You know, I understand that Miley Cyrus cannot be perfect, and that she will make mistakes (i.e. photos of her cleavage popping up (pun intended) on the internet, or weird and freaky Vanity Fair cover, etc), but this one takes the cake. Let me explain. 

Plain English:  Miley is 16.  Boyfriend is 20.  The two of them dating = wrong – borderline illegal. 

Why is it my problem?  It’s not.  It bothers me because I have a 10 year old daughter that loves Miley’s music.  Although I’m not worried about my daughter emulating Miley’s behavior – I truly believe I am giving my daughter a good foundation of values and faith for her to make good choices in life, I am worried about the millions of girls out there getting the message that it is okay for them to be underage and dating GROWN MEN.  Not all of these girls have bodyguards, or millions of dollars to protect themselves from a guy should something go wrong. 

Miley states in the interview that her Dad introduced this guy to her.  What the heck???? This is normal?  I’m going to introduce a full-grown man to my teenage daughter and be okay with them dating?  Really?  Maybe in Nashville it’s ok (sorry to TN residents) - but not in the world of common sense.

Someone needs to tell this girl that she is an idol to many girls, like it or not her actions are out there for girls to see and act on.  This latest move is putting girls in danger.  It is widely known that dating abuse is a problem, that keeping young girls safe is a problem – why add to these problems? 

In the end, I blame the parents.  I know Miley is “growing up fast” because of the business she is in, but that doesn’t excuse her parents from knowing better. 

Miley is getting paid a lot (A LOT) of money to entertain, and with that comes responsibility to your fans (girls 7 to 17 probably being the majority of those fans).  How about doing the right thing, and not just what “feels” right. 

Ugh.

Spain’s parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.

Parliament’s environmental committee approved resolutions urging Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights hitherto limited to humans.

“This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the history of humanity,” said Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the Great Apes Project.
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My first reaction? WHAT THE FUCK?! Poz-ass is damn right that this day will go down in history. It will be remembered as the day the human race went ape-shit and legitimized feces-throwing, tree-living, sub-humans by giving them the right to life and freedom, contrary to every decent, logical standard out there. But enough about the protesters in Berkeley. I want to talk about this news article…

Actually, I can’t really think of anything to say about it. I mean, WHAT THE FUCK?! The Spanish are giving ANIMALS LEGAL RIGHTS. There’s one thing to make sure they’re treated humanely and quite another to say they enjoy some of the same rights as humans.

Of course when I read the last paragraph, one thing stood out:

Philosophers Peter Singer and Paola Cavalieri founded the Great Ape Project in 1993, arguing that “non-human hominids” like chimpanzees, gorillas, orang-utans and bonobos should enjoy the right to life, freedom and not to be tortured.

If you don’t know who Peter Singer is, he’s a philosopher who logically extended the “Right to Choose” to include new borns and infants as well:

According to Singer, some humans are non-persons, while some non-human animals are persons. The key is not nature or species membership, but consciousness. A pre-conscious human cannot suffer as much as a conscious horse. In dealing with animals, we care only about their quality of life. We put a horse that has broken its leg out of its misery as quickly as possible. This merciful act spares the animal an untold amount of needless suffering. If we look upon human animals in the same fashion, our opposition to killing those who are suffering will begin to dissolve. The “quality-of-life” ethic has a tangible correlative when it relates to suffering; the “sanctity-of-life” seemingly relates to a mere vapor.

Here is where Singer picks up his detractors. According to this avant garde thinker, unborn babies or neonates, lacking the requisite consciousness to qualify as persons, have less right to continue to live than an adult gorilla. By the same token, a suffering or disabled child would have a weaker claim not to be killed than a mature pig. Singer writes, in Rethinking Life and Death:

Human babies are not born self-aware or capable of grasping their lives over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection that the life of a fetus.

Of course, his way of thinking isn’t untypical of his contemporaries.

Anyway, all I have to say is: WHAT THE FUCK?

What’s next? The Right to Vote for Apes?

You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! (that’s the only one – promise):

TORONTO — A woman caught up in a mysterious Internet hijacking scandal that has sparked a federal privacy investigation into the Canadian Human Rights Commission says she was shocked, angry and confused at suddenly finding herself publicly associated with white supremacists.

