Activists link Vt. to sweatshops

Preventative bill awaits Douglas’ signature

MONTPELIER — At least three companies that contract with the state of Vermont for clothes and other materials are linked to overseas sweatshops, according to human rights advocates.

Several U.S. companies that recently supplied the state with shoes, boots, uniforms and other work-related clothes have some of their materials made in factories where there are reports of forced overtime, poor ventilation, union busting and even death, activists said.

“It does appear that the state of Vermont contracts with companies that are linked to sweatshops,” said Martin Cohn of Brattleboro, the owner of a public relations firm that conducted the research. “That means our taxpayer dollars are going to subsidize overseas sweatshops.” [snip]

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Several young prostitutes interviewed by the AP said they were having sex without condoms to attract customers now that so many more girls are on the streets. [snip]

She was paid about $18 and used the money to buy food for her parents and six siblings. She tells her family she has a job in town and they don’t ask her specifics.

“My parents were poor even before the violence,” she said. “Now that I’m on the streets, on good days, I get up to 2,000 Kenya shilling ($40) after sleeping with five or six men.”

She has no hope of returning to school. Her parents are out of work, and Janet’s contributions are vital to her family.

“At first, this job was torture to me,” Kimani said. “Sleeping with these men is terrible, and sometimes they are rough and hurt me. But with time, I have gotten used to it.”

Prostitution has long been a problem in Kenya, particularly on the tourist friendly coast. [snip]

The good news is, they don’t have any sweatshops in that part of the world. Instead of earning $0.75 a day, these children move in big money circles.

Thank you Vermonters and all you caring liberal New Englanders for saving the children from a fate worse than…than a sweatshop.

….It means “goodbye to the Dutch”

I can’t recall the source of this statistic, but whoever it was had calculated that, at present immigration rates, and declining native birth rates, by the year 2020, half the male population of Holland under the age of 24, would be Muslim.   Radical Islamists in the country also represent a large percentage of the current Muslim population.

With Christianity and its Western legacies a dead issue in Holland (about 4% church attendance), and the easy-going tolerance and native inability of the Dutch to assert their culture against waves of immigrants, the end is pretty near. 

Two other statistics I will try to source reveal another problem.   150,000 Dutch citizens protested the murder of Theo Van Gogh by a radical Muslim, and the following month, 750,000 turned out to protest a one-year increase in the retirement age.   These figures, if accurate, illuminate the character of the native Dutch citizen, and the ennervating consequences of cradle-to-the-grave security and comfort.

To be fair, the Dutch are enthusiastic and bleeding-edge modern on at least one subject.   Euthanasia.  If one is a disabled, challenged newborn or a troublesome old fool who refuses to die,  they can help.   Just kill the offending pest as an emotional and financial economy.    Fifty years ago I heard the expression “Dutch courage”, and asked my Dad what it meant.  He said: “liquor”.

Now with Moroccans targeting gays in Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam has detected the presence of Muslim testosterone in huge amounts, bubbling around in young men who are otherwise “normal”, but disadvantaged and “acting out” (that’s the expression?) a sense of inferiority.  In fact, as one young and frustrated, but upstanding, Moroccan Muslim put it:

“MUSLIM FAGS DON’T EXIST!”

Such a nice boy.   Give him a tulip…. 

Quack…..wheeeeeze….cough….Quack!  He’s back!

When Don Imus was brought to ground by a few liberal jackals, race-profiteers and media hounds a while back, his removal from WFAN was a mercy killing.  With the comic motility of a Maine potato, Imus was painfully lodged at the lowest regions of nasty talk radio.  Now, he’s about to stage a comeback, by displacing  Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa and the old William Koenstler associate, Ron Kuby at WABC.

That Imus would have lasted beyond 1989 is itself, improbable.   True, he’d walked the standard reformative path admired in the liberal media - re-hab for drugs and alcohol, an irreligious book demonstrating his ability to concentrate and willingness to villify the defenseless, but that wasn’t enough.  Along the way he also became a humanitarian, with the Imus Ranch for Kids With Cancer.   That punched his ticket.

With the Imus Ranch came two essential, and several unfortunate, things.  The first essential was that some children with dreaded disease were helped.  The second essential was the approval of liberals, who poured into the show through the chute provided by Westwood One Entertainment.  David Gregory, Howard Feinneman, Chris Matthews, Kerry, Dodd, Lieberman, Frank Rich, a list too long for this post.  

