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Brooke Greenberg - An Eternal Baby?? - 2005
Most of you have heard of progeria, the rare genetic condition that causes children to exhibit symptoms that resemble aging. Well, this is a story about a girl who is, in a way, stuck in time; she now should be an adolescent but still has the physical and mental development of a toddler. This news piece was done when she was 12, but today, at 16, she still looks the same.

The girl is the only known person in the world with such a condition and doctors are stumped as to the cause. However, they believe that studying her case may provide insight into the aging process.

Barbara "Call Me Senator" Boxer Shows Disrespect to Brigadier General
In this video, the odious, imperious Barbara Boxer takes offense at being addressed as "ma'am" by a very respectful brigadier general. She actually interrupted his testimony to condescendingly demand that he call her by her title, "senator." Well, I could think of a few other things to call her.

It seems to elude this very ignorant politician that military men are trained to refer to superiors as "sir" and "ma'am"; it is subordinates who are addressed with titles (e.g., private, lieutenant). And Dictionary.com defines the term in this manner: "ma'am n. Used as a form of polite address for a woman." So, Boxer should realize . . . . Well, then again, maybe she's right. Maybe "ma'am" isn't an appropriate thing to call her.

Boxer is a typical feminist woman, the kind who would probably get upset if you held a door for her (I know what I would do with the door, too). If I had been the general, I would have replied to her request with, "Yes, ma'am" and then continued without missing a beat.

The Violence among Homosexuals

Judith Reisman, the intrepid culture warrior and sex researcher, has an excellent piece at WorldNetDaily.com titled "Gay-on-gay 'hate crimes.'"  In it she documents how there actually is far more homosexual-on-homosexual violence than the straight-on-homosexual variety.

This comes as no surprise to me, as I have long been aware of the rampant violence among homosexuals and lesbians.  In fact, I remember reading a statistic many years ago pertaining to self-reporting of violence in sexual relationships.  To wit: while only 11 percent of normal couples reported violence in their relationships, a whopping 53 percent (give or take a point; I read this years ago) of lesbians did.  This isn't surprising, of course, as lesbians are characterized by anger.  Anyway, here are two paragraphs from Reisman's article:

Violence is part of any transient, chemically abusing, lust-based culture, and it is only natural that the homosexual movement strives to hide the truth. However, data from the mainstream homosexual weekly the Advocate, confirms the findings of Charles B Johnson and myself in “Partner Solicitation Characteristics as an Expression of Male Sexual Orientation.” That is, once sexually violated by men, boys often grow up to retaliate against men, even if they "sleep with the enemy."

The Advocate reports 21 percent of its upscale, largely white, male respondents were sex abuse victims by age 15. Since a large number of boys are victimized between age 15 and 18, this brings the angry boy victim population into the millions. In fact, with roughly a 17 percent boy sex abuse population, the estimates of boy victims are between 6 and 8 million, some might say, walking time bombs.

Read the whole piece here.

The New Obama Song: "Obama Man" by Greg Morton
While Barack Obama's rending of America certainly is no laughing matter, this song about the subject certainly is clever and amusing.  Someone sent it to me just a little while ago, and it did give me some laughs.  It's sung to the tune of "Candy Man."  Enjoy.

Does Obama Have a "Mental Disorder"?

By Selwyn Duke

Shortly before the presidential election, there was an interesting article written by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.  Someone had sent it to me via email when it was first penned, but what brought it to mind again was that Michael Savage discussed it on his radio show last night.  Vaknin propounds the thesis that Barack Obama isn't just your typical liberal politician, but that he may actually suffer from Narcissistic Personality Disorder.  Just so you know, this would mean that he has the same spiritual defect as Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, Joseph Stalin and a whole host of other maniacal despots.

Obama Press Conference: The Gay Lady Strikes Again

By Selwyn Duke

So, the Teleprompter-in-Chief held a press conference yesterday to mark his 100th day in office.  And I understand that no one in the media fainted.  Of course, when I hear all these stories about people passing out during Obama's appearances, I can't help but wonder if it isn't just that his soporific speeches aren't quite as riveting as the hype would suggest.

BILL MAHER: Foolish Rambling about Global Warming
This segment from Bill Maher's show is a good example of what the sheeple are exposed to, and why they are sheeple. As for Maher, he's living proof of why a little knowledge is dangerous. A more smug man there never was, yet he is as nonintellectual as they come.

How to Handle a Child Brainwashed with Environmentalist Propaganda

We all know about how children today are being indoctrinated with environmentalist propaganda.  Well, there is a very distressing but not surprising article here about how a survey has shown that one in three American preteens fear an environmental apolcalypse.  But my focus right now is not on the piece but on a comment left under it by a parent.  This individual, who goes by the handle "Reformed Environ-Mental," offered some great advice to parents who find that their children are bringing environmentalist dogma home with them from school.  Here is what he said:

Audio Snap Commentary — The Real Reason the Government Won't Take the Tarp Money Back

— The government's goal isn't the creation of a new economic system but the resurrection of a very, very old one. In fact, it's one of the oldest institutions of man.

Nationalizing the Newspapers

By Selwyn Duke

Quite a while ago, when all the bailout mania was just getting started, I mentioned on a radio show that the left soon might propose aiding their public relations team, the newspaper industry.  Well, it wasn't but a few weeks later that a story on the subject broke, and I wrote about it here.  And now this movement seems to be picking up steam.  As Ann Shibler at JBS.org tells us :