Summum Bonum

From the Global Post, news of Sweden’s latest taxpayer-funded assault on the family.

Do they realize it’s not the 1970s anymore?

Anti-immigrant politician Geert Wilders was acquitted of “hate speech” charges in the Netherlands.

It’s a sign of his opponents’ desperation that their next move is to appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, a thoroughly discredited bad joke of a body with a history of including, and supporting, brutal dictators who themselves ruthlessly suppress political and racial minorities.

So now the Palestinians are angry with Egypt because the “opening” of the Rafah crossing hasn’t been what they hoped for.

” ‘It seems nothing has changed and we are still locked in this big jail,’ said Ghassan al-Jaabri, a 35-year-old man who originally had been scheduled to visit his in-laws in Ukraine on June 11. …
‘We have about 20,000 people on our waiting list,’ said Salma Barka, director of the Palestinian side of the Rafah terminal. With only 300 people crossing each day, it will be impossible to clear the backlog anytime soon, he said.

‘The solution should come from the Egyptian side. They should speed up the process and keep the promises they made a few weeks ago,’ he said.”

Gee, it’s almost as if the Egyptians really  didn’t care about the Palestinians–except for their use as propaganda pawns against Israel.

One commenter asks, “I wonder if this article is AP’s blatant attempt to rile up support for the upcoming ‘hamasitarian’ flotilla,” meaning the planned aid flotilla headed for Gaza–which now won’t include the Mavi Marmara.

Please read Jonathan Last’s review (in the WSJ) of Mara Hvistendahl’s new book on sex-selective abortions in the developing world in the WSJ. Then read the book.

What makes Hvistendahl’s facts all the more devastating is that she still wants to defend abortion as a right, and wrestles with the inconvenient truths of the moral and demographic disasters “choice” has wrought.

As Mr. Last concludes:

“Despite the author’s intentions, ‘Unnatural Selection’ might be one of the most consequential books ever written in the campaign against abortion. It is aimed, like a heat-seeking missile, against the entire intellectual framework of ‘choice.’ For if ‘choice’ is the moral imperative guiding abortion, then there is no way to take a stand against ‘gendercide.’ Aborting a baby because she is a girl is no different from aborting a baby because she has Down syndrome or because the mother’s ‘mental health’ requires it. Choice is choice. One Indian abortionist tells Ms. Hvistendahl: ‘I have patients who come and say, “I want to abort because if this baby is born it will be a Gemini, but I want a Libra.” ‘

This is where choice leads. This is where choice has already led. Ms. Hvistendahl may wish the matter otherwise, but there are only two alternatives: Restrict abortion or accept the slaughter of millions of baby girls and the calamities that are likely to come with it.”

The New York Times with a gender-bending story that could have come straight out of the 1970s. These types of stories are always highly selective and carefully scripted–to the point of dishonesty. The goal of such pieces is always ideological, so that families have to be carefully portrayed as “normal” in ever respect except the gender confusion.

But that’s never the way it is in real life. When our child encountered friends in middle school who declared they were gay or lesbian, or tried to provoke people by wearing eye-catching costumes etc., the back-story ALWAYS, ALWAYS included some form of family dysfunction—frequently a bitter divorce, an absent (physically or emotionally) father and/or dominant, angry and controlling mother. Sometimes the ex-wife deliberately encourages “gay” behavior in the son as a way of striking at the ex-husband, or at what she conceives of as typical male behavior because her experiences have been negative.

Far from “expressing their individuality,” these emotional orphans are being abandoned and/or manipulated, and are doing the best they can in a horrible situation. They are often desperately seeking any kind of positive adult attention they can get. Then, when they develop eating disorders, depression, cut themselves or are suicidal, they are used to blame “society”–in other words, they are further exploited and abused cynically.

But ideologues don’t really care about real people, any more than the angry, overwhelmed or deluded parents of these victimized kids.  So these inconvenient facts have to be censored out of the airbrushed NYT and gay propaganda versions.

After a painstaking study, Newsweek concludes: Money alone can’t fix our schools.

No doubt their next investigative blockbuster investigation will conclude that pro wrestling might be fixed.

Aren’t you glad that “old-media” organizations are keeping the investigative flame alive?

Just in case anyone’s still pooh-poohing horror stories about the British National Health Service as Republican propaganda, here’s a useful reminder of what socialized medicine looks like.

The next time you read a ponderous, thumb-sucking, brow-furrowing piece about how the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, criagslist, YouTube, etc., are driving down print ad rates, making us read less, and otherwise driving the decline of traditional media, consider this:

If it were not for the National Enquirer, we would not know about the John Edwards affair.

On that note, the New York Times has apparently “scrubbed” the now-infamous comment made by Jill Abramson in an unguarded moment after becoming the Times’s new editor, when she said, “In my house growing up, the Times substituted for religion,..if the Times said it, it was the absolute truth.”

What’s your new motto going to be, Jill? “Defending the pure of thought from news not fit to print”?

You can’t make this stuff up.

From the Guardian, news that Britain’s carbon tax threatens green research itself.

“[T]he Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire, a facility for research into almost limitless carbon-free energy…faces an estimated £400,000 payment next year, raising the spectre of job losses and operational cuts. ‘Considering our research is aimed at producing zero-carbon energy, it seems ironic and perverse to clobber us with an extra bill,’ a senior scientist at the lab said. ‘We have to use electricity to run the machine and there is no way of getting around that.’ ”

And of course, they’re doing the expected: “The unexpected impact of the government’s carbon reduction commitment (CRC) scheme is so severe that scientists and research funders have lobbied ministers for an exemption to reduce the bills.”

Look for environmental groups to quietly seek similar exemptions. After all, they’re doing Gaia’s work bullying the rest of us carbon-wasting slobs.

Sound familiar? Obamacare exemptions, anyone?

Please pray for these kids, whose parents seem determined to do everything possible to screw them up.

“But Stocker and Witterick’s choices haven’t always made life easy for their kids. Though Jazz likes dressing as a girl, he doesn’t seem to want to be mistaken for one. He recently asked his mother to let the leaders of a nature center know that he’s a boy. And he chose not to attend a conventional school because of the questions about his gender. Asked whether that upsets him, Jazz nodded.”

Unspeakably sad.