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Political correctness, sexism, and the assault on civility

My apologies to nellie but there is a mention of sexism in your post and I just found this gem about Sarah P and was wondering what can be done to shut her up. Taking out the batteries maybe?

She posed for the darned photo dressed like this, so where is her beef?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20091117/pl_ynews/ynews_pl984

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

Yes, maybe tomorrow. 🙂

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 6:48 pm

This what makes me laugh about them, they forget their roots. Their ancestors all came from somewhere else. The true Americans before it became known as America, would have been the Native Indians and look at the price they payed and where most of them find themselves now. I wonder if a Repug would like to explain this before they start shooting their mouths off again or criticizing another country again.

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 6:47 pm

You can say that again!

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 6:39 pm

Yes nellie as I said, I view it as an insult to a peace loving people with traditions and cultural differences. To hear these ridiculous attempts to bring your President down, makes my blood boil because it is what it is, racism, a disregard for other cultures and the very obvious xenophobia which surfaced when countries didn’t join Bush in his illegal invasion of Iraq. The “Freedom Fries” was insulting, the waste of French wine in the gutters was childish and made us Europeans laugh at the absurdity of it all.

History will reveal them for what they really are, it’s only a matter of time, I hope that I’m still around to read it and yes I agree, they should be exposed and made to walk the plank, for some of them, elections are just around the corner and I still have plenty of hope left.

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 6:38 pm

Thank you for asking bitohistory, I’m not quite sure if it was successful yet, maybe I will know tomorrow.

In Germany, I didn’t have to cover my head until after my First Holy Communion and I think that now it is a matter of choice in many countries, unless we are talking about devoted RC’s in Spain or even Mexico I think. The last time I attended Mass here would be about 20 years ago and I didn’t cover my head, a few of the older women did though. I believe it to be a remnant of the time we still read and spoke the Mass in Latin many years ago.

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 6:26 pm

Good evening javaz. Yes I saw the link you left on my post and answered, thank you.

Stress is not good for my illness, I try to avoid it but just can’t tolerate downright stupidity. There IS no excuse for being stupid.

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 6:19 pm

Thank you BDM. I think it’s more common sense than wisdom and the fact that I have lived and visited many other countries in my lifetime. Also I was brought up to never have any prejudice about either skin colour or the religious beliefs of others. My best friend as a little kid had beautiful long black hair worn in an envious platt reaching down her back, her skin was brown, I didn’t notice, her mother was Indian and this was quite unusual in our small town but if there was gossip, we were never privy to any of it, I doubt that there ever was.

Posting on Huff will not change these people, they have a sickness that only they themselves can cure, they just don’t want to, that’s all.

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 6:16 pm

This whole furor about bowing has me seeing red, I want to smack some ignorant moron across the head. What they don’t understand with their accusations and more than likely never will, is how this reflects on the Japanese as a people. I see it again as racism and hate for things that occurred during WW11 and have had my share of the same demeaning behaviour for being born in Germany. The RW’s insistence of pushing this to the hilt, is openly declaring the Japanese as second class citizens and after living here for 30 years, working with Japanese people, knowing many as friends, and even living with one, I resent this very much.

It is not really political, it is cultural and it is traditional to bow to older people, people you respect and yes to the Emperor too.

Why for instance did women in past administrations cover their heads and arms when they visited Muslim countries, couldn’t the RW have taken umbrage at this, of course not. The RW has one set of rules for themselves and when someone else does it, they make it sound like treason. I would like to build a huge Noah’s Ark and set them adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, I really would.

Btw in my country growing up, it was good manners and tradition for the boys and men to bow, older men tipped their hats at women in the neighbourhood and girls were expected to curtsey, we saw nothing odd in that, it was a part of our social structure, it is a part of the Japanese social structure too. As I mentioned on another thread a few days ago, bowing in Japan is equal to a handshake in other countries, to demean it publicly is shameful, I even find myself bowing to people when I’m on the phone.

The RW naysayers need and a ice cold shower, they are not only racists, hypocrites and bigots, they obviously suffer greatly with rampant xenophobia, pity there is no pill for what ails them. Idiots one and all!

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 4:30 pm

Polling Justice: 6 in 10 Americans Disagree with Adhering to U.S. Rule of Law

Here it is bitohistory. : lol : without the spaces between the colons.

» Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 7:40 pm

😆 Now we have 2 AdLibs for the price of one.

Welcome to The Planet monicaangela.

» Posted By Kalima On November 18, 2009 @ 6:58 pm

If your life was structured by the results of polls, you might be afraid to ever leave the safety of your own house. I don’t hold too much with these results and CNN is not the “boss of me” or my own personal opinions.

As I said yesterday on another thread, terrorism is cold blooded murder, murder is a criminal offense and he should be tried as other mass murderers in a civilian court of law. Terrorism is not as Bush believed or wanted the American people to believe, an act or war and never has been.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 11:32 pm

Don’t! NO!!! …much about history…

The accompanying map with your post had me in stitches, thank you. It reminded me of the time years ago when I read about students in the U.S. being asked to point to countries without the names shown on a map of the world. The results were piss poor but when one bright spark was asked which language was spoken in Japan and answered, Chinese, I was gobsmacked for a moment, then cringed.

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 1:08 am

Three Prominent Conservatives Warn of “Scaremongering” in Gitmo Closing

They certainly are K7 but the right have memory coordination problems and I doubt that history or even very recent history is stored in any remaining grey cells they might still possess. How convenient for them.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 5:19 pm

How ridiculous, so much for the RW’s respect for your courts and your laws. They want their base to start having panic attacks before one single terror suspect is even near a court of law.

You have some of the safest, escape proof prisons in the world, where some of your most notorious criminals are serving life sentences, put there by your justice system, a system that worked. These RW alarmists are in a state of d

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 4:05 pm

SHANNYN MOORE: Palin’s Oily Lies Drip from the Pages of Going Rogue…

😆 Along with “there and their” “bear and bare “which and witch” “bean and been” and so on and so forth. So what???

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 2:56 am

Simply adorable!!

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 12:46 am

Not here too kev?

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 12:44 am

LOL nicole, it was a bloody nightmare.

» Posted By Kalima On November 17, 2009 @ 12:42 am

I have to get ready to go out, and all being well, I might pop in later. Bye for now. *waves*

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

The guy who said this was not an old geezer and that was like something out of the”Twilight Zone” for me. Mentally healthy guys of his age, don’t imagine that someone is winking at them from a tv screen, at least not the guys that I know or have known.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 6:05 pm

I wish that I could join you, I’m homesick. 🙂

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 5:48 pm

😆 You can eat mine too as your dessert.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 5:38 pm

With a turkey slaughter in the middle, a pair of daisy printed waders, and a helicoper you can blow on to make the propeller spin, with SP clutching her AK bb gun aimed at helpless wolves. I did read however that she can’t even shoot a gun. “You LIE Sarah!!”

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

You are of course right nellie but I would have to exclude the rabid PUMA gang, about 20, some of who unfortunately made me feel positively ready to smack them when they posted on Huff.

Btw, did you see who joined our site’s Facebook Page as a fan, Andrea C, who our newer members just “love” so much. 🙂

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 5:27 pm

Good evening KQ, no it’s just after 10 am here and pouring with rain, great for ducks.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 5:04 pm

Well as long as they keep plugging her as “The great white hope” or does this only apply to pasty faced, old white geezers, they really have about as much chance of winning the 2012 elections as a pig with wings would.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 4:56 pm

Good afternoon/evening nicole, it just seemed rather odd considering her avid campaigning for the Sen. Obama. As I said before, Oprah is not dumb and it might have been to expose SP total lack of anything resembling intelligence or maybe for the majority of us to be treated to a good, old fashioned belly hurting laugh.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 4:44 pm

That was sick but at the same time pathetic and quite hilarious. I remember thinking at the time, get a life or get a girlfriend so you can throw away your “blow-up” doll.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 3:51 pm

I miss the Beeb but could get their extra cable channel for drama and comedy shows, however cable is not cheap here and I’m still deciding if it’s worth the extra $20 odd dollars on my monthly cost. At the moment I have BBC World News and Radio 4 Friday Comedy Hour downloaded on my ITunes podcasts every Friday, the “News Quiz” is a hoot.

» Posted By Kalima On November 16, 2009 @ 3:38 pm