The usual Democrat propaganda:
"Assembly Republicans were upset last week when Democratic Assemblyman Mark Ridley-Thomas of Los Angeles proposed a resolution stating that "each extension of voting rights has been strongly resisted by conservatives of all partisan perspectives." The word "conservatives" touched a nerve, as some Republicans believed it was included either to force them to agree conservatives were responsible for past racism or to abstain from voting. After a long debate, Assembly Democrats changed the word "conservatives" to "anti-civil rights forces," and the resolution passed on a 75-0 bipartisan vote".
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Maybe in California it is easy to forget that the Ku Klux Klan were all Democrats and that more Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than Democrats did.
And I guess that that great opponent of Nazism, Winston Churchill, must have been a Leftist -- right? Funny that it was the British Conservative party that made him its leader, though.
S*x Doll Update
A couple of months ago I noted the case of a "male" s*x doll available in England that went by the name of "Mustafa Shag". "Mustafa" was meant only as a contraction of "must have a" but some British Muslims were predictably "offended" by an Islamic name being used in that context. I said at the time: "No doubt the firm will bow down before Islamic correctness". Well, they have:
"A Manchester Mosque has persuaded the UK's leading sex shop chain to abandon a product they claimed was an insult to the Prophet Mohammed.... Ann Summers chief executive, Jacqueline Gold said: "Considering the current climate we have decided to change the name. The new name will be revealed at the end of April.... "When there was some publicity about the doll in London we were inundated by e-mails and calls from women wanting to buy it."
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I am rather pleased that the firm got good business out of Muslim hypersensitivity anyway.
By the way, my writing s*x above rather than the real spelling is a confession of defeat by censorship. This site could well get blocked or rejected by search engines and by "p*rnography" filters if I did otherwise. Even the word "shag" was modified on the British site I took the quote above from but I think that "shag" as a euphemism for intercourse is purely British slang so I am taking a risk on it.
The Weird World of Children's Books
Illustrators for children's books have a hard time these days. Here are some of the rules they have to abide by:
"(Large) lips on any blacks are completely out, the eyes on any Asian child have to not look Asian at all and the colour for any black child has got to be the softest brown"
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Another requirement is that cows have to be drawn without udders! Clearly, children's books are not meant to prepare them for the real world! I would call it mis-education myself.
