Daily Mail in "Olympic Ceremony was Left Wing Crap" Shocker

Rick Dewsbury writes in the Hate Mail

The above article, presented on Freezepage as the Mail rapidly yanked it from their website, demonstrates that not everybody thought honouring the NHS at the Olympics was a great idea.

It is a Daily Mail article, so be prepared for hatred, bile, vitriol and stringing together a series of almost unconnected events in order to make up a story,

Ethical News Reporting

"If you don't want to propagate more mass murders...

Don't start the story with sirens blaring.

Don't have photographs of the killer.

Don't make this 24/7 coverage.

Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story.

Not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero.

Do localise this story to the affected community and as boring as possible in every other market." - from Newswipe by Charlie Brooker.

Government Forcing Religion, Freedom of Religion, the Constitution, and the Hypocrisy of the Political Media

President Obama is forcing his Christianity on us!! The media must be Up In Arms. He says we must take money from the rich and give it to the poor, because of the Christian religion's precepts.* (not individually, but the governmental WE.)
Holy Smokes!! 
David Gregory must be licking his chops preparing some Serious Questions about the Fear we are feeling that President Obama is trying to create a theocracy, Forcing us to act with Christian precepts!

david gregory picture

I mean, it's one thing for a person to decide their own behavior, but government mandates?
If i am an atheist, and do not believe in any religious precepts, or if i am simply a selfish person who is doing fine evolutionarily speaking, or simply do not believe in "sharing" or "compassion"--wasn't this government designed for me?
 I thought the constitution allowed people to practice whatever they wanted but does not allow the gov'mint to force me to practice it too.

Is that why thoreau went to jail rather than allow his taxes to be used for something that violated his conscience?



In the middle of the worst economy in memory,
 a coupla wars being fought, american women and men dying overseas, etc., George Stephanopoulos  asked a 2012 primary debate question that left everyone scratching their heads--


Would you ban birth control? or Can States ban birth control or something like that- video here:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/02/22/cnn_debate_audience_not_into_birth_control_question

don't watch tv, it all crazy

from all sides, the story of The Contraception Question was reported as big news
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/02/24/nbc-birth-control-debate-came-out-nowhere-now-third-rail-politics

the Daily Beast has several articles about it. 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/raucous-crowds-boo-contraception-cheer-dealth-penalty-gop/story?id=15778733

But it seemed a weird quesiton. Romney cocked his head like a confused dog and indicated that no one was thinking of doing it, and why ask such a question. Then, a few weeks later, comes the insurance mandate to have birth control included in insurance, and the rest is history

Have you stopped beating your wife?

 * here are two instances that President Obama has referenced:

1. To whom much is given, much is expected...

2.   “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,^f you did it to me.’

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”


 more politics HERE and HERE and also here: http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-civility-kill-those-you-disagree.html



So--what is your opinion? Shall our government be one motivated by Christian Principles or Not? Some but not all?
Why do we spend the way we spend, act the way we act, or refrain when we refrain?
Is there really such a thing as love, afterlife, souls, and morality? Or are we really just random bits of flotsam and jetsom mathematically mutating though time?

Madonna and Kabbalah, Tim Tebow and Jesus Christ, and The Media as Teacher

Madonna and Kabbalah (Ooh, sparkly!)
Tim Tebow (God Doesn't Care who wins)
and
 the media...
I was just wondering why the media drools, grovels, and Educates us on some things and
haughtily points and laughs scornfully on others.
Just wonderin...

Madonna, left holding a book, seen here in Tel Aviv, enrolled at the Los Angeles center in 1996 at Sandra Bernhard's suggestion. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, right, were married by a Kabbalah Centre teacher. (Kabbalah Centre / Associated Press)

Am I Fat Am I Pretty Am I three years old?

dove video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

Train your daughter well...


http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/superficial-beauty-is-only-skin-deep.html
 
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/things-arent-always-as-they-seem.html
 

 
 
another dove vid here:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

Our Cities Alight

I thought the world might be ending in 1981, in the depths of the Cold War our cities suddenly caught alight. Brixton, Toxteth, Handsworth, Chapeltown and Moss Side were ablaze both literally, and with anger fuelled by long term social deprivation and resentment at police stop and search powers directed at young black men. It was a troubled year, Bobby Sands starved himself to death and more riots took place on the streets of Belfast, US President Ronald Reagun was wounded in an assassination attempt and a man fired shots, which later proved to be blanks, at the Queen.

