I usually hate to cut and paste, but I just couldn't help myself....
After being celebrated for 24 years as Christmas on the Prado, the annual holiday festival in Balboa Park, Calif., is being renamed Balboa Park December Nights to better reflect the "rich cultural diversity" of the area, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune. Critics say the new name is meant to remove any connotation of religion and Christmas from the celebration. The committee that sponsors the traditional tree-lighting has pulled out of the event in protest. "I don't know who made the decision," said Sally Crahan, a volunteer who has been going to the park since the 1960s. "But the Grinch has finally hit the park." A park spokeswoman said the name change is meant to reflect "the rich cultural diversity" of San Diego and the fact that the event is now throughout the park.
A Sense of History
Officials at Vanderbilt University have decided, after three years of debate, to change the name of a student dormitory there because the word "Confederacy" in its current name might offend some students, reports the Vanderbilt Hustler. Michael Schoenfeld, vice chancellor of public affairs, said Confederate Memorial Hall will henceforth be known simply as Memorial Hall. Associate Vice Chancellor of Student Life Steve Caldwell said, "The word Confederate makes many people uncomfortable. This is the right thing and it needs to be done." The United Daughters of the Confederacy donated money to build Confederate Hall in 1935 in an attempt to improve economic and educational problems in the South. Female descendants of Confederate veterans were offered a rent-free stay at the residence hall, provided they studied education and brought their talents back to better the South.
From Our Animal-Loving Friends:
-- The president of United Poultry Concerns, a poultry advocacy group, is complaining that AFLAC insurance's new ad campaign presents ducks in "dangerous, unnatural, and degrading situations" and should be cancelled. Karen Davis is concerned about an ad implying that a duck fell from an enormous height and landed hard and another that shows a live duck hanging upside down in a bat cave. She is demanding that AFLAC stop putting animal abuse images in people's minds.
-- The folks at PETA have put a Pennsylvania church on notice that its annual pig roast is unchristian and will be the subject of protest unless it agrees to serve vegetarian food instead, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. Hibernia United Methodist Church has for years roasted a couple pigs as part of its annual fair, which also includes craft tables, balloons, games for children, and an antique car display. "By hosting a pig roast, your church is lending its imprimatur to factory-farming practices that are clearly and completely at odds with Christian values," a PETA spokesman said.
-- Another PETA chapter is irked at Lindenwood University in Missouri for accepting pigs in lieu of tuition from some cash-strapped students, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. For several years, the school in St. Charles, Mo., has accepted pigs then served the meat in the school cafeteria. Lindenwood President Dennis Spellmann started the practice to help family farmers send their children to college. But Bruce G. Friedrich, director of vegan outreach for PETA, suggested in a letter to the school that Jesus had been an ethical vegetarian and that the university's Christian roots should cause it to reconsider the program. Spellmann said he has no intention of doing so.
Gunning for the NRA
A 12-year-old boy who tried to wear a T-shirt he got at summer camp featuring the silhouettes of three target shooters was told by administrators to turn the shirt inside out because the images of people shooting guns violated school policy, reports The Daily Progress. Alan Newsom came home from school discouraged, confused and "a little angry," his father said, after being told the shirt, which bears the words "NRA Sports Shooting Camp," was inappropriate. The boy shoots a .22 caliber rifle at paper targets at the Rivanna Rifle and Pistol Club, his father said. The National Rifle Association is suing the school in U.S. District Court, claiming its administrator's decision violated Alan's rights to free speech and due process. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said in a statement that the case is clearly one of "political correctness running unchecked."
Inclusion Rules
For the first time in his two terms, Connecticut's Republican Gov. John G. Rowland issued an official statement recognizing Gay Pride Day in that state. But The Associated Press reports that some people think it does not go far enough. A group named PRIDE, or People Respecting Individual Diversity Everyday, is upset because the final document does not specifically mention bisexual, transgender and transsexual individuals. "It's not inclusive of the entire community," said Frank DeMayo of New Haven. "It's kind of a backhanded slap across the face as far as I'm concerned." The governor's spokesman, Chris Cooper, said Rowland did not intend to alienate or exclude anyone by issuing the proclamation. Cooper said the office received two requests for a gay pride statement and, as a compromise, decided to mention only gays and lesbians.
The Many Faces of Racism:
-- The State Journal-Register reports that a Denny's restaurant in Illinois is being accused of racism for closing down between 3 and 5 a.m. on Sundays. The restaurant, which is supposed to be open 24 hours, says it closes because patrons, many of whom have been at nearby clubs that close at 3 a.m., were descending on the restaurant and causing problems, including not paying for about $1,000 worth of food a night. But Carl Madison, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, said he received at least six complaints from black patrons who viewed the practice as discriminatory.
-- A new city law in Troy, N.Y., prohibiting spitting on sidewalks is racist because most of the offenders cited so far are minorities, reports the Albany Times Union. Council members said they intended the law as a tool to break up groups of young people who loiter, use abusive language and spit. But a community civil rights leader said the violation, which carries a $50 fine, is being used by police to target minorities. Four of the people cited so far have been African-Americans.
-- A Washington state school district is paying $7.5 million to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of black students there who say the school fostered a hostile climate by, among other things, allowing racially offensive material into the curriculum, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. According to the lawsuit, one complaint is that the Puyallup School District "tolerated and encouraged a racially hostile environment" by assigning and discussing books like Huckleberry Finn and The Grapes of Wrath that used racial slurs.
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more examples of the minority winning out over the majority, because people don't stand up for themselves.
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"The cultural marxism that I continually talk about."
Amen. We are so worried about other cultures, What about the American culture. I guess we will all be just generic people someday.
I guess we can start here. From now on we will change the following terms and not refer to them in there past usages :
-Manhole will become, people hole
-Mankind will become, peoplekind
-Petticoat will become, a not so large coat
-Black willow tree will become, the tree who has more pigment
-adolescence will become, vertically challenged pre-adults
-kids will become, vertically challenged prepubescence
-Large/extra large will become, not so small and even not so much smaller
-winners will become, the people who happened to score more
-losers will become, the people who didnt score more.......
-America will be refered to as, the land that has no culture of its own.
I could go on. This is all so pathetic.
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Hi Silens .... Looking at one of the previous posts: Hmmmmm .... Church pig roast .... JESUS ..... PETA ..... Hmmmm .... "Ethical vegetarian" .... hmmm ... DUH-WAHH??<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle>
Luke 24.42 & 43 (CEV): "They gave him a piece of baked fish. He took it and ate it as they watched."
Matthew 21.19 (CEV): "And along the way he saw a fig tree. But when he came to it, he found only leaves and no figs. So he told the tree, 'You will never again grow any fruit!' Right then the fig tree dried up."
CEV= Contemporary English Version (easier for me to read.)
Sounds like when the lamb had to nourish that human body he was using at the time, Animal based foods were perhaps more reliable?
PETA will never get it right. Probably bad brain chemistry from that unbalanced diet they have...LOL!
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Great post Silens. This is the kind of crap that makes me fighting mad. We are so worried we might offend someone that we have to tip toe around everything! And as for those racial issues......what's new? Just more racial BS from the NAACP and the like. They are just lazy, good for nothing, greedy, money grubbing, idiots!<img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle> I know what will come next, I'll be called a racist Southerner because I don't have "compassion" for the black people. Nope I sure don't, nor do I have compassion for the bleeding heart white liberals that started all this PC crap.
Well that sums up my feelings.lol
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