Did You Catch the Goode Family?
WWAGD? or What Would Al Gore Do? This new cartoon aired last night on ABC. It’s a political satire show that finally pokes fun at all the politically correct, environmentally friendly, ignorant, cranio-rectal challenged liberals… I love it!
Hate Crimes Bill Passes House; No GOP Support Second Time Today!
Hate crimes is another convoluted phrase put on legislation that actually tramples on the first amendment. Hate crime legislation may have started off with great intentions but it has turned into the PC police and the thought police coming to your door if you say something that can be considered the least bit offensive. Groups are segregated and tagged, rather than treating people as individuals, they treat them as groups and minorities. Certain groups are allowed to be protected from hate crimes, but what about veterans who were recently called susceptible to extremism or John Kerry, who called the military uneducated. Do Mormons or Christians get included in the hate crime bill? I didn’t see any outrage over Mormon temples being vandalized last November or Evangelical churches interrupted and pages of bibles being torn out. How about speech such as Janeane Garofalo’s calling conservatives rednecks and bigots? I’m sure that white men will not be included in this bill – what if someone is murdered because he is white or because he is conservative? I’m sure those aren’t protected groups.
Eventually we will get to a point where we are much like Europe and all the conservative or independent thinkers who want to speak out against Sharia Law or radical Islam are arrested for hate speech and hate crimes, but Muslims can have violent protests and scream that the West will be destroyed…
The term of “crime” has become more and more convoluted over time because it can be anything from physical harm to mental anguish, and everything in between, which is why we have so many frivolous lawsuits these days. Any and all crime is motivated by hate, why wouldn’t all crimes be prosecuted the same? Treat all crimes as what they are and stop trying to place more labels on everything. The last time I checked, there hadn’t been tons of hate crimes reported over the last number of years, besides the one or two cases that got a huge amount of media attention and then became the ultimate example and the only thing that anyone remembers…
The House of Representatives just passed HR 1913 — The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 — on a vote of 234-190. The bill, which Obama has urged Congress to pass, would extend federal hate crimes laws to cover sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability, as well as race, color, religion, national origin, and sexual orientation.
Not a single Republican voted in favor. 15 Democrats voted against.
Granted this is a bill that focuses on crimes, but it really starts to make you nervous the closer we get to political correctness compliance and control. No longer will you be allowed to have individual, independent thought or opinions. It reminds me of the movie, Demolition Man where Sylvester Stallone is brought back into a futuristic world where everything is politically correct, elite, and clean, but nobody has any means to defend themselves when a “bad guy” crops up. Sylvester Stallone’s character gets fined every time he swears or says anything offensive… This is how idiotic it is getting.
If they are going to pass this piece of legislation I hope they realize the slippery slope it will cause. I can argue that I am sexually oriented towards animals, or that nobody should judge me based on being a polygamist. Transvestites, hermaphrodites, cross-dressers, those whom are asexual, alcoholics, drug addicts, mental patients, those who celebrate Festivus must be recognized or believe in he Flying Spaghetti Monster as their deity (they do exist), and pedophiles will all be protected. Of course many of these groups shouldn’t be discriminated against, but ultimately the PC culture is getting ridiculous and we just need to call a crime a crime, nothing more and nothing less.
BTW, I am vertically challenged – are little people included in this hate crime legislation? Randy Newman wrote a song about hating short people – I’m offended somebody call the WAAAAMBULANCE!
Here is further explanation:
• The main danger is that under U.S. Criminal Statutes, “bodily injury” in the hate crimes bill can be defined by judges or authorities in many legal jurisdictions to include psychological and mental/emotional distress. Theoretically, a gay person or organization seeking to chill freedom of expression about their lifestyle could deliberately attend a church service or listen to a religious broadcast on, say, Romans 1, then go to a psychiatrist and claim they were depressed based on what they heard. That could give them grounds for a federal lawsuit. Even if they lost, the headlines and legal hassle spent by a church or ministry would serve to silence others from giving the whole counsel of God. The proposed hate crimes bill is about more than physical violence; it can be used as a hate speech law, as similar laws in Canada and Europe have been used.
• The above reality is more than theory. While the great majority of gay people are not part of a vast conspiracy to silence Christians, a wealthy and radicalized minority of pro-gay organizations are, and are on record as endorsing this agenda. Further, it’s already a reality in Europe and Canada. Major broadcast ministries in the U.S. must self-censor increasingly “off-limits” assertions about traditional families, criticism of sexual sin, and even terms such as “born again” (in the U.K.) that imply salvation is found only in Christ.
• Members of the House trying to protect religious free speech tried to attach an amendment in committee that would protect religious speech that was not directly advocating violence against anyone. This common sense amendment was rejected by the majority.
• NRB is definitely not a hysterical “right wing” group. They never want to come off as “crying wolf.” If they are this concerned, that’s a huge red flag.
PC Police: “Don’t Call it Swine Flu”
If you thought things couldn’t get anymore idiotic, well hold onto your hats!
Janet Napolitano and some foreign governments are upset at the official name of the flu epidemic that is spreading around the globe.
Apparently it isn’t kosher to say swine 
especially when this strain of the flu has more human and avian components and it is not specifically caused by pork or pork food products.
I say – who cares? Call it the Flying Meatball Virus for heaven’s sake – does it really matter?
What’s in a name? U.S. pork producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue for changing the name from swine flu.
At a news briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the “H1N1 virus.”
“This is not a food-borne illness, virus. It is not correct to refer to it as swine flu because really that’s not what this is about,” Vilsack said.
Israel has already rejected the name swine flu, and opted to call it “Mexico flu.” Jewish dietary laws forbid eating pork.
The Paris-based World Organization for Animal Health also objected to the name, saying the virus contains avian and human components and no pig so far has been found ill with the disease.
And there is growing sentiment in the farm sector to call it the North American virus — although disease expert Anthony Fauci told a Senate hearing the “swine flu” designation reflected scientific naming protocol.
Give me a break!
