Bush rested his case on different values — staying "on the offensive," for instance — and he concluded, "By being steadfast and resolute, and strong, by keeping our word, by supporting our troops, we can achieve the peace we all want".
I could go on and on, about how the Red Skins football team or Cleveland Indians baseball team's mascots are just as offensive, for instance.
Rex Ryan has extended his general approach — open, blunt, direct and in some instances offensive — from the spoken word to the written one.
The offensive line, for instance, faces the challenge Sunday of trying to open enough holes to put halfback Thomas Jones over the 100-yard mark against a Pittsburgh Steelers defense that has not yielded a 100-yard game in two years.
He has advised the offensive tackles, for instance, that this season the league wants them to line up at the line of scrimmage, instead of taking half-steps back when they line up for pass protection.
Even more egregiously, Cisco's terms of service implied that the firm was monitoring traffic actively, so as to shut down illegal activities and, bizarrely, some legal ones (using the service for "obscene, pornographic, or offensive purposes", for instance).The response from many corners of the internet was quick and fierce, particularly in reaction to the potential monitoring of internet usage.
Offensive language, for instance, is broken down into six subcategories: minor profanities, epithets, scatological vulgarities, racial obscenities, sexual vulgarisms and a final category devoted to one particular three-letter word that refers to both a beast of burden and, colloquially, to a part of human anatomy.
Sure, they might not be totally offensive in every instance, but the vast majority of the time you'll come away thinking, 'Who are these terrible dickheads?'.
Instead, the spotlight fell on a panel of white executives defending music principally recorded by black men, and in some instances considered offensive to women.
