tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63464403608201643672024-03-13T07:10:40.853-04:00Chicken Soup for the Terrorist SoulProfessional armies attempt to dehumanize the enemy in order to make it easier for young, inexperienced soldiers to kill them without hesitation or regret. Armies usually accomplish this by citing the horribly uncivilized behavior of "the enemy." Ironically, the American public makes it easy for terrorists to kill without hesitation or regret by dehumanizing itself with routine displays of its own horribly uncivilized behavior. Here are a few of their stories.Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.comBlogger174125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-10772512788459523532014-12-13T08:53:00.001-05:002016-10-24T16:32:28.946-04:00Chicken Soup with All Good Things...<span style="font-size: large;">All good things come to an end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This weblog has been something of an education for me. It's given me a forum where I could systematize concepts and observations of human behavior that are normally ill defined. I'll be taking what I've learned and moving on to other projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll respond to comments from time to time but this is definitely going to be my final post and if there's any one idea I'd like my readers to hold onto it's this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're going to <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/02/chicken-soup-with-bully-enablers.html" target="_blank">reward violent sociopaths</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> with sexual favors and athletic scholarships, don't <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2013/10/chicken-soup-comments-on-columbine.html" target="_blank">compound your stupidity by feigning bewilderment and bitterly complaining</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> when their victims show up somewhere with a gun or a bomb. Reward the behavior you want, not the behavior you find most instinctively appealing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>A message for those who visit repeatedly:</u></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><u>The problem of bullying will not be addressed by people quietly visiting a weblog. If you agree with what you read here, print a hard copy of your favorite post and snail mail it to your favorite journalist, school administrator (I'm sure you can think of one who should catch up on his or her reading.) , or member of the legislature. You could email the title of this weblog to whoever comes to mind. Send a copy to every business that annoys you with a dinner hour sales call. Bulletin boards, bumpers, and post-it notes are also good. Make some noise. Remember...failing to do this is like failing to vote. You simply don't matter. Bullies and their enablers inspire mass murderers. Interfering with that process might save the life of someone you care about. Assuming you have any concern for anyone.</u></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So long folks.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-79189496905084011492014-12-06T10:25:00.001-05:002014-12-06T16:08:23.089-05:00Chicken Soup with the sudden interest in Jason the Columbine Jock...<span style="font-size: x-large;">What did <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/12/chicken-soup-with-jason-columbine-jock.html" target="_blank">Jason</a> do to precipitate such interest?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I watched the <a href="http://www.aetv.com/intervention/video/jason-0" target="_blank">Intervention video</a> and came to the following conclusions:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Jason's father was a never satisfied jerk right out of Hollywood central casting. He was "devastated" when Jason did not make the freshman high school baseball team and several times throughout the video Jason stated that he never measured up to his father's expectations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Devastated is when your family is horribly maimed by a drunk driver who subsequently crashes into your home and burns it to the ground. Failing to make the freshman high school baseball team is best described by mentally stable parents as mildly disappointing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Jason's mother is also a drug addict. She likes prescription drugs and a "box of wine." Nothing but the finest vintage no doubt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Jason's sister is a classic enabler who buys cigarettes, food, drinks, etc. and gives him money to buy drugs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I laughed my way through the entire episode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If only all the Columbine bullies could end up this way...</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-1830110694958813612014-11-19T09:02:00.002-05:002016-01-04T09:09:06.314-05:00Chicken Soup with Jerry and Phoebe Remy...<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/phoebe-and-jerry-remy-left-cambridge-probate-court-after-a-news-photo/480683913" target="_blank">http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/phoebe-and-jerry-remy-left-cambridge-probate-court-after-a-news-photo/480683913</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">I assume the picture is copyright protected because it disappeared after a few days. If you want to see the happy couple emerging from court just click on the link above.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">RemDawg and Phoebe Fuck 'n Suck are no doubt proud of their baby roid monkey.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">In the eyes of American sports fans (innocent victims of terrorism), as long as someone else's son or daughter is being brutalized, terrorized, and murdered, it's perfectly ok to raise <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2014/05/chicken-soup-with-jared-remy.html" target="_blank">one of these things</a> and do everything in your power to prevent the law enforcement community from protecting Baby Roid Monkey's victims.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">And that's why terrorists can sleep at night.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: x-large;">Good job Rem Daawg!!</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-24752356275777933582014-11-06T05:07:00.000-05:002014-11-06T05:58:00.850-05:00Chicken Soup with the Civilizing Process...<span style="font-size: large;">In my ISIS and Ebola post one of my readers expressed confusion about my simultaneous claims that people are just animals with a thin veneer of civility, and that environment was responsible for producing criminal behavior, including bullying. The following is my attempt to explain my position:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Humans are just animals, but they have two behavioral characteristics that make them relatively easy to civilize. Humans are very imitative, particularly when they're young and they are also creatures of habit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A human animal that spends its adolescence in a civilized environment will tend to imitate the behavior of those around it. Over time, the civilized behavior consistently role modeled and enforced by the adults in its life will become a life long habit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Family and school, the two social institutions that are supposed to maintain this civilized environment are failing to do their job. This is especially true for the American Family, but don't expect anyone in authority to be brave enough to admit it. In the case of bullies, parents knowingly and intentionally fail to civilize their offspring. They consider civilized behavior to be a sign of weakness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>Your children behave themselves because you raised them to be spineless pussies. Your children are weak and unworthy. My children get respect because I raised them to be strong, aggressive, and manly.