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Category: “The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”

  • Meantime, for you gun nutz:

    I am not hoplophobic!

    This one is for you gun nutz, happening in New York (probably NYC) now.

    https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/11/daniel-zimmerman/coming-to-an-anti-gun-state-near-you-ny-pols-want-social-media-checks-before-buying-guns/

    From the article:

    “Two New York lawmakers are working to draft a bill that would propose a social media check before a gun purchase.

    But it’s OK. They only want to look at the last three years of your online activity.

    Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and state Sen. Kevin Palmer’s proposal would allow authorities to review three years of social media history and one year of internet search history of any person seeking to purchase a firearm.” – Article

    And don’t think it will stop there, either, because it won’t. Note the use of the word ‘hoplophobic’. You could have a T-shirt printed with “I am not hoplophobic” printed on it, just to confuse people. When asked about it, you could either answer it truthfully (not afraid of guns) or just say you had the vaccination for it.

    Aside from the ‘invasion of privacy’ part, it’s also a violation of the 1st Amendment’s ‘right of free speech’ phrase to be that invasive. If you act like an ass on social media, well, you are definitely an ass but that does not mean you should be denied your rights over it.  Nor does posting stupid remarks, such as ‘he ought to be shot/boiled in oil/made to do something idiotic’ make you a threat to society. There is a wide difference between venting your anger about some injustice, and making real threats of violence.

    While I’d like to see some dimwitted not-funny comedienne who likes to frighten small children with severed heads spend some time in the cooler, it’s better to ostracize someone like that than it is to deny basic rights that we all take for granted to someone, even if that someone is a colossal social moron.

    “Don’t think this will stop in New York, even if these two can’t manage to get their little brainstorm signed into law. How long will it take Daddy Bloombucks and his hoplophobic harridans to get signature collectors out on the streets and fund the initiative campaigns to get something like this on the 2020 ballot in California or Washington State?” – Article

    Read the rest of the article. It is both a hoot and a ‘yank your chain to wake you’ effort. You cannot afford to take anything for granted any more. This news shows just how desperate this bunch of control freaks are to deprive you of your basic Constitutional rights.

    I’ll stick to my guns (snort!) on this and say that while my state may have the most mingy, cringingly stringent laws on gun ownership, the reason the Deerfield, IL, mayor was defeated in her attempt to illegally seize personally-owned guns from residents was that they had universally obeyed state laws, were well within their rights in owning them, and she violated both state law and the federal law – 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution – when she did that without warning.

    That whole business about sanctuary counties for gun owners doesn’t look quite so ridiculous now, does it? How about sanctuary states?

    If you missed my advice yesterday, I said “GO VOTE!!” Then you can go to your local gun shop and stock up on ammo and hold the Lapua briefly in your arms.

  • USAF Gyrfalcon Recovering

    Don’t do that again!

    AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — An Air Force falcon injured at West Point during a prank Saturday before the annual rivalry football game between the service academies is back home and showing signs of improvement.

    https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/11/05/air-force-academys-falcon-mascot-improving-after-injury-at-west-point/

    The 22-year-old bird named Aurora “was able to fly around in her pen” on Sunday, said Air Force Academy spokesperson Lt. Col. Tracy A. Bunko.

    Sam Dollar, Air Force’s falconry team adviser, told The New York Times on Sunday that two West Point cadets took the birds, threw sweaters over them and stuffed them into dog crates. Dollar said the cadets turned over the birds Saturday morning, with Aurora’s wings bloodied — likely from thrashing inside the crate.

    “I think they had them for a couple hours and then they realized it was a bad mistake,” Dollar told the newspaper. “When Aurora started thrashing around in the crate, they decided that wasn’t a good thing.”

    Aurora is the Air Force Academy’s official and oldest mascot. On the school’s falconry page, the bird is described as a white phase gyrfalcon, which is a “falcon species that is extremely rare in the wild and whose beauty will take your breath away.”

    As this is a rare native bird, protected by federal law, unless you have a federal license for handling birds like this, your ass is absolute grass if you even touch one. This is a beautiful and rare bird, and like those rare birds that come to my feeding station, deserves more respect.

    https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Gyrfalcon/overview

    These two smart assed idiots need to have their punk asses hammered flat.

    I have absolutely zero patience with people like this. I spent too much time working for a veterinarian, because I thought I wanted to be a vet, to tolerate this heinous crap. Whether it is animals of any kind, or children, or significant others, there is zero excuse for abuse of any kind.

