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and another thing concerning Scandal and the Chruch

Posted: April 11, 2010 by datechguy in catholic, opinion/news

from the coverage you might think this was a uniquely Catholic problem, you would be wrong:

…based on the surveys and studies conducted by different denominations over the past 30 years, experts who study child abuse say they see little reason to conclude that sexual abuse is mostly a Catholic issue. “We don’t see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else,” said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. “I can tell you without hesitation that we have seen cases in many religious settings, from traveling evangelists to mainstream ministers to rabbis and others.”

We have been told for weeks how greedy insurance companies are so of course their rates must reflect the difference in risk…oh wait:

Insurance companies that cover all denominations, such as Guide One Center for Risk Management, which has more than 40,000 church clients, does not charge Catholic churches higher premiums. “We don’t see vast difference in the incidence rate between one denomination and another,” says Sarah Buckley, assistant vice president of corporate communications. “It’s pretty even across the denominations.” It’s been that way for decades.

The fact that this article appears in Newsweek would shock me until you see it is a web exclusive. The media has a very loose definition of what is a scandal and story and what is not to wit:

“[T]hink the Catholic Church has a problem?” she said. “The physical sexual abuse of students in schools is likely more than 100 times the abuse by priests.”

So, in order to better protect children, did media outlets start hounding the worse menace of the school systems, with headlines about a “Nationwide Teacher Molestation Cover-up” and by asking “Are Ed Schools Producing Pedophiles?”

No, they didn’t. That treatment was reserved for the Catholic Church, while the greater problem in the schools was ignored altogether.

The ratio of one story to another? 500-1 in the papers.

Let’s see how much coverage the US swimming scandal gets in the press and how long it stays on the front page. It should be quite illuminating.

Bill Clinton wins!

Posted: April 10, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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Normally it takes a couple of generations for social disaster to take place, but combine an expanding media with the most powerful man in the world and the biggest megaphone in history and presto:

Most young adults agree penile-vaginal intercourse is sex, but less than one in five think that oral-genital contact counts as “having sex,” according to a 2007 survey of undergraduate college students.

And what pray tell could be the cause for this?

Researchers point to former President Clinton’s infamous statement, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” as the pivotal turning point in society’s changing views about oral sex. The attitude shift has been dubbed the “Clinton-Lewinsky” effect.

Congratulations Bill, you’ve given parents, doctors and counselors decades of work to deal with!

If you think it’s no coincidence that the black to white abortion ratio is 5:1…

Posted: April 9, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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…then you know your history, or have seen Maafa 21:

The willingness to black America to support a party’s whose primary sacrament is abortion never ceases to amaze me.

It is no coincidence that planned parenthood’s wants to get in here as the demographic changes take place. You can’t imagine how discouraging it has been to hear people argue to my face that it’s good for Planned Parenthood to come to Fitchburg to get rid of minorities on the dole. To have that said to me in the 21st century in Massachusetts is one of the most discouraging things I’ve ever experienced.

Much more here.

I’m Watching The American President this morning and noticed the “attack” scene

Posted: April 9, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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…and something struck me how quintessentially liberal it was. Take a look at the scene that Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin (the writer) must have thought was deep and profound.

The president beats his breast because the janitors on the 3rd shift at Libyan the intelligence are about to die because he has ordered a retaliatory strike at the Libyan intelligence building for an attack on Israel.

But consider, instead of striking during the first shift when the actual planners of the attack can be killed he chooses to hit the 3rd shift because it has the least amount of people in the building. He is more concerned about his feelings than stopping people who were killing American and Jews.

Of course since he allows the planners and the pilots who struck to survive they will be able to plan the next attack. When that next attack comes, and it will since he let them live, and more Americans and Israeli’s die he, like the liberal he is, will beat his breast again and kill more janitors.

This is the essential problem with modern liberalism, it’s not about actually helping people. It’s about making people feel good about themselves. It’s about them being able to say to themselves and others “I’m a good person“. That is the primary goal, and if someone actually gets helped along the way it is a bonus extra, and if not, well we had good intentions. That’s obamacare all over.

It’s isn’t a bad movie (it’s essentially a love story wrapped in a leftist fantasy, every conservative is painted as evil or a bigot, but I’m a sucker for a story when the boy gets the girl) and the flower shop bit is really funny, but Douglas’ character was right. When he decided to kill janitors instead of murderers and their enablers it was the least presidential thing he had done.

That’s modern liberalism. Period!

Update: This post by Don Surber is exactly what I’m talking about.

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