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This criminal behavior on the part of the bully's parents is supported and reinforced by a culture that rewards violence and cruelty while punishing and shaming those who are not violent. The "Karate Kid" series of movies sent a clear message to adolescents that adults either cannot or will not expend any effort to maintain a civilized environment. Victims of violence can either put up with it or they can find someone to train them to be even more violent than the bully. A more psychotic version of this scenario can be <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/10/chicken-soup-reviews-movie-never-back.html" target="_blank">found in the movie "Never Back Down."</a> Outside of movie theatres we have the <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2010/11/chicken-soup-with-nfl-hero-ryan-tucker.html" target="_blank">NFL</a>, <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2013/08/chicken-soup-with-sucker-punch.html" target="_blank">MMA</a>, and the <a href="http://www.wwe.com/shows/hellinacell" target="_blank">WWE</a>, all aggressively promoting the idea that anyone who isn't violent simply isn't worthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">America is a culture that makes it easy for terrorists to sleep at night by loudly and repeatedly broadcasting the message that victims of violence simply do not matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In America, in just about any venue you can observe, the least violent or otherwise least powerful male, the one that no one fears, is almost always the one with the lowest degree of social status. <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/02/chicken-soup-with-bully-enablers.html" target="_blank">These individuals are described as "scapegoats" in my Bully Enablers post.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">People behave like animals unless purposely conditioned to do otherwise. That's what I meant by my claim that environment was responsible for producing bullies and just about all other criminals. The environments of family and school are failing to civilize adolescents and the results of their criminal incompetence can be observed every night at 6:00 and 11:00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As always...no one who is civilized enough to have earned the right to complain about terrorism would be caught dead enabling a bully.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-82481033120856898312014-11-05T19:30:00.001-05:002014-11-05T19:30:20.549-05:00Chicken Soup with a stunning Republican victory...<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Keep a sharp eye out for that traditional Republican indifference to human suffering.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-36800152102806987862014-10-29T11:19:00.001-04:002014-10-29T11:19:33.409-04:00Chicken Soup with Ebola and ISIS...<span style="font-size: large;">Hey sports fans...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">How long before one of those suicide bombers travels to Liberia, intentionally infects himself with Ebola, and then travels to a crowded venue full of western Europeans and Americans after becoming symptomatic and blows himself into a large cloud of highly infectious mist?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Place your bets.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-41258529067461865612014-10-23T08:31:00.001-04:002014-10-23T08:31:44.860-04:00Chicken Soup with crazy Canadians...<span style="font-size: large;">My apologies to the people of Canada for the suggestive title.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The United States has approximately ten times the population of Canada and by my estimate (possibly biased by my living here) produces a much higher per capita number of morons, psychopaths, and criminals than our neighbor to the north. This is likely due to the fact that most Americans cannot tell the difference between competition and sabotage. In my opinion Canada is far more mentally stable than the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In my ongoing effort to reduce human behavior to the interaction of a few basic forces, I present the following argument:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, the man who attacked the Canadian Parliament with a shotgun had something in common with Martin Rouleau-Couture, the man who killed a Canadian soldier with his car. Both men lacked a sense of belonging and the subsequent sense of purpose one acquires from feeling as though you belong. And since nature abhors a vacuum, they satisfied their need to belong by converting to Islam and answering the dubious call to kill Americans and their allies by whatever means available.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/09/chicken-soup-with-embarrassing.html" target="_blank">I consider this a waste of time for obvious reasons.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Terry Malloy, played by Marlin Brando in the 1954 movie, "On The Waterfront" expressed the human need for a sense of belonging with the famous line, "I coulda' been a contender. I coulda' been somebody." The two Canadians mentioned above are now "somebody."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The need for a sense of belonging and a sense of purpose is as fundamental a force in human behavior as gravity is in physics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Feel free to differ. I love to argue with critics.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-69756102509831673182014-10-18T04:48:00.001-04:002014-10-18T09:27:34.867-04:00Chicken Soup revisits bully enabler extraordinaire Kim Lockwood...<strong><span style="font-size: large;">There's been an increase in the number of visits to my <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2013/04/chicken-soup-with-east-middle-school.html" target="_blank">post about Kim Lockwood, the criminally incompetent middle school assistant principal featured in the documentary "Bully."</a> I wasn't sure why until I was channel surfing the other night and came across...the documentary "Bully."</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Since 4/20/2013 when I originally posted about Kim Lockwood a.k.a. <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/02/chicken-soup-with-bully-enablers.html" target="_blank">the bully enabler</a> there have been a total of 4069 viewers to her post. I know...that's not a lot, but considering the fact that this is not a heavily visited weblog it's pretty good. And it's far more than most of my other posts.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">As always...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">No one who is civilized enough to have earned the right to complain about terrorism would be caught dead enabling a bully or <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/02/chicken-soup-with-izzy-kalman.html" target="_blank">blaming its victim.</a></span></strong>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-50301072387139546722014-10-15T10:14:00.000-04:002014-10-15T10:19:42.881-04:00Chicken Soup detects a slight glimmer of hope for American society...