.
Pretty simple, huh?
But TODAY, in the year 2010, in the cracks and crevasses of our once great Republic (not Democracy) if the EXACT same thing happens at WalMart...bastion of government liberal/progressive/socialist and Union Leader hatred (sorry for the redundancy) nation wide...
if the people/persons...the so-called "victims" of the perceived public slight/insult/or otherwise general racially induced commentary... happens to be a member of a Government/societal protected race/class of citizens, the managers and so-called "authorities" are apparently forced to run around like their hair is on fire, conduct an expensive government witch hunt, and in this case manage to find and lock up a 16 year old kid...and after much public indignation and hoopla...proceed to PROSECUTE HIM for something loosely called "harassment and Bias."
What the $#@! is this teaching the American people?
...and who the *$%# are passing these laws in the first place?
Dammit Ladies and Gentlemen, someone--a kid...probably a white male else there'd be no story here...acted in a socially unacceptable and boorish manner, but locking the stupid little bastard up and trying him in juvenile court?
Pluuuuuuuease...
Let the little shit-head finish growing up and let him keep acting this way and doing this kind of ignorant crap, and then let him go to
He didn't yell "FIRE" and cause a stampede...
He was just young and stupid and and I guarandamtee you if ANYONE else of any other RACE/GENDER had done the exact same thing there'd be no NEWS STORY here.
Was it WRONG?
Yes...absolutely YES.
But was it CRIMINAL?
You decide for yourself, but you know where I stand here...
Is it just me?
Monday, September 28, 2009
Anyone Want To Join My "Racist" Club?
"Here...Have a White Sheet And Some Scissors"
I love the way most people like to"hit and run" "comment and run" when they find something on a blog which appears to go against their government educated beliefs and/or offends their delicate multi-cultural racial/sexual sensibilities.
It doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, it never fails that if you address certain topics or use certain words at least SOMEONE is going tospeak up and object. cry and snivel and complain.
I'm surprised it took as long as it did to get someone's ears smoking with this posting from last Wednesday which I titled "OneDumb Stupid Mulatto Negro Black Man African American."
As I posted earlier, the commenter said "How nice of you to inject race into your blog, President Jimmy Carter Got it right. And you Sir, live in the wrong time."
Then they added "Don't bother replying to my comment, I won't be back to read it."
OK...(taking a big breath)...let's get a few thing straight.
NUMBER 1. It's my Blog and I'll say anything I want to here (except things that would make Google shut down my free site or specifically threaten the lives of the President and other high ranking officials.)
NUMBER 2. In writing the words "Mulatto" or "Negro" or "Black Man" in front of the words "African American," I knew that I was going to make some people wince and piss a few others off completely, BUT...
I'd like to point out that each and every one of those words have legitimately been used in my lifetime i.e. the past 50 years in this county by polite "non-colored" citizenry when referring to people of dark skin color descending genetically from the continent of Africa.
When I was a kid in rural Alabama in the 1960's, being polite white people of anglo European descent, I was taught that the word "Nigger" was offensive and instead refered to our maid and other "black" persons as "Negro" or "Niggra" or simply "colored."
I guess that "niggra" was too close to "Nigger" and "colored" left open the answer to the question "what color?", so then sometime in the 1970's, in an effort to keep all the White folks off balance and inject the latest distillations of the current cultural movements from NY and Detroit and LA into everyone's lives, all of us "crackers" were told that "Negro" and Niggra" and "colored" was inaccurate and offensive, we should just call a proud black man a "black man" or a dark skinned woman a "black woman."
By the way...anyone but me ever wondered why the people living here from Southeast Asia and the Caribbean/South America didn't get on the same bandwagon or start up their own movement coining, defining, qualifying, endorsing "official" politically correct self identifying terminology while at the same time expressing outrage at their supposed political and cultural insufficiency?
Fortunately they didn't, and instead elected to melt into the "melting pot" and enjoy the benefits of living in the United By God States of 'Merica and have been rewarded with the kinds of social and educational and financial success which still escape the followers of the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Bless all of their multi-national, multi-racial, mult-cultural, multi-colored hearts for shutting the %$#@ up and getting on with life rather than making a career and thinly veiled political movement out of their "victimhood."
Further, remembering that we're still stuck here under my point NUMBER 2, my reference using the word "mulatto" to address someone of mixed racial descent is not directly an insult....it's simply descriptive (look it up on Wikipedia) :
"Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry. The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations. Its current usage varies greatly."
Unfortunately, currently it is considered an outrage to make any reference to any part of a person's appearance or persona which is in fact "different" from yourself and/or your peers.
And finally, apparently not being satisfied with phraseology using something like skin color as an identification, forward looking self appointed black leaders like Jackson and Sharpton settled on the self identification terminology "African American" as the descriptor of choice continuing until today...
although most of these same people using the "African American" identification were at least SEVEN generations from ever having set foot on the continent of Africa ( and I suppose that 3/4 of those same people couldn't find Africa on a Map or Globe with a flashlight and a magnifying glass...)
NUMBER 3. I really don't give a darn what most people think when I write here on this blog.
I do not write specifically to GAIN readership or attract any specific group of readers. If I did I would resort to sticking key words like "Patrick Swayze Death" in my titles and enjoy having nearly a THOUSAND HITS like I did over the past few days when the people in Europe finally found out the guy had died.
Then if I was getting that kind of traffic, instead of the normal measly 50 hits a day I get, I'd have the sidebar and header of this blog covered up with blog ads for Viagra and Hair replacement and "conservative tee shirts and mugs" and God knows what else.
But I DO NOT WRITE TO PLEASE ANYONE BUT MYSELF, thus I do not give a RATS ASS if my lovely, talented, well intended yet culturally/racially sensitive commenter ever comes back.
I offer my sincere, heartfelt approval to anyone who reads and is offended by a single word I write to NOT EVER COME BACK.
EVER....
NUMBER 4. This is the most important point that Jimmuh Carter and my commenter and most of the lamestream/dead tree media don't understand or refuse to recognise...
I would just as vehemently object to Obama's policies and inane utterings and apologizings regardless of the skin color or hair color or shoe size of any other person forcing them upon me and speaking supposedly on behalf of me and my country.
