Must not mention that women are big buyers of shoes

Last Saturday night millions of football fans watched as Real Madrid won the European Cup in one of the most eagerly-awaited fixtures of the sporting calendar.

But, according to a Heineken advert shown in Brazil before the game, none of them were women, as they were all too busy shopping for shoes instead.

In the ad, the beer brand teamed up with Shoestock to offer a 50 per cent off shoes sale online and in stores, starting at exactly the same time as the game, in order to keep wives and girlfriends of sports fans busy.

The advert has been removed from YouTube after attracting a barrage of criticism for its sexist content

In the short clip, a voice-over offers men the opportunity to watch the game with their friends 'without ditching the wife, because this time she'll be ditching you'.

The voice-over adds that the sale will give women 'everything to make her think only about shoes, and especially not about where you are.'

One user wrote: Thank you, Heineken, for reminding me that my place is JUST in a store thinking about my appearance and not drinking your beer, which was my favourite, watching sports with my friends, which I thought was fun.'

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Democrat Sends Racist Email Telling Other Democrats Not To Trust White Candidates

New Mexico state representative Miguel Garcia sent out an email in order to support another Democrat in his political race, but he’s gotten in trouble over his remarks that seemed to deride his opponents for being “anglo,” or white:

Garcia also lobbed race-based attacks against Otero and Barreras’ primary opponents, fellow Democrats Jim Danner and Teresa Smith de Cherif. Under a section titled “Treachery in Our Ranks Undermine Barreras and Otero”, Garcia wrote:

A minority of unsuspecting Democratic leaders are supporting the Democratic Anglo newcomer opponents in Andrew’s and Frank’s primary races. Anglo Democrats with egos as big as Texas, mouths as big as the Grand Canyon, and much “green” [moolah] from the East and the West Coast.

Garcia’s money reference appears to be more to Smith de Cherif, who has raised more than $10,000 of her campaign funds from out of state per finance records posted online.

When Miguel was asked about the offensive remarks, he said that the email was sent out to other Democrats, and wasn’t meant to be viewed by the public or the media. Yeah, so not really the best excuse.

I thought that conservatives are the only racists? Or maybe it doesn’t count because he’s racist against white people.

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MSNBC’s Touré says ‘power of whiteness’ benefited Holocaust survivors

Black hate speech.  How about the power of hard work?



MSNBC host Touré is accused of anti-Semitism after suggesting Friday that Holocaust survivors were able to succeed in America because they’re white.

A Twitter user by the name @hope_and_chains tweeted at Touré on Friday, saying, “My family survived a concentration camp, came to the US w/ nothing, LEGALLY, and made it work.”

“The power of whiteness,” Touré retorted, gaining more than 240 retweets.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish organization dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, condemned the statement.

“It’s obviously absurd and smacks of intense and disgusting anti-Semitism. It’s reverse racism basically,” the center’s Efraim Zuroff told the Blaze.

“There is no question that part of the anti-Semitism that we see has its roots in the form of jealousy. This is a perfect example: ‘Jews made it because they’re white and Jews,’” he said.

Touré apologized for the remark Tuesday afternoon, four days after his original tweet.

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Is America Starting To Target Thought Crime?

Last week, Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.

To one journalist, this was more than an off-hand comment made by the first lady. In the opinion of Cheryl Chumley, a reporter for The Washington Times and the author of “Police State USA,” Michelle Obama’s remark reflects a growing trend in America to target and attack individuals for committing “thought crime.”

“Michelle Obama’s push for kids around the nation to monitor their family members for perceived racist comments is just another way the government seeks to inject itself into an area it doesn’t really belong — the American home,” Chumley told The Daily Caller Monday.

“Having the first lady wag her finger at us and send America’s youth on some sort of quest to scour the homes and backyards of our nation’s families for any mention of a racist joke, slur or slight is nanny-governance run amok — something that belongs in a George Orwell novel, not the White House,” Chumley said.

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Fury over 'offensive' 'Pakistani only' to let sign in Lancashire

I personally think landlords should be free to choose whom they want living on their premises.  It is a property right.  But "whites only" signs have in the past been heavily penalized

A ‘TO LET’ sign advertising for a Pakistani family only has shocked a community.

Both police and Pendle MP Andrew Stephenson received a dozen complaints from residents after the sign appeared in a window at a house in Nelson.

The handwritten advert posted in the window of a property in Railway Street read ‘For Rent, 3 Bedrooms, Just Pakistani Family’ with an attached mobile number.