Speaking out for the first time, Nelly Hechme told The Canadian Press she was appalled to learn commission investigators might have hacked her Internet connection to post messages on supremacist websites.

“It’s horrible,” Hechme said. “You never want something like that attached to your name.”

Last month, an investigator with the Human Rights Commission told a hearing into a hate complaint that he made postings on websites under the password-protected pseudonym “Jadewarr.”

In response to a subpoena, Bell Canada linked “Jadewarr” to Hechme’s personal Internet account, and provided her address and telephone number at the public hearing.

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So far, the commission has not explained why or how its investigators might have commandeered Hechme’s connection or offered any alternative explanation for how Hechme and “Jadewarr” became linked.

Ian Fine, senior general counsel with the rights commission, said he was unable to comment on the specifics of the case in light of ongoing investigations but denied any wrongdoing.

“We are quite confident that, at the end of the day, it will be established that the Canadian Human Rights Commission has done nothing untoward, nothing wrong, in this whole scenario,” Fine said.

Read the full article here. Hat tip to Small Dead Animals.

That’s considered legal and appropriate behavior for a government official? Why didn’t the CHRC investigator simply create their own online persona if they needed to entrap go undercover to prove their “case”? Hell, it’s not that hard to do. (more after jump)

This whole Human Rights crap coming out of Canada is getting more and more ridiculous. Ezra Levant is apparently getting sued again for libel by some super-sensitive nutcase (emphasis mine):

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I mean, seriously, look at why Vigna says he’s going to sue me. On page three of his threat, he’s underlined what he says makes him really mad at me. He complains that I made fun of his courtroom antics, when he told a tribunal chairman that the whole hearing had to stop because Vigna didn’t “feel in a serene state of mind”. I compared Vigna’s lame series of excuses – a discussion that went on for twenty pages of court transcripts! – to a student who pulled the fire alarm to get out of writing an exam.

You’d think that Vigna would want to forget about that awful, awful day when he turned the tribunal hearing into his own therapy session. But not Vigna – he says he’s going to sue me for calling his drama audition a “farce”.

Alright, readers, skip the next few paragraphs. They’re a private message from me to Vigna, barrister to barrister, and friend to friend.

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Make sure you read the whole story; it’ll piss you off.

On top of that, apparently the conservative party is passing a law allowing some inspectors to come in and do what the hell they want in the name of an investigation without a warrent. I have no idea why this is something they need to do considering the bill is an amendment to the “Food and Drug Act” (whatever). Hat tip to Five Feet of Fury for these links.

The scariest part about all this is that so many on the Left in the US point to Canada as a model of a “progressive state.” Are these people stupid? I’ve never understood how taking 10 steps forward in terms of the rights of citizens since the Middle Ages and 11 steps back can be considered “progress.” These are the same people who believe communism was a good thing and fly the communist flag while working on Presidential campaigns (hat-tip Conservative Grapevine). They’re the ones asking “what’s so wrong with communism?” and making protests of the Iraq War resemble something you’d more expect to see from a middle school class when their substitute teacher has a breakdown (those were the good ole’ days), and getting high school kids involved.

How long will it take before these people wear down the masses with promises of a utopian society that can only exist through a total brainwashing of the people and constant “social engineering” to reprogram humans to be – dare I say – less than human? The Canadian Human Rights Commissions and all the other Left-wing initiatives to curb “hate” is aimed at doing exactly that. I do not believe that hatred, selfishness, debauchery, infidelity, and any of the other “sins” are inherent in human nature. I believe that human beings have, instead, an inherent ability to rise up above these more animalistic tendencies to be something greater – that defines us as being superior to the animals. However, I don’t believe, as the Left seems to, that a person can be forced to do this. What sets humans apart from the animals is this thing called free-will, which includes the choice to love. Leftists believe we can circumvent this by whitewashing our differences and denying us the Freedom to judge one culture better than another. They believe that by putting up layers of facades between people and denying the “haters” their right to “hate” (aloud) that they can make their utopian society: by quenching the spread of an idea they can erase its memory from the fabric of civilization. This is wrong. Subconsciously, those ideas and emotions get redirected elsewhere and the children eventually pick them up again. The only way to change society is through debate and through confrontation – preferably peacefully. It is only through the exchange of ideas that society grows. Hopefully the trend gets stopped before it’s too late.

