Tim Moen

When a 10 year old boy is anally raped by an important sports figure its called 'molestation' by the media. Why is that? You never hear of an adult who experienced forcible penetration as having been molested...that would sound ridiculous...they were raped. It's a violent act perpetrated by an evil person, not a sanitized and unfortunate experience that the term 'molestation' conjures. This purposeful choice of words should tell us something about the media's message which is essentially this, "Its unfortunate what happened to these kids but not as horrible as Sandusky's betrayal of the fans." The Penn State sports historian in this video confirms this at 2:40 of this video, expressing his anger not at the fact that Sandusky destroyed children's lives but rather that he destroyed Penn States reputation.(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45285321#45285321 )  No wonder the coverup goes up and down the hierarchy of this sporting institut...

Two women are standing in line for hours in 1983 Soviet Russia waiting for their loaf of stale bread. One woman says, "We are blessed that the government provides us with our daily bread, could you imagine living in America where the government doesn't even provide them with bread? Thank God for our Soviet hero Lenin!" When I listen to people give thanks for our Canadian health care system and praise its founder Tommy Douglas I think of the long line and the stale bread that all of us Canadians have universal access to. This is the paradigm most of us Canadians are stuck in. Just as Soviets couldn't imagine a world where the government wasn't providing stale bread and ill-fitting shoes, we can't imagine a world where the government doesn't provide us with healthcare. Mark Steyn points out, "A citizen of an advanced democracy expects to be able to choose from dozens of different breakfast cereals...and hundreds of movies...but when it comes t...