Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) gave a speech on the senate floor yesterday to push for “Rosa’s Law”. Rosa’s law is a piece of legislation that mandate the phrase “mentally disabled” be used in place of “mentally retarded” when referring to such citizens on health and education paperwork.

“In changing the language, we believe it will be the start of new attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities.”

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This madness must end. America is in the middle of two strenuous wars, and we have an economy on the brink of total collapse, yet we have a senator who seems preoccupied with the use of a certain descriptor used in government documentation. Yet again, another bleeding heart Democrat who is more concerned with feeling good, rather than doing good for the nation as a whole.

Now, before I get chastised for being heartless by those who would accuse me of standing in the way of a little girl’s supposed happiness, I would like to disclose the following:

I am physically disabled. I have Cerebral Palsy, which prevents me from walking without the assistance of an orthopedic device or another person. I have been called many things, such as “disabled”, “differently-abled”, “handicapped”, “handi-capable”, “crippled”, and a few other words along the way that can’t be shared here.

Guess what?

In spite of all the labels that have been assigned to me and others like me, one thing has remained constant:

My condition has never changed. People need to learn that while words do have meaning, which is important, context is also a key component in this equation. For instance, “retard” means to slow or hinder. It does not mean “stupid”, and the modifiers “mental” or “mentally” refers to the type of impediment. It is not, in and of itself, an attempt at ridicule or character assassination. Referring to someone as “mentally retarded” in official paperwork is not the same as yelling it in anger toward the person who cut you off at the intersection. It just isn’t. The words have a benign meaning. It’s the context in which they are used that can change them.

Quite frankly, when one looks at this objectively, this proposed law is nothing more than a time wasting exercise by those in our legislature, which will change nothing, except maybe making a few self-loathers feel better about themselves.

For the Record, the namesake of this legislation, Rosa Marcellino, has Down’s syndrome. She is, for all intents and purposes, mentally retarded. She is also 7 years old. With that in mind, one could probably say with a high degree of certainty that Rosa has no interest in official health and education paperwork at this point in her life. So, it stands to reason that this crusade was most likely started by a family member looking for attention, and Rosa is to be used as a face for it.

Honestly, that is just sad.

More than that, has anyone thought of the road this could lead us down? This is one step away from thought policing. How long will it be before legislation is introduced which will prevent us from saying certain words? It may very well be just around the corner. Such measures may never pass, but the mere possibility of such things being proposed should frighten any freedom-loving American.

We should be more concerned with today’s truly pressing matters. There are circumstances today which threaten our very way of life, yet some of our legislative officials seemed more concerned with how you feel, and more importantly, how they feel about themselves. The future of America is too important. We shouldn’t be wasting time on this drivel.

Words are just words. The only powers they have to offend are the ones that we decide to give them.

That’s right. Perhaps we could even send them to “residential schools”. You know, give them a fair shot at becoming a more integrated part of the Canadian cultural mosaic.

No? Bad idea? Unconstitutional? It will never fly?

Why not? These kids in many (if not all) cases are being taught to hate Canada, hate Canadians, hate infidels, loathe Jews, commit acts of violence…

HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:176] : Allah’s Apostle said, “You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, ‘O ‘Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.’ “

How dare we discriminate on the basis of faith, belief or color of flesh? If these parents (abhorrent though they may be) can have their daughter taken away for learning and espousing their belief system, then certainly all children raised in Muslim homes are in danger.

Disagree? Why?

In the UK, a young boy aged just 13 years old became a father via his 15 year old girlfriend. Well, at least they think he’s the father. It could be one of the other six guys she was shagging.

To add insult to grievous injury, parents are now being told by leaders of Britain´s Department of Children, Schools and Family that they shouldn’t try to instill sexual values in their children. Instead they should “NOT tell their children what is ‘right or wrong’ about having sex,” but simply serve up information about methods of contraception.

It’s as if Britain has given up on its kids as kids. They are sexualized little adults now, running around the Isles humping and breeding like bunnies.

However, Britain’s shoulder shrugging where child sexuality is concerned isn’t consistent. And that’s what bugs me.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl earned almost £100,000 a year working as a high-class prostitute, it was revealed yesterday.

By day the teenager attended classes but at night she was regularly paid hundreds of pounds for sex.

The girl, who cannot be identified because of her age, is believed to have been working for an escort agency based in Newcastle.

She lied about her age before going on to earn £1,700 a week, meeting dozens of men on school nights and at the weekend.

