PC does nothing but dilute the language, it does not change ideas. 30 years ago you would call someone “retarded” to insult them. Now you can call them “special” to accomplish the same thing. The insult and the feeling behind it is the same. Those who think PC accomplishes anything useful are “special”.

You’re right. Liberals are more likely to call a short person “vertically challenged”, or to call Black people “African Americans” even if they’re from France or Spain.

What the neocons do is significantly more malignant than imposing political correctness standards — it’s LYING. Through their teeth. See the history of War Hero Bush’s involvement in Iraq for a shining example.

That was just a dig at paul. If I was serious, then I would have called him King George the Worst and maybe quoted some of his actual re-writings or re-interpretations of history. It was just in fun.

Yes, you are very offensive !!!

Almost everyone here has missed the point. This not about a war in Iraq or killing civilians or 3000 dead. It is about a NURSERY RHYME. Most of the common nursery rhymes we hear today have some history to them, some so obscure that they have been lost in time.

Ring Around the Rosie is a rhyme about the black death.

London Bridge is Falling Down, is based on a true story about, yup, London Bridge falling down.

Humpty Dumpty is about a huge cannon that fell over after being hit by another cannon shot during the English Civil War.

Little Miss Muffet is based upon a true story of a little girl who’s father studied bugs in the 1600s.

Mary Mary Quite Contrary is about “Bloody Mary”, Queen of England who executed hundreds of people for continuing their Protestant faith. The silver bells and cockleshells were the instruments of torture used before their heads were lopped off.

And Baa Baa Black Sheep is about taxation.

The moral of the story is Bush wants to rewrite history.

That’s what I was referring to up above. Nothing new about the “good guys” killing civilians for military reasons. I happen to think they’re wrong. I offer no forgiveness for Japanese atrocities during that war.

I recognize the courage required among Japanese veterans — even after all these years — to go back to China and help remove and dismantle WMD buried and left behind when they surrendered. Their government opposes such behavior!

I don’t think that we need to go out of our way to offend anyone. But at the same time, I think the *victim* mentality is becoming so pervasive that you can’t publicly say anything any more without offending someone or something.

Today I read that city of St. Paul employees were ordered to take down their easter bunny’s and eggs because that may offend non-christians. I read yesterday that a radio sports show host in St. Louis was fired on-air for a slip of the tongue, he was praising Condi Rice and her love of football and used the word *coon* instead of *coup* and was fired on-air for making a horrificly disparaging remark that offended blacks. What happened to fairness? The guy didn’t mean to say it, slap his wrist and accept his apology(which he gave instantly after saying the word as he realized he said the wrong word) and get on with life. After all, the most senior Democrat in the Senate was a KKK member for years, but no one holds that against him anymore.

And Moss…..one sided history is nice, but not correct. The Japanese weren’t sitting at home knitting stockings, they had been killing hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Chinese, Filapino’s, and others prior to the H bomb. Al Quida wasn’t just killing military members, they were killing civilians, 3000 here, a couple hundred in Indonesia, a couple hundred more in Madrid, etc., etc……do you think we just decided to go kill civilians for the fun of it? Being anti-war is not a terrible thing, but being blind to reality is. What would you have us do when a terror group attacks civilians and kills 3000 innocent people in our country? Maybe I’m a war monger, and a bad christian, because I don’t believe we could turn the other cheek.
I agree with you that we didn’t need to go into Iraq, but we are there and we need to clean up our mess. I don’t condone everything that our troops do, if they killed civilians without provocation they should be held accountable, but civilian deaths in war is unavoidable, and thats just a fact.

If we ever DO get over run by terrorists, it will be because War Hero Bush turned Iraq, with its tinhorn dictator and squabbling factions, into an incubator for Al Qaeda, churning out more terrorists every day than Osama and his dialysis machine used to be able to in a year.

And all the Iraqis (those who are still alive) got to show for it was a civil war.

And calling John Kerry a FLIP-FLOPPER!!!!! HAW HAW HAW HAW! Compared to whom? The Flip-Flopper-In-Chief??????? HAW!