As readers over at CLO are aware I left Colorado almost a year ago. I figured I was moving to the most close thing to heaven that I could imagine. For a Hunter and Fisherman at least .
Little did I know…
Apparently, since a vile and roundly condemned murder that was committed on a gay person… The entire state has gone insane! Also called “politically correct!”
Is this collective guilt in action? Hell if I know, but I digress. Not a hell of a lot of Catholics up here, at least from what I can see…
So then, where am I going with this? I walked into the IGA Foods Store yesterday to get some chow for grazing…And this…? Drag Queen, or Cross Dresser, call him, uh Her what you will ( JM pleases fill us all in on this weeks proper vernaciular for a man dressed as a woman.) The person screamed at us* that we are all a bunch of back country “Sheep fuc*ing Americans!” and then said that he was returning to France, where, “Men can be MEN!”
He/She then ran outside, and disappeared.
This person was not refused service, or anything else that I am aware of. Is this the “Gay Agenda?” For some reason, I just don’t think so.
So people from whatever background hate America for..? What?
Do you think we Americans take for granted how good we have it here in some respects? Do you think there may be a reason why some coming back home from other countries learn that Americans aren’t so bad after all?
Unlike Europe, Americans seem to need expert guidance for everything, from how to wash clothes properly, cook an omelette, invest in shares or have sex. Every small aspect of their life seems to be guided by research findings, which are often doctored by the media to fit corporate and government interests. If they travel, they have travel staff and books giving them directions and guidance for every small aspect of their trip.
When I speak of Americanophobia and Ignorance, the above is what I’m talking about. It’s almost sad how grossly misinformed these people are. But I believe this is part of the “Americans are so spoiled, stupid and entitled” that they often speak of on their blog – hence my bringing it up here. And being that it’s so far-out-there and wickedly funny, I couldn’t but hesitate to share!
Maybe some of you can help me out – or bring perspective here in case I’m genuinely missing out on something.
What is “expert guidance”?
Expert guidance to do laundry? How can I get an expert to come to my home and show me how to make my husbands dirty socks from years ago look brand new? Any takers? A laundry expert? Let me check the Yellow Pages….
To cook an omelette? Oh, sorry… I forgot. In Europe, people are born knowing how to cook an omelette. Europeans don’t need instruction from anyone. It’s all innate. Damn they’re smart! Is there an “expert way” versus the traditional way that I’m missing out on here?
Surely, human beings from all over the world learn from their parents… But an expert guidance to cook? What in the world would that entail? I’m sincerely curious, here. My mother, for example, loves to cook and she’ll watch some cooking shows on TV to get IDEAS, but she’s good enough a cook to be able to do it HER way. Even beginner cooks have to get some ideas from somewhere in the case that they didn’t have a mother kind enough to show them the ropes.
Has any American tried cooking Japanese Ozoni before? I taped my friend cooking it in Japan so that one day I can make it on my own.
Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! I am guilty as charged!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a stupid American!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Expert guidance to have sex? There are people all over the world that have problems with erections, having an orgasm, have performance anxiety, and have problems in that area in general. I know for a fact that *some* sexual abuse victims have a hard time enjoying sex again following the horrific event of being raped and need intense therapy.
I’m not stupid enough to believe that problems with sexual function is an “American phenomenon”. What are these poor people supposed to do? Stay a virgin or unsexed the rest of their lives as it would be “too American to seek help”??? That falls under psychological and sometimes physical problems.
I reckon that in Europe, there exists no psychiatrist, psychologists, proper doctors, self-help books of any kind, or knowledge of PTSD. No sex therapists? Sorry. I’m not gullible enough to fall for that.
Investing in shares? How do you not get expert guidance in doing so? Obviously the author of that blog has never 1) lived in the states, and 2) never needed to invest shares in this country. Most people that help are crooks, so without guidance, we lose our hard-earned monies.
Every small aspect of our lives need expert guidance? Really? How? Where? Why? When? And proof please that this is “all-American”? How compared to 194 other countries out there? Yoga started in INDIA. It is medicinal both to aid physical and emotional problems. There is ALWAYS a yoga pose that can be done for every little ailment one may have. And that’s no exaggeration! So, I suppose that citizens living in India are Americanized – all the way back from thousands of years ago before America’s birth???
When my doctor told my husband to cut his toenails from the top and not the sides, does this make him one of those “typical yanks” that need “expert guidance”? I’m genuinely confused.
Apparently we all research too much. We want to make the best out of our lives. We want to do things right. Perhaps, we don’t have the time to “guess at things” or can afford to play “trial-an-error” when we’ve got a family to raise and both mom and dad are working through the day?
Ironically enough, the above excerpt from the zany chauvinists puts Americans in a GOOD light, if you think about it.
It shows that …
We are perfectionists, or don’t like to make mistakes
We can get VERY passionate about our hobbies
We are humble enough to seek knowledge and ask questions
We are curious and have a deep thirst for knowledge
Research keeps us broad-minded and away from having narrow perspectives
We are critical thinkers and encourage opinions from other sources
We are INNOVATORS because we always find the best ways to do things!
Yes. You can look at it that way too, you know. How is ignorance cured? By learning. This is as basic as breathing. Who knows? Maybe Americans are the most intelligent people around? Ok. That may be a far stretch, but it’s something to think about.
The most important lesson I brought back from high school and college is the importance of asking questions. This reminds me of a favorite Chinese proverb:
“He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb
If you read Bruce Bawer’s “Hating America”, it just reinforces how Americans aren’t afraid to admit to ignorance. The difference between an American and an Americanophobic snobby European is that while we are both ignorant, Americans are honest enough to admit it. Just because one hides their ignorance doesn’t mean they’re not ignorant.
At least where I have received my education, my teachers generally encouraged classroom participation as in answering “on the spot” questions from our teachers, being encouraged to ask questions, and being able to debate and discuss current events or whatever the topic at hand was. Of course, it depended on the class I took, but philosophy, psychology, history, logic, law, criminology and the like brought on mental stimulation. The mental stimulation comes from learning to think for oneself which in turn allows for one to use “critical thinking” over the “herd-mentality” or the “because she said so” thinking.
I don’t know how other country’s citizens are taught in school, but if classroom participation and raising your hand is an American phenomenon, than our education really isn’t as bad as made out to be. I’d rather become intelligent or a critical thinker than be good at solving a calculus equation, know exactly how long it takes to get from Mars to Venus, or learn how to memorize a lot of stuff that won’t be utilized later on in life. Priority and practicality is key.
Does anyone else not find it curious that we are criticised for not reading enough, and then when we do read, we are criticised? I mean, we read travel guides, travel books and carry them to Europe and other countries. But the Canadians, Japanese, Brazilians, New Zealanders, Moroccans, Jamaicans, South Koreans, Chinese, Mexicans, and Colombians don’t? I reckon the creation of tour guide services and travel books were created just for dumb Americans?
Actually, it is more common for the Japanese to use tour services when on vacation than Americans, but that’s a whole ‘nother topic.
I like Americans very much. In fact, I adore them. Americans are an open book. We wear our hearts on our sleeves. It is evident by this that we care less compared to other countries about what others think of us. We are confident. We are also down to earth. What makes me proud of my own people in general is the fact that we are open and don’t hide our weaknesses and ignorance. We don’t have as many airs about us, comparatively. There is a lot wrong with my country, but this is where I love this place so much. It’s a place where people are allowed and even encouraged to be human.
This is American-style freedom.
That totally rocks!
Speaking of what rocks, some of the best “expert advice” I received was when I was living in Japan. If anyone has lived in Japan for any length of time, people would realize that Japan and the US aren’t different in this regard at all. Actually, believe it or not, despite a lot of differences, the Japanese, S. Koreans, Canadians, the Chinese and the Americans share A LOT of cultural similarities when it comes to the so called “expert guidance culture”. Wanna bet that this includes Europeans too? That’s why it bugs the hell out of me to hear so much redundant ignorance coming from the flapping traps of the over-confident and self-aggrandizing Hitler sympathizers hiding behind a veil of puritanism.
Because of this blog, I am realizing how much I had been taking for granted in my country. Americans are honest. And I cherish honesty – even if its something I don’t want to hear. I am damned lucky to live among honest folk. (No, not our politicians, but the average man in the street)
So, Aby and co., thank you for this opportunity to make me even more grateful toward my fellow compatriots. It’s one of those benefits of Americanophobia that I speak of. You alienate us whilst bonding Americans and making us learn things about ourselves that we should feel proud of. Thank you for the cultural comparisons.
Bill O’Reilly’s viewers are dumber than Jon Stewart’s.
Liberals wish. Democrats like to think that voters who sympathize with their views are smarter than those who vote Republican. But a 2007 Pew survey found that the knowledge level of viewers of the right-wing, blustery “The O’Reilly Factor” and the left-wing, snarky “The Daily Show” is comparable, with about 54 percent of the shows’ politicized viewers scoring in the “high knowledge” category.
