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| 06/25/2009 |
Life and Death |
Following is a reprint of what appearing on SunnyBlog on June 14, 2005. It was entitled Who Molested Michael?
Let me make clear, that I know nothing for a fact. For all I know, Michael Jackson was never molested and has never molested anyone. But...
...from where I sit, the biggest unasked, let alone unanswered, question surrounding Michael Jackson, is who was his molester?
Statistics surrounding homosexual pedophiles are astounding and not commonly understood. Here’s a short breakdown of them. Most pedophiles were themselves molested as children. Seventy percent were molested by someone in their immediate family. Forty percent were molested by a close family confidant. Only 10% report being molested by a stranger.
As for the molesters themselves [keep in mind these are usually victims of molesters earlier in life] 19% report molesting their own children, 30% molest their step-children, 18% molest a nephew, 5% molest their grandson.
The ages during which a child is most at risk to molestation [remember, this is nearly always by someone in or closely associated with the family] are between 10 and 14. It happens earlier and later, but that’s the hump of the bell curve.
Let us take a look at Michael Jackson’s life and career. Born in 1958 he was 10 years old in 1968. This coincides with the years of the first major success of The Jackson 5, in which Michael emerged as the clear star. By 1971, Michael was launching his solo career.
Now I don’t know, I wasn’t there, but if I had to make an educated guess, I would say if Michael Jackson was molested it was most likely by a family member, or someone very closely associated with the family, between 1968 and 1971.
There are so many tragedies associated with molestation: the loss of childhood, a warping of normal sexual development, planting a secret so deeply and permanently it rarely emerges, a predisposition to molest in kind. We’ve seen the results played out over television these recent months. It's a vicious cycle those familiar with molestation see far too often. Now America has witnessed a measure of the tragedy, but it has been no more than the smallest tip of the iceberg.
And the story of Michael Jackson's life, has at least one very large, very blank page.
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| 06/01/2009 |
The Wonder of it All |
AMERICAN CAPITALISM GONE WITH A WHIMPER
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them? |
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| 05/27/2009 |
The Supremes |
Many years ago, when I was first a probation officer, one of the old salts told me a truism I've never forgotten. He said, "It's easy to do what you want to do, hard to do what you don't want to do." What he meant was that when I liked a probationer and wanted to go soft on him it was easy. When I thought a scumbag deserved prison and wanted to crack down on him, that too was easy. But when you like that scumbag and he deserves prison, that's tough, just as it's tough to go easy on an unpleasant person who's done nothing to justify harsh treatment.
When I served as an Administrative Law Judge the lesson was the same. As a judge you are often called to rule against nice people because the law isn't with them, and for unpleasant people because they have the law on their side.
I once served on a jury. A very nice young man lost his hand in some heavy equipment. The facts and law were against him and that was how the jury landed. It was tough. I had no liking for the company that built that heavy equipment but just because they had big bucks didn't mean they should lose. That's what the young man's lawyer wanted and it didn't fly. It was hard, as I say, and I still think about it.
Now we've got the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor poised to join the Supremes. A leftie so far left Lenin would approve. Nothing Obama has done since becoming president more eloquently speaks to his true agenda for America.
During a 2007 speech to Planned Parenthood, Obama said that "empathy" as an essential quality for any person he would nominate to the Supreme Court. Just this last weekend he said that means, "You have to be able to stand in somebody else's shoes."
So... let's go with whoever pushes our empathy button, let's do what we want to do instead of doing what's right. Let's rule on what feels good and ignore the law.
Perhaps my favorite Judge Sotomayor comment to surface is this from her 2001 confirmation hearing. "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
Stuart Taylor last weekend in the National Journal wrote, "Any prominent white male would be instantly and properly banished from polite society as a racist and a sexist for making an analogous claim of ethnic and gender superiority or inferiority."
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| 05/22/2009 |
Politics |
| I'm relieved that Speaker Pelosi will survive but the Old Media is slowly outing her. She tells us she has nothing more to say and stands by her "comment". Which one lady? |
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| 05/19/2009 |
The War |
Barack Obama's decision not to release the Gitmo interrogation photos has met with widespread approval, on the right and in the middle. Clearly their release would serve no national interest yet the left has jump off their rails demanding that the pictures be set free, as well as the terrorists. ACLU Director Anthony D. Romero, who lobbied for the release of the photographs says that Obama would "betray" our principles if he did not allow the publication of the photos, preventing us from restoring "our moral standing in the world."
My guess is that once again President Obama will have it both ways. He'll publicly oppose releasing the photos, then he will see to it they are leaked, thus placating his leftist friends while maintaining a semblance of distance. |
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| 05/18/2009 |
Politics |
Unlike so many conservatives I'd just as soon Speaker Nancy Pelosi stayed on. It has been clear for sometime that she's an airhead. She must be good at political infighting or she'd not have reached her current position, but that only suggests to me that politics isn't rocket science.
She's finally been outed by the Old Media who are clinging to this story like a bad case of dandruff. And that's the interesting part of it all. To date, they've been the wind beneath her wings, lifting her ever higher in office, turning her missteps into one hour stories. All that is now changed, and on no great issue but rather on a very old story.
None of this would be happening if the Obama administration hadn't given a wink and nod. They want her gone. She's always been headstrong and heavy handed with House Dems. My guess is she's been the same way with Obama so....
I'd just as soon have her hang on as a wounded duck. With all restraint gone, Old Media will have a field day with her and the dirty little secrets in her life. Only good for the nation can come of that. |
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| 05/14/2009 |
The Wonder of it All |
It's not politically correct to point out the self-evident differences between men and women but there they are. Recently I've added a daily freeway commute to my schedule and have made the observation that for every ten men drivers I see perhaps one is on a cell phone, while for every ten women drivers eight are chatting away. This is, of course, only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to women and their use of cell phones.
I was brought up to view women with a bit of reverence. They are, after all, the ones who actually give life. I was also brought up not to eavesdrop on telephone conversations. With the advent of the cell phone both of my views have changed.
I am now required to hear conversations I'd just as soon miss, and the more I hear women chatting away on their cell phones, the more empty and self centered they appear. Perhaps it's only women of a certain age. I'll have to keep an eye on that.
Should anyone ask for advice, and so far no one has, I'd suggest to all the ladies out there that a bit of quiet time with their thoughts is not such a bad idea, and keeping cell phone conversations private will do wonders for their image. |
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| 05/13/2009 |
This and That |
It's been almost a year since I last posted. I went so far as to stop hosting the site, then let the URL lapse. Well, enough is enough. Yesterday I resurrected the URL and today I restored hosting. Now I'm blogging again.
Returning home from a meeting last week a friend commented, "There should be some safeguard against one bad election." Yes, there should be. But so far I don't see any.
With its return Sunnyblog.com will change a bit. I'll still post on politics but I intend to add as well a range of subjects that interest me. Many of them will be topics I've not written about previously.
Take care and as Dan Rather used to say, "Courage." |
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| 05/07/2008 |
Election |
Busy with books, unenthusiastic over John McCain, depressed at prospects, Sunnyblog is slowing down to a crawl. After four and a half years there isn�t much I want to say that I haven�t already said. Thank your for visiting. If I find new life you�ll be the first to know |
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| 05/06/2008 |
The Church of Global Warming |
If celebrities really believed global warming was such a threat, why do they not change their own behavior? This from the Daily Mail. |
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Ronald J. Watkins