    My view of people who pull these pranks, thinking that they are harmless when they are not ever harmless, is that they should have to spend some time taking care of wounded or injured critters, whether they are Air Force avian mascots or wounded vets in a hospital with some body parts missing. A little time emptying bed pans and wiping someone else’s butt might teach them some humility and make them into ‘give a shits’ – or not.

    An arrogant ass never makes a good leader, as we’ve seen in someone who used to post frequently on TAH, while looking down his nose at the rest of us.  George Custer was one of those ‘look at me’ types. He graduated at the bottom of his academy class, and he met his match when he took on Sitting Bull, who was a better tactician.

    I do not predict a good future for these two unless they learn to be somewhat humble. That’s the reason I posted the grackle glaring at the camera instead of the AP photo of the gyrfalcon.

  • Our Plan Is The Best Plan Ever

    I found an article at ‘The Guardian’ that reviewed George Soros’s failures. It’s obvious that the writer likes Soros, but he does not gloss over the failures.  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/06/the-george-soros-philosophy-and-its-fatal-flaw

    One of those failures – Soros’s biggest –  is not understanding that this country is a democratic republic, not a democracy, and that’s why it works so well. Democracies fail. When Rome stopped being a republic and became a democracy as idealized by Pericles and Cleisthenes in Athens, it began to fail. Soros thinks that the USA is a democracy, which is incorrect.

    We should outlast Rome, if we don’t fiddle with it.

    He really disliked Bush’s war-oriented reaction, a completely natural response, to the 9/11 hijackers’ use of passenger planes as flying bombs, and a means of committing mass murder. It was warlike and reactionary (no, really?) and should have been less aggressive, according to Soros. Yes, let’s do appease those who wish to kill us in large groups. 

    He thinks Trump is a dictator. Trump is a lot of things, but a dictator? Not even! He’s just really good with timing. I’ve seen stopwatches that are less accurate. He knows how to throw a bone out there with a string attached to it and reel in the fish that swallowed it. I’m sure he could successfully herd cats.

    The Guardian’s rather interesting article is about Soros’s complete failure to understand how important capitalism is to a prosperous and healthy economy. This is really quite odd, because he’s a hedge fund manager, someone who manipulates financial markets to make a profit. That is pure, unadulterated, unfiltered capitalism. There’s a real serious disconnect there.

    Per The Guardian article, Soros seems to be slipping further to the Left of the political spectrum. He looks at Hungary’s Orban as a “dictator” the same way he looks at Trump. Is this some kind of ‘turf jealousy’? I must pay more attention to Hungary. This is interesting.

    Where else in Europe is this going on? Oh, that’s right: Germany. They just had their elections.

    Merkel is not going for a 5th term. The AfD party (right-wing) received 12%+ of the most recent vote and now has a seat in the German parliament, while Merkel’s two centrist parties (CDU and SPD) lost votes. She can no longer achieve a majority vote, so she’s giving up. I think our two-term president rule is much better. We really don’t want a Prezzie for life, like Xi Jinping. Even Vlad Putin is slipping in popularity. This ain’t Venezuela.

    Soros is the guy who shorted the British pound sterling in 1991-1992 and got it yanked out of EU circulation. It was generally described as ‘breaking the pound’. Remember our brief recession then? You think there’s no connection?  Soros is a financial speculator, not an investor. Taking that into consideration, I would like to know how many fingers he had in the US financial pie prior to the disastrous collapse of US financial markets in 2009. And how much did his hedge fund profit from it? Understand that when you manipulate financial markets the way he can, you can trip over your own hubris.

    As much practice as he’s had, he could have done to the US dollar, the basis for international currency values and trade support, what he did to the British pound. If you understand that, you’ll know how close we came to a worldwide financial disaster.

    The Guardian’s final paragraph:  “Presently, Soros’s cosmopolitan dreams remain exactly that. The question is why, and the answer might very well be that the open society is only possible in a world where no one – whether Soros, or Gates, or DeVos, or Zuckerberg, or Buffett, or Musk, or Bezos – is allowed to become as rich as he has.”

    Think about that for a minute: a world where NO ONE is allowed to become wealthy or rise from poverty to a better life. NO ONE. Ask people who finally were allowed to leave the Soviet Union and subsequently, Russia, what that feels like. Strangely, many of them are like my skating teacher, who is Polish by birth, and Russian immigrants, and who found a home and support in Skokie, IL, when they got here, and were able to get right on track to a better life.

