G*ogle of course publish all the Blogspot blogs via "blogger.com". Have you noticed the "Flag" button that now is placed at the top right of most blogspot blogs? It is there to enable readers to "flag" a blog as "objectionable". It looks like the thin end of the wedge of censorship to me but blogger.com say otherwise, of course. I think it will provoke an exodus to other hosting services.
I am going to stick with blogspot, however, in the hope that I will one day get one of these: "When the community has voted and hate speech is identified on Blog*Spot, Google may exercise its right to place a Content Warning page in front of the blog and set it to "unlisted."".
That WOULD be amusing. I am sure that any Leftist visiting my blog would flag it as "objectionable". It is however a good reason for readers to keep a note of my mirror-site.
Here's a thought: What if readers got into the habit of "flagging" every blogspot blog they visited? That would make the whole scheme collapse like the idiocy it is.
Incorrect to Question Immigration Status?
We all now have been told that there is no longer any such thing as an "illegal immigrant". They are now supposed to be referred to as "undocumented workers", despite the fact that many of them don't work and despite the fact that it is more than documents that they lack. The episode reported below seems to be pushing matters one step further, however. Now it seems that it is incorrect to refer to documents at all! Excerpt:
"Riverside Community College, recently cited for poorly handling student-discrimination complaints, was named in a federal lawsuit Friday by a woman who says her civil rights were violated when a teacher asked whether she had a green card. The suit on behalf of Marisol Henriquez, 43, of Riverside, says the incident took place in front of 14 other students in December 2004. It alleges that speech instructor Dan Tuckerman asked the woman whether she was using a fake name, was in the country legally and had a green card, the document issued to foreigners who are legal U.S. residents. College spokesman Jim Parsons said the school is doing all it can to address Henriquez's complaints. The lawsuit says Henriquez, a native of Santiago, Chile, has a permanent resident alien card.
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According to the complainant, the enquiry was made in a particularly aggressive and demeaning way but you would say that if you were mounting a lawsuit, wouldn't you?
Love and Murder in Iraq
I would like every one of my readers to read this story of murdered American journalist Steven Vincent. It is a story of great love, great courage and completely discredits an arrogant Leftist academic by the name of Juan Cole. The "expert" Cole even claimed that Iraq is a Mediterranean country! If you've got an old school atlas that you don't want any more, mail it to him!
