For me, this is probably one of the greatest rags to riches stories I have ever witnessed.
A simple woman, from a collection of villages, stuns the judges and audience with a memorable performance that propels her instantly into a world wide phenomenon.
By now, most people have heard or they have seen Susan Boyle perform.
Yesterday, while surfing I came across this video of Susan. It was her first appearance on Britain's Got Talent.
I remember seeing this or a similar video long ago, but as I watched it again, it was like seeing it for the first time. It was emotional, uplifting and inspiring.
It's simply amazing to watch how a cynical audience, expecting nothing from this frumpy looking woman; with three judges that are almost assured that they will be hitting their "X" buttons, transforms within seconds of her opening her mouth to an auditorium of people filled with adulation.
It was as instantaneous and profound as flipping a bright light on in a dark room.
I am also particularly impressed with Amanda Holden.
I simply love her sensitivity and the depth of her emotional response to this performance. You can see she was purely enchanted by this performance by her facial expressions. She had that same look of wonder that a child gets when they are watching fireworks or a new Disney movie for the first time.
I just love her emotional sincerity. Amanda's comments at the end of the performance gives us a window into this lovely woman's gentle spirit filled with humility, grace and dignity.
Susan Boyle's first performance on Britan's Got Talent.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
You do not own your property!
Don't believe me?
Well you already know or should know that when you purchase a house and start paying the GreedyBanksters the interest money for the mortgage; you receive a Title or Deed to the property.
All you are getting is the unquestioned "OBLIGATION" to pay taxes on the property you just purchased and the "PERMISSION" to transfer your "OBLIGATION" to pay taxes on the property you just purchased to someone else when you decide to sell it.
Then, when you sell it ... you have an "OBLIGATION" to pay more taxes on whatever gain might have had.
If you do not pay the Mortgage payments the current "OBLIGATION TO PAY TAXES" holder can take it back.
Even if your mortgage payments are up to date, IF YOU DO NOT PAY YOUR TAXES ON YOUR PROPERTY HOW LONG DO YOU SUPPOSE YOU WILL REMAIN THE PERSON WHO RETAINS THE TITLE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE THE "OBLIGATION" TO PAY TAXES ON THAT PROPERTY?
NOT LONG!! THE GOVERNEMNT WILL SELL IT AT AUCTION, OFTEN FOR MUCH LESS THAN IT IS WORTH, TO SOMEONE ELSE.
THIS NEW PERSON WILL BECOME THE NEW TENANT / TITLE HOLDER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TAX OBLIGATION.
On my first trip to Japan I landed at Narita Airport outside of Tokyo. While we were taxing towards the terminal the plane steered around what looked like a section of the tarmac that had cherry trees on it. Lots of warning lights and a big fence was around the section.
When we deplaned I stopped to talk to the Pilots, to thank them and just talk a little, I noticed on the Airport Diagram on the Pilot's Kneeboard that indeed the section of the tarmac was clearly visible. I asked the Pilot "What's up with the trees?" He responded by saying that when Narita Airport was built there was a farmer who refused to sell his plot of land. His ancestors are buried there. So, they had to build around his property. He goes on there about twice; three times a week to water and take care of his trees.
ONE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL SAYING "NO!" I REFUSE TO SELL!
In FUCKED FASCIST FREE AMERCIA [fff.america.com(munist)] people are losing homes left and right because developers want to build Shopping Malls or Stadiums.
WHEN AMERICA WAS FOUNDED OUR PROPERTY WAS OURS!
Tell me we don't live in a communist state!
Look at this stuff:
http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/the-u-s-ranks-24th-in-press-freedom/
As I was surfing I found this:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=445
This seemed to indicate that everything I have been saying is all backwards. So I look up who is responsible for this site and I see these words in the About Us page: "Since its founding in 1941 by prominent Americans concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, Freedom House has been a vigorous proponent of democratic values and a steadfast opponent of dictatorships of the far left and the far right."
Then I understood. If the countries appeared to look like the American Model then they were free. Most Americans simply do not know that they ARE NOT FREE!
The Canucks and Aussies are drowning in rules and regulations illegally imposed high taxes and other crap. The Aussies don't even have guns anymore.
Free Election Communism (America) is where the people vote for their dictators. Totalitarian Communism is where the dictators are picked for them. There is NO DIFFERENCE in the "COMMUNISM"
Do some of your own research.
I've been to 22 foreign countries and now live outside of the USA. I can tell you for sure that the USA is NOT the "free-est-country-by-any-stretch-of-the-imagination" in the world.
Well you already know or should know that when you purchase a house and start paying the GreedyBanksters the interest money for the mortgage; you receive a Title or Deed to the property.
All you are getting is the unquestioned "OBLIGATION" to pay taxes on the property you just purchased and the "PERMISSION" to transfer your "OBLIGATION" to pay taxes on the property you just purchased to someone else when you decide to sell it.
Then, when you sell it ... you have an "OBLIGATION" to pay more taxes on whatever gain might have had.
If you do not pay the Mortgage payments the current "OBLIGATION TO PAY TAXES" holder can take it back.