    We have pockets of severe poverty in this country, places like the Big Ugly district in WV, in the heart of coal country, where people are having a desperate struggle for basics and the kids want books and school time. https://www.stepbystepwv.org

    In this country, a West Virginia coal country teenager with the stuff of dreams in his head can learn to build rockets and go to work for NASA, like Howard Hickam did.

    In a “Soros cosmopolitan society”, it won’t happen. There’s no moving forward, no progress, no inventiveness, no exploration, no discovery. Stagnation is what happens instead. Why else would the Soviets look for people in the US to sell them classified information on engineering and rocket science?

    Stagnation and decay – yes, that’s a real good way to muck up a thriving economy. Even China knows better than that. Don’t weep for poor old Venezuela or Cuba. Some day, Maduro and the Castros will die. Then what do you think will happen?

    It’s the struggles that make us who we are, not waiting to be handed ‘stuff’ or told what to do, which is how Soros thinks things should be done. He does not understand squat about human beings at all. A strong rise occurred in England’s economy during the reign of Elizabeth I because she had enough good sense to get out of the way of people who had good ideas. She also had excellent advisers at her back. Ditto for Queen Victoria.  None of us – not a single one of us – needs permission to think for ourselves or to speculate about the shape of things to come.

    Does what Soros want sound like a dictatorship to you? It does to me. Sounds like the “benevolent” dictator who thinks he knows better than you do what is best for you. Soros doesn’t seem to have even the slightest understanding of humans as a competitive species. This is quite odd, because his entire life has been aimed at acquisition of wealth in a competitive industry. So it’s okay for him, but not for us?

    Yeah, well, he can take his cosmopolitan twinkle twaddle and stick it right where the sun don’t shine. These gasbags all fail in that they are just as mortal as the rest of us, but they do not recognize it. Ask Stalin about his brain cramp, which killed him. After he was discovered dead in his bedroom, Krushchev took the reins and things began to loosen up, a millimeter at a time until finally, the USSR ceased to exist because its war of acquisition in Afghanistan had bankrupted an already stagnant economy.

    I’ll repeat what The Guardian says about Soros’s failures: The system that allows George Soros to accrue the wealth that he has created has proven to be one in which cosmopolitanism will never find a stable home.

    The open (cosmopolitan) society is only possible in a world where no one – whether Soros, or Gates, or DeVos, or Zuckerberg, or Buffett, or Musk, or Bezos – is allowed to become as rich as Soros has.  – Article

    You all have a good week, and go vote on Tuesday (if you haven’t already).

     

  • A Follow-up on the Gun Ban That Failed

    This is a follow-up to the news from last summer about the Mayor of Deerfield, IL, a bedroom community near a shopping center, declaring a gun ban and trying to seize guns that belonged to the residents, even thought those people were following the very strict, strictured rules of the Illinois FOID and CCW. A suit was filed against her ban and it was overturned, partly because the mayor’s methods were unreasonable and also because they violated the Illinois state laws on gun ownership.

    https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/gun-sanctuaries-spreading-across-illinois/article_50eb5881-4f97-56d0-b3aa-feb45c264c14.html

    Since then, the resolution declaring Effingham County a sanctuary for guns has started a statewide trend of opposition to legislation directed toward firearms. But it remains to be seen if it has any real effect in Springfield.

    So far, 30 Illinois counties have passed “firearms sanctuary” resolutions that oppose bills before the state legislature and declare that the counties will not enforce laws that infringe on the Second Amendment. The resolutions have not been tested by any new laws, but it appears the resolutions would not affect how law enforcement operates. – Article

    The article includes a color-coded map of the counties in Illinois which have voted themselves into gun owner sanctuary status as of July 2018. This is partly because they are good game hunting counties, which represents a certain amount of income.

    The map also shows by color coding which counties are in the process of voting to declare themselves gun sanctuaries, as well as those which are planning to move in that direction. I cannot imagine moving back to Macon County, but the southern and western parts of the state are very attractive. And the further you get from Chicago, the more you see that the state of Illinois is a farm state, not an industrial platform.

    There’s an NRA video about it here:

    https://www.nratv.com/videos/cam-and-company-2018-sanctuary-counties-for-gun-owners-are-a-growing-trend

    The article is dated July 2018. It’s the most recent information I could find on this. It’s the vox populi* part so disliked by politicians who want to stick their noses into everything – they don’t want your opinion, nor do they care what you want, unless it’s voting time.

