So You Think You Can...

My favorite TV show is back on... So You Think You Can Dance. It's not that I'm a fan of "The Dance". But I do love the freak show... the schadenfreude. It's much better than American Idol even. At first, it was jaw dropping -- amazing. These obviously talentless people would audition, and when told they had no talent would blow a fuse! They go ballistic. Have a conniption. Or melt down. Cuss and give the finger to the camera. How DARE anyone tell ME that I can't dance (sing, etc)! This first show of the season there were two such delusionals. The first, a girl who was chubby, awkward, and couldn't dance to save her life. I seem to recall that she said she was a dance instructor. When she left she was crying on the phone to someone about how the people here were so mean. Next up was Sex, as he calls himself. Motto: "I AM the best." Somehow saying it makes it true. Nigel, the producer and head judge straight out told him and his whacko mother that he's delusional.

Where did all these nutters come from? I have a theory. For some time now we've been told about the supreme importance of self-esteem. Teachers embraced this philosophy whole-heartedly. All the flower needs is a little water and it'll blossom. So take your typical ugly, awkward, and not-too-bright kid and tell him how utterly swell she is. And of course, the further behind they are, the dumber, the uglier, the more awkward... why, of course they get extra heap'n helpings of esteem. Pile it on! Extra strokes for Harold! You know Harold. Yes, that, Harold. Makes perfect sense if you've bought into the concept. Result? A now young adult who has been fed a steady diet of "You are so special" for years suddenly meets reality. That is, others who for some reason (they're just plain mean! They're jealous!) don't agree to blow sunshine up Miss I. M. Special's ass.

I've been studying this for some years now. I first took note of it when Kipland Kinkel killed fellow students in 1998. The scenario has played out many times. Anger at fellow students who don't see him as special. His teachers tells him he's special. His parents tell him he's special. Damn those mean students! How dare they not validate his specialness! Why, they deserve what they get!

What is the origin of this madness? I don't know for sure but one connection is fairly obvious -- a fundamental, and intentional, misinterpretation of the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." This declaration of course meant that the new country did not recognize different classes of people endowed with different rights -- i.e. commoners and nobility or a caste system. All people were equal before the state. Equal rights. The left has morphed this statement of political egalitarianism into one of physical egalitarianism. There actually are people who refuse to admit that everyone is NOT born with the same talents, intelligence, looks, skills, strength, etc. It would be Politically Incorrect to do so. We are all created equal, but somewhere along the line you just lost your sense of equality so let's give you some extra strokes. Good idea. Well, at least it makes for interesting television.

So, tell us how you really feel...

I love it when people actually tell you how they feel. At the 2007 Miss Universe Pageant, held in Mexico City, the audience booed and heckled Miss USA. Why? Because she accidentally fell down on stage? Well, no, and in fact any cultured audience would take that as an opportunity to show empathy. But I said cultured. This is the culture of La Raza and "We didn't cross the border, the border crossed us!" Because the majority of American citizens are opposed to unchecked illegal immigration, to the dilution of American commonality and identity, to increased welfare spending and corresponding taxation, to conversion of taxpayer funded hospitals to free clinics for another country's citizens (and the domino effect as money-loosing ERs are closed), to the massive importation of Third World behavior, crime, and disease (there ARE reasons why it's better to live in First World countries!), to the basic unfairness to legal immigrants who play by the rules... America is booed.

Thank you, citizens of Mexico, many soon to be illegal residents of the US, and possibly citizens of the US, for telling us how you really feel.

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Miss USA's spill not taken in stride by Mexico City audience


Doing the Booing Americans Won't Do by Michelle Malkin

Night at the Nauseum

I watched this stinker with my daughter the other night. I like some of Ben Stiller's work but anyone could have played his role in this movie.

Not end of review.

OK. I admit that I tend to be overly serious. That fault surely had something to do with my wholesale embracing of Objectivism years back and it was probably not the best thing for me in that sense. But my awareness of liberalism allows me to often see it where other's shrug it off and say that I'm making too much of it. Well, so be it, but here it is:

In Night at the Museum, there's a scene where Stiller confronts Attila the Hun who wants to tear him limb from limb. Stiller, psychoanalyzes Attila, pointing out that his need to hurt others comes from being hurt himself as a child. While Attila's dad was out plundering and pillaging (didn't mention raping), poor little Attila was abandoned at home. Well, this leads to a realization and subsequent bawling like a baby by Atilla who now is a nice guy who wants to be friends. Hilarity ensues...

Well, yes, it's a comedy movie and not to be taken seriously. BUT, let's face it -- this is a pillar of belief of liberals. No one is really implacably evil. Why, they're just misunderstood and society is to blame. All it takes is getting in communication with your enemies, stop doing things that make them mad, and in no time at all they're gonna put their differences aside and become our friends. This is the basis of their so-called Foreign Policy. It is how they feel about murderers and rapists. Prison doesn't rehabilitate they say so they should be freed. OR, they claim that terrible criminals HAVE been rehabilitated and so should be freed. The criminal, Tookie Williams, who murdered a 7/11 employee execution style must be released because he has written children's books in prison. He's not bad anymore so what's all this about paying one's debt to society? They believe in the absolute workability of rehabilitation, yet no one has come up with any reliable, proven way to rehabilitate anyone. Threat of punishment works when the threat is severe and actually carried out. No one executed has ever committed another crime. Separation of criminals from the public obviously protects the public. But none of that matters to liberals, all that matters is rehabilitation. They truly believe in it and that is the basis of the joke in this movie. There, I've said it.