Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Your title couldn’t have said it much better. Seriously, where do we draw the line with political correctness? People need to realize that the world is not centered around them. That is the whole problem with people today. People think the world should cater to them. Time to wake up and realize the world ain’t lookin’ (and yes, I intentionally used uneducated slang just to prove my point) out for little ole Joe Schmo and his hang-ups. It is just spinning round and round like it did 1000 years ago and before that just the same. Geesh, can you tell that rubs me the wrong way? Maybe I should complain about it LOL!
my only issue is that the black puppy blends in too well with the cap. i would have gotten a puppy with a lighter coat and show up a bit better in the photo.
but that’s just me.
Should we wait for them, or go ahead and kill a nun ourselves to make things OK again?
Now, if it was a cat, I’d see their point…
[/morning troll]
…slowly shakes head from side to side…
i can see some limited risk in allowing a puppy’s nether regions to come in contact with the interior portion of head gear that i might wish to later put on my head, but such risk could be significantly moderated by the use of a rolled up newspaper…
…but since the puppy in question is so cute, he’s just a fuzzy wuzzy good boy, isn’t he! who’s a good boy! who’s a good boy! who wants a tummy rub?
STAY!
Jessica – with due respect, I have fixed this for you below:
Muslims need to realize that the world is not centered around them. That is the whole problem with Muslims today. Muslims think the world should cater to them.
Oh and Lex – awesome title.
It will not stop until we stop it.
The problem certainly isn’t the picture of a puppy. And the problem is only partially the prickly tempers of our dour immigrants. The big problem is the spineless pandering of the government. For once, the dour immigrants didn’t actually complain–it was the sensitivity GESTAPO who told the police they may have offended some Muslims, sending the police into paroxysms of pandering. Notice there’s no actual complaint in the whole article, only some councillor stating the cards “may have” offended someone.
Feh.
*puts phrase beginning with “F***** ridiculous” back in mouth*
*picks jaw up off floor*
I agree with Zane, the problem is governments that cater to the vocal minority.
You know, I heard the first draft of this ad had a piglet instead of a puppy.
Just what ain’t “unclean” for their “religion of peace” except their own stinking selves? Any group that doesn’t like dogs is my enemy. Ain’t that convenient for me? LOL. All dog lovers should train their dogs to poop in “their” yards…nah..that won’t work either…
The Brits love dogs. Maybe this’ll wake ‘em up, seeing how the subway bombings haven’t….
b2
B2 – I’d add any group that treats women as property to my list of enemies.
Jessica and Kris, as the Brits fancy saying “Spot on”.
I’m reminded of a scene from the movie “The Upside of Anger” where Joan Allen is dropping off her daughters at school and gets yelled at about how to drive through the parking lot.
With middle digit erect, she responded with a resounding “Get over yourself!”
I found it appropriate to the moment, and, on occasion, it serves me well today. The global community would do well to take note.
On another note, Muslims are really gonna be pissed someday ’cause all dogs go to Heaven. Then what?
Ditto on the title sentiments; creative journalistic license at its best. *still chucking*
Read that *still chuckling*
Butch – Howz ’bout “‘property that can be circumcised and mutilated”?
Reminds me of a detachment patch I saw from (I think) HC-11 a few years ago. Consisted of a bar code in the middle with the designation of the squadron and the detachment number, and around the bottom:
“NON-OFFENSIVE POLITICALLY CORRECT DETACHMENT PATCH”
I’m suprised that PETA wasn’t the first out of the gate on this one. After all, the poor animal probably didn’t want to be sitting in a helmet, and it could have been injured if the thing had tipped over during the photo shoot.
This just reinforces my plan for quicker airport security. Instead of the whole metal detector, take your shoes off, get a pat-down thing, we just have everybody pass between some bomb-sniffing dogs. And maybe a cute puppy at the end that you have to pet. Anybody that recoils in horror gets a separate, more “personalized” screening. And then they have to have their face licked by said cute puppy. Just an idea.
Once again there is a spectrum to the intolorance. While I personally have seen parents pull there kids away and walk around me when i am out walking my cute basset hound. I have also seen them smile and point at the doggy and ask if the children can come and pet it…or the kids ask. If it is just the mom she does not say anything usually and just looks over to me, I’ll smile and say it is fine and she will talk to her kids then and say it is ok. I have also had cars with muslim families in it (wife is wearing the head covering so I am guessing they were at least) stop and wave to my dog and ask his name…and others ignore (but not the kids I notice…the kids always look and smile). Religious intoloroance is something taught and not bred. I think of my basset as an ambassador (ambassetador?) of our country in showing that in some ways, we all are similar. It is unfortunate that there are those out there that use religion (and I am not goign to single any one out because they all do) as a means to get more attention and press for their cause.
Aren’t German Shepherd dogs cute?
I am outraged. This is just racism. The UN should include teutophobia to the definition of racism.
Political correctness is the handmaiden of Islamic terrorism.
Too bad George Carlin didn’t do an updated rant on the 7 forbidden words of PC before he passed.
The list would have had to include “unpatriotic,” “seditious,” ” treasonous,” “Socialist,” “Marxist,” ” Communist,” and a couple TBD related to Islamic terror.
What Zane said.
Sheeh….. it’s sad and scary when the government becomes it’s own worst enemy.
No Michelle. It is scary when the government becomes it’s people’s worst enemy.
Those guys are so easily ofended. I think american GIs should simply learn how to say “Mohammed, your mom wears boxers” in arab. The enemy will start to sob like an emo boy. Presto, war´s over.
17 years in socal. Lots of time in traffic lamely attempting to decipher cryptic vanity plates. Thread title is a Classic. Thanks, Lex.
(FWIW, in the midwest now. Not many vanity tags around these parts – getting rusty)
I have another “french word” for them: pau se … it means STOP. Stop with the knuckling under, political correctness, catering to a minority and playing nice with the Muslims!
Enough, already. Pau se!
Just ’cause the Scots wear what look like skirts doesn’t mean they have to act like they wear high heels with them. Where do I go to get a name change?
Neal Boortz has the straight dope on outrage.
Believe it or not, there’s a group that experiences more outrage than even the Muslim population…
Joan, I’m outraged at your outrageous comment. I denounce you.
The Brits (or rather their government) have become a truly pathetic lot.
The disease called islam.
Fonix for Phiter Philots?
Speaking of routine arab unclean, there is their left hand and yet, remarkably, they all seem to move about everywhere they go with that unclean hand.
I say we purge them of that unclean association! They deserve our help in ridding them of all unclean stuff!
We need to make sure that all photos of individuals and dogs and pigs have cropped out the left fore digit/hand/paw/trotter, lest we ourselves be deemed something or other, unclean.
There was an extremely insightful comment onthis affair posted at gatesofvienna, I cut and paste here:
Hukt awn fonix werkt fer mi!
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