    *Vox populi = voice of the people

  • 14th Amendment, Pt. IIa Sec. (B1015zillow)

    GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham announced on Twitter Tuesday morning that he will introduce legislation similar to any executive order President Trump might issue ending birthright citizenship in the United States. He tried to do that in 2010.

    “Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship,” Graham tweeted Tuesday. “In addition, I plan to introduce legislation along the same lines as the proposed executive order from President Trump.”

    Oh, and now, the Democrats are experts on the Constitution, as noted [below – my bad!]  before.

    On Tuesday morning, Rep. Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican who frequently vocalizes his differences with the president, emphasized that ending birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment.

    “A president cannot amend Constitution or laws via executive order,” Amash tweeted. “Concept of natural-born citizen in 14th Amendment derives from natural-born subjects in Britain. Phrase ‘and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ excludes mainly foreign diplomats, who are not subject to U.S. laws.”

    Apparently, Amash has forgotten that statute on the books that gives American citizenship to people who were born overseas to American parents, e.g., military and diplomat families stationed in France or Japan or the UK.

    So they want to trash the Constitution because of the Electoral College, but they want to keep it, too, because of “citizenship” stuff. Well, you wouldn‘t want to lose all those votes, would you?

    Okay. Whatever.  Pres. Trump certainly does know how to poke the bear when he needs to.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-the-past-republicans-have-suggested-ending-birthright-citizenship-requires-amending-constitution/

    Thanks for reading.

  • Oh, Gun Laws Were Tougher, Were They?

    https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/10/kat-ainsworth/time-magazine-gun-laws-were-much-tougher-150-years-ago/?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiMTIzZDMzYWQtY2QzNi00ZjQyLThjODMtNTg4MDAxYTM1YTU4In0%3D

    Last week marks 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968 into law on Oct. 22 of that year. It was the first major gun control measure in the United States in 30 years, but its passage earned this dismissive take in the pages of TIME: “better than nothing.”

    http://time.com/5429002/gun-control-act-history-1968/  “Forget the democratic processes, the judicial system and the talent for organization that have long been the distinctive marks of the U.S. Forget, too, the affluence (vast, if still not general enough) and the fundamental respect for law by most Americans. Remember, instead, the Gun,” the magazine had noted earlier that year, in a cover story about the role of guns in the United States, which was prompted by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. “All too widely, the country is regarded as a blood-drenched, continent-wide shooting range where toddlers blast off with real rifles, housewives pack pearl-handled revolvers, and political assassins stalk their victims at will. The image, of course, is wildly overblown, but America’s own mythmakers are largely to blame. In U.S. folklore, nothing has been more romanticized than guns and the larger-than-life men who wielded them. From the nation’s beginnings, in fact and fiction, the gun has been provider and protector.”

    TIME Magazine says, in the final paragraphs of its own article, that there were hundreds of gun laws in the 1800s, and going back to the 1600s in early colonial America.

    What do people get wrong about the history of gun control? Are there any myths you find yourself debunking?

    “One of the great myths is the idea that gun-control laws are an artifact of the modern era, the 20th century. Gun laws are as old as America, literally to the very early colonial beginnings of the nation. From the beginning of the late 1600s to the end of the 1800s, gun laws were everywhere, thousands of gun laws of every imaginable variety. You find virtually every state in the union enacting laws that bar people from carrying concealed weapons. That’s something people don’t realize.”

    “When we were all colonies, there were laws in the 1600s making it illegal to discharge a weapon near a road, near buildings, populated areas or on Sundays, and that barred discharge of a gun during social occasions. In New Jersey, there was a law that said you weren’t allowed to discharge a weapon when you were drunk and the two exceptions were at weddings and funerals. In the old ‘Wild West,’ they took people’s guns away when they were in a populated area, only to be retrieved when they left. That exemplifies how laws were much tougher 150 years ago than in the last 30 years.” – TIME Magazine

    It appears that we’re supposed to just take their word for it, without any references or backups of any kind. I know that in general, after the Civil War, the South was essentially disarmed.

    However, in The New Republic’s article from 2013,  https://newrepublic.com/article/112322/gun-control-racist , the NRA’s origins stem from attempts to bar newly-emancipated blacks from owning guns.