<span style="font-size: large;">I attack bullies here but what this weblog is really about is bully enablers and the sense of legitimacy they provide for domestic terrorists, serial killers, mass murderers, and other similar characters. Nothing helps the next Timothy McVeigh sleep at night more than beautiful women who whore themselves to the most violent asshole in the room and individuals who blame His Majesty's cruelty and violence on the victim.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There may be a slight...ever so slight glimmer of hope for the American public.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You all remember how Richie Incognito the 320 pound sociopath treated his teammate Jonathan Martin? The usual result is for the bully to be deified as the ultimate example of the American male while the victim is scorned and ostracized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It didn't turn out that way on this one occasion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jonathan Martin is an offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers (look for the big 71 on his jersey) and presumably being paid an awful lot more than most of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Richie Incognito is...well...<a href="http://kreativesouls.com/richie-incognito-beats-up-car-checks-into-psych-ward/" target="_blank">where did he end up?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It appears that General Managers are avoiding him, hopefully because they feel that the fans are starting to get the message that <a href="http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1854619-police-report-richie-incognito-was-suspect-01-in-2004-house-party-fight" target="_blank">asshole</a> is neither an achievement nor a mental illness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One can hope...</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-51429507132457734572014-10-03T10:29:00.002-04:002014-10-04T11:23:59.370-04:00Chicken Soup with the Ferguson Kool-Aid drinkers...This post isn't my usual bashing of sociopath enablers, but it's close...<br />
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I held off writing about Ferguson until everyone had the opportunity to swill their fill of Al Sharpton's and MLK III's favorite beverage.<br />
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<u>Let's begin with the general situation:</u><br />
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Our two term President of the United States is a black man.<br />
George W. Bush's secretary of state was a black woman.<br />
His chairman of the joint chiefs was a black man.<br />
My primary care physician is a black man.<br />
Black men and women are mayors, senators, and congressmen.<br />
America has black astronauts, scientists, engineers, attorneys, lobbyists, corporate executives, fighter pilots, and admirals.<br />
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None of these people are paper thin minority hires. They all sought higher education and earned what they now have.<br />
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When I watch movies and television shows I see black characters in positions of authority performing complex tasks competently. Anyone born after 1980 has been saturated with positive images of black characters. Unlike when I was a child, it is now normal for the public to think of black people as equals.<br />
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The claim that you are poor because you're black isn't just unrealistic...it's absolutely ludicrous.<br />
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<u>Now let's move on to Ferguson:</u><br />
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A large, physically powerful young man named Michael Brown (not a baby, not a boy, a man) was videotaped robbing a store and using his physical size to threaten and intimidate a scrawny looking store clerk. Be aware of what Mr. Brown was really doing. He wasn't just stealing some cheap cigars. He was sending a clear message to the victim that he can walk in and take anything he wants whenever he wants. Establishing the right to take from others was his real crime. And the fact that he committed this crime in front of a video camera indicates that he was sending another message to all past and future victims.<br />
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<em><u><strong>Go ahead and call the cops bitch. I'll make an example of you when I come back.</strong></u></em><br />
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A few minutes after demonstrating his character in front of the whole world he attacked a police officer and attempted to take his weapon. Fortunately for all of his past and future victims his attempt failed spectacularly.<br />
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Shortly after that the Al Sharpton/MLK III Traveling Circus rolled into town and began handing out tall, cool glasses of Kool-Aid to anyone dumb enough to accept a drink. The rabble rousing began in earnest. Blacks were reminded again and again that their lack of success in life, indeed every ache and pain, every case of the sniffles, every broken shoelace they've ever experienced was the result of white people conspiring to make their lives difficult. One news broadcast included a clip of MLK III thinly calling for the murder of a police officer by saying that he did not believe in the death penalty, but if he did he would certainly apply it to the officer who murdered Michael Brown. Martin Luther King Jr. must be rolling over in his grave as his son so blithely demonstrated that the content of a man's character is anything but genetic. Black criminals poured in from surrounding communities and even from out of state to partake in the looting and burning thinly encouraged by these two racist knuckleheads. And when all of the smoke and dust clears and no one wants to invest money or write insurance in Ferguson, they'll probably blame that on white racism as well. The circus rolls on...<br />
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<u>Here's the situation as I see it:</u><br />
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If you go into a poor white neighborhood and ask each resident individually why they are poor you'll probably hear a variety of answers. If you perform the same survey in a poor black neighborhood you'll overwhelmingly be told that they are poor solely due to white racism. There still exists a universally agreed upon scapegoat long after traditional white on black racism has diminished to the point where the Al Sharpton/MLK III Traveling Circus has to crisscross the country in search of opportunities to manufacture it. This is called <u>cultural inertia,</u> the tendency to cling to outdated beliefs and ideas long after they no longer serve a purpose.<br />
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As I explained in the first section of this post, America has changed enormously in the past half century in terms of the average black man or woman's ability to achieve success. But that's only a statistical average. There are large numbers of people who remain poor, don't have any idea how to improve their life, and harbor an enormous amount of resentment. Poor white people don't have annoying rabble rousers to direct their hatred in a politically desired direction. Poor black people have the Al Sharpton/MLK III Traveling Circus telling them exactly who to blame.<br />
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And they're following that circus and eagerly swilling the Kool-Aid in vast numbers.<br />