The unfortunate things attributable to the ranch were Imus’s very young, insufferable twit of a wife, the unknowable and uninteresting spawn Wyatt Imus, the maundering brother with his obliterating stupidity, and the product line, which stretched to the New Mexico horizon and was just as interesting.  

The Imus in The Morning Show on WFAN was a sustained and relentless commercial for the Imus family and its marketing wing.  Maybe it’s just me, but the true iconoclast, the indignant rebel doesn’t shill for cowboy hats, baseball caps, denim shirts and salsa.  What Imus is, in addition to everything else, is a phony, a charlatan.

Up against these concerns for children with cancer, was the bizarre counterpoint of a show so nasty, vile, vindictive, slanderous and gratuitously vulgar that the people involved seemed oblivious to the infected popular culture they created for the same kids they were helping in New Mexico.  Were they just cynical about their charitable pursuits, or just craven in their pursuit of wealth through shock radio, or both?  Or neither?  

I don’t know.  The existence of some things seems to reduce or expand the likelihood of other things.   Real goodness has a way of spreading through the person who’s trying to be good, which always made me wonder how the supposedly religious Charles McCord could be so obsequious to Imus, and how he could write such clever but vulgar routines.  

Imus himself, so misanthropic and awful in his judgements,  seems unfastened from the human qualities necessary to manage  a ranch for children.   That’s a question about the soul and the mainspring of human effort.  I’d like an answer, even though I don’t deserve one. 

I obviously used to listen to the show, though it became clear years ago that hearing one edition means you’ve already heard the others.  So I stopped listening, and suggest to Imus that his new format do/not do the following.

1. No Bo Dietel, all the time

2. No mention of “my friend Kinky Friedman”

3. No mention of Lobster Newburgh.

4. Stop saying “what a nightmare”

5. Let Delbert McClinton slip into obscurity

6. Stop saying “get Lupaca on the phone”.

7. Talk for three minutes without saying the proper name “Imus”

8. Take your own advice, and “Get Out!”

Ford Motor Company Penetrates China

…Just like FoMoCo did with lots of American customers.  Consider the Pinto/woodstove and the rumble-tumble Explorer.  Still, I like my late-model Ranger, in spite of the one-year resale value of 59 Cents and the similarity between it and every Ranger since 1983.  Read on….from Ford’s media flacks….old news but funny.

Las Angles - April 2006 - Ford Motor Company took another important step forward today with its committment to GROW in China by pledging to export more vehicles from the United States to China.  Ford’s successful  VOLUME EXPORT PROGRAM - which was launched in 2003 - will continue to ensure that Ford’s operations in China are able to meet customer demand for US-built Ford sport-utility vehicles.  The VOLUME EXPORT PROGRAM includes both the Ford Escape, which is sold in China as the Ford Maverick, and the Lincoln Navigator…..

In 2005 Chinese customers purchased 2,787 Ford Mavericks, an increase of nearly 50 Percent over 2004 and enough to place Maverick among the best-sellers in the Chinese imported SUV segment.  And the sale growth continues: Maverick sales in the first quarter were up over 30% year-over-year. With 423 sales in calendar year 2005, Lincoln Navigator helped define the market for “President Class” full-size SUV’s.

Yes.  The triumph of sales optimism over experience, and the unwillingness to label an automobile the “Escape” in China.   In a country nearly the size of the United States, with four times the population,  sixty-seven feet of paved road, two gas stations and four hundred million mechanics, Ford is cranked up with sales of about 3000 off-road capable SUV’s in China in 2005.  If dazzling growth of this magnitude continued for 2006 and 2007, total Ford sales in China would compare favorably to the parking lot  of anyone’s hometown Wal-Mart .   And get this:  There were actually 423 party members with the yen to own a President Class Navigator.  What a world, what a world.

We are being pushed out of the southern and western Pacific slowly by China’s aggressive entry into our former sphere of influence. 8 helicopters does not constitute a takeover, however the service of these is an entrance to more expansion. Some of our more secret materiel still operating from those fields could be compromised.

China offers to sell military choppers to Manila

China has offered to sell 8 utility helicopters to the Philippine military as it seeks to replace its Vietnam War-era aircraft, a Philippine air force official said on Wednesday.

Defence ties between China and the Philippines — a longtime U.S. ally — have grown steadily since 2004 when the two sides launched an annual security dialogue.

