Criticism of John Walsh/America's Most Wanted

[swede]

Staying awake with a loaded gun in your hands because you're afraid of burglars is a disproportionate response to real danger.

I've had lights turn themselves on in the middle of the night twice in the past couple months, which leads to the standard sweep of the house with my police baton in hand, then about an hour of staying awake listening for creepy noises. There seem to be three possibilities:

1) A ghost is being a real asshole.

2) Nutz's dad did something to our electrical system that causes electrical impulses to flip the switches.

3) I'm somehow leaving the switches exactly in the half way position at night, and they eventually flip one way or the other - only noticing when they flip on obviously.

4) Someone's breaking in at night, bypassing the security system, turning on lights, then fleeing before I wake up without taking anything.

All three seem unlikely, but honestly #1 seems most likely. Is that in irrational response?

It may not be.

Was your house built over a cemetery, or had someone been abused and murdered in the basement? I've felt the cold chill of a wandering human spirit as it passed through my body and filled me with mortal dread! Such supernatural and paranormal phenomenon are not unknown to me.

It never turned on the lights, though. That part might be Nutz's dad. Did he screw with the electrical panel?

[Kiwon]

I agree with Kiwon. Why even post the last two sentences?

Maybe because the journalist is trying to point out that shows like Walsh's have contributed to sensationalizing crime and to making us fearful of the unknown. There's a difference between being savvy around strangers and being afraid that anyone who looks like they don't belong in the neighborhood is really an axe murderer. And the journalist is arguing that Walsh's show contributes to erasing that distinction, while at the same time turning other people's suffering into entertainment (that's my take, not the author's).

Yhello, if the author wants to make those points then he can write exactly what you did!

The focus of the article is the conclusion of the Adam Walsh investigation.

And then, secondarily, John Walsh's contributions to preventing crime are mentioned.

The writer is emblematic of this very shallow consciousness today that positive has to be balanced with negative, praise balanced with criticism. Good cannot just stand on its own.

The last two sentences in the article serve no productive purpose (other than to indirectly warn parents not to send their kids to Mount Holyoke College).

The focus of the article is not the conclusion of the investigation. That is your interpretation.

Article link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/..._us/adam_walsh
Article Title: Fla. police close books on '81 Walsh killing

I guess next that you are going to tell me that the record cold temps and decreased sun spot activity are irrefutable proof that global warming is a man-made phenomenon.

The term is climate change. Hard to discuss anything with those who can't even get the terminology right.

No, sorry, the religious zealots in the Church of Global Warming don't get to change the terms willy-nilly.

"Man-made global warming" was their mantra up until their supporting data was discredited and their false "scientific consensus" exposed.

More fun reading for your enjoyment....

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/17/scientists-scoff-at-ap-global-warming-story/

Speaking of hot air. you don't really believe in man-made Global Warming/Climate Change, do you?

What "green" lifestyle changes have you made to help save us all from Al Gore's "frying pan?"

[Tyrone Bigguns]

I agree with Kiwon. Why even post the last two sentences?

Maybe because the journalist is trying to point out that shows like Walsh's have contributed to sensationalizing crime and to making us fearful of the unknown. There's a difference between being savvy around strangers and being afraid that anyone who looks like they don't belong in the neighborhood is really an axe murderer. And the journalist is arguing that Walsh's show contributes to erasing that distinction, while at the same time turning other people's suffering into entertainment (that's my take, not the author's).

Yhello, if the author wants to make those points then he can write exactly what you did!

The focus of the article is the conclusion of the Adam Walsh investigation.

And then, secondarily, John Walsh's contributions to preventing crime are mentioned.

The writer is emblematic of this very shallow consciousness today that positive has to be balanced with negative, praise balanced with criticism. Good cannot just stand on its own.

The last two sentences in the article serve no productive purpose (other than to indirectly warn parents not to send their kids to Mount Holyoke College).

The focus of the article is not the conclusion of the investigation. That is your interpretation.

Article link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081216/..._us/adam_walsh
Article Title: Fla. police close books on '81 Walsh killing

I guess next that you are going to tell me that the record cold temps and decreased sun spot activity are irrefutable proof that global warming is a man-made phenomenon.

The term is climate change. Hard to discuss anything with those who can't even get the terminology right.

No, sorry, the religious zealots in the Church of Global Warming don't get to change the terms willy-nilly.

"Man-made global warming" was their mantra up until their supporting data was discredited and their false "scientific consensus" exposed.

More fun reading for your enjoyment....

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/17/scientists-scoff-at-ap-global-warming-story/

Speaking of hot air. you don't really believe in man-made Global Warming/Climate Change, do you?

What "green" lifestyle changes have you made to help save us all from Al Gore's "frying pan?"

From your hotair source..“Global climate change is occurring in many places in the world,” O’Brien said.

[SkinBasket]

Staying awake with a loaded gun in your hands because you're afraid of burglars is a disproportionate response to real danger.

I've had lights turn themselves on in the middle of the night twice in the past couple months, which leads to the standard sweep of the house with my police baton in hand, then about an hour of staying awake listening for creepy noises. There seem to be three possibilities:

1) A ghost is being a real asshole.

2) Nutz's dad did something to our electrical system that causes electrical impulses to flip the switches.

3) I'm somehow leaving the switches exactly in the half way position at night, and they eventually flip one way or the other - only noticing when they flip on obviously.

4) Someone's breaking in at night, bypassing the security system, turning on lights, then fleeing before I wake up without taking anything.

All three seem unlikely, but honestly #1 seems most likely. Is that in irrational response?

It may not be.

Was your house built over a cemetery, or had someone been abused and murdered in the basement? I've felt the cold chill of a wandering human spirit as it passed through my body and filled me with mortal dread! Such supernatural and paranormal phenomenon are not unknown to me.

It never turned on the lights, though. That part might be Nutz's dad. Did he screw with the electrical panel?

Windigo opened my dryer door in the basement once after I mocked a movie version of him. I think he also randomly changed the settings on the dishwasher for a couple months after that. Since we moved, though, nothing supernatural has happened until this light problem. It happens again, and I'm going to throw down the flaming fist of justice on this ghostie ho. How dare it contribute to global warming by leaving my lights on at night?

[SkinBasket]

Or maybe it's Wendigo again. Pissed that I still don't know how to spell his name.


OOOOohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnndeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegggooooooo!!!!

[Kiwon]

What "green" lifestyle changes have you made to help save us all from Al Gore's "frying pan?"

Com'on....a little transparency here....answer the question.

What are doing to save poor little Kiwon from the big, bad Arctic glacier that melting and going to drown me?

[texaspackerbacker]

I agree with what Patler said here. Teaching "stranger/danger" has a much bigger benefit than downside.

My grandsons, as well as other teen and preteen males I know of, have much more knowledge--healthy, IMO--of what perverts do to boys and why/how to avoid them. This can be looked at as a decline in innocence from earlier generations, but face it, the threat really is greater now than it was then.

At the risk of stirring things up with our politically correct and gay-worshipping leftists in here, I will just say, I blame the promotion of homosexuality in entertainment, etc. for the significant worsening of the problem.