The pussification of the UK continues unabated

I don’t even have to comment here (although I will).  Just read these two lists.  The first list are words REMOVED from the Oxford University Press’ children’s dictionary.

Carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe

Dwarf, elf, goblin

Abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister, monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil, vicar

Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, decade

adder, ass, beaver, boar, budgerigar, bullock, cheetah, colt, corgi, cygnet, doe, drake, ferret, gerbil, goldfish, guinea pig, hamster, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark, leopard, lobster, magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, ox, oyster, panther, pelican, piglet, plaice, poodle, porcupine, porpoise, raven, spaniel, starling, stoat, stork, terrapin, thrush, weasel, wren.

Acorn, allotment, almond, apricot, ash, bacon, beech, beetroot, blackberry, blacksmith, bloom, bluebell, bramble, bran, bray, bridle, brook, buttercup, canary, canter, carnation, catkin, cauliflower, chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, crocus, dandelion, diesel, fern, fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut, ivy, lavender, leek, liquorice, manger, marzipan, melon, minnow, mint, nectar, nectarine, oats, pansy, parsnip, pasture, poppy, porridge, poultry, primrose, prune, radish, rhubarb, sheaf, spinach, sycamore, tulip, turnip, vine, violet, walnut, willow

Can you imagine a dictionary, even a child’s dictionary, that did not define words like cracker or bloom?  What, kids don’t see crackers on tables or flowers in a box or pot?  The urbanization of the UK is not a valid excuse for this.  And bacon?  They removed bacon so as to promote multiculturalism?  No. They removed bacon because the very word in a god-damned dictionary offends Muslims.  Or the simpering foppy Brits think it will, anyway.  Truth is, it probably doesn’t offend anyone.  Brits have white guilt too, and they have turned their country inside-out in pursuit of absolution.

And speaking of simpering fops, here’s the list of words added:

Blog, broadband, MP3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue

Celebrity, tolerant, vandalism, negotiate, interdependent, creep, citizenship, childhood, conflict, common sense, debate, EU, drought, brainy, boisterous, cautionary tale, bilingual, bungee jumping, committee, compulsory, cope, democratic, allergic, biodegradable, emotion, dyslexic, donate, endangered, Euro

Apparatus, food chain, incisor, square number, trapezium, alliteration, colloquial, idiom, curriculum, classify, chronological, block graph

Yeah.  The excuse that the dictionary can only be so big is also nonsense.  These choices were made with a purpose.  They removed particular things and included others.  Include “tolerant” but remove “corgi?” Why?  Because the Queen has corgis and the kids might take an interest in the monarchy and learn British history or something horrible like that?

It’s a seemingly silly thing about which to get mad - and I’m not really mad so much as bemused at the further decline of a once-great civilization - but it’s a million little cuts like this that will bleed identity and pride out of a nation until no one gives a crap about it anymore.  And that, to me, is a shame.

Hat tip: Breda

Posted by JimK at 03:56 PM on December 08, 2008
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Obsession

I cannot believe Andrew Sullivan is still obsessing over Sarah Palin’s pregnancy.

What’s worse is his sycophantic followers refuse to call him out on his lunacy.  Worse than that is the fact that he has any fans who still take him seriously.  It says a lot about the idiocy of a person when they still read Sullivan as though he makes any god-damned sense at all.  The man is mentally ill.  Actually mentally ill, not just someone who says things I disagree with.  If he’s not mentally ill?  He’s an outright horrible human being and should be shunned by anyone claiming to have a shred of decency in their body.

St. Andrew of the Bleeding Heartache has gone around the bend, and it is high time his little band of sycophants admitted it.

Posted by JimK at 03:39 PM on December 05, 2008
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Would Obama really give Hillary the Secretary of State job?

Did Obama offer Hillary the Sec.State job solely to “find out” that he “can’t” give it to her because her husband is a walking scandal machine?  He gets to pretend that he wanted her while other elements in the party trash her up one side and down the other?

In other words, is this all a double-bluff in order to remind everyone that Hillary comes with Bill, Bill is bad news and ultimately eliminate her power in the party?

*UPDATE*

...and will it work?  Are the Clintons well and truly over?