Even if your mortgage payments are up to date, IF YOU DO NOT PAY YOUR TAXES ON YOUR PROPERTY HOW LONG DO YOU SUPPOSE YOU WILL REMAIN THE PERSON WHO RETAINS THE TITLE THAT ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE THE "OBLIGATION" TO PAY TAXES ON THAT PROPERTY?
NOT LONG!! THE GOVERNEMNT WILL SELL IT AT AUCTION, OFTEN FOR MUCH LESS THAN IT IS WORTH, TO SOMEONE ELSE.
THIS NEW PERSON WILL BECOME THE NEW TENANT / TITLE HOLDER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TAX OBLIGATION.
On my first trip to Japan I landed at Narita Airport outside of Tokyo. While we were taxing towards the terminal the plane steered around what looked like a section of the tarmac that had cherry trees on it. Lots of warning lights and a big fence was around the section.
When we deplaned I stopped to talk to the Pilots, to thank them and just talk a little, I noticed on the Airport Diagram on the Pilot's Kneeboard that indeed the section of the tarmac was clearly visible. I asked the Pilot "What's up with the trees?" He responded by saying that when Narita Airport was built there was a farmer who refused to sell his plot of land. His ancestors are buried there. So, they had to build around his property. He goes on there about twice; three times a week to water and take care of his trees.
ONE SINGLE INDIVIDUAL SAYING "NO!" I REFUSE TO SELL!
In FUCKED FASCIST FREE AMERCIA [fff.america.com(munist)] people are losing homes left and right because developers want to build Shopping Malls or Stadiums.
WHEN AMERICA WAS FOUNDED OUR PROPERTY WAS OURS!
Tell me we don't live in a communist state!
Look at this stuff:
http://rankingamerica.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/the-u-s-ranks-24th-in-press-freedom/
As I was surfing I found this:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=445
This seemed to indicate that everything I have been saying is all backwards. So I look up who is responsible for this site and I see these words in the About Us page: "Since its founding in 1941 by prominent Americans concerned with the mounting threats to peace and democracy, Freedom House has been a vigorous proponent of democratic values and a steadfast opponent of dictatorships of the far left and the far right."
Then I understood. If the countries appeared to look like the American Model then they were free. Most Americans simply do not know that they ARE NOT FREE!
The Canucks and Aussies are drowning in rules and regulations illegally imposed high taxes and other crap. The Aussies don't even have guns anymore.
Free Election Communism (America) is where the people vote for their dictators. Totalitarian Communism is where the dictators are picked for them. There is NO DIFFERENCE in the "COMMUNISM"
Do some of your own research.
I've been to 22 foreign countries and now live outside of the USA. I can tell you for sure that the USA is NOT the "free-est-country-by-any-stretch-of-the-imagination" in the world.
Communism is alive and well in America.
When I was growing up, the Cold War was in full swing. We had those ridiculous duck and cover films. Yeah, no kidding; If an Atomic Bomb blast was immanent we were supposed to "protect" ourselves by ducking under our little desks. Even now I have to question not only the stupidity of that thinking but who came up with that unbelievably stupid idea and why is it so many other seemingly "intelligent" adults followed this advice?
Aside from that, I knew intuitively that most of the citizens of Russia were kind decent people like we have here. Most of them weren't caught up in this "take over the world" mentality; they were just trying to survive.
Wars are started by the current "Leaders" in power. Not the citizens.
Senator Joe McCarthy was on a crusade to root out the Communists and America in its "infinite" wisdom thought we could beat them militarily. That's our philosophy "Who ever has the biggest stick..."
You can see how that approach is NOT working for us. We think of those in the Middle East as being less intelligent about many things. WE, the US of A are the babies on the block. Their cunning, conniving culture goes back thousands of years. They make fools of us at almost every turn.
Dubai is a perfect example of how they have "accumulated" wealth at OUR expense, and that's not the richest place! Check this out.
How many of you use the word "State" in your vocabulary? And, when you use it you are NOT saying I live in the state of so and so. You are referring to some oppressive law or restriction that is making your life miserable or a little less fun.
Khrushchev declared - "We'll get you without bombs, in a way you'll never realize." They will destroy us from the inside - and not a single shot will be fired.
Ever think about that? If you wanted to take over a country and you knew you could not do it by force how would you do it?
I would start by placing people into positions where I could manipulate the Educational system and the Political system first. Once you get the "children" in the schools to think differently; never questioning authority, believing everything the government tells you then it's like a dominoe effect. Take away a freedom here, then another, put a rule in place then another. You have help because you control the News Media that simply reports these events as fact (in other words they're not saying WTF is going on here? - They're saying accept it or you'll be in trouble)
You, the person reading this, it is YOUR responsibility just like me, to start asking questions, to start getting more and more people thinking about these things and saying "Hey, WTF is going on here?" and starting scrutinizing these "dictators" we are electing.
How long are you going to sit back and allow the "State" to own you?
Perhaps within a decade or less we will see a change in the educational system. Children will be given aptitude tests when they are very young and then be "forced" to attend schools that foster their abilities like science or math or gymnastics.
