WWIII: Now?

Michael Goodwin is calling World War III to have already begun. And he has a point.

In fact, Goodwin’s overall piece betrays the small nuggets of the anti-Bushism present also. It’s not exactly too much to believe that with nuclear ambitions being passed around like party favors that we could be on the edge of something terrible.

But the funny part is that Mr. Goodwin’s intention of using fear-mongering to arouse public outrage with the President has a way of backfiring. On the contrary, if we are indeed on the brink of nuclear holocaust, preemption , which defines the Republicanparty, not the other one, will most certainly be necessary. In this way, if Mr. Goodwin’s WWIII prediction is correct, Mr. Bush will go down in history as the “Eleventh Hour Man;” the one who actually may have stalled the storm, despite the wishes of the liberal media.

 

Italy Wins World Cup

The Italian team has taken the World Cup on penalty kicks. Vive Italia!!

 

The Fast and the furious

Cindy Sheehan and Susan Sarandon will fast for peace this July 4th holiday. The vitriolic anti-Bush personalities will go “hungry” (although I can’t imagine the same industry which puts millions of dollars on celeb baby pics producing celebs willing to starve themselves) in protest of the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.

Let me share a helpful revelation with my readers. The Leftist media does not admire Mrs. Sheehan because she is a brave, sacrificing war-time mother. There are plenty of other women like that. What makes her so photogenic is not her personal connections to the war but the fact that she is one of the few, the not-so-proud Bush bashers. THAT’S why the media drools over her.

An insult to the less protesting population of war moms? You call it.

 

Marriage: Noooooo.

The London Times thinks marriage is “dated, discredited, and deeply ungroovy.” In fact, according to the online edition, the “marriage comeback” (the recent increase in married couples) cannot be explained by anything logical.

“Marriage is also — whatever spin you put on it — the final frontier in the relationship game. Nobody has come up with a more definitive statement of a couple’s commitment. Having a child, or buying a house together, has far greater consequences, and yet you only need to talk to people who have done both, but avoided the m-word, to know that marriage is a declaration in another league. Despite the “it’s only a bit of paper” argument, the relative ease with which you can get unmarried, the apparent meaninglessness of the marriage vows in a world where 40% are revoked, it still represents something wonderful, or terrifying, depending on which side of the fence you fall.”

It’s fascinating to watch how minds that simply believe marriage to be an odd creation of a lonely society can become so incoherent in their marriage musings. The Times cannot explain why marriage survives in the 20th century, let alone grows. Perhaps the secularist view of marriage leaves something out that might explain something: GOD.

 

Happy Fourth!

Happy Fourth of July, everyone! America is 230 years old today and still kicking.

 

The Rights Stuff

The Los Angeles Times believes that gays deserve rights. So do I.

The problem is that the LA Times is muddying the issue. The rights gays to practice homosexual behavior has not been in serious legal question for years. The rights of gays to vote or hold private property has never been questioned. So what rights are the Times referring to?

Answer: Gay marriage. Thus the LA Timesdeceivingly delivers same-sex marriage propaganda under a guise of rights enumeration. But the right of a very small minority to radically change the definition of a human institution which has possessed an intrinsic definition for thousands of years is not quite so black and white.

But for the Times, as it is for gay marriage enthusiasts in general, the significance of marriage compared with the significance of the absolute autonomy of the unbridled individual is minute at best.

 

Lonely People

If Rob Thomas “don’t wanna be lonely no more,” he’s hardly alone (no pun intended). It turns out that one thing the majority of Americans do have in common is that many of us are very lonesome, according to a new study.

The study points out that this apparent drop in meaningful relationships occurs at the same time that internet technology allows people to know an incredible amount of people at the same time. Good point. Take MySpace for example. The catchphrase of the site is “a place for friends.” Yet we don’t seem to have many real ones.

 

Obesity NOW

And why are our kids so obese? Well, the public schools aren’t helping things out much.

And no, I’m not throwing a bone to the health Nazis sulking about in cafeterias. I’m going after these absurd “activists” who are trying to kick kicking out of schools.

Believe it or not,  we actually have a school system in the US which thinks it’s better for kids not to exercise at all than to have to kick a ball or tag someone. Read on, but be warned, for, as my father says: “It’s more baloney than I can swallow.”

Elementary schools in Cheyenne, Wyo., and Spokane, Wash., banned tag at recess this year. Others, including a suburban Charleston, S.C., school, dumped contact sports such as soccer and touch football.

The bans were passed in the name of safety…It’s happening more,” [Donna Thompson of the National Program for Playground Safety] says. Educators worry about “kids running into one another” and getting hurt, she says.

In January, Freedom Elementary School in Cheyenne prohibited tag at recess because it “progresses easily into slapping and hitting and pushing instead of just touching,” Principal Cindy Farwell says.

Wow.

 

Obese is mean

Thats actually what some people are complaining about in a new Associated Press story documenting how some “experts” are reconsidering whether or not to label overweight people “obese.” Some doctors and organizations think that the term is demeaning.

Demeaning? So being overweight is better than being labeled as overweight?

Hooray for political correctness once again.

 

Rating Rants

Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued a PG rating to a film that deals with issues of God and faith. Why? Well, according to some associated with the movie, because it dealt with issues of God and faith.

And now some in D.C. are upset and want an “explanation” from the MPAA. The ratings board has none, except to say that a “miscommunication” resulted in the impression that religious content upped the movie’s rating.

The MPAA has for long been a failing system of generalizations, labels, and often downright incorrect ratings. Look for my upcoming documentation of some of the MPAA’s blunders in a Editorial soon.