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Let's be realistic here. If you are born into poverty regardless of race or color, you're very likely to stay poor. It isn't racism. It's just a crippling reality that poor children spend their formative years in the company of adult relatives who are poor and angry about it, neighbors who are poor and angry about it, and classmates who are poor and angry about it. Rarely is a poor child surrounded by people who consistently demonstrate a healthy respect for learning, education, and self improvement.<br />
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Michael Brown died because he was raised in an environment where violence and intimidation are equated with status and success. He did not die because he was black. Stop drinking the Kool-Aid.Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-67806121153531223892014-09-16T09:12:00.001-04:002014-09-24T07:43:34.317-04:00Chicken Soup with Adrian Peterson and one...sick...bitch...<span style="font-size: large;">The world's terrorists can sleep a little more soundly and enjoy a guilt free conscience after learning that millions of American football fans are perfectly fine with a 220 pound sociopath brutalizing a four year old with a stick. In fact <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/vikings-fan-carries-switch-wears-adrian-peterson-jersey-tailgate-article-1.1939236" target="_blank">some Americans are such sick fucks</a> they think the idea of a large, powerful man torturing a small child is amusing and a cause for celebration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One...sick...bitch. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just imagine the thrill of power Adrian Peterson must have felt administering blow after blow. Nothing says manliness like torturing a smaller, weaker victim. Hey Adrian...did you get your secret hard-on while listening to a helpless child screaming in pain? I'm sure you did. What a rush it must have been. After all, that's what your parents did to you and look how wonderful you turned out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Adrian Peterson offers a relatively standard textbook excuse for child abuse. His was tortured by his parents, so he's going to torture his children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brilliant defense Adrian.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A parent's job description can be stated in one simple sentence. Your job is to transform an infant member of a violent, predatory species into a civilized young adult, preferably by consistent role modeling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fail in your job and you may produce a Ray Rice, <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2010/11/chicken-soup-with-nfl-hero-ryan-tucker.html" target="_blank">Ryan Tucker</a>, or Adrian Peterson. Or you may produce a sadistic fuck who instills a homicidal rage in other people's children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Columbine jock anyone?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fear not sports fans. Ray Rice and <a href="http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2014/9/22/6826273/adrian-peterson-trial-2014-child-abuse-charges#comment_tease" target="_blank">Adrian Peterson</a> will miss a few games and lose a little money, but they'll both be thrilling audiences with orchestrated violence once again. Roger Goodell and all those filthy rich team owners know that the ticket buying public doesn't give a rat's ass about the safety of violent crime victims. The American public speaks with their wallets. And their wallets say that victims...don't...matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's Chicken Soup for the Terrorist Soul.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-21800625423513918022014-09-13T10:36:00.005-04:002014-09-13T10:36:53.484-04:00Chicken Soup with Fifty Shades of Ray...Rice<strong><span style="font-size: large;">The world of football just keeps churning them out.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">When <a href="https://www.google.com/#q=ray+rice's+wife" target="_blank">Janay Palmer</a> married her batterer Ray Rice I immediately assumed it was a financial decision. People put up with all kinds of abuse in order to keep their jobs and her job is to be the wife of a professional athlete. Losing that job would probably mean she'd have to get a normal job, a job that offers an anemic hourly wage, long hours, and a complete absence of opportunity for advancement. So...l</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ike so many victims of abuse who came before her she decided to keep her glamorous high paying job as a professional athlete's wife, even if it kills her.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Then I ran across <a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/09/ray-rice-fans" target="_blank">this article</a>.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">I bet you enjoyed reading that.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">LaTonya Jones is described as a survivor of violent abuse yet she still proudly supports Ray Rice, a man who in my opinion belongs in prison.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">So what's the deal with women who idolize violent sociopaths?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Are they jealous of Janay Palmer? Do they harbor a secret desire to be Fifty Shades of Ray's submissive love slave?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Or is it simpler than that? Is it what I've been writing about for years?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Football fans are sociopaths who blithely leave no doubt in the minds of terrorists, serial killers, and mass murderers that victims of violent crime...simply...do...not...matter.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Keep it up sports fans. The world's blood thirsty killers hunger for more of that hot, steaming Chicken Soup for the Terrorist Soul.</span></strong>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-35801640656229983102014-08-05T08:49:00.000-04:002014-08-05T08:49:19.755-04:00Chicken Soup with The Terminator...<span style="font-size: large;">After the Jared Remy case hit the news I found a comment in a newspaper article, a comment I've heard or read many times before expressing the frustration that law enforcement personnel feel when they attempt to prosecute violent abusers. They work their tails off to build a case that will put King Roid Monkey in prison for many years, only to have the victim show up, drop the charges with some variation of the excuse that he's really not that bad, and then wind up either being killed or having to call the police again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Consider the following quote from the movie, "The Terminator." Soldier from the future Kyle Reese is being interviewed at the police station:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"You still don't get it, do you? He'll find her. That's what he does! That's all he does! You can't stop him!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Earlier in the movie Kyle Reese explains to Sarah Connor what she's up against:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"Listen and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Terminator was fiction of course, but it reflects the reality of how abusers like Jared Remy think and behave. And Aaarnold was the perfect individual to play the role. He was huge, physically powerful, and utterly focused, to the exclusion of all else on his task. It is not unusual for America's ample stock of Jared Remy's, much like The Terminator to literally be willing to sacrifice their own existence, and that of anyone who gets in the way in order to prevent someone like Jennifer Martel from escaping their control.