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Wednesday Mar 3, 2010
When an attractive woman who happens to have blonde hair
and blue eyes, or that overall Barbie doll appearance, goes
missing or is the victim of a homicide, often the national media
erupts into a frenzy of activity even before all the facts are
known.
It’s the perfect case to hype for the highest ratings possible
because of these facts:
1).a white victim 2.)a white victim with blonde hair 3.)terrified and tearful white parents and family
As Americans, when the above elements are present, we can
all grieve together at the outrageousness of the crime.
This is what we have been programmed to do.
There will be no doubt that Nancy Grace, Greta Van Susteren
and Jane-Velez Mitchell will be on the job.
All over it to the point of nausea.
Yet things are not always this way. NBA superstar Kobe Bryant
was once accused of rape. The case went away, of course,
because the alleged victim was found out to be something of
a headcase and thus not entirely credible.
Ever hear of Alvin Robertson?
Alvin Robertson is no Kobe Bryant. He’s a retired NBA
ballplayer who during his time in the league wasn’t Superman.
But he was all-star quality and averaged over 14 points a game
over 10 seasons with some of the league’s prestige ballclubs,
such as the San Antonio Spurs and the Detroit Pistons.
As a now ex-professional ballplayer Alvin Robertson has had
his difficulties adjusting to normal everyday life and has been
in frequent trouble with the law.
Mostly of the domestic variety involving girlfriends. He was
actually sentenced to prison to serve three years on a probation
violation charge involving an accusation of a sex crime.
It gets worse.
Now as ridiculous and incredible, as it seems, this same former
NBA all-star is accused of participating in a child sex slavery
ring involving a 14 year-old. The child was allegedly kidnapped,
transported across state lines, forced to have sex with clients,
and to dance at a nightclub in Corpus Christi, Texas.
If the facts are true this is a horrible circumstance for the
young victim and she is likely to be emotionally-scarred for
life.
The bigger wonder for the rest of us, especially with all the
fascinating and very troubling elements that the alleged crime
entails, is why has the national media taken a pass on this
one?
Posted by SH Digest | Under General
Saturday Feb 20, 2010
The list of former child stars who have had difficult lives as
adults is too long to even imagine. Nothing warps a tender
young mind more than too much fame, attention and money
at too early of an age.
Gary Coleman was beloved for his “little boy as little man act”
on Diff’rent Strokes back in the far distant 1980s.
What a nightmare his life has become since then.
Gary should have known better than to walk into an ambush
like that. He was set-up. He was intentionally provoked.
But, if the above video isn’t an example of rank exploitation
of any angry, ill-adjusted and obviously unhappy man.
What is?
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Friday Feb 5, 2010
There is nothing that is more damaging to a human being than
a violation that is sexual in nature. Such unfortunate
circumstances can be emotionally devastating and in far too
many cases, the resulting psychological scarring is permanent
This past September, former child star McKenzie Phillips went
public with an allegation that she had engaged in a sexual relationship with her now deceased father, John Phillips, that
was consensual in nature.
Just this week on CNN’s “The Joy Behar Show,” McKenzie Philips
went one step father in her denunciation of her father and added
a clarification.
Phillips has all but accused her father of actual rape, even
though at the date of the alleged first incestuous incident
she was a nineteen-year-old woman.
Our sympathy for McKenzie Philips is genuine if her allegations
are true. That’s the problem. John Philips is dead and cannot
defend himself against these horrible claims by his own daughter.
Vile allegations that horrified and deeply hurt other members
of the Phillips family.
At this point, the truth is probably beyond knowing. People of
greater public standing and longer-term sobriety than Ms. Phillips
have been caught in blatant lies that were equally as horrific
as the claim of incest by Phillips.
This whole thing of celebrities needing to reveal their deepest
darkest secrets in print and on television, and to heal in public
sight is a great curiosity.
These kind of lurid public confessions fuel pure voyeurism of
the ugliest sort.
There is no definitive right or wrong here.
McKenzie Philips is an adult and has obviously made her choice.
Her father John Phillips, scoundrel he may have been, did not
receive the same opportunity while alive to publicly defend his
name and his reputation.
