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April 26, 2011
I don't know if I'll be able to complete what I wanted to accomplish with this page. I might not have time.
The quote highlighted under the title of the first story of the front page of the Times Argus today is being used as code by the newspaper. The Times Argus wants pedophilia to be made legal.
The title of the article is "Health reform gets early nod"
The highlighted quote is:
"As costs rise and resources dwindle, it is just a matter of time before those incentives become mandates, describing the very things you and I do in the pursuit of happiness." ---Sen. Joe Benning, R-Caledonia County
Here is the quote by Vermont State Senator Benning as it appears in the rest of the article on page A7. I've included preceding paragraphs that explain the original meaning of the quote:
"One of Benning's greatest fears stems from the legislation's attempt to create a system that gives incentives to keep people healthy so they don't contribute to the cost of health care.
It's easy to believe that the state would soon be telling people that they couldn't partake in dangerous activities like smoking, driving race cars or skiing if they thought it could save money, Benning argued.
"As costs rise and resources dwindle, it is just a matter of time before those incentives become mandates, describing the very things you and I do in the pursuit of happiness," said Benning.
First of all, it's not at all "easy to believe that the state" will ever pass laws telling people that they can't smoke, drive race cars or ski as part of their health insurance plan. Encouraging people to do things that are healthy, such as exercising, isn't the same as forbidding them to do things that are unhealthy and legal or risky and legal.
Second of all, the reason that it seems likely to me that Senator Benning's quote has been used by the Times Argus as code for legalizing pedophilia is that the last third of page A7 is occupied by the Young Writers Project.
The Young Writers Project started at the Burlington Free Press and is still also published in that newspaper. It was not originally created in order to contribute to the corruption of children and teenagers. I saw from the website for the Young Writers Project that it had its beginning in 2003.
Here's some of what is said about the Young Writers Project on page A7 of the Times Argus today. It starts by telling what the themes were that the young writers were prompted to write about for this week:
"This Week: "Elders" & "General"
Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit that works directly with students through its student-led website youngwritersproject.org, a civil, online space for teens. YWP also works with hundreds of teachers, serving 7,000 students through YWP Schools Project digital classrooms."
I know that the Young Writers Project doesn't only publish work by teens; I'm not saying that the blurb here is lying, but I know that the Burlington Free Press published work by children as young as 7.
You can see from the work published that a lot of kids in Vermont know what's going on and are being corrupted by it.
Here's a story by an 8th grader:
"My Grandpa Woodruff, who is my dad's dad, is the most vivid storyteller I have ever met. It might be because he has so many hilarious stories to tell or maybe it is just because of his carefree and funny personality. He will sit in his big, cushy chair, wearing his suspenders and a t-shirt (usually from a doughnut or ice-cream shop)! His skin is browned from working in the fields with his cows that he adores, and he chuckles for a minute then starts to tell his story. Many times it is a bit questionable how true the story is because of how great all the detail is, as in his famous school stories.
Whenever we complain about school, he will tell of the times his classmates hung his teacher out the window. In the middle of class, they grabbed him by the ankles, flung open the window and dangled him out over the ground. The best part of hearing his stories is seeing how into him he gets. With every detail, his face will light up and his hands will animate what his voice is saying. It's impossible not to find his stories amusing; just seeing him laughing at the old memories makes me smile, and also the way his volume gets louder and louder as we reach the climax, and then one final BAM! Not once have I been bored listening to my grandpa; with the way he illuminates his stories, I think you're more likely to grow a tail than not enjoy a conversation with him."
Here is an excerpt from the story after that one, also by an 8th grader at the same school:
"With the bonfire, Rosina really wanted to cook pita pockets with Cabot cheese.
The weekend that we wanted to have the party, it rained, so we had to postpone. On the day of the party, it all ended up coming together very nicely. Not as many people came as we had hoped for, but it was just as fun anyway. We made a bonfire on top of a pile of snow and cooked cheese pita pockets on it, and they were great."
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The Young Writers Project lists it first prompt for next week as:
"26. TALL TALE: Make up the wildest excuse you can think of for not doing something. Alternate: MISUNDERSTOOD: Write about a time when you were completely and utterly misunderstood."
If the Young Writers Project thought of the "Misunderstood" prompt because of what I wrote on my blog yesterday about what some of what my past has been like, then I hope that the Project and everyone else reading here will believe me when I say that almost everyone who has a psychiatric history of any kind is misunderstood. Discrimination against and abuse of people who admit to having had any kind of psychiatric or mental health treatment are so widely accepted and condoned by society that they are not considered discrimination and abuse. The population of people who have or who have had psychiatric or mental health treatment is routinely ridiculed and maligned without a second thought.
