Okay, so maybe that's a little bit inflammatory. But the gyst is this: a school district in California has started a class to educate children that it is wrong to bully gay children or children of gay parents.
Naturally, some people are abhorred by the idea, and feel it is in their right to raise their children to be discriminatory against these freaks.
The lawyer for the special interest group spearheading the lawsuit does make a valid point in that the curriculum "omits children belonging to five other protected classes including race, ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality and religion". That actually makes sense. Why not just tackle the issue of bullying in general?
I was looking at my traffic today, seeing how visitors to my blog are getting here, when I opened a Google search from one of the visitors to see what else was in the results. Holy shit.
I took a look at a few of the other results, just to get a feel for what others thought of the segment. Here are a few examples:
"Wild nonsense on the Glenn Beck Show crowds out any rational critique of Obamacare. If I were a guest, I wouldn't be able to keep a straight face through something like this." -quicksilber
"So, in Beck's world, Obama's health care reforms are now equivalent to Nazi Eugenics. I'm so pleased that this debate is remaining reasonable." -The Osterley Times
"The allegations Beck made against Emmanuel were typical of his fact-free, hate-filled diatribes. Beck selectively cites passages from Emmanuel’s writings and deposits them about as far from any honest context as he can get. For instance, he alleges that Emmanuel supports rationing of scarce heath care resources based on age or the patient’s projected productivity or some other unspecified cost/benefit analysis. The truth is, Emmanuel’s writings referred specifically to critical situations that required the most difficult decision making." -News Corpse
I responded with this:“Emmanuel’s writings referred specifically to critical situations that required the most difficult decision making.”
And if you actually listened to Glenn (I know, he is a bit out there sometimes), you would realize that he understands this. That is why he he has mentioned catastrophes (either physical or economic) that would allow the government to make a power grab, just as the neocons did after September 11. Like Rahm said, “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste”.
I would offer this up, though:
“Accepting the complete lives system for health care as a whole would be premature.”
That is from “Principles for allocation of scarce medical interventions”, the paper co-authored by Dr. Emanuel that Beck was quoting from. Have you read it? I have. He says accepting the complete lives system for the entire system would be “premature”. He does not say it would be “impossible” or “impractical”, he says “premature”.
"And he makes plain that he completely supports Sarah Palin's intimations of "death panels" and subscribes to her view that universal health care will bring about euthanasia. In other words, he's a "deather." -Crooks and Liars
"Tonight I watched Glenn Beck utter some of the most hateful propaganda I have ever seen. If he was on any other station, he would have been fired. Hell, if this had been someone talking about the Bush administration, they would have been jailed. First he ran a segment equating public health care to Nazi Eugenics. He actually used his own disabled daughter to back up his lies at one point, implying that public health care would kill her. Every other sentence was "I'm not saying the Democrats are going to kill your grandmother" or something to that effect, but it was always followed with a "but" and then an explanation of how the Democrats are in fact going to try and kill your grandmother. This is clearly the equivalent to shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. He is specifically trying to incite an uprising against the Obama administration. Glenn Beck has become a truly dangerous individual and a traitor. This is not "partisanship" anymore, this is clearly an attempt to incite insurrection against the government of the United States. I ask all of you, if you don't want to see a violent coup d'tat attempt in this country, to call FoxNews and all of their advertisers calling for the immediate removal of Glenn Beck from the air." -some retarded dumbass on some retarded message board
This one takes the cake, gong so far as labeling Beck a traitor. But that is generally how the far-left (and far-right, for that matter) operate. They try to squelch as much dissent and criticism as possible.
Above is a clip from Glenn Beck from August 11, 2009. Now, I know a lot of people don't like Beck. However, there are a lot of people that do. I am one of them. I listen to his radio show on occasion, and every once in a while watch clips of his tv show. Some people are put-off by his antics, including his tendency to be a bit emotional, but I do believe that Glenn Beck is genuine. I don't agree with everything he says, just as I do not agree with everything Limbaugh or Olbermann or any other talking head says. But to say that he is always wrong, and to discount everything he says, just because you do not like him is narrow-minded.
Watch the video. He makes a very valid point, and he shows video of Obama talking during the campaign about the people that surround him, the people who shape his views. Glenn goes on to name those people guiding Obama on health care reform, and illustrate their beliefs with actual quotes from these people.