    “As Keene notes, after the Civil War there was a rash of gun control laws aimed at disarming blacks. Southern blacks who had long been denied access to firearms were finally able to obtain them during the Civil War. Some served in colored units of the Union Army, which allowed soldiers regardless of skin color to take their guns home with them as partial payment of back-due wages. Other blacks purchased guns in the marketplace, which was flooded with the hundreds of thousands of guns produced for the war. Many predicted, accurately, that they might need those weapons to defend themselves against racist whites unhappy with the Confederacy’s defeat.” – Article

    We have to remember, also, that the reason we have a Constitutional law – a federal law – that gives us the right to bear arms is specifically because the British government not only taxed everything under the sun in Colonial America, but also confiscated weapons any time they had a chance.

    They also forced colonists to house and feed British soldiers without compensation, which is against the law now.  Read both the Articles and the Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

    While I wouldn’t mind having a couple of Marines in my house impatiently waiting for roast beef and gravy with new potatoes, I know they’d also be paying room and board to stay here.

    In regard to the Time Magazine article’s opinion about gun control, there was, a while back, a Ripley’s ‘Believe It Or Not’ cartoon about how 19th century Philadelphia’s streets were so hazardous with people shooting at each other that commuter trolleys were clad in steel armor to protect passengers. And while Hollywood glamorized shootouts in the Old West, they were really rather rare. Wm. Bonney, nee Henry McCarty, was a glory-hounding idiot whose sole purpose was to be known for what he did – shoot people to kill them.  And as I recall, the drive-by shootings in Chicago during the Depression were gang wars between Al Capone’s people and other hoodlums trying to cash in on Prohibition’s burgeoning illegal alcohol business. And there are, frankly, more drive-by shootings in Chcago now than there were during the Depression.

    The nutball who went into a synagogue and killed 11 people, including 4 police officers, had a hair up his backside, as did the “student” at Parkland HS in Florida earlier this year, the whack job from southern Illinois who shot up a GOPer softball game practice session, and the psycho who went to a hotel in Las Vegas last year for the sole purpose of shooting fish in a barrel at a concert near the hotel. They all want one thing: soft, easy targets combined with the element of surprise.

    Many of you have asserted that concealed carry laws reduce the number of lost lives. I would be quite comfortable patronizing a restaurant with a sign on its door that read “Responsible Concealed Carry Owners Welcome Here” if it meant a solid chance of stopping some warped creature from coming in and shooting the place up.

    Sometimes, I really do think these crackpots are in cahoots with the Lefterds.  Find a wacko with a chip on his shoulder over imagined wrongs (Trump won! Gaaaah!) and give him a pat on the back to go shoot people.

    And the response to that? Take away the soft target aspect by arming everyone; remove the element of surprise by posting notices that welcome CCWs. Stand up to “lawmakers” and these useless buggers whose butthurt crap is only relieved when they slaughter people.

    The hysterics about gun control are not going to quit. And it isn’t about gun control at all.  We all know that.

    It’s about destroying freedom.

  • Random Open Thread

    Random Open Thread

    Captive bull moose in velvet at AWCC.

    Bridger-Teton blows up moose near Cache

    Worried about possible people-carnivore conflict, Bridger-Teton National Forest officials recently exploded a full-grown bull moose whose final resting place was along a popular trail near the Cache Creek trailhead.

    Wyoming Game and Fish Department personnel received a report from a hiker of the moose carcass’ whereabouts near the mouth of Woods Canyon late last week, and on Thursday night Game Warden Kyle Lash removed the head of the animal, which outwardly looked to be in good shape.

    The next morning, Game and Fish’s brucellosis/feedground/habitat biologist, Ben Wise, examined the moose head and found “a lot” of carotid artery worms, which can cause blindness.

    “We pulled a golf-ball-size amount of worms out of one side of [the artery],” Lash said, “and it was about the same on the others side.”

    The animal’s lungs were also black, likely from pneumonia, but Wise’s assessment was that the parasitic worms were likely the leading cause of death. There was nothing to indicate the animal had been poached, Lash said.

    The moose carcass, which was within the Gros Ventre Wilderness, was blown up by the Bridger-Teton on Friday.

    “There’s nothing left,” Lash said. “It’s kind of a slick way to get rid of a carcass.”

