This, from my favorite classical-music CD review site, is a vignette of the aftermath of the Tottenham riots: “Our reviewer Carla Rees, flute player and artistic director of rarescale, recently lost her home in the London riots. She was burned out losing all her flutes, music and possessions as well as her two cats. She has nothing left and is having to live in a hotel. The company Just Flutes & Jonathan Myall Music [is] lending her instruments and music and have launched an appeal on her behalf. MusicWeb will be making a donation and would urge you all to do the same.” Meanwhile most of the rioters will go on receiving their social welfare payments, so that they can buy drugs, purchase more tattoos, live in council flats, pay for their Blackberry subscriptions, and otherwise exist parasitically on the talent and productivity of others. (more…)
WHAT SOCIETIES in history have left children in the hands of homosexual men? The answer is none but ours, a society so remarkably callous to the young and vulnerable we might as well abandon infants on windy cliffs as the Romans did.
Most homosexual men are not murderers or dangerous, but homosexual men have a proportionately higher tendency than heterosexuals toward violent relationships. And men who are biologically unrelated to the children they care for are more violent toward them. Those are facts. A recent Canadian study found that homosexual relationships are twice as violent as heterosexual ones. Many other studies have confirmed this. All those who celebrate the adoption of children by homosexuals should be forced to attend the funerals of the children who will come between homosexual lovers, or at least to look on from afar and weep. (more…)
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AN ONLINE petition by homosexual activists to convince PBS to marry Sesame Street’s famous characters Bert and Ernie (yes, folks this is no joke) has attracted so much attention that Sesame Street Workshop has issued a statement on the pair’s sexual orientation, declaring in a clever evasion that Bert and Ernie are not male at all. They have male voices, male names, male clothing and male mannerisms, but Bert and Ernie could just as well be Gladys and Ethel. And, even if they were Gladys and Ethel they would possess no capacity to love the opposite sex. According to SeattlePi.com, the statement says:
Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics, they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation.
Before you dissolve into laughter, note what a victory this is for those who wish to acclimate children to perversity and confusion. Sesame Street has declared that Bert and Ernieare just puppets. In other words, the world of child play has no connection, no link whatsoever, to reality. When you see a male character he is not necessarily male. That’s all in your mind. Sesame Street was not communicating to children after all, but just playing along with them. Ert and Bernie, I mean, Bert and Ernie, are nothing more than sacks of cloth. Imagination is all a pointless misinterpretation of the obvious. (more…)
For three weeks, the Left has been making propaganda hay out of Anders Breivik and his blood spree on Utøya. The Left accuses conservatives of having virtually deputized Breivik and of having therefore colluded in what they see as proxy violence on behalf of those who resist total socialization. The Left meanwhile employs actual proxies aplenty who make actual violence aplenty, much of it murderous. It is the direct implication – and it is hardly an implication only – of Richard Sennett’s screed that rioting savages in Greece, France, Britain, or North America are carrying out justice as the liberal establishment defines justice. (more…)
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THE APPROVAL OF same-sex “marriage” by a tiny Washington State Indian tribe is the occasion for extravagant appreciation of Native Americans in today’s New York Times. We are told tribes “never excluded people” and homosexuals had higher spiritual status in tribal culture. (All of which, if it were true, would serve to suggest that socially-approved homosexuality is characteristic of primitive cultures.)
However, we are not given the relevant historical facts. These details skirt the main issue. Did Indians of the same-sex actually marry eachother in wedding ceremonies and raise children together? Of course, they didn’t. Native Americans weren’t that degenerate. (more…)
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RICHARD SENNETT, brandishing his credentials as professor of sociology at the London School of Economics (and thus as eminent psychologist of the lower classes), and his wife, Saskia Sassen, a professor at Columbia, offer their combined intercontinental expertise on the editorial pages of The New York Times today to warn that the Tea Party may provoke proletarian rioting in the United States comparable to that in England.
And that’s just fine with these academic gangsters. America’s elite is more than willing to provide the moral legitimacy to looters, window-smashers and hooded plunderers if taxpayers don’t fork over the money.
To give some perspective on the family situation in Britain: in 2009, 46.2 percent of all children were born out-of-wedlock. Among native-born Britons, the illegitimacy ratio was 53.3 percent. For more on out-of-wedlock births in Britain see this previous post at The Thinking Housewife.
The recent riots in London have been in areas with large numbers of immigrants. Tottenham, where the riots started, is in the borough of Haringey which in turn is a part of London. In other words, London is a part of Britain, Haringey is a part of London, and Tottenham is a part of Haringey.
Below is a table showing what proportion of newborns in Britain, London, and Haringey in 2009 were born to native born Britons, to mothers from another European country, or to mothers from a non-European country. (more…)
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A man I praise that once in Tara’s Halls
Said to the woman on his knees, ‘Lie still.