The misfits will be relegated to factory work to build up the military / industrial machine. Alcoholism and suicide will increase. Many will no longer have a say in their destiny; it will be decided for you.
This is definitely a possibility!
Aside from that, I knew intuitively that most of the citizens of Russia were kind decent people like we have here. Most of them weren't caught up in this "take over the world" mentality; they were just trying to survive.
Wars are started by the current "Leaders" in power. Not the citizens.
Senator Joe McCarthy was on a crusade to root out the Communists and America in its "infinite" wisdom thought we could beat them militarily. That's our philosophy "Who ever has the biggest stick..."
You can see how that approach is NOT working for us. We think of those in the Middle East as being less intelligent about many things. WE, the US of A are the babies on the block. Their cunning, conniving culture goes back thousands of years. They make fools of us at almost every turn.
Dubai is a perfect example of how they have "accumulated" wealth at OUR expense, and that's not the richest place! Check this out.
How many of you use the word "State" in your vocabulary? And, when you use it you are NOT saying I live in the state of so and so. You are referring to some oppressive law or restriction that is making your life miserable or a little less fun.
Khrushchev declared - "We'll get you without bombs, in a way you'll never realize." They will destroy us from the inside - and not a single shot will be fired.
Ever think about that? If you wanted to take over a country and you knew you could not do it by force how would you do it?
I would start by placing people into positions where I could manipulate the Educational system and the Political system first. Once you get the "children" in the schools to think differently; never questioning authority, believing everything the government tells you then it's like a dominoe effect. Take away a freedom here, then another, put a rule in place then another. You have help because you control the News Media that simply reports these events as fact (in other words they're not saying WTF is going on here? - They're saying accept it or you'll be in trouble)
You, the person reading this, it is YOUR responsibility just like me, to start asking questions, to start getting more and more people thinking about these things and saying "Hey, WTF is going on here?" and starting scrutinizing these "dictators" we are electing.
How long are you going to sit back and allow the "State" to own you?
Perhaps within a decade or less we will see a change in the educational system. Children will be given aptitude tests when they are very young and then be "forced" to attend schools that foster their abilities like science or math or gymnastics.
The misfits will be relegated to factory work to build up the military / industrial machine. Alcoholism and suicide will increase. Many will no longer have a say in their destiny; it will be decided for you.
This is definitely a possibility!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
How to fix broken drum sticks
There is nothing more frustrating to a drummer than to have a brand new stick split after playing just a few bars of a song. Usually when a drummer whacks the bell of the cymbal, the impact can, if the conditions are right, cause the stick to split down the grain of the wood. Sticks are made of money, or wood; ... same thing. It's expensive and it sucks, especially bad, when they're brand new.
Years ago, I discovered that I could fix drum sticks when they split for pennies.
It's a simple process and it works. The sticks lasted as long as sticks that had never been broken.
EQUIPMENT:
1) A bottle of Elmer's Wood Glue. WOOD glue or Carpenters Glue there's a difference it works much better than the white stuff.
2) Large Hypodermic Needle or Syringe
Glue is thick so the larger ones work better. The larger ones in the middle of this picture work great.
http://www.1st-product.com/uploads/10/45-1/Hypodermic_Needle_14G_30G_224.jpg
Where to find them? Depends where you live. If you live in the country you can find great ones at COOPS very cheaply. Drugstores usually carry them
3) Very small C Clamps Depending upon how many you need to fix at any given time, you will need a 1 or more C Clamps for each repair. Back before I learned a lot of technique I used to have a pretty heavy hand and would split sticks regularly. This was also when stick manufacturing was not as good as it is today.
4) Several Large (Optional) Rubber Bands. Depending on the repair I have either used these by themselves or with the C Clamps.
5) Paper towels, or old cloth and a small bowl of warm water.
PROCESS:
Spread the stick where the split is, being careful NOT to use too much force so that you don't actually separate the stick into to pieces. DON'T panic if that is what has happened. You can fix these just as easily. When working with two separate pieces it is a little more tricky to keep it aligned when you're adding pressure so, when possible, I like to keep them intact.
You want to open the stick up so that you can apply glue along the entire length of the split.
Sometimes, you can't separate the stick very far. This is why the needle is very handy in all cases.
Apply a generous amount of glue to the exposed areas. The needle helps you get into tight spots. You could also do this without a needle if you wanted to. Simply apply the glue into the area and then on a firm surface, floor or work bench with the stick pointing straight up hit the butt of the stick. The force of the sudden stop will drive the glue into the crack.
After the glue is applied place you C clamp(s) evenly over the split and squeeze the split closed. Not too tightly this time. You want to do it hard but enough to squeeze out most of the excess glue.
Wet the cloth or paper towel and wipe the excess glue away.
Relax the C Clamp(s). Now retighten them slowly carefully keeping the split area aligned. Once you have good pressure crank them a little harder than before. You should see some more excess glue appear, a smaller amount, just wipe it away.
I found that in many cases using rubber bands, I was able to get a uniform pressure that held splits or breaks that were wiggly in place better.
I used to keep the sticks clamped for 3 days. Less if the humidity is low.
That's it.
Michael Vick get's an Award!
