May 15, 2006: Bud & More

The Coming of the Psychopath--The baby faced side

I have written before about the psychopathic behaviour that is increasingly prevalent in our society. My other two blogs dealt with the violent side (and equally devastating other traits) of late teen and adulthood. Through painful experience, I have stated that this personality trait shows up early. However, until lately that behaviour rarely went beyond torturing animals in the dew of the pre-teenage years. These past few weeks have bombarded that quaint time. A gang of 12 and 13 year olds have gone on a bank robbing spree in Vancouver. Bad as that was, it didn't match the news that a 12 year old girl "goth" and her much older "goth" boyfriend (allegedly) murdered her parents and little brother. Then this week produced the news that three pre-teens helped beat a man to death on a native reserve in Alberta. Whether his past as a reserve constable was a factor is unknown at present. Finally, CNN reported that a group of grade 2 and 3 kids in Saint Louis sexually assaulted a 6 year old girl--during school recess and out in the open. Obviously, these kids are no longer going to be outdone by their older siblings. Actually, extremely violent behaviour by young teens and mere children has been escalating for years.

The murder of Bobby Franks by a couple of teen thrill killers made news all over the world in the 30's. Some major papers called it "The crime of the Century". Today, it would be lucky to hit the front page. Think of the massacres committed by the two 13 year olds psychopaths in America who gunned down their playmates and teachers. They weren't even aggrieved over any school issue. It would just be fun to do. Since then, I've lost count of the school murders and apprehended attempts.

There has to be something in our culture (or omitted from it) that has produced these monsters. My experience has shown a slackening in discipline, both in the school and at home. The result is a generation of kids who feel little fear of authority figures. Likewise, the dearth of cultural training has been filled with mindless murder games and morally loose prime time TV fare. The kids have their own televisions and the warning: "Parental guidance recommended" is seen as a joke. The MTV channel has endless "booty videos" that are soft core porn to music. Corrupting enough, but the music is a relentless swagger about how thug life is the only viable alternative to today's world. Throw in broken homes, hard drugs and crass materialism and you have a deadly cocktail. Even as an agnostic, I realize the lessons that were church taught gave me an moral anchor. That teacher is quite feeble today.

Of course we adults have paved the way for this psychpathy to mature. The reform school image kept most of us away from serious crime, but today we hold to Father Flannigan's old adage: "There is no such thing as a bad boy". This soft approach has meant "house arrests" for serious crimes. This, to the psychopathic child, is just another sign of how omnipotent he already thinks he is.

Today this same kid realizes how easy it is to ruin the reputation of a hated teacher.* The mere accusation of sexual interference is a death knell for the accused. In an investigation in Alberta of sexual charges against teachers, 87% were found to be sheer student vindictiveness. None of the teen false accusers were punished. Even female teachers tremble, as three of them were also falsely accused in the year studied. If the student really wants to crucify you, he/she charge you with homosexual advances. This sword of Damaclese hangs over every teacher and the psychopath knows this. It might account for part of the huge staff overturn in schools across North America. As one teacher put it, "Now we are casting fake pearls before real swine."

Civilizations rarely dramatically decline; rather, it is a slow withering away of the elements that made the civilization strong to begin with. The youth of France, both Islamic and native, have flexed their muscles. They will have their wants taken care of --or else. Our puppies haven't reached that power position yet. Nevertheless, they are a quick study when they want their "entitlements". Pray that they not learn collectively to prey on our society.

© Bud Talkinghorn

I might add, Bud, " Pray that they not learn collectively to" pray in some mosque(s); I am thinking of the adherents who commit terrorist acts and are described by family as "He was a good boy; he went to the mosque every day" ... or something to that effect. Even with these stories, must not jump to conclusions about all ... though it is enormously tempting, given the evidence.

* See the story of the NS teacher, a lesbian, whose reputation as a teacher and as a human being was savaged by jumping to conclusions ... because she was a lesbian -- editorial May 15, 06 Globe and Mail. Remember: "Hate the sin, but not the sinner" ... if you believe in sin. NJC



A fool and his money is soon dead

After making bold statements about not supporting Hamas, the four Western aid "mediators" have caved. Now they are talking about giving aid, but circumventing Hamas. However the Palestinians who will receive this aid voted in the Hamas government. Since so many of them support suicide bombings and the annihilation of Israel--key Hamas tenets--why should Canadians support them? God knows how much of that would simply be extorted from them at gunpoint by Hamas thugs.

Why didn't we drop food packages on Germany during WW11, instead of bombs? The Palestinians made their choice, let them live with the consequences. It is precisely this waffling that incites terrorist regimes to expand their influence. Don't forget the ecstatic dancing in the street in Palestine when the Twin Towers came down. Next to Israel, they have been educated to hate America. With Hamas, it will be the entire West.

