DOES THIS COLUMN OFFEND YOU? GOOD!

Are you easily offended? Does your little ego bruise easily? Do you think everyone else in America ought to give a darn about your self-esteem? Do your eyes fill with tears every time you perceive someone is being insensitive to you? Do you live under the delusional belief that you should be protected against being offended? Do you believe that anytime you are offended someone should be fired; have their life ruined or character trashed?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions you need to shut up, grow up, stop throwing your little pity parties and get a life! Frankly, you and those like you are a major part of what is wrong with America today. Your constant carping and whining are adding nothing positive to this great nation. Instead, the climate of perpetual offendedness and hypersensitivity you are creating is sapping the great spirit of rugged individualism that made America the greatest nation to ever exist in this world’s history.

Think for a moment if the Founding Fathers had been the type of wimpy whiners so many Americans are today? There would be no America would there? Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and the rest would have been so busy filing discrimination suits and attending counseling sessions that they would have never gotten around to the business of creating a new nation.

How very pathetic these maddening wimpy attitudes are! So many in America think every thing and everyone should bend, change and alter their standards and rules so as not to exclude or offend them. How else do we explain the phenomenon of those who want to join the Boy Scouts, but ONLY if the Scouts change their rules to accommodate their over inflated sense of self-importance? Look if you are an Atheist and saying the Scouts pledge bothers you, you have a choice. You can either say the pledge and not believe a word of it, or you can start your own scouting group.

Yes! Yes! Yes! You could actually stop feeling sorry for yourself, start a scouting organization, and leave the Boy Scouts alone. Oh but that is not good enough. You, the offended feel an insatiable need to force your views onto the Boy Scouts. After all, it is all about you, your ego and your little feelings isn’t it.

If you happen to pass by a Confederate cemetery in a sleepy Southern town and see a Confederate flag or a statue of a Confederate soldier and are offended by it what do you, the offended do? Drive on, thinking that you disagree with those symbols but recognize that the descendants of those soldiers deserve their piece of history? Oh no, not you! You begin ranting about racism and lynchings, start threatening lawsuits, and demand those symbols disappear!

Why would you take such an absurd stance? Well because you are offended, that is why. It should not matter that by ripping down those symbols you are spitting on the graves of those heroic soldiers and their families. It should not matter that you are erasing history and fomenting ignorance! To Hell with history you are offended and nothing else matters does it?

You, the easily offended, see a manger scene, or possibly a monument with the Ten Commandments on it. A mentally well-adjusted person, even if they were an Atheist, would pass by and think nothing of it. Not you though! Oh, no!

You are just looking to get offended so off you go. You dial your local ACLU attorney, who of course you have on speed dial, and start crying like the spineless jellyfish you are.

How dare any mention of anything even remotely resembling anything religious enter your hypersensitive field of vision? Someone has to pay for this act of treason against your all-important ego. Let the lawsuits begin! Christmas parade? Not in your presence by George! Is that an angel you see? Better not be, lest someone suffer your wrath! Moreover, Heaven help anyone who dares to even think about singing a Christmas carol in school! You are Offendedsauras and you will crush them under your hypersensitive feet!

Let some teacher dare to teach a child what the word niggardly means. Just let them try that! You and your egomaniacal cohorts will never allow that! Never mind the fact that the word niggardly means nothing racial at all. It means stingy or begrudging, but that does not matter a bit does it?

It sounds like another word, the infamous “N” word! So because it sounds like a racial slur children may not even be taught about it! How very brilliant you easily offended types are. You would rather have children grow up ignorant and offended than educated and not offended. You would rather erase words from the dictionary than explain their meanings to children.

So let us be very clear here. The hypersensitive folks who we always hear bellyaching about how someone or something has upset their emotional applecart have an agenda -- to force their delusional, twisted and intellectually bankrupt ideals upon the rest of us. Are we going to put up with that? Are we willing to have every word we utter controlled by their standards? I don't think so!

Now then, to any of the easily offended sorts who are currently pulling their hair out, hyperventilating and pounding out the ACLU phone number out while reading this -- a very heartfelt message from me...

If my column has, in any way offended you, or hurt your feelings, or caused you emotional duress or has forced you to seek therapy, let me say: "GOOD!"

Zeroisanumber,

You have fallen into the trap of the left. Religion is important to our founding fathers and it shows in Constitution and other USA owner's manuals (should be required reading for all). There is no seperation of church and state, but limiting Congress from preventing them from making a certain religion the only one or banning a group just because they don't like Catholics.

If the community is great majority of Christian, then why should they have to put up Islamic or Jewish displays. Not saying if those groups want to put up displays on public spaces, then should be allowed and give room.

The Conderate Flag has many means, just like any symbol. Slavery was an issue that led up to the Civil War, but the Slavery issue was brought to get more Union folk to sign up to continue the war effort. The South almost won, even being out-numbered and out-supplied. The North illegally invaded the south after the states removed themselves from the union in a legal manner: a vote by the state governments and a general election in some states.

Slavery would have ended in much better manner than by the sword: Technology. The forced nature of their freedom increased the hatred for blacks, which until the 60's suffered under harsh laws and policies both north and south. A good section of the Union had no interest in fighting to free the slaves and several generals have made a comment on the subject. The country had a good chance of returning together after their problems were resolved, but Lincoln did not want to be the president holding the bag of "politic" shit. He invaded on a flimsy excuse and his papers that attempted to make it legal misses many landminds that made it: illegal. Just avoid talking about it and hopefully no one will notice.

Historically , the BSA never had the reference to God in the oath until the cold war kicked in, "under God" was added to a lot of organizations oaths and pledges to fight those godless commies. The oath is a cold war relic. But now the folks running the show at the BSA turn an increasingly secular population away from scouting because of it (... I guess running with the theory that only kids who have religion can be "morally straight"). Freedom works both ways, I'll exercise my right to call the folks running the BSA self-righteous dillholes and take my children elsewhere. But I support their right to be self-righteous dillholes, but don't expect be to give them a damn penny of my tax dollars.

The whiners of the world make me sick, including the whiners who whine about the other whiners.

Enough whining already! Enjoy the little time we have here on earth. Have some fun. Dig it now!

The rest of the world is going to do what it's going to do whether you smile or cry.

So, smile! And, trust God.

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