Michael Vick did a terrible thing.
Many people have done what he's done without any repercussions. Some people have done things that are worse.
No one is perfect.
It seems, though, when Stars and Professional Athletes do bad things they can be forgiven and even receive awards.
The world is full of many more people who have messed up, very badly. These people are not famous or extremely wealthy or in the news.
All they get is the punishment.
Most of the time there is no forgiveness and certainly no AWARDS!
Animal cruelty is just a cover for what's going on inside the real person. A person who is capable of caring so little for the "life" of these defenseless loving animals (animals feel pain; and they die in these fights) or any other living thing on this planet are certainly capable of hurting people just as easily; especially the defenseless children.
If you look at most child predators, serial killers, and very dangerous and deranged people; almost all of them started out by being cruel and abusing animals.
Something to think about when your handing out awards.
Many people have done what he's done without any repercussions. Some people have done things that are worse.
No one is perfect.
It seems, though, when Stars and Professional Athletes do bad things they can be forgiven and even receive awards.
The world is full of many more people who have messed up, very badly. These people are not famous or extremely wealthy or in the news.
All they get is the punishment.
Most of the time there is no forgiveness and certainly no AWARDS!
Animal cruelty is just a cover for what's going on inside the real person. A person who is capable of caring so little for the "life" of these defenseless loving animals (animals feel pain; and they die in these fights) or any other living thing on this planet are certainly capable of hurting people just as easily; especially the defenseless children.
If you look at most child predators, serial killers, and very dangerous and deranged people; almost all of them started out by being cruel and abusing animals.
Something to think about when your handing out awards.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Child Abuse at its worst.
Please watch this video.
A story on Yahoo.
I have been researching crimes and punishments and our loopy Justice System for more than 12 years.
And again, as some of you know, most of my data is on my computer that's not working.
I have lots to say on this and in a later Blog I hope to dispel some myths and enlighten people on what the real score is out there with our Justice System.
Here is a true statement.
Child abuse is Child Abuse.
Why, is it when we add the three letter word "SEX" in front of child abuse everyone goes ballistic?
Some simple facts and it's all about perspective:
1) 97% of ALL sex offenses are NOT perpetrated by strangers. The victims know the perpetrators; family, neighbors, etc.
2) Only 2.7% of ALL sex crimes that are committed are of the Poly Glass, Adam Walsh severity. This per capita statistic has been almost constant for decades and decades.
3) Many of the Sex Offenders have not been caught yet.
4) Predatory Sex Offenders, those who seek out and prey on young children, are narcissistic sociopaths. To them, children are like objects. The silly and ridiculous knee jerk legislation that restricts (2000' feet) where these Sex Offenders can live has no effect on these predators. There are more than 3,000,000 registered sex offenders in the country. They have to live somewhere.
Here are some facts about this housing lunacy:
a) There is no evidence that this restriction has any positive benefit whatsoever with the propensity of a person to commit a sex crime.
b) Does this mean that children are SAFE if the Sex Offender lives 2001 feet away? For all of you "Lost in Space fans: DANGER! DANGER! WILL ROBINSON a Sex Offender lives 1999 feet away.
) Many of the crimes committed are molestations of people between the ages of 16 and 18. (How many musicians in famous bands have had underage groupies in their hotel rooms?)
Did you know that someone just putting their hands on someone in an inappropriate manner, because of the way the statues are written, that physical act could be escalated to a rape charge?
Guys, if you ever opened your drunken date's pants and put your hand on her tush, you could be charged with Rape! Girls, you have nothing to worry about; although the court will take a dim view of what I have to say next, when it comes to men, you can't rape the willing.
6) Women are not punished as severely as men.
There's a LOT more on this I could say, but I will stop for now.
Now we have a conundrum. Both of the following crimes are bad but, here's where the perspective aspect kicks in. Here's a perfectly logical question.
Who has behaved more violently and has done more overall damage?
1) The "Bad" Uncle that puts his hands down his step-nieces pants? Many Sex Offenders are not out to "hurt" their victims. Their skewed thinking, in many cases, has them believing that they are not hurting anyone. Many of them, in fact, just wanted to make their victims feel good. Statistically, a large percentage of Sex Offenders do not have their victims reciprocate in any way. In other words they don't have sex or any other physical gratification.
-or-
2) The lady in the video tape?
There are many more instances of this kind of abuse; Some cases more violent, some more oppressive (like being locked in a basement or closet for years at a time) abuse that last for years and years against children in this country. I would say, conservatively, that there are 25 instances to every single Sex Offence of children that are severely abused every day.
There is no correct answer here. Both crimes are bad, but, to me, the woman in the video is a little more violent, a little more egregious than many of the Sex Offenders.
My big question is why don't we hold these non SEX related child abusers to the same level of accountability as we do for Sex Offenders?
Most of the time the sentences for these people are only a few years in Prison and when they get out of Prison, they get to live anywhere they want to.
In my mind these people are as bad as, if not worse than the majority of the people we are labeling Sex Offenders.
These people should not only receive larger sentences than they typically get, but they should also be forced to register on the same exact Registry as Sex Offenders.