My hundredth year is at an end. I think
That something is about to happen, I think
That the adventure of old age begins.
To many women I have said, “Lie still,”
And given everything a woman needs,
A roof, good clothes, passion, love perhaps,
But never asked for love; should I ask that,
I shall be old indeed.’
DAVID CAMERON decried the immorality of British society in his address before Parliament today. “As I said yesterday, there is no one step that can be taken. But we need a benefit system that rewards work and that is on the side of families,” he said.
That would mean a system that provided no public benefits to unmarried women at all. As discussed in a previous post, the illegitimacy rate in Britain for native-born whites exceeds 50 percent and in some areas, two out of three children are born out of wedlock. The government provides single mothers with income support, housing benefits, and free milk and vitamins. So generous is the British government toward unwed mothers that a recent proposal to cap total household benefits for single mothers to £18,200 to prevent it from exceeding the average income of similar households without benefits has sparked anger.
The problem in Britain is not family collapse, as a reader from England said in this entry. It’s the failure to create families at all.
But Britain is a long way from turning its back on unwed mothers and sexual freedom. If one reads through the comments sections of the online editions of British newspapers, they are often dripping with disdain for the past and the traditional family. Here’s one comment from a reader that appeared after the article about illegitimacy discussed above: (more…)
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IN HIS SPEECH to parliament today on the British riots, David Cameron said this:
On repairing the damages, I can confirm that any individual, homeowner or business that has suffered damage to or loss of their buildings or property as a result of rioting, can seek compensation under the Riot Damages Act, even if uninsured. (more…)
HERE’S a great comment from John Dempsey at VFR on the British riots:
It seems to me that the British elite have lost their authority to rule. This means that Britain can now be considered a lawless society. Authority is a two part equation that legitimately grants rights to people, but also claims the moral right to direct their conduct through laws. This is the basis of all law; defining rights and fixing duties. When the only part of their authority they care to claim and exercise is that part which grants never-ending rights without any imposition of obligations, can they really claim any authority at all?
Aside from that, in the Max Hastings article, he writes [of the looters]: (more…)
AUSTRALIAN Finance Minister Penny Wong announced this week that her lesbian partner is pregnant. New South Wales MP Fred Nile said precisely the right words in response: I'm totally against a baby being brought up by two mothers - the baby has human rights. It's a very poor example for the rest of the Australian population. She needn't have made it public - it just promotes their lesbian lifestyle and trying to make it natural where it's unnatural. The only reason she's made it public is to make a statement to the Australian people. What is unusual about this statement, assuming that it was reported in whole, is that Nile feels no need to cower before the prospect of homosexual belligerence by saying how wonderful homosexuals are and how he wants them to be treated fairly.
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Percent of U.S. children who are exclusively breastfed for three or six months, according to CDC National Immunization Survey
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT has sounded the alarm in recent months. The state of infant nutrition in America is in disrepair. A number of reports have been issued, including a “call for action” in January from Surgeon General Regina Benjamin and one just last week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An army of facts and numbers has been gathered on the plains of bureaucratic warfare to document a serious public health problem: The vast majority of mothers are not breastfeeding their babies enough.
That this is a public health problem is indisputable. Even to the public health geek, who sees all through the lens of statistics, human milk is irreplaceable. Children are seldom dying without it (the mortality rate attributable to formula feeding involves about 1,000 cases a year), but their well-being in many instances is seriously undermined and the effects have been documented. Ironically, though manufactured formula is costly, low-income parents are much more likely to use it.
What is also indisputable is that the federal government is a major cause of the problem and is seemingly hell bent on keeping it that way.
For all the expense and effort that has gone into the call for action, one would think officials really wanted to see more infants healthy and well-fed. In their heart of hearts they do, but their minds and intentions are clouded by self-interest, political orthodoxy and misguided liberal paternalism. The public effort to encourage better infant nutrition is a window onto the welfare state and its inner workings, a case study in the inability of our federal bureaucracy to overlook its own interests, commercial pressures and ideology on behalf of children.
For the most important and necessary step to improving the incidence of breastfeeding is never mentioned by the Surgeon General or the CDC: The federal government should get out of the business of supplying millions of mothers with free infant formula.
ALAN ROEBUCK, in a “A Nation That Honors Sin,” an essay at Intellectual Conservative, argues that neither political action nor Christian evangelism are enough to counter the overwhelming success of liberalism in America. No society in history has institutionalized the approval of sin to the extent the modern West has. He argues that a focus on individual virtue at the expense of the proper ordering of society has rendered Christians ineffective.
WHEN ASKED whether police should resort to water cannons to control looters and rioters in London and elsewhere, Home Secretary Theresa May replied:
I don’t think anybody wants to see water cannon used on the streets of Britain because we have a different attitude to the culture of policing here. We police by consent and it depends on that trust between the police and the public. (more…)
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