I remember keeping a scrapbook at the time, I was slightly obsessed with the rioting, I cut out out reports and pictures from the papers and built up a dossier of violence and disorder, photographs of disaffected youths throwing missiles, of wounded policemen being sheltered by comrades, of shops and workplaces and homes burning.  I could not understand then why people were destroying the amenities in their own neighbourhoods, if this was the only protest they felt they could make, why did they torch their own community centres.

The riots that have exploded across London, and which are spreading through our larger cities, have taken a different hue. The original riot seems to have been triggered by the police shooting of a man, reports are now contradicting the first story that Mark Duggan fired first and wounded a police officer, it is now being said that all the shots were fired by the Police.  Tensions boiled over and Tottenham suffered more for it.

Some activists in Tottenham are claiming that last month there was an entirely peaceful march to Tottenham police station, which it is claimed around 2,000 people took part in and was almost completely ignored by the media. Protesters/rioters in Tottenham interviewed by NBC pointed out that if 20 black kids smash up a branch of William Hill and burn a sports car, they can bring the world's media to their doorstep.

The more extensive riots that have taken place though have no political or activist connection with the first events in Tottenham. Television reports carry footage of largely young people bent on a bit of window breaking and looting, organised, it is claimed, on the Blackberry Messenger closed system. This is vandalism and theft on a large scale and nothing more. It may well be that the people involved in these events are at the poorest end of the social spectrum, but these riots are not anti-police or against authority, it's just a bunch of kids out to cause mayhem and steal some trainers.

Last night Sky News were warming their hands over the footage of a huge blaze consuming a furniture store in Croyden, and taking with it the jobs and livelihoods of the families that worked there.  As buildings burn in Tottenham and Croyden, ordinary working class families have lost everything, their jobs, homes and all their possessions bar the clothes they are wearing. Sky repeated that footage late into last night, I must have seen the same group of three kids run past the burning building 15 times.

Whatever your situation in life, you still have choices, and if you are poor and excluded then looting a couple of pairs of Adidas trainers from JD Sports isn't really going to improve your social situation.  We live in a technological age where you can choose to use your mobile device to organise a mob of your wrong thinking friends to firebomb Currys, or you can use it to inform and educate yourself.

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." - Mohandas Gandhi

Liar, n.

"Liar, n. An attorney with a roving profession. A journalist of any occupation, trade or calling." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

Assumptions about Perpetrators of Violence: Jared Loughner, Dodgers and Giants, and Lacrosse

I am wondering why we don't have the media telling us all about the motivation of the men who beat an innocent man at a baseball game, the men who murder their girlfriends who leave them, -- you know, like they did with jared Loughner. Like about Rape.
Why aren't the media giving us a deep analysis of the data, the information about all this violence? Y'know, like with Mr. Loughner?

global violence

abusing animals

You tell me, who's really the one to BLAME?

Humility versus Arrogance?

falling whistles

humans do this for _____

where is ai weiwei?

Women,  girls,  boys,

what is sacrifice?

run little doggie

Your Problems are not my problems.

Your circle of pain is not my circle of pain.

 Your cycle of violence is not

my cycle of violence

your world is not my world

your wisdom is not my wisdom

My Wisdom

Rape Myths, Misogyny, Political Fanaticism Exposed in Nir Rosen's Twitter Response to the Sexual Assault of Journalist

The double standards of decency are now on full display. Even a light examination of the facts in the recent criminal and immoral behavior concerning the assault against L.  (HERE) shows clearly that the blaring horns of the mainstream media pick and choose which speech they will focus on, for example, as "hateful"--including

• how they will choose to generalize statements from one person to entire groups- OR NOT
• and the choice to use or NOT TO USE hateful speech to push an agenda, through repeated media stories. 