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Posted by SH Digest | Under General
Sunday Jan 31, 2010
One week before Super Bowl XLIV in Miami Florida there
is already a hot controversy over two advocacy ads, one
of which was approved by CBS for airing, and the other
rejected.
Superstar college quarterback and soon to be NFL draftee,
Tim Tebow is at the center of this advocacy ad mess.
Known throughout the land as a devout Christian and
relentless proselytizer, Tebow and his mom are to be
featured in a television ad during the Big Game where
it is expected that the message will be a pro-life one.
It is not known how far the ad will go in the delivery of
this screed, but pro-choice advocates fear the intent of
the ad will be to one day have women scurrying back
into the gutters and the dark alleyways of America if
they have designs on ending an unwanted pregnancy.
The Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad is the work of Focus On
The Family, a divisive Far-Right political group known
to be virulently anti-anything in American life that smacks
of liberalism, feminism and tolerance of unhealthy lifestyle
choices.
Code for sinful homosexuality, of course.
The other half this advocacy ad mess is courtesy of
the aforementioned alternative community of perverted
sexual deviants. At least in the opinion of the Focus
On The Family folks. No doubt.
A gay dating site named Mancrunch.com – that
moniker doesn’t sound pleasant at all – had hoped
to run an ad during the Super Bowl.
Such an advertisement would surely have pleased all
of the manly men sitting in their man caves and drinking
cold beer on Super Bowl Sunday.
CBS rejected the “gay” ad and in turn sparked a hot
flame of protest that is only likely to burn more intensely,
the closer to game day.
There does seem to be an inequality here.
Why the acceptance by CBS of a controversial Super
Bowl ad that will be essentially pro-life, no matter how
circumspect, while the gay dating ad was flatly rejected
as not meeting the network’s broadcast standards.
In our opinion neither ad belongs on the airwaves on
Super Sunday.
The old unwritten rule was that precisely these kind
of controversial topics were not acceptable in advertisements
during major sporting events like the Super Bowl.
There are already enough ads in poor taste on television
during any normal weekday. Ads that give grandma and
grandpa a sour stomach.
The rightness or wrongness of abortion or a gay dating
enterprise for homosexual men is not the point here.
But is it really too much to ask that the viewing of the
big game not be destroyed by advertisements that make
the blood boil or the stomach churn?
The hot button issues mentioned above will still be there
long after the game is over and done with.
The Super Bowl is pure escapist fun.
That’s what it is supposed to be.
Hopefully CBS will see the error of their ways and cancel
the anti-abortion ad and allow television viewers across
America to enjoy Super Bowl XLIV in peace.
Posted by SH Digest | Under General
Friday Jan 29, 2010
The self-confessed murderer of late-term abortion
specialist Doctor George Tiller was formally convicted
of murder in the astonishingly long time of 37 minutes.
37 minutes to convict this sponge-brained psychopath?
That took about 27 minutes too long. At least Dr. Tiller’s
family can find some closure, in that this part of their
pain is finally over.
Posted by SH Digest | Under General
Tuesday Jan 26, 2010
Everybody who knows anything about what has been
happening in popular culture the last year or so is familiar
with the strange public confession this past summer of
South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford as concerns his
illicit romance with a female news reporter from Brazil.
The governor’s meandering public confession came
unexpectedly at a news conference where the press
had been anticipating the details behind his disappearing
act. As Sanford had been missing for several days and
was allegedly on a hiking trip in the mountains, when
he was actually on his way to Brazil to hook up with
his amore.
Very weird.
Now only seven months later, the man who would have
replaced the governor, in the event Sanford had resigned
in embarrassment and shame, is Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer.
Not to be outdone by the honorable governor in the arena
of the weird and the nonsensical Bauer, in a stream of
consciousness kind of way, shone a very public light on
his own brand of South Carolina weirdness.
In a conversation at a town hall Bauer all but compared
the reproductive habits of the nation’s poor and neglected
to that of animals.
Listen and wince.
Give poor people free food and they’ll reproduce?
They’ll “breed?”
Like rabbits, maybe?
No wonder it is so incredibly difficult to get anything done
in this country where public policy meets elected officials
warped ideas about people who are different from themselves.
