Ivan the Swell Guy?

"Russian Museum Seeks a Warmer Adjective for Ivan the Terrible."

How about "Ivan the Devoted, Loving Father?"

Well...maybe not.

Meanwhile, Here In Charlotte...

...they be tryin to figure out if baby got back.

A Charlotte mother is expressing concern after a class assignment she considers offensive was given to high school students. Some say it has racial undertones.

“I was completely stunned,” the mother said. “This is not appropriate language at all for the children in the school.”

The question was from a test on genetics.

"LaShamanda has a heterozygous big bootie, the dominant trait. Her man Fontavius has a small bootie which is recessive. They get married and have a baby named LaPrincess" the biology assignment prompts students.

The assignment then continues to ask, "What is the probability that LaPrincess will inherit her mama's big bootie?"

Ardrey Kell High is what is euphemistically known as an inner city school. There's no indication of the race of the teacher who originally came up with the worksheet, or even the teacher who used it in this case.

Meanwhile, In U.K....

...schoolchildren were threatened with a black mark on their permanent records if they failed to attend a "mandatory" field trip on Islam.

Dear Parent/Carer,

As part of the National Religious Education Curriculum together with the multicultural community in which we live, it is a statutory requirement for Primary School aged children to experience and learn about different cultures.

The workshop is at Staffordshire University and will give your child the opportunity to explore other religions.

Children will be looking at religious artefacts similar to those that would be on display in a museum. they will not be partaking in any religious practices.

Refusal to allow your child to attend this trip will result in a Racial Discrimination note being attached to your child’s education record, which will remain on this file throughout their school career.

As such our expectations are that all children in years 4 and 6 attend school on Wednesday 27th November to take part in this trip. All absences on this day will be investigated for their credibility and will only be sanctioned with a GP sick note.

If you would like to discuss this further please contact our RE Coordinator, Mrs Edmonds.

After "discussing it further" with the local Member of Parliament and the town council, the school walked it back.

Warning From Beyond the Grave: Political Correctness As Bad As Communism or Fascism

So says the author of the "Flashman" books, George MacDonald Fraser:

‘My chief concern is the kind of prejudice rooted in the fear of being thought illiberal. Such attitudes are dangerous and intellectually dishonest.

'But then, political correctness is by definition dishonest and is, I believe, the most insidious doctrine to plague the Western world since those abominable soul mates communism and fascism with which it has more in common than its dupes seem to realise.

‘It cannot face truth; it rejects what is, simply because what is does not suit what the politically correct thinking ought to be.’

Coming as it does now, when the Gay Mafia has succeeded in getting the CEO of Mozilla to resign for PC reasons, it offers a cautionary tale.

On Contemplation of Plumbing Fittings

"FACEBOOK OFFERS FIFTY GENDER OPTIONS!"

I wonder if cismale gendernormative fascist is one of the options? ;-)

"There's An Ethiope In the Fuel Supply!"*

He might have got away with phrasing it like that, instead of how he did.


*W.C. Fields

The Sort of Thing That Amuses Me

This:

Yah, it's offensive and in bad taste. Deal with it, or find another blog to visit.

Found here.

Report: FBI Refused To Investigate Fort Hood Shooter...

...because of political correctness:

The FBI was too concerned about political correctness and did not launch an investigation into a man who was later charged with killing 13 people in a 2009 attack at the Fort Hood military installation in Texas, despite significant warning signs that he was an Islamic extremist bent on killing civilians, according to a lawmaker briefed on a new report about the terrorist attack.
In emails to a known terrorist, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan expressed his support for suicide bombings and killing civilians, while the terrorist, Anwar al-Awlaki, encouraged Hasan to stay in touch, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, told The Associated Press on Wednesday after he was briefed on the findings of a new review of the attack.
The review was done by former FBI Director William Webster and was more than two years in the making. FBI Director Robert Mueller asked that Webster conduct an independent review, and the bureau is expected to release an unclassified version this week.

Well, when you have a President who bows before the king of Saudi Arabia and whose Justice Department makes a point of censoring Muslim extremism from terrorism manuals and military classes on terrorism, what did you expect?

Off With His Head!

John Derbyshire over at National Review Online has gotten himself in trouble for something that he didn't publish there, but at another conservative media outlet, Taki's Magazine. Please note that the link I just made might not work, because of both heavy traffic at the site and because there are calls for the article to be taken down/vanished down the memory hole.

Derbyshire wrote an article on race connected with the Trayvon Martin shooting. In the aftermath of that event, various black writers have written of "The Talk" that they have to have with their young male children about how to behave in the racist United States (not how they phrase it, but that's the implication). Derbyshire chimed in with his own version of "The Talk" geared toward a white audience; some excerpts:

(9) A small cohort of blacks—in my experience, around five percent—is ferociously hostile to whites and will go to great lengths to inconvenience or harm us. A much larger cohort of blacks—around half—will go along passively if the five percent take leadership in some event. They will do this out of racial solidarity, the natural willingness of most human beings to be led, and a vague feeling that whites have it coming.

