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Heath, Deborah and Adolph Hitler Campbell

This is a tough one. A ShopRite in New Jersey refused to write a child’s name on a birthday cake because the child’s name is Adolph Hitler. The store manager says the store reserves the right not to print anything on the cake they deem inappropriate; but how can you deem someone’s name inappropriate? A name is a name. Even if your name was spelled the same as the “F” word, it is still your name. Should a name, provided it is your legal name printed on your birth certificate,  be subject to a judgement of being appropriate or inappropriate? Just because someone doesn’t like your name or the implications behind your name doesn’t mean they can decide to discriminate against you by refusing you service because, in their opinion, your name is inappropriate. Your name is your name.

Granted parents don’t name their child Adolph Hitler unless they are trying make some kind of point one way or another, whether they are trying to show their support for the  “the” Adolph Hitler, or they are trying to mock people’s sensitivities, or they are trying to make the point that a name is a name, you name your child Adolph Hitler you know you’re going to shock and outrage a good few people, and obviously that is your aim; but does the motivation of Adolph Hitler Campbell’s parents in naming their son Adolph Hitler have anything to do with this particular issue?

This is a case of a store refusing to put a child’s name on a cake because they are personally offended by the name and don’t think it’s an appropriate name for anyone to have. Surely it can’t be legal for them to do that? It shouldn’t be legal for them to do that.

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Two women were fired from the Anderson California Kentucky Fried Chicken for taking a bath in the sink that’s used to wash the dishes. To be quite honest I don’t really have an opinion about this but I figured I’d post about it anyway because it’s just so ridiculous.  The women took the pictures and posted them to myspace. It’s funny, but at the same time it’s not funny you know. It’s funny because it’s so ridiculous you just can’t believe it. You see the picture and you shake your head and wonder what possesses people to do the crazy things they do; but then you think to yourself, there’s a time and place for everything, and at work in the sink is not the time or the place for a bath.

Everyone likes a good laugh. The ladies thought it would be funny to bathe in the dish sink and take pictures and post them to myspace in a gallery with the caption “KFC Moments”. Their employer did not agree.

Apparently a third lady who asked the boss’s permission to bathe in the sink but got turned down quit. It’s not clear if she quit because the boss would not allow her to bath in the dish sink. Source

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I too suffer from a sensitivity to certain odors, perfumes, lotions and colognes. I have been diagnosed as having asthma and a lung disease called sarcoidosis. I work for a large city agency and get a lot of grief about my sensitivity by coworkers colognes, perfumes and lotions. My employer city compensation department referred me to a specialist from a physician at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Upon seeing him explaining my history since employed with my city agency, provided very detailed reports from radiation technicians and chest xrays the physician apologized about the city wasting my time and his. He wrote the letter they wanted but it has had little effect as they continue to use bleach in my presence. Coworkers continue to bathe in cologne, perfumes and lotions. I am very interested in your findings and outcome of your current situation.

Have you seen the tape of the interrogation of the 8-year old boy being accused of murdering his father, Vincent Romero and his father’s house-guest Tim Romans? If you haven’t seen it check out “8-Year-Old: ‘I Shot My Dad‘”. In the videotape the boy first says that he found his dad dead when he went home; then after the interrogator questions him and tells him things like “If you shot a gun yesterday it would be important that you told us that you shot the gun cause we’re gonna to find out,” the boy starts changing his story saying, “I think I might have shot the gun.”

If you listen to the way the interrogator talks to the boy and the way the boy answers, it almost sounds like the kid is only saying what he think the woman wants him to say. Maybe the boy did shoot his father and the other man, and maybe the police knew it for a fact and that’s why the interrogator is basically telling the boy you’re going to need to tell us the truth because there’s no point in lying. We’re going to find out once we check your clothes because they’ll be full of gunpowder. If they didn’t know for a fact that the boy committed the crimes then it seems highly inappropriate the way she’s talking to him, pretty much insisting that he confess to the crimes, not just by what she’s saying but how she’s saying it. You killed your father, now admit it because we’re going to find gunpowder in your shirt and you’re going to be in a whole lot of trouble.

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The Associated Press reports that a Catholic priest in South Carolina accused parishioners who voted for Barack Obama of materially cooperating with “instrinsic evil”, and warned that their souls would be at risk if they took Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

In a letter to his parishioners Rev. Jay Scott Newman wrote: (more…)

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Over on cbsnews.com people are posting their opinions on the case of the 8-year old Arizona third-grader who shot to death his 29-year-old father Vincent Romero, and Timothy Romans, Romero’s 39-year-old co-worker who was renting a room from him. One commenter suggested maybe the police ought to be doing some investigating into what role the boy’s biological mother might have played in the killings. Someone going by the name “schmidtkids” wrote:

“…normal 8 year old little boys do not have the mental capacity to “plan” to kill anybody and secondly, they really need to bring in the biological mother because a person does not come to town to visit and then leave when her little boy is sitting in a jail at 8 years old. Maybe she somehow either got him to do it or did it herself and convinced him to say he did it.”

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There’s an interesting discussion taking place on the LA Times website in response to the article Beyonce wants to lasso the role of Wonder Woman. It appears there aren’t very many people who agree with Beyonce’s assessment that a Black wonder woman would be a powerful thing and it’s time for a Black wonder woman. A majority of commenters are of the opinion that, in the first place, even if there were to be a Black wonder woman, it shouldn’t be Beyonce because Beyonce is not a very good actress. Most of the objection appears to be to the idea of Beyonce as wonder woman; but a few people have brought up the question of why must there be a Black wonder woman? If wonder woman wasn’t Black why should she be portrayed by a Black actress just because “it’s time”? Why is it time? (more…)

There is an interesting discussion going on over at Amazon.com centered around Barack’s book Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Someone wanted to know why Barack calls himself Black if his mother is white. They ask a valid question: how come you can’t rightfully call yourself white if you’re 50% white but you can call yourself Black if you’re 50% Black? A question can be valid and yet be silly however, and this is an example of a valid question that is still silly. How many of you would have assumed Barack Obama had a White mother if you knew nothing about him? If you saw him on the street and didn’t know his entire life story would you see a white man or a black man? (more…)