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And speaking of politically correct nonsense (via Sister Toldjah):

A story of political correctness gone crazy in Atlanta:

In the battle of the sexes, women’s magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight.

Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read “Men At Work” or “Men Working Ahead.”

Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men.

Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed.

Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday.

“They get it,” Good said about the city in a telephone interview.

Public Works officials are replacing 50 “Men Working” with signs that say “Workers Ahead.” It will cost $22 to cover over some of the old signs and $144 to buy new signs, said Public Works spokeswoman Valerie Bell-Smith said.

Good, founding editor of Atlanta-based PINK Magazine, a publication that focuses on professional women, said she’s not stopping with Atlanta.

“We’re calling on the rest of the nation to follow suit and make a statement that we will not accept these subtle forms of discrimination,” said Good, 48.

Good pressed the issue after Atlanta police came to her office last month on a complaint that she spray painted “wo” onto a “Men At Work” sign.

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Atlanta union leader Gina Pagnotta said some women employees of Atlanta Public Works complained about these signs years ago.

“It is a little bit bias to say ‘Men Working,’ ” said Pagnotta, president of the Professional Association of City Employees. “Women are working, too.”

This is as stupid as the whole manhole vs. personhole cover “debate.” Don’t these self-important nitwits have anything better to do?

Answer:  No they don’t.

Now, this is not a new battle by any means, but it’s been a while since it reared its head.

I guess this proves that even after being caught being stupid on live TV, it never totally dies.

The fool is defending his stupid comments.

Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price is sticking to his comments that the term “black hole,” which a colleague used, is racist.Price also says language such as “angel food cake” and “devil’s food cake” are also racially insensitive.

Go to the link to see video of this buffoon.  He also objects to Black Sheep.

A friend of mine pointed out:

 Did you notice his own racism rear its head.  The Jew vs barter comment was a dead giveaway.

Here is the video of the original incident…you make the call.

You can’t make this stuff up, I swear.

So according to these angry idiots we should sanitize any use of the words black or dark that could possible have any negative meaning.

I am all for removing offensive euphemisms from our society, but please, let’s not be ridiculous.

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At least that seems to be the consensus in Texas.

I swear, I read this today and I honestly was looking to make sure this was not parody.

It wasn’t. 

Dallas County officials spar over ‘black hole’ comment

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections “has become a black hole” because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud “Excuse me!” He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a “white hole.”

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

Sure.  Using the proper technical term for a gravitational anomaly, where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape it including light, as an analogy to an office where paperwork enters and never reappears….that’s racism?

Seriously?

Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term. A black hole, according to Webster’s, is perhaps “the invisible remains of a collapsed star, with an intense gravitational field from which neither light nor matter can escape.”

Other county officials quickly interceded to break it up and get the meeting back on track.

Good for them  Obviously clear thinking people recognized that this was a snipe hunt, a foolish complaint…

Well, actually no.  It was because:

TV news cameras were rolling, after all.

Sure.  No sense in looking like idiots simple because you were acting like idiots.

Michelle Malkin takes this tomfoolery to its logical conclusion:

Next on the p.c. forbidden list: black box, Blackberry, blackjack, and blackout. Oh, and all black Crayola crayons, which shall henceforth be called “African-American.”