Posted by JimK at 01:19 AM on November 18, 2008
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Thank a vet

Thank a vet today.  In general and specifically for what they did to serve this country.  They’re all braver people than I, and probably you too. :)

To any vets reading this: your service is greatly appreciated, and I can only hope that you consider any sacrifices you made (or are making) to defend this country worth the cost.

Posted by JimK at 04:08 PM on November 11, 2008
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I need this bumper sticker

While I will NOT suffer from New BDS - Barack Derangement Syndrome - I just thought of something I kind of want on my car.  Not so much as a protest against Barack Obama, but more as a protest against what the Republicans did (and will probably still do until they wise up or implode) to good and decent men.  I want this on a bumper sticker:

Yeah...I’m all sorts of funny.

That having been said, I will NEVER play that “He’s not MY President” game.  Barack Obama will be my President.  What concerns me much more is that my Congress is full of old-school demagogues and big, BIG spenders with no one to stop them.  If you thought Pelosi and Reid were unconscionable before?  Shit...you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

Be far more worried about Congress than what Obama may or may not do.  And with that I congratulate Obama, his supporters and retire for the evening to hunt through the Wastelands of D.C. for a dog to keep me company. [/fallout3] I’m sure there’s a lesson in there somewhere, or a metaphor or something.  You figure it out...I’m gonna go play. ;)

Posted by JimK at 02:13 AM on November 05, 2008
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What comes next

Obama will win.  It’s 9:23 PM on election night and there’s a mathematical possibility that McCain can win, but let’s face it - he never really had a chance.  Not at his age, and not by turning UberRepublicanRovianStyle Republican.  He needed to be conservertarian and he wasn’t.

So what do we do now?  LET THE DEMOCRATS RUN WILD.  Sit back.  Say nothing for a year or so.  Let them destroy the economy and attempt to become Europe Junior.  Anyone with any sense knows that is a recipe for disaster.  The economy will go the way it always does when men like this are at the helm.  LET IT.

Do whatever you can to cash in.  Take all the “free” money you can get your hands on.  Milk the system.  Take take take.  Break it.  Break it all.  Watch the lamentations of the populace as things get worse and worse and worse.

8 months before the midterms, step up and offer to get the adults back running things again.  People will clamor for center-right conservative/libertarian leadership.

Drink yourself silly tonight, and maybe this weekend too.  Get ready for 2010 and 2012. The country will be begging for relief from the Euro-lite policies of a Democrat government run amok.

Posted by JimK at 11:22 PM on November 04, 2008
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VOTE

Gonna go cast my essentially useless vote today, as I live in a blue-to-its-heart state.  Hopefully I can cast my vote...I just called the State Elections Commission to find out if the typo of my name on the rolls will prevent me from voting.  The helpful lady at the hotline said no.  I should be good to go as long as my address matches and my name can be discerned.

Can’t wait for the day to be over.  Cross your fingers, everyone. Republican, Democrat, Independent, Red, Blue, Purple, Yellow Dog, Redneck, Hippy, Liberal, Conservative, Green, Libertarian...whatever you are, cross your fingers and PRAY the answer is settled before dawn.  NO COURT DECISIONS.  That’s what we *all* want.  A simple, decisive answer.  Let’s all hope that is how this goes.

Now if you haven’t yet...go vote.

Posted by JimK at 04:36 PM on November 04, 2008
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A note about the use of “raising all boats” as campaign rhetoric

The ONLY way to raise everyone’s boat evenly?  YOU HAVE TO CREATE MORE WATER.  Some people don’t seem to understand that they are misusing the phrase.

Learn how creating more water applies to this election and vote accordingly.

Posted by JimK at 06:10 PM on November 03, 2008
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Limit government to its constitutional powers? That’s crazy talk!

Instapundit:

SO PEOPLE ON THE LEFT AND RIGHT ARE BOTH worried sick about the election. Both seem more worried about the other guys controlling the White House than anxious to win themselves.  (Some are very worried).  They’re right to be worried, of course, at least to a degree.  The Presidency is an office of great power.

On the other hand, if the federal government were properly limited to its constitutional powers, there would be much less to fear, and elections would be less stressful for all concerned.  Just a thought.

WHAT. HE. SAID.

Posted by JimK at 03:31 PM on November 03, 2008
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Redistribution

Posted by JimK at 02:53 PM on October 31, 2008
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