More PC silliness

Politically correct:  adjective

: agreeing with the idea that people should be careful to not use language or behave in a way that could offend a particular group of people.

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From Kerby Anderson of PROBE Ministries in 2000  "U.S. News and World Report columnist John Leo occasionally collects examples of politically correct silliness. Today I thought I would share a few of his examples of our cultural craziness."

Censored Cartoons – What Stereotypes are Politically Correct?   "....[This short film] was one of a series of silly looks at the future (or actually a satirical look at the present), looking at farms, homes and televisions as well. Retro future is always fun. Some people take it too seriously though.

 Politically Correct silliness, the 50 words you can't use in school
“ 'Condom” passed muster. Because, after all, the schools pass them
out like candy. Also A-OK: “homosexual.” I believe there’s mandatory
class participation involved with that one. Sex-ed starts in Kindergarten;
but discussions of hunting might be too controversial?
"Religion is off-limits. So you can’t mention religious holidays, such as
Christmas, Yom Kippur, and Ramadan. But made-up holidays like Kwanzaa seem to be admissible."

The silliness of Political Correctness  "Yes, that’s right, the term “black hole” is racist, just as angel food cake, black sheep, and anything else that has the words white or black used in it.

Brittany Kirschman teaches a classroom of students what it means to be "politically correct." 

 

 The Odyssey of Tom and Jerry cartoons I do very much regret the shameful way African-Americans were treated in the old movies and wish they had been shown as they should have been. But I hope the old cartoons will not be lost to us out of sheer, ever-changing cultural standards. PC is becoming too much like the Chinese Communist Cultural Revolution and one only needs to remove the word "Mao", replacing it with the word "progressive". .

ESPN Columnist Defends Redskins Name

Oh, the guilt we must bear, being Caucasian, um, American.
Say, can we take a poll of those who want the Redskins to change their name to find what percentage of them are Democrats? We should hang on to the Redskins' name just for that reason.

NRO  "At least one sports columnist isn’t falling in line with some of his colleagues in not using the Washington Redskins team name. In a scathing piece yesterday, ESPN’s Rick Reilly fired back at the critics — mostly white sports writers — who claim that the name is racist and offensive to American Indians and should be changed.

"Reilly offers several testimonies from American Indians throughout the country, including his own father-in-law, a Blackfeet Indian in Montana. “‘The whole issue is so silly to me,’ says Bob Burns, my wife’s father and a bundle holder in the Blackfeet tribe,” he writes. Reilly also recounts conversations with a number of administrators, teachers, and parents at American Indian–majority high schools that proudly use the “Redskins” name, such as Red Mesa High School in Arizona, where “the student body is only 99.3 percent Native American.”

But, so far this year:

 

 

Reading list; What Democrat voters have given this nation

A Truly Great Phony   ...."What our glib talker was saying might have seemed impressive to someone who had never read "Capital," as most people have not. But it was complete nonsense to me.
"Incidentally, he did not get the grant he applied for.
"This episode came back to me recently, as I read an incisive column by Charles Krauthammer, citing some of the many gaffes in public statements by the President of the United States."....
....
"One wonders how he will laugh when all his golden promises about ObamaCare turn out to be false and a medical disaster. Or when his foreign policy fiascoes in the Middle East are climaxed by a nuclear Iran."

Labor Dept: Same-Sex Spouses Must Receive Benefits Regardless of State Laws  "...Obama Labor Department announced that married same-sex couples must receive the same pensions, 401(k)s, health plans, and employee benefits as heterosexual married couples, regardless of whether they live in one of the 37 states where same-sex marriage is illegal."

Obama Wasn't Ready in 2008, Isn't Ready Now  "In 2008, the RNC warned what would happen if Americans voted to elevate one of the least experienced presidential candidates in history to the Oval Office." Reince Priebus

 

Another Obama 'smart diplomacy' belly-flop  "The vast and growing gap between what Obama promised and what he has delivered would be hilarious, were it not for the fact that America's prosperity and power are diminishing with every day he remains in office."

 

Jonah Goldberg; Obama: I Meant to Do That   "The president’s bait-and-switch on Syria will turn out badly for the U.S. "

...."The question, however, is: What policy?"... 

Stephen F. Hayes; Administration's Benghazi Review Board Discredits Itself in Congressional Hearing  *The ARB did not investigate the Obama administration’s public response to the attack or the role that senior State Department officials played in shaping that narrative. That response included the highly misleading claim that the attacks had come as a reaction to an anti-Islam video and many other claims that were later shown to be false."

Cleveland Clinic To Layoff Workers Due To O-Care  "She attributed most of the budget reductions to looming changes accompanying the start of the Affordable Health Care Act."

