I was at a client’s location today to check on a couple of minor problems they are having with their new computer system.  The owner of the business hired a new person who was having a hard time adjusting and wanting to use certain programs. After some discussion between me and the owner, the new employee became aware that I was working to be able to give her the programs that she was used to using.  The conversation went something like this:

New Employee:  I love you.  I’m Jane.*
Me: Uhm… I think love is just a little too much, too soon.  I think we should at least know each other’s names first. I’m Mark.
N.E.: Oh, Ok.  I’m Jane. I love you.

The owner and another worker were there and were laughing at the whole thing; which I also thought was funny.

* Name changed to protect the innocent.  Or… the not-so-innocent, whichever the case may be.  🙂

My sister is moving into a house she bought.  I took the trailer yesterday to get some used fencing for her.  After the fencing was delivered, she wanted me to look at the inside of the house.  I hadn’t eaten all day and was hungry, but I still took the time to look.  She then wanted me to look at a wall to determine if it could be moved.  By the time I left, I had spent an hour or more there.  I have a problem being around people who are smoking.  It affects me physically.  While I was there, there were about 3 or 4 people smoking in one room.

I woke up this morning feeling awful.  Ugh.

I like to read “Tongue Tied” on Foxnews.com.  It amazes me how supposedly normal human beings can come up with some of the “Politically Correct” nonsense that they do.  Tongue Tied is also available at http://www.tonguetied.us

Here are a couple of recent examples:

^{Amherst Regional High School will stop using the term “freshman” to refer to ninth-grade students because the term is not inclusive enough for some members of the faculty there, according to the Concord Monitor.}

^{Students in ninth grade will now be referred to as … wait for it …”ninth-graders” in all official documents and morning announcements.}

^{ARHS Assistant Principal Marta Guevara, who pushed for the change, said the decision to move away from “freshman” came about after a production of the The Vagina Monologues two years ago.}

^{Guevara said the school wants to make students “aware of the possible misogynistic, oppressive or non-inclusive language.”}

One thing I didn’t see being addressed anywhere is why there was apparently allowed to be a presentation of “The Vagina Monologues” at a high school.  Besides that, I think that the term “principal” should be disallowed because it will make the students feel inferior to the… uhm…. Assistant Director And Leader Of The School.  Or maybe they should just call them all cry-babies.

 ^{A high school paper has refused to run an ad from a local Korean-owned restaurant because it says imagery used in it promotes stereotypes and puts a minority group in a bad light, reports the Oregonian.}

^{John Lee, owner of the Hawaiian Grill restaurant in Cedar Mill, Ore., uses an illustration of an Asian man in his ads because it resembles himself. Administrators at Sunset High, however, say it is offensive.}

^{Lee, who immigrated from Korea at age 10, says he has been using his logo on signs and menus for years with no complaint. “I’m Asian American, so why would I want to make fun of Asians?” he said. “Why are we pushing the racial issue to the farthest extent?”}

So… are the administrators saying that Lee is offensive?  Since his ad “resembles himself”, one could extrapolate that.  That would make the administrators racists, hmmm?

^{Supporters of Transgender rights will kick off what’s being described as the first “Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Job and Education Fair” in New York in December, according to Reuters.}

^{At least 10 companies already have signed up for the fair, organizers said, and as many as 25 might show up. One of the main things on the agenda, they say, is that pesky male-female that unfairly dominates public discourse in America.}

^{Damien Domenack, a landscaper, says society’s “two-gender system” poses a problem in everything from job applications to drivers’ licenses to health-insurance forms. He wants a third option, to describe gender preference.}

^{“We’re limited to two boxes, male and female,” said Domenack, 24, who was born female and calls herself a “transman.” “There’s just two options, and I can’t put my true identity.”}

Your “true identity”, Damien, is female.  Get over it.

I have often been amazed at how clueless some women can be.  I readily admit that men are largely pigs AND clueless; but that doesn’t mean women are any less so clueless with their own brands of idiocy.  Yes, there are both perfectly fine men (I like to think I’m one) and perfectly fine women.

The reason I mention clueless women is because of a guest that was on the Dr. Phil show.  She said something that completely amazed me.She was pregnant — for the second time — by a complete louse.  He was a perfect example of Man-Pig as can be found.  They had been engaged more than once and obviously in a horrible relationship. The first time she was pregnant he toldher if she got fat while she was pregnant, he would cheat on her.  So, she “terminated the pregnancy.”They outlined a bunch of the problems and she wanted to know if she should “kick him to the curb.”  Then, when Dr. Phil outlined some of the thing the Man-Pig had said and done, she says something like, “Well, he hasn’t really taken the time to get to know me.”

WHAT?!?  SO WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN BED WITH HIM, THEN!!!  Ahem… Excuse me.  But, seriously…. can a woman be so clueless that she doesn’t see that she shouldn’t be pregnant, AGAIN, by an obvious man-pig, who has proven that he’s a man-pig, and celebrates his man-piggishness? 

Oh, dumb question.  Obviously she can, since I just saw one on the Dr. Phil show.

Sigh.