PC --- Political Correctness is the Same as Living under a Dictator

Dear Andy,

Thanks for all your efforts in maintaining your informative blog, which I have been following regularly because your observations and views have been unbiased. Neverftheless, I would like to correct your comment on iraqi Dinar. The new Dinar note portrays Ibn Haytham a noted Iraqi scientist who made significant contributions to the principles of Optics, as well as to physics, astronomy, medicine, mathematics, engineering etc. He was often called 'Ptolemy the Second' or simply 'The Physicist' in medieval Europe. He also wrote insightful commentaries on works by Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the Greek mathematician Euclid. Please keep away from making negative comments like the new dinar 'portays mullahs'. Thanks again. Keep up the good job!,

I was surprised that you allowed that one comment to be printed. I was not surprised that there were 3 that were not allowed to be printed. If someone says what they really think and you don't like it you won't print it.

When a person says something offensive, the first question posed by you should be,
"Is the writer telling the truth as he or she sees it?"

Second question:
"Am I offended because he or she told the truth about me?"

Yes you are. If you have a place for comments, you should print the comments. We will know when we read them which ones you don't like. I'm not alive and real because I make typos, I'm alive and real because I have my own opinion and sometimes I might agree with you and sometimes not.

crazy4art AT --
aol.com
(Edited, I changed from a proper e-mail to this; there are programs to harvest e-mails from web pages, if you leave an e-mail complete inside a page, the amount of Spam you get will continuously grow.)

Gadget from has written 916 comments

First, Mr. Abu Aadil was making an accurate correction, the money I showed was two separate monies from 2003. At this time, there were two printed paper monies in Iraq, the Kurd money that was used North of Mosul, and the Saddam Dinars used South of Mosul, more or less.

I was talking about the signs inside of Iraq, they took down the photos of Saddam and instantly another living leaders photo went up.

Mr Abu Aadil was adding more information the post, and this is always appreciated.

The other were more or less just writing about me, not the subjects of the post, and being again the PR police.

Crazy4art, you put your e-mail address inside a post, I have four choices,

1. Approve as is, no edit
2. Click on dislike, which is not truly gone, and people can read.
3. Spam, another category that just black holes the comment completely.
4. Edit your post, and fix, I do this when there is redeeming qualities that are educational, on topic and helpful to the readers.

Why should I edit the post by Crazy4art AT --- aol.com?

I did that because people have written to me and I can't sign up on your web site and respond without making up a second fictitious e-mail address. I don't think lying about anything is worth it, I already explained that to you last week. I didn't notice before that the disliked comments were still available. Thanks for that information. I'm not usually that unconscious.

Phil J from has written 75 comments

Good job Andy. I hate political correctness with a purple passion. I would rather hear the plain unvarnished truth. There are two very good phrases that have been almost eliminated form the popular lexicon. They need to be brought back. I was raised to say them whenever I thought it was appropriate, to the appropriate people. Number one is butt out. Number two is, it is none of your business, so butt out.
You can be a perfect lady or gentleman and still use them appropriately, in many variations some more diplomatically than others.
ttyl
Phillip

Phil J from has written 75 comments

Andy, I think it has been several months too long since I have traveled. I suddenly found myself ravenously wanting a two egg omlette sandwich with green peppers. I ate quite a few of them when I was flying air crew in Libya. We always carried our own private bottle of Tobasco Sauce to flavor them. Yours was probably delicious, right. I would have coffee or a diet pepsi, if possible, with mine.
happy travels
Phil

I started the morning today I was doing some writing research, making two pages:

1. How to find typos?
and,
2. How to avoid typos?

I was typing away, and suddenly I had an overwhelming feeling of worry, and said to myself,
"I cannot make any typos here it would be the ultimate be stupid page."
Reader would, and could say,
"Andy, you made a page on how to find typos and another on how to avoid typos, and on both of the pages there are loads of typos."
"You are just too stupid."


lol Andy. That was just too funny. Get you and enjoy you.

Best,


Doug

Maui, Hawaiian Islands

The media talks of a world, hungry for freedom. They miss the point. The world is just hungry, and getting hungrier. How do you see this all ending??

Gadget from has written 916 comments

Jay, the world is hungry for what?

My opinion is this, 98 percent of people are docile and happy, they are content with their lives. They will not lift a finger to better it, but if you try to take something, promise them something, they will become belligerently active in protest.

People say,
"I want to lose weight?"
I say,
"Yes, you are fat, if you walked up the steps to work everyday, and did not use the elevator, this would be progress."

Hmm, this does not work, they wanted the sympathy of me listening, they did not want change. I truly commend Obama, he promised change, and he convinced the people to believe he can give change, and they feel good. The are hungry for change, but I do not think they want change, they want to believe someone is listening.

2 percent: There is two percent of the people who want change, and work for change and truly prove they want change, 1 in 50 is working for change, the other 49 show up for work, the one is excelling. We need the 49 to show up in the factory, the office pool, to be policemen, we need a lot of Indians.

What is weird to me, how so many Indians became convinced they have the brains, brawn and ability to tell a chief like me what to do. The are not even my Indians, they are from a different tribe.

People on the Internet are not real, I am real, because you get all of me, however, I seldom even get to know your name.

"Jay?" who is Jay, are you Jay something?

I am hungry, I am hungry for real people, this is the My Hobo thing, we will soon make it easy to weigh who people are or who they are not.

Motorcycle Bob from has written 84 comments

Well, somehow you tied two very different subjects into one another. Pretty smooth.

As for Typo's, sure, it is always good to learn, and learning to reduce typo's and also to write at better would be good, BUT, your writing is quite good now. Your early writing had enough typo's and such to be distracting, but over time you have cleaned it up quite well. I can't imagine you get many comments on it now. I rather like the honesty, the reality, the conversational tone of your writing.

As for PC, well I can't say anything about it or the PC Police will come and get me.