Actually, we should change the Sex Offender Registry to be either the Child Endangerment Registry or the Child Abuse Registry.
We should be concerned about all forms of Child Abuse!
In fact, if you look very closely at our entire population, and then scrutinize every aspect of everyone's life; and then you use the current wording of the Sex Offender Statutes as they are written in most states, more than 80% of the people in this country have committed some sort of sex crime.
I honestly don't understand the lunacy behind the 2000 foot restriction. Who came up with that in the first place?
Here's a clold hard statistic for you. Sex Offenders can't live within 2000 feet of a park, school, playground or daycare, but, they can live less than 20 feet away from a swing set that is in the yard next door to the approved house they reside in where 10 neighborhood kids play every day. The public parks and playgrounds are empty 70% of the time.
This also poses a threat to our society. The 2000 foot restriction effectively shuts these people out of living in 90 - 100% of most populated areas. So rather than register, they drop off the grid. Now we don't know where many of them are. Are you Feeling Safer?
Here is a diagram.
(P) - Park/Plaground/School
(S) - Sex Offender
_________________
P__|__|__|__|__|__|
|__|__|__|__|__|__|
|__|__|__|__|__|__|
|__|__|__|__|__S__|
|__|__|__|__|__|__|
Anyone have any idea of how many zig-zags it takes to make any sense out of this rule. I would think, that if whomever it is what is worried about the 2000 foot rule, is worried about a Sex Offender being in the proximity or "line of sight" from a school, then one or two zig-zags (500 feet) seems more reasonable.
And, finally; (and this is where the 2000 foot restriction makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever) Most Sex Offenders have to work for a living in order to survive.
Here's a logic thought experiment for you...
DURING THE DAY, when most of the kids are in school and at the playgrounds and at the day care centers where are most of the Sex Offenders? Hmmm? They are away at work. DURING THE NIGHT, when the Sex Offenders come home from work where are most of the children? Hmmm? They are at home! They are no where near the School, park or playground.
Am I the only one that thinks that this whole 2000' thing is a little absurd?
In the last 15 years or so, with the many varied occupations I have had, I have come into contact with a number of Sex Offenders. Most of these people were intelligent, sensitive, caring people, that, for whatever reason, got caught up doing something stupid that wrecked their lives and were extremely sorry for all of the damage they had done. None of these people struck me as being the "monsters" that the News Media or America's Most Wanted portrays them as being.
I have a whole Blog devoted to this Sex Offender lunacy, because, I think in our country we have go so far overboard with this that we've lost all common sense and sensibility about it. We have gotten to the point where we are now classifying 5 year olds as sex offenders. C'mon, really? Give me a fucking break. This is how fucking retarded we've become.
A story on Yahoo.
I have been researching crimes and punishments and our loopy Justice System for more than 12 years.
And again, as some of you know, most of my data is on my computer that's not working.
I have lots to say on this and in a later Blog I hope to dispel some myths and enlighten people on what the real score is out there with our Justice System.
Here is a true statement.
Child abuse is Child Abuse.
Why, is it when we add the three letter word "SEX" in front of child abuse everyone goes ballistic?
Some simple facts and it's all about perspective:
1) 97% of ALL sex offenses are NOT perpetrated by strangers. The victims know the perpetrators; family, neighbors, etc.
2) Only 2.7% of ALL sex crimes that are committed are of the Poly Glass, Adam Walsh severity. This per capita statistic has been almost constant for decades and decades.
3) Many of the Sex Offenders have not been caught yet.
4) Predatory Sex Offenders, those who seek out and prey on young children, are narcissistic sociopaths. To them, children are like objects. The silly and ridiculous knee jerk legislation that restricts (2000' feet) where these Sex Offenders can live has no effect on these predators. There are more than 3,000,000 registered sex offenders in the country. They have to live somewhere.
Here are some facts about this housing lunacy:
a) There is no evidence that this restriction has any positive benefit whatsoever with the propensity of a person to commit a sex crime.
b) Does this mean that children are SAFE if the Sex Offender lives 2001 feet away? For all of you "Lost in Space fans: DANGER! DANGER! WILL ROBINSON a Sex Offender lives 1999 feet away.
) Many of the crimes committed are molestations of people between the ages of 16 and 18. (How many musicians in famous bands have had underage groupies in their hotel rooms?)
Did you know that someone just putting their hands on someone in an inappropriate manner, because of the way the statues are written, that physical act could be escalated to a rape charge?
Guys, if you ever opened your drunken date's pants and put your hand on her tush, you could be charged with Rape! Girls, you have nothing to worry about; although the court will take a dim view of what I have to say next, when it comes to men, you can't rape the willing.
6) Women are not punished as severely as men.
There's a LOT more on this I could say, but I will stop for now.
Now we have a conundrum. Both of the following crimes are bad but, here's where the perspective aspect kicks in. Here's a perfectly logical question.
Who has behaved more violently and has done more overall damage?
1) The "Bad" Uncle that puts his hands down his step-nieces pants? Many Sex Offenders are not out to "hurt" their victims. Their skewed thinking, in many cases, has them believing that they are not hurting anyone. Many of them, in fact, just wanted to make their victims feel good. Statistically, a large percentage of Sex Offenders do not have their victims reciprocate in any way. In other words they don't have sex or any other physical gratification.