And where are the rich Arab states in all this suffering? They can funnel untold millions to the various terrorist organizations in Palestine, but can't pony up with economic aid to the masses. Mindless Saudi mullahs spouting anti-semetic rhetoric do not feed babies. "Put your money where your mouth is" is an appropriate saying here. Anyway, if the mess that Hamas has wrought is allowed to continue there will be a popular uprising. Hamas will be tossed out, along with its nihilistic jihad message and its Talibanesque views.

Bud Talkinghorn--Just a thought. If Saudi Arabia and the UAE are really, really concerned about the plight of the poor Palestinians, why don't they send home their vast army of menials from South Asia and hire unemployed Gazans instead? Or perhaps black Muslim Darfurians?

© Bud Talkinghorn



Somalia--A failed state which dropped from even that category

Today's news is that Somalia is in a civil war between the warlords and the Islamic fundamentalists, linked to al-Qaeda. The Islamists apparently had set up sleeper cells all over the capital, Mogadishu. A minature Afghanistan seems to be the Islamists' goal. Mogadishu, with its one working public phone and fifteen years of unpicked-up garbage, is the perfect spawning ground for fanaticism. It doesn't hurt that the Islamists know that the West remembers the rout of the Americans. Kill a few of them--at the cost of an estimated 1,200 of your own--and they cut and run. The besieged Marines all talk about having to mow down women and children, whom the "warriors" used as a shield. The warlord, Aidid, wasn't about to stop looting the food supplies of his starving neighbours. Different tribe, so let them starve to death. The point that the U.S. and the UN got was that there really was no "state" to save. The whole country was nothing but a patchwork of tribal animosities. No government approaching legitamacy could be cobbled together. It was a country that existed only on a map.

It is a time for rapid deployment by the West, before it does become Talibanistan. They must not be allowed to become the de facto government. The kill rate of the Marine and helicopter support was awesome. If it had been Vietnam it would have been considered a military victory of the first magnitude. Actually, the Tet offensive was a major American victory; it was the liberal media that turned it into a defeat. The tide against the war turned ever after Tet. The West must forget these agitprop snipings from the media and act swiftly to contain this Islamic cancer in Somalia.

© Bud Talkinghorn




Liberals Targetted the Gun Lobby -- Why, who would have thought ... surely not ...

Shootout set for Ottawa -- Tories will wound gun registry, but it will live a bit longer Greg Weston, Sun Media, May 11, 2006

[....] The most likely response of the Harper administration to Fraser's report next week will be to sound the death knell, suspend all fees for registering firearms, and declare an amnesty for an estimated 65,000 gun owners who have failed (or refused) to renew their rifle or shotgun licences.

[....] One of the key AdScam whistleblowers told us long ago (and later, the RCMP) how his Montreal ad agency ripped off the government for close to $150,000 in one contract to provide insider intelligence on the gun lobby opposed to the registry.

Instead, a secretary at the ad agency got herself on the e-mail lists of a half-dozen gun lobby groups, printed off the correspondence every month, and mailed it to Ottawa -- a few dollars' work for $150,000.

No surprise that a number of the registry contracts were the target of the AdScam investigations by the RCMP, and at least two of them so far have led to criminal charges. [....]

37,000 to 6493

Perhaps, Liberals could start by eliminating the corruption ... listening to the grassroots ... you know, the people who pay for all the Liberal governments' ...

And they should stop looking for another charismatic leftist to lead them instead of an ordinary, decent politician ... you know, honest, no rose between his teeth ... no greed in his heart. That might help.

Libs need fundraising reform -- Liberals say they need a bold new grassroots strategy and a clearer, more compelling message to raise money, but Tories say the Grits have a 'great challenge' because they're not a grassroots party. May 15th, 2006, Simon Doyle -- and thanks, R.

In the face of dramatically declining financial contributions and in a new era of political financing, the once reigning Liberal Party needs a bold new grassroots strategy and a clearer, more compelling message to raise money, say Liberal MPs.

Political party financing returns for the first quarter of 2006, released by Elections Canada at the start of the month, show the governing Conservative Party continues to benefit from the new fundraising rules that came into force in 2004. The party received $5.6-million from 37,000 contributors in the first quarter of 2006, $4.2-million more than the Liberal Party's earnings of $1.3-million, which came from only 6,493 contributors. [....]

Another Perspective -- from Quebec

Quebec deserves its have-not label Financial Post, p. F-23 / Norma Kozhaya, May 10, 2006 -- via ? Sorry, I forget, but something I read led me to this.

Norma Kozhaya is an economist at the Montreal Economic Institute.