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These men are not mentally ill. There's no excuse for what they and their enablers (Helloooo RemDaaaaawg!!) do. They're just assholes, and asshole is not a mental illness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-19866009031601659652014-08-02T09:52:00.001-04:002014-08-02T09:52:12.794-04:00Chicken Soup offers some training advice...<span style="font-size: large;">For those of you who insist on training the next Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold it's important to remember that the most critical element of producing a domestic terrorist is to <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicken-soup-describes-bullying-process.html" target="_blank">establish a general relationship between the trainee and the rest of American society founded upon fear and hatred.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is best accomplished by showering those who are cruel and violent toward the trainee with positive attention. Award them with athletic scholarships, expensive, hyper-masculine automobiles, and of course...lavish sexual favors from enthusiastic social climbers. Blaming cruelty on the victim is also important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's also important to remember that the production of a domestic terrorist by this method is a probabilistic process much like producing an alcohol related traffic fatality. You'll need to reward a large number of cocky, violent sociopaths and blame a lot of victims before being rewarded with a media worthy final product.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good luck folks.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-24083503990923355722014-07-30T08:47:00.001-04:002014-07-30T08:55:10.092-04:00Chicken Soup with Ray Rice and Roger Goodell...<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: red;">No American who is civilized enough to have earned the right to complain about terrorism would be caught dead at one of </span><span style="background-color: black; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/roger-goodell-nfl-dropped-ball-throughout-ray-rice-process/2014/07/29/d5953a46-174e-11e4-9e3b-7f2f110c6265_story.html" target="_blank">Ray Rice's</a></span><span style="background-color: black; color: red;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span>games.</span></span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-67807312462020459822014-07-28T09:37:00.001-04:002014-10-11T10:06:15.836-04:00Chicken Soup with Frank Sinatra...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Fancyyyy...Whore Schneider,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She spreeeead her legs wider,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hoping...Prince Steroooid...could pass.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Chssss. Chssss. Chssss. (Cymbals)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">With a grunt and a heeeeave,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">She pushed haaaard toward her beav',</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But Prince Sterooooid emerged...from her ass.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Chssss. Chssss. Chssss. (Cymbals)</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-38884690944539961582014-07-27T08:45:00.002-04:002014-07-27T08:45:51.912-04:00Chicken Soup's spree killer thought of the day...<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Social climbing sperm dumpsters lavishly reward bullies.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Toadying sycophantic cowards blame bullying on the victim.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Keep up the good work folks.</span></strong>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-8290427155703674342014-05-25T09:44:00.001-04:002014-06-10T10:39:44.355-04:00Chicken Soup with Elliot Rodger...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Say Hello to Elliot Rodger</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's common for people to confuse an explanation with an excuse or a defense. Don't get confused. It's just an explanation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Suffering from Aspergers makes it almost impossible to develop social skills, the self confidence and the sense of belonging that social skills provides one with, and the overt signs of self confidence that women are attracted to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Men who lack self confidence are the male equivalent of women who are homely. They're just not attractive. Men who are gushing with self confidence are very attractive to women. Unfortunately, most women appear to be completely unable to tell the difference between a confident young man and a cocky, violent sociopath like Jared Remy. Men who enjoy bullying and humiliating socially awkward men like Elliot Rodger appear to be almost irresistible to some women. This tendency to reward bullies is the real reason he hated women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the last couple of decades there's been an increasing number of movies, television shows, and of course, video games where the basic premise is that the world we live in isn't real. These products are primarily marketed to individuals in their teens and early twenties and have an especially strong appeal to young males who not only don't "fit in" socially but have spent their lives being made to feel powerless by bigger, stronger males. Elliot Rodger grew up in a world where escapism was never any further away than his fingertips. Like Adam Lanza and so many others before him, he probably had no difficulty developing a fantasy world where killing those he hated and then taking his own life would simply transport him to another, no doubt more pleasant world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bullying and ostracism made him hate just about everyone and allowed him to place no value on human life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Escapist forms of entertainment like videogames, virtual reality, and the internet allowed him to lose his fear of death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Firearms allowed him to be much more lethal than he would have been with just his bare hands. Don't be fooled into believing that the absence of a gun would have saved lives. He could just as easily have bolted a homemade sword to either side of his vehicle and driven through a crowd of people or rigged up something to spray burning gasoline into a crowded room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once again no one appears willing to address the problem of adolescent cruelty. We're going to see more Elliot Rodgers committing kamikaze type massacres. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is not an excuse or a legal defense, but I believe it's pretty close to what was going on in his mind.</span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-22900758649337385312014-05-13T08:41:00.002-04:002015-02-06T08:36:28.823-05:00Chicken Soup with Jared Remy...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">If Americans valued human life, this thing would have been dead or safely locked up in prison many years ago.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Good job assholes...especially this asshole!</span></strong><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">Do I look "heartbroken?!!"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">Nope.