So we say thank you to all of the 50,000,000 Obama voters who voted for this man and his party because you thought he was "really cool" and so you could feel like a nice person. TD

Spitting on Their Graves: Democrats Leave Benghazi Hearing Before Testimony From Families of the Dead Americans

Atlas Shrugs

"During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused to listen to the testimony of Patricia Smith and Charles Woods. Ms. Smith is the mother of Sean Smith, an information management officer killed in the 9/11 Benghazi attack. Charles Woods is the father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was also killed."

 

Darryl Issa has tweeted out one of the most appalling photographs I’ve ever seen emerge from the United States House of Representatives.  

Darrell Issa        ✔ @DarrellIssa

PHOTO: @OversightDems excuse themselves from testimony of #Benghazi heroes' family members #PJNet pic.twitter.com/NP9u2I2noC

2:23 PM - 19 Sep 2013

 

...."In sum, the incompetence of a Democrat administration left a U.S. outpost vulnerable to a terrorist attack; that same Democrat administration could not be bothered to rouse itself to protect Americans fighting for their lives in a tiny outpost of America on foreign soil; and the Democrat administration then tried to cover-up its gross dereliction of duty by lying consistently in the days and weeks following the attack. Other than that, of course, the Democrats have nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to events in Benghazi."

 

Weasel Zippers names the Democrats who walked out on the parents of the slain

Carolyn Maloney                                            Danny Davis

Michelle Lujan Grisham                                  Eleanor Holmes Norton
Peter Welch                                                    Matt Cartwright
Stephen Lynch                                                Mark Pocan

 Steven Horsford                                             John Tierney
Tammy Duckworth                                          Jim Cooper
Tony Cardenas                                               Gerald E. Connolly
William Lacy Clay 

Emails show IRS’ Lois Lerner specifically targeted tea party

Washington Times  "Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed that they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy, according to several of Ms. Lerner’s emails released by a House committee Thursday. 

Hat tip to ReaganCoalition.com 

In one 2011 email, Ms. Lerner specifically calls the tea party applications for tax-exempt status problematic, which seems to counter Democrats’ arguments that tea party groups weren’t targeted.

“Tea Party Matter very dangerous,” Ms. Lerner wrote in the 2011 email, saying that those applications could end up being the “vehicle to go to court” to get more clarity on a 2010 Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance rules.

US pilot to Iranian pilot; “you really ought to go home”

No, this is not that old joke you may have heard before. This story comes with sources.
U.S. F-22 stealth fighter pilot taunted Iranian F-4 Phantom combat planes over the Persian Gulf

This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here  "The Washington Times reports the story of an encounter between a US pilot and an Iranian jet that was closing in a US drone flying in international air space last Spring. The Aviationist recounts the background;

The Aviationist reports that in March a U.S. MQ-1 drone came close to being intercepted by an Iranian F-4 Phantom combat plane, but the Iranian aircraft stopped short after a warning by an American pilot.
“He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said ‘you really ought to go home,’” [Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force chief of staff] said.

Typos corrected by TD

Crazier Than Liberals

cagle.com

Ann Coulter   "There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerous mentally ill.

"The man who shot up the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, Aaron Alexis, heard voices speaking to him through the walls. He thought people were following him. He believed microwave ovens were sending vibrations through his body. There are also reports that Alexis believed the Obamacare exchanges were ready to go."

UPDATED: Political correctness; a sword hanging over Western nations

Danish-Iranian artist convicted of racism   "Firoozeh Bazrafkan was charged with racism after writing in a blog entry, published in Jyllands-Posten newspaper in December 2011, that she was "very convinced that Muslim men around the world rape, abuse and kill their daughters".
"She added: "This is, according to my understanding as a Danish-Iranian, the result of a defective and inhumane culture – if you can even call it a culture at all. But you can say, I think, that it is a defective and inhumane religion whose textbook, the Koran, is more immoral, deplorable and crazy than manuals of the two other global religions combined."  Full interview
Then there are comments by PC's useful idiots:
I’ll bet your references are movies like ‘’Argo’’ or ‘’not without my daughter’’, plus BBC, CNN and etc! I’m not a religious person and I believe no good would come out of any religion whatsoever but I can’t see the differences between American, Iranian, Russian… governments, not even al-qaeda and their logics! All of them are torturing, killing and kidnapping people. Seriously, you should read some books and travel to Iran, to replace your ‘’DOCUMANTATIONS’’!

 Watch As These Students Defend Obama's Peace Prize: 'I don't know why he deserves it, I'm just a fan.'   "Students at USC still think Obama deserves the Peace Prize despite wanting to take the US into war with Syria.
"There are some pretty funny explanations as to why:"

Another Campus Bursts Into Flames Over Politically Incorrect Remark  "College campuses are supposed to be places where ideas are rationally and unemotionally considered, but as we know, some ideas cause academics to go batty. John Rosenberg writes about such an instance at the University of Virginia in the Pope Center Clarion Call. The case is similar to that of Larry Summers some years ago at Harvard. Here, the offender is a trustee and the outraged, offended faculty can’t fire him, but that won’t stop the frenzy.
 The article here: (Breast) Feeding Frenzy at the University of Virginia
"Women, work, and political correctness lead to trouble."

