Whils’t strolling thru the park t’day…
Lots of leaves on the ground after yesterday’s pretty good rainfall altho’ I noticed that the young lady who was raking Plaza Park had done a really good job, picking up not only the fallen leaves but also the palm fronds that had littered our fair green ’n she was out there again today…
Well, that’s all in preparation for this coming weekends ‘Christmas in the Park ‘ celebration that supposedly kicks off The Christmas Season here in Old Fair Oaks and ends with the lighting of the…dare we say Christmas lights or p’haps, holiday lights, so as not to offend…
Oh, what the hell, let’s just call ‘em Christmas lights ’n be done with it…
In case anyone has missed it, I’m really, really over with all the PC nonsense…
Lets’s face, if it accomplished nothing else, all the nonsensical bullshit on campus’s (campi) around the country where the super-thinskinned students screamed and yelled and generally made complete and utter asses of themselves…(at huge expense to their parents or maybe to all of us if they’re doing it on borrowed money that they have no intention of ever re-paying)...
Once upon a time, I recall...(remember, I'm old) ethnic jokes were popular...some of them were funny but many were really mean-spirited and not particularly funny but people told them...along with sexist jokes and jokes about disabilities...(humor is often mean-spirited)...
The point is, they told them...they came under the heading of 'free speech'...they could be mean and hurtful but they existed and people dealt with it...dealing with bullies is the same whether it's verbal or physical ...Bullies, as a general rule, tend to have a worse problem than their victims...
I don't know that we could, or should, return to those thrilling days of yesteryear but it definitely is past time to get past the current thin-skinned crybaby response (Can anyone explain to me why a joke meant to offend an entire ethnic group only offends a very few)…T’is a puzzlement!
And you know, when you can offend someone by mentioning a color, white, black, brown, red, yellow...that's absurd. I seem to recall a movie where a Polish guy pretended to be Italian so he could seduce a Spanish girl who was pretending to be Italian...(It was actually a funny movie)...
I don’t know many of Irish descent that are offended by the image of a steroeotypical drunken Leprechaun even tho’ it’s patently true that no one in this modern world has ever seen a Leprechaun altho’ drunken Irishmen may abound which doesn’t seem too likely in this age of potent grasses…(Could Cheech ’n Chong even make ‘Nice Dreams’ today?)…
Ah well, when we have an affirmative action President afraid to insult Muslims by calling Islamic Terrorism, Islamic…I think it was Alice who said, “curiouser and curiouser.”…I mean, these people are Muslims, adherents of the religion of Islam and they have declared Jihad, a holy war by their own definition, against us and the rest of the non-Muslim world which is pretty much a definition of Islamic Terrorism…A lot of people are calling Obama delusional but back in the time ’n place where I come from, they’d just say that he has his head stuck so far up his ass that he can’t see daylight…
Ah well, I just get frustrated and have to vent, y’know…Way back when Obama was first elected, I thought it was probably a good thing, that the USA had truly got over the racism that so heavily marked the 19th Century, that we really were, at long last, that shining city on the hill that our forebears had in mind when they launched the Grand Experiment that became The United States of America…(I’m an old man ’n I’m cynical ’n I know that was never actually the case, but hope springs eternal, the ubiquitous ‘they’ say….)
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