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">All of Precious Roid Monkey's victims were other people's kids. And as we all know, the lives and safety of other people's kids don't matter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">And of course...Jerry and Phoebe Remy who bailed Jared the violent roid monkey out of jail 19 times, and paid all his bills, and provided him with an "allowance" like he was 11 years old, and financed his legal defense, and continue to finance his legal defense are "heartbroken and filled with disgust and remorse" by their son's criminal behavior.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">No they're not. They're simply embarrassed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">Jerry and Phoebe Remy spent a fortune making sure that Jared's victims remained in as much danger and experienced as much terror as possible. They obviously wanted Jared's victims to understand that the criminal justice system could not protect them from their precious baby roid monkey.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">What a couple of sick fucks.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"> Jerry and Phoebe Remy's behavior is certainly as disgusting as any other asshole who finances terrorism, but what is far more disgusting is the public's unconditional love and support for the two people who shamelessly enabled Jared Remy's life long violent crime spree...as if the parents of a violent, steroid bloated habitual criminal were taken by surprise when Baby Roid Monkey finally murdered one of his many victims.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">After all...isn't violent asshole just another mental illness to be treated by a head shrinker?</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">Parents often worry about the cost of higher education and for good reason. Education is expensive. Jerry and Phoebe Remy spent an undisclosed but no doubt impressive amount of money educating their son Jared about the value of human life and the importance of public safety.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">They spent a fortune teaching him that human life has no value and public safety simply did not matter.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">No matter what Jared did to his victims, no matter who lived in fear, no matter who was injured, mommy and daddy would be there with a checkbook and a lawyer to protect their precious Baby Roid Monkey from the big, bad justice system.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">After all...John Lloyd was just a fat retard, hardly worthy of life when compared to the genetically superior wunderkind of Jerry and Phoebe Remy. And how dare those women complain?!! Don't they realize they've got the best there is?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;">As always...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: x-large;">No American who is civilized enough to have earned the right to complain about terrorism would be caught dead enriching Jared the raging roid monkey's enablers. Stay the hell out of his majesty's restaurants and stop listening to his broadcasts.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://turtleboysports.com/jerry-remy-is-responsible-for-raising-murdering-animal-jared-remy-and-not-protecting-jennifer-martel/#comment-11027" target="_blank">Further reading...</a></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2014/11/chicken-soup-with-jerry-and-phoebe-remy.html" target="_blank">More further reading...</a></span>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-40148756149056598402014-03-13T09:50:00.002-04:002014-03-18T09:27:28.258-04:00Chicken Soup with The Best of Chicken Soup...<b>Human depravity of the kind witnessed in places like <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2010/11/chicken-soup-with-nfl-hero-ryan-tucker.html" target="_blank">Texas Christian University,</a> <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2013/01/chicken-soup-with-good-citizens-of.html" target="_blank">Steubenville,</a> <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2013/10/chicken-soup-with-matthew-barnett-and.html" target="_blank">Maryville,</a> and of course <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/columbine-jocks-safely-resume-bullying,661/" target="_blank">Columbine before the massacre</a> will not be going away anytime soon. I'll never run out of vile people to blog about. And yes...I know The Onion is satire. I included that link because satire is often far more accurate than anything the mainstream media is willing to print. With that in mind, I think it's time to sum up some of the basic elements of why yesterday's victims of community sanctioned cruelty become tomorrow's serial killers, mass murderers, and terrorists.<p>
Whether you're still in school or well into old age or anywhere in between, if you hate bullies then this post is for you.
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/02/chicken-soup-with-bully-enablers.html" target="_blank">This was my first attempt to systematize the high school and college experience that so many people are familiar with.</a> It's been described as a bit simplistic or sophomoric...and admittedly, it is, but it's also useful to anyone who feels the need to categorize all of the individual social cliques they had to deal with in their teens and early twenties.<p>
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicken-soup-describes-bullying-process.html" target="_blank">This post further systematizes the bullying process.</a> It should remind many readers of specific individuals they were forced to interact with during their adolescence and early adulthood.<p>
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicken-soup-visits-minotaurs-maze.html" target="_blank">This post describes bullying from the victim's point of view and references a case of bullying that occurred almost two years ago.</a> I can find no significant media coverage of the outcome of His Majesty's court case.<p>
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicken-soup-discusses-theory-that.html" target="_blank">For anyone interested in systems analysis, this post is for you.</a><p>
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/05/chicken-soup-discusses-how-to.html" target="_blank">This post emphasizes the principle of leading by example.</a><p>
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/03/chicken-soup-with-moral-fence.html" target="_blank">Here I attempted to put loud, obnoxious, and very righteous Americans under a spotlight.</a> One of the political hot buttons I had in mind when writing this was abortion. Imagine how quickly one of those right wing nut cases would arrange for his lilly white, ultra pure, super Christian daughter to quietly get an abortion in a distant city if she were raped by an ugly, drug addicted, black guy.<p>
Distraction from America's real problems is a common method of avoiding any obligation to address them. Terrorists are supposed to be the most evil people in existence...at least...that's what we're told. Yet no one seems anxious to mention the fact that <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/09/chicken-soup-with-embarrassing.html" target="_blank">Americans like killing, maiming, and torturing their fellow Americans in numbers that put even the most prolific terrorists to shame.</a><p>
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/03/chicken-soup-with-mathematics-of.html" target="_blank">This post is in honor of all those heroes of resilience who claim to have been bullied and never even thought about killing anyone...Yeah...right.</a><p>
<a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2012/03/chicken-soup-with-george-orwell.html" target="_blank">And finally...this post employs an Orwellian reference to describe the ability to embrace two mutually exclusive beliefs simultaneously.</a><p>
I hope you've enjoyed the soup.