Understand?
Now, let me see if I can find where I put my scissors...I have some eyeholes to cut...
I love the way most people like to
It doesn't matter what you say or how you say it, it never fails that if you address certain topics or use certain words at least SOMEONE is going to
I'm surprised it took as long as it did to get someone's ears smoking with this posting from last Wednesday which I titled "One
As I posted earlier, the commenter said "How nice of you to inject race into your blog, President Jimmy Carter Got it right. And you Sir, live in the wrong time."
Then they added "Don't bother replying to my comment, I won't be back to read it."
OK...(taking a big breath)...let's get a few thing straight.
NUMBER 1. It's my Blog and I'll say anything I want to here (except things that would make Google shut down my free site or specifically threaten the lives of the President and other high ranking officials.)
NUMBER 2. In writing the words "Mulatto" or "Negro" or "Black Man" in front of the words "African American," I knew that I was going to make some people wince and piss a few others off completely, BUT...
I'd like to point out that each and every one of those words have legitimately been used in my lifetime i.e. the past 50 years in this county by polite "non-colored" citizenry when referring to people of dark skin color descending genetically from the continent of Africa.
When I was a kid in rural Alabama in the 1960's, being polite white people of anglo European descent, I was taught that the word "Nigger" was offensive and instead refered to our maid and other "black" persons as "Negro" or "Niggra" or simply "colored."
I guess that "niggra" was too close to "Nigger" and "colored" left open the answer to the question "what color?", so then sometime in the 1970's, in an effort to keep all the White folks off balance and inject the latest distillations of the current cultural movements from NY and Detroit and LA into everyone's lives, all of us "crackers" were told that "Negro" and Niggra" and "colored" was inaccurate and offensive, we should just call a proud black man a "black man" or a dark skinned woman a "black woman."
By the way...anyone but me ever wondered why the people living here from Southeast Asia and the Caribbean/South America didn't get on the same bandwagon or start up their own movement coining, defining, qualifying, endorsing "official" politically correct self identifying terminology while at the same time expressing outrage at their supposed political and cultural insufficiency?
Fortunately they didn't, and instead elected to melt into the "melting pot" and enjoy the benefits of living in the United By God States of 'Merica and have been rewarded with the kinds of social and educational and financial success which still escape the followers of the likes of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Bless all of their multi-national, multi-racial, mult-cultural, multi-colored hearts for shutting the %$#@ up and getting on with life rather than making a career and thinly veiled political movement out of their "victimhood."
Further, remembering that we're still stuck here under my point NUMBER 2, my reference using the word "mulatto" to address someone of mixed racial descent is not directly an insult....it's simply descriptive (look it up on Wikipedia) :
"Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry. The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations. Its current usage varies greatly."
Unfortunately, currently it is considered an outrage to make any reference to any part of a person's appearance or persona which is in fact "different" from yourself and/or your peers.
And finally, apparently not being satisfied with phraseology using something like skin color as an identification, forward looking self appointed black leaders like Jackson and Sharpton settled on the self identification terminology "African American" as the descriptor of choice continuing until today...
although most of these same people using the "African American" identification were at least SEVEN generations from ever having set foot on the continent of Africa ( and I suppose that 3/4 of those same people couldn't find Africa on a Map or Globe with a flashlight and a magnifying glass...)
NUMBER 3. I really don't give a darn what most people think when I write here on this blog.
I do not write specifically to GAIN readership or attract any specific group of readers. If I did I would resort to sticking key words like "Patrick Swayze Death" in my titles and enjoy having nearly a THOUSAND HITS like I did over the past few days when the people in Europe finally found out the guy had died.
Then if I was getting that kind of traffic, instead of the normal measly 50 hits a day I get, I'd have the sidebar and header of this blog covered up with blog ads for Viagra and Hair replacement and "conservative tee shirts and mugs" and God knows what else.
But I DO NOT WRITE TO PLEASE ANYONE BUT MYSELF, thus I do not give a RATS ASS if my lovely, talented, well intended yet culturally/racially sensitive commenter ever comes back.
I offer my sincere, heartfelt approval to anyone who reads and is offended by a single word I write to NOT EVER COME BACK.
EVER....
NUMBER 4. This is the most important point that Jimmuh Carter and my commenter and most of the lamestream/dead tree media don't understand or refuse to recognise...
I would just as vehemently object to Obama's policies and inane utterings and apologizings regardless of the skin color or hair color or shoe size of any other person forcing them upon me and speaking supposedly on behalf of me and my country.
Understand?
Now, let me see if I can find where I put my scissors...I have some eyeholes to cut...
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Silence Of The Lambs
Excellence In Mediocrity and Complacency
Amazingly enough the US Navy was allowed to fire three gunshots yesterday--Easter Sunday afternoon--on a day we were supposed to be celebrating a religious holiday instead of smelling gunpowder.
When the smoke cleared, I was happy to learn that there were three dead "pirates." and one other kid with a slightly higher IQ or a little less gumption/guts/resolution in US custody.
It annoyed me that FOX News spazmo reporterHernando Revolver Geraldo "At Large" Rivera insists on calling the detainee and the deceased of all things "Buccaneers." I didn't take the time to change channels but CNN and MSNBC are probably calling them "Freedom Fighters" or Somali Rebels."
When the US Navy got through with them "Corpses" and "Life Prisoner" fits better I think.
Regardless of the linguistics details, in the process the brave Captain of a ship with the schizophrenic sounding name "Maersik Alabama," Richard Phillips, was a free man.
Wait a minute...
"Buccaneers"...Geraldo?
"Buccaneers" are something you see at Halloween parties or in a Disney movie.
These guys are/were different, and instead of fantasy land this is REAL LIFE.
I'd call them THIEVES.
Or perhaps ROBBERS.
Or in today's world, let's call them what they are...
MUSLIM TERRORISTS.
That deduction and definition is pretty easy for me to formulate in my mind because most if not all of the dead men and their peers, in spite of living in Africa, are actually Muslims, and their actions terrorize people who have been conditioned to believe that it's against the law to take measures to defend their own personal safety and their personal property.
Muslims found terrorizing other people = Muslim Terrorists.
Isn't that simple?