Beijing has since donated $2.5 million worth of engineering equipment to the military to help it carry out development projects in areas where communist and Muslim rebels operate. On Monday it promised another $2 million in military aid. [snip]

I do not see the Chicoms helping defeat the communist insurgency, the Muzzies are fair game since any religion is inimical to Red China.

At some point we are going to be head to head with the Chinks. Maybe over Taiwan, maybe the Spratley Islands (claimed by the Philippines), or over a stink about lead paint. Trading with them isn’t the same as trading with a democratic government. The Middle Kingdom believes it is above all others.

They have trashed patent and copyright laws, stolen and produced trademarked goods and generally been a bad trading partner. Where is the upside?

The Panic News is irregularly published at inopportune times.

Norway’s Moose Population in Trouble for Belching

The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey. [snip]

Maybe I’ll start driving a moose; sounds like they get good mileage.

Antarctic ice thawing faster than predicted

NY ALESUND, Norway (Reuters) - A thaw of Antarctic ice is outpacing predictions by the U.N. climate panel and could in the worst case drive up world sea levels by 2 meters (6 ft) by 2100, a leading expert said on Wednesday. [snip]

It’s those moose, plus all of the dairy cows and every broccoli eating veg head which contribute to the methane. Lets round up all of the vegans and move them to Papua where they are placed on the menu.

Latest China Scare: Dirty Chopsticks

Beijing Factory Recycled Used Chopsticks, Sold Up to 100,000 Pairs a Day

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Beijing factory recycled used chopsticks and sold up to 100,000 pairs a day without any form of disinfection, a newspaper said on Wednesday, the latest in a string of Chinese food and product safety scares. [snip]

SpongeBob Books, Other Toys Recalled

More children’s items made in China have been recalled because they contain high levels of lead. The largest recall affects about 250,000 SpongeBob SquarePants address books and journals, manufactured in China and imported by Martin Designs. [snip]

Next they Chicoms will be making toys out of the chopsticks. Then we’ll be in trouble. Imagine trying to eat Moo Goo Gai Pan with a couple of SpongeBobs?

Next issue: How Bush formed the NAU without talking to Ted Kennedy.

The battlefield is about the size of Texas; four times the size of New England.  Its average annual temperature is like that of Massachusetts.  Its capital city is on the same latitude as Phoenix, Los Angeles and Memphis.  It’s mountainous, dramatically uplifted more than a million years ago by the thrust sheets of the advancing Indian subcontinent.  Roughly half of the country is contorted by its definining feature, a majestic but forbidding mountain range.  The capital is Kabul, the battlefield is Afghanistan and the mountain range is the Hindu Kush.

The Hindu Kush, translated by some historians as “Hindu Killer”, is a Himalayan extension of the Alpine system of Europe and North Africa.  It’s officially part of the Pamir-Karakoram chain of the Himalayas;  it angles southwest from Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, the Durand Line.  There are seven mountain passes which have served as highways for invaders and trade at least since 1500 BC, when invaders from Central Asia brought what linguists now call the Indo-European languages to the region.

Alexander The Great, after marching and fighting the width of Afghanistan, used the Khawak Pass to reach Samarkand in 330 BC.  He led his starving army over the 12,000 foot snowy pass, and then west back through the Khyber Pass on the modern Hippie Trail to Kabul.  Today it’s likely that Taliban and other tribal fighters use the same passes for the purpose of fighting NATO and American troops.  The blood of thousands, maybe millions, of nameless soldiers and unaffiliated warriors has been spilled here since the first Aryans arrived 5000 years ago.

Afghanistan borders six countries.  Pakistan to the east and south, Iran to the west and south, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and China to the north.  Its China border lies at the dead end of the valley of the Wakhan Corridor.  The Wakhan is a 150-mile long, ten-mile wide geographic tendril, like an appendix, projecting northeast, between Pakistan to the south and Tajikistan in the north to the Chinese border.  It’s an atavistic survival of Britain’s Great Game with Russia, a border anomaly established to deny Russia access to the Indian Ocean.   Marco Polo used the valley almost eight-hundred years ago to travel that portion of The Silk Road.  Today it’s a remote, hostile patch, the habitat of the Marco Polo sheep, and probably the route used to smuggle drugs to China.