Here's a prompt that I just thought of; you can call it an unofficial alternate to the next themes presented by the Young Writers Project.
What are the words, images and ideas that you immediately think of when you hear or see the term "mental patient?" Are some of them:
--dirty
--scary
--untrustworthy
--psycho, both the adjective and the movie
--lazy
--dangerous
--weak
I'm creating that prompt just to ask the question. It's not something I planned to write here today, and if there is a response to it that I don't see, don't keep track of among the many things that I try to plan and write about as I see them day to day, or don't respond to anyone about it individually, please don't be offended or disappointed. I always have a stack of half-finished lists of things that I think I need to write about and that I thought I needed to write about yesterday and the day before and last week. It is the rare day when I feel that I have accomplished everything that I thought I should do.
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There's another story on page A1 that's carried over to page A7. I hope that the residents of this town won't say no to the possibility of adding another fire and ambulance squad to the area just because the title of the article on the front page is "Fire squad looking to go pro." Just because the Times Argus is using the story to threaten me with the way it phrased the title isn't a good reason to say no to the 2nd fire and ambulance service; I hope residents will use their best judgment about that.
It is obvious to me that the Times Argus is unhappy with me for the fact that I have consistently said "NO" to its agenda of sexualizing children and exploiting teenagers and college students. I'm going to explain something to the Times Argus, in response to its perversion of Joe Benning's quote about "the pursuit of happiness."
Having sex with children isn't something that you get to categorize as a right that you should have that has previously been denied you for no good reason. The fact that you think that being able to have sex with children without going to jail for it isn't a good enough reason for pedophilia to be made legal.
There is no good reason for pedophilia to be legal; there never has been and there never will be.
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After looking at Senator Benning's website for a few minutes tonight as my time on the computer runs out, it's obvious to me that he is part of the overall harassment effort. Whether or not he endorses pedophilia isn't clear to me; I don't know how he feels about the fact that the Times Argus would like to have people think so.
I'm not trying to slander Senator Benning or to be unkind to him. I do think that I should remind him of what I've said to other people at other times, which is that I think it's very unlikely that those who participate in one part of the harassment are going to be able to separate themselves in the public mind from all, if any, of the anti-human-rights issues.
Copyright L. Kochman April 26, 2011 @ 7:20 p.m.
April 26, 2011
I don't know if I'll be able to complete what I wanted to accomplish with this page. I might not have time.
The quote highlighted under the title of the first story of the front page of the Times Argus today is being used as code by the newspaper. The Times Argus wants pedophilia to be made legal.
The title of the article is "Health reform gets early nod"
The highlighted quote is:
"As costs rise and resources dwindle, it is just a matter of time before those incentives become mandates, describing the very things you and I do in the pursuit of happiness." ---Sen. Joe Benning, R-Caledonia County
Here is the quote by Vermont State Senator Benning as it appears in the rest of the article on page A7. I've included preceding paragraphs that explain the original meaning of the quote:
"One of Benning's greatest fears stems from the legislation's attempt to create a system that gives incentives to keep people healthy so they don't contribute to the cost of health care.
It's easy to believe that the state would soon be telling people that they couldn't partake in dangerous activities like smoking, driving race cars or skiing if they thought it could save money, Benning argued.
"As costs rise and resources dwindle, it is just a matter of time before those incentives become mandates, describing the very things you and I do in the pursuit of happiness," said Benning.
First of all, it's not at all "easy to believe that the state" will ever pass laws telling people that they can't smoke, drive race cars or ski as part of their health insurance plan. Encouraging people to do things that are healthy, such as exercising, isn't the same as forbidding them to do things that are unhealthy and legal or risky and legal.
Second of all, the reason that it seems likely to me that Senator Benning's quote has been used by the Times Argus as code for legalizing pedophilia is that the last third of page A7 is occupied by the Young Writers Project.
The Young Writers Project started at the Burlington Free Press and is still also published in that newspaper. It was not originally created in order to contribute to the corruption of children and teenagers. I saw from the website for the Young Writers Project that it had its beginning in 2003.
Here's some of what is said about the Young Writers Project on page A7 of the Times Argus today. It starts by telling what the themes were that the young writers were prompted to write about for this week:
"This Week: "Elders" & "General"
Young Writers Project is an independent nonprofit that works directly with students through its student-led website youngwritersproject.org, a civil, online space for teens. YWP also works with hundreds of teachers, serving 7,000 students through YWP Schools Project digital classrooms."
I know that the Young Writers Project doesn't only publish work by teens; I'm not saying that the blurb here is lying, but I know that the Burlington Free Press published work by children as young as 7.