And the other people in the above equation are generally law abiding citizens of the US or other non-muslim countries which today through our modern enlightened education system have been convinced that guns are E V I L.
Then there are those which, like many of the Europeans, have been outright disarmed by force by their government through the criminalization of the private ownership of weapons.
Today even here in the US common thinking is that you're supposed to call 911 and wait on the GOVERNMENT to respond...and in the event that things get crazy and you actually fear for your life and you do take action, you risk being second guessed in criminal proceedings thereby facing jail time and/or you risk being sued in civil court because you shot the penis and kneecap off some asshole trying to take your wallet in a Pizza Hut.
Excuse me if I appear insensitive, but my opinions might just be strongly influenced by first hand knowledge gained when I personally had a 32' foot boat I owned stolen, after a couple decades earlier having a "downtrodden victim of socioeconomic disparity" pump a shotgun in the small of my back while another "disadvantaged minority" beat me in the head and broke the barrel off his revolver on the back of my head.
In neither event did the "authorities" do anything to prevent the "crimes" nor did they provide any relief after the fact or catch the "suspects"... so I say all of the Kumbaya singing sniveling tree hugging booger eating why-can't-we-all -just get-alongprogressives liberals should just shut up crying and demanding non-lethal measures and UN Resolutions solving misbehavior's atrocities committed by the same kind of animals which have tortured others throughout history.
...until you've been there.
Until you've had a loaded gun pointed at you by a stranger, I think you're full of crap pontificating on the acceptable measures which are legal or societally acceptable for use in defending your life and property.
Let me put this memo out there for future reference so you won't be surprised when you turn on the TV and see me describing the demise of "the assailant" the next time I have a gun pointed at me and the person isn't wearing a uniform/badge....
I grew up shooting a gun, and today I'll shoot a three hole grouping through your "center of mass"-your face and/or your chest--before you can say "just kidding" if you put me in the position where it's me and my family and my property against your misplaced, misguided, alcohol and drug induced mal-intentions.
I'll use the same level of force if you're stone cold sober or certifiably insane and you start acting up on my front porch--so don't plan on using the "under the influence" defense because I simply don't care and don't have time to negotiate with you once you point the business end of your gun at me.
And skin color be damned...I'll verify the threat, offer a verbal warning, obtain a clear sight picture, and pull the trigger.
Unfortunately this is something which many people apparently have a hard time understanding, but I see it like this.
Passing a new gun law or trying and convicting the person which took my life does ME no good once I'm DEAD.
I'm DEAD.
Dead because I was shot.
Or dead...beat to death kind of dead or run over with a pickup truck variety of Dead.
And since they're not going to pass laws making fists and boots and frying pans and baseball bats and pickup trucks illegal, I feel I have to choose my method of defense and perfect it.
My idea of gun control is "hitting the intended target--every time."
Even if they did produce a new list of things it's illegal to hit me in the head with or drive across my torso...just like hand guns in England or Washington DC...I'm pretty certain that they'll have a hard time with the confiscation of these newly declared illegal "weapons."
And the criminals and thugs that don't obey the current gun laws we already have on the books won't give up their Ford F-250's because they need them to go hunting and to get to the liquor store.
So I figure sitting around worrying about the latest laws or lobbying for the passage of new ordinances is time better spent by the lawyers and politicians--people that make their living making the law useless and un-understandable.
(I'm taking a big breath here boss...and changing the subject completely...)
So any way...if things work out on the Professional Injuneering front I'm heading back to South Alabama this weekend before conducting some more business on the Florida and Georgia Coasts next week.
In my computer bag I'll have along with me my new plans and drawings for the construction of my own personal solution to the Somali "piracy" issues:
I call her the "Mozark Alabama", and she's powered by an old Chinook helicopter turbine burning ethanol we distill on board from corn squeezin's. She'll only sleep six but everybody has a king sized bed and a private crapper and I'll handle kitchen duty three days a week.
And here's her smaller sister ships...the SS Mozark Enterprise guided missile cruiser:
and the more modern Mozark Elba PT Submarine attack boat:
Using current world standards and relying on the UN, I hope to augment law enforcement efforts on the high seas and suspect there won't be any ship hijackings off Panama City, Mexico Beach, Lake Eufala, or St. Simons Island anytime soon.
Sorry, but the rest of you out there in San Francisco, Boston and off northern Long Island are on your own...
Amazingly enough the US Navy was allowed to fire three gunshots yesterday--Easter Sunday afternoon--on a day we were supposed to be celebrating a religious holiday instead of smelling gunpowder.
When the smoke cleared, I was happy to learn that there were three dead "pirates." and one other kid with a slightly higher IQ or a little less gumption/guts/resolution in US custody.
It annoyed me that FOX News spazmo reporter
When the US Navy got through with them "Corpses" and "Life Prisoner" fits better I think.
Regardless of the linguistics details, in the process the brave Captain of a ship with the schizophrenic sounding name "Maersik Alabama," Richard Phillips, was a free man.
Wait a minute...
"Buccaneers"...Geraldo?
"Buccaneers" are something you see at Halloween parties or in a Disney movie.
These guys are/were different, and instead of fantasy land this is REAL LIFE.
I'd call them THIEVES.
Or perhaps ROBBERS.
Or in today's world, let's call them what they are...
MUSLIM TERRORISTS.
That deduction and definition is pretty easy for me to formulate in my mind because most if not all of the dead men and their peers, in spite of living in Africa, are actually Muslims, and their actions terrorize people who have been conditioned to believe that it's against the law to take measures to defend their own personal safety and their personal property.
Muslims found terrorizing other people = Muslim Terrorists.
Isn't that simple?
And the other people in the above equation are generally law abiding citizens of the US or other non-muslim countries which today through our modern enlightened education system have been convinced that guns are E V I L.
Then there are those which, like many of the Europeans, have been outright disarmed by force by their government through the criminalization of the private ownership of weapons.
Today even here in the US common thinking is that you're supposed to call 911 and wait on the GOVERNMENT to respond...and in the event that things get crazy and you actually fear for your life and you do take action, you risk being second guessed in criminal proceedings thereby facing jail time and/or you risk being sued in civil court because you shot the penis and kneecap off some asshole trying to take your wallet in a Pizza Hut.
