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Humanity in Decline: Spate of Cougar Attacks in Canada Causes Spate of Internet Anti-Human Moralizing

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There have been two attacks by Mountain Lions on humans in Squamish B.C. which most people seemed shocked by, even though any old timer or even better any book written when Cougars roamed wild will show you that while uncommon it is not unusual for America’s big cat to attack humans, specifically children or people who look either injured or disabled. From CBCNews:

Conservation officers in Squamish, B.C., continue to hunt for two more cougars after a rash of attacks, including one in which a mother fought off an attack on her daughter, 3, who couldn’t understand why the big kitty didn’t want to “play nice.”

Five conservation officers aided by two dogs and their handlers eventually tracked the cat through several yards and eventually shot it just off Depot Road in the Brackendale neighbourhood, about 60 kilometres north of Vancouver, four hours after the attack Tuesday evening.

DNA samples taken from the cougar will be used to determine whether it was the one that attacked the child, they said.

The cougar is the second killed by conservation officers since Saturday. The other was shot after two dogs were attacked on a popular hiking trail on Friday and Saturday.

That’s nature. It’s why you take a gun in the woods, or nowadays with people who have never been in the wild making the rules for state land why you need a walking stick, a good knife and a first aid kit when hiking. Animals sometime attack humans, humans must protect themselves and their families. Like this brave mother:

In the attack on Tuesday, the cougar pounced on Maya Espinosa from behind as she and her mother were walking their dog and picking berries in Fisherman’s Park near the Squamish River.

Maureen Lee told CBC News she was turning away to pick a berry when she thought she saw another dog approaching out of the corner of her eye, but it was the cougar coming to attack her daughter, Maya.

“All of a sudden it just flew on her, rolled her a couple of times and grabbed her under its belly on the ground like in the fetal position,” Lee recalled.

“She [Maya] was on her back and he had his paws in her head, and I just knew I had to react quick, so I just jumped in there and wedged myself between the cougar and her on the ground, and I just got up and threw it off my back and grabbed her and booked it,” she said.

The toddler suffered puncture wounds to her left arm and head, but was recovering well, her mother said.

Neighbour Wade Rowland said it appeared the young girl didn’t entirely understand what had happened.

“Everyone’s taking it well, they’re in good spirits,” he said. “The little girl, her big comment was, I guess, ‘Why didn’t the kitty play nice?’ ”

Pablo Espinosa, Maya’s father, told CBC News his daughter thought the cat was playing. She was eager to return to kindergarten to tell her classmate what happened, Lee said.

Astute readers will suspect a theme in the attacks. Dogs and children were involved, and though we can’t be sure I assume most of the dogs were medium sized or smaller. In other words Cougars are attacking meal sized animals, even human ones. What is worrisome is that adult humans are not scaring the big cats off.

Scary stuff, unless you’re some left-wing environmentalist for whom children and people walking their dogs have less “natural rights” than predatory animals who might eat them. Here’s a sample of the kind of comments I saw on this story:

Get this straight: no particular cougar near Squamish ate any human flesh. This makes much of what people are saying, in over 300 posts off topic. Cougars that are in this particular prime real estate area are a huge problem because they are also in Olympic Territory. The “world”, meaning more and more ignorant people are arriving for the “games”. Ignorant wandering around wilderness “parks” during berry picking season are a danger to large animals–they are killed. Unless the B.C. government has already decided to kill off all cougars in that area they should stop killing and start relocating these huge cats and other the other large animals such as bear to areas where deer and rabbits are in abundance. One advantage Canada has is her vast mountainous regions that are sparsely populated by humans. Or…the government should just be truthful and admit that they will do nothing and deal with consequences as they happen.

MOM admits, on the video, that she was irresponsible. I am glad, for her sake and her daughter’s, that she was also courageous. It seems that ignorance rules though–most people writing here have “war mentality”.

Their advice is to kill the cougars so they will be safe. Get this: wars do not create peace; they create hatred. Wilderness trails are NOT SAFE and cannot be made safe by killing. Especially during berry picking season.

Or this gem from PaulStacey:

With 7 billion of us. close as dammit, on this earth, why are we so vicious to those animals that would try to redress the balance?

