Bittersweet

am I the only one who has never even heard rumors of this?

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Tom the Redhunter has written one seriously thought provoking post on the state of the Iraq war.

Agree or disagree this is a must read.

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Have you heard the one about the woman advertising to lose her virginity? Somewhere between Burkas and sex surveys for 6th graders we’ve ended up with Sarah DiMuro. She’s a modern day woman child, a sexually liberated virgin looking for a good smelling man. Sadly that’s not a joke but one more pathetic look at the culture of today. Where sex sells everything from magazines to shampoo.
Seems I’m not the only one who finds this distastful and disgusting. Beth at MVRWC holds nothing back regarding what she thinks about it.

Sarah DiMuro, age 29, wants to lose her virginity before she turns 30, so she’s advertising for a man to give her a poke before this arbitrary deadline in November. I don’t give a rat’s ass if she’s a virgin or a slut or anything in between at any age, but WTF? Is it that much of a stigma to be a virgin? Is it so horrifying? And frankly, what kind of 29 year-old virgin suddenly decides to ditch her virginity by soliciting strangers in a magazine?

Makes you wonder what these Ladies would think?

Florence Kelley

Forget about women’s health and safety issues. Who needs the right to vote, get an education or earn fair pay. After all this is what is was all about right? Abortion as birth control and the divine right to practically “auction” off your virginity to earn your 15 minutes of ego gratification.

It’s not logical to wonder why so many young girls are messed up these days, nah we’ll just blame the men.

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From the Corner a British Headteacher whose career was destroyed 20 years ago for daring to speak out about the perils of multiculturalism.

There are no photographs of him pictured with his students. But that was all a long time ago now. Mr Honeyford, 72, “retired” more than 20 years ago as the headmaster of a school in Bradford. Or, at least, that was when he was vilified by politically correct race “experts”, was sent death threats, and condemned as a racist. Eventually, he was forced to resign and never allowed to teach again.

His crime was to publish an article in The Salisbury Review in 1984 doubting whether the children in his school were best served by the connivance of the educational authorities in such practices as the withdrawal of children from school for months at a time in order to go ‘’home” to Pakistan, on the grounds that such practices were appropriate to the children’s native culture. In language that was sometimes maladroit, he drew attention, at a time when it was still impermissible to do so, to the dangers of ghettoes developing in British cities.

Mr Honeyford thought that schools such as his own, the Drummond Middle School, where 95 per cent of the children were of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin, were a disaster both for their pupils and for society as a whole. He was a passionate believer in the redemptive power of education, and its ability to integrate people of different backgrounds and weld them into a common society. He then became notorious for, among other things, his insistence that Muslim girls should be educated to the same standard as everyone else.

Last week, 22 years on, he was finally vindicated. The same liberal establishment that had professed outrage at his views quietly accepted that he was, after all, right. Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, made a speech, publicly questioning the multiculturalist orthodoxies that, for so long, have acted almost as a test of virtue among “right-thinking” people.

… so now what? Now that they’re eyes have been opened and they see the problem how will they go about fixing it?

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Mark Steyn on forced submission-conversion to Islam

“Which means there’s good news and bad news. The bad news is that Islam will soon be able to enforce submission-conversion at the point of a nuke. The good news is that any religion that needs to do that is, by definition, a weak one. More than that, the fierce faith of the 8th century Muslim warrior has been mostly replaced by a lot of hastily cobbled-together flimflam bought wholesale from clapped out European totalitarian pathologies. It would have struck almost any other ruler of Persia as absurd and unworthy to be as pitifully obsessed with Holocaust denial as President Ahmadinejad is: talk about a bad case of Europhile cultural cringe. But in today’s mosques and madrassahs there is almost as little contemplation of the divine as there is in the typical Anglican sermon. The great Canadian columnist David Warren argues that Islam is desperately weak, that it has been “idiotized” by these obsolescent imports of mid-20th century Fascism. I’m not sure I’d go that far, but, if Washington had half the psy-ops spooks the movies like to think we have, the spiritual neglect in latterday Islam is a big Achilles’ heel just ripe for exploiting.”

