It's all bunk

Lately we've been learning much from this newest tragedy in the chapter of school violence, Red Lake. As I expected, the media doesn't look for deeper causes of this, they found a scapegoat, perhaps it would get them more publicity by calling for boycotts of spiked hair and dark clothes than actually addressing the problems this young man faced. It would seem from the testimony of his classmates, the kid was somewhat of a goth, the typical profile you'd see from the media, spiked hair, dark clothes, seemed depressed. This is of course, blaming the symptoms (bad choice of words?) for the illness. No one seems to be interested in finding exactly what caused this, (could it be that his dad is dead and that his mom is severely handicapped?) Funny how we never hear of violence by the school quarterback, god knows there's alot of it, but somehow, our brilliant media know that the kid in the back of the class, being beat up by those stronger than him going nuts is better news than the constant crap those same people put up with every day. Let me finish my post by quoting Greg Gaffin from his essay available on www.badreligion.com:

Violence is neither common in, nor unique to punk. When it does manifest itself it is due to things unrelated to the punk ideal. Consider for example the common story of a fight at a high school between a punk and a jock football player. The football player and his cohort do not accept or value the punk as a real person. Rather, they use him as a vitriol receptacle, daily taunting, provoking, and embarrassing him, which of course is no more than a reflection of their own insecurities. One day, the punk has had enough and he clobbers the football captain in the hallway. The teachers of course expell the punk and cite his poor hairstyle and shabby clothing as evidence that he is a violent, uncontrollable no-good. The community newspaper reads "Hallway Beating Re-affirms that Violence is a Way of Life Among Punk Rockers".

Fat camp attacks!

I found an article, thanks to www.tounguetied.us and it read like this:
"Leaders of eating disorder support groups are hopping mad at actress Kirstie Alley for joking about "life-threatening diseases" like bulimia on her new comedy show Fat Actress.
Officials at America's National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) say the actress is trivializing binge-eating disorders in her new program. In one scene, which has upset NEDA's chiefs, co-star Kelly Preston tells Alley's character, which is loosely based on herself, that making herself sick after every meal is one way of losing weight.
“There is nothing funny about eating disorders, and to make comedic references to anorexia, bulimia or binge-eating disorder is dangerous,” said NEDA’s Chief Executive Officer, Lynn Grefe."

Now I just have one thing to say, lighten up! Come on! Whatever happened to freedom of speech? The first amendment? Where's that? Oh yes, I must've forgotten that long overlooked part in the 1st amendment when it said: "you can only say what you want if it's politically correct" I mean seriously, she's making a comedy show, surely you have something better to worry about than how people may be offended by how fat people are portrayed. And another thing, how is being fat a disease? Nothing takes over your body and FORCES you to eat that last double cheeseburger, it's not a disease, now I'm not sure about the specifics of bulimia and stuff like that so i won't go into it. But this is silly, obesity? Why not have a laugh over it? I think these people are blowing it WAY out of proportion, I mean, who cares? If you're offended, don't watch it, boycott it, that's the American way, if you don't like it, don't support it. Now they have a right to think it's offensive, but if they start suing because this is "insensitive" or something, then they've crossed the line, the point here is that there's never going to be a utopia, people are always going to be offended and you people should just get over it.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7150041/?GT1=6305


And we're worried about test scores? Now there are two possibilities, this could merely be a scare story used to boost their ratings, but it could also be legitimate. It seems plausible that they could still be using old chemicals from decades gone by, but my question is: Why can they not control who gets access to them? I mean, if they can keep students out of other parts of the school, (ex, the principal's office when locked) why can they not just lock up their "dangerous chemicals"? It seems silly to demand government money to clean up something you could just fix by putting a $5 dollar lock on the door. But no, of course since there's the slightest risk someone MAY get hurt, we have to spend millions of dollars to keep it "safe" They also said that these chemicals could be used in a bomb, now keep in mind I'm no expert on bombs, but I believe the ingredients for many bombs can be bought at a hardware store, so do you want to lock up lighter fluid as well? The bottom line is that it seems silly to demand government money for a project that could be fixed with a masterlock padlock.

Common Sense

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/60minutes/main678261.shtml

I must say, this is one of the more insane stories I've read lately. We all have good intentions, to keep kids from killing people, but these people are way off base. They actually think that Grand Theft Auto (GTA) compelled this kid to gun down three cops? Let me tell you, games cannot give the will to kill, only human behavior can do that. Let's look a little deeper shall we? As I watched this story unfold, I noticed that the kid came from a broken family, that should've set off alarms right away, but the reporters merely rattled it off in a string of facts about Moore. So basically he has no dad at home, am I the only one seeing the problem here? He also bounces around between his mother's home and foster homes. Come on! Anyone in their right mind cannot believe that GTA gave this kid the will to kill. It may have showed him HOW to kill, but you can do that by watching basic cable. (or if you watch CBS, the station that showed this story, they have some pretty gruesome accounts of murder also, CSI and all its spinoffs) It's natural to blame the game because a kid murdered some cops, but is it the core of the problem? No, I believe the real problem lies in the question, where's the kid's dad? Would this have happened if he had had a role model besides 50 cent in his life? I believe it would not have. If you're going to go after video games, how about music? Plenty of rap music advocates violence, and movies! Lots of violent movies out there! Better call the thought police.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148882,00.html

I have one thing to say, come on! Are you kidding me? Someone actually said that there might be inherent differences between men and women? Why that's the 7th deadly sin! Time after time studies prove that there are differences between men and women, it's not an "oppressive society" it's just the way it is. All he said was that there are fewer women in engineering (fact) and that it might have something to do with the (fact) that generally women score lower in the math portions of standardized testing. So I'm completely stumped as to why people are so hyped up about this. Here's a quote from Nancy Hopkins, professor of biology at MIT: "I just couldnt' breathe, this kind of bias makes me physically ill." Come on! Bias?! What bias? As I've just been through, he stated nothing but facts. After three apologies the president is STILL unable to get the feminazis off his back. Everyone needs to be a victim, if anything is working against you, it must be because of the evil right wing and it's not MY fault! How about we treat everyone equally instead of giving minorites (affirmative action) and women (who aren't even a minority) special treatment? It's insane to think that ALL women are bad at math, but that's not what he said, it's also crazy to think that all men are bad at english or something to that extent. (I'm living proof of that) My point is that it's crazy to go after this guy, quit playing the victim and go prove him wrong if you resent what he said so much! After hearing an activist student say this "It's hard enough to be a woman in this country...we don't need him putting up another barrier" Jon Stewart had this to say: "Yes, just another barrier you'll face as a Harvard graduate." Quit complaining.