You can see from the work published that a lot of kids in Vermont know what's going on and are being corrupted by it.
Here's a story by an 8th grader:
"My Grandpa Woodruff, who is my dad's dad, is the most vivid storyteller I have ever met. It might be because he has so many hilarious stories to tell or maybe it is just because of his carefree and funny personality. He will sit in his big, cushy chair, wearing his suspenders and a t-shirt (usually from a doughnut or ice-cream shop)! His skin is browned from working in the fields with his cows that he adores, and he chuckles for a minute then starts to tell his story. Many times it is a bit questionable how true the story is because of how great all the detail is, as in his famous school stories.
Whenever we complain about school, he will tell of the times his classmates hung his teacher out the window. In the middle of class, they grabbed him by the ankles, flung open the window and dangled him out over the ground. The best part of hearing his stories is seeing how into him he gets. With every detail, his face will light up and his hands will animate what his voice is saying. It's impossible not to find his stories amusing; just seeing him laughing at the old memories makes me smile, and also the way his volume gets louder and louder as we reach the climax, and then one final BAM! Not once have I been bored listening to my grandpa; with the way he illuminates his stories, I think you're more likely to grow a tail than not enjoy a conversation with him."
Here is an excerpt from the story after that one, also by an 8th grader at the same school:
"With the bonfire, Rosina really wanted to cook pita pockets with Cabot cheese.
The weekend that we wanted to have the party, it rained, so we had to postpone. On the day of the party, it all ended up coming together very nicely. Not as many people came as we had hoped for, but it was just as fun anyway. We made a bonfire on top of a pile of snow and cooked cheese pita pockets on it, and they were great."
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The Young Writers Project lists it first prompt for next week as:
"26. TALL TALE: Make up the wildest excuse you can think of for not doing something. Alternate: MISUNDERSTOOD: Write about a time when you were completely and utterly misunderstood."
If the Young Writers Project thought of the "Misunderstood" prompt because of what I wrote on my blog yesterday about what some of what my past has been like, then I hope that the Project and everyone else reading here will believe me when I say that almost everyone who has a psychiatric history of any kind is misunderstood. Discrimination against and abuse of people who admit to having had any kind of psychiatric or mental health treatment are so widely accepted and condoned by society that they are not considered discrimination and abuse. The population of people who have or who have had psychiatric or mental health treatment is routinely ridiculed and maligned without a second thought.
Here's a prompt that I just thought of; you can call it an unofficial alternate to the next themes presented by the Young Writers Project.
What are the words, images and ideas that you immediately think of when you hear or see the term "mental patient?" Are some of them:
--dirty
--scary
--untrustworthy
--psycho, both the adjective and the movie
--lazy
--dangerous
--weak
I'm creating that prompt just to ask the question. It's not something I planned to write here today, and if there is a response to it that I don't see, don't keep track of among the many things that I try to plan and write about as I see them day to day, or don't respond to anyone about it individually, please don't be offended or disappointed. I always have a stack of half-finished lists of things that I think I need to write about and that I thought I needed to write about yesterday and the day before and last week. It is the rare day when I feel that I have accomplished everything that I thought I should do.
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There's another story on page A1 that's carried over to page A7. I hope that the residents of this town won't say no to the possibility of adding another fire and ambulance squad to the area just because the title of the article on the front page is "Fire squad looking to go pro." Just because the Times Argus is using the story to threaten me with the way it phrased the title isn't a good reason to say no to the 2nd fire and ambulance service; I hope residents will use their best judgment about that.
It is obvious to me that the Times Argus is unhappy with me for the fact that I have consistently said "NO" to its agenda of sexualizing children and exploiting teenagers and college students. I'm going to explain something to the Times Argus, in response to its perversion of Joe Benning's quote about "the pursuit of happiness."
Having sex with children isn't something that you get to categorize as a right that you should have that has previously been denied you for no good reason. The fact that you think that being able to have sex with children without going to jail for it isn't a good enough reason for pedophilia to be made legal.
There is no good reason for pedophilia to be legal; there never has been and there never will be.
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After looking at Senator Benning's website for a few minutes tonight as my time on the computer runs out, it's obvious to me that he is part of the overall harassment effort. Whether or not he endorses pedophilia isn't clear to me; I don't know how he feels about the fact that the Times Argus would like to have people think so.
I'm not trying to slander Senator Benning or to be unkind to him. I do think that I should remind him of what I've said to other people at other times, which is that I think it's very unlikely that those who participate in one part of the harassment are going to be able to separate themselves in the public mind from all, if any, of the anti-human-rights issues.
Copyright L. Kochman April 26, 2011 @ 7:20 p.m.