Sanity Squad Does Hollywood, Abortion And Other Cultural Shibboleths

The latest Sanity Squad Podcast of psychological brilliance, insight and intellectual illumination is up.

The scintillating minds of Neo-neocon, Shrinkwrapped, Dr Sanity and ourselves, gathered round the couch and sat in a circle on our very own red carpet. We discuss the court jesters of Hollywood, their selfishness, self absorption and the meaningless culture they have come to represent.

Our conversation becomes more relevant, as the discussion of the Hollywood illusions that have clouded our cultural, political and societal realities merge with both sides of the abortion debate and the lasting impact of abortion.

The Wednesday Weekly Whacky Award Goes To….

The SC&A Academy of Extremely Peculiar Pathologies, is pleased to announce the winners of the first of our Weekly Wednesday Whackjob Awards, commonly referred to as the ‘Whacky’s.’

Nominations will open each week until 10:00 PM, EST (After the broadcast of House, M.D.).

Each week, a ‘Whacky‘ will be in each of the following categories:

The Thorazine Shuffle and Dance Award, presented each week to the politician who dances and shuffles without actually answering a question, goes to Hillary Clinton and her on again, off again mambo with her Iraq war vote record.

The Thomas Szasz Psychotherapy Award, presented each week to the biggest idiot therapist we can find, goes to the psychiatrist that prescribed Zyprexa to a 2 1/2 year old child.

…if not for the disruption by Rebecca’s untimely death, this family represented five steady customers for the “mental health industry,” with 100% of the costs for doctor’s visits and prescriptions paid for by public health care programs.

Psychotropic drug expert, Dr Ann Blake Tracy, Director, International Coalition for Drug Awareness, and author of “Prozac: Panacea or Pandora?,” says, “this is what is referred to as the “Family Discount,” when everyone in the family is drugged.”

And this is the type of tragedy she worries about, Dr Tracy says. “The parents unable to function, the children acting up and unable to function - all due to the effects of the drugs.”

The Valium Award, presented to the dullard of the week goes to the Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, for “Going back in time.”

The Prince and the Duchess came across the campfire scene during a visit to Bastakia, a heritage site where the homes of Persian merchants were built in the 1890s.

The area was saved thanks to Charles, who suggested a number of years ago to the Dubai authorities that the area should not be redeveloped but restored.

When he arrived, Rashad Bukhash, chairman of the UAE Historical Society, thanked the Prince for his efforts saying: “If it wasn’t for you this would not be here now.”

The Trojan Award, presented each week to the person we wish had never been born, goes to Ronald E Kuch. No amount of therapy can fix some pathologies.

The NutriSystem “I’m Not So digusting to My Spouse Anymore” Award, given to the biggest loser of the week, is awarded to the Media Conspiracy To Make Hillary Look Good.

…actual humans are not buzzing about Gore’s Oscar. They’re buzzing about Rudy on one side and Obama on the other.

The Haldol Honor awarded each week to the person or persons most out of touch with reality, either on or off medication goes to the ‘Nazis Who Call Jews Racists.’

Although Massad’s lecture began with an acknowledgment of Israel’s “substantive and psychological” desire for peace, he soon added that Israel has simply requested that the world recognize its “right to be a racist state.”

Now for a bit of reality:

Anyone who hopes for peace should be horrified by the content of the latest set of Palestinian schoolbooks. In many respects, these new books for Grade 12, written by Fatah-appointed Palestinian educators, are the worst of the textbooks produced by the Palestinian Authority since 2000. These newest books deny Israel’s right to exist, anticipate its destruction and define the conflict with Israel as religious, not merely territorial…

Because Israel has no right to exist, and must be fought and destroyed for Islam, violence and terror against Israel since its founding are justified and glorified as muqawama, resistance: “The tragedy of Palestine of 1948 and afterward the muqawama in which the inhabitants carried acts of most glorious heroism and sacrifice” (Arabic Language, Analysis, Literature and Commentary, grade 12 p. 105).

The Methamphetamine Medal, awarded each week to the most hyper, histrionic, hysterical, spaced out documented behavior goes to the teacher who cut a pupil’s tongue with a pair of scissors.

The teacher, a support tutor on a temporary contract, risks being fired from the elementary school.

The Viagra Statuette, awarded to the wimpiest metro sexual (male or female), goes the person who demanded to know Why Don’t Men Wear Makeup?

(Third Runner-up, Second Runner-up, First Runner-up)

The ECT Battery Award, presented to the most shocking news story of the week, goes to the man who lost three, then found three.

Darmi Ali lost his three daughters and wife to the 2004 tsunami in Aceh. The 44-year-old remarried and last week became a father again - of triplets, all of them female.

The HRT Prize, awarded weekly to the loudest and most inconsequential feminist drivel the SC&A jury can find, goes to Journey To Enlightenment. There are no words.

Read the entire post.

Nominations for future awards can be emailed to sigmundcarlandalfred at gmail.com

FLASH NEWS! 

Dr Sanity Goes Hollywood! 

Defending Rape: The Next Cause Celebre For The Left

Watch for the words ‘root causes’ to be overused and the victims to be blamed.

Gang Rapes Jewish Women As Revenge.

A gang of serial rapists has been prowling the North, raping Jewish women as revenge for IDF actions in the West Bank, police revealed Tuesday after arresting six suspects.

“We are raping Jews because of what the IDF is doing to the Palestinians in the territories,” one of the six suspects told investigators from the Northern District Central Investigative Unit (CIU) during questioning. During their questioning and their brief appearance at the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court Tuesday, none of the four main suspects indicated that they felt remorse for their actions…

The whole story can be found here.

