In which the writer discusses the left's obsession with inventing its own dialect, which will eventually become even more incomprehensible to the rest of us.
[NYPOST] You’ve probably heard that the city of Berkeley, Calif., is banning the use of the word "manhole" because it isn’t gender-neutral ‐ meaning it has that deplorable word "man" in it.
Instead, the city ‐ where, in case you’re interested, I once had the pleasure of seeing a young woman walking on the street with a live rat adorning her shoulder ‐ wants to use the phrase "maintenance hole" to describe that thing people go butt-first into to fix stuff underground.
The city probably could have come up with a better gender-neutral phrase except that "ass hole" ‐ for the butt-first maneuver, you see ‐ was already in use in a much different context.
Why am I bringing this up in a column about money and the economy and such? Because I think it’s about time. Those three letters in order ‐ M-A-N ‐ should be barred from the English language, or at least the American version of it, except when someone is actually pointing to a guy who has done something wrong.
"That man over there robbed the bank," for instance, would be okay.
I’m also bringing it up because the abolition of those three letters could have widespread implications on how we report the economy and business in the years ahead. And I’m going to fix these problems right now before I have an urge to get off my chair and do some manly thing I might regret.
Berkeley already fixed the word "manpower" ‐ which is often used in discussions of the economy. The city’s code now says "human effort" or "workforce" will replace "manpower."
Pretty awkward, I think. "Manpower" does not mean "workforce" in any economic sense. Like "it took a lot of workforce (manpower) to get the job done" just isn’t right.
Instead of "man-power", why not use the word Leslie ‐ a name that can be either male or female? So, to use it in a sentence: "Lesliepower issues have been resolved as the city hired more workers" ‐ of both sexes, of course.
It might take a while, but "Lesliepower" will eventually catch on.
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Is a "Ladies' Man" now only called a "Persons' Person" in Newspeak?
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I was under the impression that the suffix 'man' in words like 'postman' comes from the German indefinite pronoun 'man' meaning 'one' and is already gender neutral. Example: One often sees them - Man sieht Sie oft.
I wonder who would be more surprised and appalled at our modern world, Orwell or Huxley?
[Right Scoop] Yesterday in Hermitage, Tennessee, ICE officers tried to arrest an illegal for deportation. But the man’s neighbors intervened and prevented ICE from arresting him:
NEWS CHANNEL 5 ‐ An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent tried to bring a man in Hermitage into custody, but neighbors formed a human chain to allow the man and his son to get home.
This happened Monday morning in the area of Brooke Valley Drive and Forest Ridge Drive. The man had entered into his van with his son when an ICE vehicle blocked him in.
[NYPOST] Over the weekend, young toughs with buckets full of water randomly soaked cops in Harlem and Brownsville just for the hell of it. At one point, an officer got conked on the head by an empty plastic bucket ‐ to the vast amusement of jeering onlookers.
It was apparently an internet challenge sort of thing ‐ and a horrifying sight, at least to those who understand the implications of unchallenged anarchic public behavior.
But it should have surprised no one.
The NYPD, under orders from City Hall, has been standing down for years now ‐ watching fare-beaters beating fares, pot-dealers dealing pot and addicts and insane people defecating in the streets, all without consequence.
And the street people have been watching the cops watching them, but without objection, and all of a sudden the penny drops ‐ Pax Guiliana is over, and now the bad guys believe they can get away with anything.
If the bucket-brigade action is fair testimony, they can.
The irony is that Mayor Running-for-President set out to rid the city of broken-windows policing ‐ the well-tested notion that little crimes left unaddressed beget bigger crimes ‐ and he succeeded. Now the subways stink of urine and it has all come roaring back.
When an in-your-face town like New York suddenly realizes that City Hall tolerates minor crime ‐ as a matter of social equity, no less ‐ it gets more of it, fast. Presently, citizens are pouring water on cops. One shudders to think what comes next.
Tuesday the usual suspects were on about how wonderfully restrained the officers were in response ‐ as if, given present circumstances, they had any choice.
But make no mistake: The cops were victims of a crime ‐ assault on a police officer ‐ and the bucket-to-the-head could have been charged as a Class D felony.
This is all very dangerous stuff ‐ because cops who are made to look absurd in public will be regarded as absurd by the public. The command presence backed by the moral authority of the city will have evaporated ‐ and Gotham will have taken a giant step back to the Lindsay administration’s potted-plant approached to policing: Roll up and take a crime report, but only when necessary, and otherwise stay out of sight.
Anybody wondering how that story ends should just stream "Taxi Driver."
Obviously, Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly... never saw it. While Lindsay presided over a catastrophic decline in public safety, Kaiser Wilhelm is hell-bent on accelerating one of his own ‐ largely because, like Lindsay, he panders to constituencies that have trouble distinguishing between criminals and their victims.