Police officers tracked down the landlord following complaints about the ‘distasteful’ sign and it was removed.

Inspector Paul Goodall, of Pendle Police, said: “The landlord hasn’t committed any offences, and when we went round and asked him to take it down, he said ‘fair enough’ and took it down.

“We spoke to him and gave him some advice, and were satisfied it was not intended with any sort of malice.  “It was, in his opinion, to have some nice residents in the area..

“But the reality of the situation is, it might be deemed to be distasteful or inappropriate, which it is my opinion.

“There was no criminal act committed, and we would have dealt with it seriously if there was.

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If he had been white and put up a "whites only" sign a "criminal act" would have been detected immediately.

Multiculturalist shows contempt for British defence of the Falklands



Football pundit Stan Collymore was today criticised by a Royal Navy veteran after he claimed Britain had ‘thieved’ the Falklands.

The 43-year-old former Liverpool player, who now works as a Talksport radio commentator, described the archipelago to his 565,000 Twitter followers as a ‘f***ing island with sheep’.

He said: ‘Falklands? Wasn't anyone's. We just thieved it, as we do. What glory, what triumph. A f***ing island with sheep. Rule Britannia.’

The tweet - which was posted on Saturday night - has since been deleted, but there have been calls for Collymore to issue a public apology.

Chris 'Kenny' Swain, 50, who served as Petty Officer Gunner in the Royal Navy from 1980 to 2003, said Collymore should be sacked from Talksport.  Mr Swain, of Plymouth, Devon said: ‘I had a lot of friends that died in the Falklands. I think it's just an absolute outrage. I don't know whether he did it to raise his profile, but it's just an outrage.

‘There are so many upset people. He needs to be sacked from Talksport for a start - you can't have somebody with opinions like that addressing the public. I am just so angry.

And a post of the official Twitter feed of the Falkland Islands Government said: 'Very disappointed to hear Mr Collymore's views on the Falklands - factually incorrect and hurtful.'

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Collymore is an all-round bad character well known to the police.  His part-African ancestry may also help explain his hostility to Britain.

British football presenter forced to apologise after "homophobic" joke

"Poofter and "woofter" are British slang for homosexuals.  They are not as contemptuous as the American "faggott"



A Sky Sports presenter was forced to apologise on air today after former England football manager Terry Venables appeared to make a homophobic 'joke'.

Venables, who also played for England before managing Crystal Palace, Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur, was being interviewed on Sky show Goals on Sunday.

Speaking about the 1991 FA Cup final at Wembley, Venables told an anecdote about how then Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough held his hand as the two team walked out onto the pitch.

The Dagenham-born 71-year-old said: 'As I come out he grips my right hand with his left hand and I'm clamped, I'm clamped.'

Venables appears to say they looked like a 'pair of woofters'.

Sky Sports presenter and former footballer Chris Kamara, sitting on the sofa opposite, then laughed loudly, while the show's host Ben Shephard looked uncomfortable.

The 39-year-old then apologised for Venables' comment.

Richard Lane, spokesman for gay rights organisation Stonewall, said: 'This kind of language might have been acceptable in 1991 but seems really rather dated in Britain today.'

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Actress criticised for 'making an off-hand rape joke'

It was meant as a joke, but unfortunately for Jennifer Lawrence her rape quip at the Cannes Film Festival has seen her roundly criticised, even by those who were previously the actress's champions.

At an industry party hosted by Vanity Fair and Armani party on May 17, Jennifer's off the cuff and off-hand remark was overheard, duly noted and subsequently has snowballed into a PR nightmare for the 23-year-old.

Jennifer had revealed that when she first met Gravity director Alfonso Cuarón she started screaming and approached him saying: 'I broke out my rape scream for you!'

Celebrity blogger, Perez Hilton wrote: ‘We know you're always open and honest in interviews, but COME ON, a rape joke?!?

'We're sure she thought that what was said at the party was private, but even still, that's no excuse for a rape joke!! They're not funny, ever.’

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Jokes are dangerous these days.  She was presumably referring to the "casting couch".

Another episode of manufactured hate speech

Blacks have been known before to fake hate-speech against themselves.  It pays

A Tennessee man who was accused of using a racial slur on a receipt at a Red Lobster restaurant last year is suing the restaurant chain and the waitress who cashed in on the incident after she posted a copy of the receipt on the Internet.

Devin Barnes, 21, claims he never wrote the racial slur on the receipt, and that the negative attention he received as a result of the way Toni Christina Jenkins - the waitress who claims to have received the slur - publicized the incident is slanderous.

