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Perusing the news today I came upon this piece of steamy excrement from across the pond.

Groups Ban Words That Might Offend
By STEVE PENDLEBURY, AOL News

(Aug. 25) — There’s a gentleman’s agreement among language masterminds at some public agencies in Britain that writing this sentence would put a black mark on your record.

Dozens of taxpayer-funded organizations have ordered workers not to use certain common terms because they might offend some people, according to London newspapers. The National Gallery warned that “gentleman’s agreement” is sexist. The same goes for “right-hand man.” (Could that be seen as a slap at southpaws, too?)

Britain’s South West Regional Development Agency is among those trying to rub out “black mark,” “black sheep” and other phrases that cast black in a negative light. Skills should be “perfected,” not “mastered,” according to the Learning and Skills Council. Newcastle University even has a problem with “master bedroom,” The Sunday Times of London reported.

Author Anthony Horowitz thinks the push for politically correct language has gone too far.

“A great deal of our modern language is based on traditions which have now gone but it would be silly — and extremely inconvenient — to replace them all,” Horowitz told the Times. “We know what these phrases mean and we can find out from where they were derived. Banning them is just unnecessary.”

But language constantly changes and author Rosalie Maggio sees nothing wrong with finding alternatives to these troublesome phrases.

“Almost all of them are cliches,” Maggio told AOL News. “They’re outdated. They have no more meaning.

“For me, language that is inclusive or unbiased is actually fresher,” said Maggio, whose books include ‘The Dictionary of Bias-Free Usage’ and ‘The Nonsexist Word Finder.’ “A ‘fireman’ could be a guy on a train. ‘Firefighter’ tells you — it’s an action verb. … It tells you what they do. A mail carrier carries mail. A firefighter fights fires.”

It’s not just the Brits. Americans argued over words such as “snowperson” and “personhole” decades ago, Maggio recalled, with talk radio whipping up the debate over political correctness.

“It brings back the ’80s to me,” writer/composer/satirist Christopher Cerf agreed. “I always thought this was a movement that became comical. And though it was well-intended at first, it probably did more harm than good in some ways because it made people make fun of sensitive speech instead of actually trying to be sensitive.

“There is insensitive speech, but I’m not sure that the example of a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ is really doing a whole lot of harm to the women’s movement,” Cerf said in an AOL News interview.

Cerf, who wrote ‘The Official Politically Correct Dictionary’ with Henry Beard, recalled the story of a Long Island feminist in the 1970s who tried to change her name from Ellen Donna Cooperman to Ellen Donna Cooperperson.

“And she’s a better person for it,” Cerf laughed. “Except that she forgot that ‘person’ has the word ’son’ in it.”

People can use whatever words they choose, said Maggio, but there’s no reason to fall back on ones that carry “unintended baggage.”

“As a writer, I don’t want stupid words like ’spokesperson.’ I think it’s awkward and lumpy,” she said. “How can you have really elegant English and have it be accurate and clear? You have to work a little bit.

“The right word is a lot of work.”

To Bow or Not to Bow:

I almost pissed my pants!

This is a great story! The radio station America FM was doing one of its ‘Is Anyone Listening?’ bits this morning. The first question was, ‘Ever have a celebrity come up with the ‘Do you know who I am?’ routine?’

A woman called in and said that a few years ago, while visiting her cattle rancher uncle in Billings , MT , she had occasion to go to dinner at a restaurant that does not take reservations. The wait was about 45 minutes; many ranchers and their wives were waiting.

Ted Turner and his ex-wife Jane Fonda came in the restaurant and wanted a table. The hostess informed them that they’d have to wait 45 minutes. Jane Fonda asked the hostess, ‘Do you know who I am?’ The hostess answered, ‘Yes, but you’ll have to wait 45 minutes.’ Then Jane asked if the manager was in. When the manager came out, he asked, ‘May I help you?’ ‘Do you know who we are?’ both Ted and Jane asked; ‘Yes, but these folks have been waiting, and I can’t put you ahead of them.’

Then Ted asked to speak to the owner. The owner came out, and Jane again asked, ‘Do you know who I am?’ The owner answered, ‘Yes, I do. Do you know who I am? I am the owner of this restaurant and I am a Vietnam Veteran. Not only will you not get a table ahead of my friends and neighbors who have been waiting here, but you also will not be eating in my restaurant tonight or any other night. Good bye.’