(10) Thus, while always attentive to the particular qualities of individuals, on the many occasions where you have nothing to guide you but knowledge of those mean differences, use statistical common sense:

(10a) Avoid concentrations of blacks not all known to you personally.

(10b) Stay out of heavily black neighborhoods.

(10c) If planning a trip to a beach or amusement park at some date, find out whether it is likely to be swamped with blacks on that date (neglect of that one got me the closest I have ever gotten to death by gunshot).

(10d) Do not attend events likely to draw a lot of blacks.

(10e) If you are at some public event at which the number of blacks suddenly swells, leave as quickly as possible.

(10f) Do not settle in a district or municipality run by black politicians.

There is a lot more, about IQ differences between the races and the need to cultivate Intelligent, Well-Socialized Blacks (IWSB's, Derbyshire calls them) so as to not seem racist. The passages I've quoted above seem to be the most offensive, and yet they are the sections of advice that make the most common sense, given the increasing amount of violence that occurs when blacks gather together. It's the flash mob phenomenon that features in headlines so often these days.

So, go read the article. If you wish to read it more than once, download it to your own computer, because it might be erased from the internets before too much longer.

Update: Matt Lewis has an article up at The Daily Caller about the kerfuffle. It's funny how Lewis et. al. are using the same language toward the issue ("I support the 1st Amendment, but...") that the President and other gun-haters use toward the 2nd Amendment.

Update 2: Under the bus he goes.

"Empathy Belly?"

Story.

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – The Army is ordering its hardened combat veterans to wear fake breasts and empathy bellies so they can better understand how pregnant soldiers feel during physical training.

This week, 14 noncommissioned officers at Camp Zama took turns wearing the “pregnancy simulators” as they stretched, twisted and exercised during a three-day class that teaches them to serve as fitness instructors for pregnant soldiers and new mothers.

Can't really blame this PC horseshit on Obama, either, because it appears that it began in 2008, before Obama was elected.

Here's a video:



*shakes head sadly*

Just Call HIm "Toby."

Over in UK, the BBC instructs its journalists to not refer to Al-Qaeda leader Abu Qatada as "an extremist."

They prefer the word radical. It's less judgmental, the BBC says.

Oh, and stop referring to him as fat, too. He's lost weight, you see.

Pic:



How about we just call him Toby?

Today's "I Sh*t You Not" Story

Training US Marines On Getting Along With Afghanis.

Mubarak also said the Marines should never spit or urinate to the west, the direction of Mecca that Muslims in Afghanistan face when they pray.

In addition, when sharing a base with Afghan army troops, Marines shouldn't sleep with their feet pointed west, because that also is considered offensive, he said.

*shakes head in disgust*


h/t Weasel Zippers.

For All You Firefly Fans...

...this story found at Reason magazine.








Also, I'd be remiss in my duties if I didn't mention that Patrick Leahy is Eric Holder's Punkass Flunky Boy.

Meanwhile, In Virginia...

in Charlottesville, to be exact - - the home of the University of Virginia and the location of Thomas Jefferson's home Monticello - - has banned the Sherlock Holmes novel A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle because - - wait for it - - it's derogatory toward Mormons.

Don't Call 'Em Critters, Beasts Or Pets...

...call them "free-living" or "animal companions."

Oh, and by the way, don't call yourself an animal companion's "owner," You should instead call yourself "human carer."

Yep, a bunch of Oxford University professors educated waaaaay beyond their intelligence level.

And, of course, if they get away with this PC crap, you can be sure that class-action lawsuits filed in the animals' behalf won't be too far down the pike.

Meanwhile, In the UK...

...I'd advise you not to sing Kung Fu Fighting in a Karaoke bar if there are Chinese people present. You'll be charged with racism and hauled off to the pokey.

And be careful if you sing Nagasaki to a roomful of Japs Japanese people:

Doubtless Left By The Spring Hare

In Seattle, a teacher instructed a student to refer to Easter Eggs as "spring spheres."

Where's Our War Against Christmas...

...whines a writer for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

He's sort of relieved not to see it this year. Or maybe regretful, it's hard to tell.

Maybe, just maybe, the secularists and PC crowd have finally learned not to stir up the animals at Christmas time?

Merry Christmas, everybody.

Old MacDonald Had a Farm, E-I-E-I-O...

...and on this farm he had no pigs...

E-I-E-I-O.

And can you guess why Old MacDonald had no pigs? Because the toy company was afraid of offending Jews and Muslims.

And yes, this happened in multicultural, PC-mad UK. As if you had to ask, right?

Even the SMELL of Frying Bacon Offends Them...

...so you'll have to remove that ventilation fan from your diner.

Wouldn't want a fatwa on you now, would you? Be a good little citizen subject and do as you're told, hey?

Of course, if even the smell of frying bacon is so offensive to Muslims, maybe we have a great new weapon in the War On Terror Overseas Contingency Operation. Just get some giant fans, and a lot of bacon, and...