I have to admit that they almost got me. Almost. But then I woke up.

For years we've been told that we should have tolerance for people who are different from us, whoever the collective “us” happens to be. For the most part I don't have a problem with that, assuming you're talking about people who may come from a different part of the country or from an entirely different country. Their social mores may be different or they may use figures of speech or terms that are unfamiliar to us. As one of my co-workers, a nice young woman from Louisiana said to us the other day, “There are phrases that we use back there that are considered offensive here in New England.” It's all a matter of the differences.

But there are some differences, some actions that I am not willing to tolerate.

One of those “things” is foul language in public. While not the biggest thing I am no longer willing to tolerate, it has quickly become one of the more annoying. Poor language skills is right up there next to it. There is no need for every other word to be an expletive. Some folks use the worst expletives like punctuation marks and generic adjectives. And let's not get me started on this ebonics crap. All it is is a way to trap black youth into poverty. To quote Bill Cosby:

“I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't, where you is?'...They're standing there on the street corner and they can't speak English...I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. It's all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and when you got in the house you switched to English. Everybody knows that at some point you switch to English, except for these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.”

Another one of those things is the wishy-washy sentiment “It isn't black and white. There are shades of gray.” That may be true if you're talking about paint. But if you're speaking about good and evil, then you're damn wrong. An evil deed is an evil deed, regardless of the motivation. To hear some people talk about it, 9/11 can only be understood if we put it into the right context and try to understand the root causes. I can tell you what the root causes for the attacks on that day – effin' evil people committing acts of evil upon innocents because they didn't like us. There were no shades of gray, no need to understand their motivation in order to perhaps be able to start a dialog with others of their kind. Baby, the only thing I need to know about them is that they have no scruples and are willing to kill anybody they see as an infidel (that means you and me), and the only dialog I want with them is to discuss how I'm going to stop them and, if need be, kill them before they commit more evil acts.

Another one of the things I will no longer tolerate is the fascism that masquerades as political correctness. It is yet another form of evil writ small, slowly trying to take away the language that can describe bad (and good, for that matter). Any time I hear politically correct speech I will endeavor to point it out and ridicule it for the 'feel good' tripe that it is.

Next, racism. 'Everyone' buys the BS that only white men are racists. That's not true. Some of the biggest racist I've come across aren't white, but black – Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan, just to name a few. The irony is that they don't just hate white people, they hate black people, too. Otherwise why would they seek to keep blacks in America victimized rather than allowing them to pursue the American Dream - to better themselves and to wish the same for their children? Why? Because if blacks do so, they lose power. Their victim ideology would be swept aside and they would become nothing but minor footnotes in history, something they won't allow to happen.

Please spare me the celebrities who think that just because they're celebrities that they are also politically astute or even have a clue about how everybody else in the world lives or what they need. These are the last people to whom we should be listening.

Multi-culturalism should die the death it so richly deserves. All it will bring is the downfall of Western civilization, a culture that is far better than the others, despite the claims of those who despise the West, including many who were born and raised here. Western civilization does not condone suicide bombers, the murder of innocents in order to further a political or religious agenda. It does not oppress women, despite the claims of radical feminists. It does not silence dissent, despite the claims of those saying they are being censored...on national TV. Multi-culturalism does nothing but perpetuate the same hatreds and prejudices that many came to America to get away from, escaping from the so-called cultures that are supposedly superior to ours. Superior to ours? No frickin' way.

I will not be tolerant of those working to destroy us, to kill us. Nor will I be tolerant of those supporting them, either openly or by doing nothing to stop them. I will heap scorn and derision upon those who obviously haven't a friggin' clue about what they're spouting off about, particularly when it comes to politics, war, or the human condition. I don't care who they are or who they know. All I know is that I am far less tolerant of willful ignorance, as I am of those who preach tolerance but are anything but tolerant. They are only tolerant if you agree with them. But should you disagree with them, then obviously it must be you who are intolerant. Damn right. I am intolerant of blowhards like that and the vitriol they spew.

So endeth the rant...