[....] In 2004, Quebec's GDP per capita, the most widely used measure of the living standards of a territory's residents, stood at $35,117. This is 13% less than Canada as a whole ($40,351) and 16% less than Ontario ($41,703). It also falls below the numbers for Alberta ($58,394), Saskatchewan ($40,240), Newfoundland and Labrador ($37,588) and British Columbia ($37,421). The gap with Ontario is the same as it was in the early 1980s.

These data should, ideally, be made more accurate by adjusting them for the cost of living. Unfortunately, even if this concept seems simple, it is impossible to find complete and trustworthy data. Statistics Canada published data only for the largest city in each province, along with Ottawa, for 2003.

Prices in these cities are not necessarily representative, however, of prices throughout a province. But using the number for Montreal and the average of the two Ontario cities, the cost of living in Quebec is approximately 12% lower than in Ontario. On this imperfect basis, the negative gap between the GDP per inhabitant in Quebec and the Canadian average drops from 13% to 6%, while the gap with Ontario falls from 16% to only 4%, leaving Ontario at only a slight advantage. [....]

Search: unemployment rate , labour productivity , a more egalitarian society

Worth reading ... it seems as though the urbanites fared better than those from the hinterland. Alberta, you have been informed ...




Comments I found of interest

May 10, 2006 - I now have confirmation from more than a dozen people who were present at the LPC(O) leadership forum in Toronto last Friday: Bob Rae did, in fact, liken the softwood lumber agreement to the Hitler-Chamberlain Munich Pact. Which certainly suggests Rae analogizes Harper and Bush, jointly and severally, to Hitler and Chamberlain. posted by someone (he could write)?


May 10, 2006 – I have heard from the Bob Rae campaign posted by someone (News)?

[....] I am told:

He did, in fact, compare Harper to Chamberlain.
He did, in fact, mention “Munich” but not the word "pact."
Those are what some of us call a distinction without a difference. The meaning of his statement is plain – namely, the deal Harper did with Bush is analogous to the deal Chamberlain did with Hitler.

Do you think that analogy is appropriate? I sure don’t.

Do you think Bob Rae should apologize? I sure do.
Do you think he will? Don’t hold your breath.

Rae going apoplectic in the service of the left, eh?




How to win friends and influence voters, the race industry adherents

Forum: comment from Bugs, May 9, 06

Let me share some recent events in my life. I have wondered about all of these Human Rights schemes, and how they so often end up defining marriage as a discriminatory device, aimed at homosexuals. Homosexuality is not a hot button issue for me -- it's the logic that leads to that conclusion that I wanted to understand.

So, I took a night school course at Ryerson, called "Issues in Human Rights." Summarizing, what I found was an organized set of legal assumptions, coupled with an apparatus and a strategy of penetrating the Courts systems. The goal is immensely totalitarian.

[....] Ignatieff, btw, is one of their intellectual icons, and refers to 'human rights speak' without irony, to indicate how differently they use words. It's hard to summarize, but one of the techniques is to bring in a new standards of judgement. For example, in the old days, 'equality' was a matter everyone having a basic chance, the OPPORTUNITY, and it was felt to be totally illegitimate to prevent people from having the opportunity to pursue their own happiness due to matters of race. But now, it is a matter of RESULT.

[....] Human Rights Commissions solution would be to order, [....]

And not a law has changed!

The very nature of 'rights' has changed. Human rights used to be a limit to the state's power. "Congress shall make no law that ...." is the basic pattern. Now, a 'right' is called a 'positive right' -- it ends up taking money out of taxation without Parliament having a say-so. Implicitly, sovereignty is moving to the Courts.

'Equality' is turning into a subjective thing, a 'feeling'. It ends up justifying inequitous treatment, always to ameliorate some dire condition that is assumed to exist -- not proven, just assumed from stereotypes! It justifies treating people unequally in the name of some deeper, metaphysical 'equality'.

It's frightening, because it is warping our law [....]

What is, in fact, happening, is that we are going from a society where everything was allowed unless it was proscribed by law, to a society where everything is proscribed unless you have the 'right' -- and many people will have special race-linked or gender rights. It's a world that we wouldn't recognize.

The most troubling thing about this course? The way I was treated because I challenged the prof -- a Shi'a who works at the Ontario Human Rights Commission, btw, Dr. Azmi -- for instance, on his characterization of the racial situation in Ontario in 1950ies. He described it as characterized with burning crosses, and so on. I said, that's just not true, and made the point about the [immigrants] coming in, our enemies in a World War maybe 6-8 years before ... the students would get hostile. They don't want to hear this. After the third lecture, I always felt stifled, and would only ask a question if it was important enought to endure this hostility. I was being treated as if I were the bigot, to my face, for raising legitimate questions in a course called "Issues in Human Rights." [....]

By God, he's got it! ........ Dr. Azmi got that Hedy Fry thing ... time to run for the Liberal Party leadership.

That was informative ... taking a course from a member of the human rights / race relations industry.