Being politically correct makes people do really stupid things

The CDC is considering “promoting” circumcision for all males as a way to lower the spread of HIV.

How about not having sex with so many people, especially gay sex, or not sharing needles, as a way to cut down the spread of HIV? You know, not doing some of the actual things that spread HIV?

Nooooooo. That would not be PC to even suggest that.

Then how about this? Consider a tax on those who voluntarily do the actions that contribute to spreading of HIV. How is that different from considering a tax on fast food by reason of overweight people causing a drain on the health care system?

ramblings part 2

Found a couple of items as I was cleaning up the computer.

A couple in PA has three children. They name their children JoyceLynn Aryan Nation, Adolph Hitler, and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie. Then, they get upset because a local store refused to decorate a cake wishing happy birthday to Adolph Hitler. Aryan Nation? Adolph Hitler? This is why some people say there should be requirements before you can raise children.

UPDATE - young Adolph and his sisters have been removed from the home by Childrens Services. Go figure.

PC Alert #1 - The Salvation Army was forbidden in the UK to shake their collection tins in time with the music being played before Christmas…because it may offend other religions. Because it may offend other religions. Because it may offend other religions. Yep, it’s just as funny and stupid the third time you type it.

PC Alert #2 – first guide dogs for the blind are forbidden in taxis, and now they are forbidden from a restaurant. Why? Because they offend Muslims. When is enough going to be enough? When are we going to stand up and say, Hell no, this is not going to happen, in fact, you get out, because stupidity offends me.

The NY Times published an anti-Iraq War editorial by Obama during the campaign. A week later, they refused to publish a response editorial by McCain, claiming it was not newsworthy or some other such bunk. Later, however, they deemed it newsworthy to allow a terrorist to write an editorial full of lies by giving Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground space in their pages. I dare anyone to say the Times is not a liberal mouthpiece rag.

Washington State to Feature Festivus Display

PC run amok alert - The state government of Washington don't want to offend anyone. At least when it comes to displays that come around the end of the year, maybe during the month of December.

So, in addition to approving a nativity scene and a Christmas tree, they have decided that anyone else who submits a request deserves to be treated with equal respect. This has led to approval of displays by atheists and anti-religious zealots. It has also led to approval of a display, approved by state officials and put on public property, of a Festivus display.

If it doesn't ring a bell right away, don't be concerned. Festivus is completely made up. It's a fictional holiday that was featured on an episode of Seinfeld.

Now Washington State officials have placed it on equal standing with Christmas. Way to go, guys.

PC Alert #2 - Racist Diseases

Okay, this is not so much a PC alert, as it is an exercise in complete and utter stupidity.

A university (how can you call it a place of higher learning?) has decided that a foundation that researches treatment of cystic fibrosis is unworthy of fundraising efforts because CF mainly affects white men.

Are you following this? The disease is racist and sexist.

For 50 years, colleges in Canada have solicited donations during the first week of classes for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. This college has participated for 25 years, but has now decided, in their words, the disease is not inclusive enough. The foundation maintains the college is wrong, saying that CF affects women as often as men, and it affects mostly caucasians, which includes people from North America, Europe, South America, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.

One member of the council who voted for dropping the charity has now rethought his vote after finding out the facts and seeing the reaction of students he represents. He says the council was misled with wrong information.

I may have to stop searching for items to post, at least for today. Every article I locate is stranger than the last, and shows more idiotic behavior from complete buffoons.

PC Alert

Time for another attack on normalcy.

You have two elementary schools near each other. One school will dress up as Native Americans, then will visit the other school where those kids dress up as Pilgrims, and the two will sit down and celebrate how two groups can put aside differences and celebrate together. The schools rotate who dresses up as who.

A touching scene, right? Kids in kindergarten learning that people with differences can get along, right?

How about one parent complaining that dressing up as a Native American is a racist stereotype, and compares the reenactment of the first Thanksgiving to dressing kids up as Jews and friendly Nazis.

So of course, PC rears its ugly head and pushes common sense a little closer off the planet. It matters not that another parent, who is of Choctaw heritage, says her son loved making the costume and still wears the one he made last year, proud to show that he knows his heritage.

When are we going to hear about PC being shown for what it is, and someone standing up and saying enough?

We Found The Grinch!

We found where the Grinch has been hiding! Evidently, he moved to south Florida where he took a job as the president of Florida Gulf Coast University under the name of Wilson Bradshaw.

The university president has banned Christmas. No public displays of Christmas decorations in any common areas. Cancellation of the extremely popular greeting card design contest, replaced by an ugly sweater contest (gee, there's a heart-warming tradition for you). A Christmas tree, already renamed to a giving tree for preschoolers, is now a "giving garden."

The topper is the memo that detailed all of the bannings included a disclaimer that the actions are not an "attempt to suppress expression of the holiday spirit."

I guess if someone walked up to Grinch Bradshaw and punched him in the face, he could just stand over the prone goober as he bleeds from the nose and proclaim, "this is not an assault" and get off scott-free.

The saddest part is that no one complained. Not one person said anything. Nobody. Grinch came up with this on his own. Every comment they have received in response is a complaint against the ban. Students questioned in the article were in favor of decorations, including a wiccan who could care less. Nobody was offended, yet he took the remarkable action anyway.

Yet another attack on normalcy.

UPDATE 12.01.2008 - The Grinch has caved after the light of truth was shone upon the idiocy of PC.