So what about conservative talk-radio titan Rush Limbaugh’s audience? Surely the ditto-heads are dumb, right? Actually, according to a survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center, Rush’s listeners are better educated and “more knowledgeable about politics and social issues” than the average voter.
Wait. Just a minute there. I have a problem with this. Republicans who are reading this article (with goo goo eyes thinking they’ve scored another point against the Obamabots) that has been spread wildly about the internet are getting the false impression that Liberals only watch Liberal media and comedy shows, and that Conservatives only watch Conservative pundits and the non-existing Conservative comedy programs (although SNL can take some pretty hilarious diggs at the Libs…).
I watch Bill O’Reilly (he’s really a Liberal, anyway), Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter (she’s so magnetic!), and so do many other Liberals. I also listen to Mike Gallagher, Michael Medved, and Jim Bohannan on Republican talk radio. Many conservatives also watch Leftist comedy on Comedy Central and on other networks: The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, SNL, Mad TV and what have you? I cannot imagine that my friends, family and I are the only ones who listen to shows “out of their politosphere” in the media. It just can’t be a coincidence.
Republican talk radio is very refreshing and entertaining to get alternative views even if I don’t agree with them. The callers are interesting too. And some conservatives listen to Liberal news to have something to talk about in their blogs. Sometimes we just love to watch what we HATE to listen to. I don’t know the psychology behind that. But we do this! (Micheal Medved, however, can get pretty nauseating with his inane pollyannistic view of the world).
Anyway, with that said, I take that article with a grain of salt – especially since it’s from ***gasps*** THE LIBERAL MEDIA! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah, you Republicans = Fail.
My advice to my friendly neocon readers:Stop watching our fucking funny as hell comedy and tree-hugging pundits. You are polluting our brain pool!!!
The breaking story today (March 27, 2003) was that a few Canadian troops
were fighting on the ground in Iraq. This, however, is only the tip of the
iceberg. The truth is that Canada stands as the third strongest contributor
to US forces in the Iraq war, after Britain and Australia.
Isn’t it amazing how Canada can contribute so much to this war without even
being involved?
On March 25, the US Ambassador to Canada, Paul Cellucci, told the Economic
Club in Toronto that he was “disappointed” that Canada failed to join in
the US-led war against Iraq. His was one of a huge chorus of voices
critiquing Canada for refusing to participate in the “Coalition of the
Willing.” (This was not the first time a US Ambassador to Canada meddled in
our affairs. See the note at the end of this email about the US-backed
regime change in Canada 40 years ago.)
The most significant statement in Ambassador Cellucci’s speech was his
observation that Canada is currently giving more military support to the US
for its war against Iraq than most of the nations that are officially
supporting the war!
I’ve known about this for quite some time, but took the opportunity to mention it now after having read this. Now, Canadian troops and I can’t be the only ones who know about this, right?
Call me Zontar. You can find my blog here. Zontar welcomes all to click on his link, and I promise you will be sore amazed at the intelligence and wonder therein.
I was born many years ago on Xenon, a lovely planet in the Houyhnmian Galaxy, approximately 3000 trillion light years from planet Earth. I excelled in Dominoes as a youngster and was named top champion for all galaxies as a tot. I grew up into a beautiful young alien and married 34,223 beautiful wives, all of whom are extremely fertile and blessed me with 158,233 children.
I wrote this at the request of my wife. I would like to share my experiences in your country, that you call “America”. If you dislike my comments, please respond to this post and Zontar will make every effort to take vengeance on the foolish mortal who dares to imply that Zontar is anything less than a God!!!
Please allow Zontar to introduce his magnificent self before I expound on my experiences in your country. Zontar is a highly complex, highly intelligent being, and does not expect ignorant mortals to comprehend his multifaceted and superior intellect. Therefore, I have pend the following missive in order to explain the way of God to man. I don’t expect you to understand all of it. All I expect is that you accept it fully and believe that Zontar is the supreme being of the whole universe. Hail Zontar!
Dear Earth Humans,
I thought you might like to know a few things about Zontar.
1. Zontar loves to eat glabrob in all forms, whether animal, vegetable, mineral or fecal.
2. Zontar does not understand your aversion to cockroaches. He loves cockroaches, especially the flying type. They are excellent company when you are down and need a shoulder to cry on. I feel that if you understood their language, you would also love them. How would you feel if every time you saw someone, they recoiled in disgust and horror?
3. Zontar likes long walks on the beach.
4. Zontar likes candlelight dinners.
5. Zontar likes eating pussy cats.
6. Zontar became lord of all universes at tender age of 17 when the former lord of universe was sent to prison for exposing himself to a convent full of nuns.
7. Zontar is top chef on Xenon.
8. Zontar loves all races and species. Earthlings are nice, but Xenonians are the best. Floating penises and vaginas floating in the air all the time. It doesn’t get better than that.
9. Zontar knows all, sees all, understands all. Ask him. He will answer all, for a nominal sum.
10. Zontar has very bad breath and very malodorous gaseous emissions from rectum.
11. Zontar is very beautiful and wastes too much time admiring himself in mirror.
12. Zontar is immensely attractive to opposite sex. Sometimes this gets tiresome, especially when he has to work.
13. Zontar is currently employed as hit man for Xenonian mafia. A very good one too.
14. Zontar believes children should be raised in strict, military environment. Zontar was raised in a military style boot camp and learned to appreciate cold, hard discipline. It has helped him a great deal in his current life, because of this, Zontar didn’t meet parents until he was 19.
15. Zontar works part time as bartender in Seacausus, New Jersey.
16. Zontar was great opera singer on Xenon…
17. Zontar appreciates humility and detests all those who are bragging about their accomplishments…
18. Zontar is greatest being in all universe.
19. Zontar thinks all world needs now is love. Sweet love.
20. Zontar thinks we’ve only just begun.
21. Zontar wants to buy some red roses for blue lady…
Good luck to all on Earth and in all universes.
Zontar’s Interests
General
Binging, purging, playing with matches.
Music
Xenonian heavy metal
Movies
I Married an Alien,Mars Needs Women.War of the Worlds
Television
Alien Or No Alien,Everyone Loves Zontar,Alien in the Family,America’s Next Top Alien,One Alien vs.One Hundred
Was it like you expected when you came to America?
Zontar was sore amazed when he first trod the shores of your so called “United States of America”. It was not what Zontar expected at all. Zontar was expecting to see a Utopian paradise of democracy and freedom. Instead he saw poverty, crime, ignorance and racial tension. Then I turned on your television and I saw a moronic simpleton who could barely said anything intelligible at all. When I learned he was your leader, the so called “W”, Zontar was in a state of linguar receptivity. Zontar kicked himself in the posterior region for coming here. On Xenon, we all live peacefully, eat well and have a wise and munificent leader. Zontar was very sad. Zontar was so depressed that he went to the Great White Northern neighbors of Canada and saw the same situations as was occurring in the United States, only its citizens were as obnoxious and ignorant. Zontar decided to go back to the United States as he had run out of options.
What made you come here?
Zontar was forced by the exigencies of circumstance to flee his beloved home planet Xenon, United Confederation of Xenon (located in the 499,735 of the olfactory galaxy, approximately 2,333,444,222,555 trillion light years away from earth). Zontar had great status in his previous life on Xenon. Zontar was most trusted advisor to our beloved ruler, Pubicus. Zontar made a grave error in eating the wrong set of victuals for his midday repast. He feasted on filet of glabrob (the national dish of Xenon), washed it down with fermented glabrob urine (very similar to your beer) and hard boiled glabrob eggs. The resulting effect from this delicious meal was an unfortunate need to expunge gas from my anal orifice (known as farting in your country). To my great distress, while in conference with Pubicus I emitted an extremely foul odor which had the effect of debilitating our beloved leader, Pubicus. He thought I had done it deliberately and I was condemned for the perceived attempted murder of Pubicus. Zontar was sore afraid and transported himself to his spaceship before the sentence could be carried out. Zontar set his target to the United States as he had witnessed several episodes of Earth television program “The Brady Bunch”. Zontar wanted to dwell in the same country as these delightful, humorous and kind people as depicted on this delightful show. Zontar’s heart was torn asunder by the knowledge that he had to leave his favorite wife, Chlymidia, but Zontar had no choice. Zontar set his spaceship towards Earth and left his beloved home, never to return again.
How are you treated by other Americans?
Zontar was treated with some puzzlement by his new found countrymen as he soon discovered there were some differences between him and humans. First, Xenonians have multiple sets of eyes while humans have only two. Also Xenonians possess no genitalia as all necessary sexual organs needed for reproduction float in the air. Zontar was mocked and ridiculed for these differences. Zontar has great temper and roasted the miscreants who dared show disrespect for Zontar into so much dust. Zontar was arrested and put into an American prison for the crime of murder. There Zontar met many delightful friends who indulged in many amusing games, my favorite being inter-anal seminal exchange. When Zontar was claimed as the bitch of his erstwhile friend Bubba, Zontar was forced to transport himself out of this prison.
How do you compare the US to your own country?