Only in America , is this a great country, or what?

To all who received this, it is a true story and the name of the steak house is:

Sir Scott’s Oasis Steakhouse, 204 W. Main, Manhattan , MT 59741 , (406) 284-6929

If you ever get there, give this fellow a sharp salute, buy a steak, and tip the waitress. Keep passing this on. We should never forget the US national traitor.

On a lighter note: Joaquin Phoenix on Late Show w/ David Letterman Feb 11 2009
Fucking Hilarious!

Nothing new from Pastor Manning for 5 days now… So I thought I would give you a blast from his colorful past.

Happy New Year… Jay, our contributors and followers.

The good Pastor Manning has called us to arms with a new initiative.

A Man That Needs No Introductions….

Pastor Manning.

Once we mocked societies without individuality:

Today, we embrace it. The neutralization of the individual is underway.

I am reminded of this because of Roger Ebert’s review of the new David Fincher movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, in which Ebert touches on the absurdity of the premise where the main character is born old and dies young. The distraction of such a jarring premise made Ebert give the film a mediocre review. Here is what he said:

As I watched the film, I became consumed by a conviction that this was simply wrong.

Let me paraphrase the oldest story I know: In the beginning, there was nothing, and then God said, “Let there be light.” Everything comes after the beginning, and we all seem to share this awareness of the direction of time’s arrow. There is a famous line by e.e. cummings that might seem to apply to Benjamin Button: and down he forgot as up he grew. But no, it involves the process of forgetting our youth as we grow older.

Yet, there seems to more to the premise than perhaps Ebert has digested. American society, in many instances, has digressed.

Don’t believe me? Just watch these clips of popular seventies sitcom icons Archie Bunker and George Jefferson. What was acceptable for viewing thirty years ago has suddenly become “too insensitive” for today’s audiences. Today, TVLand either avoids these episodes all-together, or censors the offending jargon. Listen to the live studio audience’s reaction to the antics of the main characters — then judge against your own gut instinct as to what “we” are able to endure.

“England is a Fag Country”:

“Lionel’s Wedding”:

Have we outgrown our sensitivities toward racial slurs just as we outgrew our inability to say the word “pregnant” on TV? Or our inability to watch a TV couple sleep in the same bed? Or have we simply outlawed racial slurs by wishing they would go away? And what is the result? Have we toughened up against them, rendering them obsolete? Or have we magnified their offensiveness, yielding them unprecedented power over us?

While the collective “we” are apparently mature enough to watch rape and murder — and listen to an endless barrage of four-letter words that have slowly crept into our television lexicon — we suddenly have lost our stomachs for what Lenny Bruce referred to as “the what is”, preferring instead “the what should be.”

The election of Barack Obama has solidified this trend toward economic Socialism (forced equality of the minority) at the expense of personal freedom and individuality (neutralization of the majority). The current Socialist premise embraced in America today is that minorities are “equal” to the majority of Americans. Equal how? In other words, differences of race, religion, and sexual preference (age has yet to secure a place underneath this sheltering umbrella) are not to be identified, simply ignored (i.e. racial profiling)

Yet, a major question of this core Liberal/Socialist strategy continues to gnaw at me: How are we expected to embrace diversity while at the same time we are forbidden by the politically correct etiquette police from even acknowledging its existence in the first place?

Should I act to embrace the presence of my new African American neighbor? At once I am fulfilling the Socialist agenda of embracing diversity — while, at the same time, I am a racist for acknowledging their physical differences.

Banning of terms — such as George Jefferson’s beloved “whitey,” “honkey,” or “nigger” — does nothing to promote minority acceptance in today’s society. It only promotes an increasingly sensitive society forever doomed to walk on eggshells in each others’ presence out of fear we might say something offensive.

The meek shall truly inherit the Earth.

Our weekly check-up/in on Pastor Manning has me wondering if he “Sleeps With The Fishes”. No new video this week…

Here is one of his best… Where is Pastor Manning? WHERE IS MICHELLE OBAMA!!!!!!!!

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