The Death of the Father
So Hollywood thinks the father-figure is a moron, and can't raise children better than a woman. Well, the last time I checked, the optimum situation to raise a law-abiding, successful, head-strong child is by both a mother and a father.
But nooooooo, Hollyweird wants you to think that all men, and especially father-figures, which includes the all-important male role-model, are idiots.
That's the feminization of our culture. It's all about feeling and emotion.
Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, "Jim Belushi" (whatever his character's name is) and Al Bundy, and another Al, from "Malcolm in the Middle"
This is what passes for fatherhood in Hollyweird these days.
What ever happened to the Charles Engel (Michael Landon) types? Sickening.
Here's some more from Angry White Dude
Check it:
Liberals go against every norm or value that made America great. Here are a few examples:
Homosexual marriage - Who would have seen this coming in their youth? Most Americans are strongly against gay marriage but the liberals are all for it.
Taxes - the country was founded on strong states rights and a limited federal government. We now live with the opposite. Liberals are going to help me with $4 gasoline by taking more of my disposable income! I’m not Plato but that dog just don’t hunt! Every time that taxes are lowered, revenue increases to the government and the economy thrives. Is this rocket science? It is for liberals!
Freedom - Only last week liberal politicians in DC were arguing the nationalization of oil companies. The week before, they were pushing the Fairness Doctrine which would limit conservative radio programs. Senator Dick (and I mean that) Durbin, a lib pinhead Senator from Illinois (say no more) actually asked the head of an oil company “why are you doing this to us?” This is a question that 300 million Americans should ask the liberal politicians of the last 30 years! Together with environmental idiots, the liberals have kept us from building refineries, nuclear power plants and drilling our ABUNDANT oil reserves in the US. Now we are faced with an energy crisis and what do the liberal pinheads want to do?? Raise taxes and nationalize oil companies! You cannot make this up!
Abortion - I don’t know why liberals hate babies and want to kill them. If only they were more concerned with the unborn as they are with terrorist prisoners captured by our military. They have no problem sucking the brain from a partially born baby but completely go into hysterics over placing underwear on the head of a terrorist who would gladly slit the throat of Americans. How much protest have you heard from liberals when terrorists have beheaded one of our citizens? Exactly!
Crime - Liberals have no problem killing a unborn, viable child. But heaven forbid that some bloodthirsty killer be executed. Maybe liberals wouldn’t want to abort babies if they knew that they would grow up to be killers! Look at the many examples of libs running to protest and submit court challenges to halt the death penalty in cases where the criminal clearly committed the crime and doesn’t even show remorse! They call lethal injection cruel and unusual punishment. Most Americans favor capital punishment. I suggest that the murderer is executed in the same was as they killed their victims!
Nationalization of healthcare - Let’s trust the government to run healthcare! We can all be sick and die together. Nobody in the USA is denied healthcare if it is needed. We even provide healthcare to all of the squatters from Mexico who leach off of the American taxpayer. The biggest problem with healthcare in the US is greedy, POS lawyers looking to make big bucks off of doctors and insurance companies by suing them at every turn. Lawyers should be denied health insurance! Our healthcare system is the best in the world. How many Americans go to Canada for an operation? Right! Less than 0!
Multiculturalism - the first warning of a dying country! The Angry White Dude believes that America is the greatest country in the world. We have the best way of life. Yes, our way is better than the Chinese, Russians, Mexicans and Arabs. America is a great country because those who immigrated in the past became Americans. America will continue to decline as we allow millions to cross our borders and take from us while contributing nothing. Multiculturalism is a liberal ideal. It is not smart. Liberals are not smart.
Political correctness - Political correctness provides the umbrella that bad ideas such as multiculturalism find shelter. It keeps people from openly discussing our problems. It shifts blame away from the guilty and blames the innocent. Political correctness is the death of common sense. For example, whites who do not vote for Obama are considered racist by the media while the 94% of blacks who vote for him are not. Political correctness is another liberal dream that has become a nightmare.
White men - The AWD blames the treatment of white men in American culture on liberals. White men started this country, fought its wars, built its industries, paid its taxes. White men are the only group that is allowed to be ridiculed by the PC culture. Gone are the days of strong white men. Now they are metrosexuals, bumbling fools, incompetent, greedy, evil, etc. There are many posts on this site that prove this. Liberals have sought to change American traditional values from strong families to gay marriage. Thanks libs!