Xenon and the United States are vastly different. Your politicians are small minded, greedy and corrupt, while Xenonian leaders are wise and kind. The food here is terrible. On Xenon one could feast on many delicacies, whereas in the United States Zontar was forced to eat from the dollar menu at Mcdonalds, causing him severe gastric distress.
Your legal status?
Zontar is an illegal alien.
Why do you want to live here permanently?
Zontar has no choice but to stay. As mentioned above it is impossible to return to his homeland. Zontar did visit Canada with the intention of living there permanently, but found the same problems there as in the United States, only some Canadians thought they were better than the Americans. Their arrogant attitude angered Zontar greatly and he murdered one unfortunate hooser by stuffing 20 pounds of beef jerky down his throat.
Your likes and dislikes?
Zontar like pussy cats. Zontar like Glabrob. Zontar like cigarettes. Zontar likes Jamaican meat pies.
Zontar does not dislike anything. Zontar is kind, wise and hyper-intelligent. Able to see good in all things.
Your occupation or area of study?
Zontar is currently assistant night manager at Dairy Queen and…. more here.
Your age?
Zontar is 120,334,553,222 years young.
How long have you lived here?
Zontar moved to Earth in year 2001.
What is your advice to those wanting to live here or immigrate her permanently?
Visit Zontar and pay him homage and obedience! Zontar will repay you with many kindnesses. HaIl Xenon! Hail Zontar!
I received a comment from a gentleman living in Austria on Youtube that confirms that we are just all humans who will, at one point or another, wind up mixed in with “the hype”. The comment is as follows:
Actually I WAS one of those Antiamerican morons, one of those “look at barbaric America” freaks. Fortunately I gradually woke up.
It is pure and utter brainwash by our media, politics and general liberal socialist Euro-era. I regret having been so stupid. But then again we also let ourselves be blown up and sympathizse and support those Islamofascist perps. (Nah, I am not exaggerating; for real; just check the web).
Europe right now is culturally in bad shape and hasn’t recovered from the WW’s. (In fact that’s one of the best signs to begin with when one starts to make comparisons between the US and Europe). The US certainly never plunged the world into a blazing crucible till its molten.
But whilst the Antiamericanism is just one of the many symptom (and 100% hypocritical), the disease is within us – and we are the ones hurting ourselves, you Americans are only the ones verbally attacked.
I am not posting this to glorify the US or support any political party. I just want to show that not everyone hates us, that some DO admit to having been brainwashed (that takes courage!!), and that some are willing to see issues at different angles. Additionally, all of this is even more proof that Americanophobia IS a problem (otherwise, other country’s people wouldn’t be standing against it) and not the result of “paranoia” that only “I” experience. (Some people just love to throw that word around, don’t they?)
I have a friend from England on Facebook (who now has his own blog). When I was looking throughout his profile, I discovered a blog post written by him that made a lot of sense. I’d like to share it with everyone. This is more evidence that some people are willing to step out of the gooey mold and question issues, but sometimes we just need an ice-breaker before we realize what is truly happening – as evident here:
Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great regret and sorrow that I report that we have a poisonous and highly damaging trend sweeping through even the “sensible” ranks of our society, a trend that we would like to think that we had confined to the extreme and disenchanted minority: Racism.
Racism in all its forms is horrendous and degrading, not only to the targets but to those who perpetrate it. Most of the racism we see reported is either anti-black or anti-Islamic. Whilst there is a lot of this sort of discrimination around, that is not the topic of this particular note. This note is to serve one purpose: the prevalence of totally irrational anti-Americanism and antisemitism in all classes of our society, but particularly the middle-middle and upper-middle classes.
I am acutely aware that if I were to ask the average person if they were racist, they would be horrified at the suggestion and fervently deny it. It would not surprise me however, if that same person was to be found in their very next conversation accusing the US and Israel of being the sole cause of the world’s problems.
I myself have been in denial of this problem for many years, that was until an example of it was handed to me on a plate, when two of the least “racist” people I know who are almost universally kind and open to everyone, decided to take exception to another friend of mine simply on the count of their being American.
The view that is communicated to the public to create this irrational viewpoint is an over-simplistic one:
America: Most evil state on the planet, dedicated to killing, bombing and otherwise maiming peoples/societies with a less than friendly stance. Israel: America’s agent in the volatile middle east region Britain: America’s Poodle/Lap dog, obedient to the last to Washington and profits from the exploits of previous two. Palestine: a territory that is partially and illegally occupied by Israel Palestinians: A people that are brutally oppressed and pillaged by a far superior military force under the command of Israel.
[Further definition common to almost all viewpoints: Arab Neighbourhood: all Arab countries that surround Israel, Egypt and Jordan with peace deals with Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Iraq still wanting Israel's destruction.]
Sadly, too many people subscribe to this view. Very little could be further from the truth. Let’s start with Britain’s foreign policy: many people accuse the UK of having an anti-Israeli stance, whilst others consistently accuse it of being anti-Arab. The truth is that it is neither. British foreign policy has only ever been formulated as to look after one state’s interests: Britain’s. I’m willing to bet that the very moment it is no longer in our interest to act as US lapdog, we’ll be turning our economic and military ties elsewhere.
As for Israel and the United States, it is certainly true that the US (effectively) gives Israel $1.5 billion worth of free arms per year. (Which, given the price of technologically advanced arms, isn’t that much). However, that alone is not enough to demonise them in people’s minds. Many other countries have similar standing orders, and have no issues with anybody. So what galvanises public opinion so strongly against Israel and the US?
The answer is Fleet Street. By “Fleet Street”, I don’t just mean the daily papers, I mean the press in general. Newspapers have, by tradition, always been biased. The Telegraph has always been aimed at conservatives, the Times at centreline conservatives, the Independent at Liberal Democrats (that’s right… the Independent is not actually independent!) and the Guardian at socialists. (Tabloids do also have leanings, but they are less detectable beneath the celeb-gloss and scare mongering about the end of the world. That, however, is another note.)
As a result, the public are aware that a newspaper’s story will not be a totally impartial representation of events. They have however, come to expect a different story from television.
Unfortunately, Television has sided firmly with the Palestinian people. I have noticed that if a suicide bomber carries out his “mission” anywhere in the world, he is immediately referred to as a “terrorist”, UNLESS it is in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, whence the BBC never use the word “terrorist” and instead replace it with phrases like “freedom fighter” or “activist”, which either elevates him to the status of a local hero, or at worst, nothing more than an animal rights protester, where in fact, what he did is no better than anything the Israelis have done. There is no difference between an Israeli F-16 hitting a house, and a bomber taking out a busful of schoolchildren. They are both atrocious and tragic losses of life.
However, this is not reflected in reporting, which serves only to fuel an atmosphere of anti-Israeli hatred and anti-Americanism that, in the end, is only damaging to us all.
The BBC is supposed to be impartial… Pah! they’re as one-sided as a mobius’ loop! I’m not saying that the US and Israel are free of responsibility, but we have to realise that the situation is never as it is reported… least of all by our wonderfully unbiased media…
A group of like-minded people who wish to see an end to senseless anti-American and anti-Israeli bigotry across the world. This group exists to demolish the last bastion of so called ‘acceptable racism’ in western society. For the promotion of rational reason within debate, the abolition of politically correct censorship and the restoration of truly free speech.
Sadly, there are only just a few members in that group. I’m not surprised. However, if you look at any Anti-American group (and I’m not talking about those groups established to criticize American government or foreign policy), there are hundreds to thousands of members!
Anyway, you’re probably wondering why the word, “racism” is being used – as Americans aren’t a race, right? But he’s partially correct in that if you say, “I hate Amerikkanz”, you are including all those people from different races. And if you’re of the popular camp that associates the “Evil Americans” (namely, all of us) with the “white folk”, then that is a bit racist on behalf of American whites. But David did send me a message explaining his usage of the word for what it means to him – if you care to read it.
The most authoritative definition of ‘race’ in the anthropological and categoriacal rather than competitive sense I have seen to date is:
“Race /rãs/ n the descendants of a common ancestor, esp those who inherit a common set of characteristics; such a set of descendants, narrower than a species, a breed, a stud or herd (obs); ancestry lineage, stock; the condition of belonging by descent to a particular group; inherited disposition; a class or group, defined otherwise than by descent; a sex (obs); peculiar flavour, as of wine, by which its origin may be recognised, raciness, piquancy.”
(Source: Chambers 21st Century English Dictionary)
Couple that with (from same source):
“Rac’ism n hatred, rivalry or bad feeling between races; belief in the inherent superiority of some races over others, usu with the implication of a right to be dominant; discriminative treatment based on such belief.”
I think that a nested definition formed from those two would very much include anti-americanism within their scope. You are right in suggesting that it is a figure of speech, in that the use of the word ‘racism’ in reference to anti-Americanism is colloquially coined, however, unlike many figures of speech, this one holds accurate under even the most pedantic scrutiny.
