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calendar   Saturday - June 28, 2008

THEY’RE SO PC HERE, UK EVEN HAS A ‘MINISTER OF EQUALITY.’ and guess what?

Well, the Minister of Equality, Harriet Harman is proposing a Sex and Race bill to make some folks more equal then others, I guess to make up for lost time. Or the past.

This story appeared in yesterdays Telegraph but I wasn’t online at all and so couldn’t post it.  But I saved the article and have it in front of me.
Running into usual BS and stupid unorganized archive at The Telegraph. Just isn’t bringing up the article.

I’ve searched Google and come up empty, and even typing in whole lines isn’t bringing it up at the papers website.  This happens often at the Telegraph. I sure wish they’d hire some of the brighter types at the Daily Mail to show em how it’s done.
Anyway ....  Here’s the meat of the item, see what ya make of it.

Story is by political correspondent, James Kirkup.

NEW laws designed to give women and people from ethnic minorities greater equality at work could become a “bureaucratic nightmare” it has been claimed.

Harriet Harman, the Equalities Minister, has published a Government Bill that would allow employers to carry out “positive discrimination” in favor of female and non white job applicants.

Employers will also be put under pressure to publish details of workers average salaries to help close the gender gap in pay raises.

The bill will make it lagal for an employer choosing between equally capable candidates for a job to discriminate in favor of female and non-white applicants.

She says employers will not be “obliged” to use disciminatory hiring but would be allowed to do so voluntarily.

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AND THEN THERE IS THIS STORY ....  ANOTHER SILLY ITEM FROM NANNY STATE THINKING.  EXCEPT THIS ISN’T THE STATE. IT’S A STORE. And isn’t it dumb?
Or maybe not in light of today’s world.  But hey, a baby photo of her son?  Porn?

Mother told baby’s bare bottom is pornographic
By Laura Clout
Last Updated: 10:52AM BST 26/06/2008

When Gail Jordan found an old photograph of her son as a bouncing baby, she thought it would make the perfect adornment for the top of his 21st birthday cake.

But staff at Asda, whom she asked to transfer the print, refused to help unless Miss Jordan agree to censor the picture, because it showed the child’s bare bottom.

(Asda is a like a Walmart with a market.)

They claimed that the photograph - which featured her son David as a five-month-old baby, and lying on his front - could be pornographic, and insisted on covering his backside with a strategically-placed star.

Miss Jordan, 41, said went to a branch of Asda in Liscard, Wirral, with the picture to take advantage of their £9.97 offer to ice a birthday cake with a photo printed on top.

The care worker said: “They said it could be anyone’s child so it could be deemed pornographic.

“But I was asking to have it printed on a 21st birthday cake, so surely it was pretty obvious that it was my son.

“It’s ridiculous - I understand they have rules, but there ought to be a place for common sense as well.”

“In the end they would only do it with a star over his bottom, which to be honest made the whole thing even more hilarious.”

A spokesman for Asda said: “We have a policy, as do many other retailers, of no nudity, whatever the age of the subject.

“In this case we offered a number of alternatives including enlarging and cropping the photo, increasing the border size or applying a strategically placed star to save his blushes.”


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