More than that, it is a personal growth that comes from facing opposition in life. This whole Canadian HRC rhetoric along with all the Leftist propaganda in the US is rooted in a desire to never have to be offended. Show me someone who brings a complaint to a CHRC and I’ll show you someone who is more insecure in themself than the one who is willing to stand in front of the commission and declare that it is unlawful and a travesty of justice. The fact that both parties in Canada and both parties in the United States are latching on to the belief that big government can make people and life better is an indication that more trouble is coming. Tyranny has a way of rising again and again, and it is only in the strength and convictions of a truly free people that it can ever be defeated.

On a closing note, since this rant is getting too philosophical for its own good, there is an excerpt from Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo that I believe to a good summary of the human existance. More people should take note of it:

…Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

As for you, Maximilian, here is the secret of my conduct toward you: there is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death, Maximilian, in order to know how good it is to live.

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that, until the day God deigns to reveal the future to man, the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
–The Count of Monte Cristo, (abridged) Alexandre Dumas

Hang in there Canadian Bloggers and keep fighting. You’re not alone.

I’m starting a new category. Ever read some news story that the wonderful mainstream media reports on and after the first paragraph your reaction is something along the lines of “What the FUCK?!” Sorry if bad language offends you, but sometimes other words just don’t cut it. And frankly, it’d be kind of stupid and hypocritical to censor myself on a blog all about being myself and speaking my mind. Anyway, you read the first paragraph or two, and either the journalist writing the article or some dumbass says something that can easily be confused for satire in its stupidity. So you just have to yell aloud or to yourself “What the FUCK?!” You keep reading to see if maybe you’re missing something, and the more you read the more you ‘cus. OK, maybe you goody-two shoes out there don’t ‘cus, but you have something you do that’s equivalent. You know what I mean. What do you do? Let me know in the comments for the 3 people that might read this.

Anyway, I’m starting this new category. For another example besides the one below on what would go in this category, check out SarahK’s blog post about a NY Times piece titled Pain of foreclosures spreads to the affluent (hat tip IMAO…yea, even the title makes you go…well, fine, you get the point.

My first entry into this category is sure to be controversial. The news story is *Drum roll please*: (click continue)

College Students Speak Out Against the Rising Cost of Birth Control
(hat tip Moonbattery)

Let’s look at what the article says (emphasis mine):

Erin McKenna, a junior at the University of Pittsburgh, admits that she sometimes has to choose between purchasing textbooks for school and paying for her birth-control prescription.

“I have two jobs and I still can’t afford it,” McKenna said.

It is the type of decision that more and more college women are facing since a provision in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 ended the practice of drug companies providing birth-control medicines to colleges at a steep discount.

Birth-control advocates call the price increase a crisis, while promoters of sexual abstinence say colleges should be stressing alternatives to contraceptives.

What the FUCK?!?! If choosing between books for college and a damn birth control pill is so tough a choice that it warrants lobbying Congress, then something is wrong. Furthermore, it’s considered a CRISIS then what do you call the current food rationing of rice and other products in the US and other countries? The Apocalypse?

It’s not that I don’t sympathize for these women; I really do understand what it’s like to have to give up an activity that you love doing (or, more than likely considering the difficulty some of these women are facing, an activity which is providing a distraction (seriously, read that link) to the low self-esteem, poor self-image, unhappy lives). Hell, with gas prices rising the way they are I’m often faced with the most difficult decision of spending my money on another tank of gas that is needed to get to work and back or spending it on good booze and expensive hookers strippers easy women “social activities with the opposite sex”, but I don’t see Congress passing a law to give me any special discounts (with their connections, you’d think they could)! Do you hear college boys lobbying Congress to lower the price of alcohol or GHB on campus?  If they tried they’d probably get laughed at and not taken seriously. But oh, gosh, women need to be empowered to take control of their lives, and hence, they need cheaper birth control:

“Young women face many hurdles in life. To add another financial hurdle makes no sense. We should be making it easier, not harder, for young women to take control of their lives,” Tamblyn said in a statement released by Planned Parenthood.

And yes, that’s the Amber Tamblyn of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (which was a great movie, btw).

So we allow women to take control of their lives by making it easier for them to not have to practice self-control? Can’t you just see the college boys standing in line for this cause? Can feminists really not see the irony of all this?