The BBC published an article called, “Anti-Americanism ‘feels like racism‘”. After reading that, anybody with half a heart will feel disgusted. And yes, I can see why someone would say that Anti-Americanism feels like racism. Unfortunately, there are plenty more articles where that came from…
And… finally one more vocal Englishman on Facebook stands up in defense of the United States in a group designed to give perspective to the increasingly “blame America first” fit-pitching crowd of pessimist radical liberal elites:
Stop Anti-Americanism in Britain
This group is an attempt to shed some much-needed light on the blindingly ignorant attitude towards Americans as often expressed by British students.
I feel that many British students have adopted an unfairly arrogant attitude toward “yanks”. The prejudices are well-known: Americans are loud, rude, uncultured and ignorant of the world outside Northern America. All Americans are to be held accountable for the acts of their government (which is ironic, since the British government has been the most supportive in Iraq) or for certain ‘types’ of Americans. The conclusion, of course, is that Britons know better.
To all you dear anti-American British students:
It’s just downright dumb to make any generalization about a country as big and diverse as America. We’re talking about 300 million people of different heritage, culture and ethnicity. The differences between Americans are often greater than the differences between Europeans. To me, stereotypes of Americans always lack credibility because of this.
Then there’s the culture issue. This is a big one. Unlike Britain (which seems awkwardly stuck somewhere between 19th century tradition and the reality of the 21st century), America is much more forward moving than Britain is, and boasts a lot more cultural diversity and innovation. The 20th Century, in my opinion, belongs to America. In literature, which is my field, Americans have proven much more exciting and productive – from Steinbeck’s social criticism to the experimental and darker fiction of William S. Burroughs. America has also proven it can produce movies much more independent-minded and original than the usual Hollywood movies, and it seems almost too obvious to even mention music, another area in which American artists dominate and excel.
Yes, much can be said to criticize America and much of it is very just. It’s a weird and strange place and there are forces in that country that really worry me. But that comes with the territory of being, above all else, a country of extremes. Only in America will you find the most obese person you’ve ever seen waddling down the same street as the most fit and healthy person you’ve ever seen.
This group doesn’t aim to hinder the flow of criticism of America. That would be silly. All this group does is ask that the prejudiced British students addressed be a little more open-minded. The overwhelming irony of the situation is that they are what they accuse Americans of being.
And don’t forget that of all America’s critics, Americans themselves are the loudest voices.
I will conclude by saying that I’m still of the belief that there are more Americanophobes out there than there are not. Hopefully as more Europeans and Canadians speak out on more constructive ways to criticize America, the younger generation can take the lead. The problem is – is that they have to want to listen.
Anna Ayala pleaded guilty Friday to planting her co-worker’s severed finger in a bowl of Wendy’s chili. She faces 10 years in prison.
Anna Ayala, 39, and Jaime Placencia, 43, pleaded guilty to conspiring to file a false claim and attempted grand theft in a scheme that the Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy’s International Inc. claimed cost it $2.5 million in lost sales because of bad publicity.
“Thankfully, law enforcement thwarted their successful efforts at theft,” said Deputy District Attorney David Boyd.
Ayala’s attorney, Rick Ehler, said she was truly remorseful.
“There are a lot of people that work for Wendy’s that were harmed, she always felt a lot of remorse about that,” he said.
Wendy’s President and Chief Executive Officer Tom Mueller said he hoped the guilty pleas would “send a strong message and serve as a deterrent to others who may contemplate a fraudulent crime against the restaurant industry.”
Click here to read more. This woman has a history of filing false allegations.
My opinion? I really and truly think our country needs to do something to stop frivolous law suits. They put a raging pit in my stomach! How to solve this problem is very simple. We have the plaintiff and the defendant right? If the defendant is proven to be “not guilty”, the plaintiff should be responsible for all the legal out of pocket fees that the defendant had to pay. But you can’t get blood out of a rock (in the case they can’t afford to pay up). Well then, that’s what collateral is for, right? This way, people will think first before suing like rabbits have sex!
If I heard correctly, I think they have a similar system to this in England, but I could be mistaken.
Book Description
This full-color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. Written in simple text, readers can follow along with Tommy and Lou as they open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set. But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.
From the Publisher
Would you let your child read blatantly liberal stories with titles such as “King & King,” “No, George, No,” or “It’s Just a Plant”? …
While I did find the description of this new book to be humorous, I also find it to be doing more harm than good to children because it’s not coaching them to think or reason; it’s coaching them to follow like wussies.
Is this not teaching hate and intolerance regarding the viewpoints and opinions of others? Is this not teaching stereotypes and gross exaggerations? Is this not teaching Liberal Extremism and not what a True Liberal is all about?
Is this what America’s supposed to be all about: Contributing more to the division of hate between the political parties? Is this what God wants?
I was right all along. A lot of the stubborn/extremist opinions that people have are based on this concept: “Mommy and Daddy told me so”. For more information on the “Mommy and Daddy told me so” syndrome, read the “Appeal to Authority” section of my entry, “Logical Fallacies”.
Earlier Thursday, Wendy’s International Inc. announced it had ended its internal investigation, saying it could find no credible link between the finger and the restaurant chain.
Sales have dropped at franchises in Northern California, forcing layoffs and reduced hours, the company said. Wendy’s also has hired private investigators, set up a hot line for tips and offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who provides information leading to the finger’s original owner.
I hope that Wendy’s customers start returning. I really feel so sorry for their business, and am glad that justice is being served.
I’m dying to find out who the owner of that finger is.
The last time I was in Japan, the craze for long haired women still existed. But if you know anything about Japan, you know that the Japanese follow the trends in Europe and America – especially America. Because of this, we can see more Japanese women with short hair. In a way, short hair in Japan is used to show a rebellious state of mind against older traditions. It also shows a woman’s strength in the workplace. Women are fighting for equality in Japan just as we women were in the U.S. several years back.
But this has nothing to do with this picture, really. In fact, that thing looks more like something I wash the floor with. I don’t know. It’s just not my cup of tea. Interesting – nonetheless.
The purpose of women is to serve the male they belong to. In what ever way we require them to. Women rights are a joke. They are beneath us in all things. When my woman opens her mouth without being told to do so, she is beaten like a dog. All women must be put in their place. Corrupted western values need to stay in the west. Leave US ALONE devil spawn.
Some people are just feeding them by the spoon load – while I’m sitting here watching the show. It’s impossible to empower a group of people you aren’t afraid of. (Now, that I check their blog three years later, they have deleted all their comments.)
You know what makes me laugh even harder, though?
For all we know, these two “punks from Kabul” could be two lesbian lovers living in Germany laughing themselves silly watching us acting like pathetic morons.
I understand that there are a lot of people that are newbies to the Internet or about 10 + years behind the advanced world in technology. Also there are quite a few people that are new to blogs. In today’s crash course, I’m going to cover Blockquotes and Hyperlinks.
.::BLOCKQUOTES::.
There is what they call a “blockquote” . Click on the word, “blockquote” for the definition. I will give you a LIVING example here:
Everything that you see on my blog that is “blockquoted” is NOT my own original text. My links provide the sources.
.::WHAT IS A LINK?::.
Next, for those of you who don’t know what a link is or how to identify one. Let me explain:
(I must say that I’m surprised in 2005 that there are STILL people who cannot distinguish a link from normal text – yet somehow wind up on my blog!)
A link is really short for what is really called a “hyperlink”. The best way that I see fit for identifying one is to move your mouse around the text. Do you notice a little hand or symbol appearing over certain parts of the text that are either highlighted, a different color, or where the style of the text changes? Yep. You got it. That is a a “hyperlink” or a “link” for short. And……… if you click on it, it will take you to an EXTERNAL WEBSITE that will give you additional information aiming to prove or back up my case!
An element in an electronic document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document. Typically, you click on the hyperlink to follow the link. Hyperlinks are the most essential ingredient of all hypertext systems, including the World Wide Web.
There is a site called World Wide Learn. It provides courses and tutorials for those of you who are either still in middle school, lived under a rock all their life and just came out, for Britons, or for those people that have been using a computer for some time and need some brushing up.
The “hyperlinks” you find in my entries cite external sources. It is there, where you can find it’s origin. I hope that I am making myself clear?
It is only then and hopefully then that you will be able to notice the difference between quoting text that’s not my own in the form of a blockquote or just simply copying and pasting text tricking my readers to believe it came from me.
Seriously though, for those making an attempt to comment on anyone’s blog, online news articles/reports or anything of the like REALLY should learn how to use the internet regarding the aforementioned because if you cannot identify blockquotes and links or truly even understand the usage/meaning of them, you will never understand what you’re reading online or at least enough to make a proper comment or contribute to the discussion sounding intelligent. If you, however, are just simply lazy, commenting without having clicked the links in said text that you are responding to, it will make you look like a clown for the whole world to see.
A group of nudists eat together at a monthly ‘Clothing Optional Dinner’ at a New York City restaurant, Feb. 17, 2005. About 30 people arrived for the buffet dinner — no hot soup on the menu — most of them middle-aged, several married couples, some singles, the youngest perhaps in their 30s. Diners must bring something to sit on — a towel or, for discerning women, an elegant silk scarf.