The short account is that humans have been scrambling over, fighting for, and surviving in this land for 50,000 years.   It was Hellenized by the Macedonians and their successors, converted to Buddhism by adherents from India, ignored militarily by the Romans but conquered and converted by Muslims, trampled by Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, by Darius and other Persians and Parthians; invaded by Turkic tribes, by the British, the Russians and Americans.  Simulataneous with low-grade warfare, it was also a web of routes for The Silk Road, the commercial paths taken by bearers of luxury goods from the east to the Mediterranean world.  The world’s first mobile shopping mall.

The material for Julius Caesar’s silk curtains probably came through Afghanistan from China, over rocky, barren trails now prowled by American Rangers and Special Forces.  Julius and other Romans who possessed silk, believed that it grew on trees.  Julius, Augustus and Tiberius had intermittent difficulties with the Parthians, who, along with the Afghan Kushans, controlled the trade routes through Afghanistan.  The Romans were not welcome there.  The Parthians left no written account of themselves, but must have known the origins of silk.  Perhaps they played the first lasting joke on the Romans.  They told them it was gathered like fruit and nuts.

The historian’s routine explanation for Afghanistan’s long travail is that it lay at the “crossroads” of competing civilizations; that it was the junction between south and central Asia and the Middle East.  These designations are entirely theoretical to the historian-geographer.  They mean nothing.  The human explanation for the boiling activity in the region is that the wars of conquest that tortured Afghanistan for 5000 years were wars for local power, for goods, and to a lesser degree, religion.  They were fought for the things that fill the voids left by deprivation, insecurity and the anxieties of hard-scrabble life.   It hasn’t ended.

The communist coup staged in 1978 led to the Soviet invasion, and then to the Taliban in large part because of American indifference.  Millions were killed and exiled in the civil and religious wars of the past thirty years.  Today Afghanistan resembles nothing as much as itself of a thousand years ago.  Ghosts everywhere, in every corner of every mud hut and mountain pass.    It is our obligation to bring the country back to life. 

Milk Prices Rise to Record Highs

PARIS (AP) - Got milk? Well, you’re going to need more cash these days to get it.

Growing appetites for dairy in Asia and limited worldwide supply are among a number of factors driving prices of the dairy drink to record highs. [snip]

Milk prices hit a record last month in the United States, where consumers paid an average $3.80 a gallon, compared to $3.29 in January, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It forecasts prices will remain high throughout the year. [snip]

“Global demand has been extraordinary for American dairy products, but global supplies of dairy products have been exceptionally tight,” said Michael Marsh, head of the Western United Dairyman trade group in California, the top dairy-producing U.S. state.

“From the American dairy farmers’ perspective, you have almost a perfect storm.” [snip]

Governments in the United States, Canada, the European Union and Japan have a range of policies, including tariffs and quotas, that insulate their milk from international prices, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.

These systems are under strain, as high rewards in the globalized market are inspiring milk producers to challenge the old practices. [snip]

In the United States, milk processors and distributors “are being challenged by the most stubbornly inflationary dairy markets in history,” said Gregg Engles, CEO of Dallas-based Dean Foods, the largest U.S. processor and distributor of milk and other dairy products, where profits are down.

Through all this, dairy farmers in New England are calling on the politicians to maintain higher dairy price supports. The Dairy Compact adds a percentage to the price of a hundredweight of milk; this check comes from the government, not the processors.

With the government’s meddling in commerce, we get the skewed results of paying extra in a rising market, while keeping marginal entities in production.

The housing market is down; shall we subsidize the plumbers and electricians who might have trouble getting contracts. By the politicians’ thinking, the answer is yes. It’s only a matter of finding something to tax to pay for the program.

I’ve written in other places on and about this individual who forced 19^th century France to change some of its ways. Bastiat is a Libertarian first, a “conservative” second; one who can see the damage inflicted by socialized government. Thomas Jefferson used many of Basiat’s ideas in his writings and during his presidency, bringing to law libertarian principles in the young nation. These are the first few paragraphs of this article, far to long to post in its entirety.

What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen^**1

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution, a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it appears simultaneously with its cause; it is seen. The other effects emerge only subsequently; they are not seen; we are fortunate if we foresee them.

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good economist takes into account both the effect that can be seen and those effects that must be foreseen.

