Let’s not SkirT the ReaL Issue

By now wev’e all heard the breaking news: A male high school student can wear a skirt to school after the American Civil Liberties Union reached an agreement with school officials.
Fox News

I don’t know about you but I can sleep much better now.
The district’s dress code bans shorts between Oct. 1 and April 15, but allows skirts, a policy which one male student believes is discriminatory. The ACLU rides in on their androgynous horse and poof!..problem solved.
Or has it just begun?

Some will say this is NoT the issue here, but there are many layers to this onion.
Men and women have dressed differently from the dawn of civilization and despite efforts to gender neutralize and androgynize society..they always will.

Why is that?
Some will holler its all cultural conditioning and gender role socialization, and while that plays a part no doubt, the inherent differences between men and women remain inescapable.
There are functional differences between the sexes with respect to world view, behavior,attitudes and even temperament.Ask any parent of sons and daughters.
Sure, there are some exceptions to some of the normative differences but all political correctness aside for the moment..let’s talk Facts.

By age 13 a female’s muscle tissue consitutes 45% of her total body, then decreases somewhat.
By age 17,a male’s muscle tissue constitutes 54% of his total body weight.
At age 16,the total muscle mass of women is 80% of the total muscle mass of man.

Women’s bodies average 27% fat. Men’s bodies average 15% fat.
While women ages 18-74 on average, weigh approximately 143 lbs; Men on average weigh 173.(Almanac of the American People,1988)

Hormonal secretion in the adult male is continous rather than cyclic, as in the female. It consists primarily of testosterone (a.k.a. the ‘macho hormone’).Women have two sex hormones,estrogen and progesterone which vary in their relationship at different times.
Do bodily differences and hormonal really differences matter? You decide.

88% of those arrested for murder are male.
Nearly 3,000 women are murdered by men each year.
Nearly 30,000 men are arrested for rape every year.
Over 100,000 men are arrested for robbery every year.
Nearly 89% of those arrested for aggravated assault are male compared to 13% female.
Nearly 89% of those arrested for arson yearly are male compared to 14% female.
It is generally recognized that the experience of sexual harassment is highly gendered. Most incidences of sexual harassment involve men harassing women.
US Merit systems production board

Who are you more afraid of alone in an elevator or in a dark alley..a man or a woman?

Nearly 30% of women dress more conservatively due to fear of crime; 62% of women are afraid to walk at night within a mile of their homes versus 29% of males.

Men comprise 80% of today’s Military.
Close to 97% of US Firefighters are male.According to the NY Times, Monday, Jan.23,06-”..in the NYCity Fire Dept., the nations largest..only 36 of the 11,0430 uniformed firefighters are female.
Nearly 89% of police and detectives are male.

Who would you- for the most part- rather have defend you physically ..a man or woman?

But I overstate the point. Men and women are different.
Do the “clothes make the man”?

Women, as a group- have always and will always dress to please men.(hence the really comfortable and utilitarian stilleto heel)
They accentuate thier femininity and adorn themselves in every culture in the world (which allows it). They seek to be desired by the male, which may be an intrinsic quality to some extent.
Skirts have been worn by some cultures for modesty, so as not to reveal the feminine form as closely as pants can.
Some have chosen quite the contrary-wearing skirts to showcase female anatomy, specifically thighs and legs as a means of attracting the male.( the tight micro-mini skirt, hotpants)

Men,for the most part, on the contrary, dress more for utilitarian purposes and less for showcasing specific parts of the male anatomy. Hence the suit and tuxedo at a formal affair and for accepting an Academy Award versus the women’s fashion show of form fitting gowns ,with plunging neck and back lines,jewelry, exotic hair styling and make up to enhance the female appeal.

Before you jump down my throat, I am aware that some of the fierciest warriors throughout history have gone to war in kilts. Prince Charles of Wales was often seen in his kilt. Hawaiian men in grass skirts,Middle Eastern men have worn kaftans, Balinese men in sarongs, Turks in wraps.

For daily living, men in western society,have generally never chosen the skirt as an article of clothing.
Furthermore,proponents of an individual-centered and a “gender-different” view hold that men and women dressing differently maintains a sharp demarcation between the sexes, which is actually healthy for gender identification and social functioning.
In other words, boys should know they are boys and girls should know they are girls.

As long as this is not used for misogyny or bias against either gender, it actually sets firm ego boundaries and helps girls and boys feel “normal” when they exhibit gender specific qualities.

But of course the ACLU and the political correctness machine would have you think there is no such thing as gender specific qualities…now wouldn’t they?

ExploitinG and TraffickinG our own WomeN:ShamE on US.