</b>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-63707482867274153512014-03-04T13:07:00.001-05:002014-03-05T17:35:54.948-05:00Chicken Soup with shameless fundraising organizations...<b>This weblog is mostly about people and institutions that enable abusers, so writing about an organization that on the surface appears to be raising money for a good cause might seem off topic.<p>
It isn't.<p>
Yesterday evening I received a call from a number that my caller I.D. identified as 202-817-XXXX. For obvious legal liability reasons I won't be publishing the entire telephone number. The name that appeared was "Washington, D.C." which coincides with the area code.<p>
I normally don't pick up calls I don't recognize because they're almost always telemarketers, but since the call originated from the capitol city of our glorious empire I took the chance. After I said "hello" there was a several second delay before the caller started speaking. He identified himself as a representative of a veteran's organization I did not recognize and cannot now remember the name of. As he continued with his pitch, I noticed two things:<p>
1) His pitch was very smoothly delivered as if he'd spoken the same words a thousand times without losing his salesman's artificial enthusiasm.<p>
2) Unlike most telemarketer calls there was a complete absence of background noise. Normally one can hear a subdued cacophony of voices all blended together. This caller could have been sitting in a soundproof room.<p>
The caller conjured up terrible images of veterans who fought for our country who are now cold, sick, jobless, homeless, and hungry. He finished his pitch with, "We're asking for a one time tax deductible donation. Can we depend on you?"<p>
Like most people, I don't want to either feel, or appear to others as someone who cannot be depended on. But...unlike many of my fellow Americans who no doubt blindly provided this organization with their credit card number, I am cynical to the bone. I decided to ask a few pertinent questions, "Can you tell me how you got my number and do you have any idea who you're calling?"<p>
After several seconds, the same smooth, practiced voice responded, "I'm sorry. Could you repeat that?"<p>
At this point I knew I was talking to a computer. I decided to ask a really easy question, something anyone raising money for cold, hungry veterans would surely be able to answer accurately, "Can you tell me the name of the President of the United States?"<p>
Again there was a several second delay. "I'm sorry. Could you repeat that?"<p>
I burst out laughing and hung up.<p>
I was pretty disgusted with this call for a number of reasons. There really are war veterans who really are suffering from service related disabilities. Many of them really are unable to find a job or receive the medical care they need. And every career conman on Capitol Hill is proud to be photographed with a veteran or two, preferably veterans who are smiling and wearing uniforms bedecked with medals.<p>
So why are those veterans-in-need having to hire a fund raising organizations to beg for money? Or are these organizations raising money out of the goodness of their heart? And what percentage of the money collected actually finds it way anywhere near a veteran? And why doesn't the fund raising organization hire disabled veterans to man their phone banks? Perhaps computers work cheaper and don't take bathroom breaks? What should the next Timothy McVeigh learn from the fact that America places such a low value on the well being of its disabled veterans? And why have America's corporate lapdogs in Washington, D.C. deferred their responsibility for those veterans to organizations who's only objective is to maximize profits?<p>
Feel free to relay this story to your favorite member of Congress.<p>
Perhaps the person known only as <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2014/02/chicken-soup-has-embarrassing-question.html" target="_blank">"Completely disgusted by ignorance"</a> could fire off a strong letter to her Congressman.
</b>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-20485711204423330112014-02-27T16:12:00.000-05:002014-02-27T16:12:53.397-05:00Chicken Soup has an embarrassing question...<b>Someone using the online name "Completely disgusted by ignorance" expressed her disagreement with my perception of Ryan Tucker's criminal behavior on <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/2311/more-college-football-players-get-away-with-murder-palestinian-terror-supporting-lawyer-helps/" target="_blank">Debbie Schussel's website</a> a few weeks ago. The post she left a comment on was dated August 22, 2006 and the comment she appeared to be replying to was dated November 19, 2009. It's unlikely she stumbled upon it randomly so I'm left to assume that she was doing an internet search for Ryan Tucker.<p>
I replied to her comment with an invitation to present the facts of Ryan Tucker's behavior as she perceives them.<p>
<i>"Completely disgusted by ignorance" is always welcome to enlighten all of us "schmucks" by presenting a few "facts." We could begin with why she believes that we're "schmucks." Could it be that her achievements in life are so great that she has every right to look down on the rest of us? Has she cured cancer, developed a new and efficient form of spacecraft propulsion, established world peace? After all, I've led a pretty unremarkable life. I've been consistently employed for the better part of forty years. I've managed to avoid establishing any professional relationships with our nation's law enforcement community. In a society that boasts an impressive divorce rate, I've managed to stay married to the same woman for 25 years. Stranger still...we actually like each other. My children are earning high grades in their various science disciplines in college...<p>
But that's about it...the portrait of a total loser.<p>
Her Majesty in comparison has...um...well...what is it she's been doing anyway? What exactly has she accomplished that makes her feel so superior to the rest of us?<p>
I have a potentially embarrassing question for Her Majesty...<p>
<u>Have you ever supported yourself by working a job?</u><p>
Please...enlighten all of us ignorant schmucks. Regale us with tales of your many worldly accomplishments</i><p>
I'm assuming that this is the same woman who is the subject of the post immediately preceding this one...but I cannot be sure. Perhaps she will enlighten me with facts.<p>
</b>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-16969578888761365682014-02-12T10:19:00.001-05:002014-02-25T08:43:03.198-05:00Chicken Soup with Ryan Tucker's greatest fan revisited...<b>Many years ago a close acquaintance of mine relayed a memorable scene from the play, "Evita."<p>
Evita Peron is complaining to an old naval officer that people are still referring to her with a very uncomplimentary term. The naval officer calmly replies, "I've been retired for years and people still call me captain."<p>
Someone whom I assume to be a close female relative of Ryan Tucker <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2014/01/chicken-soup-with-one-of-ryan-tuckers.html" target="_blank">left a few comments here</a> and on other weblogs criticizing our decision to remind readers of Ryan's criminal behavior. She expresses her frustration with the fact that after so many years Ryan Tucker and his three friends still have to read about their crime. I'm also assuming she's concerned because his children are now perusing the internet and beginning to realize that their father, in spite of being retired for years, is still being called a violent criminal. So here's my solution:<p>
Assuming you really are a close female relative of Ryan Tucker, you can expose the horrible lies written about him by bringing his children to meet Bryan Boyd. They will see that he is perfectly healthy. They will see that he is not a brain damaged cripple living in his mother's spare bedroom. They will see that he has a regular job, a girlfriend or wife, and lives a reasonably good life. And when you're finished exposing me as a liar, have Bryan Boyd leave a comment on this weblog explaining that he was not attacked by four vicious sociopaths, one of whom attacked him at least once before. Have Bryan Boyd provide a link to his Facebook page or weblog where I can view photographs of Mr. Boyd enjoying his good health. Do something besides whine about the fact that in the information age, being a close female relative of a violent criminal is embarrassing.<p>
And if you are the woman who knowingly chose to marry a violent criminal when you could have chosen almost any one of a million far more civilized men to spend your life with, there is something very important you can do for your children.<p>
You can strongly advise your children to avoid <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2011/02/chicken-soup-with-bully-enablers.html" target="_blank">doing anything</a> they don't want the entire world reading about for the rest of eternity.<p>
Tally Ho Horned Frog.