Excuse me if I appear insensitive, but my opinions might just be strongly influenced by first hand knowledge gained when I personally had a 32' foot boat I owned stolen, after a couple decades earlier having a "downtrodden victim of socioeconomic disparity" pump a shotgun in the small of my back while another "disadvantaged minority" beat me in the head and broke the barrel off his revolver on the back of my head.
In neither event did the "authorities" do anything to prevent the "crimes" nor did they provide any relief after the fact or catch the "suspects"... so I say all of the Kumbaya singing sniveling tree hugging booger eating why-can't-we-all -just get-along
...until you've been there.
Until you've had a loaded gun pointed at you by a stranger, I think you're full of crap pontificating on the acceptable measures which are legal or societally acceptable for use in defending your life and property.
Let me put this memo out there for future reference so you won't be surprised when you turn on the TV and see me describing the demise of "the assailant" the next time I have a gun pointed at me and the person isn't wearing a uniform/badge....
I grew up shooting a gun, and today I'll shoot a three hole grouping through your "center of mass"-your face and/or your chest--before you can say "just kidding" if you put me in the position where it's me and my family and my property against your misplaced, misguided, alcohol and drug induced mal-intentions.
I'll use the same level of force if you're stone cold sober or certifiably insane and you start acting up on my front porch--so don't plan on using the "under the influence" defense because I simply don't care and don't have time to negotiate with you once you point the business end of your gun at me.
And skin color be damned...I'll verify the threat, offer a verbal warning, obtain a clear sight picture, and pull the trigger.
Unfortunately this is something which many people apparently have a hard time understanding, but I see it like this.
Passing a new gun law or trying and convicting the person which took my life does ME no good once I'm DEAD.
I'm DEAD.
Dead because I was shot.
Or dead...beat to death kind of dead or run over with a pickup truck variety of Dead.
And since they're not going to pass laws making fists and boots and frying pans and baseball bats and pickup trucks illegal, I feel I have to choose my method of defense and perfect it.
My idea of gun control is "hitting the intended target--every time."
Even if they did produce a new list of things it's illegal to hit me in the head with or drive across my torso...just like hand guns in England or Washington DC...I'm pretty certain that they'll have a hard time with the confiscation of these newly declared illegal "weapons."
And the criminals and thugs that don't obey the current gun laws we already have on the books won't give up their Ford F-250's because they need them to go hunting and to get to the liquor store.
So I figure sitting around worrying about the latest laws or lobbying for the passage of new ordinances is time better spent by the lawyers and politicians--people that make their living making the law useless and un-understandable.
(I'm taking a big breath here boss...and changing the subject completely...)
So any way...if things work out on the Professional Injuneering front I'm heading back to South Alabama this weekend before conducting some more business on the Florida and Georgia Coasts next week.
In my computer bag I'll have along with me my new plans and drawings for the construction of my own personal solution to the Somali "piracy" issues:
I call her the "Mozark Alabama", and she's powered by an old Chinook helicopter turbine burning ethanol we distill on board from corn squeezin's. She'll only sleep six but everybody has a king sized bed and a private crapper and I'll handle kitchen duty three days a week.
And here's her smaller sister ships...the SS Mozark Enterprise guided missile cruiser:
and the more modern Mozark Elba PT Submarine attack boat:
Using current world standards and relying on the UN, I hope to augment law enforcement efforts on the high seas and suspect there won't be any ship hijackings off Panama City, Mexico Beach, Lake Eufala, or St. Simons Island anytime soon.
Sorry, but the rest of you out there in San Francisco, Boston and off northern Long Island are on your own...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
"False" versus "Wrong"
Anyone But Me Know The Difference?
So I was cruising along this morning shutting down AutoCAD at home--getting ready to head in to the office--when I stumbled across this ASSociated press story about George Carlin winning a comedy award named for Mark Twain (A.K.A. Samuel Clemmons.)
Everything was fine and dandy until I got to the very, Very, VERY last sentence in the story:
"On certain things you'd call him a lefty," Hamza said. "On other things, you'd be surprised how conservative he might be ... He was all for the (Iraq) war until he found out the basis was false [emphasis mine-VRR]."
Yet another perfect example of how the stupid, partisan, lying, useless bastards at the ASSociated Press can't even write an obituary or a posthumous story without interjecting political commentary.
Doesn't this bother anyone but me?
So I was cruising along this morning shutting down AutoCAD at home--getting ready to head in to the office--when I stumbled across this ASSociated press story about George Carlin winning a comedy award named for Mark Twain (A.K.A. Samuel Clemmons.)
Everything was fine and dandy until I got to the very, Very, VERY last sentence in the story:
"On certain things you'd call him a lefty," Hamza said. "On other things, you'd be surprised how conservative he might be ... He was all for the (Iraq) war until he found out the basis was false [emphasis mine-VRR]."
Yet another perfect example of how the stupid, partisan, lying, useless bastards at the ASSociated Press can't even write an obituary or a posthumous story without interjecting political commentary.
Doesn't this bother anyone but me?
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Captain Kirk Has Things Right
Has To Be Seen To Be Believed...
Sneak Peek #1 of Boston Legal: Dances with Wolves
Thanks to Rodge over at Curmudgeonly & Skeptical.
Sneak Peek #1 of Boston Legal: Dances with Wolves
Thanks to Rodge over at Curmudgeonly & Skeptical.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
My Personal Earth Day
Help Me Offset Owl Gore's Giant Carbon Footprint...
Good Gosh but things have gotten complicated when it comes to Government regulations affecting what you can and can not pack in your stuff when moving.
The "No Explosives" rule I understand for obvious reasons, but "No batteries?"
No cleaning solutions?
No paint?
What about fingernail polish--does that count as paint?
And what about the contents of the liquor cabinet?
Screw it...since I'm paying the freight tab I'm tossing whatever I want to into a box labeled "photos" and I dare the Feds to say anything to me in route or on the other end.