In conclusion, liberals have been behind every disastrous change in our culture. Liberals have sought to weaken families, tax them into submission, weaken the military, kiss the rears of our enemies, take our freedoms, kill our unborn and protect the worst elements among us. One need to only look at the incompetent leaders of congress today to see that the liberal agenda does not work and never will.
Wake up Americans who still have the capacity for thought!! Our world is dangerous and we have enemies in the camp. Who will lead?
UPDATE: I just found this great piece on this very subject by Cathy Young; although it is eight years old. No matter, it's still relevant, perhaps even more so with hindsight
But nooooooo, Hollyweird wants you to think that all men, and especially father-figures, which includes the all-important male role-model, are idiots.
That's the feminization of our culture. It's all about feeling and emotion.
Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin, "Jim Belushi" (whatever his character's name is) and Al Bundy, and another Al, from "Malcolm in the Middle"
This is what passes for fatherhood in Hollyweird these days.
What ever happened to the Charles Engel (Michael Landon) types? Sickening.
Here's some more from Angry White Dude
Check it:
Liberals go against every norm or value that made America great. Here are a few examples:
Homosexual marriage - Who would have seen this coming in their youth? Most Americans are strongly against gay marriage but the liberals are all for it.
Taxes - the country was founded on strong states rights and a limited federal government. We now live with the opposite. Liberals are going to help me with $4 gasoline by taking more of my disposable income! I’m not Plato but that dog just don’t hunt! Every time that taxes are lowered, revenue increases to the government and the economy thrives. Is this rocket science? It is for liberals!
Freedom - Only last week liberal politicians in DC were arguing the nationalization of oil companies. The week before, they were pushing the Fairness Doctrine which would limit conservative radio programs. Senator Dick (and I mean that) Durbin, a lib pinhead Senator from Illinois (say no more) actually asked the head of an oil company “why are you doing this to us?” This is a question that 300 million Americans should ask the liberal politicians of the last 30 years! Together with environmental idiots, the liberals have kept us from building refineries, nuclear power plants and drilling our ABUNDANT oil reserves in the US. Now we are faced with an energy crisis and what do the liberal pinheads want to do?? Raise taxes and nationalize oil companies! You cannot make this up!
Abortion - I don’t know why liberals hate babies and want to kill them. If only they were more concerned with the unborn as they are with terrorist prisoners captured by our military. They have no problem sucking the brain from a partially born baby but completely go into hysterics over placing underwear on the head of a terrorist who would gladly slit the throat of Americans. How much protest have you heard from liberals when terrorists have beheaded one of our citizens? Exactly!
Crime - Liberals have no problem killing a unborn, viable child. But heaven forbid that some bloodthirsty killer be executed. Maybe liberals wouldn’t want to abort babies if they knew that they would grow up to be killers! Look at the many examples of libs running to protest and submit court challenges to halt the death penalty in cases where the criminal clearly committed the crime and doesn’t even show remorse! They call lethal injection cruel and unusual punishment. Most Americans favor capital punishment. I suggest that the murderer is executed in the same was as they killed their victims!
Nationalization of healthcare - Let’s trust the government to run healthcare! We can all be sick and die together. Nobody in the USA is denied healthcare if it is needed. We even provide healthcare to all of the squatters from Mexico who leach off of the American taxpayer. The biggest problem with healthcare in the US is greedy, POS lawyers looking to make big bucks off of doctors and insurance companies by suing them at every turn. Lawyers should be denied health insurance! Our healthcare system is the best in the world. How many Americans go to Canada for an operation? Right! Less than 0!
Multiculturalism - the first warning of a dying country! The Angry White Dude believes that America is the greatest country in the world. We have the best way of life. Yes, our way is better than the Chinese, Russians, Mexicans and Arabs. America is a great country because those who immigrated in the past became Americans. America will continue to decline as we allow millions to cross our borders and take from us while contributing nothing. Multiculturalism is a liberal ideal. It is not smart. Liberals are not smart.
Political correctness - Political correctness provides the umbrella that bad ideas such as multiculturalism find shelter. It keeps people from openly discussing our problems. It shifts blame away from the guilty and blames the innocent. Political correctness is the death of common sense. For example, whites who do not vote for Obama are considered racist by the media while the 94% of blacks who vote for him are not. Political correctness is another liberal dream that has become a nightmare.