Teacher Forbids 10 Year Old From Writing About God  "Her teacher did not see this as an innocent Christian child writing about something she truly
believes. Instead, the teacher told the girl that she could not use God as the subject of her assignments, and later told the girl’s mother that, because it had to do with religion, the girl could not write about it. She went so far in her attempts to separate this little girl’s religion from school as to demand that the girl take the paper home saying it could not remain on school property."

The EPA; don't forget America has dangers here among us

http://terrellaftermath.com/

 

Alan Caruba; The EPA's War on America  "If an enemy was doing this to America we would go to war against it, but this is being done and the enemy is the government on which we depend to ensure the nation has the energy it needs to function and grow. Leading the war on America has been the Environmental Protection Agency, but it is joined by the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and other agencies."

Climate Study: Evidence Leans Against Human-Caused Global Warming "On Tuesday, a group of 50 international scientists released a comprehensive new report on the science of climate change that concluded that evidence now leans against global warming resulting from human-related greenhouse gas emissions. "

On John Kerry; Let's not let the Syrian issue make us forget the Israel "two-state solution"

Secretary of State Kerry Seemingly Unwelcome in Israel  "Some Israeli Parliament members have become fed up with Secretary Kerry’s insistence upon mutual culpability, that both sides are ultimately to blame for the lack of peace, and both must continue to make compromises in order to come to a peaceful accord."

It is difficult to know what would be more troubling: whether the US secretary of state believes the preposterous poppycock he presented in his “strategic assessment”; or whether he doesn’t.

Muted, myopic, and moronic   "Almost five months ago in this column (April 7), I warned: “With US foreign policy everywhere beleaguered by failure and paralysis, the only hope of any foreign success for the administration is by pressuring a pliant Israel on the Palestinian issue.”

"Yet despite the clear signs of the gathering storm on the horizon, no discernible steps were taken to prepare for it. There was no sign of preemptive evasive action, no sign of battening the hatches in order to weather the approaching tempest; no call to US Jewry to circle the wagons until the foreseen onslaught passes.

"So like a rudderless ship Israel drifted – seemingly helpless – headlong into the raging gale that is now upon it."

Dr. Martin Sherman served for seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli Defense establishment.  He was a ministerial adviser to Yitzhak Shamir's government and lectured for 20 years at Tel Aviv University in Political Science, International Relations and Strategic Studies.

He holds several university degrees: a B.Sc. (Physics and Geology), an MBA (Finance), and a PhD in political science and international relations. He was the first academic director of the internationally renowned Herzliya Conference and is the author of two books and numerous articles and policy papers on a wide range of political, diplomatic and security issues. 
Hat tip to Allyson Christie

Washington Navy Yard shooting: The victims

BBC  "Police have disclosed the identities of the 12 people killed by gunman Aaron Alexis in a mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard in the US capital on Monday."

Atlas Shrugs lists the victims:

Michael Arnold, 59

Sylvia Frasier, 53

Kathleen Gaarde, 62

John Roger Johnson, 73

Frank Kohler, 50

Kenneth Proctor, 46

Vishnu Pandit, 61

Martin Bodrog, 54

Arthur Daniels, 51

Mary Francis Knight, 51

Gerald Read, 58

Richard Michael Ridgell, 52

 Survivor's ordeals 

As it became clear a gunman was on the loose, Cmdr Jirus and a man he had just met tried to help friends and colleagues out of the building. They were standing outside when two shots rang out.

"One hit him. The other one - it didn't hit me," says Cmdr Jirus. "I looked down. The other guy's dead."

 

New York Times gets it wrong, media obsessed with linking AR-15 with Navy Yard shooter

 

The Washington Times  "The liberal media is so obsessed with linking the Navy Yard shooter with the AR-15 rifle that it is making up false tales of Aaron Alexis trying to obtain one.

"The New York Times attempts to give the impression that a so-called assault-weapon law stopped Alexis from buying a rifle in Virginia, but that is not true.

The author, Emily Miller quotes this from the New York Times:

“The gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday test fired an AR-15 assault rifle at a Virginia gun store last week but was stopped from buying one because state law there prohibits the sale of such weapons to out-of-state buyers, according to two senior law enforcement officials.”

Jon Stewart: CNN's Navy Yard Misinformation 'Deliberate'  "Comedian Jon Stewart opened his serious/comedic segment by saying, "For sheer accumulation of breathless wrongness, there is only one source that matters…." After the chuckles quiet, Stewart gets serious and accuses CNN of deliberately spreading misinformation."....
 (Language bleeped, but still regrettable.)