Layer on top of that de Blasio’s embrace of disparate impact in policing ‐ the notion that minorities are overcharged relative to their numbers in the community, never mind that minorities tend disproportionately to be victimized by other minorities ‐ and the table is set for real trouble.
Oh, sure, the official statistics suggest the city remains safe. But de Blasio’s crew is hard pressed to tell the truth about anything, let alone embarrassing stats; guns are going off in disturbingly large numbers all over town; Comptroller Scott Stringer is an astonishingly uncurious watchdog ‐ and the city hasn’t felt this chaotic since the Dinkins administration.
If ever there was a time for One Police Plaza to stand tall, this is it. And maybe that’s going to happen.
"Our detectives are looking for who was involved [in the bucket incidents], and arrests will be made," said NYPD chief of department Terence Monahan Tuesday. "That is not acceptable to our men and women who are out there."
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Andy would engage the youthful miscreants in dialog and explain that their behavior was both impolite and not conducive to good social order. He would express his disinterest in repeating this conversation. It would also hurt.
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Thanks to two decades of aggressive policing, Compatat, and application of 'broken windows' theories, NYC actually became a safe and orderly place to live and work.
Under Giuliani and Bloomberg, the murder rate fell nearly 90 percent.
Violent crime also fell. The squeegee men and other shakedown artists, street pervs and nuts disappeared.
ALL of the current mess - 100% of it - is attributable to the incompetent left-wing clown who currently occupies Gracie Mansion - that is, when he's not running for president as clown-candidate #37.
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ALL of the current mess - 100% of it - is attributable to the incompetent left-wing clown who currently occupies Gracie Mansion - that is, when he's not running for president as clown-candidate #37.
[American Thinker] Democrats have cynically dined out for years on the false narrative that President Trump was always trying to hold down Puerto Rico.
Taking a page from the number they did on President Bush in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they claimed that the U.S. territory, ravaged as it was by Hurricane Maria in 2017, was intentionally not getting the aid it needed, all because Trump was a racist who hated them. Remember this dreck from Democratic Party standard-bearer, Hillary Clinton, who said she wasn't sure President Trump actually knew that Puerto Ricans are citizens? This is an actual narrative from Democrats.com themselves, and it snapped into place the moment the hurricane touched down in 2017.
It can't be emphasized too much how Democrats have tried to push this narrative. Remember this? The big Democrat shindig that took place in Puerto Rico to highlight Trump's supposed badness about helping the island ‐ which happened at a time when the government was in a shutdown?
SAN JUAN, P.R. ‐ It had been planned for months: the largest-ever congressional delegation to Puerto Rico. It would start with briefings on the continuing effects of Hurricane Maria, end with a charity performance of "Hamilton" and include a little down time on the beach.
And then the government shut down.
As they returned to Washington for Monday night votes, the 39 members of Congress who traveled to Puerto Rico over the weekend were taking fire from Fox News, President Trump's communications team and the president himself.
The White House seized on the idea of Democrats "partying on the beach instead of negotiating," as polls have found most voters blaming Trump for the 24-day impasse over funding the federal government, the longest shutdown in history.
Trump tried to highlight that the local Puerto Rican government, loaded as it was with Trump-hating leftists, was the reason the aid wasn't getting through. Trump sent aid swiftly and was angry that it sat on the docks as Puerto Rican leftist pols postured for the press. Remember how San Juan's leftist mayor cried all those crocodile tears against Trump as the press fawned and Democrats claimed her as their own? Yet Trump said the aid was there, and it generally just went to waste, all because Puerto Rican officials ‐ with weird ties to the Clinton machine, by the way ‐ couldn't lay off the corruption for just a few weeks.
[Daily Item] When Dow Corning faced thousands of lawsuits in the 1990s from women saying they had become sick from the company’s silicone gel breast implants, its parent firm, Dow Chemical, turned to one of the country’s leading experts in corporate bankruptcies: Professor Elizabeth Warren.
Warren, now a Democratic presidential candidate, has never publicly discussed her role in the case. Her campaign said that she was "a consultant to ensure adequate compensation for women who claimed injury" from the implants and that a $2.3 billion fund for the women was started "thanks in part to Elizabeth’s efforts."
But participants on both sides of the matter say that description mischaracterizes Warren’s work, in which she advised a company intent on limiting payments to the women.
"She was on the wrong side of the table," said Sybil Goldrich, who co-founded a support group for women with implants and battled the companies for years. Goldrich said Dow Corning and its parent "used every trick in the book" to limit the size of payouts to women. The companies, she added, "were not easy to deal with at all."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...
[American Thinker] Democrats have cynically dined out for years on the false narrative that President Trump was always trying to hold down Puerto Rico. 
[Daily Item] When Dow Corning faced thousands of lawsuits in the 1990s from women saying they had become sick from the company’s silicone gel breast implants, its parent firm, Dow Chemical, turned to one of the country’s leading experts in corporate bankruptcies: Professor Elizabeth Warren.