For those of you that are interested, in addition to spending today filling and tapeing giant cardboard boxes, here's my plans regarding the celebration of "Earth Day"
6:00 AM ... Pass Gas (Done)
6:15 AM... Pass More Gas (very satisfying sound...with a slight hint of last night's steak dinner)
6:31 AM... Take giant swig of water and belch heartily
7:04 AM...Throw away batteries from portable devices
7:30 AM...Dump solvents down kitchen drain
7:59 Am...Start up Suburbans 454 cubic inch gas guzzling V8 engine and let idle a half hour
...and so on and so on...You get the idea.
I say that if enough of us lard assed middle aged, ever greying, ever balding curmudgeons get together today we can teach the tree huggin snot nosed sniveling liberals a lesson or two about the resiliency of our planet.
Man Made Climate Change???
Bah Humbug
Good Gosh but things have gotten complicated when it comes to Government regulations affecting what you can and can not pack in your stuff when moving.
The "No Explosives" rule I understand for obvious reasons, but "No batteries?"
No cleaning solutions?
No paint?
What about fingernail polish--does that count as paint?
And what about the contents of the liquor cabinet?
Screw it...since I'm paying the freight tab I'm tossing whatever I want to into a box labeled "photos" and I dare the Feds to say anything to me in route or on the other end.
For those of you that are interested, in addition to spending today filling and tapeing giant cardboard boxes, here's my plans regarding the celebration of "Earth Day"
6:00 AM ... Pass Gas (Done)
6:15 AM... Pass More Gas (very satisfying sound...with a slight hint of last night's steak dinner)
6:31 AM... Take giant swig of water and belch heartily
7:04 AM...Throw away batteries from portable devices
7:30 AM...Dump solvents down kitchen drain
7:59 Am...Start up Suburbans 454 cubic inch gas guzzling V8 engine and let idle a half hour
...and so on and so on...You get the idea.
I say that if enough of us lard assed middle aged, ever greying, ever balding curmudgeons get together today we can teach the tree huggin snot nosed sniveling liberals a lesson or two about the resiliency of our planet.
Man Made Climate Change???
Bah Humbug
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
I'm Honored
I'm Taking Political Incorrectness To Yet Another Level...
I was just checking a few things here on the blog stats, and I noticed that someone from Connecticut had found me by doing a Google search using the words boortz towel heads.
My little bitty humble blog came up number one in their search.
Why don't you try the search for yourself and be infinitely impressed, if you don't believe me.
(If I go missing, will some of the Libertarians or Conservatives please call Homeland Security?)
I was just checking a few things here on the blog stats, and I noticed that someone from Connecticut had found me by doing a Google search using the words boortz towel heads.
My little bitty humble blog came up number one in their search.
Why don't you try the search for yourself and be infinitely impressed, if you don't believe me.
(If I go missing, will some of the Libertarians or Conservatives please call Homeland Security?)
Monday, October 08, 2007
Columbus Day
Celebrating Testosterone Laden White Men That "Raped and Pillaged" Their Way Across Our Planet...
Sometimes I really yearn for the good old days when Men were Men and liberals were relegated to being whimpering chamber pot carrying slaves and festering dead corpses on the battlefields of our planet. (Damn...did I really write that? Sorry...I'm leaving it in this morning...)
Slapping myself back into reality, I find myself in a world where practically anyone with a cause (or a bank account) can call some lawyer advertising on the back of the Yellow Pages or contact the ACLU and file a lawsuit claiming some affront to their sensibilities or otherwise attempt to diminish the historical value of guys like Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, and Ferdinand Magellan.
Think about this with me for a minute if you will.
If it weren't for guys like Columbus, most of us would all still be living packed together in the rat and roach infested squalor of northern Africa, the Northern Mediterranean basin, and in bone chilling areas of northern Europe sticking our fingers into Dikes to plug the leaks in the infrastructure while wild eyed bands of roaming Muslims burned cars and complained about their poor employment prospects.
All sexual innuendo aside, instead today I find myself living in the most prosperous, successful, representative Republic that has ever existed on the lovely planet we call home.
Notice I said "Representative Republic", not "Democracy?"
(If I have to explain the concept of Representative Republic versus Democracy to you, just hit the back button on your browser now because you're just going to get more pissed off by the moment and paragraph as I keep writing.)
That said...
Most school children and many young adults have been taught that America is a place to be abhorred and embarrassed to live in and be from...(in spite of the current assault on our southern border.)
I don't agree.
Yes, what the European settlers that arrived here in North America did to theIndians Native Americans was a tragedy, but I wasn't born then and I have a hard time breaking much of a sweat over the situation today.
Yes, what the 19th century Americans did by supporting the world wide slave trade when America was a largely agricultural enterprise was wrong, but we also didn't invent slavery and we didn't end the practice when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1860's.
If you doubt my assertion. just wander over to Africa today and check out what is going on there on a daily basis, under the auspices of the United Nations. Many a black man owns many other black men, women and children; and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are mute on that situation because right now REAL Africans don't vote, unless they've been allowed to illegally move from Somalia to Maine, Minnesota, or Atlanta and open a Taxi service.
So any way, today we celebrate Columbus day in what is called America, but the protesters couldn't' wait past Sunday's parade in Denver to get the argument started.
DENVER — Police arrested 83 Columbus Day Parade protesters including American Indian Movement activist Russell Means after fake blood and dismembered baby dolls were poured on the parade route Saturday.
At least 10 of those arrested faced charges of resisting arrest, while most faced charges of blocking a parade route or interfering with a peaceful assembly, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. The parade through downtown was delayed about an hour.
From everything I've read about Columbus, he was a pretty damn remarkable guy, and if he hadn't gotten here first when he did in the 1490's I believe that the land we call the US of A would just be a Continent full of well landscaped grass fields owned by the Mexicans, surrounded by a bunch of African taxi drivers sitting around in used Toyotas waiting for an airplane to land.
Problem is, under this scenario, the Wright Brothers were put in jail in 1904, and Henry Ford was killed in a German concentration camp in 1914, so Toyotas are actually Rickshaws, not gasoline powered VEhicles.
While we're postulating, maybe Global warming never happened either because the industrial revolution died of the Bubonic Plague in the process, stranded in the Middle Ages of Europe.
Taking a big breath...
