Archive for the ‘Political Correctness’ Category

Boy suspended for making a strawberry tart pistol

March 5th, 2013 | No Comments

I kid you not: WHDH-TV – When his teacher saw his strawberry tart… “She was pretty mad, and I think I was in big trouble,” said Josh Welch. Then josh’s dad was called. “And she said that they had to suspend josh for two days because he used his breakfast pastry and fashioned it as [...]

Vanderbilt’s All-Comer’s Policy?

March 30th, 2012 | No Comments

Much is being made of Vanderbilt Catholic’s decision to not sign Vanderbilt University’s new Non-Discrimination policy.  Basically, it states: Registered student organizations must be open to all students as members and must permit all members in good standing to seek leadership posts. They then go to great lengths to assure everyone that gender discrimination is OK. Everything [...]

Glee in 3D

August 15th, 2011 | No Comments

Took the boy to see Glee in 3D yesterday.  The filming was amazing.  The clarity was unreal.  When people obstructed the screen in the movie, it really looked like they were there in the theater so much that it actually annoyed me a few time. However, this movie review is here instead of Moonagewebdream for [...]

American Atheists find the 911 Memorial cross repugnant

July 28th, 2011 | 1 Comment

That’s their words, not mine: Plaintiffs Dennis Horvitz and Kenneth Bronstein are members of American Atheists and are Atheists reared in the Jewish tradition. They find the cross, a symbol of Christianity, offensive and repugnant to their beliefs, culture, and traditions, and allege that the symbol marginalizes them as American citizens. They even think the US Constitution [...]

Prejudice in the name of human rights

June 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Every week opensecrets.org highlights some group.  This week, in honor of President Obama declaring this month “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month”, opensecrets targeted the Human Rights Campaign: Among them. the Human Rights Campaign, which was founded in 1980 and boasts more than 1 million grassroots supporters, has some of the deepest pockets. During [...]

Money for Nothing gets banned in Canada

January 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Canada, that land of escapism from the burdens placed on people in the US, just banned Dire Strait‘s Money For Nothing.  According to the complaint, someone complained about the word “faggot”.  If you’re not willing to click the download and contribute to Amazon, myself, and Dire Straits to listen to the song like any responsible [...]

West Virginia and the party that hates coal

July 6th, 2010 | 1 Comment

1943. There were no Civil Rights Acts.  For that matter, there weren’t even 50 states.  The world was at war.  Israel didn’t exist.  Everything ran on coal. That was also the last time West Virginia elected a Republican Senator in a regular election. Candidate Year Party W. Chapman Revercomb 1943 Republican Harley Kilgore 1946 Democrat [...]

Los Angeles and Arizona

June 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Los Angeles has been busy the last couple of days. First the city council decided to ban all things Arizonan because Arizona passed a law stating if you’re here illegally, you’re breaking the law in Arizona and will be arrested.  Crazy huh? Arizona retaliated by stating that LA imports a lot of electricity from Arizona [...]

The Constitution, the Civil Rights Act, Obama, and Rand Paul

June 2nd, 2010 | 2 Comments

Immediately after the Kentucky US Senate primary, Rand Paul made what a lot of people consider a gaffe that got all kinds of media exposure: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The entire country went bonkers over the fact that Rand Paul would dare do the unthinkable and dick [...]

Los Angeles threatens to boycott Arizona electricity

May 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment

This is pure nutroot, unabashed liberal, idiocy run amok here.  The Los Angeles City Council debated whether to boycott Arizona.  Councilman Ed Reyes summed it up best for the enlightened council: “An immigrant city, an international city, (Los Angeles) needs to have its voice heard,” Councilman Ed Reyes said. “It is crucial this great city [...]