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What I like about Kevin is that he may be the only other person on this planet as self analytical as I am. Between the two of us we give the phrase “pass the knife” a whole new meaning. I kid you not, if there is the slightest indication in either of us that something is not quite right within, you can be assured something is going to be sliced, diced and put under the microscope.

There is also his uncanny ability to jolt me out of my smug self righteous anger and force me to take a good long look at myself. He doesn’t even mean to do it, he’s writing about his own struggles yet it’s as though he is holding a mirror in front of me.

I recently said I hate you to someone I care about. I didn’t mean it or if I did it was only for that split second that I allowed it to come out of my mouth. I don’t like him very much right now, but I don’t hate him.

I was angry and I was hurt and made even angrier by the fact that I’d been hurt. Usually in such circumstances I can remain calm and I can find a way to shift the blame to myself. I tell myself that I do this in order to remain above the fray.

(Insert any cliché of your choice; here are a few that work for me)

I’m enlightened so perhaps if I’ve been hurt, it’s because I’ve done something to warrant it and I should examine this possibility and correct my bad behavior.

I’m an adult; I don’t need the drama of screaming, crying and throwing out accusations.

Every experience whether it’s good or bad is meant to be learned from.

I try to come off as being all cool and above it, but the truth is I’m full of shit. I do it because I despise conflict and I always feel guilty if I make someone feel bad, whether they deserve it or not.

This time however I wanted to be angry so I embraced it in all its glory. I’m talking about hurling cars into buildings like King Kong angry, or Glen Close boiling a bunny in soup pot angry. I needed that because the alternative was accepting that for the first time in my life, I was ready to give up, take to my bed and cry for the remainder of my life.

I didn’t like reading Kevin’s post because I don’t like it when he’s angry or upset. I know others love to read him when he’s on a rant, but I like the posts where he questions himself and you get to witness him work through an inner conflict. His willingness to take on himself gives me the inspiration to do the same.

Like me Kevin is on the never ending journey of trying to be the person he was created to be. It sounds easy but the truth is far from it and all it takes to derail you is giving in to the one thing you want so badly to not be. For Kevin that demon is rage and for me it is defeat. I kept thinking that if someone as strong as Kevin could give in to anger over something as ridiculous as another person’s opinion, then perhaps I better stay away from all sharp objects because I didn’t stand a chance of getting through this difficult time in my own life.

I kept reading his post over and over looking for the “real” root of his anger and in the process I found my own. I think like me Kevin doesn’t offer up words like admire, trust, love and respect very easily. When we find someone who we believe deserves those words though we aren’t a bit selfish in sharing them. But when that person by choice or circumstances shows us that they are far from the person we believed them to be, right or wrong we feel betrayed.

The object of Kevin’s anger let him down by not being the gentle spiritual guide who could by her experience show him how to navigate his way through the rough spots on his journey. He believes she has shown herself to be an apostle of hate instead of the beacon of light she may or may not have claimed to be.

The object of my anger, well he chose to embrace weakness instead of fighting for what he claims to hold sacred.

Kevin and I have to accept some blame here too. We took 2 fallible human beings and held them to a standard of perfection that neither of us has come close to ourselves.

That doesn’t mean we are wrong to be angry over what we perceive as betrayals, but we are wrong if we allow that anger to be all that we take from our experiences.

I could be wrong about Kevin, after all this is only my opinion, but I know I’m right about me. My anger was not fairly directed. I told myself I was angry because the person I trusted had hurt me, and betrayed my trust but the truth is I’m angry at him for having the audacity to be who he really is and not the person that I needed him to be.

I could claim innocence and justify my bitterness by saying that I only believed what he led me to believe, But I know that deep inside I always knew the truth. I just didn’t want to see it.

I see it clearly now and the need for rage has passed. What remains is only the mourning for what could have been.

It’s time to rescue the bunny from the pot and move on because if I’ve learned anything its that I am responsible for me, for who I am and who I will become and I have no intention of embracing weakness or giving in to defeat.

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