Her double life was exposed in November when a suspicious teacher searched her schoolbag and found condoms, a card with the name of her pimp and details of the agency she worked for.

The school alerted police and officers later searched the £200,000 family home in South Tyneside, finding £8,060 in cash hidden in the loft, a court heard.

She obviously comes from a decent family, à la Amy Fisher. She keeps up with schoolwork and isn’t a bad child in the sense we know. But she’s underage - an innocent.

Most of you, my readers, know of my past in the sex industry. What you don’t know is that in my teen years, I was using that same entrepreneurial spirit to get what I wanted. It wasn’t cash, but there was definitely a barter system in place. I’ll give you this if you give me that. It’s actually how I passed math. I looked after my body and my sexual health, never got pregnant, never sat around popping out illegitimate brats in a council estate on the taxpayer dime.

So was I an innocent? Or was I sexualized at a young age? I think we all know the answer to that one.

So from an objective perspective, knowing what we know of the way Britain is encouraging its children to hump indiscriminately, what did this 15 year old girl do that was so bad? Was it that she didn’t get knocked up and collect welfare? Was it that she may not have been a victim at all? I sure wasn’t. She followed the rules: used condoms, kept up with her “real life”… the only thing she did wrong was to not depend on the state or cry victimhood.

Britain needs to decide whose side it’s on when it comes to kids and sex. Because right now, their message is more than a little mixed.

N.S. mom given probation for improperly dressing baby for cold

If she were one of Canada’s protected and exalted natives and had actually allowed her babies to freeze to death in the snow, she would have been given a sentencing circle and a new feather.

She is a drunk though, so she’ll be chucked into rehab. Hmmm… do our sterling natives ever get chucked into The Betty? Or is getting wasted and stupid/violent just part of the “culture”?

Funny, I never remember my grandfather or his brothers even having a beer. What’s up with that? Are shiftless drunken Injuns a new phenomenon?

Anyway, back to this stupid woman.

She takes her toddler outside in sub-zero temperatures, dressed in ill-fitting pajamas.

According to one article:

“She’s as mystified as everyone else as to why she did not put the clothes on the baby,”

In both cases - that of this woman, Kerri Jean King, and that of the Saskatchewan drunken Injun, Christopher Pauchay - there’s no jail. She gets probation and rehab, and has had her daughter taken away. A good start, I’d say. But why haven’t Mr. Pauchay’s remaining children been taken into care, as well?

More double standards. Hang ‘em both.

I knew deep down the other day that my off-hand comment about peanut allergies and other designer suburban diseases in my post about bad journalism would elicit a response. Specifically, I knew that the moveon.org of the nut hunters would be out scanning the internet for heathen words like mine, which would threaten not only Little Joey with the anaphylaxis problem, but that also threaten their very belief that they should be telling anyone’s children what they can and can’t take for lunch. Seriously, with the exception of a cigar and a beer, the kids should have the right to whatever the parent packs.

But I digress. The third comment on my post was from Nutzi scold Dad Ken, telling me about his terrible wind from that piece of cheese he ate in 1973. Poor bastard. I feel sorry for him. No, not because he’s bloated, but because he has nothing else to do but scour the internet looking for comments from people like me that turn his world order on its ass.

That said, one of Kathy’s readers put is all into perspective.

So a few months ago my annoying relative with her peanut threatened hellspawn decided she was going to drum up support to make the nearby town “peanut free”. One of her acolytes wanted to know if my business would support the initiative. “Without reservation” said I. And then I thanked her for setting the precedent.

“What precedent?”

“Well, you see, I’m an alcoholic. I cannot drink it, I cannot be around it, and even having alcohol for sale where I live places me in jeopardy. My doctors will have no problem attesting to this as it’s essentially a life threatening allergy. So once you get peanuts banned, you’ve established a legal precedent for me to have all alcohol removed from [name of town]. I will get the bars closed, the liquor stores shut down, and the town declared an alcohol free zone.”

“You can’t DO that!!!” [She's almost bug-eyed -- this is the dumb @#$% who shows up at family events like baseball parties thrown for our kids with four cases of beer in the back of her SUV, because it's good for kids to see their parents getting @#%-faced and then drive home with them after they've consumed 10 beers apiece.]

“Why not? What makes peanuts so special? You don’t think there aren’t children being put at risk by alcohol? How many children have to die so you can drink a Bud on a Friday night?”

Way to fuck ‘em with their own dick.

All Canadian taxpayers are. Isn’t that wild? This year, Canada is funding a queer child porn, via my tax dollars and yours. Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for bringing this little business venture to my attention.