Notwithstanding the revulsion at the outrageous and heinous behavior by residents of the Arab village from which the perpetrators hail, look for leftists to blame the victims, of course.

We noted that

We are all too willing to attach ‘root causes’ to immoral behavior and actions only after the bad acts and immoral behaviors. Before they occur, we are told the perpetrators are ‘just like us.’ Well, you can’t have it both ways. Either the perpetrators are ‘just like us’ or or they are dysfunctional. The Palestinians are either ‘just like us,’ people from whom we can expect civilized behavior, or they are dysfunctional. While poverty, child abuse and politics may influence a person or society, in the end, the ‘root cause’ of most ugly and immoral acts is an immoral character.

The left will call into question logic itself- that Israel, and Jews, need to sufficiently defend and explain their right to self defense.

Rather than deal with the cults of death worship, hate and religious bigotry that so dominates Palestinian culture, the left has to insist that Israel is to blame.

Why? Because in truth, ideologies that espouse, promulgate and teach terror are not brought on by poverty or political unrest or dissatisfaction. Hostages are not taken and held to be traded for economic aid. Planes aren’t flown into buildings in response to GDP of the free markets of the western world versus the GDP of the many tyrannies of the Muslim world. Women- and 13 year old girls- are not raped to avenge a stalled peace process.

In fact, the terrorists aims are deliberately misrepresented by the much of the left. The terrorists and their leftist supporters don’t want to see western values and successes brought into the Muslim world. Indeed, that is what they are fighting against. Religious freedoms, abortion rights, gay rights and human rights are anathema to Radical Islamist ideologies. That ideology demands the murder of those whose behavior they find offensive- usually administered in a cruel and brutal fashion. These are truths many on the left somehow manage to forget. The truth is that the adversaries of freedom are not, ‘Just like us.’

If the terrorists and their ‘progressive’ supporters and apologists really wanted to better the lives of hundreds of millions of oppressed people, they would use America and the west as models for success. Instead, terrorists and their ‘progressive’ supporters seek to destroy the freedoms that have authored success. They deliberately want to keep failed leaders and failed ideologies in place.

When nations that are that are led by or are under the influence of tyrants or dictators, attempt to justify those actions, we can rightly assume that justification is false. Tyrants and dictators do not make moral choices, because moral choices can only lead to the demise of the tyranny.

Anyone that comes to the defense of tyrannical regimes and their leaders, have themselves made a conscious choice to defend and stand by what is immoral. They themselves consciously adopt an immoral posture.

Here is another truth. As we noted in Show Me The Money And Other Leftist Failures,

Leftists see the redistribution of wealth and materialism as an expression of values. That is why they believe they can buy their way out of any confrontation of evil. They cannot accept the truth that evil is defeated by defending and insisting upon a set of values and behaviors from everyone and standing firm.

Eliminating poverty does not- and cannot- change a mindset. Economic status does not determine morality and codes of conduct. Only values, born of dignity and the recognition that all men and women are of equal value, determines morality and codes of conduct. It is an ideology that drives people to exceed their potential for good. And it is also an ideology so terrifying to those who preach hatred, that it will drives other people to even more hate people to hate and destruction.

Terror and hate- and the defense of terror and hate- are driven by an ideology of evil, period.

Freedom and democracy are antithetical to hate and terrorism because freedom usurps the power of the terrorist. With out the power to instill fear and punishment, the terrorist is nothing.

In the Middle East, the icons of freedom are the US and Israel. Freedom of all kinds, success and ever growing potential are what the terrorist must destroy. Prosperity is the fifth column the terrorists fear most. They cannot abide by a culture that is prosperous, because that culture seeks growth and progress. The terrorists cannot abide economic and educational progress because those things weaken their grip.

Terror and hate must be dealt with directly. We have also noted

The fact is, we need more hatred of evil. We need to be outraged at Darfur and the other places like it. We must be so outraged that we must be ready to inflict a pain so great and a punishment so profound, that the evil doers will take note and cease their brutality…

The evil doers must tremble in fear from the thought of our hate for them, and at the thought of retribution.

The real threat that America poses to much of the world is neither economic or even social, really. America represents ideas that have changed the world and have upset the status quo. In fact, no nation has helped nurture more people and more societies escape the bonds of repression, persecution and that great bond of enslavement to hate, than America. Freedom is the antidote to victim hood and hate.

As we have noted many times, ‘to presume that we must somehow persuade populations that freedom is better than tyranny, is absurd. That kind of argument presumes that tyranny and freedom are of equal value and standing. In fact, we appear foolish- and weak- when are forced to plead our case. In reality, when we argue the case for freedom as equal to tyrannical regimes, we belittle freedom.’

With freedom, comes the truth that there will far fewer victims for the left to embrace.

“Of the almost 7 billion people on this planet, only 300 million are Americans. To put that in perspective, less than 5% of the population of this planet are Americans- and yet, the world is obsessed with our existence and what we represent. In the course of just over 200 years, we have provided the world with ideas, contributions and realities that are in the consciousness of every human being on the planet. Given our numbers and short history, we should not have had this profound influence on history and mankind- and yet, we have. The secret to our our successes and influence can be attributed to one powerful word: Freedom.”

For decades, leftists have defended those who use terror, hate and the murder of innocents as a way of life and as an acceptable form of political expression. Defending rape is just business as usual.

See Fausta’s Gang Rape As Revenge for a look for further insights and implications of using rape as a tool of political expression.