sadly, this is not recognized by most . . .

Sorry, dude, cedarford wasn’t right. And neither are you.

Oh, that’s right — none!

What commercial enterprise deprived them on their non-protected speech?

Oh, that’s right — none!

Cedarford is obviously right and you know it. So does MoveOn — that was an *infamous* ad they will never live down and it has not been paraded around since.

I will take issue with cedarford on this: that wasn’t merely a childhood chant. That was civilized wisdom passed down for generations designed to mitigate the admittedly juvenile but quite effective tactic of baiting someone into a physical altercation.

Human beings are not perfectible; the “sticks and stones” admonition fits on a continuum that represents a coping mechanism about as good as we’re going to get when it comes to conflict.

Anymore I find making conversation with others difficult because I might say something that will hurt their poor little feelings. My neighbor corrected me the other day by telling me I wasn’t supposed to refer to Jet Li as an Oriental but rather an Asian. Thankfully, Jet Li has a backbone so I doubt he’d be offended; lots of others need to grow a backbone too.

I believe this is just a load of hooey placed on us by people whose agenda is simply to eliminate conversations between people that go beyond the weather. It’s right out of “1984,” where they fear ideas might actually make people think and take any action for change.

To all those guardians out there of political correctness, I declare right here and now: I’m old, not a senior. I’m fat, not pleasingly plump or calorically challenged. I’m darn near blind as a bat, not visually-impaired and becoming deaf, not hearing-impaired. If that’s not okay with you–my choice of descriptive words, not my medical conditions–I guess you’ll just have to kiss my big, fat glutamous maximus.

So when Congress convened and realized they couldn’t do anything legally to Moveon.org for being jerks, they instead passed their symbolic condemnation. Handy fodder for an attack ad during their re-election campaign, so who cares if it’s non-binding?

As for this, “no one in politics should ever drag military into a political battle…” I agree. But let’s not pretend that moveon.org was the first or even the most egregious. After all, if Bush hadn’t made Petraeus the lead blocker for his Iraq policies, it’s unlikely moveon.org would have even mentioned his name.

This doesn’t absolve them from being offensive button-pushers. But even offensive button-pushers have the right to constitutionally protected speech.

What we have here is the postmodern interpretation of what constitutes ’speech’. Postmoderns are Right and Leftist collectivists who think nothing of coercing the individual into conforming to the Common Will of the collective. This is the aim of the politically correct campaign. We are being hived, and we don’t know it.

That you chose to indifferently refer to “retarded people” sent the rest of anything else you might have had to share from your Fingertips straight to the trash bucket..

Deliberate use of that derogatory phrase set the stage for that you intend only to consciously antagonize, devalue, and offend your fellow Humans solely just to do so.. Too much else on the Net to play with to be bothered with that..

Kudos to your once prospective publisher..

In the middle ages, the first three subjects one studied were, the trivium: grammar, logic and rhetoric, called the three-fold path to eloquence. followed by the quadrivium, the four-fold path to knowledge: music, astronomy, arithmetic and geometry.

Through most of our history students studied logic, Catholic schools, still do to some extent because of the influence of St. Thomas Aquinas, who was influenced by Aristotle. Logic exposes fallacy and flawed thinking and Liberals recoil from logic as Vampires recoil from crucifixes.