As is typical, a crime of assault against a woman brings from the media a focus on her appearance, pictures completely unrelated to the story which are centered on showing skin, and any information available about her sexuality.

[This case showed typical media and otherwise misogyny-

 I have never read a blog by

bonnie russell, but this post popped up with some spot-on points 

re Nir Rosen: why was he not instantly, publicly fired?

"Yet not for a second has

 our male dominated media turned its eye inward.

 The focus is instead,

on how one lawyer-reporter was a very bad boy." b russel)]

Nir Rosen laughs at assault on Ms. Logan because of her politics?

Examine, explore: Ask yourself
how the media would have covered this
story if

A) the crime victim was a male
______________ such as reporter Richard Engel
or
B) the person who tweeted hateful statements
was _____________ _______ (insert various choices here)
(Imus, Sarah Palin, Chris Matthews, etc)
C) the crime occured in a fraternity house
or
D)    the crime occurred during a sports "celebration" riot in the USA

double standard 101 question.
(Is violence against women as real, as violent as violence against men? After all, it's not like a she was stabbed or shot?
What would Sharia law say?)

Besides misogyny,
Politcal fanaticism is an obvious area of reporting bias in the media. No one likes to focus on the fanatics in one's own camp. But ignoring them simply makes the media appear either untrustworthy or irrelevant to large portions of the country.
 
Putting one's politics over the basic human dignity of women, and perpetuating the winks and nods regarding rape myths is a revolting bias; many women have had enough.
 
Have you read what nir rosen wrote about the assault of Lara Logan-His Twitter posts are HERE 
 

Read about Rape Myths:


media know
what is important for you??



http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1102/S00626/rape-myths-persist-reactions-to-the-assault-on-lara-logan.htm

myths, politics, media: http://www.mydaily.com/2011/02/16/nir-rosen-what-people-are-saying-about-lara-logan/

http://www.k-state.edu/womenscenter/
 
http://www.k-state.edu/womenscenter/Violencework%20Advocacy/Womens%20Center%20Materials/women_center_materials.htm
 
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/accidental-felony.html
 
Myths about Rape

Myth 1: Rape is provoked by the victim. Women invite rape with their appearance or behavior.
Women who are drunk are asking for it.
Fact: A study conducted in Philadelphia by Dr. Menachem Amir indicated that 60 to 70 percent of rapes are at least partially planned beforehand by the rapist; the victim is often threatened with bodily harm if she resists. The problem with this myth is the way it takes the criminal blame from the rapist and shifts the responsibility for the crime to the victim. Walking and dressing in a way that is socially defined as attractive does not give someone else the right to commit a crime. Buying someone dinner and drinks does not imply sexual consent. No person’s behavior, state of intoxication, dress, or agreement to date gives another individual any level of sexual “rights,” let alone the right to commit rape.

A Crime belongs to the criminal.

updated sexual violence stats HERE

Myth 2: It won’t happen to me; only other types of women get raped. Only “bad” girls get raped. Only young, beautiful women are raped.
Fact: A victim of sexual assault is a crime victim, a victim of violence. Victims are of every age, shape, race and social class; for example, 1 out of 10 adult men are sexually assaulted, 1 out of 7 boys are sexually abused (see http://www.raap.org/stats.htm). Read the newspaper: You will see stories of elderly, of handicapped, of male, of child victims. Women do not “ask” to be raped, regardless of what they are wearing or doing.

Myth 3: Women are raped when they are out alone at night, primarily in dark alleys, so if women stay at home they’ll be safe.
Fact: The majority of rapes are committed by acquaintances of the victim, in situations where the victim feels secure. Some rapes occur during home invasions. Any woman, regardless of place of residence, social or economic class, age, appearance, or other factors, can be a victim of rape. Among college women, most rapes occur in victim or rapist’s home. Most rapes occur in or around the woman’s house by someone she knows. Women are raped while engaging in everyday activities, such as sleeping, studying, working, shopping, or driving their cars. Regardless of activity, age, class, race, marital status, or occupation, all women are vulnerable to rape.