The next time you hear someone snicker when they talk about having been to a “strip club”.. the next time you hear the ACLU cry out that pornography is Art, and legitimized by the First Amendment..the next time you watch the latest rap or rock video and see nothing but young girls who could pass for prostitutes..YoU really ought to know some facts:

Trafficking of women as well as children for the sex “industry”, (as some like to call it) is prevalent worldwide. From a recent CIA briefing, approximately 50,000 women and children are trafficked to America every single year.

But but but…these women in the strip clubs “CHOOSE” this ‘vocation’..they make tons of money, you hear the justifiers argue.
DEAD wrong on both counts.

The majority of grievously abused women and children,who some still insist on calling sex ‘workers’ or better yet ‘exotic dancers’..(though what is exotic about peddling flesh for the dregs of society remains a mystery to me..)have been recruited by force,coercion,lies, lured with fraudulent promises of lucrative opportunities, deception and even literal abduction.

Women from Thai, Latvia,Korea, China and Russia are brought(against their will) in droves to the U.S. by men for the sole purpose of working in the sex ‘industry’ or as sex slaves. Stripped of their passports, often unable to speak the local language, sold as chattel, and terrified of local law enforcement authorities and their traffickers, these women are doomed.

Psychological and mental coercion are used against even young American girls, who have suffered sexual abuse and are fed lies about the ‘exotic Industry’ they are joining ranks with.
Many young girls initially consent to work as prostitutes or ‘dancers’ and quickly change their minds upon experiencing the horror. Oftentimes they are then forced to remain via the threats and intimidation of their ‘pimps’ and ‘bosses’.

The same Thirteenth Amendment which outlawed slavery also prohibits one from selling oneself into bondage. If a young girl initially consented to prostitution or stripping and then is forced to remain against her will, her intial consent means nothing. Do not fool yourselves…psychological force is a powerful phenomenon when dealing with young girls who have been sexually abused.

Stripping and Prostitution is not sex work, nor is it sexy. It is violence against women,(whether the sexually abused 18 year old girl knows it or not).
It exists because significant numbers of men are given social, moral and legal permission to buy women and sexual pleasure on demand.
It exists because pimps,owners of Exotic dance ‘clubs’ and traffickers prey on women’s poverty,loss of self esteem and inequality.

It exists because it is a last ditch survival strategy for some impoverished girls and women.
It is not truly a ‘choice‘,-free of coercion -made by a mature mind and heart….at least not in the Western legal tradition that we so honor.

Do you know of any other ‘profession‘, wherein the worker is routinely degraded and objectified?

It is time to stop rationalizing that women dressing scantily clad in music videos, or even at a professional tennis match is somehow ‘empowering‘..that teaching our young girls that looking like a ‘whore’ is cool and a mark of feminism.

It is time to start arresting the perpetrators of trafficking and prostitution.

And by God…Let us stop glorifying the Adult Entertainment Industy…and see it for what it is:
Sexual Exploitation and Degradation of WomeN.

We are all the Same…NoT

Asaf Zur was a 16 year old boy killed by a suicide bomber in Haifa on March 5, 2003.This is how Hollywood honors his memory. This week the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film to the Palestinian movie “Paradise Now.” The film follows the path taken by two young Palestinians from their decision to become suicide bombers, until the moment they board a Tel Aviv bus crowded with children.

Asaf was an eleventh-grader studying computer sciences, who one day after school decided to board a bus in Israel to return home. On the way, a suicide bomber from Hebron, 21 years old and himself a computer sciences student in the Hebron Polytechnic, also boarded the bus and blew himself up. Of the 17 people killed, nine were schoolchildren aged 18 or younger. Asaf was killed on the spot.

Yossi Zur, Asad’s father poses an interesting question:
“What exactly makes “Paradise Now” worthy of such a prestigious award? Would the entertainment writers who chose to honor this movie have given the same accolades if the film had been been about the young men from Saudi Arabia who moved to the U.S., took flying lessons and then underwent Islamic ritual preparations for their holy mission to crash airplanes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon? Would they have dared to give such a version of “Paradise Now” a similar award?”

The Israel Project

We know all too well the message Hollywood is trying to sell.. that the poor,underpriviledged suicide bombers are simply utilizing a legitimate tactic for those who feel they’ve exhausted all other means of resistance.

We should try to ‘empathize’, put ourselves in their sandals…After all, deep down inside..We are All the SamE?

Extinguishing the souls of innocent children sitting and playing on a bus..
Murdering mothers and fathers out with their families for an afternoon at Sbarros Pizza…
Maiming and crippling teenagers and elderly folk picking apples in the fruit market…

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association can join ranks with all the liberals, a.k.a. traitors who muster up the indignation to draw a comparison between self defense in war and… the horrific, unforgivable mutilation and cold blooded murder of innocent civilians in Israel,
New York City’s World Trade Center, the Bali nightclub, the Amman hotels, the shop in Turkey, the restaurant in Morocco, the underground stations in London, the trains in Spain..and anywhere else they choose to act out their Islamic, ritual slaughter of innocent life.