Yet this difference is tremendous; for it almost always happens that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the later consequences are disastrous, and vice versa. Whence it follows that the bad economist pursues a small present good that will be followed by a great evil to come, while the good economist pursues a great good to come, at the risk of a small present evil.

The same thing, of course, is true of health and morals. Often, the sweeter the first fruit of a habit, the more bitter are its later fruits: for example, debauchery, sloth, prodigality. When a man is impressed by the effect that is seen and has not yet learned to discern the effects that are not seen, he indulges in deplorable habits, not only through natural inclination, but deliberately.

This explains man’s necessarily painful evolution. Ignorance surrounds him at his cradle; therefore, he regulates his acts according to their first consequences, the only ones that, in his infancy, he can see. It is only after a long time that he learns to take account of the others^**2 Two very different masters teach him this lesson: experience and foresight. Experience teaches efficaciously but brutally. It instructs us in all the effects of an act by making us feel them, and we cannot fail to learn eventually, from having been burned ourselves, that fire burns. I should prefer, in so far as possible, to replace this rude teacher with one more gentle: foresight. For that reason I shall investigate the consequences of several economic phenomena, contrasting those that are seen with those that are not seen. [snip]

Asian Parasite Killing Western Bees – Scientist

MADRID - A parasite common in Asian bees has spread to Europe and the Americas and is behind the mass disappearance of honeybees in many countries, says a Spanish scientist who has been studying the phenomenon for years.

The culprit is a microscopic parasite called nosema ceranae said Mariano Higes, who leads a team of researchers at a government-funded apiculture centre in Guadalajara, the province east of Madrid that is the heartland of Spain’s honey industry. He and his colleagues have analysed thousands of samples from stricken hives in many countries.

“We started in 2000 with the hypothesis that it was pesticides but soon ruled it out…”

They then ruled out the varroa mite…

Then he decided to sequence the parasite’s DNA and discovered it was an Asian variant, nosema ceranae. [snip]

Another theory points a finger at mobile phone aerials, but Higes notes bees use the angle of the sun to navigate and not electromagnetic frequencies. [snip]

What a mess for the Gorbies, Luddites, and other assorted unhinged, none of the catastrophic scenarios worked out. After putting cell phones near hives to prove EM radiation caused the die-off, they garnered a serious case of ring-around-the-collar for the effort.

It becomes quite effortless for them to maintain their status as world-class buffoons today.

Shunned from society, widows flock to city to die

See the widows of Vrindavan »

VRINDAVAN, India (CNN) — Ostracized by society, India’s widows flock to the holy city of Vrindavan waiting to die. They are found on side streets, hunched over with walking canes, their heads shaved and their pain etched by hundreds of deep wrinkles in their faces.

Hindu widows are shunned from society when their husbands die, not for religious reasons, but because of tradition — and because they’re seen as a financial drain on their families.

They cannot remarry. They must not wear jewelry. They are forced to shave their heads and typically wear white. Even their shadows are considered bad luck.

Hindus have long believed that death in Vrindavan will free them from the cycle of life and death. For widows, they hope death will save them from being condemned to such a life again.

“Does it feel good?” says 70-year-old Rada Rani Biswas. “Now I have to loiter just for a bite to eat.”

Biswas speaks with a strong voice, but her spirit is broken. When her husband of 50 years died, she was instantly ostracized by all those she thought loved her, including her son.

“My son tells me: ‘You have grown old. Now who is going to feed you? Go away,’ ” she says, her eyes filling with tears. “What do I do? My pain had no limit.” [snip]

There are an estimated 40 million widows in India, many of them shunned and stripped of the life they lived when they were married.

 No more jumping on the funeral pyre, that is inhumane.

In today’s multicultural society, one must celebrate this ostracizing. Since all cultures are equal, let the multi-culti crowd explain how to embrace the ceremonial tossing out of the old bag.

The cows have it better.

This Palestinian problem is on the way to solution. The UN, that stalwart band of righteous nations will quell this civil war as soon as they can extract the contingent of troops from Darfur, where they successfully raped and killed some of the dispossessed. 

Meanwhile, in Plains GA., Jimmuh Carter is donning his “Captain Feckless” spandex suit and cape to pronounce Hamas the rightful government by virtue of elections and superior firepower.

Arab countries are eyeing the chaos in Gaza with alarm, fearing that the Palestinian fighting could spread to the West Bank and further destabilize the region. The Arab League chief on Thursday called for a cease-fire, warning of disaster otherwise.

