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Category: Society

  • When is a Memorial NOT a Memorial?

    Political correctness gone mad at Ground Zero

    This Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks upon America, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will dedicate the massive, $600 million National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. What Americans have not been told is that this “memorial” will remake Ground Zero so that it does not acknowledge 9/11.

    Instead of acting as a constant reminder of the attacks, a symbol for us and future generations of the evil that struck, the death and destruction it caused and the heroism and sacrifice in response, the memorial will wipe out all evidence and memory of the attacks.

    I haven’t studied this specific issue, but I HAVE visited the Flight 93 site more than once and noted a similar exercise ongoing there. Much of what made that place a true Memorial has been ‘placed in storage’.

    One line in the linked article captures the sense of the effort I’ve seen in action for myself in Pennsylvania, and what appears to be happening at Ground Zero.

    This is like banishing the USS Arizona from the USS Arizona Memorial.

    I’m hardly an expert concerning memorials, mind you. When The Vietnam Memorial was in the planning stages I was with “The Black Gash of Shame” crowd. Then I actually saw it! But it’s the names and dates that make it a memorial – NOT the architecture.

    It would seem that 9/11 doesn’t merit more than some artists rendering?

  • Drug testing for welfare recipients in FL

    Old Trooper sends us a link to an article which reports that teh Florida governor signed legislation that would require welfare recipients to pass drug testing in order to continue benefits;

    “It’s the right thing for taxpayers,” Scott said after signing the measure. “It’s the right thing for citizens of this state that need public assistance. We don’t want to waste tax dollars. And also, we want to give people an incentive to not use drugs.”

    Under the law, which takes effect on July 1, the Florida Department of Children and Family Services will be required to conduct the drug tests on adults applying to the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The aid recipients would be responsible for the cost of the screening, which they would recoup in their assistance if they qualify. Those who fail the required drug testing may designate another individual to receive the benefits on behalf of their children.

    Yeah, that’s a good start – I’d also make them finish high school.

  • Coburn questions “adult babies” on SSI

    I find it hard to believe that it takes an inquiry from a US Senator to get the Social Security Administration to take a look at subsidies to people who act like babies for a living. (Washington Times link)

    Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican and the Senate’s top waste-watcher, asked the agency’s inspector general to look into 30-year-old Stanley Thornton Jr. and his roommate, Sandra Dias, who acts as his “mother,” saying it’s not clear why they are collecting Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits instead of working.

    “Given that Mr. Thornton is able to determine what is appropriate attire and actions in public, drive himself to complete errands, design and custom-make baby furniture to support a 350-pound adult and run an Internet support group, it is possible that he has been improperly collecting disability benefits for a period of time,” Mr. Coburn wrote in a letter Monday to Inspector General Patrick P. O’Carroll Jr.

    Yeah, but they have no problem taking money from veterans instead of cutting the metaphorical umbilical cord to these creeps. And oh, big baby Stanley responds to the Times;

    In an email response to The Washington Times, Mr. Thornton threatened to kill himself if his Social Security payments are taken away, and said the television episode showing him doing woodwork oversold his abilities.

    “You wanna test how damn serious I am about leaving this world, screw with my check that pays for this apartment and food. Try it. See how serious I am. I don’t care,” the California man said. “I have no problem killing myself. Take away the last thing keeping me here, and see what happens. Next time you see me on the news, it will be me in a body bag.”

    Stanley, don’t talk, just do it…save the taxpayers the hassle of an IG investigation, cuz we don’t care either.

  • Marine and 5-year-old rescue Mom from sexual assault

    Justin Gerou a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, ran downstairs to his neighbors apartment when he heard her screams, yanked an 18-year-old attacker off of her and wrestled with him until the police arrived and tasered Jonathan Aiken to finally subdue him. But Gerou wasn’t the only hero on the scene;

    …the woman’s 5-year-old son jumped on Aiken’s back. The child received two bruises after the man hit him in the face. “He was so brave. He jumped on top of the guy and started hitting him on the back of the head screaming as loud as he could to get off his mommy. He’s definitely my hero,” said the woman.

     

    Thanks to Tman for the link.

  • Drudge: USA freaks out

    Drudge’s front page looks like this;

    Old Trooper sent a link earlier of an article that said even the bomb-sniffing dogs are freaking out.

    I guess vigilance has turned into paranoia. It could be good, I guess, as long as no one gets hurt. I suppose it’s better than the indifference I’ve become more accustomed to over the years. It could be a result of losing confidence in law enforcement and the government agencies that are supposed to protect us looking at the immigration and gun control issues over the last few years.

  • Honor killing in Michigan

    SGT K sends this link from the Star Tribune about a Muslim honor killing in suburban Detroit;

    Alfetlawi is accused of killing Jessica Mokdad Saturday afternoon in her grandmother’s home. Warren Police Lt. Michael Torey said “the biological father was letting her be a little more Americanized than what [the defendant] wanted.”

    Alfetlawi confronted his stepdaughter at her grandmother’s home in Warren, where she was moving some things that had belonged to her great-grandmother. She was shot with a 9mm handgun and died at the scene, Torey said.

    The news report, lifted from Atlas Shrugs;

    20-year-old Woman Dead; Stepfather Charged with Murder: MyFoxDETROIT.com

  • The least of their problems

    According to the New York Post, Japanese broadcasters have decided not to run the last season of “24” television shows because one of the terrorists in that season dies of radiation poisoning;

    “With the many victims of the current disaster in Japan, and ongoing concerns about radiation leaks from the nuclear power station, TV Tokyo has decided not to show the planned final season and show season five instead,” the network said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.

    I understand the need to be sensitive, but I think the Japanese should spend more time concentrating on reality than some TV show.

  • Life in our third world country

    COB6 sent this link about a 21-year-old in Fayetteville who shot a man and his 7-year-old daughter after they hit the car he was driving (whether he owned the car or not is still in question);

    Police spokesman Gavin McRoberts said that Eric Samuel Jones Jr. rear-ended a white sedan, occupied by Darrick Kelly and his 7- and 4-year-old daughter, around 9:30 p.m. on Bragg Boulevard, near William Clark Road.

    Jones, 21, of 2515 Cattail Circle, ran to the sedan, pulled out a .22-caliber revolver and fired, striking Kelly three times and the 7-year-old girl four times, McRoberts said. The 4-year-old girl was unharmed.

    Apparently the wounds were not life-threatening. Too bad Kelly couldn’t have returned fire with something larger than a .22.

    In another story, a 31-year-old mother of four and self-proclaimed Spring Breaker, trashed a MacDonald’s in Panama City, FL because they were too slow with her drive-thru order;

    After waiting 20 minutes for the items, Smith said she flung the bag of food at workers with whom she had quarreled. Smith also copped to, among other things, throwing another customer’s drink at wokers [sic], pulling the manager’s hair, and throwing the coin jug.

    “We tore the Burger King up,” she remarked. “I don’t play no games.”

    Here’s some news for you, Kinisha, if you’re 31-years-old and a mother of four, you don’t get to call yourself a Spring Breaker. And if you behave like this, you shouldn’t be allowed to be a mother (especially if you take three of your children on your “Spring Break”)

    Who raised these people?