"...does calling a turd a magnolia blossom make the stink go away?"

"A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet." Mr. Shakespeare, an incrediby wise observer of the human condition, expressed that in such a gentlemanly way centuries ago. Not much changes, does it?

Although it begs to be mentioned: a high school diploma once required the demonstrated ability to read and understand his wisdom as well as other geniuses from the distant past. Now we know old people and dead people are...passe'. :) Our children are smarter. But I digress. At least I got it over with so I won't be doing the digression from identifiable subject matter!!

Without William's historical perspective, we could be thinking that the attempt to change perceptions by changing the words we use to identify them was invented by Madison Avenue, or current day tinhorn politicians and academicians. Did I say 'tinhorn'? Tells you how old I am...I think 'tinhorn' has been replaced by 'esteemed.' So much for the life cycle of a word...soon to be 2 words....

So here's the question, more crudely put: does calling a turd a magnolia blossom make the stink go away? No? So far so good. And you see where I'm going. Welcome to today's rant!

Is shit Shinola if we say it is? Would you polish your shoes with it? Apparently there's a swarm of elitist bastards out there who think if they can get you to accept a change of nomenclature, they can continue keeping you under their thumb and kissing their toes for it.

It pleases me to see the comeuppance of the language counterfeiters has arrived. Think about it.

If being patriotic and productive and wanting to make your own choices makes you a racist, then do you really care nowadays if you're called a racist?

If being older, non-violent, and cleaning up after yourself makes you a hater, do you change your behaviour?

If you have more widgets than your neighbor, does that mean you're a thief?

If ignorance of history, fundamental economics, logic and critical thinking mean you're 'educated', does it really bother you to be called Homer Simpson? Should you spend $500K+++ and 4-10 years of your life getting your certification that you are amongst those ignoranti?

If feeding , caring for, and educating your own family is 'dangerous' to The State', then do you turn the welfare of your family over to these reptiles?

Now don't get me started on nonPC stuff about race(if we call ourselves by another name every 15 years, we won't be stereotyped by prior behaviour---unless we're white or Oriental)), gender((if I'm the same as what I'm not(!), when convenient, then I can demand the results of what I'm not)) ethnicity(If I say I'm part of a religion, you must respect my intent to live next to you until I choose to remove your head), intelligence(if I'm not as smart in a given area as someone else,but we change my name from idiot, to moron, to imbecile, to retard to 'cognitively challenged',we can...can..what?) ...figure those out yourselves so I won't go to jail. As soon.


If 'freedom' is 'slavery', is slavery desirable?

I think we've reached a point where there's a bunch of us choosing not to flee reality and remaking the world to our liking by playing word games. Ironically, that's when we can re-make our world for real. Metaphorically, we can re-introduce DDT to the pests of our culture and civilization.

I think anonymous is bringing the sweet tea this evening. Stick around. Share your own rant with us!!