Brickbat: What's in a Name?

The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal says Lorne Grabher's last name could be interpreted as a call for violence against women. The court upheld a lower court ruling that Grabher had no free speech right to a license plate with his last name. Grabher had a personalized license plate made with his last name for his father back in 1991. The plate was used by three generations of the family. But the Registrar of Motor Vehicles got a complaint about it in 2016 and told Grabher he could no longer use it.
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I first read about this a couple of years ago. Why is it a story now?
Yeah, I saw it in Reason a couple years ago. Presumably the story is back because of the ruling on appeal.
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Maybe Californians are gearing up to ban Country Joe MacDonald's GIMEANF license plate once God's Own Prohibitionists replace the Dem puppet with their own. See it at countryjoe dotcom
Three generations of Grabbers is enough!
How do you think they got three generations of Grabhers? BUH-BOOM-BOOM! SSSSSSS!
And yet I see the "pound me too" hashtag freely used on Twitter. What a world.
#MeToo
#MeInTheAssToo!!!
Today: No by-your-name license plates for you!
Tomorrow: At your kid's school graduation ceremony, as they call him up to get his diploma, they call him "Brian Whose Name May Not Be Spoken!"
Did I read that as MeinTheAss?
I thought Mister You-Know-Who-Else was against that sort of thing.
Well, um, I'll have to refer you to the Experts on this one... To REALLY understand "#MeInTheAssToo" (from the perspective of those who dish it out, not those subjected to it), talk to Government Almighty!
(They do it for our own good, is a fairly apt summary, ass I understand shit).
Oh, wait, that's Me InTheAssToo! Not Mein! Sorry, I need a new prescription of glasses!
As for the sentiment of #MeInTheAssToo, I can get in front of or behind that...consensually, of course!
Is the squirrel demanding "Pound Mein Ass"? Again?
#MeInTheAssToo, yes, indeed... BUTT you must understand that I am a virtuous, family-values kind of Dude and/or Dudette! Only those who truly-truly-TRULY-indeed, LOVE me, are allowed to (consensually) #MeInTheAssToo!!!
And the ONLY one who Truly Loves me is Government Almighty! Leftwardly left us now all give Praises!
Scienfoology Song… GAWD = Government Almighty’s Wrath Delivers
Government loves me, This I know,
For the Government tells me so,
Little ones to GAWD belong,
We are weak, but GAWD is strong!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
My Nannies tell me so!
GAWD does love me, yes indeed,
Keeps me safe, and gives me feed,
Shelters me from bad drugs and weed,
And gives me all that I might need!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
My Nannies tell me so!
DEA, CIA, KGB,
Our protectors, they will be,
FBI, TSA, and FDA,
With us, astride us, in every way!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
Yes, Guv-Mint loves me!
My Nannies tell me so!
In Texas the looters made personalized plates more expensive than designer drugs or real estate taxes.
Totally OT post:
The left is the party of open-minded, rational scientific inquiry.
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-tee-hee-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-tee-hee!!!
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/can-progressives-be-convinced-that-genetics-matters
Can Progressives Be Convinced That Genetics Matters?
“Building a commitment to egalitarianism on our genetic uniformity is building a house on sand,” Harden writes.
(I'm only partways through it yet).
OK, I read the whole thing now. It's a good read... It is centered on the writings of a leftist (genetics-learned psychologist, academic, and perhaps shall we say, sociobiologist). She says she is beat up from the right because her politics are "wrong", and ??? she's not enough of a genetics-is-everything person. From the left, she is beat up for believing that genetics has anything to do at all, with personalities, life outcomes, and academic abilities.
WHERE has the middle ground gone? "It's complicated, because people are involved", I like to say. And would the rigid-minded ideological idiots, of all flavors, PLEASE stick it where the sun doesn't shine! Your fossilized minds aren't helping us collectively-all get better, or improve our outcomes!
It sets a really bad precedent. It’s their actual family name. What if the complainant worked somewhere like the department of motor vehicles and read the name on IDs ? Seriously, she needs to be told to grow up.
This is just like the case in Australia of the person of Korean descent who was being denied a driver’s license because his name was Phuoc Huy Beech or something.
As George Carlin once asked: "How would you like to be a hooker in Bangcok?"
Or, I might add, Phuket?
O Karen, duh.
^ Love it! But seriously my second grade teacher was originally from Canada…I can’t help but wonder what good ole Miss Ojinnyst would think of all this?
Lorne should change his last name to Assman and refile for the vanity plate.
Oh, Canada!
Beat me to it!
Lorne's saying: "More like 'Blame Canada!', amirite? Eh?"
Oh Nova Scotia, actually. They're like parvenu Newfies.
And sadly, "FUKTHERMV" probably wouldn't past muster, either.
Did Grabher also own a bar with a sign Liquor in the front, Poker in the rear?
Lorne is lucky that the court did not send him to a re-identification camp.
Did Trump ever tell Lorne: "Grabher, buy the pussy!"
How much is the kitty in the window?
Oh tell me that cat is for sale
Not surprising from a country that banned "Money for Nuthin'" because of the "that little faggot" verse.
Canada, goose-stepping towards politeness.
ha ha
New plate. SORRY!
I guess Mrs. McBoneme is out of luck.
Decades ago Reason the actual magazine wrote about the California DMV’s effort to recall personal plates contains WOP, DAGO, and other terms oh-so-insensitive to Italians. They had to back off when they were deluged with complaints from the numerous Italian-Americans who—surprise ending—are the ones who had such plates
When you think about it, it's really kind of sad that we devote so much time and energy to what a person puts on what amounts to a slave badge for motor vehicle drivers.
Fine. Since I can't have 'Grabher', can I have the traditional Spanish spelling 'Grabxer', or does my hispanic heritage offend the court?