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Posted on June 2nd, 2009 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, Political Correctness.
Here is a funny and dare I say accurate take on political correctness that was attached to an email I received.
Political Correctness - “A doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end”
Bloody brilliant!
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Just Dumb, Political Correctness.
OK, I give up… I have to vote for Barack Obama! This guy must be magical, he didn’t need no woman to be born and he didn’t need no woman for Vice President! OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMA!
…no matter what your politics, that’s one for the history books. IT SURE IS! HAHAHAH!
Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Political Correctness, Politics.
I can’t help but wonder what the heck the excuse is going to be when Barack Obama loses this election. First he just barely beat Hillary Clinton, a woman that by most accounts is unelectable. Why? A lot of people just don’t find her likeable. So it was a major surprise when Obama just managed to eek out a victory over the shrewish former first lady. Now pundits are looking at Obama’s polling numbers and they’re wondering why he seems to be bogged down and unable to move the electorate. Here’s an article at The Politico that looks at this issue.
Obama remains ahead, depending on the national poll, by low to high single digits. The Gallup Poll Daily tracking survey, which randomly interviews at least 1,000 voters each day, has recently found that Obama leads by 3 to 4 percentage points.
In the first full week of the general election, June 9-15, Obama led by between 2 and 7 percentage points. Just short of two months later, registered voters have not significantly shifted their views, as Gallup finds public opinion still fluctuating between roughly the same margins.
“What’s remarkable this summer is the stability of this race,” Gallup’s director Frank Newport said. “In a broad sense, it is similar to previous elections.”
Uh oh, who could be to blame for this? Which racial/gender group isn’t going along with the plan? The article looks at that too:
If there is a primary explanation as to why the race has remained close this summer, it is that Obama has failed to make gains overall with white voters, who still cast about three in four ballots on Election Day.
As Gore did in 2000, Obama nearly splits white women and loses white men by a large margin, according to an aggregate of polling in June and July 2008, and 2000 polling by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press.
Depending upon the week in June or July, by Gallup’s measure, Obama has roughly fluctuated between splitting or, at worst, trailing by about five percent with white women. In that same period, Obama has only won between 34 percent and 37 percent of white men.
In general — and with men in particular — Pew’s data shows that Obama’s gains with young whites compared to Gore in 2000 are offset by a weakness with older whites.
Obama also seems to have hit a ceiling with Hispanics. Latino support fluctuates between 57 percent, by the latest weekly measure, to 68 percent the week before — roughly the margin of Hispanic support that has marked the entire summer, by Gallup’s measure.
What all this suggests is a general election that is much tighter than many analysts predicted and defined by far more stubborn levels of support.
Translation, the only group that Obama isn’t leading with… white guys, are going to bring down this house of cards that is his run for the presidency. What will the supporters have to say? Will we have to hear that America just wasn’t ready? Will we have to be lectured as to how it is that “the man” continues to engage in his nefarious deeds? Bob Herbert with the New York Times actually went so far as to imply that the McCain campaign intentionally placed Berlin’s Victory Tower in a campaign ad as a means to subliminally imply that Obama was coming for the white women. WHAT? I mean if a stupid ad that features A PLACE BARACK SPOKE AT IN BERLIN is looked on as some kind of funky sexual message by a supposedly learned man like Bob Herbert, what are the average folks on the street going to say when Barack goes down in flames?
Frankly, I am sick of all of the scapegoating. Could it be that people are actually looking at McCain’s stances on energy, Iraq and the world in general and finding them to be sensible? The threat of more oil entering the market is a substantial means by which to apply pressure to the price, even in the short term. I can’t help but notice that Barack has suddenly amended his stance on offshore drilling! Could it conversely be that people look at ideas like “inflating tires” (as a means to combat high oil prices) as NAIVE and indicative of the lack of insight that Barack has when it comes to this situation? Will he bring similarly naive suggestions to the table when facing down threats like Russia deploying nukes in Cuba, or Iran obtaining them?