On the receipt, a photo of which was posted on Facebook and Youtube in September by the 19-year-old waitress, the line designated for a tip read 'none.' On the line for the total, it read 'n***er.'

Jenkins left a caption on the photo that was uploaded to her Facebook page that read 'This is what I got as a tip last night...so happy to live in the proud southern states...God Bless America, land of the free and home of the low class racists of Tennessee.'

Barnes' signature is visible in the photo directly below the offensive slur.

In the weeks following Jenkins' posting the photo on the web, the left-wing blog AddictingInfo.org started an online fundraiser for her that raised more than $10,000 - money Jenkins later said she planned to use to buy a car.

Barnes admits that he didn't tip Jenkins, but says he didn't tip her because the order was a takeout order - but he adamant that he never wrote the slurs on the receipt, and even hired a hand-writing analyst to take analyze the receipt.

The handwriting analyst found that 'no significant handwriting characteristics similarities' were found between the questioned 'total' entry line and the handwriting samples provided by Barnes and his wife, the Tennessean reports.

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Now BBC bans the G-word: Sports reporter joked that he’d been beaten in judo bout by a 19-year-old GIRL... so ‘sexist’ word cut from broadcast

Will the idiocy ever stop?

The BBC was embroiled in an extraordinary censorship row last night after cutting the word ‘girl’ from a documentary about the Commonwealth Games, fearing it might cause 'offence'.

Broadcaster Mark Beaumont, 31, joked after being hurled to the floor by a judo champion: ‘I am not sure I can live that down – being beaten by a 19-year-old girl.’

His remark was broadcast in full when the 30-minute episode of The Queen’s Baton Relay was first shown on the BBC News Channel in April.

But evidently sensitive to charges of sexism, BBC executives decided to edit out the word ‘girl’ when the programme was repeated last week, leaving an awkward pause in place of the offending word.

Asked by a viewer what had happened, Mr Beaumont tweeted: ‘Maybe the editor thought it was sexist – it wasn’t. I’m not worried about it.’

Even the judo champion involved, Cynthia Rahming, was left bemused. ‘I wasn’t offended – I didn’t find it sexist,’ she told The Mail on Sunday.

Elsewhere, it divided opinion, with some TV presenters, including Mariella Frostrup, 51, backing the BBC’s stance.

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Cis-Ridiculous.  How many labels do we need?

It’s time to come out of the closet: I am a cisgender woman.

I can see that you have a quizzical look on your faces. I suppose you don’t know what cisgender means. It is one of the 27,956 genders one can choose for oneself on a Facebook profile. A cisgender person identifies as the gender he or she was assigned at birth. “If a doctor said, ‘It’s a boy!’ when you were born, and you identify as a man, then you could be described as cisgender,” says the website BasicRights.org.

Wait, you are saying to yourselves, then aren’t you just a straight person? What is the difference between straight and cisgender?

According to a Tumblr blog called What-Does-Cis-Mean:

    "terms like cis allow us to identify when we mean cis men/women instead of always using men/women to mean cis men/women while always distinguishing trans men/women as the other. It places cis and trans people on equal ground."

I agree, that explanation was needlessly complicated. I will dumb it down for you. A cisgender is basically a non-transgender. But wait, you can’t say non-transgender. It is offensive for some reason. According to BasicRights, “referring to cisgender people as ‘non trans’ implies that cisgender people are the default and that being trans is abnormal.”

This is the main reasoning behind the existence of the word “cisgender.”

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Protecting the right to bear … opinions. About guns

Alan Korwin wanted to splash his in-your-face pro-gun message on bus-stop billboards across Phoenix but the city stopped him, forcing Korwin to tone down his language.

Korwin then took his case to court. Not long ago he won the latest round in what has been a nearly four-year legal slugfest. If the city doesn't appeal that decision Korwin will finally get to say what he wants to say about firearms in the way he wants to say it.

Phoenix officials removed 50 of Korwin's original ads, which said in big letters within a big red heart "Guns Save Lives." There was lots more language on the signs in small print and a reference to Korwin's commercial website tranmeaz.com. (The city required him to change the wording on the signs to "Guns Stop Crime" on a blue background.)

Lawyers from the Goldwater Institute's Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation argued Korwin's case. The local American Civil Liberties Union filed a supporting brief.

The government is supposed to stand up for the little guy, not make his life more difficult. Little guys have limited resources. Governments have access to what seems like an unlimited amount of our tax dollars. That's why Korwin worries about an appeal.

