'Redskins' stripped of trademarks. The tyranny of political correctness

Someone -I forget who- suggested calling them the Washington Redlines.

Politico

"In a major blow to the Washington Redskins, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday canceled six federal trademarks of the “Washington Redskins” team name because it was found to be “disparaging” to Native Americans.

“ 'We decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered,” the PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board wrote." More here

This Democrat government's tentacles grip our nation ever tighter. What's left after the Cleveland Indians? The Oilers? Many teams on the Oregon coast were named the Loggers; will that go? 
This will be a long two years, but perhaps even longer given the choices of America's low-information voters. TD

“Redskins” trademark cancelled by USPTO as “disparaging” — Are “Negro” and “Colored” next?
"So when do challenges to United Negro College Fund and NAACP trademarks start?"

... "The landmark case, which appeared before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, was filed on behalf of five (count 'em - five) Native Americans. It was the second time such a case was filed." ...

I’m not familiar enough with trademark law to say just how far of an outlier this is, but many people now consider the phrase “Negro” and “Colored” to be disparaging. Just as at one time “Redskins” was not disparaging, so too times have changed and calling someone “Negro” or “Colored” could be deemed disparaging. 

 William A. Jacobson  Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

The Collapsing Obama Doctrine; "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many."

 

Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney  ... "On a trip to the Middle East this spring, we heard a constant refrain in capitals from the Persian Gulf to Israel, "Can you please explain what your president is doing?" "Why is he walking away?" "Why is he so blithely sacrificing the hard fought gains you secured in Iraq?" "Why is he abandoning your friends?" "Why is he doing deals with your enemies?"

"In one Arab capital, a senior official pulled out a map of Syria and Iraq. Drawing an arc with his finger from Raqqa province in northern Syria to Anbar province in western Iraq, he said, "They will control this territory. Al Qaeda is building safe havens and training camps here. Don't the Americans care?"

"Our president doesn't seem to. Iraq is at risk of falling to a radical Islamic terror group and Mr. Obama is talking climate change. Terrorists take control of more territory and resources than ever before in history, and he goes golfing. He seems blithely unaware, or indifferent to the fact, that a resurgent al Qaeda presents a clear and present danger to the United States of America." ...

 

...The president explained his view in his Sept. 23, 2009, speech before the United Nations General Assembly. "Any world order," he said, "that elevates one nation above others cannot long survive." Tragically, he is quickly proving the opposite—through one dangerous policy after another—that without American pre-eminence, there can be no world order.

From David Horowitz:
"The chickens of Barack Obama's presidency are coming home to roost.

"Iraq is being taken over by jihadists — brutal lunatics who have conducted mass beheadings of their enemies in the towns they've conquered on the way to Baghdad. Even the New York Times admits they are worse than al Qaeda and they have left no doubts about their ultimate target: "See you in New York," their leader says.

"More than 3,500 U.S. military men and women died in Iraq to prevent this from happening. And now they will have died in vain, because the President — who tried to sabotage American troops even while he was in the Senate — has turned a blind eye to the terrorists' gains.

"There is only one word to describe Obama's policy in Iraq and that word is BETRAYAL.

"It is a harsh word, but it is an accurate one. The betrayal of America's security interests in the Middle East began with Obama's fellow Democrats back in 2003 when the war in Iraq was still winnable.
 

Benghazi suspect captured

Blackfive  "That is some good news.

U.S. Special Operations forces captured one of the suspected ringleaders of the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in a secret raid in Libya over the weekend, the first time one of the accused perpetrators of the 2012 assaults has been apprehended, according to U.S. officials. The officials said Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured Sunday near Benghazi by American troops, working alongside the FBI, following months of planning, and was now in U.S. custody “in a secure location outside Libya.” The officials said there were no casualties in the operation, and that all U.S. personnel involved have safely left Libya.

"I just have one question, why didn't we scarf him up a year and a half ago when he was giving interviews poolside at his hotel?"

Max Boot defends Obama's actions here: A Welcome Win for Obama and the U.S.

Hmmmm. Rush Limbaugh has an interesting question: Will Benghazi Suspect Say the Video Made Him Do It?

 

" ...anybody want to bet me that sometime this week he will admit that the Internet video is what made him so mad that he rounded up his buddies and began the assault on the consulate?  I am just going to tell you, I'm not going to predict that, but I want to go on record here on June the 17th making it very clear that, if that does happen, I, for one, will not be surprised in the least." ...