Myth 4: Sexual assault occurs only among strangers. If I avoid strangers, I will not be raped.
Fact: 1996 stats show: 67.5% of victims know their perpetrator. 1994: 28% of victims are raped by husbands or boyfriends, 35% by acquaintances, 5% by other relatives (see http://www.raap.org/stats.htm). When considering these statistics, it is important to remember that a woman is more apt to report being raped by a stranger than to press charges against a friend or relative.

Myth 5: Any woman could prevent the rape if she really wanted to. No woman can be raped against her will.
Fact: About 1 out of every 16 rape/sexual-assault victims reported that a firearm was present during the commission of the offense. Most victims (84%) reported that the offender used no weapon. However, the primary reaction of almost all women to the rape was fear for their lives. In view of a rape victim’s fear of injury or death, the loss of control over her life and body, and the humiliation that she undergoes-- it is amazing that so many people still believe the preposterous myth that victims really enjoy rape or are responsible for being raped. The newest form of rape occurs with the use of drugs (GHB, ecstasy, Roofies etc.) which, alone or combined with alcohol, take away a person’s ability to function and greatly impairs ability to remember. Rape drugs are also very dangerous as an overdose can kill.

Myth 6: Rape occurs only in large cities.
Fact: Although the reported number of assaults is higher in urban areas, sexual assault does happen in every area of the city, the suburbs and rural areas. 1993 National Victimization Survey statistics showed that: 66% of rapes occur between 6 pm and 6 am, 60% happen in own home or non-stranger home, and 50% happen within 1 mile of victim’s home. On college campuses in the U.S. which are about the size of K-State—about 10,000 women—350 rapes typically take place in a year (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/pubs-sum/182369.htm.).

Myth 7: Most rapes involve black men and white women.
Fact: 1996 statistics (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abtract/soo.htm) suggest that most rapes involve a rapist and victim of the same race and socioeconomic class. Among victims 18 to 29 years old, two thirds had a prior relationship with the rapist. Four datasets (the FBI’s UCR arrests, State felony court convictions, prison admissions, and the National Crime Victimization Survey) show a remarkable similarity in the characteristics of those categorized as rapists: 99 in 100 are male, 6 in 10 are white, and the average age is the early thirties.

Myth 8: Rape is an impulsive, uncontrollable act of sexual gratification. Most rapes are spontaneous (that is, a sexually frustrated man sees an attractive women and just can’t control himself).
Fact: Amir found that 71 percent of all rapes were planned; the rapist had it in his mind to rape a woman (any woman) or he had a specific woman in mind. Eleven percent of rapes were partially planned; a rapist took advantage of a woman when she was alone, drunk etc. Only 16 percent were spontaneously or “explosive: rapes where the rapist had no prior intent to commit rape. Most rapists have access to consensual sex; rape is an act of power and control.

Myth 9: Rapists are abnormal perverts or men with an unsatisfied sex drive. Only “sick” or “insane” men rape women. The primary motive for rape is sexual.
Fact: Rapists have a normal sex drive, are generally sexually active and exhibit “normal” types of behavior, with the exception of a greater-than-average tendency toward expression of violence. Studies show the major motive for rape is aggression, not sex. Rapists can be married or have available sexual partners.

Myth 10: Rape is a minor crime, affecting few women. Its significance is over-exaggerated.
Fact: The FBI has reported that in 1994 rapes and sexual assaults in the US totaled 433,000. Some criminologists have estimated that only 10 percent of all rapes are reported. Therefore, one can assume that more than a half-million women are raped every year. Rape also affects all men—by lowering the level of trust women feel around men in general, and by injuring friends, family, and partners of men.

Myth 11: Women say “no” when they mean “yes.”
Fact: In order to have legal, valid consent to have sexual activity, an unintoxicated, clear, mindful “yes” must be communicated. Either party engaged in sexual activity has the legal right to stop at any point. There is no “point of no return.”