I really am beginning to believe that Barack Obama could lose this thing. Will the Democrats and Obama’s supporters accept that they chose poorly during the primary and put up a feel good candidate that is also an empty suit? Or will they simply chalk it up to white people and racism? Sadly, I think that Obama’s campaign has been levying the racist charge since the beginning. From Michelle Obama’s declaration that Bill Clinton’s use of the term “fairy tale” was a racist slight against her husband and his chances of being elected because he is black, to the recent quips about not looking like former presidents that appear on our currency it has become apparent. The Obama campaign is ready and willing to make their defeat a conspiracy of race rather than a confidence vote where it concerns the candidate. Unfortunately, folks like Bob Herbert and others in the mainstream media seeing a potential for defeat seem all too ready to take hold of the notion that this is all about race. Talk about steering the election away from the issues. Funny, that’s exactly the kind of allegations they levy against the McCain camp for even daring to suggest that Barack Obama has inserted race into this process from the get-go.
Obama is not qualified to be President of the United States… but sadly that will likely be deemed as irrelevant where it concerns his defeat. While unanimous black support for Obama is declared anything but racist, white support in the range of 60% for McCain is… go figure. Face it libs, you put up a candidate in 2008 that is the equivalent of the “Pet Rock”, a fad that is quick losing his luster. I hope you’ll all be brave enough to deal with that reality when you’re nursing a hangover in early November.
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Mark.
Categories: Editorials, News, Political Correctness, Politics.
I have a saying, you can quote me if you like… but please do give credit. “In order to feed political correctness, you must starve common sense.” A case in point, Obama vs. Clinton. Watching this dance of words that these two (and their surrogates) are engaged in leaves me dumbfounded. Listen to how each and every word has to be parsed in such a way as to INSURE that nobody is being offended.  Never say what you mean, unless of course you can say it in a way that is palatable to all. What this has a nasty habit of doing is making for a lot of talk that doesn’t actually say a whole lot. Â
Hillary Clinton is being attacked because she had the nerve to say that President Johnson played a huge part in the civil rights movement. She actually intimated that without the support of the president, Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream might never have been realized (at least not as readily). Is she wrong? No. So why is the fact that she said it, construed as somehow minimalizing King’s efforts? What kind of imbecile would correlate that with a slight against Dr. King? What Hillary Clinton was trying to say is that there is a system to government and for change to occur you have to know how to work within that system.Â
It’s actually tragic that the party that so closely relates itself to “tolerance” and “understanding” is in fact intolerant and willing to bog itself down in misunderstanding. You have a couple of “right” fighters here, that are in essence both correct yet unwilling to concede that fact to one another.  How sad for the Democrats that their two frontrunners are caught in a quicksand of “correctness”.
Anybody that was not intellectually bankrupt would concede that King and Johnson worked in tandem to achieve what they did. What I find offensive is how Dr. King has been thrust out there as the only guy who ever did a thing for the cause. Lots of people suffered and sacrificed for the cause. Without Rosa Parks there might never have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. as we recognize him today. It was her act of civil disobedience to which he attached himself. In 1955 it was the Montgomery Bus Boycott that thrust King into a place of prominence within the movement. I think King himself would be uncomfortable with the way in which some people try to hold him above all others.Â
The Democrats better get ahold of their candidates. They better start worrying less about who said what, or did what, then and worry about getting across what they’ll do NOW.  If they don’t both Clinton and Obama’s hopes for the presidency will be relegated to the status of “fairytale”.   Â
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: Political Correctness.
What’s going on? What happened to the good ol’ days when candidates would simply toss one another under the bus in campaign ad after campaign ad? What happened to coloring your rival as you saw fit, even if based in half truths and innuendo? In the last couple of days we’ve seen two statements made by candidates or their campaigns that ended up in apologies and/or resignations being tendered. Earlier this week it was Mike Huckabee and his faux query about Mormons and whether or not they believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. Now comes an apology from the Clinton campaign after a staffer made comments about Barack Obama’s drug use.