What do the letters ACLU stand for anyway?

OK..if you need a gentle reminder as to how your ‘rights’ as Americans are being looked after…seek no more. One of the ACLU’s many claims to fame:
Some of you, no doubt recall this:
In May 2005, the D.C. Fire Department announced that it would discharge any firefighter who had a beard. The Department requires firefighters to take a “fit test” to show that the facemasks they wear form a good seal with their faces. The Department says that facial hair prevents a good fit–but it prohibits bearded firefighters from taking the test to show that they can get a good fit..

On August 11, the U.S. District Court extended a preliminary injunction protecting our clients–three Muslim firefighters who wear beards as a matter of religious observance–from being dischared by the D.C. Fire Department, pending a final decision in their case.
ACLU Rationalizations

O.K. so they claimed: “The Religious Freedom Restoration Act” requires government agencies to accommodate the religious needs of employees whenever possible.”

Did I miss something ?..Accomodating religious observance is something the ACLU fights for??
Oh..wait…Muslim religious observance.
Well, now that explains it.

As Promised…Guns: What say YoU?

But Do they ReallY?
Should we start with the obligatory review of the Second Amendment..or just dispense with that?
ok a snippet..”..the people shall have the right to keep and bear arms..”

Ok I hear you already..Aren’t guns dangerous?..Well in the wrong hands, cars, knives and toaster ovens are dangerous too. Criminals use guns to murder innocents but they also use cars as getaways and terrorists have even been known to use planes to fly into buildings to harm civilians.

You know where I’m going with this don’t you?
Perhaps if we focus more on the criminal instead of his “weapon of choice”, we would get somewhere. Perhaps if criminals who used guns to commit violence were to actually remain incarcerated, we would get somewhere.

Ok for the stats:
John Lott

86 million people own over 200 million guns in the U.S., but only around 30,000 are involved in deaths each year.That is 1&1/2 percent. So why the gun control laws?

Washington D.C. banned handguns in the 1970’s and by the 1990’s their homicide rate had tripled.
Do you really think a criminal who decided to commit murder is going to hesitate breaking the ‘gun control’ law?

Of course another one of the concerns is the safety of our children. Last time I checked,the obligation to protect children in their own homes remains the responsibility of their parents. Sadly, children die in fires,car accidents,even by drowning in the family bathtub. But since when do we legislate based on reckless, inattentive parents?

Gun control laws leave us defenseless against criminals.
Every single year nearly 80,000 civilians use guns to defend themselves against violent crime.
Why does the media never report those incidents?
And why, when women, as a last resort against abusive boyfriends or husbands,-use guns for self defense (oftentimes after a life of abuse and horror)..they are treated like the criminal not the victim?

The Second Amendment confers the right of ‘people- of individual members of American society – to arm themselves.

Who can make the claim that we have not the right to defend our very own lives?

If someone has an opposing point of view..please I invite you to politely express it to me.:)

All the NewZ NoT fit to PrinT

So HOW have things improved In Iraq?
According to MSN and the NY (not really with the)Times ..it would seem that they haven’t.

Oh..that’s if you don’t consider Saddam the madman being caught- Progress..
and some incidentals..such as:

his Ministry of Information being replaced with roughly 200 newspapers…

the fact that in addition to regular schools, Iraqi universities are now open..
Iraq had a court system which is actually operative…
oh yes…let’s not forget the new, unified currency WithouT Saddam the madman’s pic on it…

Nearly 100,000 Iraqi’s have been trained and are able to provide security for their own civilians…

Over 22 million vaccinations have been administered to Iraqi children…
Hundreds of hospitals and over a thousand clinics are open not to mention that doctor’s salaries are 8 times more than they were under Sadaam the madman..

The banks which were all closed have service and first-time customers are opening accounts daily.

Iraq did not have a single element of a representative government
Today in Baghdad alone residents have selected 88 advisory councils. Baghdad’s first democratic transfer of power in 35 years happened when the city council elected its new chairman.

The list goes on and on and on…

for a detailed accounting L. Paul Bremer,Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator

I reckon that FreeinG 26 million Iraqis from the tyranny of a madman just isn’t noteworthy in the media is it?

While the liberals moan and wail about the “failed” war…perhaps they should scrutinize their own “failed” wars on poverty, the miserably failing public school systems and all the other causes and ‘wars’ that they just love to give unelected, unaccountable government bureaucrats money and resources to ..ahem…’win’.

What “Flavor” is your CitY?