(Berlin-AP, Oct. 30, 2003 6:30 PM) _ What started as a joke about nude karaoke has become a lawsuit.
Bristol Station Cafe owner Marty Saint Pierre says he was just kidding when he advertised such an event in front of his bar. Then he got volunteers. Lots of them.
The planned event struck a sour note with the establishment’s neighbors, who called Town Hall to complain. Soon, Saint Pierre got a visit from town authorities, who said he could face fines or arrest if he operated the naked musical performance without a permit.
The dispute is now the subject of a lawsuit challenging a town ordinance on sexually oriented businesses. Berlin does not outlaw such businesses, but they are required to have permits and meet certain zoning requirements.
Without a permit, a sexually oriented business can face a fine of up to $100 and an arrest on misdemeanor charges. The lawsuit contends the penalties are harsher than towns are allowed to enforce under state law.
Whoa! I thought Europeans were less uptight than that?! Maybe because it’s Germany? I really don’t know. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t care where people go and what people do in the nude. That’s their prerogative! A nude body (even if overweight) never terrified me.
The below is me at Karaoke with my clothes on. The man on the left is my former Japanese boyfriend. (Because of stalkers, I have my face covered).
Heck, people think I’m strange for having bathed nude in public in Japan. The first time, it was very hard for me because I can be very self-conscious about my body in front of everyone but my husband. However, after having gotten used to it, I started to appreciate my body. I was no longer embarrassed, and didn’t care what anyone thought about it. There were two things that bothered me, however. A couple times in a public bath (because I was a foreigner in Japan), a woman touched my breasts and said, “WOWWWW!”. She continued, “it’s no wonder you have stiff shoulders!” Heh.
And there was one woman who constantly stared at me. I can handle people “looking” at me, but I got very irritated when one would stare blankly for minutes. Gawd! You see, the Japanese DO have manners, but they don’t apply to foreigners.
Other than that, my seven year experience bathing publicly was a positive experience, and one that I will never forget. In fact, that’s one of the many things I miss terribly about being in that country. You haven’t felt relaxation until you’ve bathed traditionally in Japan (even if not in public).
So, take ‘em off and relax a bit, eh? I could name a couple people who need to simma.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A former North Carolina
dentist accused of using syringes to squirt semen into the mouths of
female patients was charged Monday with multiple misdemeanor counts of
assault on a female.
A Mecklenburg County grand jury indicted Dr. John Hall on seven counts
of assault on a female. He was charged with assaulting six patients,
including one of them twice, over an eight-month period in 2003.
One hundred and twenty days is not enough. This is sexual abuse. Maybe if he gets corn-holed in prison, and gets the day lights beaten out of him, it will be worth it.
"I have never injected semen in any patient’s mouth," he said. "I never would. I’ve got a 10-year-old daughter. That whole concept is so beyond me."
Police searched Hall’s office and confiscated syringes after several employees said they were suspicious of the dentist’s behavior. DNA tests on the syringes later showed they contained Hall’s semen.
A million bucks says his daughter has been molested and/or raped repeatedly by this bastard.
INSTRUCTIONS: Stare at this picture for 30 seconds, then close your eyes, tilt your head back a little and you will see a picture of Jesus. Next, stare at the picture for 30 seconds, and look at a blank wall. Then if you like, print out the picture and go outside. Stare at the picture 30 seconds, and then look into the sky. You will see Jesus!
If you’re in a hurry, just stare at the picture for thirty seconds and then look at the wall!
A US state’s prohibition on the sale of sex toys was left standing by the US Supreme Court on Tuesday when the court refused to hear a constitutional challenge to the law.
The United States’ highest court declined to consider the complaint from users and vendors of paraphernalia for sexual stimulation, the sale of which is banned in the southeastern state of Alabama.
Adopted in 1998, the Alabama statute blocks the distribution of “any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human sexual organs”. Violators risk up to 10,000 dollars in fines and one year in prison.
In July an appeals court affirmed that Alabama had the right to proscribe commerce in sex toys, reasoning that it potentially opened the door to illegal activities such as prostitution. The court added that if Alabamians wanted to reverse the law, they had recourse through the state legislature.
So, masturbation leads to prostitution? This is too funny! I think it’s safe to assume that just about every man commits this “Anti-Christ” act of evil. So, tell me…. how many of you men out there are prostitutes?
In refusing to hear the case, and making no comment on it, the Supreme Court effectively accepted the lower court’s judgment.
The American Civil Liberties Union, a leading defender of private citizens’ rights which joined the plaintiffs in the case, argued that sex toys “have many recognized beneficial uses and are used by consenting adults in deeply private acts that are beyond the reach of governmental regulation”.
President Bush is proud to introduce an ambitious new phase in the fight to preserve all that is decent in America. Conceived and championed by the revered Republican think tank Americans for Purity, “Operation Infinite Purity” is dedicated to the complete eradication of masturbation from American soil by the year 2008.
According to this website masturbation is a “Democrat-Created Crisis” !!!! But the “un-American”, “un-patriotic”, “communist”, and “Anti-Christ” AmErIkAnz are trying to fight back!
Yes, that’s right! Remember the site God Hates Fags.Com, and my entry about it? Well, a blog was established to counteract this named, “God Loves Fags“. Their mission statement is as follows:
This blog is intended to give an alternate (positive) viewpoint regarding reconciling religion and homosexuality. We abhor hate in all forms and advocate love and acceptance. Yeah, it’s a little touchy-feely but far better than the alternatives.
Click on any of the pictures below to see the complete portfolio of this new fashion trend scare.
Want more?
Click the banner below to visit the main weblog where these pictures came from. Interestingly enough, according to SIMON WORLD (The East Meets Westerner Site), the below MasaMania.com was voted second place in the Japan Blog Awards!
Established
in 1955 by Pastor Fred Phelps, the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) of
Topeka, Kansas still exists today as an Old School (or, Primitive)
Baptist Church. See the WBC Monograph. In short, we adhere to the
teachings of the Bible, preach against all form of sin (e.g.,
fornication, adultery, sodomy), and insist that the doctrines of grace
be taught publicly to all men.
"GOD HATES FAGS" — though
elliptical — is a profound theological statement, which the world
needs to hear more than it needs oxygen, water and bread. The three
words, fully expounded, show:
the absolute sovereignty of "GOD"
in all matters whatsoever (e.g., Jeremiah 32:17, Isaiah 45:7, Amos 3:6,
Proverbs 16:4, Matthew 19:26, Romans 9:11-24, Romans 11:33-36, etc.),
the doctrine of reprobation or God’s "HATE"
involving eternal retribution or the everlasting punishment of most of
mankind in Hell forever (e.g., Leviticus 20:13,23, Psalm 5:5, Psalm
11:5, Malachi 1:1-3, Romans 9:11-13, Matthew 7:13,23, John 12:39-40, 1
Peter 2:8, Jude 4, Revelation 13:8, 20:15, 21:27, etc.), and
the certainty that all impenitent sodomites (under the elegant metaphor
of "FAGS" as the contraction of faggots, fueling the fires of God’s
wrath) will inevitably go to Hell (e.g., Romans 1:18-32, 1 Corinthians
6:9-11, 1 Timothy 1:8-11, Jude 7, etc.)
The only
lawful sexual connection is the marriage bed. All other sex activity is
whoremongery and adultery, which will damn the soul forever in Hell.
Heb. 13:4. Decadent, depraved, degenerate and debauched America, having
bought the lie that It’s OK to be gay, has thereby changed the truth of
God into a lie, and now worships and serves the creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen! Rom. 1:25. But the Word of God
abides. Better to be a eunuch if the will of God be so, and make sure
of Heaven. Mat. 19:12. Better to be blind or lame, than to be cast into
Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched. Mk. 9:43-48. Abstain,
you fools.
Most of the major Confessions of Faith throughout the history of the New Testament Church have also advanced these ideas. So,
even though the Arminian lies that "God loves everyone" and "Jesus died
for everyone" are being taught from nearly every pulpit in this
generation, this hasn’t always been the case. In fact, if you are in a
Church that supposedly believes the Bible, and you are hearing these
lies, then your church has apostatized. If you are interested in
this subject, we encourage you to do some independent research on the
history of the Church from Adam to now and, more importantly, we encourage you to carefully read the entire Bible.
Sad.
And what’s worse than that is that there are people all around us that
feel the same way as these people do. The only difference between these
people and others sharing the same beliefs just keep quiet about it.
Scary.
Bush (because he doesn’t do anything about the "fags"),
Sweden (because there are too many "fags" there),
Topeka, Kansas (because there are too many "whores" there),
priests (because they are all "fags"), and
all other "fag", pre-marital and extra-marital sex supporters and doers.
The members of The Westboro Baptist Church
firmly believe and dictate that Aids is God’s punishment to "fags".
They jubilate this dreadful disease and all mass disasters and
tragedies that happen because…
By all that is just, God
is fully entitled to utterly destroy the nation immediately. The fact
that instead He gave us a fair warning on September 11 is something
that those who fear and obey God as all mankind is bound to do are
thankful for this warning. Of course, the perverse people of this evil
nation are not getting the hint, and instead of repenting in sackcloth
and ashes, they continue to spit in God’s face. "And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not." Revelation 2:21.