ISIS Video Calls to "Break the Crosses and Destroy the Lineage of the Grandsons of Monkeys"

MEMRI  Video at the link. Here is an excerpt of the transcript:
...
The Islamic state has been established,
so wipe out all the borders.
Wherever our wars goes,
Jewish rabbis are humiliated.
Break the crosses and destroy the lineage of the grandsons of monkeys.
...
Are we going to have to do all this over again until the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob puts a stop to it?

The Dog Ate My E-Mails, for Two Years

"IT experts and the IRS’s own manual note that backups of Lerner’s e-mails must exist."     

 

John Fund  Via American Glob ... "A growing number of computer professionals are stepping forward to say that none of this makes sense. Norman Cillo, a former program manager at Microsoft, told The Blaze: “I don’t know of any e-mail administrator [who] doesn’t have at least three ways of getting that mail back. It’s either on the disks or it’s on a TAPE backup someplace on an archive server.” Bruce Webster, an IT expert with 30 years of experience consulting with dozens of private companies, seconds this opinion: “It would take a catastrophic mechanical failure for Lerner’s drive to suffer actual physical damage, but in any case, the FBI should be able to recover something. And the FBI and the Justice Department know it.' ”...
Ah, of course; the Justice Department.
 

D-Day in Color, Photographs from the Normandy Invasion and the Pacific

Denver Post  "Original color photographs of the D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II. From British and American soldiers preparing for the invasion in England to German prisoners being marched through the streets after France’s liberation, these images are some of the only color photographs taken during the war. This set of photographs is primarily from the German Galerie Bilderwelt, part of Getty Image’s exclusive Hulton Archive collection. "



"1,096 German Prisoners of War are marched through the town of Gosport, Hampshire, guarded by British soldiers, in June of 1944. The prisoners arrived on HM Landing Ship Tank (LST-165), the first transport with prisoners from the Allied invasion of Normandy. They will be interrogated and distributed to various camps according to their classification. (Photo by Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images) "

The Pacific   "With the premiere of the ten part HBO miniseries, The Pacific, produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman, World War II has again come into the living rooms of American families. The Pacific, the follow-up to Band of Brothers, will focus on the US Marines in the Pacific Theater of the war.

"The below collection focuses on The Pacific War, a term referring to parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, the islands of the Pacific and the Far East. The start of The Pacific War is generally considered to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The Pacific War pitted the Allies against the Empire of Japan and culminated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945, Victory over Japan Day on August 15, 1945 and the official surrender of Japan aboard the battleship U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945."

 "Feb. 19, 1945: In the Pacific theater of World War II, U.S. Marines hit the beach and charge over a dune on Iwo Jima in the Volcano Islands during the start of one of the deadliest battles of the war against Japan. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)"

Hat tip to Bill Smith; Rainier, Oregon

 

Of the men pictured in this collection, those still alive are in or close to their nineties, many in wheelchairs. One wonders how many of these men went to visit the WW2 memorials during Obama's shutdown only to be told they could not enter because Obama wanted the shutdown to hurt.

 The Tunnel Dweller.

Obama admin shut down D-Day beaches, cemetery in Normandy...

 



Almost everything we are told about illegal immigration is both a lie and amoral.

It couldn’t happen without U.S. enablers.

Victor Davis Hanson  "Those who oppose illegal immigration are dubbed nativists and racists. But if so, why do Americans not object when Africans, Latinos, and Asians immigrate legally and in reasonable numbers — given that legal immigration has long since virtually ceased to be a European phenomenon?

"In fact, illegal immigration is in itself a racist enterprise. Latino activists here are eager to welcome new illegal immigrants and ensure that immigration laws are not enforced not because they believe it benefits the United States. They are not concerned with the American working poor and the effect of cheap labor on their livelihoods. They could not care less about the abstract principles of immigration (what would the La Raza industry say should 300,000 Congolese immigrants, fleeing genocide, unload from freighters off the Texas coast?).

"Identity-politics operatives are focused on illegal immigration solely because it involves tribal identity. Were illegal immigrants not predominantly Latinos, then Latino activists would not worry much about illegal immigration other than to oppose it."