At this year’s InsideOut, Toronto’s Gay & Lesbian film fest that took place in May, a movie called “Babysitting Andy” was screened.

What do you do if you’re nine and nobody will tell you what ’fellatio’ means? When Andy’s uncle and his boyfriend arrive to babysit, she corners them with a Supersoaker and they can do nothing but comply.

Well, I’m going to contact cybertips.ca and turn myself in. I urge all Canadians to do the same. Turn yourselves in and take your lumps as child pornographers.

As an aside, when Ezra prints cartoons of Mohammad, that’s a hate crime. But when the government funds child pornography, that’s “art“.

While these poor kids’ mother is hardly a brilliant parent, if, as Dawg conjectures, the rule is “teach hate, lose kids” then her capacity as a parent is not in issue one way or another. So on that basis the Khadr’s would have lost their kids the instant the authorities became aware of the jihadi views of the parents. I certainly hope Mohamed Elmasry doesn’t have kids because his political/religious views might count as hatred. Anti-Zionist? Lose your kids. Black mother in the Jane Finch corridor blaming whitey for black peoples’ problems - better watch her step. Catholics and fundamentalist who teach their children that abortion is murder and abortionists murderers…no kids for you! Environmentalists who tell their children that the people who run big corporations are killing the Earth and should go to jail…kidless.

But, and one cannot help but notice what this lame brained mum did, maybe we should set the standard higher. Perhaps the test should be that you have to actually do something like draw on your kids. (Frankly I’d start with the parents of the cringing little moppets who are stuck having their faces painted for National holidays.) For example telling your female children that they have to wear a head scarf (or a sack) or Uncle Ali will be over to behead them? Perhaps it would make sense for teachers, as soon as they see a little Muslim girl wearing the hajib to ask if Fatima really wants to wear it and to keep pushing until they are absolutely certain Fatima is not being coerced at home.

I can’t help but think there are far more dangerous parents in Canada who should never have been able to hang onto their children. But then again, that would be politically improper to say, wouldn’t it? Easier just to go after the crazy white bitch.

A 12-year old girl hasn’t yet hit puberty, but because she’s threatening to hold her breath till she turns blue, her mother and doctors will give her whatever she asks for. In this case, a sex change.

The girl is one of the youngest patients in Australia granted permission to begin a sex swap.

The court was told early intervention was needed because the child was stressed and anxious at the prospect of starting her period and had threatened self-harm.

Sounds like she needs a good spanking, followed by a talk about the birds and the bees, instead of a complete gender reassignment. First of all, the mother is afraid of her own child, and of standing up to her. Second, what ever happened to the notion of tomboy? Most girls who prefer to be boys grow up to marry boys. And what of the ones that don’t? Well, when they are 25 or whatever, they can make the decision to become boys. But not at 12.

A few things that weren’t permitted to me over the years: I could not get laser eye surgery before I was 21, because my eyes had not yet finished developing and changing. I was not permitted tubal ligation under the age of 35, in case I changed my mind (which I have done - and she may do so too). Voting. Marrying Gordie from across the street when I was 4.

Now, I may have whined and stomped my feet, or even held my breath till I turned blue, but these things just weren’t going to happen. Not unless I found an unethical quack to do them. And frankly, who wants their life in the hands of an unethical quack?

This story sounds more like failed parenting as the result of a divorce than any inherent need in the child. She’s crying out for attention, and her mother is indulging her whims. Why not just get her a pony and be done with it? Or better yet: Instead of giving her everything her confused little heart desires, why not give her some discipline and some boundaries?

H/t: Kathy

Are your children happy? In one of the grossest displays of nanny-statism, British schools are introducing “happiness tests” for children as young as four years old.

Children as young as four are to take “happiness tests” in a controversial drive to force schools to improve the well-being of pupils, it has emerged.

Thousands of youngsters are expected to be quizzed on whether they are feeling optimistic, confident, loved and interested in other people.

They will be set questionnaires similar to the self-help quizzes found in women’s magazines to check they are “feeling good about myself” and “dealing with problems well”.

Tellingly, the article does not advise what happens if a child is deemed “unhappy”. I assume the Labour-government thought-police will saunter in to remove the child from his unhappy environment and send him to a Labour Youth training and indoctrination camp. Chilling.

The Government’s £20million emotional literacy initiative encourages activities such as “worry boxes”, where pupils write down their anxieties and post them into a box, and “emotional barometers”,

If I were still paying taxes in Britain, I’d want my money back.