Let the needy starve and they won’t have babies, because
they’ll be too hungry to reproduce.
This is Bauer’s answer to inadequate education facilities,
a lack of good paying jobs in both urban and rural communities,
and the lingering effect of past political and social oppression?
Let the underclass starve so that they won’t breed.
Bauer and Sanford. A matched pair of idiots.
We can feel embarrassment for our elected officials, even if
they feel none for themselves
One fact is surely beyond dispute.
A fool should think before he speaks. Or better yet.
Posted by SH Digest | Under General
Saturday Jan 23, 2010
The talking heads on television these days seem to
give a wink and a nod over the fact that the late
Ted Kennedy’s senate seat was lost to a member
of the opposing political party who has declared that
he’s going to be the 41st vote against Obamacare.
Politics is a disgusting cesspool. Anyway that you
look at it. But all any person has to do regardless of
political affiliation is walk into the emergency room
of a public hospital in any major American city on
a Friday or a Saturday night and the place will be
overflowing with people in desperate need of medical
treatment.
Just think about it.
Gunshots. Car accidents. And worse if you can
imagine that. Most of these unfortunate individuals
don’t have health care and not only will they likely
have to be treated for their current medical emergency
but treatment might also have to be administered for
an underlying serious health problem that might
otherwise hinder their immediate recovery.
That’s what happens when people walk into a
hospital and they are without health insurance
and are in poor overall health on top of that.
They bring not one medical problem with them.
They bring many.
Every working man and woman in this country ends
up paying for the emergency medical treatment of
these uninsured in the form of higher taxes and/or
higher insurance premiums.
Our health care system is both broken and corrupt
and politicians on both sides in Washington seem
to delight more in scoring meaningless political
touchdowns than in making the compromises that
are necessary so that health care costs won’t bankrupt
the future of this nation.
The status quo is totally unacceptable. One man’s
election in Massachusetts doesn’t change that.
Is it unreasonable to expect that in the world’s
greatest democracy that the current public health
care nightmare be solved because of our system
of government.
Rather than in spite of it.
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Posted by SH Digest | Under General
Wednesday Jan 20, 2010
Consumers with young children should be aware today of
the announcement of a major safety recall of 1.5 million baby
strollers manufactured in China and sold by Graco Children’s
Products at major retailers such as Walmart, Kmart and
Sears.
A defect, or rather, a short-sighted design flaw has led to
the accidental amputation of the fingers of several toddlers.
How in the world do these products make it to market as
it is obvious that anyone who does that sort of thing for
a living should have been able to foresee the potential for
injury in the above flawed stroller design.
Parents must remain be forever vigilant when it comes to
the safety of their young children.
Posted by SH Digest | Under General
Saturday Jan 16, 2010
When there’s ridiculous talk of the Haitian’s having “made a
pact with the Devil” by some weird televangelist, a CNN news
anchor displays a more appropriate human response to the
misery in that country.
In this instance, the death report about an 11-year-old girl
who had been trapped under rubble for days.
Nothing else is necessary.
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Thursday Jan 14, 2010
Mention the island nation of Haiti and the images conjured
up are not particularly pleasant. Poverty. Political unrest.
Racial discord. AIDS.
Yesterday, Haiti was pummeled by an earthquake that
registered a full 7.0 on the richter scale. Anything above 6.2
is pretty bad. An earthquake in the range of “7″ is devastating
and this one even rendered the “National Palace,” Haiti’s
White House, to a disorganized pile of rubble.
The modern stigma of Haiti besides the unrelenting poverty
concerns AIDS. The island was maligned a generation ago
at the beginning of the AIDS era as a hot bed of HIV infection,
presumably because of racist attitudes towards dark-skinned
people from the Caribbean who practiced a strange brand
of Christianity and were, therefore, presumably morally inferior.
Perhaps that led to this extremely strange commentary by
a well-known televangelist.
What Haiti needs most in their time of crisis is help. Not
fearmongering from an out-of-touch religious mouthpiece
who already has a reputation for making absurd comments
on a broad range of topics.
As for Haiti, the rate of HIV infection, and the incidence of
AIDS has declined quite dramatically in recent years.