-or-
2) The lady in the video tape?
There are many more instances of this kind of abuse; Some cases more violent, some more oppressive (like being locked in a basement or closet for years at a time) abuse that last for years and years against children in this country. I would say, conservatively, that there are 25 instances to every single Sex Offence of children that are severely abused every day.
There is no correct answer here. Both crimes are bad, but, to me, the woman in the video is a little more violent, a little more egregious than many of the Sex Offenders.
My big question is why don't we hold these non SEX related child abusers to the same level of accountability as we do for Sex Offenders?
Most of the time the sentences for these people are only a few years in Prison and when they get out of Prison, they get to live anywhere they want to.
In my mind these people are as bad as, if not worse than the majority of the people we are labeling Sex Offenders.
These people should not only receive larger sentences than they typically get, but they should also be forced to register on the same exact Registry as Sex Offenders.
Actually, we should change the Sex Offender Registry to be either the Child Endangerment Registry or the Child Abuse Registry.
We should be concerned about all forms of Child Abuse!
In fact, if you look very closely at our entire population, and then scrutinize every aspect of everyone's life; and then you use the current wording of the Sex Offender Statutes as they are written in most states, more than 80% of the people in this country have committed some sort of sex crime.
I honestly don't understand the lunacy behind the 2000 foot restriction. Who came up with that in the first place?
Here's a clold hard statistic for you. Sex Offenders can't live within 2000 feet of a park, school, playground or daycare, but, they can live less than 20 feet away from a swing set that is in the yard next door to the approved house they reside in where 10 neighborhood kids play every day. The public parks and playgrounds are empty 70% of the time.
This also poses a threat to our society. The 2000 foot restriction effectively shuts these people out of living in 90 - 100% of most populated areas. So rather than register, they drop off the grid. Now we don't know where many of them are. Are you Feeling Safer?
Here is a diagram.
(P) - Park/Plaground/School
(S) - Sex Offender
_________________
P__|__|__|__|__|__|
|__|__|__|__|__|__|
|__|__|__|__|__|__|
|__|__|__|__|__S__|
|__|__|__|__|__|__|
Anyone have any idea of how many zig-zags it takes to make any sense out of this rule. I would think, that if whomever it is what is worried about the 2000 foot rule, is worried about a Sex Offender being in the proximity or "line of sight" from a school, then one or two zig-zags (500 feet) seems more reasonable.
And, finally; (and this is where the 2000 foot restriction makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever) Most Sex Offenders have to work for a living in order to survive.
Here's a logic thought experiment for you...
DURING THE DAY, when most of the kids are in school and at the playgrounds and at the day care centers where are most of the Sex Offenders? Hmmm? They are away at work. DURING THE NIGHT, when the Sex Offenders come home from work where are most of the children? Hmmm? They are at home! They are no where near the School, park or playground.
Am I the only one that thinks that this whole 2000' thing is a little absurd?
In the last 15 years or so, with the many varied occupations I have had, I have come into contact with a number of Sex Offenders. Most of these people were intelligent, sensitive, caring people, that, for whatever reason, got caught up doing something stupid that wrecked their lives and were extremely sorry for all of the damage they had done. None of these people struck me as being the "monsters" that the News Media or America's Most Wanted portrays them as being.
I have a whole Blog devoted to this Sex Offender lunacy, because, I think in our country we have go so far overboard with this that we've lost all common sense and sensibility about it. We have gotten to the point where we are now classifying 5 year olds as sex offenders. C'mon, really? Give me a fucking break. This is how fucking retarded we've become.
Friday, December 18, 2009
This video disturbs me ... A LOT!
The video on this link disturbs me on several levels and I will bet that not one of you will guess the reason why.
Take a look at this video.
It is disturbing and sad that a teenager died in a fatal crash and a young man is being sentenced to spend some time in custody all because of some wrong choices.
It's not an accident when someone drives a car while intoxicated.
In truth, how I managed to NOT kill anyone or myself when I was younger is beyond me. There were times I was so wasted and high when I drove that I could have lit up a Christmas tree. I guess God was protecting the other people from me.
If you will notice about 7 seconds into the video we see the kid with his face blurred.
This has been a trend that's been going on for only a few years now. This never happened when I was younger and it is this that really disturbs me.
I found a Blog that is fairly interesting that has something to say about this. It's worth reading you can find it here. ....
Everyone is freaked out about the revealing the pictures and if they to the identities of these kids will attract all of the pedophiles and that the pedophiles may somehow get to them.
There's a term; it's called "per capita" and this means a percentage. The sad truth is that the per capita number of sex offences has not changed significantly. If anything it has gone down slightly. The numbers are larger because the percentage of 300 million people is larger than the percentage of 100 million people. It is virtually the same as it was 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago.
Thomas Jefferson was a either a hero or a child molester. It depends on what time you lived in, and during that time there were many, many, many more sex crimes per capita than what occurs today. Check out the middle of the fourth paragraph of The DNA evidence is in.
