This is just stupid

I don't even know what to say. Just read it:

The Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Philadelphia Phillies’ new Triple-A affiliate, recently held a contest allowing fans to pick the name of its mascot. Over 7,300 fan submissions poured in; all vying for the opportunity to name the team’s oversized, furry, fun-loving pig.

The winning selection, PorkChop, only lasted a couple of days before the PC Police stepped in.

PorkChop is a great nickname. I’ve known a few guys who have picked up the nickname “Pork Chop” throughout my life, and all were oversized teddy bears.

So, what was the complaint? What's wrong with naming a mascot "PorkChop". It's not like they named a teddy bear "Muhammed" or something.

No, something much worse:

Apparently, the IronPigs received “several complaints” from local residents that “PorkChop” is a derogatory term used for Puerto Ricans in the area. So the team caved and changed the name.

"We were really unaware of any negative connotations with the word pork chop," Lehigh Valley GM Kurt Landes told the Allentown Morning Call, adding that the club did its homework before settling on the name and didn’t find any issues. "I think the name is about being fun and family friendly, so if it's offensive to anyone we certainly would prefer to have a name that everyone likes and enjoys. If it offended a few, it's a few too many."

Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to go slap my forehead repeatedly until this makes sense.

Another case of politically correct stupidity gone wild

As if this wasn't bad enough. Now, a second-grader gets suspended for...drum roll...drawing a gun. That's right folks. THE KID GOT SUSPENDED FOR A DOODLE!!! (Via Newsday):

DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A second-grader's artistic effort has got him in trouble.

Seven-year-old Kyle Walker was suspended for one day last week by school officials in Cape May County for drawing a stick figure shooting a gun.

His mother told The Press of Atlantic City that officials at Dennis Township Primary School told her the drawing violated a zero-tolerance policy for guns.

Shirley McDevitt said the boy told her the drawing showed a water gun and not a firearm.

School officials declined to comment on Friday, and a message left at the superintendent's office on Saturday was not immediately returned.

The case is not the first in New Jersey in which students were suspended for depictions of weapons.

Four kindergarten boys were suspended in 2000 for playing cops and robbers, even though they were using their fingers as guns.

For crying out loud, I would have been expelled--along with the rest of my buddies--for the rest of my life and never allowed within ten miles of a school if these cheeseballs were in charge when I was in 2nd grade! We drew guns, and bombs, and fighter planes, and knives, and arrows, and all kinds of weapons. When was the last time I held someone up at gunpoint. Hmmm, let me think. Oh, yeah. NEVER!

How...I, uh...what can you say?

Words fail me. I just cannot come up with a way to describe how flabbergasted I am at reading this. I kid you not, this is A TRUE STORY.

My goodness, how much sillier can liberals get? Look, I can understand wanting to ban guns from elementary schools. Yes, absolutely. I support the 2nd Amendment just as staunchly as anyone, but if a kid brings a gun (a real gun) to school, they should be prosecuted. But this following story. I don't know, just...Sheesh! (via Jammie Wearing Fool):

A fifth-grade promotion ceremony in Rancho Palos Verdes turned into a free-speech battleground Thursday, when students were asked to remove weapons
from toys that had been placed on mortarboard caps because of the school's
zero-tolerance policy for weapons on campus.

Folks, these are...THESE ARE TOYS, FOR PETE'S SAKE!!!!! Toys, these things:



Yeah, I can see the problem. I played with these things when I was a kid, and I've been on a homcidal machine-gun rampage ever since. I'm a threat to society becaue I played with little green Army men. Ya know, liberals in this country are some of the most screwed-up people there are. And just to show how screwed-up they are, they project their screwed-upness on everybody else, and assume that the rest of society is just as screwed up as them.

Uh, folks, (yeah, you, Palos Verdes school borad), here's a clue. These kids, who put these things together, are probably more well-adjusted than you could ever dream of being. And just because you are an unhappy liberal, doesn't mean that's how these kids are going to turn out.

Read the whole story here.

The Flying Imams

With all the hubris going on about the Imams on the US Airways flight that
1) Stood up together just before take-off and shouted "Allah!! Allah!!"
2) Made derogatory remarks about the United States
3) Sat in seats near all the emergency exits
4) Asked for seat belt extensions when they didn;t need them

how could anybody ever think they were up to something? (Of course I'm being sarcastic.) If somebody from a group that hates my country is doing something that I perceive as being threatening, I'll do something if somebody doesn't do it first. Should we be afraid of Arabs getting on an airplane as a big group? Yes. We weren't afraid before Spetember 11th, 2001. We can't afford ourselves that luxury anymore. Arabs traveling in groups SHOULD be eyed with suspicion anywhere they are.