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Oh Puhleeeeese

The Israeli government has renamed the Swine Flu the Mexican Flu, because pork is unclean.

WTF?

For heaven's sake! You don't catch it from eating pork.

Oh FFS, give the PC crap a rest!

The OCA, a national organisation in the United States dedicated to advancing the social and political welfare of Asian Pacific Americans, called on the singer-actress to apologise.

There seems to be a fracking group for the promotion/prevention of everything these days.

Would these people be community organisers?

Looking for slights where none exist.

Form a group with a one-point focus and make a lot of noise about nothing.

Harry faces disciplinary action for racist slur

PC crap.

Insulting Assumptions

Looking around the blogs thismorning (it's overcast and cool, with a cool breeze, only about 24 degrees at the moment - a bit of a change from previous days' 36 degrees and above with high humidity!), and I found a link to this piece at Boy on a Bike.

Training Day

To begin with, I do not need to be told this is inappropriate behavior. I already know that is inappropriate behavior. I learned that was inappropriate behavior not from the State of California or a battalion of corporate lawyers, but from my parents, who raised me to be polite, well-mannered, and who spent much of their own youth trying to form me into a civilized gentleman. I know, I can see the smiles on many faces already. It’s like I’m speaking in Aramaic.

I was treated to a video that had precisely the same emotional pitch and condescension as the old ABC After-School Specials, which is appropriate when aimed at 10-year-olds but in a room full of adults was unimaginably cloying and infantile. In this helpful lecture on the evils of hateful stereotypes, a clueless, insensitive white male managed to offend everyone without the dimmest awareness of his own boorishness until confronted and re-educated (with a rising string section!) by emotionally advanced, sensitive (yet strong!) women and his solemn, understanding (but firm!), black male superior.

...My parents – remember them? – taught me at an early age that what people said or thought or wrote about me did not have the power to hurt me – only I can allow them to do that. My self-worth, self-respect and self-esteem are earned, and not given, and are therefore mine – impervious to anything in the outside world, which is why I am willing to sit at this desk, as the only one of 24 happy, smart, creative people, and look like some reactionary nut case for being enraged about the fact that we willingly submit ourselves to insults to our personal honor and integrity that our forefathers would never, ever have countenanced. And I am ashamed on behalf of them. But just me. No one else thinks anything of it at all.

Read more here at Eject! Eject! Eject!

Carollers asked to leave shopping centre in Ipswich, Qld

On the news today I heard a piece about carollers who were asked to leave the Riverlink shopping centre at Ipswich. They were asked to leave because they were overly religious.

The pastor from the local Ipswich church was interviewed on Mornings and he said that as well as the carolling they were also talking about Christmas and telling stories. The pastor said that they respected the request from the shopping centre management and realised that perhaps they had been a little too religious.

Funnily enough, they were Presbyterians!

Sorry, no link.

*Caution: Fairy Tales should now be accompanied by a Child Safety Message for your littlies

Safety warnings a new chapter for fairytales

TEACHERS are being urged to give children safety messages after reading them fairytales warning not to copy characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and Hansel and Gretel.

A new child protection curriculum being implemented by the Education Department also requires teachers to refer to children's "sexual parts" and use their correct anatomical names with children as young as three.

Child development experts have backed the measures, but critics believe they are an example of political correctness overkill that could turn children into "little nervous wrecks".

Oh, why not, I say. You've already scared the living daylights out of them with climate change crap.

I'd always thought that Hansel and Gretel was a cautionary tale about not going where you shouldn't.