Sex crimes have occurred with the same number of "per capita" frequency since time began. We just hear about it now more than we used to and it's only in the last 10 or 15 years that we've really freaked out about it.
Photography was invented in 1814. For almost two centuries we didn't blur a thing. During this time there were kidnappings, rapes, molestations, murders and other horrid things.
Blurring anything is not going to change a thing.
The predatory pedophile is not going to be stopped by a blurred picture or a 2000 foot housing restriction.
It's another example of Political Correctness and a coming of a more intolerant and oppressive government.
I wonder how many people could see the "handwriting on the wall" prior to the Berlin wall going up and warned people and fled the country.
When I see these things on TV, the first thing that comes to my mind is a quote from a tyrant that almost took over the world.
The man was Adolph Hitler.
I'll leave you with a number of quotes from Adolf Hitler.
If you spend some time reading these quotes see if there are any of them resonate on what's happening in our current world; The New World Order, Homeland Security, Loss of freedoms, etc. Some of these quotes I feel strongly about. I have put some comments in [brackets] when I wanted to share something.
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
Mein Kampf; the Ralph Manheim translation published by Houghton-Mifflin, 1943. pg 403.
[I don't know about you, but in recent years, this has been the new battle cry of America!]
[If you study Anthropology, you will find that in order for us humans to flourish as a species we must have a constant adversity to overcome. We need to be challenged and sometimes it needs to be severe. It's similar, in context, to the War of the Worlds book/movie. The technologically superior Martians were brought down by tiny microbes, the little germs we had been exposed to for millions of years. They had no immune system. If you took a new born baby and isolated it from the outside world and put it into a bubble the baby would not develop an immune system. Now, think back to the late 1800's when Ellis Island was flooded with immigrants. Many of these people were young kids that had to fend for themselves on the streets. Many of them worked in sweatshops, and dangerous jobs. Kids that did have parents, many of them were so poor that they had to go out and work hard jobs at an early age to help the family survive. Not only was this one of the most dynamic and prosperous times in America, many of these underprivileged kids people became the pioneers and leaders we have today. You can't protect all of the kids from everything.]
"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over." [Regardless of what you have been told, it is physically impossible for the World Trade Center buildings to collapse as they did, because of plane crashes. -- I will share my thoughts on this in a later blog.]
"It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nations spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual."
[In other words the State is to have ultimate control and dominion over the people.]
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
"No matter what amount of talent is employed in the organization of propaganda, it will have no result if due account is not taken of these fundamental principles. Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and these must be represented again and again. Here, as in innumerable other cases, perseverance is the first and most important condition of success."
Mein Kampf; the James Murphy translation. February, 1939
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
"We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases." - From conversation on February 22, 1942
[Yeah, who cares about Freedom of Speech; now we have 'Politically Correct' … nah, that's not censorship!]
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."
-Edict of March 18, 1938, H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hitler's Table Talks 1941-1944 (London: Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1953, p. 425-426).
[Hitler wanted a cleansing; a pure race.In today's world the "subject races" are not the Jews and other miscreants but the whole population. In the broadest sense, in today's world this is just another way of justifying gun control. The State deems it important to and necessary to take the guns away from the people all under the guise making its citizens feel more secure.]
"Great liars are also great magicians"
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
"If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things."
"Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners or workers. All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper. It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the national community. Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings."
-Adolf Hitler to Herman Rauschning, "Why Does Socialism Continue to Appeal to Anyone?", Robert Hessen
[I think you get the picture here, no need to spell that one out.]
"Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself."
"Only force rules. Force is the first law"
[SS, KGB, Homeland Security]
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
"To be a leader means to be able to move masses"
"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."
"The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!"
"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes."
[In other words folks ... keep your eyes open History has a tendency to repeat itself.]
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
"I don't see much future for the Americans... It's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities... My feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?"
- In conversation on January 7, 1942; quoted in Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, p. 895; from transcripts published as Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941 -1944 (1953). These should not be confused with later publications such as "Hitler's Secret Book" (1961) from transcripts of 1928, nor the widely known hoax of "The Hitler Diaries".
Are we heading down a slippery slope of tyranny? disguised as our new modern America?
Take a look at this video.
It is disturbing and sad that a teenager died in a fatal crash and a young man is being sentenced to spend some time in custody all because of some wrong choices.
It's not an accident when someone drives a car while intoxicated.
In truth, how I managed to NOT kill anyone or myself when I was younger is beyond me. There were times I was so wasted and high when I drove that I could have lit up a Christmas tree. I guess God was protecting the other people from me.
If you will notice about 7 seconds into the video we see the kid with his face blurred.
This has been a trend that's been going on for only a few years now. This never happened when I was younger and it is this that really disturbs me.
I found a Blog that is fairly interesting that has something to say about this. It's worth reading you can find it here. ....
Everyone is freaked out about the revealing the pictures and if they to the identities of these kids will attract all of the pedophiles and that the pedophiles may somehow get to them.
