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If you’re a vegetarian, just feed one animal to another.

An Arizona Republic headline: “Child waiting for bus with dad hit by swerving SUV.”

If this had been a Volvo, I don’t think we would have seen “swerving Volvo” in the headline!

further…

Fire department officials said: “A car ran off the roadway and struck him.”

Swerving? That doesn’t sound like swerving.

But we all know from media propaganda that SUVs “swerve” before they roll over, killing everyone within range. In fact, it would seem from media reports that SUVs themselves are weapons of mass destruction.

Today your blogger was called a racist on the, ahem, technical forum slashdot.org.

I have committed the mortal sin of suggesting that young arabs be given a higher terrorist risk rating in the new airline passenger profiling system (CAPPS-II).

The accusation was:

When I say intolerance, I mean intolerance of everything but your own race. With your numerous posts about this subject and a quick glance at your blog, it is very easy to see that, yes, you are a bigot

The word racist wasn’t used, but clearly it was intended.

It is, of course, a tactic of the left is to call one a racist or a bigot or a moron (also in that post).

The accuser has been invited to debate here. Let’s see if he can take it.

Once again, Arizona is going for the multicultural fools-gold. This time the legislature is considering providing driver licenses to illegal aliens.

The logic goes something like this: they’re here and they drive, so we should give them licenses. I suppose as long as they are doing this, they will be allowed to register to vote, since you can do both at the same time!

A more logical approach would be for the state to pass laws requiring government officials who encounter illegals to detain them for the INS. This new law (if passed) is simply facilitating law-breaking!
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Viruses are normally named after a landmark near where they were first discovered. Thus Ebola is named after the Ebola River, near the home of it’s first case. Marburg (a relative of Ebola) was first discovered in Marburg, Germany. Hantavirus was first discovered during the Korean War and was named after the Hantaan River.

In 1993 when several healthy young Navajo’s from near Muerto Canyon suddenly died within a short period of time, the new viral pathogen was named the “Muerto Canyon Virus”. The Navajo Tribe strongly objected to the name, so the virus became the “Four Corners Virus.” The tribe and others objected again, fearing harm to tourism.

In frustration, the virologists finally came up with a name that couldn’t offend anyone - even though it violated the tradition of virus naming: “Sin Nombre Virus“.

For those who remember their Latin, this means the “No Name Virus”! Science is once again is mangled by the forces of political correctness.

By the way, since the Sin Nombre Virus is too long for a news articles and hard for TV talking heads to pronounce, and the pathogen is of the Hantavirus family, it is now widely known as just Hantavirus.

I guess a few idiotarians have something more important on their minds than the upcoming war: eliminating the word squaw.

Yep… that’s right! Arizona House Bill 2424 would prevent the word “squaw” from being used to name any landmark, street, highway, historical site, park, recreation area or other publicly funded facilities.

So the historic Squaw Peak, 2 miles from this blogger’s home, will have to get a new name. Phoenix’s most popular park, Squaw Peak Park will have to be renamed. The Squaw Peak Parkway will be renamed, changing all of its signs. My Civil Air Patrol radio, programmed with the name of the Squaw Peak repeater, will have to be reprogrammed. And, with more than 1,000 sites around the country that include the word “squaw,” “it’s an issue that is not going to go away” according to one of the PC Police.

WATCH OUT: They’re headed your way next!

Mathematics is the same everywhere in the world. It is a true universal language.

But some folks are upset about it, because of its Western roots.

So now we get Ethnomathematics!

From the New York Times (free subscription required), we learn:

The only possibility of building up a planetary civilization depends on restoring the dignity of the losers.” Robert N. Proctor, who teaches the history of science at Pennsylvania State University, says he wants to counter the notion ”that the West is the be all and end all” when it comes to mathematical studies. ”After all,” he adds, ”all math is ethnomath — not just African kinship numerics or Peruvian bead counting, but also the C.I.A.’s number-crunching cryptology and Reaganomics.”

Is he aware of the many contributions to modern mathematics by Asians? Why weren’t they deterred by “western” math?

The non-West are “losers?” This is very revealing about the arrogant attitude of the multiculturalists!

If this sort of thinking becomes widespread (and it’s impact is now in the New York City “education” system), the already low enrollment of Americans in mathematically related fields (science and engineering) will just get worse.

By the way…

Reaganomics is ethnomath? ? ? I always thought it was economics. Oh, and the crypography is done by the NSA, not the CIA. Perhaps factss are not important to a post-modern professor of history!

There is currently a campaign by a number of groups against the SUV.

The trial lawyers want you to think that SUV’s are unsafe, so they can make zillions suing the automakers. The trial lawyers are major contributors to the Democratic Party.

The environmentalists want you to think that SUV’s are unsafe and evil, since they hate anything that burns petroleum, and the are frightened when consumers defy them. They are major contributors to the Democratic Party and virtually control it on these issues.

Arianne Huffington wants you to think that SUV’s are evil because driving them magically supports terrorism. Arrianne Huffington is a well known rich flake who lives in a mansion. She travels in gas guzzling private jets. She has purchased a television campaign arguing that SUV drivers support terrorism (she probably did it to get attention).

But someone has come up with an answer to that campaign.

Go to the following site and click the slide show numbers in order.

Click here to start.

Some days, the lunacy is just too much!

From the LA Times:

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a rule saying the government’s new airport security screeners must be U.S. citizens.
The portion of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act barring non-citizens from the positions is unconstitutional, U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi ruled.

Let me get this straight… The government cannot require citizenship for a criticial national security position? I suppose they have to give hiring preference to young, angry Saudi’s, too!

…. and the left marches on…