Fox News and Chelsea Manning

Funny story, I was at a gas station recently, and there was one such clerk ringing me up at the register, my brain could obviously tell that it was a female, even if the female was trying its hardest to hide all forms of femininity and appear as manly as possible (she was doing a great job), without even thinking about it and falling back on my upbringing, after asking me a question, I replied, "Yes Ma'am."

The sad thing is I actually sort of caught myself, and you should have seen the look on the clerk's face, but in the end I gave no figs, and realize that I'm not going to bow down to their PC bull****.

I'm not sure if the clerk was offended, and I certainly didn't care to ask, and certainly no offense was meant on my part, as it was completely autonomic and I didn't give any thought to it as I said it.

There's a bill in the GA legislature right now, HB 660, that would call for mandatory minimum jail/ prison terms for ANY crime committed against a person when the victim was targeted because of race, sex, gender, homosexuality, mental retardation, physical disability, etc.

Now, think about that for a second.

If a 17 year old neighborhood punk throws an egg at the cranky old "get off my lawn" geezer who is walking down the street and limping along with the aid of his cane, and just before the kid lets the egg fly he yells "I'll bust your other leg you old cripple!" that would be an offense that demands a minimum of 60 days in jail, no early release for good behavior, no probation for the first 60 days, no suspended sentence. Two full months of actual lock-up time.

For throwing an egg. Which may have missed, anyway, and not even soiled the guy's clothing with egg white splatter. It's still assault. Misdemeanor assault. Normally for a young guy, that means 12 months probation and a $300 fine. No jail. Now it could mean 60 days of jail, getting butt-humped by the other inmates, and being expelled from school, so the kid comes out no longer on track to get a high school diploma.

This hate crimes law applies to non-violent white collar crimes, too.

You put your mentally challenged cousin's name as co-signer on a store credit application to buy a refrigerator? Felony! You chose your cousin's name because he's retarded and is less likely to notice the fraud, or react to the collection letters that may come to his home later? FELONY with 2 YEARS mandatory minimum. Again, with a normal victim who didn't actually lose any money out of pocket, this is a crime for which an offender often gets straight probation.