Or this comment from Bubblebum:

looks like people are all for the killing of innocent wildlife.
yes, innocent. They were walking through a forest, where do you think these creatures live?

maybe i should go wanter through your home, then later one have someone shoot you because you wanted me out of your house?

This is where they live, and that is BC shouldn’t you be careful what woods you wander in to? plus they don’t even know if they shot the cougar that attacked. they randomly killed an animal because they thought it might have been it.

You get the idea. Lefty “nature lovers” are completely separated from the nature they love and fantasize about animals in pre-teen anthropomorphic terms. No animal is “innocent” certainly not when they begin hunting humans or the pets of humans. Humans culling dangerous game isn’t “war” against nature, it is nature. The woods aren’t a cougar’s “living room” or house. Most importantly, humans have a right to follow their nature and make their territory safe.

To these armchair naturalists, a child being eaten is “redressing the balance” by some avenging hand of nature. This is nihilism not nature. The anti-social cheering on death and mayhem (much of it avoidable if liberals would allow people to interact with nature armed as we are meant to) because they simply hate other people. Powerless but angry, wallowing in the imagined misery that gives them their perceived moral licenses to be misanthropic, the commenters above live vicariously through reports of their fellow humans being killed by animals because the animals are doing what they lack the courage to do.

Cheering on a child’s death is almost as repellent as killing one, the difference is not in the character of those who do either, but the degree in which they act out their most evil inclinations.

#CNNFail and the Arrogant Hypocrisy of Twitterverse

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I’m on Twitter and find it a good resource to find articles I want to use recommended by people with similar leanings. It’s also a good way to ensure other bloggers don’t forget about you and stop giving you those sweet, sweet links. On occasion, like the current chaos in Iran, Twitter can be a great resource for on the scene information (and often disinformation) for people looking into those events. But frankly, that’s about it.

“Microbloggers” are rightfully pointing out that those godless commies at CNN have basically not only dropped the ball on coverage of the Iranian elections, they then kicked it into another kid’s yard. They are in turn providing better coverage than CNN which is laudable and a good example of how irrelevant the MSM is going to be soon.You can find a constant stream of Tweets, re-Tweets and links at #iranelections. You’ll also find a similar amount of information on CNN’s failure at #CNNFail. At both you’ll also find people who truly believe that sitting in front of a keyboard Tweeting these events will change the situation on the ground for the better.

This is complete nonsense.

There is only one way to help the Iranians, and “microblogging” the massacre of protesters isn’t it. A heavily armed theocratic regime will not be toppled by people with silly nicknames like “Imabuggin32” Tweeting their support for the protests. Those people in Iran will either overthrow the government or, more likely, will be mowed down in the streets while the arrogant keyboard cowboys of the web type out their cyber finger wagging.

There was a time when Americans went to other countries and fought for the freedom of people. The Spanish Civil War, Japan’s invasion of China, the list goes on and on of conflicts where Americans who were against a regime picked up arms and fought for their convictions. Now they Tweet each other, and will pretend to be shocked when the blood of freedom fighters runs in Iran’s streets and this rebellion CNN isn’t covering does nothing.

Let’s not pretend we’re morally better than the people who stick their heads in the sand and ignore the story, when all we’re doing is talking about it.

Hipster Eye Candy from Tennessee Complains about “White Trash, Hillbilly” Middle America Without Realizing the Irony

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She lamented the “White trash” of her home even though she actually has the phrase “There once was a little girl who never knew love until a boy broke her HEART” tattooed on her side. If there’s anything more White Trash than a woman with a tattoo on her ribcage it’s when the tattoo is some bad song lyric or half-assed philosophizing that’s supposed to make you think she has depth as you stuff singles into her g-string.

I mean come on, but not for the grace of the gods Megan Fox would be doing first shift at a lower end strip club and we all know it. Coming down on the “white trash” that infest the fantasies of lefties is tiresome enough, but since Fox is a pot-smoker from Tennessee covered in tattoos that only make sense when your high you’d think she’d be self aware enough to phrase this nonsense differently:

The “Transformers” bombshell-cum-uninhibited philosophizer also contemplates — reluctantly — what she would say to Megatron to keep him from destroying the world. “I’d barter with him,” she muses to the July issue Total Film UK, “and say instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”

Says the woman who’d be dating carnies if it wasn’t for her “big break” in Hollywood.

