Envy Another Man's Body

Cowards

are not yet acted on the matter
Virginia Tech,
mainly because, in a saner world, this would not
a certain kind of accident
which you should take a
deployed. Yesterday, however (...) I was asked
what I thought and I realized they
increasingly annoyed and disturbed by
manner and tone in which the story was reported by the media
. (...) Monday night on Fox News
, Geraldo Rivera
proclaimed that we must accept the fact that, in this horrible
world in which we live, our "children"
must be "protected."
First: are not "children."
Students at Virginia Tech were
and women (if you pardon the expression)
now grown men. Would be considered as adult in

any other company in the entire history of our planet.
Okay, we live in a culture selectively
childishness, in which
twentysomethings are "children" if they serve
in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but "
grown people" capable of making rational decisions
if you lie down on the carpet in the Office
Oval Office of the President Clinton. Nevertheless, it is extremely dangerous to consider

fully grown adults as
of children must be protected. We should raise our children rather

making him understand that in the course of life,
there will be times when we must protect
alone, and that, in a "horrible,"
there may even be times when
must choose whether
protect themselves or others. The fact that, in those first crucial seconds
where you have to make a decision,
only an elderly Holocaust survivor, Professor Librescu
, he instinctively understood that
had a duty to act
offers a truly sad
of our situation.
Second: the cost of a company
"protection" of eternal "children" is too high.
Every December 6th, the date of my personal
recurrence, down the flags at half mast
and call into question the entire male gender
Canadian
responsibility of the "Montreal Massacre" when
fourteen students from the École Polytechnique
were killed by Marc Lepine (born Gamil Gharbi
, son of an Algerian Muslim
who beat his wife, even if these
news does not read newspapers). The image
which qualifies the current Canadian male
is not that of Marc Lepine / Gharbi Gamil
but the professors and students
present in that class, who, when that
lone gunman ordered
leave the classroom, have meekly obeyed,
abandoned to their sad fate of their fellow female students
studies - an act of cowardice

that would have been unimaginable in any other culture throughout human history
. The "men" were waiting in the hallway and
, even when they
started hearing the first shots, have not done anything
. Then, when the shots are over and Gharbi is
came out of the classroom and went
front, they have again moved a finger
. Whatever may be the other
all its faults, it certainly can not say that the male Canadian

is characterized by an excess of testosterone.
I always thought that America is different.
On September 11 they have been testing.
The only good news of that terrible day
was the reaction of passengers who
not have been content to follow the old procedures pedestrian

Seventy years of hijackings on
but acted as individuals born free. A few months later, when Richard Reid
bent to try to

detonate explosives hidden in his shoes at that moment
even the French have had the courage to attack him and put
ko.
not do good to our children
them grow in belief that you can entrust everything to
security blanket
government. The "protection" style
Geraldo Rivera is a delusion: when something suddenly goes wrong
-
on a plane took off from Logan in a serene
morning of September or in a peaceful
university campus - there is no ready status
to protect you. You yourself will be called
to make a decision. As said
my distinguished compatriot Kathy Shaidle:
"When we say 'we do not know what
we would do in similar circumstances',
we only accept
as cowardice the default position, attitude
normal and automatic." I
seems more accurate to say that the default position is a liability
terribly unnerving. The lonely misfits

killer with delusions are fortunately rare. But this passivity
hateful and corrosive
is ubiquitous and, unlike Assassin
psychopath, is an existential threat to society
.

Kate Playground Sur Iphone

Social Inequality U.S.

In the end they made George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to put the clock back 80 years and return to the social geography of America before the Great Depression. This is revealed by U.S. income in 2005 (the latest available): in that year, the richest 300,000 Americans have declared an income equal to that accumulated by the 150 million poorest Americans: namely, 0.1% (l ' one per thousand) at the top of the income scale earned as 50% which is below, in other words: on average each person in the lead group earned 440 times more than any member of the queue: a difference not seen since 1928, from the first note of the Great Depression. Such a concentration wealth is not seen perhaps since the days of ancient Egypt. At least from the point of view of income, the Republicans are so managed to cancel the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other than Iraq! Here is the real "Mission Accomplished" Bush. Real Robin Hood in reverse, he snatched the needy and enriched the billionaires. This raid is part of the richest game in 1970, but has accelerated with Ronald Reagan in the 80s and has plummeted in the past six years: 1998 to 2005 0.1% richest 50% increased their share of the total. The beatings have taken not only the poor but also the mythical "middle class": in 2005 the total income of Americans rose by one amazing 9%, but that 90% (ie almost all) of Americans fell by 0.9%, and this in a year of extraordinarily fat cows, and even of obese cows! It means that all the growth (and the offsetting income lost by the majority) went to the remaining 10% which is only about half of the jelly cake (48.5%). It's a real social cannibalism: in 1970 the richest tenth of Americans only appropriate (sic) of one third of total income, not by half. The finest perversion of this mechanism is that not only digs a chasm between rich and poor, but opens up a chasm between the rich and super-rich: income growth of 1% richest was ten times higher than the 10% most wealthy. Today, the wealthiest 1% is put in your pocket more than a fifth of all income American (21.8%), 2% more than the year before and more than double in 1980. Even better is the richest one per thousand in 2005 the average annual income richest 1% was $ 5.6 million (+908,000), while the one per thousand was 25, $ 7 million (+ 4.4 million). These figures are so astronomical that it is difficult to grasp its meaning. So let's put it this way: the 30,000 richest Americans have an annual income that exceeds the GNP of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru combined (numbering more than 270 million people). And 30,000 people are contained in a small town like Orissa. The irony does not stop there: the Revenue Office admits that the income of the wealthier classes are understated, because while 98% of the income of employees vetted by the tax authorities, it is estimated that only 70% of the declared income from business and trade. In these nude figures is the full extent of the "reactionary revolution" carried out by the Republicans (very feebly opposed by the Democrats). If he were alive, the Marquis de Sade correct the incitement in his famous "George, one more effort,"