White men - The AWD blames the treatment of white men in American culture on liberals. White men started this country, fought its wars, built its industries, paid its taxes. White men are the only group that is allowed to be ridiculed by the PC culture. Gone are the days of strong white men. Now they are metrosexuals, bumbling fools, incompetent, greedy, evil, etc. There are many posts on this site that prove this. Liberals have sought to change American traditional values from strong families to gay marriage. Thanks libs!
In conclusion, liberals have been behind every disastrous change in our culture. Liberals have sought to weaken families, tax them into submission, weaken the military, kiss the rears of our enemies, take our freedoms, kill our unborn and protect the worst elements among us. One need to only look at the incompetent leaders of congress today to see that the liberal agenda does not work and never will.
Wake up Americans who still have the capacity for thought!! Our world is dangerous and we have enemies in the camp. Who will lead?
UPDATE: I just found this great piece on this very subject by Cathy Young; although it is eight years old. No matter, it's still relevant, perhaps even more so with hindsight
posted by Northern Exposer at 07:27
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I think the Angry White Dude is brilliant!
Angry White Dude
The anti death penalty side produces many deceptions.
Some correction:
The Death Penalty in the US: A Review
Dudley Sharp, Justice Matters, contact info below
NOTE: Detailed review of any of the below topics, or others, is available upon request
In this brief format, the reality of the death penalty in the United States, is presented, with the hope that the media, public policy makers and others will make an effort to present a balanced view on this sanction.
Innocence Issues
Death Penalty opponents have proclaimed that 128 inmates have been "released from death row with evidence of their innocence", in the US, since the modern death penalty era began, post Furman v Georgia (1972).
That number is a fraud.
Those opponents have intentionally included both the factually innocent (the "I truly had nothing to do with the murder" cases) and the legally innocent (the "I got off because of legal errors" cases), thereby fraudulently raising the "innocent" numbers. This is easily confirmed by fact checking.
Death penalty opponents claim that 24 such innocence cases are in Florida. The Florida Commission on Capital Cases found that 4 of those 24 MIGHT be innocent -- an 83% error rate in for the claims of death penalty opponents. Other studies show their error rate to be about 70%.
Therefore, 20-25 of the alleged 127 innocents MIGHT be actually innocent -- a 0.3% actual guilt error rate for the over 8000 sentenced to death since 1973. The actual innocents were all freed,
It is often claimed that 23 innocents have been executed in the US since 1900. Nonsense. Even the authors of that "23 innocents executed" study proclaimed "We agree with our critics, we never proved those (23) executed to be innocent; we never claimed that we had." While no one would claim that an innocent has never been executed, there is no proof of an innocent executed in the US, at least since 1900.
No one disputes that innocents are found guilty, within all countries. However, when scrutinizing death penalty opponents claims, we find that when reviewing the accuracy of verdicts and the post conviction thoroughness of discovering those actually innocent incarcerated, that the US death penalty process may be one of the most accurate criminal justice sanctions in the world.
Under real world scenarios, not executing murderers will always put many more innocents at risk, than will ever be put at risk of execution.
Deterrence Issues
16 recent US studies, inclusive of their defenses, find a deterrent effect of the death penalty.
All the studies which have not found a deterrent effect of the death penalty have refused to say that it does not deter some. The studies finding for deterrence state such. Confusion arises when people think that a simple comparison of murder rates and executions, or the lack thereof, can tell the tale of deterrence. It cannot.
Both high and low murder rates are found within death penalty and non death penalty jurisdictions, be it Singapore, South Africa, Sweden or Japan, or the US states of Michigan and Delaware. Many factors are involved in such evaluations. Reason and common sense tell us that it would be remarkable to find that the most severe criminal sanction -- execution -- deterred none. No one is foolish enough to suggest that the potential for negative consequences does not deter the behavior of some. Therefore, regardless of jurisdiction, having the death penalty will always be an added deterrent to murders, over and above any lesser punishments.
Racial issues
White murderers are twice as likely to be executed in the US as are black murderers and are executed, on average, 12 months more quickly than are black death row inmates.
It is often stated that it is the race of the victim which decides who is prosecuted in death penalty cases. Although blacks and whites make up about an equal number of murder victims, capital cases are 6 times more likely to involve white victim murders than black victim murders. This, so the logic goes, is proof that the US only cares about white victims.
Hardly. Only capital murders, not all murders, are subject to a capital indictment. Generally, a capital murder is limited to murders plus secondary aggravating factors, such as murders involving burglary, carjacking, rape, and additional murders, such as police murders, serial and multiple murders. White victims are, overwhelmingly, the victims under those circumstances, in ratios nearly identical to the cases found on death row.
