Archers, Dentists, Seamstresses Now Offended
The U.S.-Canadian military commands responsible for protecting North America from terrorists have changed the names of key readiness exercises to more politically correct words that do not offend American Indians. [. . .]
An exercise called “Amalgam Chief” has been changed to “Amalgam Arrow,” the message states. And an exercise dubbed “Amalgam Fabric Brave” is now “Amalgam Fabric Dart.” “Fabric Indian” was deleted in favor of “Fabric Sabre.”
The problem is more serious than we initially thought, gentlemen. For starters, the US is going to have to rename pretty well nearly all of its military helicopters, past and present. A few that come to mind (well, with some assistance from Wikipedia): Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Black Hawk, Shawnee, Chinook.
Canada gets off a bit easier. Our Iroquois-class destroyers will have to find some other designation, assuming we indeed still have any. Fortunately our naval helicopters are immune from this revisionism, unless I’m overlooking some obscure Indian tribe called the Sea Kings that specialized in falling out of the sky.
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Wogblogger is doing a travelogue as she drives across the UK. Some interesting pics of her travels so far.
The latest The New Libertarian is up for your reading leasure.
Its Monday, so BOMS must be up. And, of course, as of yesterday we had Britbloggers doing their thang, as is the Bonfire. Check out the logo for this week’s CoV; its rather clever.
The new issues of Brainwash is available for your reading pleasure.
David reports that the Germans are bashing the US again. Good to see they don’t have anything useful to concentrate on; like maybe a failing economy.
John Hawkins now has a list of right-of-centre bloggers favourite people on the right.
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Dan Lewis has a piece in today’s WSJ about the subject. A few points:
i) emissions are still rising
ii) electricity prices have risen
iii) high volatility in the price of carbon disuading long-term investment in cleaner technology
He is rather critical of carbon emission trading. Go read the piece it’s rather good and terribly interesting.
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