Mayor Ray Nagin is God’s new spokesman.
Not only does he comment on God’s wishes with respect to foreign policy..”Surely he doesn’t approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses..”………He clues us in as to how the Good Lord feels about America.
“Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country,” Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day. .Nagin promises that New Orleans will be a “chocolate” city again.( Many of the city’s black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina.)-
as reported here-
full story
Err…
Chocolate city? Oh so race discrimation is alright if it’s being done for a politcally correct cause, and it depends who’s doing the discriminating?
So what would be the proper percentage of ‘whites’ in “Nawlins” now?
Nagin described an imaginary conversation with King, the late civil rights leader.
Let’s see now …Correct me if I am mistaken here…Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.wished to create a society where people would be judged “..not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character..”

Chocolate vs vanilla?..Is that Nagin’s idea of a color blind society? Dr. King, Jr.’s aim was to UnitE not to Polarize.
“It’s time for us to come together. It’s time for us to rebuild New Orleans -.. ” the mayor said. “.This city will be a majority African American city. It’s the way God wants it to be. You can’t have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn’t be New Orleans.”

What exactly would it be?

Hmm..I wonder where ‘mocha’ fits in?

Give WaR a Chance

Nobody wants to see American blood shed, nor American treasure spent..but the alternative could be having a nuclear power plant attacked by a homicide bomber or Iran deciding if and when it should use a nuclear device in Los Angeles or perhaps Boise, Idaho.And as Donald Rumsfeld said: “It’s better to fight them in Baghdad than Boise.”
If anyone needs a check up from the neck up it’s Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Only one thing can weaken terrorist global operations..sadly..and that is War.
Killing terrorists in the long run doesn’t create more terrorists.
Teaching babies and children that being a suicide bomber helps you go to Heaven..creates more terrorists.
Putting pressure on terrorists’ finances doesn’t make it easier for them to recruit more terrorists. Depleting their resources so they can not afford to travel, and raise more cash for their “holY” cause does not make it easier for them.
We have a clear choice.
Allow American fighter planes and soldiers armed with aircraft carrier groups -fight the war on terror in the Middle East, or sit in the streets singing Kumbaya with the anti war liberals- and have civilians ultimately try to defend for their lives on the streets of New York or Philadelphia.
You do the MatH.

Do the Crime..Do the Time?..or NoT

Mehmet Ali Agca is actually being considered a “hero” by some. The name may not ring a bell due to the fact that he has been incarcerated for the past 25 years in Italy and then “pardoned” and extradited to Istanbul, Turkey.
I don’t blame you for not being able to recite Turkish convicted felons by heart..but this is no ordinary felon.
Agca shot Pope JohnPaul ll in the Spring of 1981. The Pope was struck in the abdomen, left hand and right arm. The Pope’s life was saved, according to doctors, due to the fact that the bullets missed his vital organs.
Full story covered by CNN:
CNN Coverage

Not that Agca was a choir boy before the attempted assassination mind you.
He was serving time for the murder of a newspaper editor as well as the robbery of a factory.
Although the Pope publicly forgave the gunman -do we have to? How about the editor Abdi Ipekci’s family?..do they have to?
According to studies from the Department of Justice nearly 70% of criminals released from federal prison get rearrested for a felony or misdemeanor within 3 years! Nearly half are convicted of a new crime.
But that doesn’t seem to stop those who believe no matter how heinous the crime, the criminal is the one who DeserveS a chance to make something out of his life.
One of the first things Agca allegedly wants to do is have a meal of “beans and rice”..how nice for him. He claims he has found God and is “a man of peace”.
Oh, and by the way:
He claims he will speak about the assassination attempt if he is PaiD for it.
Hmmmmmmmm….
Sounds Godly to me…….NoT.

Pot calling the Kettle Black??

Umm..Senator Ted Kennedy standing in judgement of Judge Sam Alito’s character?
Do we laugh or cry?
If Judge Alito was even remotely involved in the “Concerned Alumni of Princeton”…then what?
You would think they were discussing the KKK the way Kennedy was posturing with his holier than thou, self righteous indignation.
His finger pointing boils down essentially to a group not wanting Princeton University to lower their academic standards to accept anyone. Whether it’s minorities or women is irrelevant actually.
Believe it or not there is a case to be made for eliminating affirmative action. Some believe that suggesting that minorities even need affirmative action in order to succeed implies their inferiority. They need government’s hand outs and helping hand because they can’t succeed without it?
Qualified minorities will succeed due to their efforts, work and abilities just like their peers.
I’m quite certain Judge Alito is all for leveling the playing field and treating ALL equal under the Law..Not so sure if he would support programs, however, which preferred some over others because of race..no matter what the race happens to be.
But then, Kennedy could accuse him of “racism”…and we ALL know fearful people are of that…why just the mere use of a racially insensitive remark could destroy one’s entire career. (Of course, yet again that depends which race you are slighting..)
But I digress……
If anyone is standing in judgement of Judge Alito’s character at this time…Please tell me it isn’t Ted Kennedy.
Someone pass the KleeneX.