Some say the massacre of Iraqi soldiers was a phony report. This graphic story should clear that up.

JAWA   "Jihadtube Becomes #1 Platform for ISIS Snuff Porn
 "As you recall yesterday, some doubt that those Twitter images of ISIS murdering unarmed prisoners en mass.

Why are there doubts about the authenticity of the pictures?
Chiefly because video footage of the incident has not yet been released.

"Well [here] is your video footage. The first half of the video is of battles the real slaughter begins about half way through and climaxes at around 32 minutes. Extremely graphic."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqKf-SrcPKw

Sentimental memories from the ISIS scrapbook

The Bush-era is back, and it’s driving Obama’s supporters insane

Hot Air   "Among the many triumphs President Barack Obama’s supporters credited themselves with in the wake of the freshman Illinois senator’s historic primary and presidential victories in 2008 was that they had demonstrated that any support for military intervention in Iraq was a political career killer. The return of catastrophic violence to Iraq, after that violence spilled over the Syrian border, has proven especially vexing for Obama’s backers. This crisis has revealed that George W. Bush’s pro-interventionist allies not only failed to exile themselves following Obama’s ascension to the White House, but they remain unrepentant. And that’s driving the left mad.

"Iraq War opponents have fumed in recent days, not because of the sacking of Iraqi cities by Islamic jihadists who are going about systematically executing Shiites and imposing Sharia Law on the survivors, but over the fact that a variety of prominent Iraq War supporters are back in the news."

9 quotes from Obama’s 2011 “Remarks on the End of the War in Iraq” that show his total lack of foresight

From Mary Katharine Ham:  "I had occasion to rewatch this speech today before I went on “The O’Reilly Factor.” Given Dec. 14, 2011 at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, its contents are gut-wrenching."

From the White House Office of the Press Secretary: Remarks by the President and First Lady on the End of the War in Iraq

 

Former U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford: I could no longer ‘defend the American policy’

Christiane Amanpour

“ 'I was no longer in a position where I felt I could defend the American policy,” he said. “We have been unable to address either the root causes of the conflict in terms of the fighting on the ground and the balance on the ground, and we have a growing extremism threat.”
...
"The common refrain among people skeptical of deeper involvement in Syria is that with the influx of terrorist groups, America and its allies no longer know who the opposition really is.

"Ford refuted that notion head on.

“ 'We've identified them quite well now. Some people say, well, we don't know them well enough; we can't depend on them. We know them quite well. We've worked with them for years.”...
 

A Defeat for Terrible Teachers in California

The Daily Signal
... "In a Los Angeles Superior Court ruling today, Judge Rolf M. Treu “found five California laws governing teacher tenure, layoffs and dismissals unconstitutional,” reports Politico.

“ 'Treu found,” reporter Stephanie Simon wrote, “that the statutes permit too many grossly incompetent teachers to remain in classrooms across the state —and found that those teachers shortchange their students by putting them months or years behind their peers in math and reading.”

"There’s no doubt that not all teachers are created equal. Some are excellent, of course. But not all of them are, and in California, it’s almost impossible to fire a tenured teacher." ...

But that is not the end of this story...
Union Vows to Appeal Teacher Tenure Ruling as California Braces for Sweeping Change

 

 “When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.”    "That notorious quote was from Albert Shanker, President of the Teachers Union (United Federation of Teachers) from 1964 to 1984 as well as President of the Teachers Union (American Federation of Teachers) from 1974 to 1997."

Read more...

toledoblade.com

You won't believe new campus rules on 'rape'

WND

 

"WND columnist Thomas Sowell recently wrote about the issue of assault.

“ 'There seem to be a dangerously large number of people who think that the law exists to give them whatever they want – even when that means denying other people the same rights that they claim for themselves,” he wrote. “Nowhere is this self-centered attitude more common than on college campuses. And nowhere are such attitudes more encouraged than by the Obama administration’s Justice Department, which is threatening colleges that don’t handle rape issues the politically correct way – that is, by presuming the accused to be guilty and not letting constitutional safeguards get in the way.”

"The New York Times reported that the White House was increasing the pressure on universities to be more aggressive in combating sex assault on campus."

Liberals again. Good spot for this quote, but Rogers should also have mentioned "every time the president meets with someone".

 Hat tip to Walt Stier; Santa Maria, CA