Random Ideas

Some of you may have recently heard about an overweight Australian kid. He took as much from a bully as he could, and then he stood up for himself. The bully was beaten.

In the simplest of terms, a filthy rodent of a boy was torturing a boy who is less mentally disgusting than himself and got shown that this was a bad idea. Battle happened and, just like in the movies, the good guy won. The end, right?

Not quite. The same school administrator who FAILED to deal with an aggressive and violently abusive boy in his school had the moral outrage to punish the VICTIM and the bully equally. For standing up for himself, this boy was suspended. If there had not been VIDEO placed on the internet of the bully assaulting his victim physically, the principal probably would have ignored the violence.

But wait, the wisdom of the muddle headed and deeply moronic masses voted in an online poll… The overwhelming majority chose to think that the victim had no right to fight back. They think that he should have fled from the bully. Utter stupidity. If you back down from a bully, you paste a target on yourself. Bullies are not about respect, or “being the bigger man”. Bullies are about dominating another human being. Backing down just tells them that they are now able to dominate you. This means they own you and can treat you like dirt for the rest of your life. How many of our recent “Cyber bully” related suicides were of the “walk away” school? I think an in-depth study would reveal that it is %100. I have dealt with bullies all of my life. They do not respect you or get tired of bothering you because you retreat.

Retreat from a deranged individual does not work. Who out there can tell me of ONE instance where walking away helped with a bully? I am not including times when you moved away so he/she could not find you. Most bullies have mental and emotional issues. It is sad, but true, that there are few, if any ways that such a demented creature can be helped by their peers. Many are abused as children and seek violence as a way to salve their own sense of self worth. Some have issues such as fetal alcohol syndrome. The syndrome cases have no impulse control and a highly violent nature that does not just “change” because their chosen victim will not fight back. Fighting back is the only way, in many cases, for the victim to end the abuse.

If the administrator had been any good at their job to begin with, they would have spotted this situation and done something to keep it from reaching a point where a boy was assaulted and had to defend himself. Adults should have defused this. To ask a person to be beaten upon with fists and back down is silly. My guess is that the principal’s sympathies are not with the victim. My feeling is that he identifies more with the bully himself. Why else would he punish the victim for refusing to remain a victim? Especially in light of video evidence of the bully actually hitting him without provocation.

In short, if you think a boy should not fight back against a bully, then it is YOUR JOB as adults to make it so he does not have to.

If your child is the victim, grow a pair and get the authorities to do their jobs and end the problem.

If your kid is the bully, lay down the law about stopping the behavior. Get the kid into some treatment for his obvious mental problems. If your bully kid is your pride and joy, and you think he/she should be able to bully freely… Email me and I will introduce my daughters. They are tournament trained martial artists in a combination of traditions and they just can not stand bullies… You are welcome to send your thugs over and we will even help you get them to the hospital afterward.

In a truly silly turn of events, a politician is questioning somebody else’s ethics! I speak of the Republican idiot who took it upon himself to call Natalie Portman a bad role model. Let’s see, she is in a long term commited relationship and engaged to be married to the father of the child she is expecting. She is employed. She has never had any issues of substance abuse or addiction to anything. She is well respected among her peers…

To be fair, let’s look at someone who Huckabee did NOT remark on. Charlie Sheen has been prancing about like a lunatic for the last month showing his ass. He has been caught numerous times and even admitted to hiring hookers and strippers. His drug addictions and chemically altered binges are truly legendary. He exposed his twin sons to an environment filled with hookers and drugs. Sheen is even being accused of threatening to decapitate his estranged wife!

Does his silence mean that Huckabee thinks Sheen is a better role model than Portman?!?!? That would sound like the ethical point of view of a politician. They are just not known for being so open about it. Then again, a conservative Republican might have singled Portman out for other criteria that separate her from Sheen…

Now, he takes some of it back… He even says he does not “criticize the hardworking single mothers in our country.” Then, maybe he should tell us exactly why he thinks Ms. Portman is a worse example than Mr. Sheen.

The reality is, she is showing the young women out there, who may not choose to marry before having a child, that there is a right way to do it. Be employed. Be a good and healthy person. Do not jump into it before you know you can provide a good home for your child.