I don't have much else to say about this subject now, but I believe that in anticipation of going back over to Brunswick to do some more construction later this morning, that I'll wander outside and fog for mosquitoes by smoking a nice cigar, and then give a hearty salute to Christoper Columbus in the process.
Sometimes I really yearn for the good old days when Men were Men and liberals were relegated to being whimpering chamber pot carrying slaves and festering dead corpses on the battlefields of our planet. (Damn...did I really write that? Sorry...I'm leaving it in this morning...)
Slapping myself back into reality, I find myself in a world where practically anyone with a cause (or a bank account) can call some lawyer advertising on the back of the Yellow Pages or contact the ACLU and file a lawsuit claiming some affront to their sensibilities or otherwise attempt to diminish the historical value of guys like Christopher Columbus, Ponce de Leon, and Ferdinand Magellan.
Think about this with me for a minute if you will.
If it weren't for guys like Columbus, most of us would all still be living packed together in the rat and roach infested squalor of northern Africa, the Northern Mediterranean basin, and in bone chilling areas of northern Europe sticking our fingers into Dikes to plug the leaks in the infrastructure while wild eyed bands of roaming Muslims burned cars and complained about their poor employment prospects.
All sexual innuendo aside, instead today I find myself living in the most prosperous, successful, representative Republic that has ever existed on the lovely planet we call home.
Notice I said "Representative Republic", not "Democracy?"
(If I have to explain the concept of Representative Republic versus Democracy to you, just hit the back button on your browser now because you're just going to get more pissed off by the moment and paragraph as I keep writing.)
That said...
Most school children and many young adults have been taught that America is a place to be abhorred and embarrassed to live in and be from...(in spite of the current assault on our southern border.)
I don't agree.
Yes, what the European settlers that arrived here in North America did to the
Yes, what the 19th century Americans did by supporting the world wide slave trade when America was a largely agricultural enterprise was wrong, but we also didn't invent slavery and we didn't end the practice when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in the 1860's.
If you doubt my assertion. just wander over to Africa today and check out what is going on there on a daily basis, under the auspices of the United Nations. Many a black man owns many other black men, women and children; and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are mute on that situation because right now REAL Africans don't vote, unless they've been allowed to illegally move from Somalia to Maine, Minnesota, or Atlanta and open a Taxi service.
So any way, today we celebrate Columbus day in what is called America, but the protesters couldn't' wait past Sunday's parade in Denver to get the argument started.
DENVER — Police arrested 83 Columbus Day Parade protesters including American Indian Movement activist Russell Means after fake blood and dismembered baby dolls were poured on the parade route Saturday.
At least 10 of those arrested faced charges of resisting arrest, while most faced charges of blocking a parade route or interfering with a peaceful assembly, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. The parade through downtown was delayed about an hour.
From everything I've read about Columbus, he was a pretty damn remarkable guy, and if he hadn't gotten here first when he did in the 1490's I believe that the land we call the US of A would just be a Continent full of well landscaped grass fields owned by the Mexicans, surrounded by a bunch of African taxi drivers sitting around in used Toyotas waiting for an airplane to land.
Problem is, under this scenario, the Wright Brothers were put in jail in 1904, and Henry Ford was killed in a German concentration camp in 1914, so Toyotas are actually Rickshaws, not gasoline powered VEhicles.
While we're postulating, maybe Global warming never happened either because the industrial revolution died of the Bubonic Plague in the process, stranded in the Middle Ages of Europe.
Taking a big breath...
I don't have much else to say about this subject now, but I believe that in anticipation of going back over to Brunswick to do some more construction later this morning, that I'll wander outside and fog for mosquitoes by smoking a nice cigar, and then give a hearty salute to Christoper Columbus in the process.
"Hey..Yo Chris...How's your hammer hanging?...
.Friday, September 28, 2007
Oh...The Humanity...
More Inane Political Correctness
OK folks, first there was the Swastika in the cornfield up in New Jersey that no one could see except from the air:
Does somebody want to call the government and try to stop me from broadcasting the fumes from my rectum to the general public's sensitive spectrum later this morning?
Then I guess that you won't mind me publishing this formerly non-racist image that has been stolen by morons wearing bed linens on their bodies, skin-heads, and other pseudo-Nazi idiots from the polite citizens of the rural South.
(And by the way, no, I don't believe that the south will rise again...it already has, because almost everyone north of Pennsylvania wants to move down here to retire when they finally get tired of the urban filth, traffic congestion, and ugly winter weather found north of the Mason-Dixon Line.)
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OK folks, first there was the Swastika in the cornfield up in New Jersey that no one could see except from the air:
I resisted commenting about this story for the past few days, but now there is this story about the nearly forty year old Navy Barracks in San Diego that will be rebuilt at taxpayer expense to avoid offending a few people's so-called "sensibilities" because they can see it on Google Earth and other satellite mapping programs:
By the way, I have a money saving suggestion if anyone is willing to listen.
I suggest that they add some canvas awnings and repaint the roof and make the building look like the Mexican Flag:
Pretty slick Idea, huh?
What a nice and pretty red, white, and green.
Much better than the white male dominated, racist, bigoted, mean old red white and blue colors that got the USA through the miserable, impoverished past 231 years of no healthcare and other social injustices.
In an effort to follow my own suggestions, I ate a bunch of beans and rice along with my Tilapia for dinner last night, and using previously untapped supernatural powers I am forcing my colon to continously beam out an image of the Confederate Flag...in wavelenghts that can only be seen in the ultraviolet and infrared spectrum, by people looking down in geosynchronous orbit.
Here's a preview...(don't look if you're easily offended):
Does somebody want to call the government and try to stop me from broadcasting the fumes from my rectum to the general public's sensitive spectrum later this morning?
Then I guess that you won't mind me publishing this formerly non-racist image that has been stolen by morons wearing bed linens on their bodies, skin-heads, and other pseudo-Nazi idiots from the polite citizens of the rural South.
(And by the way, no, I don't believe that the south will rise again...it already has, because almost everyone north of Pennsylvania wants to move down here to retire when they finally get tired of the urban filth, traffic congestion, and ugly winter weather found north of the Mason-Dixon Line.)
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Are You Nuts???
I KNOW That I Am...And Proud Of It
Most "Sane" people bother me.