Just what the hell is going on here? Is this a kinder and gentler political process we see unfolding? Hardly. What good is a Huckabee apology at this point, the horse is already out of the barn. He made his point and now feigns regret. What a hero. Similarly the co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s campaign comes out and says that Democrats should be wary of supporting Obama because of his drug use and a day later she’s (Hillary) out front personally apologizing and accepting Shaheen’s resignation.Â
I preferred it when politics was just nasty. Now it’s nasty while also insulting our intelligence. Just as Huckabee knew full well what he was doing, so too did Hillary. Are we expected to believe that a control freak like her didn’t know what her camp was plotting? There’s blood in the water and this drug issue where it concerns Obama wasn’t just plucked from thin air. They’ve been wondering when they’d need to use it forever and I suppose Hillary’s recent numbers dictated that now was the time. Shaheen tosses himself on his sword and likely secures some place at the Clinton table if she should win.
Some of us out here aren’t fooled. Some of us can still read between the lines. I suppose I should just be glad that for now the attacks aren’t being made by proxy (Swift Boat Veterans or ThinkProgress.org)! Oh but give it time, we’ve got a year to go yet.Â
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: Political Correctness.
Thank goodness reasonable people seem to have come to a compromise over the decorations/holiday celebrations at some Illinois schools.
Following a school board meeting where parent complained about what the saw as an assault on traditional American celebrations, an Oak Lawn school district has decided to keep observing Halloween and Christmas, but only on the condition that Muslim holiday Ramadan is celebrated as well.
Look at that, they managed to figure out that if you give everybody what they want, nobody has to lose out. It’s touching isn’t it? Unfortunately, now there’s this.
There won’t be little ghosts and goblins at Kohl Elementary School this Halloween.
In a newsletter sent home to parents, Principal Cindy Kaier wrote that the traditional Halloween party celebrated in classrooms each year will be replaced by a fall party on Friday.
The decision came after a discussion that culminated in an “emotional” meeting with teachers that focused on school holiday parties and how Kohl could continue to celebrate without leaving out anyone.
One thing in life is certain. Where one idiot falls, another stands ready to take their place.Â
Posted on October 4th, 2007 by Mark.
Categories: Political Correctness.
Do you see what you get Democrats and bleeding hearts that think that everybody’s feelings need to be taken into consideration? You get ham handed nonsense like the canceling of CHRISTMAS AND HALLOWEEN in schools because administrators don’t know how to react to the smallest controversy. They’re damned if they do and they’re damned if they don’t.
Almost a month before Halloween, some Oak Lawn homes are already decorated with pumpkins, ghosts and goblins. But rumors that Ridgefield School District 122 may soon ban in-school Halloween and Christmas have infuriated many parents and area residents.
Those heartless bastards… but wait there’s more.
The district has a 30 percent Arab-American population, many of whom practice Islam. The superintendent says the reason for the change in tradition comes after one parent wanted Ramadan decorations put up inside Columbus Manor Elementary. They were taken down.
Whoops, can’t have one without the other now can we? Can’t have a minority oppressed by not allowing them to have their decorations up. I grew up in New York, during Halloween my school was plastered in black cats, ghosts and pumpkins… we had plenty of minorities and nobody complained, not even the wacky Christians who thought it was akin to satan worship. During Christmas the school was decorated with wreaths, trees, presents, you name it… a tacky spectacle it was. In a corner on a bulletin board you might see a lone menorah haphazardly taped alongside a sea of red, white and green. Nevermind that most of the teachers that had us cutting out the trees and the other decorations were mostly jewish. They seemed alright with it, I mean having what amounted to every jewish holiday off was probably a decent trade, and believe me, I didn’t mind.
Woe are we! Hark, there seems to be at least one person that is not consumed by the delirium stirred by liberals (funny that their party is suffering a huge backlash over this).
Other parents say the controversy is overshadowing what really needs to be addressed at all five schools in the district.
Ronnie Carroll said, “The fact that they are cash strapped. Our classroom size is way above the average mean, 38 children in our first grade classroom. The concern should be our school, not the whole holiday issues.”
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Somebody that gets it. Somebody that ACTUALLY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THE KIDS. This, “I gots to gets mines” mentality from parents surrounding decorations is ridiculous. There are major issues affecting public schools, but no, these people are all consumed in the stupidity of decorations. This is why I loath political correctness. It mires us in a sea of self righteous garbage that only seeks to further divide America into subcultures and accentuates difference. What happened to the melting pot?
So, I give you a new category, dedicated to the idiocy that is “political correctness”… and I shall endeavor to point out every stupid controversy born of it.