The last politician who made this kind of public statement about a famous star was Dan Quayle… Maybe Huchabee could use a better “role model” himself?

Here I was, reading about an injustice, and up comes a popup. This is odd for the news site I was at. I calmly close the window and go back to my reading. IT POPS UP AGAIN!!! I have nothing particular against Campbell’s Healthy Request, but popups are sleazy and should NEVER come back up when closed. They seem to have contracted some pile of filth at “promotion.familytime.com” to perform a form of spam. I don’t know about you, but I will not be buying any form of Campbell’s product for my family. I am going to look at the label of every product I consider buying. If it’s connected to Campbell’s, it will be a product I doubt I will buy.

Yes, the UN has, yet again, given a podium to one of the most idiotic figureheads in the world. Somehow, the puppet president of the fundamentalist dictatorship was given free reign to verbally abuse anyone willing to sit through his yammering tirade of verbal abuse and lowbrow conspiracy theory. Honestly, anyone over the age of five ( if they can read ) would know better than to agree with. He even went so far as to blame 911 on the US as some sort of nebulous conspiracy to make money. Ignoring for a moment that there are audio and video recordings and piles of evidence, as well as signed confessions that verify the guilt of Osama Bin Laden and various other afghan and Taliban operatives. It is sheer stupidity to give this maniac a platform to spout his tripe and trash to the masses. Meanwhile, he openly mocks and defies the world with his continued efforts to develop nuclear weapons. When will we cease to enable such insanity? All we have to do is cut businesses off from dealing with this criminal state and penalize anyone who does. War is not required, but harsh penalties are.

The wonderful land of the Scotts has now been revealed to either be run by morons, or run by BP sell-outs. The “terminally ill” murderer of Lockerbie has now been revealed to be in wonderful health. How could the Dr. make such a mistake? Maybe his equipment malfunctioned? Could the samples been mixed up? No. He was simply paid off by a Lyban sympathetic BP. WHy would BP work with a country with such a history of evil and pay for the release of a man who is evil incarnate? Oil. Plain and simple. It’s the same thing that has lead Sarah Palin to sell out the great state of Alaska. It’s the money gotten from oil that has lead the Republicans and some Democrats to accuse our government of being too hard on the company that has, trough penny pinching and other unethical measures, destroyed a huge part of our ecosystem. The same company who created the worst oil disaster in history… Wouldn’t it be scary if they were the same ones who bought the freedom of a mass murderer in Scotland… Oh, wait, IT IS! I am finding it hard to think of a more evil company outside of the tobacco industry.

If these acts of evil bother you, act on it. No, do not throw mud. Do not throw anything or break anything. Simply pull across the street and buy gas at another place. The consumer has the power to kill a company by choking off their income. Vote with dead presidents.

As many of you may have seen, there is a great deal of posturing and name calling about immigration lately. For the record, I was always told that breaking a law was a criminal act and made one a criminal in the eyes of society. So, if a person enters the United States in a way that breaks the law, that person is a CRIMINAL. Not an “undocumented worker”. Somehow people have fallen for a line of faulty logic that says that these people, many of whom commit even more crimes while in this country, are being persecuted. That is a BAD spelling error. It’s not that they are “persecuted”, it’s that they need to be PROSECUTED! Now there is a group that is pushing for a moratorium on deportations. They are clearly insane.

Who do you think is really victimized when a person enters our country illegally? Big business could not be less interested in stopping it. They save untold millions a year by using workers that can be paid illegal slave wages and treated worse than livestock. Is it the middle class? Those folks who get unionized and non-unionized jobs in jobs for big corporations at various levels of the businesses? They rarely see anything but cheaper products at big chain stores and cheap day labor for landscaping around the house as the effects. Maybe it’s the people who worked for years to gain LEGAL access to this country, looked for jobs, and found that most of them involved working under the table and living in conditions no other American would willingly endure… Maybe it’s the poor guy who goes looking for an honest job in the city, only to find that most of the employers will not hire him because they have to pay him a fair wage. Maybe it’s the grandmother who is killed one night by a person who broke into her home to get the money to pay for fake documents. Maybe it’s the college student suddenly denied financial aid and put into massive debt because their identity has been stolen and used by 15 different people to get valid jobs, and then run up bills that will never be paid.

