Does spelling count?

I wonder if my old age is making me less tolerant. I somehow just don't want to tackle an article in which the author can not even verify the correct spelling of a surname in a notorious murder case. Often we IDIs, as those who believe an intruder did it are often called, face criticism for refusing to even read much less give serious consideration to some of the utter tripe that is written on this case. Similarly, those who believe in flying saucers or multiple personalities often criticize non-believers for being too dismissive of various "evidence" that true-believers are fond of touting. The JonBenet Ramsey case has featured a handwriting "expert" whose qualifications consisted of experience as a sales clerk in a store that sold pens. Yet even that so-called expert, much beloved by the RDIs, managed to spell JonBenet's surname correctly.

So what should I make of the following? Is it worth my pondering this at all? Or should I simply dismiss from consideration any article wherein the author attempts to rope in some tangential reference to JonBenet Ramsey in order to buttress his arguments on a totally different topic?

"The scandals about sexually abusive priests ... [are] part of the fallout from a half-century of insidious sabotage by ultraliberal revisionists."

"The percentage of sexually abusive priests is notably higher among non-Catholic clerics and the number of offenders higher for secular schoolteachers -- a fact that the media persistently refuse to note."

"The present furor, though partly justified,..." (Did the author really say that the present furor over pedophile priests is but partly justified)?

"We condemn child pornography as criminal but applaud the parading of little girls, such as Jonbenet Ramsay, in beauty contests and teenage rock stars who do pole dances in concert before mobs of idolatrous children."

"Our violent reaction against pedophilia may be prompted by the ... mental equivalent of pedophilia that the media incessantly spew." (Ah,,, I get it. The author is asserting that the fault lies with the media not the pedophiles).

Excerpted from: American Thinker of April 11, 2010
Salvaging the Wreckage of the Catholic Church by Paul Shlichta.


Frankly, I think I'll not bother with it and will simply move on to an email I've received concerning a mid-western blackjack player's legal action after the casino tried to bar him from playing because he is a card-counter who made sixty-five grand in two years while getting free drinks from lovely ladies. Ah,,, what a life! And much more fun than tackling the work of authors who refer to JonBenet "Ramsay".

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Followed by the usual rants and wagging fingers that erroneously jump to associate JonBenet Ramsey's murder with beauty pageants, over at his Twitter account aplusk , Ashton Kutcher tweaks out a little over a blog post illustrating some pretty extreme kiddie pageant pictures. Can't say as I blame him or anyone else for thinking this pageant stuff is on the fringe.

The unproven association between JonBenet's murder and pageants has been speculated for the same 12 years the case has been unsolved. And during this time and beforehand it is hard to find a single award winning pre-teen pageant participant that has been stalked, tortured, molested and killed by some demented and perverted stranger as JonBenet was. (As a heads up, there is a story about to break on a major media outlet about children being sold on the internet. Once it's out and if images of the children are published one won't find any made-up costumed pageant types - you may find images of your own child.)

In the meantime since JonBenet's murder, hundreds of thousands of children have been beaten, molested, starved, medically neglected, sold into slavery or murdered. There are little ones have committed suicide in reaction to bullying and harassment. I wonder if the little girls spotlighted in the UnCoached blog feel a little embarrassed or even perhaps harassed by the attention and subsequent negative readers comments?

Then there are accidental deaths from adults allowing children to do this, this and this.

It's easy to get all righteous and worked up about the oddities of child pageants, maybe much easier than thinking about or understanding the need for resources for real and documented dangers children face everyday.

The Power of Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter Account
Published at UnCoached
by Natty

"...Then all of a sudden I see this account pop up. Sure enough it’s Ashton Kutcher tweeting my little pre-teen gallery that reads “has anyone seen this? it kinda freaks me out.”

So to Mr. Kutcher. Thanks for the little boost buddy!..."

From the comment gallery

# Kellyon 02 Aug 2009 at 2:28 pm
How quickly they forget Jon-Benet Ramsey… this isn't dress up--this is prostitution...

Rebeccaon 02 Aug 2009 at 3:36 pm
So loving of these mothers to take away a childhood. Does no one remember JonBenet Ramsey. SHE never had a childhood either.

# Jession 02 Aug 2009 at 1:09 pm
They look like midget women preparing for a circus freak show!

# Chocoon 02 Aug 2009 at 3:12 pm
They’ll grow up to be perfect f k machines and dumb wives. Oh, the american man’s dream!

And just for the record, here is a real danger, one of the many legitimate dangers children face every day--

over baked

Finished reading a rant on the docu-drama Toddlers and Tiaras where but of course JonBenet is referenced. No surprise there on either count. I don't get much about TV or beauty pageants, never have and probably never will. But if beauty pageants are abusive it would be much better debated on how pageants may or have been found to be damaging to a child rather than unfounded overblown hysteria that JonBenet's parents or even JonBenet herself somehow invited her brutal murder because she was a pageant participant.

In the same way I don't get beauty pageants, I don't get anyone that considers any child of any age as capable of being sexy no matter what the child might be doing voluntarily, by coercion or force.

Have a look; what do you see?

We can probably agree sexy is subjective, belongs to the eye of the beholder but me thinkest some doth protest too much.

If you find these children sexy, you have a problem.
A big one.



Pedophiles covet children because they are just that, children. Sure, predators frequently place themselves in situations where they have access to many children like organized sports, schools or churches...in our neighborhoods where kids play, ride bikes or escape this summer heat with water sports in pony tails and swim suits.

I am confident nobody would be able to find a pedophile that dressed up a pre-pubescent molestation victim in adult-like evening wear with gobs of stage make-up and excessively teased helmet-head hair. But go ahead, give it a twirl.