Look, I’m from the big city (or the inner city really, but I lived in NYC on and off for more than ten years) so I get it. Blah, blah, If you don’t live in the city and vote Democrat you’re a toothless hillbilly, blah blah. The problem is Fox is pretty much what White trash looks when you slap a layer of pretension on it and market it as “uninhibited.” The truth is that if Fox didn’t make it as an actress she’d be lumped into that sentence by the actress that had her spot, and would be complaining about it while finishing up a shift at Denny’s.

Regardless of politics it’s outrageous to smear people as “White Trash” and especially outrageous when you’re the very definition of what you’re talking about. Loves pot. Check. Broke off engagement to an older guy White guy a little too into hip-hop. Check. Makes her living being a semi-naked hot chick. Double check.

Look at her stats and you’d be hard pressed to tell the difference between her and a Juggalo.

So maybe if you’re a stoner from Tennessee with tattoos that looked like they were planned out in sophomore detention you want to be careful about calling people White Trash. But that’s just my opinion.

Update: John Nolte talks about how classless she is at Big Hollywood.

“Romantic Predators” and the Minimization of Child Rape

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I got an email this morning and I was going to politely, but firmly, brush the sender off but reading through the piece I thought it was important to show people what America’s culture of perpetual victimhood has wrought. The letter comes from Brian who runs a blog called Victimized over the AOC and follows other blogs supposedly dedicated to the “plight” of victims of what I guess they’re calling “romantic abuse” where someone is, prepare yourselves, lied to by potential Internet suitors.

Too bad but I would ignore this or express some sympathy for these sad sacks who had their hearts broken (and accounts emptied no doubt) by some smooth typing virtual Cassanova were it not for the fact that they seem to be claiming that lying to get in some loser’s pants is morally equivalent to raping a child. Here’s the email I opened this morning:

Brian wrote:
I follow Lovefraud (lovefraud.com) and Cyberpaths
(http://cyberpaths.blogspot.com)  which feature sexual/ “romantic” predators
who prey on adults in the same manner molesters prey on kids.

The difference between a pedophile and these “sociopathic seducers” is simply
that “sociopathic seducers” target adults; pedophiles target kids.

Consent to sexual relationships is legally based on the lack of force and an
adult partner. However, there are many factors which can negate consent
morally, even if it doesn’t do so legally.

If someone lies about the true purpose of the “courting,” then meaningful
consent can’t be given, and you have a victim and a perp.

Some have said that in some cases, adults who have been sexually abused as kids
can’t emotionally consent to sexual relationships because they are emotionally
kids until they are treated.

Sociopathic seducers will simply use psychological coercion to gain what they
want from their adult victims, while rapists use force, and pedophiles use
kids.

The concept of “consenting adult” is meaningless because sociopaths will
exploit other power differences besides age, and will do whatever it takes to
make sure they have power over their victims.

Similar age and marriage simply acts as a cover for a sociopath to do their
damage because a 30 year old with a spouse will always be less suspicious that
a 30 year old “loving on” a 15 year old.

As a conservative, you empahsize waiting until marriage, but with these
sociopaths, marriage would simply be a way to access someone’s grown daughter
(or son) in a way similar to a pedophile’s accessing kids.

Website: http://victimsover18.blogspot.com/

Because I feel his heart may be in the right place I feel bad about fisking this steaming pile of Internet nonsense that’s been fertilized with a liberal dose of … well liberalism. This idea that adults are the victims of other adults who fib their way into fellatio is not just a monument to the desire of all people who make bad decisions to be seen as victims, but it leads to the most evil and wicked of all logical fallacies, namely that a one night stand or relationship gone bad is morally equivalent to the sexual exploitation of children. How any adult could write or say such a thing with a straight face is beyond me.

But let me take some of Brian’s argument point by point:

The difference between a pedophile and these “sociopathic seducers” is simply
that “sociopathic seducers” target adults; pedophiles target kids.