I wanted to see these quotes in context, so I dug them up and posted links to their original sources, where available. They follow.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel: "Substantively, it suggests services that promote the continuation of the polity-those that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations-are to be socially guaranteed as basic. Conversely, services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed." Source
"When implemented, the Complete Lives System produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between 15 and 40 get the most chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get the chances that are attenuated." Source (requires registration)
John Holdren, science czar: "The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth, and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being." - Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions, by Paul R. Ehrlich (Author)
More from Mr. Holdren can be found at Zombietime, including tidbits such as these:
"Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society."
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"The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births."
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"If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization."
I stumbled across this photo last night, entirely by accident. I had seen it before though, more than twenty years ago, and I recognized it instantly. Seeing it again made me catch my breath.
I had never forgotten it. It always rose to the surface of my memory when I would read a book or an article about The Holocaust, or watched a documentary, or really anything related to the 1940s. I never remember the details. I just remember the little boy to the right of center. It chilled me when I first saw the picture, and it continues to chill me now. Hands raised in the air, a look of fear and helplessness on his face as a soldier stood behind him, machine gun in hand.
No doubt you have heard about Sarah Palin and her fear that President Obama would create a "death panel" that would deny care to Americans who need the care most. When I first heard about her comment, I thought to myself "Wow, that's a helluva way to convince the American people you're not a paranoid nutjob."
But the more I thought about it, the more I decided that she has a valid fear. I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that since many people who know me also consider me a paranoid nutjob.
The Holocaust did not happen over night. The first extermination camp was not constructed in Germany until nearly a decade after the first laws were introduced to remove Jews from society. This is an extreme example, but serves to illustrate my point: when a door is opened and power is held by those who would wield it with malice, tragedy can occur.
Hitler was not idolized and worshipped because of a platform to exterminate Jews from society, but rather a soaring oratory and ideals rooted in nationalism. The Holocaust happened not simply because the German people wanted it, but because the German people handed Hitler and the Nazis the power to commit their heinous acts.
So am I comparing Hitler to President Obama? Nor directly, so please do not make the accusation.
Many people on the left talk about contributing to society as a whole, and seem to diminish the importance of self. They talk about operating as a collective, and what is good for the collective is good for all. To think or speak otherwise reveals one as simply being selfish.
So if the collective is bearing the cost of the collective's healthcare, then why would the collective hesitate to exterminate (via denial of care) a person if that person's healthcare would prove to be a drain on the collective's resources? It surely wouldn't be due to any moral or ethical objection. Germany is proof that a society will turn a blind eye to the atrocities of a beloved leader if that leader speaks to them in soaring rhetoric.
The federal government has already grown to a size and scope which is unsustainable. Medicare will be insolvent within eight years. Social Security will pay out more than it takes in within thirty years or so. It would make sense to remove those which are most costly to the long-term financial health of the collective.
That is what Palin is talking about. That is what I am talking about. President Obama is not proposing nationalized healthcare, but that is the endgame in all of this talk of "healthcare reform". He has admitted it, and so have many members of the Democratic Party. It is in our best interests, in the best interests of society, to regard whatever the federal government proposes with a wary eye.
And keep a close eye on that door.
You can click the image above to make it, you know, legible.
This is a perfect example of what irritates me about liberals. They have an unwavering faith in government, and seize every opportunity to extoll the virtues of a massive federal bureucracy.
H.R. 1207: Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009
The bill is now up to 276 cosponsors, up from 260 just ten days ago.
S. 604: 2009-2010 Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009
This bill now has 17 cosponsors, up from eight just ten days ago.
You can read my previous post on the subject here.
These bills, or this issue in general, will continue to gain support. Before long, they will be two big, white elephants that cannot be ignored. Pelosi, Reid, and Obama will have to allow these bills to come to the floor. It would be nice to see the mainstream media run with the story on this issue a little more than they have. But I think it's pretty obvious that they are not going to do so until the issue cannot be ignored any longer.
I read any interesting comment on another site the other day. A reader asked why there would be resistance for these bills to pass. Another reader commented that if the books were opened up, and we were permitted to see what is going on behind those doors at the Federal Reserve, it would simply serve to hasten the collapse of the system.
Interesting thought.
Cyrus Thatcher as a rifleman. He was killed on 2 June 2009.
(Photo: John Lawrence)
Following is a link to an article at The Independent. It isn't really an article so much as a short compilation of letters written by a soldier from the UK to his family. The final letter is the one he wrote in the event of his death.
I do not recall the last time I was moved to tears in such a manner as I was after reading this.
'Hello mum, this is going to be hard for you to read ...'
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