There's a term; it's called "per capita" and this means a percentage. The sad truth is that the per capita number of sex offences has not changed significantly. If anything it has gone down slightly. The numbers are larger because the percentage of 300 million people is larger than the percentage of 100 million people. It is virtually the same as it was 20 years ago, 40 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago.
Thomas Jefferson was a either a hero or a child molester. It depends on what time you lived in, and during that time there were many, many, many more sex crimes per capita than what occurs today. Check out the middle of the fourth paragraph of The DNA evidence is in.
Sex crimes have occurred with the same number of "per capita" frequency since time began. We just hear about it now more than we used to and it's only in the last 10 or 15 years that we've really freaked out about it.
Photography was invented in 1814. For almost two centuries we didn't blur a thing. During this time there were kidnappings, rapes, molestations, murders and other horrid things.
Blurring anything is not going to change a thing.
The predatory pedophile is not going to be stopped by a blurred picture or a 2000 foot housing restriction.
It's another example of Political Correctness and a coming of a more intolerant and oppressive government.
I wonder how many people could see the "handwriting on the wall" prior to the Berlin wall going up and warned people and fled the country.
When I see these things on TV, the first thing that comes to my mind is a quote from a tyrant that almost took over the world.
The man was Adolph Hitler.
I'll leave you with a number of quotes from Adolf Hitler.
If you spend some time reading these quotes see if there are any of them resonate on what's happening in our current world; The New World Order, Homeland Security, Loss of freedoms, etc. Some of these quotes I feel strongly about. I have put some comments in [brackets] when I wanted to share something.
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
Mein Kampf; the Ralph Manheim translation published by Houghton-Mifflin, 1943. pg 403.
[I don't know about you, but in recent years, this has been the new battle cry of America!]
[If you study Anthropology, you will find that in order for us humans to flourish as a species we must have a constant adversity to overcome. We need to be challenged and sometimes it needs to be severe. It's similar, in context, to the War of the Worlds book/movie. The technologically superior Martians were brought down by tiny microbes, the little germs we had been exposed to for millions of years. They had no immune system. If you took a new born baby and isolated it from the outside world and put it into a bubble the baby would not develop an immune system. Now, think back to the late 1800's when Ellis Island was flooded with immigrants. Many of these people were young kids that had to fend for themselves on the streets. Many of them worked in sweatshops, and dangerous jobs. Kids that did have parents, many of them were so poor that they had to go out and work hard jobs at an early age to help the family survive. Not only was this one of the most dynamic and prosperous times in America, many of these underprivileged kids people became the pioneers and leaders we have today. You can't protect all of the kids from everything.]
"The great masses of people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Especially if it is repeated over and over." [Regardless of what you have been told, it is physically impossible for the World Trade Center buildings to collapse as they did, because of plane crashes. -- I will share my thoughts on this in a later blog.]
"It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole ... that above all the unity of a nations spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual."
[In other words the State is to have ultimate control and dominion over the people.]
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
"No matter what amount of talent is employed in the organization of propaganda, it will have no result if due account is not taken of these fundamental principles. Propaganda must be limited to a few simple themes and these must be represented again and again. Here, as in innumerable other cases, perseverance is the first and most important condition of success."
Mein Kampf; the James Murphy translation. February, 1939
"All propaganda has to be popular and has to adapt its spiritual level to the perception of the least intelligent of those towards whom it intends to direct itself."
"We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases." - From conversation on February 22, 1942
[Yeah, who cares about Freedom of Speech; now we have 'Politically Correct' … nah, that's not censorship!]
"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty."
-Edict of March 18, 1938, H.R. Trevor-Roper, Hitler's Table Talks 1941-1944 (London: Widenfeld and Nicolson, 1953, p. 425-426).
[Hitler wanted a cleansing; a pure race.In today's world the "subject races" are not the Jews and other miscreants but the whole population. In the broadest sense, in today's world this is just another way of justifying gun control. The State deems it important to and necessary to take the guns away from the people all under the guise making its citizens feel more secure.]
"Great liars are also great magicians"
"How fortunate for leaders that men do not think."
"If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things."
"Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State, through the Party, is supreme over them regardless of whether they are owners or workers. All that is unessential; our socialism goes far deeper. It establishes a relationship of the individual to the State, the national community. Why need we trouble to socialize banks and factories? We socialize human beings."
-Adolf Hitler to Herman Rauschning, "Why Does Socialism Continue to Appeal to Anyone?", Robert Hessen
[I think you get the picture here, no need to spell that one out.]
"Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself."
"Only force rules. Force is the first law"
[SS, KGB, Homeland Security]
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
"To be a leader means to be able to move masses"
"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."
"The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!"
"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes."
[In other words folks ... keep your eyes open History has a tendency to repeat itself.]
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future."
"Strength lies not in defense but in attack."
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong."
"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
"I don't see much future for the Americans... It's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities... My feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance... Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?"
- In conversation on January 7, 1942; quoted in Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, p. 895; from transcripts published as Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941 -1944 (1953). These should not be confused with later publications such as "Hitler's Secret Book" (1961) from transcripts of 1928, nor the widely known hoax of "The Hitler Diaries".
Are we heading down a slippery slope of tyranny? disguised as our new modern America?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)