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Australian blogger faces fine over criticism of official body

A 47-YEAR-OLD blogger from Mount Gambier claims he will be the first person in South Australia to be charged under the state’s Independent Commission Against Corruption laws.

But the blogger, whose name cannot be published under the state’s ICAC legislation, will not be charged with corruption.

Anti-Corruption Branch officers from South Australian police raided his home on May 8 and seized his laptop computer for breaking the first rule of ICAC — talking about it on his blog.

The Australian has obtained a copy of the receipt police gave the blogger when they seized his ACER laptop and power cord, which are now classified as police “exhibits”.

In what could be a test case for the new laws, the blogger says police advised him he would be the first person in the state to be charged under section 56 of the ICAC Act — Publication of Information and Evidence — for blogging about an investigation.

He faces a $30,000 fine for breaching the act. “I was told, ‘Expect to be charged’, and that it was specific to that section,” he said.

“Obviously, I am fairly concerned. I asked them what it was all about, and they said it’s about something you said on your blog about ICAC, but they wouldn’t tell me what. I have got no idea what is going on at this point.”

The man said he had since sought advice from community legal services, but lawyers were unsure of his rights given the charges had not yet been laid.

“My legal advice is that they don’t know, because no one has ever had this enacted against them.”

His blog, which is still active, publishes a letter from ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander that reports on the outcome of an investigation launched after the man made a complaint to his local member of parliament. The letter said “No evidence has been located to substantiate any of the allegations” that were made by the man, and the file had been closed.

The blogger admitted he was critical of ICAC’s probe, but said he believed he should have a right to express an opinion about the authority.

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Student Suspended for Chemistry Joke in Her Yearbook

Senior class vice president and all-around model student Paris Gray tried out a  chemistry joke, but she didn't get a positive reaction from school administrators.

School administrators suspended Gray from her high school in Jonesboro, Georgia after they finally caught on to the joke that she had written for her personal quote in the yearbook. The quote read, "When the going gets tough just remember to Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus."

If you look on the periodic table, the elements Barium, Carbon, Potassium, Thorium, Astatine, Arsenic, Sulfur, Uranium, Phosphorus translate to [Ba][C][K] [Th][At] [As][S] [U][P], when you use their acronyms. Well played, Ms. Gray. Well played.

Sadly, school administrators don't share Gray's enthusiasm for the  nerdy joke. What began as a light-hearted quote to fondly remember her senior year could possibly threaten Gray's ability to attend graduation. Gray told local news station WSB-TV, "It just completely destroyed me, and my mom's been telling me don't let it ruin my happiness, but it's like really taking a big toll."

Update, May 20: Paris Gray will now be able to walk at graduation after meeting with the school district’s superintendent.

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Jokes are dangerous these days

Rapper Macklemore apologizes after he 'unintentionally' dressed up like Jewish caricature for secret Seattle show



"Progressive" hatred for Jews at work

Macklemore has released a statement to say he had not intended to resemble a Jewish caricature when he donned a 'random' costume for a Seattle show last week.

The rapper was branded 'anti-Semitic' after he appeared on stage at Seattle's Experience Music Project Museum wearing a long black wig, thick beard and large nose on Friday night.

But in a statement he released on his website on Monday night, he said that he had simply chosen random items to wear so that he could disguise himself while walking around at the secret show.

'Disguise was the intention,' he explained. 'I wasn't attempting to mimic any culture, nor resemble one. A "Jewish stereotype" never crossed my mind.'

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Must not give the impression that most criminals are black

Even if they are

Spain's Interior Ministry has come under fire for a crime prevention campaign in which all the burglars are black... but attempted to defend itself by saying it was inspired by the Three Wise Men.

The safety warning was criticised by anti-racism campaigners and opposition politicians after a series of posters warning against burglars only featured figures with black faces.

In one of the posters three of the figures can be seen riding on a camel, while another shows what appears to be a woman with a black face, arms and legs carrying a bag of  money.

The ministry has attempted to dismiss the allegations by saying the characters had been wearing balaclavas.

Their argument failed to impress critics however who pointed out the characters also had black hands and legs.

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Blogger 'bombarded Labour MP with abusive tweets branding her a witch after she supported campaign to feature Jane Austen on the £10 note'

I don't believe that threats of violence are entitled to free speech protection so I support this prosecution.  Threats of violence can be very disturbing to even well-balanced recipients

A twitter troll bombarded a Labour MP with abusive messages after she supported a successful campaign to feature Jane Austen on £10 notes, a court heard yesterday.