Father
John Hooker of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church believes in turning the
other cheek. He says his church welcomes all people, including
homosexuals and those who hate them.
"We believe that in our baptism we are all made God’s children," says Hooker.
St.
Andrew’s Episcopal is one of six local churches to be picketed by
members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a self-admitted "gay hating"
congregation based out of Kansas.
~Questions & Answers~
Doesn’t the Bible say that God loves everyone?
…Or,
you are thinking of "God is love." God certainly is love, toward His
elect (His children). But He certainly is not love toward the reprobate
(children of the devil). That’s why His elect go to heaven, and the
reprobate go to hell. In Romans 9:13, which says "As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated", Jacob is a representative
of God’s elect, while Esau is a representative of the reprobate. In
Romans 1, the word "reprobate" is used to describe fags. Fags are
reprobate. God hates reprobates. Therefore, God hates fags.
Why do you preach hate?
"Because the Bible preaches hate…"
Doesn’t God forgive everyone?
No.
God will have mercy on whom He will have mercy, and whom He will He
hardeneth (Romans 9:18). God is sovereign, and does whatsoever he will
in the army of heaven and amongst the inhabitants of the Earth, and
none can stay his hand. You must come to term with two facts, which are
extremely difficult for the flesh to grasp: First, God does not exist
to serve you, you exist to serve him.
Why do you picket funerals?
To
warn the people who are still living that unless they repent, they will
likewise perish. When people go to funerals, they have thoughts of
mortality, heaven, hell, eternity, etc., on their minds. It’s the
perfect time to warn them of things to come. Is it mean, hateful,
uncompassionate, etc.? I’m sure it is, according to your standards.
However, according to my standards, it would be infinitely more mean,
hateful, uncompassionate, etc., to keep my mouth shut and not warn you
that you, too, will soon have to face God.
Why don’t you leave it up to God and stop wasting your time telling people that they are wrong?
"The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can
know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I try the reins, even to give
every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his
doings." (Jeremiah 17:9-10). This being the exclusive prerogative of
God, we leave it alone, knowing that we can never convince someone that
they are doing something wrong. How do you feel about people who confess and realize their sins?
Based
upon 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, there is a scriptural basis to believe that
it is possible for a practicing fag to repent. On the other hand, Jesus
Christ taught that "no man can come to me, except the Father which has
sent me draw him." (John 6:44). In Romans 1, on three separate
occasions, it says that God has given homosexuals up to uncleanness (v.
24), vile affections (v.26) , and to a reprobate mind (v. 28). If he
has given them up to these things, he is not simultaneously drawing
them to Christ. These verses are not incongruous, because if Christ
died for them, the Holy Spirit will surely call them, God will in fact
draw them, they will leave off that uncleanness, vile affections and
reprobate mind, and the inevitable result will be that they will
inherit heaven and not hell. Therefore, a fag who has truly repented is
no longer a fag.
Are you associated with a milita, Aryan Nation, Nazi, KKK, or any other similar group?
No.
We don’t believe in physical violence of any kind, and the Scripture
doesn’t support racism. God never says "thou shalt not be black."
However, He does say, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with
womankind: it is abomination." (Leviticus 18:22).
The only true Nazis in this world are fags…
Are you a sinner? If so, does this mean you will burn in hell, or are you better than these people?
Of
course I’m a sinner. All have sinned and come short of the glory of
God, and if any man says he has not sinned he’s a liar. I am no better
than any homosexual. No human is good of his or her own accord. The
only righteousness that God recognizes is the righteousness that he
gives. His righteousness is a single heart, humble, contrite and
broken, devoted to God. And the only way a heart becomes this way is by
God touching it and making it that way.
The difference between
me and a defiant, practicing homosexual, is grace. When the grace of
God operates on the heart of a human, that human desires to obey God
and live soberly and righteously. And when that happens, that person is
profoundly impressed with his sinful nature, and falls on his knees
begging God’s mercy. And God has mercy on that heart. Then, and only
then, a true spirit of repentance exists, and forgiveness follows.
What about lesbians?
Lesbians are just female fags.
Why are you so harsh?
Because
the truth is harsh. We use great plainness of speech, and will not beat
around the bush when it comes to someone’s eternal soul. Watch out for
those people who tell you that it’s okay to be gay – they’ll take you
to hell with them.
Doesn’t the Bible say to love your neighbor?
Yes.
Does that mean to lie to him and tell him what he wants to hear? No. It
means to tell him the truth, and warn him to flee from the wrath to
come. …
Why do you fly the American flag upside down?
An
upside down flag is the international sign for distress. This country,
as well as the rest of the world, is in mortal danger – we’re in
distress. Our national support of perversity is bringing God’s wrath
upon us. September 11 was only the beginning. We have reached the point
of no return. It is too late for this evil country to repent (2
Chronicles 36:16, 2 Kings 23:26). God’s people must save themselves
from this perverse generation (Acts 2:40).
You can get the rest of this inane gobbledygook here.
I don’t know why, but for some odd reason this "churchy" group reminded me of these people.
I
realize the people of Westboro Baptist Church are not your typical
"born again Christian" fanatics or what we would call religious people,
by any means. To say "taking it to an extreme"
would be an understatement. I am just baffled. Yet, I’m not surprised
by this behavior as I can feel the hate coming from those who quietly
protest. The "It’s MY WAY or the Highway" people will never cease to exist, and they will always try to solicit their bile from one generation to the next.
I
don’t necessarily think religion has everything to do with it. Some of
us are taught to hate (just because), and many people feel uneasy and
insecure around anything or anybody that’s different. This goes with
culture, race, physical appearances, mental illnesses, religion,
mannerisms, values, and sexual preferences.
I criticize in this entry, yet I am no "higher being" as I sometimes am guilty of "hating" as well.
The Community Page has commented at length on socially-sanctioned exclusionary practices in Japan. However, it has rarely touched upon their quantifiable, longer-term effects. Exclusionism is bad for business. Why? Because non-Japanese residents are not the only ones affected by “no-foreigner” policies. So are visiting representatives of international corporations. This makes for unfavorable overseas impressions, not only of northern Japan (famous for its decade displaying “JAPANESE ONLY” signs), but also of the entire country.
The author of this article, Arudou Debito, explains further, that the extent of this over the past couple of years has reached 12 cities in Japan.
And this was just all over some Germans, Italians, and British men getting a little rowdy in the bars during the World Cup 2002 which had caused the police to appear on the scene. It is believed that the Japanese had wanted to keep foreigners out of shops, restaurants, bars, doctors offices, salons, and the like the whole time and that the World Cup 2002 just gave them the perfect excuse for them to pull this off.
“In Nagoya this year, I was invited to the Suzuka Formula One auto races as a guest of a Western company supporting this event for a long time,” Jackson recalled. “Walking down the street in Nagoya’s nightlife district with senior reps of this company, people on the street passing out flyers to their bars pulled their hands back when they saw us. We even got refused rides in taxis. That’s pretty stupid. What kind of an image is that supposed to create?”Jackson said this company is considering changing its support to the Shanghai Formula One because of this and other ill-feelings incurred.
“And Nagoya is going to be hosting the 2005 Aichi World’s Fair? You’re joking. Just more people to come to Japan and leave with a sour taste,” he said.
Amazing, isn’t it? A WORLD’S FAIR??? A Homogeneous World’s Fair? Oh no, wait a minute. Foreigners can come, but they can’t stay in a hotel, can’t use the public baths, can’t get into any of the shops or attractions, (God forbid they get sick) they can’t get in a hospital anywhere, and can’t use public transportation except for the trains.
Furthermore, it’s not only visitors or residents who feel the alienation. Japan spends millions annually bringing people over on Ministry of Education Scholarships, and through organizations like The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).Just how long does the Japanese government think it can get away with no redresses for discrimination, including a law against racial discrimination? Can it merely coast along on half-measures while prejudicial policies spread nationwide?
As lawsuits rack up involving refusals at a jewelry store, bathhouses, a real estate broker, a bar, and now an optician, the problem is getting worse.
Oh my. I had no idea the problem was getting this bad. I lived in Japan for 6.5 years, and I never once saw anything like this. I am appalled by the recent change, and stunned that this has reached all the way to Tokyo — of all places. Tokyo, the most metropolitan, modernized, and one of the largest cities in the world is beginning to follow suit in slamming the doors on the faces of foreigners. I am so glad I am not there to witness this. I don’t know what I would do. Racism and discrimination is so very sad, and “sad” is an understatement. It actually makes me sick to my stomach to hear what is going on over there.