You know the type--people like cops and judges, many lawyers, and airline pilots--people that never laugh at anything and just stare at you blankly when you tell them your best jokes.
I guess that brain surgeons fit into this category also because the last thing you want to see as the anaesthesiologist puts the mask over your nose and mouth is some guy wielding a scalpel or drill and wearing a lampshade on his head or Groucho Marx glasses with the big nose and bushy eyebrows.
That said, take a look at this story about the Pentagon considering dropping their mental health questions when considering people for a security Clearance.
WASHINGTON - U.S. troops would no longer be asked to reveal previous mental health treatment when applying for security clearances under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon.
The idea stems from the finding that service members avoid needed counseling because they believe that getting it — and acknowledging it — could cost them their clearance as well as do other harm to their careers, The Associated Press has learned.
"This is just one of several items under review by the Department of Defense and the services in an effort to remove the stigma associated with mental health issues," said Air Force Maj. Patrick Ryder.
Stigma associated with mental health issues?
What's up wit' 'dat?
I say that if any given employer, including the government, is handing out jobs and the associated paychecks that they have the right to ask any damn questions that they want.
If they don't like my answers to the questions: "Mr. Rogers, have you ever had sexual fantasies involving a midget, two chickens, and a Weed Eater," "have you ever driven a tractor wearing nothing but crotchless overalls," or "did you once purchase edible underwear that was flavored like biscuits and gravy" that they be allowed to refuse my employment at the local bait shop or boat dealership.
No lawsuits with ACLU backing and sensational appearances on the TV talk shows, I'd just have to look elsewhere for employment else keep my mouth shut in the future.
I've actually had a Secret Security Clearance for a number of years back in the 1970's and early 1980's when I worked at the US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Ft. Rucker, Alabama and again when I was in the Navy Reserve at Georgia Tech.
Having a Clearance isn't any big deal really because they don't actually TELL you any secrets, they just use the clearance to find out if you are sane enough to be trusted around sharp objects and while walking up and down stairs and stuff like that.
My dad had a Top Secret clearance for most of his career as a Test Pilot and engineer for the Army and it just meant that he couldn't come home and bitch at the dinner table about the latest "magneto-hydro-dynamic-pulse-doppler-laser-nippleometer" (actually a device of my own design which can in theory determine the ambient air temperature by remotely bouncing a laser beam off of a woman's breast--I'm still doing field trials while working on the patent...) or whatever else he was working on mounting and flying around in a Chinook or Cobra helicopter.
I'm sure that Dad took some pretty interesting stories with him to his grave, but that's OK.
I had a couple of ex-wives that shouldn't have been allowed to have a security clearance because those bitches were Websters definition of CRAZY and neither one of them ever admitted it to me or actually sought any mental health counseling--they just told me everything was my fault and left it at that.
My college buddy up in South Carolina is in the process of getting rid of his own Prozac inhalingshe devil soon to be ex-bride and she never admitted any culpability in her contribution to his insanity osmosis.
Regarding the proposed Pentagon policy, I say let them keep asking the same questions, and let them have a quota of crazy people that they let in the Army because we need crazy people and mean people in the military to be in charge of breaking things and killing people.
After all, isn't that what war is all about?
Breaking things and killing people?
Otherwise they'd just call it a Tea Party or a game of Tag or something instead of WAR.
"In international news, a keg party broke out in the Gaza Strip today between Palestinian factions...the last man standing will be considered the winner and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members are considered the favorite at this time..."
While we're on the subject of military admissions standards, what ever happened to letting people join the Army or Marine Corps in lieu of going to the county jail for assault?
It's the same thing the way I see it, since guys that like punching their bartender or their wife fit quite nicely in the "breaking things and killing people" category.
Maybe we could just eliminate the death penalty for murder and start having special platoons of guys, lead by General Charles Manson, that we would send out to Iran or Lybia to take care of business without any inbedded TV reporters around to cry in their milk and cry foul every time a limb is severed or a head is blown off.
They'd save a good deal of effort and money by having a lifetime deployment bouncing around the world dealing with thug dictators and communist agitators.
Seems like a plan to me...what do YOU think?
Most "Sane" people bother me.
You know the type--people like cops and judges, many lawyers, and airline pilots--people that never laugh at anything and just stare at you blankly when you tell them your best jokes.
I guess that brain surgeons fit into this category also because the last thing you want to see as the anaesthesiologist puts the mask over your nose and mouth is some guy wielding a scalpel or drill and wearing a lampshade on his head or Groucho Marx glasses with the big nose and bushy eyebrows.
That said, take a look at this story about the Pentagon considering dropping their mental health questions when considering people for a security Clearance.
WASHINGTON - U.S. troops would no longer be asked to reveal previous mental health treatment when applying for security clearances under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon.
The idea stems from the finding that service members avoid needed counseling because they believe that getting it — and acknowledging it — could cost them their clearance as well as do other harm to their careers, The Associated Press has learned.
"This is just one of several items under review by the Department of Defense and the services in an effort to remove the stigma associated with mental health issues," said Air Force Maj. Patrick Ryder.
Stigma associated with mental health issues?
What's up wit' 'dat?
I say that if any given employer, including the government, is handing out jobs and the associated paychecks that they have the right to ask any damn questions that they want.
If they don't like my answers to the questions: "Mr. Rogers, have you ever had sexual fantasies involving a midget, two chickens, and a Weed Eater," "have you ever driven a tractor wearing nothing but crotchless overalls," or "did you once purchase edible underwear that was flavored like biscuits and gravy" that they be allowed to refuse my employment at the local bait shop or boat dealership.
No lawsuits with ACLU backing and sensational appearances on the TV talk shows, I'd just have to look elsewhere for employment else keep my mouth shut in the future.
I've actually had a Secret Security Clearance for a number of years back in the 1970's and early 1980's when I worked at the US Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory at Ft. Rucker, Alabama and again when I was in the Navy Reserve at Georgia Tech.
Having a Clearance isn't any big deal really because they don't actually TELL you any secrets, they just use the clearance to find out if you are sane enough to be trusted around sharp objects and while walking up and down stairs and stuff like that.