LGF–That fortress-like “Preventive Security” building in Gaza that was stormed and overtaken by Hamas today, amid a hail of gunfire and horrific murder, is apparently going to be converted into a mosque.

Hamastan and Fatahstine: a “two-state solution” — just not the one that George W. Bush had in mind.

 Censoring the censors causes funny stuff.

Young clerk let Tiananmen ad slip past censors: paper

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A young clerk with no knowledge of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown allowed a tribute to victims slip into the classified ads page of a newspaper in southwest China, a Hong Kong daily reported on Wednesday. [snip]

Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post said a young woman on the Chengdu Evening News classified section had allowed the ad to be published because she’d never heard of the June 4 crackdown. [snip]

“This highlights (the fact) that the government needs to face up to history,” the paper quoted the source as saying.

References to the massacre are barred in state media, the Internet and printed works, meaning many of China’s younger generation are ignorant of the events.

What a scrumptious tug on the dragon’s tail.

Google and Yahoo in a desire for expansive growth are complicit in this censoring of the Internet. These giant search engines block any sites that the government selects as reactionary.

You will find them culpable of this in this country too. (The Peoples Cube is now on Google once more)

You have a problem also.

A Finnish Blogger has a problem with free speech. Mikko Ellilä will be chatting with the badged, uniformed diviners of thought. See what happened to the Finn. (See posts one, two, three, and four on the topic)

Today, the chill wind coming out of the House Judiciary Committee makes his troubles inconsequential. The Progressive, socialist attack on the First Amendment ratchets up to a new level. The House Judiciary Committee passed a “hate crimes” bill last week. All twenty-three Democrats voted in favor or it, and all seventeen Republicans dissented.

You should be quite upset with the Democrat control of Congress.

[snip] CNS news reported last week that —

• Every Republican attempt to amend the bill was defeated. Critics call it a “thought crimes” bill.
• The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R. 1592) would expand the federal definition of hate crimes to include violence against a person because of his or her “actual or perceived” sexual orientation or “gender identity.”
• Under the bill, people who attack others out of “hatred” for their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability would be committing a federal offense.

[snip] A summary of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007” (H.R. 1592) is here. The Committee tortured words to characterize hate crimes and list preventions:

(A) constitutes a crime of violence;
(B) constitutes a felony under the State, local, or Tribal laws; and
(C) is motivated by prejudice based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability of the victim, or is a violation of the State, local, or Tribal hate crime laws.

[snip]

Is the crime motivated by prejudice. Who decides that? Is the prosecution a politically correct lynching of an incorrect individual or a real crime? Who judges the correctness of their assessment?

Minorities cosseted in this bill are the usual politically correct suspects. Doling out special treatment to the anointed is de rigueur. However, special treatment doesn’t extend to old people, the military, Christian religions and Caucasians. None are eligible under this bill, though they frequently are singled out.

A proposed law in Vermont mandates a fine and possibly jail for the household reaction to the news video from Montpelier last night. The display of gender confused and altered constituted a bizarre display of Riply’s Believe it or ELSE. The blue pantsuit attired supporter alone violated every law of fashion. The Democrats now wish to make laughter an incorrect felony.

Blair blames spate of murders on black culture

· Political correctness not helping, says PM
· Community leaders react angrily to comments

Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance and failing to provide support for black-led efforts to tackle the problem.

One accused him of misunderstanding the advice he had been given on the issue at a Downing Street summit.

Black community leaders reacted after Mr. Blair said the recent violence should not be treated as part of a general crime wave, but as specific to black youth. He said people had to drop their political correctness and recognise that the violence would not be stopped “by pretending it is not young black kids doing it.” [snip]

This should lead to quite a dustup. The black community leaders are outraged. How dare anyone impugn a victim.

If poverty is at the root of this problem, then Caucasians, Arabs, Indians, Chinese and any other recognizable group living in poverty must engage in this same anti-social conduct. The common denominator is poverty. Right?

Having one’s status changed from victim to criminal has to hurt the fundraising, government loot for the leaders and the perps’ dole payments. Can’t have that now, can we?

PC actions lead to a blindness in reasoning. Finding out if a snake is poisonous by letting it bite oneself seems to violate logical inquiry. However creating a class that is simultaneously P and not-P is a product of PC liberal thought.

Here is one more turn in the hangman’s noose.