Granted, I always knew they had no laws over there regarding discrimination. I had always known that, even in Tokyo, foreigners were denied housing in certain apartment complexes. That was a norm that all foreigners had gotten used to over there. If there’s a brawl between a drunken foreign guy and a drunken Japanese guy outside a bar and the police arrive, it’s normal for the police to side with the Japanese guy. We don’t raise our eyebrows over this stuff. It’s Japan. And naturally, we’re there because we want to be there. However, now (gaijin) or non-Japanese people are given the the x-sign with the arms if seen approaching a shop or any place of business in some areas. The hatred spreading is almost surreal.
Look at this:
HAIR SALON KITAMURA (barbershop)
(Wakkanai Minato 1 chome 1-19, Ph 0162-24-5045)
Roy had also been excluded from this place at the door and despite speaking Japanese. I decided to try my luck. The place was open and the proprietor was halfway through a head of hair. He left to come to the door, where he made an X-gesture with his hands. I spoke in Japanese, “Do you refuse foreigners?” (gaikokujin, okotowari desu ka). He paused, surprised that I spoke in Nihongo, and left his X-ed hands up. I repeated the question, and he said “That’s right.” (sou desu), indicating that he understood me. He went back to his head of hair and I stepped outside, thinking it best not to inquire further.
Says I:”What in heaven’s name would make him want to refuse foreigners? Onsens claim a hygiene problem. Regular stores claim a pilfering problem. But what here? People aren’t getting naked and sharing a bath, and the only thing to pilfer would be shampoo and scissors. What goes?” It goes further.” Reported by By ARUDOU DEBITO
And yet another lame excuse for discrimination….
“HIKOKUSAIKA”(“anti-internationalization”):NON-JAPANESE NOW OFFICIALLY SEEN AS PART OF JAPAN’S SOCIAL ILLS AND CANNOT BE TRUSTED IN THE EVENT OF A DISASTER
WIRE:04/09/2000 03:44:00 ET Japan Troops Told ‘Foreigners’ Likely to Loot, Riot
“TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese troops were told on Sunday to target foreigners to prevent looting and rioting in the event of a major earthquake, Kyodo News Agency reported.
Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said in an address to Ground Self-Defense Force troops that foreigners were likely to riot and commit crimes because of the breakdown in order.
“Atrocious crimes have been committed again and again by sangokujin and other foreigners”, he was quoted as saying.
“We can expect them to riot in the event of a disastrous earthquake.”
The Japanese slang term “sangokujin” means “people from Third World countries” and was used in post World War Two Japan as an insult for residents from the former Japanese colonies of Korea and Taiwan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government officials could not be reached immediately for comment due to the weekend holiday.
A fervent nationalist, Ishihara has angered China by doubting its accounts of Japanese wartime atrocities and referring to it by the derogatory term “Shina.”
After the Great Tokyo Earthquake of 1923, which killed about 100,000 people, unfounded rumors about riots among Tokyo’s Korean residents led to Japanese mobs attacking and killing several hundred Koreans, many of whom were brought to Japan as slave labor.
Thus Japan is starting to feel the tugs of a pluralist, multicultural society. Some degree of social hesitancy is natural. One of our jobs in this society will be helping make the transition smoother–by urging a more representative legal infrastructure and a more tolerant social policy approach. We do this in hopes that the future will herald a better place for everyone–citizen, immigrant, or visitor–to live. More to come.”
Dave Aldwinckle
Sapporo
Oh, okay. Now, I see where the racism is stemming from — the 1923 Tokyo Earthquake. How many years ago was this? The hate continues….
In another article in The Japan Times written again by Arudou Debito, an African American man accompanied by his wife and his African American friend were told by an eyeglass shop owner, “Move to the other side of the street! Don’t touch my store window!”
To read further regarding “information for people concerned with social issues who want to help make life better for everyone in Japan”, I highly recommend Arudou Debito/Dave Aldwincle’s ACTIVISTS’ PAGE
You will get a lot more information here. It’s very interesting. You will also see the improvements that Mr. Debito has made with his lawsuits as well. Mr. Debito, by the way, is American. You can find his autobiography here! His real name is David Christopher Aldwinckle.
There are still foreigners all over the place in Japan – especially in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya. Now, as racism isn’t happening everywhere in Japan, if it happens in a couple of public places, it’s already happened too much. For all those who love Japan, (including myself), let’s all hope that the hatred stops over there sometime soon, and that Mr. Debito progresses even more than he already has. I have a feeling that he will.
Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, a Mexico city has adopted a law banning people from allowing themselves to be seen nude by the public, even while in their own homes, officials said today.
The regulation, which takes effect on January 1, 2005, calls for as much as 36 hours in jail or a fine of 1,356 pesos ($A160) for offenders in the Tabasco state capital of Villahermosa, 655 km east of Mexico City.
This is something unfortunate. And this is something that I’ve always known to be true, but when I actually saw this in writing, I shook my head. This is truer that true.
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“There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States….critiques are appropriate and necessary, provided that they rest on facts and address real abuses, real errors and real excesses–without deliberately losing sight of America’s wise decisions, beneficient interventions and salutary policies. But critiques of this kind–balanced, fair and well-rounded–are hard to find, except in America herself…” — Jean-Francois Revel
"The fundamental role of anti-Americanism in Europe in general, and particularly among those on the Left, is to absolve themselves of their own moral failings and intellectual errors by heaping them onto the monster scapegoat, the United States of America. The U.S. is charged with all the evils, real or imagined, that afflict humanity, from the falling price of beef in France to AIDS in Africa and global warming everywhere. The result is a widespread refusal to accept responsibility for one's own actions." — Jean-Francois Revel
"Anti-Americanism is hypocrisy at its finest, You can spend your evening catching the latest episode of "24" and then complain about Guantanamo the next morning." --the Berlin bureau chief of Der Spiegel
"Of course some Americans are stupid, but... "It all boils down to the fact that knowledge and intelligence are two different issues. Rote memorization of world capitals does not equate intelligence.
I do find it interesting that Canadians and Europeans have such strong opinions on this, considering that there are many more pressing issues to be concerned about. Perhaps the steady Canadian and European refrain of "Americans are stupid" is a reflection of their own deep-rooted insecurity. You know -- an inferiority complex." --Mohammed
"As an American, please allow me to begin by asserting that our nation has had its strengths and its weaknesses, its successes and its failures, and its justices and injustices throughout history and continuing into the present. Although I sense much patriotism for my homeland, I recognize our need for humility to understand that our country is not above questioning or reproach but is rather under the same standards as all other nations of the world. I would simply like to ask those who view our country from afar to maintain a balanced perspective and realize too that there exists good and bad in America, both in terms of its domestic society and politics as well as in its relations with other nations.
Whilst there may be growing anti-Americanism in the United Kingdom I do not believe such sentiment to be reciprocated on our side of the Atlantic. I viewed a recent survey that indicated most Americans view England positively, and never have I seen the flag of your country (or any other foreign land, for that matter) burned in the streets of our cities. Clearly we as American citizens have not meant to be your enemies." --Seth
"As someone who takes human rights seriously, I'm appalled by the lack of sympathy the left feels toward the victims of any regime other than the Bush administration. Let's shout it to prisoners everywhere: If you're not harmed by an American, your suffering doesn't count." --Erik Svane
"Ambivalence, antipathy, and resentment toward and about the United States have comprised an important component of European culture since the American Revolution at the latest, thus way before America became the world's 'Mr. Big' -- the proverbial eight-hundred-pound gorilla -- and a credible rival to Europe's main powers, particularly Britain and France . . . . While the politics, style, and discourse of the Bush administration -- and of George W. Bush as a person -- have undoubtedly exacerbated anti-American sentiment among Europeans and fostered a heretofore unmatched degree of unity between elite and mass opinion in Europe, they are not anti-Americanism's cause. Indeed, a change to a center-left administration in Washington, led by a Democratic president, would not bring about its abatement, let alone disappearance." --Andrei S. Markovits (author of Uncouth Nation - Why Europe Dislikes America)
"Is Euro Disney Land a threat to the French Culture? If French culture can be squashed by Mickey Mouse, or more exactly by simply moving Mickey geographically, it would have to be disturbingly fragile." Moreover, Revel argued, culture always circulates and, in the case of Euro Disneyland, California was merely repackaging for Europeans such European stories as Cinderella and Pinocchio. According to Revel, French culture was not being colonized and if any culture was in crisis, he contended, it was that of America with its fad for political correctness and other forms of "neoprovincialism." --Jean-François Revel
"Anti-Americanism is the only face of xenophobia still broadly accepted in Europe." --Mary Fitzgerald (New Statesman)
"Americans find themselves damned either way. If they remain within their own borders, they are isolationist hicks who are shirking their responsibilities. If they intervene, they are rapacious imperialists." --To hate America is to hate mankind
"The British find it very difficult to come to terms with the loss of their global dominance. We felt a deep sense of hurt and loss. We used to run the world, and we don’t anymore. So, in order to palliate that insecurity, we tend to run ourselves down too much. And we’re also snooty about the people who DO run the world." -- Boris Johnson (Member of Parliament)
"It is tragic that Anti-American ideas are so easily passed through rumour, while reconciliatory ideas and notions must be backed up with catalogues of evidence before they are even considered, purely because of the fact that it is so much easier to hate than to keep an objective open mind." --David Hatton
"Other common anti-American objections are ignorance and stupidity. In dealing with these two, I have no reason to suspect that the average American is any less intelligent than the average person from anywhere else. One trait I have noticed is that other cultures are generally much more ashamed of any deficit in the intellect of the individual, especially ours (the British), and as such will make a much greater attempt to hide it. If all cultures bar one are scared of looking stupid and take action to prevent that happening, then that one remaining culture is inevitably going to be lumbered with that image." --David Hatton
"We became not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams." --Jimmy Carter
"Most of the anti-Americanism these days stems from plain old nationalistic jealousy by a lot of countries that are born of insecurity about their own place in the world and their painful self awareness of their own failings and shortcomings...like the kids in the next block who are jealous of the boy who has a better bicycle or a newer fancier skateboard....phuque 'em all." --Robbins Mitchell
"Europeans, like the rest of the world, hate America and Americans, but love our aid when in distress, and our soldiers to die for THEIR COUNTRIES. You need to work, live and pay taxes from this side of the Atlantic to understand our vision of Europe and the rest of the world." --Jerry
"Unjustified hatred of Americans:
There is much unjustified hatred in the world. There is unjustified hatred of the USA. Much of this arises from the victimisation complex that sweeps much of mankind. Whoever is in charge, whoever is powerful or successful will also be hated. This immature hatred often evaporates quickly with a little reason or thought. There are some some invalid, unjustified criticisms. The most widespread hate is the hate by people the world over who fall victim to their own shortcomings, and want a scapegoat." --Vexen Crabtree
"USA citizens are not given world news in the same way as most the other developed nations, and may well be genuinely unaware that much of the world is as poor as it is. European news is highly world-centric, whereas due to its size most USA news does not have enough time to cover news in all neighbouring states, let alone news from around the world. " --Vexen Crabtree
"Despite the USA's dominance of mass media, it is frequently only the pro-USA, self-congratulatory messages that seem to arrive in Europe, the USA citizens criticism and disbelief of their own government is not apparent, which gives the overall impression that Americans are either gullible, ignorant or honestly uncaring." --Vexen Crabtree
"If a person outside of American culture is a hateful person, they may actively hate and verbally attack America. If the person takes this to include a hatred of Americans themselves, they are inconsiderate and have become a fool. If a person like this is brought up by people with vested interests in attacking America (and there are many), a person can be driven to take his opinions to a violent level. Generic hatred is not solved or soothed by adding more layers of hatred.
