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The consumer speaks

.."Hounddog," the simply awful movie in which 12-year-old Dakota Fanning’s character is raped, has no buyers.

“No one wants it after the terrible reviews,” one distributor told me,

That’s good news but it will not stop Hollywood from bring out more equivalent trash.

In WorldNetDaily today is this featured article SEXTRA CREDIT Sex assaults by teachers on students an ‘epidemic’

An estimated 5 million students in United States schools have been assaulted sexually by teachers, according to a congressional report

But no one is calling for investigations or law enforcement crackdowns, there have been no campaigns to ban the offenders from schools, and in many states there aren’t even any requirements such predator attacks be reported to education licensing agencies.

In recent months, there have been an alarming string of dozens of cases of female teacher-on-male student sexual assaults.  In fact, in many cases, especially where the attacker is a woman and the student a male, such assaults are treated as a joke, with a hand-slap for the teacher, and some ribald locker room humor directed at the student

For those hardup guys looking for a good time, here is a list of these women teachers posted by WND.

More seriously, this epidemic or trend of what amounts to child molestation does not bode well for the school system, the children and their families and for the nation.  Of course the NEA does not take it very serious.  For my part, I see teacher sex molestation as just another reason for parents to home school.

The article is rather long but may be worth reading especially for those that have school age children.

Dallas County Records 12th DNA Case was one of the featured articles in the Dallas Morning News yesterday.  Actually there have been many convictions overturn by the results of DNA testing since it became available for criminal case analysis.  Of course there has been the usual breast beating by state representatives

‘These are appalling mistakes, and in the case of Dallas County, there have been so many,’ said Democratic state Sen. Rodney Ellis of Houston, who is sponsoring a bill to create Texas Innocence Commission to scrutinize the state’s criminal justice system. Ellis serves as chairman of the board of directors for the Innocence Project.

This will probably result in another level of bureaucracy which will do nothing but spend more of our tax money.

The obvious questions that are brought to my mind is how are apparently innocent people being convicted in the face of what is now negating DNA evidence, and just how accurate is the overturning DNA evidence.  On conviction side is the strong possiblity of misidentifications, falsified evidence and plea bargaining.  The first 2 of my list are evident in the Duke lacrosse player rape case where a highly tainted line-up was used to identify the alleged perpetrators and the alleged victim apparently falsified her statements.  I suspect that the pressure of plea bargaining sometimes convinces innocent suspects to accept a lessor sentence rather than risk a more severe penalty if they lose in a court case.

On the DNA side, I confess to mostly ignorance on the quality of the test results.  However, it seems to me that tests on DNA material which is several years old would be problematic at best. Some of you readers/commentors may be able to discuss the veracity of these tests.

Considering how easy it must be to be falsely charged with a sex crime, I am grateful that DNA tests are available to potentially disprove the accusation.

In a post after Michelle Malkin returned from Iraq I saw this quote from one of our soldiers ‘These people (refering to the Iraqis) love death’.  This statements appears to correlate well with the reverence muslims give to their suicide bombers who are eager to go to an early grave shouting ‘Allah Akbar’.  In general, devote followers of Islam seem to have little regard for life prefering death by alleged martyrdom [if one can consider blowing oneself up with as many others as possible a work of piety].

Another thing that is brought to my mind is the war our country fought with a different people who seem to have the similar death cult wishes.  Of course I am refering to the Japanese of WWII who would eagerly die for their cause rather than submit.  The extreme example of this was the banzai pilots who flew planes loaded with explosives into our ships killing thousands of troops.  This may have been the first large scale use of suicide bombers. I also remembered what our country thought it had to do to change this Japanese mindset, that is the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

What will it take to convince the muslims to abandoned their death cult?  After 9/11 some suggested nuking Mecca and other muslim holy places.  As the muslims develop real offensive military capability especially with nuclear weapons, some drastic measure such as that may be necessary.

A recent 6 part document by Jim Rutz called The Trouble with Soy motivated me to write about it and other potentially toxic substances that have crept into our food supply despite the assurances of our governments consumer protection agencies.  Personally I’ve never liked soy products so I tend to stay away from them.  With their bland taste, I felt that it was preferable to eat cardboard.

Other substances that are in wide use in our food supply are the artificial sweeteners, aspertame and splenda both that have documented toxicity problems.  Aspertame that predated splenda by a number of years has had the greatest number of complaints which are documented at the Aspertame Toxicity Center .  I have had some negative reactions after a few swallows of a diet drink containing aspertame so I have avoided all diet drinks and all foods with artificial sweeteners.

Although not quite as dramatic as aspertame, toxicity problems with splenda appeared shortly after its release into the food supply. 

Whether it be soy, aspertame, splenda or other product with potential toxicity problems, the public in general is assured by the manufacturers and the government health agencies that these products are safe.  You must make your own decisions on this but be aware there may be substances in the processed food you purchase that can hurt you.