Myth 12: Women frequently cry, “rape” that is, there is a high rate of false reporting.
Fact: Studies show that only two--four percent of rape calls are determined false reports, which is no more than in the reporting of other felonies.

Myth 13: Date rape is not that serious; women get over rape quickly, with no lasting trauma.
Fact: Women and men are deeply affected by the invasion of intimacy and theft that is involved in sexual assault. Healthy, competent individuals are traumatized by assault and must deal with issues involving depression, anxiety, fear, relationship difficulties, physical illness, and other problems, both short- and long-term.

Myth 14: Rape is a natural, inherent part of the human condition.
Fact: Rape is not a natural act for men. A study by anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday found that in cultures with a high incidence of rapes, the economic, religious, and political structures are controlled by men. In Sandays study of 44 societies that were not patriarchal, there was virtually no rape.

Adapted by the K-State Women’s Center from: Myths and Facts About Assault by the Department of Social Services, Missouri Division of Health, Section of Maternal and Child Health, Jefferson City, M) 65101. Around 1985, material has been updated using US Dept of Justice Statistics 1996 from http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abtract/soo.htm and using statistics from http://www.raap.org/ststas.htm.

Stoning Jared Lee Loughner

We hate the violence he did; let's stone him!

There was a little boy

named Jared Lee Loughner. He was born 22 years ago.

When he was a baby he needed to be fed, washed, soothed; he needed his diaper changed. He was weighed and measured, shots were received, he was praised, scolded, taught to sing, color, share, take a nap.

Jared Lee Loughner started life as a baby, just like each and every person who has lived or ever will live on the planet.

People undoubtedly said, "What a cute baby!"

By first grade he could tie his shoes and dress himself.

By third grade he probably knew how to get his parents' attention, his teachers' attention, his friends attention, in whatever way he could.

By his senior year in high school he, like any other American kid, had watched over 100,000 murders on TV.

He had seen hundreds of thousands of beer commercials.

He had seen half a million scenes of happy beautiful people having fun, in the know, accepting each other.

How many murders had he committed virtually in video games?

How many times did he use drugs to medicate his pain?

How many times did he feel the close connectedness of friendship and being part of the group? Now everyone in media wants to see the last picture he took of himself, holding his gun, wearing a red thong.

How many times has the media celebrated women in red thongs,

their power in their nakedness,

their clout between the legs in symbols of sexuality?

How many times

does every little girl see

naked women getting all the good attention?

How many times

do little boys see the one

with the biggest

gun having all the fun,

winning in the end?

What you want is to see Jared Loughner in a red thong, Right Voyeur?

The Media need to SHUT UP

about who created Jared Loughner

because it is they who almost surely have the biggest piece of that Blame Pie.

A big pie with a lot of pieces.

I am so sad for his life, his family, his pain.

My heart aches, I am so sad for his victims and

 the spiral of huge pain that is now but beginning.

In washington dc, as a counselor, i lived with 45 people who suffered from schizophenia. Wonderful people who taught me a lot. (hi David) They had come from various places: the street, halfway houses, St. Elizabeth's hospital.

The life of someone who is paranoid is a HORRIBLE suffering.

Where there is no compassion let there be no judgement.
(The Mask of Sanity, Cleckley)

If we stone him we do not have to blame ourselves
for not being compassionate to the ill, the lonely, the freaked out around us.

If the MEDIA BLAME anyone, it is to cover their

own hypocritcal, hyper-violent, superficial,

disgusting red-thonged rear ends.

Fu'Cryin' Out Loud!

How much is the media scrambling, offering, for a picture of Jared Lee Loughner in the red thong? Hypocrites!

megan fox in a red thong pam anderson in a red thong Scarlett Johansson in a red thong

 http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/jared-lee-loughners-signs-of-mental.html

http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/blaming-dailykos-sarah-palin-tv-and.html

 http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-evidence-of-jared-lee-loughner.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/mental-health-and-moral-issues-raised.html
http://marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/jared-lee-loughner-sins-everyone-pick.html