There is a belief and hope that if enough nations oppose America, the American people will realize what their government has been doing and will overthrow them. This hope is misguided, as anti-American actions are causing the opposite"--Vexen Crabtree
"I think it is best, when faced with people from other nations, to treat them as individuals. Yes, you can "hate" the injustices that governments perpetuate on us all, and yes, you can despise ignorance in all its' forms. But any sort of blanket prejudice punishes yourself more than anyone else, because it thwarts the opportunity to learn from someone else. It stops you from making potential connections that could ultimately change your life. As an "american" living abroad, I pity my fellow countrymen who still have the wool over their eyes, but I don't hate them. The fact that when I meet them, they are indeed traveling at the time, says to me that they are in the process of opening their minds. Being in Europe, for many Americans, is the first step to realizing that other cultures do indeed exist and thrive, and that other forms of social structures are both possible and desireable.
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Many ask me why I left. Political reasons aside, when I mention that my family now enjoys free health-care and that my daughter will have the opportunity to go to university virtually for free (O.K. not free exactly, because we all pay taxes, but these services are included in what we as citizens receive for our tax dollars here in Europe,) they always respond with a sigh as they realize that this is the way all societies should be run. They know that something has gone terribly afoul in their beloved "homeland."
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Americans, in essence, need to be re-taught what is possible in the world, they do not need to be shunned. Shunning them will only help to produce more negativity in the world. If we all, from without, can help them to change what is wrong with their country from within, by sharing our knowledge of alternatives, then the whole world will benefit." --Lily
"Sometimes the caliber of a nation is found not in why it is liked, but rather in why it is not." --Victor Davis Hanson
"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." --Winston Churchill
"With a military that has become a laughing stock and her increasing irrelevance in the world around her, I believe that the Canada I know and loved is gone. The sad truth is, Canadians have only themselves to blame since they meekly chose to accept everything without question and without fighting back. Most of them even pat themselves on the back for being so “progressive” and “multicultural” and “diverse,” while failing to recognize that all of those things will bring about Canada’s demise. America may not be perfect, but at least there is a strong conservative movement and a population who will fight to keep their rights." --Jayne Gardener (Why I left Canada)
"Regarding Race Relations in the South:
I once read an observation that ONE (and there are many) of the differences between the Northern and Southern approach to race is that the North tends to reject the Individual while embracing the Race. The South conversely seems to have prejudice towards the other Race while embracing the Individuals. It's a generalization to be sure but one with more than a grain of truth.
Blacks and Whites have always lived closely in the South, most southerners have an aquantince of another race whom they like, while at the same time generalizing about the 'others'.
The North has always been more segregated and less mixed in ordinary commerce and interaction. They accept the race but interact with few individuals of another group. Leading to less real experience with the other group. Fewer Northerners subsequently have friends of a different race.
I think we a need to be cautious when making these generalizations but I believe they still offer food for comment.
I guess I'm just saying that one shouldn't assume the South has a less open society because of some who have lingering, isolated, racist attitudes towards 'Canadians'. It just seems that these notions, are more exposed, and carry more gravity due to their past. --JG (reply #70)
"My “two cents” to all you Americans out there: speaking as a Brit, it pains me to see some of the comments emanating from this page by alleged British sophisticates. Much of the real reason for anti-Americanism of this type — though it will be hotly denied — is nothing more than envy. Truth be told, many an Englishman yearns for the day when we were the number one dog in town, with the world sitting obediently at the feet of hordes of short-back-and sides public school boys lording it over primitive tribes of Africans and Asians, whilst men such as Joseph Chamberlain and Winston Churchill sincerely speculated on the chances of the USA being welcomed back into the imperial bosom.
Americans, don't lose heart; you are the great power of the age. It is your lot to be envied and feared. Do not fall for the soft hearted illusion that this translates into moral superiority of any variety." --James
"It is sick that to be Canadian one must hate other people. I've been to US hundreds of times and England as well and they never equate their nationality with hatred of others. It seems we are a nation of people that are in serious need of therapy. Thank god I enjoy visiting other countries and felt no need to hate or denigrate others. When ever I go to United States or England I always leave the Canadian stuff at home and I get along just fine. I would recommend this for others." --Nov. 12th, 2005 5:08PM
"The only thing more annoying that a 'typical American' (and they do exist!) is a Canadian with a superiority complex! Americans do get the piss ripped out of them behind their backs but with the flag on your pack you probably will as well." --travoholic
"I grew up on army bases my whole life and nothing makes me prouder than watching Canadian soldiers do what they can, when they can, to help out more impoverished nations. I do, however, become angered at people who begin talking about who has the better, or bigger army and who can beat whom. Soldiers sacrifice their lives for the betterment of mankind, not to win pissing contests." --Mon Dec 13, 2004 5:12 pm
"I attribute European anti-Americanism to a state of prolonged “adolescence” from being protected by American treasure and military might throughout the post-WW2 era. I think about how teenagers rail against their parents actions and restrictions, all the while knowing, deep down, that they cannot provide for themselves.
On a somewhat lighter note, there was a program on PBS (Public Broadcasting System) a while back about why Europeans don’t like America. One interviewee attributed it to the Europeans knowing that America won’t hurt them." --Denis Eugene Sullivan
"In spite of the constant accusations of “arrogance,” Americans are really very self-deprecating in many ways and often place the French, and other Western Europeans, on a pedestal of cultural superiority; this probably goes further back into world history than virulent anti-Americanism does." --Jennifer
"Yes, anti-Americanism is a sad reality all over the world. I feel its simply part of "hatred of the superpower". Britian for most of its empire's history was mocked harshly by English speaking colonies and much of mainland Europe. Nobody likes the "big kid on the block". I think the fact that American media plays a more dominant role in English speaking societies around the world further reminds us of our inferiority complexes.
In short, America's ok with me. I can only hope that reason and the shedding of jealous ignorance can let other people see that America isn't that bad." --Matt
"Conservatives love America the way a six year old loves his mother. Mommy is perfect, don’t be mean to mommy, etc… Liberals, according to me, have a grown-up love for America — the kind that recognizes faults and works to improve the nation out of love." --Al Franken
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More Proof that Obama is a Republican
In Election 2008, Strange News, War and Politics, Wordpress Political Blogs on November 30, 2008 at 9:52 AMI still cannot understand why the Right continues to moan, whine, and groan. Obama is Bush’s 3rd term like I said here. And here is more proof!!!!
Hey, isn’t this the kind of political INcorrectness that make the far Right go goo goo?
By the way, have you seen Obama’s latest panel of economic advisors compared to McCains???