No, that is not the difference at all. The “sociopathic seducers” Brian is complaining about are just shiftless slut hunters who know that if you say (or type) the right things to certain people you’ll be rewarded with sex. Pedophiles prey on children specifically because they are incapable of fending off an adult’s advances, they are at the mercy of the predator. The “victims” in Brian’s scenario refused to fend off someone’s advances, and were at the mercy of no one. Remember that we’re not talking about domestic violence here, when you read the sites it is clear that what we’re talking about are people feeling betrayed by their online lovers. To compare this in any way to child rape is disgusting.

Consent to sexual relationships is legally based on the lack of force and an
adult partner. However, there are many factors which can negate consent
morally, even if it doesn’t do so legally.

If someone lies about the true purpose of the “courting,” then meaningful
consent can’t be given, and you have a victim and a perp.

According to this every woman who stuffs her bra and kisses her hot friend at the bar is raping the men she dates when he finds out she’s not a busty bisexual swinger. This is juvenile sour grapes masquerading as victimization. If you’ve consented to sex with a person and you’re an adult, finding out he isn’t as rich/important/single as he purported to be is not rape. It is not abuse, just as the person who told you a tramp stamp of your boyfriend’s name would be a good idea (and still look fabulous when you’re 50) didn’t abuse you. In these cases you are abusing yourself. Affairs go bad, it’s part of life and it isn’t being victimized. Again to claim this is similar in some way to raping children is completely unacceptable.

Some have said that in some cases, adults who have been sexually abused as kids
can’t emotionally consent to sexual relationships because they are emotionally
kids until they are treated.

I don’t know who these “some” are but infantilizing abuse victims serves no one. While I agree that there are victims of sexual abuse that may act out in ways detrimental to themselves, not respecting their boundaries and wishes is a continuation of their abuse. Deciding that someone else can decide when she can give consent is more of a rape than this supposed romantic predation. Some people who are abused go on to have good marriages, some don’t. Some need more therapy than others. This is irrelevant to the point at hand. This is a straw man designed to garner sympathy for this unseemly idea of “romantic predators” by linking the “victims” to a group I would support in a cynical ploy to deflect attention from the essential fatuity of this movement. Adults, whether they are the survivors of childhood abuse or not, should be treated and respected as adults capable of making their own decisions.

Sociopathic seducers will simply use psychological coercion to gain what they
want from their adult victims, while rapists use force, and pedophiles use
kids.

I suppose failing that, they fall back on hypnosis and Black Magic. If “psychological coercion” is, as I suspect, Brain’s euphemism for being manipulative then strippers and panhandlers are predators too. I suspect he’s claiming that people saying something like “C’mon baby, it hurts!” in the time honored “blue ball” ploy are morally equivalent to rapists and child molesters. If you can make that argument, you are at best childishly naive. There is no similarity between a child being raped, a woman being raped and someone smooth talking his way into intercourse.

The concept of “consenting adult” is meaningless because sociopaths will
exploit other power differences besides age, and will do whatever it takes to
make sure they have power over their victims.

No the concept of consenting adults is never meaningless, it is the basis of all sexual morality. When two adults both agree to have sexual relations, no matter how big a whopper one or both told when they met, they are both agreeing to sex. Non adults do not have that capacity and non-consenting adults are not having the same experience. Even with a cad the sex may be good and I suspect sex with a gold digger to be fantastic. Both these people may be horrible people who getting into a relationship with is a mistake. But does that make the sex with them the same as child rape? Was sex with Kendra Wilkinson a rape of Hugh Hefner just because she was lying when she said she loved him?

Similar age and marriage simply acts as a cover for a sociopath to do their
damage because a 30 year old with a spouse will always be less suspicious that
a 30 year old “loving on” a 15 year old.

I’m not sure what this means but I assume it means that some douche he knows is cheating on his wife with a teen. In which case call a cop, but claiming that the marriage itself is the same as rape is a sad misunderstanding of adult relationships, and an indelicate way to make an argument.

As a conservative, you empahsize waiting until marriage, but with these
sociopaths, marriage would simply be a way to access someone’s grown daughter
(or son) in a way similar to a pedophile’s accessing kids.

