Offending Language

So I might have been a bit facetious about the removal of latin words from an English council communications, however this one just goes beyond the pale.

Imagine that, they're actually afraid of offending the Welsh. To put it in Australian terms, that's like Victorians being afraid of offending Tasmanians.

@#$! sake....

The dogs President

Coming to you via Kathy Shaidle in FiveFeetofFury

This was an op-ed in the New York Times:

Here, in a few sentences, Obama did the following: He deepened his bond with every dog lover in America. He identified with every household that’s tried to figure out what kind of dog to get. He touched every parent with a kid allergic to pets. He showed compassion by preferring a dog from a shelter. And he demonstrated a dry and slightly politically incorrect wit by commenting that “a lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”

Not bad. It could be a tough four or eight years for conservatives.

When I first read it, I thought he was taking the piss. He isn't. He is dead serious.

No wonder the Republicans lost... they didn't even bother courting the "dog" vote.

Gays vs African-Americans

This is weird. I though once The One was elected that all racism would just disappear overnight, and that this was the moment "the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal"

However, the problem with messianic intentions and utopian visions is that quite often "real" (or dare I say it 'objective') reality intrudes, and human natures reveals itself to be what it has always been...messy, nasty and well, plain self-interested.

To whit, here's a story about Gay activists calling black protesters the "n-word" about the protests on California's Prop 8, a bill allowing same-sex marriage.

Not that this has anything to with The Chosen One however this is only 2 days after the US elected the first black man as president, and "everyone" (at least that's what the media shows) has been wallowing in sheer orgiastic extasy over the end of bushhitler, racism and the bogeyman.

Oh well, I guess humans will be humans....

Who

(Amazon link)

is this author is talking about...

"His campaign commercials...boasted that this was a "time for greatness". [ ] like Mussolini, promised a national "restoration" and a "new politics" that would transcend old categories of left and right. He insisted that the forceful application of his own will in solving the nation's problems than traditional democratic means."
--Jonah Goldberg, "Liberal Fascism", 2007

Any of the above sound familiar?

Right on cue...

I think this must have happened about 5.4 seconds after the Obama acceptance speech:

Headline: Russia to deploy short-range missiles near Poland

(can't see what they're worried about though, given my last post, The One's as yet unarticulated policies and his ideological mentors, they should be extending the hand of the proletarian revolution or whatever it is that commies do when they say hello to each other)

Excuse me sir, i think that's the wrong flag....

You know how it is, being young, beautiful US citizen having elected the first 'black' US president, swept up in the moment of "Change" and "Hope" and letting your hair down and screaming and waving the Hammer and Sickle flag in support....hang on...what?

That "per se" is illegal

Re: this

(with apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller )

First they came for prima facie, but I thought nothing of it because it was first, and I said nothing
Then they came for status quo, but I thought socking it to "The Man" was OK, and I said nothing
Then they came for ad lib, as it was a bit spontaneous, so I said nothing
Then they came for pro rata, and I wasn't worried because it was only part of the full thing, and I said nothing
Then they came for et cetera, and it was all blah blah blah and so on, so I said nothing
Then they came for my bona fides, and there was no latin left.