Politically Correct Patent Protection

                                                           

Note to my readers:  Last year many of you sent donations to Jerry and Betty Craddock whose home burned to the ground and they were left with nothing.  So many of you helped these people who have themselves been life helpers to others all their lives.  

Well I'm happy to report that Jerry and Betty will be moving back into their re-built home on the 29th of June.  If any of you are in the Oklahoma City area at that time you are all invited to their housewarming....just let me know and I'll get you the address.  I have watched Jerry and Betty's rebuilding progress with joy...I saw pics of when Jerry and friends began laying the foundation several months ago.  Now the rebuilding is finished and they can get on with their lives.  They can never recover all the family photos and mementos and personal possessions but they can begin now to make new ones.

Bless all of you who were involved, who donated, who prayed for these two when they were at their lowest.  As Jerry always says, they are "gooder than gooder".





The U.S. Patent Office confiscated the Washington Redskins football team's 80 year old patent for the team's name.   The media is unable to confirm if this was ordered via "executive order" from Barack Hussein Obama, and are unlikely to since the patent office have also lost their emails between their office and the White House.

Last year a group of politically correct liberals ran a national poll among native Americans.  They expected to use the results of that poll to make a move to quash the Redskins' use of that name.  The poll was quickly buried when the results showed 90% of native Americans were not offended by the football team's name.

This does present a scary precedent.  We already have a President who issues "emperor edicts" as if he really were one, and we have the EPA holding power over your electric bill through their war on coal.  And now we have a nondescript, formerly rather mundane agency patent office which has been given the power to withdraw patent rights when they deem that patent to be offensive to liberal sensitivities.

What might we expect next?  Will the Miami Dolphins logo disappear in the wake of a Greenpeace lawsuit?  How about the New York Giants?.....will small statured folks bring suit against a team that glorifies large people?  With the dwindling tiger population worldwide will the Detroit Tigers be a name of the past?

And how about other areas of American life?  Will a certain subset of the population sue the candy company that makes Snickers with the belief that they are being laughed at?  Will Microsoft patents be withdrawn on the basis that a significant number of Americans "don't do windows?"  Will the iconic Coke patent be withdrawn because it is jointly employed to describe both a sugary soft drink and cocaine?  

How about "Lazy Boy?"...surely that one will go because it connotes the image of one who's living on the public dole?  Sony Walkman has to go cause it denigrates the handicapped.  The Pillsbury Doughboy has to go because he's an insult to the obese.  Goodyear has to go because most liberals have never had a good year in their entire life.

Folks, this is bigger than whether a team name is offensive...this is a clear violation of contract law as stipulated in the U.S. Constitution!  We've seen Obama ride roughshod over contract law on many occasions and here's another one.  The sanctity of contract law has been the cornerstone of every prosperous civilization since it was codified in England in the 16th century and incorporated in our own laws.  When contract law is no longer honored you can expect only chaos and lawlessness.

For example, did you know that the patent law's withdrawel of that patent now makes it legal for any bozo who wants to, to come along and produce Washington Redskins T-shirts and other team equipment and sell their wares without penalty?  How about you?  Would you want to invest a fortune in a business that is selling patented product and have that patent withdrawn just because someone might be offended?

This can easily be settled in the free marketplace.  Anyone who is offended by a patented logo is free to promote a boycott...and if even ten percent of the market joins you that will cause a business to think twice about an offensive patent...but to have the government do it is tyrannical as well as unconstitutional.

God, how I wish this was funny...but it is so, so sad.

Jerry/Betty house pics