I have a close friend whom I love, admire, and respect dearly.  She’s also very intelligent…except for one episode.  One day, she told me that she found out that a guy she was seeing and really cared for was also seeing about a dozen other women, all telling them the same sweet nothings he was telling her.  She thought she was special only to find out that he was playing her with the intention of getting into her pants (which he hadn’t yet).  She wasn’t too happy.  A few days later, she tells me that she got her revenge and she was proud of herself.  “What did you do?” I asked.  “I slept with him, and afterwards I told him that I knew of the other women and that it was over.”  Me: “What the FUCK?  You did WHAT?”  Her: “I slept with him.  I showed him that he couldn’t play me and that I was the one who was in control.”  Me:  “So he just wanted to get into your pants, so in order to take revenge on him for that you slept with him?”  Her: “Yea.”  Me: “Where’s the logic in that?”  Her: “I told you…” Me: “Yea, so how do I make you that mad at me?” 

Analyzing the situation, it’s easy to see where she found the illusion of empowerment at, however, as the weeks went on, it became more and more clear that instead of empowering herself, she ended up actually enslaving herself.  By sleeping with him in an act of (sweet) revenge, she revealed her weakness to that asshole, who exploited it every chance he got.  She also became more attached to him for several reason, making it harder to end things when she should’ve. 

The empowerment that comes from “radical” (whatever that means) sexual “liberation” of men and women is only an illusion, and the idea that women should be given a “handout” on birth control in order to “take control of their lives” is the biggest lie of all.  It’s comparable to what my friend went through. If I didn’t know better, I’d say that some genius came up with the entire deal just to get laid more without worrying about being “punished” from it.  

Furthermore, why is it that only college women should get these discounts? Oh, wait, I forgot, when we go to socialized medicine the “discounts” will apply to everyone.

More from the article:

McKenna says she has taken a second job to afford the pill, which went up from $12 to $52 a month on her campus after the legislation went into effect.

“My father passed away in February,” McKenna said, “and that’s not a burden I’m comfortable with putting on my mother right now.”

So you’d rather pass that burden on to ME? What the hell is in it for me? Oh wait…good point…too bad I’m not the asshole-type that’d take advantage of it.

University of North Dakota student Katie Ryan says she had to cut back on groceries as well as social activities in order to afford the higher-priced pills.

What the hell FUCK?! Groceries?  REALLY?!  Yea, that’s really fucking empowering, right?  ‘Cause being addicted to sex is true empowerment, whereas eating is so fucking overrated.  Are you worried about your boyfriend leaving you?  Make him pay for the damn pill…and if you don’t have a boyfriend, collect donations in advance.  Use the pull-out method.  Be safer than the pill and use a condom.  Or even better, DON’T HAVE SEX. 

Ladies and gentleman, if you want to truly empower women, make them feel that having sex is perfectly normal and natural, and <em>required</em>.  You’re a loser, an ice-queen, or a right-wing nutjob if you don’t agree.  Not only that, they’re expected to “take precautions” cause it’s not the man’s job to worry about or responsibility what happens to your body.  That’s Left-wing empowerment for, ya.  BULLSHIT. 

Ladies, you want real empowerment?  Don’t fall for that bullshit.  Think for yourself.

And finally, the most intelligent point of the whole article, and it’s the last sentence:

“It’s incredibly unfair to take away the ability for colleges to receive donated medicines or reduced price contraception,” Stabenow said. “There is no good reason to want to add costs to college students who are struggling enough to make ends meet.”

The stripping the discount for birth control and donations of other prescriptions from colleges was an accidental repercussion of a law designed to cut down abuse in Medicaid. This accident should be fixed because not only is there nothing wrong with a company donating drugs or giving a discount to colleges. College students need medicine, and often can’t afford the regular price. THAT’s a good reason to fix the legistlation. The increase in birth control price is NOT.  Stop bitching about it, and if you have that much trouble keeping your legs closed, then you probably need to see a therapist. No offense.  And if the guy you’re sleeping with fucking doesn’t understand, then contrary to what your friends tell you, he’s NOT a “wonderful guy.”

However, if it’s that important to you, at least be considerate and lobby Congress to include in the law discounts on liquor for graduate students…thank you.

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