Peter Nunn, 33, is said to have passed on the ‘menacing’ messages threatening to rape Stella Creasy and calling her an ‘evil witch’.

Miss Creasy, MP for Walthamstow, was deluged with offensive messages after she backed a high-profile social media  campaign to ensure a female face would remain on banknotes.

The court heard Nunn both retweeted and composed messages in which  campaigners were threatened.

Feminist Caroline Criado-Perez launched the Austen campaign in July after the Bank of England replaced social activist Elizabeth Fry with Sir Winston Churchill on £5 notes. The Bank then announced the Pride And Prejudice author would replace Charles Darwin on the £10 note.

Alison Morgan, prosecuting, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court Nunn ‘embarked on a campaign of hatred in various different forms towards both women’.

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Is it OK for Hispanics to be racist?

New  Mexico state representative Miguel Garcia sent out an email in order to support another Democrat in his political race, but he’s gotten in trouble over his remarks that seemed to deride his opponents for being “anglo,” or white:

Garcia also lobbed race-based attacks against Otero and Barreras’ primary opponents, fellow Democrats Jim Danner and Teresa Smith de Cherif. Under a section titled “Treachery in Our Ranks Undermine Barreras and Otero”, Garcia wrote:

A minority of unsuspecting Democratic leaders are supporting the Democratic Anglo newcomer opponents in Andrew’s and Frank’s primary races. Anglo Democrats with egos as big as Texas, mouths as big as the Grand Canyon, and much “green” [moolah] from the East and the West Coast.

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Stealth Jew-Hate in Middle School

Jews are a great target for Leftist hate.

By this week, the Rialto Unified School District school board outside of Los Angeles was in full damage control, fending off universal opprobrium over a third-quarter English Language Arts argumentative writing/research project given to 2,000 eighth-graders. The breathtakingly ill-conceived assignment asked students to “read and discuss multiple, credible articles on this issue, and write an argumentative essay, based on cited textual evidence, in which you explain whether or not you believe [the Holocaust] was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”

Most critics denounced the assignment as absurd on its face, since it asked middle school students, after reading a only handful of brief research essays, to convince a reader that the Holocaust, one of the most documented historical events in modern human history, either happened or did not happen. Even more egregious than the notion that the Shoah might not have even occurred was the statement that, as the instructions for the assignment read, “some people claim the Holocaust is not an actual event, but instead is a propaganda tool.”

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Genetics theory slammed as ‘racist’

A plausible theory is not so much debated as denounced. To Leftists, all mention of genetics is "racist" and hence not to be discussed

A BOOK claiming genetics lies behind the emergence of ­Europe and parts of Asia as economic powerhouses has been criticised by scientists.

A Troublesome Inheritance by Nicholas Wade, a New York Times science writer for 30 years, says that since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, evidence of genetic differences has been mounting.

After our ancestors left Africa, he says, different groups of people evolved in slightly different ways to adapt to local conditions. The most successful of those people passed on their ­adaptations to their offspring.

Wade also challenges the consensus that human evolution stopped shortly after the Stone Age. “New analyses of the human genome have established that human evolution has been recent, copious, and regional,” he writes. Populations have changed, grown lactose intolerant for example, or adjusted to live at high altitudes or in severely cold climates, he writes.

This part of the book has been relatively well received. However, his subsequent argument that there are genetic group differences in behaviour and cognitive skills, and that human history can be explained by genetics has left him vulnerable to attack. In The Times of London yesterday, Matt Ridley said he couldn’t accept the idea that genes account for momentous events in history, such as the Industrial Revolution.

Wade says evidence from surnames shows that entrepreneurial Europeans out-bred their less-able citizens, creating a hotbed for creativity. “The ability of the rich to raise more surviving children slowly diffused the social behaviours required for modern prosperity into the wider society.”

These behaviours became the fertile soil for the Industrial Revolution, which vaulted Britain out of poverty and paved the way for Western domination. “The rise of the West is an event not just in history but also in human evolution,” he writes.

Ridley responded: “Yes, there would have been genetic change in European society as certain types of personality had more offspring. But surely this was not fast enough and large enough an effect to spark the ­Industrial Revolution”.

Wade’s argument has run into criticism elsewhere. The US statistician Andrew Gelman calls his book “racist”.

In the book, Wade points out that in the early 1950s Ghana and South Korea had similar economies. Thirty years later, South Korea had become the world’'s 14th-largest economy while Ghana’s had stagnated.

The author believes South Koreans valued thrift, investment, hard work, education and discipline while Ghanaians had different values, and he attributes these attitudes towards East Asian genes.

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