Uh, no. As a “Conservative” I believe in limited government, low taxes and a strong national defense. I don’t “emphasize” waiting for sex until marriage, nor do I care what any adult does sexually unless they are really victimizing others as in breaking the law. This immature understanding of Conservatives is just another facet of the over all immaturity of the movement Brian is representing.

The linchpin of these people’s argument is that there are “genetic” sociopaths who are constantly stalking them and we must in some way keep them from doing things which, if I understand Brian correctly, are not only legal but pretty much not my business. These so-called “romantic predators” have rights like every other American, including the right to get married and pick up losers  (sorry I mean victims) on the Internet. Aside from the desire to be stroked as if they suffered a brutal rape or years of horrendous abuse I’m not even sure what these people want.

But I suspect all they want is for people like me or Pagans Against Child Abuse or Absolute Zero to stand up for them the same way we do for kids. In America we have a cult centered around victimization that validates bad choices (like “dating” online or sleeping with some dude you just met) with a theology of  weakness and populates these people’s inner universes with a demonology of predators that includes anyone they feel slighted by.

The one night stand they had is now an encounter with a vicious rapist. Their high school crush on a teacher was emotional exploitation perpetrated by a criminal genius who secretly got his or her jollies ignoring them. Nothing is their fault, no relationship can have simply not worked out. They are perpetual victims of the world’s predation and in their minds they deserve the same sympathy and time from the rest of us as a child who has been raped.

In a sense they are the predators, greedy for the psychic investment of the rest of us into their petty and infantile lives. Brian and the people he supports claim that there is some connection, some equivalence, between their failed relationships and children being raped. What kind of person must you be to even think I, or any rational person, would entertain an idea so vile?

Thanks for Making Us Look Good Crystal Samuels

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Where the northeast from which I hail has 24 hour diners, here in the south the ubiquitous Waffle House is the place to go for a late night hamburger or an insomnia induced coffee run. I just got back from one a few hours ago, around 3:00am. The food is fair, the customers (as you’d expect) tend to be drunker than I like but the waitresses have always been nice to me and my wife. But then again I’m not Crystal Samuels.

Crystal Samuels, pictured above, was at a Waffle House somewhere in Clarendon County, South Carolina. She was with a few of her, shall we say robust, friends who either brought food into the Waffle House or had ordered to-go food but began eating it at the counter. A waitress named Yakeisha Ward took exception to this, words were exchanged and classy Crystal Samuels threw a waffle at Yakeisha Ward.

You read that right. She threw a waffle at the waitress.

Needless to say, Ward taught Samuels and company an important lesson in manners:

That’s when it got ugly. Samuel says she threw a waffle at the waitress. “I did actually throw some food but it didn’t hit her,” says Samuel. “That’s when she (Ward) jumped across the counter and we got into it,” says Samuel.

Clarendon County Sheriff Randy Garrett says the altercation continued outside where he says Ward got a gun from her car and a gun magazine from her trunk.

“It’s poor judgment on her part trying to settle this matter with a weapon. either way she had time to think about what she was doing when she was walking to her car,” says Garrett.

Investigators say Ward’s gun discharged during the altercation. They say a bullet fragment struck Samuel in the arm.

“Deputies were close by when they rolled up in the parking lot the victim and the suspect were still engaged in a fight,” says Garrett.

Before it ended, authorities say Ward struck the victim in the head with the gun.

I’m loath to suggest Samuels deserved a pistol whipping with a loaded gun of course. Ward should have left the gun unloaded (safety first after all) but Samuels and her rude friends had that ass whippin’ coming.

Breitbart has video of Samuels proudly recounting how she drove a waitress to attempted murder which is sure to make even Al Sharpton cringe. Crystal, I’ll say this so you can understand it: how you gonna’be proud of making a waitress beat your ass in a parking lot of a waffle house?

Stories like this make it nice to be able to “pass” if you know what I mean. But on behalf of Black folk with dignity everywhere I just wanted to say thanks for making us look good Crystal. Maybe next week you can get a bank teller to come after you with a bat.