Any other racial combinations of defendants and/or their victims in death penalty cases, is a reflection of the crimes committed and not any racial bias within the system, as confirmed by studies from the Rand Corporation (1991), Smith College (1994), U of Maryland (2002), New Jersey Supreme Court (2003) and by a view of criminal justice statistics, within a framework of the secondary aggravating factors necessary for capital indictments.
Class issues
No one disputes that wealthier defendants can hire better lawyers and, therefore, should have a legal advantage over their poorer counterparts. The US has executed about 0.15% of all murderers since new death penalty statutes were enacted in 1973. Is there evidence that wealthier capital murderers are less likely to be executed than their poorer ilk, based upon the proportion of capital murders committed by different those different economic groups? Not to my knowledge.
Arbitrary and capricious
About 10% of all murders within the US might qualify for a death penalty eligible trial. That would be about 64,000 murders since 1973. We have sentenced 8000 murderers to death since then, or 13% of those eligible. I doubt that there is any other crime which receives a higher percentage of maximum sentences, when mandatory sentences are not available. Based upon that, as well as pre trial, trial, appellate and clemency/commutation realities, the US death penalty is likely the least arbitrary and capricious criminal sanctions in the US.
Christianity and the death penalty
The two most authoritative New Testament scholars, Saints Augustine and Aquinas, provide substantial biblical and theological support for the death penalty. Even the most well known anti death penalty personality in the US, Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, states that "It is abundantly clear that the Bible depicts murder as a capital crime for which death is considered the appropriate punishment, and one is hard pressed to find a biblical 'proof text' in either the Hebrew Testament or the New Testament which unequivocally refutes this. Even Jesus' admonition 'Let him without sin cast the first stone,' when He was asked the appropriate punishment for an adulteress (John 8:7) -- the Mosaic Law prescribed death -- should be read in its proper context. This passage is an 'entrapment' story, which sought to show Jesus' wisdom in besting His adversaries. It is not an ethical pronouncement about capital punishment." A thorough review of Pope John Paul II's position, reflects a reasoning that should be recommending more executions.
Cost Issues
All studies finding the death penalty to be more expensive than life without parole exclude important factors, such as (1) geriatric care costs, recently found to be $69,0000/yr/inmate, (2) the death penalty cost benefit of providing for plea bargains to a maximum life sentence, a huge cost savings to the state, (3) the death penalty cost benefit of both enhanced deterrence and enhanced incapacitation, at $5 million per innocent life spared, and, furthermore, (4) many of the alleged cost comparison studies are highly deceptive.
Polling data
76% of Americans find that we should impose the death penalty more or that we impose it about right (Gallup, May 2006 - 51% that we should impose it more, 25% that we impose it about right)
71% find capital punishment morally acceptable - that was the highest percentage answer for all questions (Gallup, April 2006, moral values poll). In May, 2007, the percentage dropped to 66%, still the highest percentage answer, with 27% opposed. (Gallup, 5/29/07)
81% of the American people supported the execution of Timothy McVeigh, with only 16% opposed. "(T)his view appears to be the consensus of all major groups in society, including men, women, whites, nonwhites, "liberals" and "conservatives." (Gallup 5/2/01).
81% of Connecticut citizens supported the execution of serial rapist/murderer Michael Ross (Jan 2005).
While 81% gave specific case support for Timothy McVeigh's execution, Gallup also showed a 65% support AT THE SAME TIME when asked a general "do you support capital punishment for murderers?" question. (Gallup, 6/10/01).
22% of those supporting McVeigh's execution are, generally, against the death penalty (Gallup 5/02/01). That means that about half of those who say they oppose the death penalty, with the general question, actually support the death penalty under specific circumstances, just as it is imposed, judicially.
Further supporting the higher rates for specific cases, is this, from the French daily Le Monde December 2006 (1): Percentage of respondents in favor of executing Saddam Hussein:USA: 82%; Great Britain: 69%; France: 58%; Germany: 53%; Spain: 51%; Italy: 46%
Death penalty support is much deeper and much wider than we are often led to believe, with 50% of those who say they, generally, oppose the death penalty actually supporting it under specific circumstances, resulting in 80% death penalty support in the US, as recently as December 2006.
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Whatever your feelings are toward the death penalty, a fair accounting of how it is applied should be demanded.
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