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?

How is it possible that a republican is against the costitution? A certain Paul Broun has found himself directly opposed to a fundamental part of our most basic precepts as a society. He wants 2010 to be “The Year of the Bible”… What bible would that be? Our Jewish friends would say the Hebrew bible works for them… I’ve met those who perfer the Satanic Bible. The Quran is technically a bible. Maybe the UNIX Systems Administrator’s Bible? I have two of the latter. Our Mormon buddies have one of their own as well…

My point is this, he is ramming his personal ideals down the throats of people who have a right to their own opinions. As soon as we give him that power, we give it to others. What if the next guy comes up with “2013, Year of the KKK”? They played a key role in forming our identity as a nation too. Maybe 2014 can be the year of the Nazi? He is induging in an abuse of power and perverting the trust placed in him by the public if he subverts our constitution by blatantly ignoring a core element of who we are as a nation.

A particular faith can not be endorsed by our government without harming the very ideals that we all aspire to. I know that Rep. Paul Broun means well. He thinks that by doing this, he is sharing a special thing with people who are unaware of a great truth. He has good intentions… I think we all know the destination of the road he is paving…