My dad had a Top Secret clearance for most of his career as a Test Pilot and engineer for the Army and it just meant that he couldn't come home and bitch at the dinner table about the latest "magneto-hydro-dynamic-pulse-doppler-laser-nippleometer" (actually a device of my own design which can in theory determine the ambient air temperature by remotely bouncing a laser beam off of a woman's breast--I'm still doing field trials while working on the patent...) or whatever else he was working on mounting and flying around in a Chinook or Cobra helicopter.
I'm sure that Dad took some pretty interesting stories with him to his grave, but that's OK.
I had a couple of ex-wives that shouldn't have been allowed to have a security clearance because those bitches were Websters definition of CRAZY and neither one of them ever admitted it to me or actually sought any mental health counseling--they just told me everything was my fault and left it at that.
My college buddy up in South Carolina is in the process of getting rid of his own Prozac inhaling
Regarding the proposed Pentagon policy, I say let them keep asking the same questions, and let them have a quota of crazy people that they let in the Army because we need crazy people and mean people in the military to be in charge of breaking things and killing people.
After all, isn't that what war is all about?
Breaking things and killing people?
Otherwise they'd just call it a Tea Party or a game of Tag or something instead of WAR.
"In international news, a keg party broke out in the Gaza Strip today between Palestinian factions...the last man standing will be considered the winner and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity members are considered the favorite at this time..."
While we're on the subject of military admissions standards, what ever happened to letting people join the Army or Marine Corps in lieu of going to the county jail for assault?
It's the same thing the way I see it, since guys that like punching their bartender or their wife fit quite nicely in the "breaking things and killing people" category.
Maybe we could just eliminate the death penalty for murder and start having special platoons of guys, lead by General Charles Manson, that we would send out to Iran or Lybia to take care of business without any inbedded TV reporters around to cry in their milk and cry foul every time a limb is severed or a head is blown off.
They'd save a good deal of effort and money by having a lifetime deployment bouncing around the world dealing with thug dictators and communist agitators.
Seems like a plan to me...what do YOU think?
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
This Just In...
Whhhhaaattttt? and Possibly Whhhhhyyyyyyyyyy?
Here I was, doing my normal Redneck Goober thing, trying to mind my own business this evening, wandering around on the Internet, doing a little comment editing and some other technical cleanup here behind the scenes on the blog, when I found this gem of a comment lurking in the unpublished comments folder:
"I am just wondering since when US became anyone's... I am just wondering since when US became anyone's land other than the native indians? Excuse me if i am being rude here but that is a fact and let us face it. The citizenship of this country is only deserved by those who contribute to the country regardless of what ever ethnic background they belong to and Somalis my friend are taxi payers and a law abiding taxi payer deserves his/her rights be given wether you like it or not. Also if someone chooses to to flush his/her earnings down the toilet that is their business and by the way cushites dont have nabby hair get back to antrho 101 you probably got f on it...."
I promise to rummage around and see if I can find what commentary I made which incited this blast, and if it's worthy of a response I'll be back with my reply.
Here I was, doing my normal Redneck Goober thing, trying to mind my own business this evening, wandering around on the Internet, doing a little comment editing and some other technical cleanup here behind the scenes on the blog, when I found this gem of a comment lurking in the unpublished comments folder:
"I am just wondering since when US became anyone's
I promise to rummage around and see if I can find what commentary I made which incited this blast, and if it's worthy of a response I'll be back with my reply.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Racial Hysteria
Get Over Yourselves
Good God people it‘s 2007, not 1867 last time I checked.
I’m sitting here watching Hannity & Colmes on FOX news and they’ve just spent the past five minutes talking about another stupid assed so-called celebrity getting caught on camera outside a Los Angeles comedy club, using the dreaded “N” word.
That’s right, some white boy said the word “Nigger”, and everybody has thrown off their clothes and is in the process of writhing around on the ground, peeing and drooling on themselves.
I’m entirely sick of this shit.
People are even afraid of the word Niggardly (it's a real word...look it up for yourself, and it's not a racial term.)
There, I just wrote the word “nigger” and "Niggardly" in consecutive paragraphs…so SUE me.
Go ahead, stop reading my blog if you must.
See if I care, dammit.
The act of writing a word or thinking a word does not, in my opinion reduce the humanity or social value of any one individual or race of people.
We as a national culture have all been forced to become so hyper sensitive to a word thatblacks negros African Americans people of color routinely are allowed to throw at each other on the street, on music videos, and in jail, that we apparently can’t or won't continue to function normally if confronted with a single utterance in public.
I’ve written at length in the past here on this blog about the use of the word “Redneck” and my desire to prevent it getting posted on the “black list” of words that cause the demise of individuals’ professional careers and public popularity based on polite usage.
What ever happened to “Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never harm me…”?
This Redneck happens to enjoy the term, and most intelligent, successful people of color should be no more offended by the “N” word than I am of the “R” word.
We are, after all, adults here?
Aren’t we?
.
Good God people it‘s 2007, not 1867 last time I checked.
I’m sitting here watching Hannity & Colmes on FOX news and they’ve just spent the past five minutes talking about another stupid assed so-called celebrity getting caught on camera outside a Los Angeles comedy club, using the dreaded “N” word.
That’s right, some white boy said the word “Nigger”, and everybody has thrown off their clothes and is in the process of writhing around on the ground, peeing and drooling on themselves.
I’m entirely sick of this shit.
People are even afraid of the word Niggardly (it's a real word...look it up for yourself, and it's not a racial term.)
There, I just wrote the word “nigger” and "Niggardly" in consecutive paragraphs…so SUE me.
Go ahead, stop reading my blog if you must.
See if I care, dammit.
The act of writing a word or thinking a word does not, in my opinion reduce the humanity or social value of any one individual or race of people.
We as a national culture have all been forced to become so hyper sensitive to a word that
I’ve written at length in the past here on this blog about the use of the word “Redneck” and my desire to prevent it getting posted on the “black list” of words that cause the demise of individuals’ professional careers and public popularity based on polite usage.
What ever happened to “Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never harm me…”?
This Redneck happens to enjoy the term, and most intelligent, successful people of color should be no more offended by the “N” word than I am of the “R” word.
We are, after all, adults here?
Aren’t we?
.