Arizona may have been ham handed when they started making new laws to handle illegal immigrants. Still, just by being in the country, these people are criminals. Try sneaking into any other country. You will find that you are not “given amnesty” or treated as a hero trying to seek asylum. You will be deported and treated like the criminal you are. I dare you to break into Russia, Japan, China, or Germany without a passport and visa. Unless you have more money than a major industry CEO, you will NOT like how you are treated.

Maybe we need to remember that our laws should be respected, especially by people who wish to live here!

So, I open my email yesterday. What do I see nestled in my inbox? The most transparent spam I ever saw. Being the person I am, I HAD to mess with this filthy creature. Here is the original spam. I will follow it with the messages that were exchanged…

2010/2/12 Jon wells <test@raytrade.nl>

As someone who knows people in crisis with their health, and as a person working in a major medical institution, I am shocked. Republicans are the ones I expect to screw the little guy, not Democrats… Now, it’s hard to tell them apart. I know a family with four kids, one part time income, and the father (the only one working) is a type 1 diabetic. They have no supplies for him right now and no cash. They are waiting for paperwork to go through for medicare. Make no mistake, a type 1 diabetic without his insulin is a walking dead man. Right now, the only thing keeping him alive is a family friend who gave him some of their insulin. This is not an isolated thing. Many people in our country have to choose between feeding their families and having the life saving medication they need. I know a type 2 diabetic who is having to not buy medicine so she can avoid losing her home and becoming homeless. She’s not able to get medicare until next fall.

It makes me ill to realize that we, the richest country in the world, can not care for our sick. We send millions of dollars in aid to other countries in both government and private money, but we fail the people who live on our own streets. Evil corporations move every job they can to India, Mexico, and China to avoid paying enough for people to live on. Other companies hire people who have entered the country so that they can work them like animals and treat them like slaves. Just the money that legal employees would feed into our system by paying taxes would pay for a large portion of any “public option”.

All the people who have no insurance become a burden on our emergency care systems and clinics as well. ER’s can’t turn you away for be uninsured… If the type 1 diabetic I mentioned dies, the government will foot the bill not only for his burial, but also for the continued care and feeding of the family he leaves behind. Over the next 17+ years that will add up…

I say we all watch for who votes down the “public Option” and we make sure NOT to vote for them when they run again. Remember, in the end, WE are the bosses. WE should fire politicians who are not doing the best job for us.

You know, it’s funny. Fundamentalist groups are always protesting movies over odd little details in movies. They even raised a stink about the mannish ugly step sister in Shrek because they chose to see her as a transvestite. Watching a children’s movie with my daughter, I realized that the holy rollers had missed a big one. After all, bees don’t have males who travel outside of the hive. That would mean that the bee character in the move was in fact female. Shouldn’t they be protesting and raising a stink about a lesbian couple in a child’s movie? This just goes to show, these people are very uneven in the application of their rules. What about the gay penguins? Not a word from the fundies on that one. Of course, one of them went straight… Maybe that’s why they were not bothered. Bisexual penguins and gay bees, maybe the fundamentalists are calming down. Maybe, in a few years and with enough alternative lifestyle animals, they will join in on a gay/lesbian parade…

Well, now we know how hard Scotland is on terrorists… The aren’t! It seems that, if you want to blow up innocent women and children, the smart terrorist does it in Scotland. “He was  terminally ill!” you say? What has that got to do with his crime? Does it make his victims any less dead? Maybe his victims now suffer less pain? No, his crime has not changed. The only change is the additional pain inflicted by an idiotic government on the families of the victims. Now, he dies as a hero, praised in his country and pampered for the rest of his life. Now he inspires more maniacs. One more reason for terrorist organizations to laugh at our concept of justice. Open season has now been declared by the stupidity of the Scottish government. I say, “Hang on to your kilts guys! The suicide bombers know where to go!”