</b>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-14469552733187188712014-02-01T09:45:00.001-05:002014-02-01T16:16:05.378-05:00Chicken Soup comments on Izzy Kalman's defense of the First Amendment...<b>As readers may already be aware, <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2013/05/chicken-soup-has-been-banished-from.html" target="_blank">Chicken Soup has been prevented from leaving comments on Izzy Kalman's Psychology Today website.</a> When I attempt to leave a comment, I'm rewarded with a blank white screen. After a few attempts, I did what Kalman probably hoped I'd do. I simply stopped trying.<p>
<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-anti-bullying-critic/201401/principal-number-nine-freedom-speech" target="_blank">Then I read his latest article.</a><p>
Izzy Kalman criticizes any effort to restrict what students can say while preventing me from posting comments, not just on his articles, but on every article by every author on the Psychology Today website.<p>
I then found that I could leave comments under the name and e-mail address I'd been using all along as long as I didn't do it from home. Here's what I wrote.<p>
"<i>If you are a public school student and you are physically strong, unusually aggressive, or skilled in the fighting arts...in other words...if other students have good reason to fear you, then you enjoy the right to say anything you want about anyone.<p>
If you are physically weak, unaggressive, and unskilled in the fighting arts, you are free to keep your mouth shut or someone will shut it for you.<p>
By the way...why am I not allowed to post here from my i.p. address? Is my freedom of speech unusually disturbing to you?</i><p>
My comment was titled, "Some are more equal than others" and though I didn't include this description in my comment, I like to think of Kalman's interpretation of our Constitutional Rights as the First Amendment, Columbine Style.<p>
Feel free to let him and his readers know what you think.<p>
</b>Fowl Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02667279541680008202noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6346440360820164367.post-59878733404006619922014-02-01T09:30:00.001-05:002014-02-01T09:31:26.816-05:00Chicken Soup with Matthew Barnett's rapist and attempted murderer enablers...<b>I wrote about <a href="http://chickensoupfortheterroristsoul.blogspot.com/2013/10/chicken-soup-with-matthew-barnett-and.html" target="_blank">Matthew Barnett's behavior</a> in a previous post.<p>
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/01/09/outrage-on-social-media-greets-legal-outcome-of-maryville-alleged-rape-case/" target="_blank">A few weeks ago America once again shamelessly demonstrated its customary level of depraved indifference for violent crime victims.</a> Matthew Barnett received the token, ritual finger wagging from the Judiciary including such horrible, medieval punishments as "a suspended sentence of four months in the county jail and two years of probation." In layman's terms this is roughly equivalent to the "double secret probation" imposed upon Delta House in the movie "Animal House."<p>
Judge Glen Dietrich also imposed seven special restrictions:<p>
1) "No alcohol." <i>Yeah...I'm sure this is enforceable.</i><p>
2) "No contact with the victim." <i>There were no such restrictions placed on the assholes who harassed the victim's family enough to prompt a change of address. Nor was there any mention of the arsonists who burned the victim's home. Blaming an electrical fault is worse than insulting to anyone with an I.Q. over 50.</i><p>
3) "100 hours of community service." <i> No doubt coaching children's football. He is, after all a role model.</i><p>
4) "Restitution of $1800 for counseling services for the victim." <i>No doubt paid for by the wonderful parents who role modeled his majesty's behavior.</i><p>
5) "Drug testing." <i>How often and how much warning will he receive from his politically connected family?</i><p>
6) "Substance abuse counseling." <i>This has a questionable history of success.</i><p>
7) "Acknowledgement of wrongdoing to the victim in the form of a verbal apology delivered by the Jackson County prosecutor. That apology was “heartfelt” and “genuine,” Peters Baker said during the press conference." <i>He wasn't even required to apologize himself. The prosecutor did it for him. This last gem of depraved indifference is especially heartwarming. A politically connected rapist and attempted murderer was saved from the embarrassment of having to deliver a disingenuous verbal apology in person.</i><p>
As the group "Anonymous" tweeted, "Good job America."<p>
I'm sure the world's terrorists are sleeping soundly knowing that we're such a caring and civilized nation.<p>
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