    The idea behind using explosives is that the not-so-intact body would be scavenged and thus dissipate much more quickly, reducing the odds that large carnivores would linger in an area frequented by people. Mountain lions, black bears and wolves are all regular inhabitants of the Cache Creek area. Lash passed on his concerns to the Bridger-Teton, especially because the Woods Canyon Trail is well-used by elk hunters in November.

    The Jackson Hole Daily was unable to reach Bridger-Teton officials Sunday to learn how the explosion went, but Jackson Hole News&Guide copy editor Mark Huffman happened to be in the Cache Creek area when the sickened moose went “boom.” A forest staffer on site told him that 100 pounds of explosives were used to incinerate and distribute the rotting remains.

    “It really was a large, impressive noise,” Huffman said. “The initial noise was like a crack, rather than what you would expect. You could hear [the percussion] moving around and echoing in that little, narrow canyon.”

    A visit to the mouth of Woods Canyon on Saturday suggested that the bull’s body is now in tiny pieces and spread across a large area. A sign downslope lets hikers know what they’re about to pass by.

    While the carcass itself is now unidentifiable, the pall of rot that lingers in the air is telling of the location of the moose’s explosion.

     

    BOOM!

     

    Read it here: B-T blows up moose near Cache

  • Yes, There Is a Cure

    It seems that civilization in these United States is being impaired in its forward progress by a new, and previously unintended consequence: the use of certain words, which create anxiety attacks, hysterics, screaming fits, bouts of howling anger, angst-ridden episodes of curling up on the floor in a corner, with one’s face buried in the knees.

    The problem appears to be that there are individuals –  many, many individuals, in fact – whose emotions are just below the level of the boiling pot, with the result that they will suffer these howling, angst-ridden screaming tantrums.

    All of this overt hyper-emotional anxiety is triggered by the use of words related to colors. The mind seems to immediately create an angry reaction to the mere sound of a word, without any basis for it other than an embedded habitual response, which has evolved into the word ‘triggering’. (I thought Trigger was a horse. What do I know?)

    I was not sure as to whether or not there was a name for this strange disorder. However, in digging, I have found the following items:

    Chromophobia. Chromophobia (also known as chromatophobia or chrematophobia) is a persistent, irrational fear of, or aversion to, colors and is usually a conditioned response. While actual clinical phobias to color are rare, colors can elicit hormonal responses and psychological reactions.

    Leukophobia is the fear of the color white. The origin of the word leuko is Greek (meaning white) and phobia is Greek (meaning fear).

    Melanophobia is fear of the color black or the use of the word ‘black’.

    Other color phobias have names as well:

    Porphyrophobia: fear of the color purple or the word “purple”.

    Xanthophobia: fear of the color yellow or the word “yellow”.

    Erythrophobia: fear of the color red, or the word “red”.

    The problem with such phobias is that they funnel the already narrow perceptions of the sufferers into over-reacting to either hearing the words or to the colors themselves, and now those reactions appear to be morphing into near-explosive elevations, as seen in confirmation hearings for a new member of the US Supreme Court, and the more recent episode of some blonde newsreader who used the world ‘black’.

    Interestingly, there is another phobia that may have something to do with the hyper-emotional response to the use of certain words and colors: it is nomophobia: fear of being without cellphones. In fact, these two phobias: chromophobia and nomophobia may run hand in hand with each other.

    If you’re wondering as to whether or not these benighted souls can recover from their self-induced phobic states, there is good news. Therapy is available (for a fee, of course) that allows the “sufferer” to face his/her/its phobia directly and learn to live with it, while discarding the nearly automatic response of a 3-year-old throwing a temper tantrum on the floor over Mom’s use of the word “NO”.

    Whether or not there is medication included depends on the practitioner’s licensing.  Medicine can be prescribed, but medications can have side effects and/or withdrawal systems that can be severe. It is also important to note that medicines do not cure phobias. At best, they only temporarily suppress the user’s response. The usual treatments for phobias include counseling, hypnotherapy, psychotherapy, and neurolinguistic programming, which simply means a lot of talking and repeated exposure to the object of the phobia, including hearing other people use the word and seeing them wearing the color.

    So there you go: when people start going ape-shit over someone’s using a word that means a specific color, or over seeing a specific color in use, it’s certainly plausible and even helpful to calmly recommend that they get some professional help with this particular phobia, and quickly, too, before it destroys their entire lives!!!

    Maybe if you can convince them to do that, they’ll stop eating detergent pods and snorting condoms.