I know next to nothing about Tyra Banks aside from her being a model and I’ve never watched more than a few channel-surfing minutes of any reality show but, apparently, the “Tyra Banks Show” seems to have rocked the sox off many parents of teens and pre-teens.

Many, but not all.  Some parents both understand and accept the new social-sexual paradigm.

Two interrelated series on this website, (three articles on “Teachers Gone Wild” in August, 2008 and an earlier series on those teens at Gloucester High in Massachusetts who entered into a “pregnancy pact,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=201, discussed America’s blossoming teen and teacher sexuality.)

I naively thought I had covered a good portion of what had to be covered on that subject.  (Anyone interested in specifics on those series, perform a site search by typing either “Gloucester” or “Teachers” in the search box.)

I wasn’t even close to being thorough on the topic. 

For those who forgot what went on in Gloucester, the scandal which garnered international attention involved some 17 girls, mostly sophomores, who agreed to get pregnant just for the fun of it and so they could raise their cherubs together while still in high school.  To accomplish their goal, they recruited very willing males, some in their twenties, to impregnate them.

Naturally, and hopefully after parents got these kids by the scruff of their necks and spelled out the reality of the long-term consequences of their actions and after explaining that pleasures are attended by responsibilities, the details and the numbers have been changed since then.  The pact, if not the pregnancies, has even been denied by some of the alleged participants.

What is irrefutable is that there were some teen pregnancies at Gloucester High last Spring, much more than the average, and that the high school was an active facilitator in the sordid mess by establishing an in-school day care center which allowed the kids to tend to their kids and even take them to classes. 

The principal, one Joseph Sullivan resigned in disgrace while protesting his innocence: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/08/gloucester_high.html

However, back to the immediate subject, the “Tyra Banks Show” ...

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Late breaking news:  Barack Hussein Obama won the presidency of the United States on November 4th, 2008.

Okay, that’s a tad late for late breaking news but I’ve been in political recovery in a conservative rehab facility since that sorry day and night.

Okay, again, that’s not exactly true either but I haven’t focused on what has to be the single most significant factor in his election since then.

No, it wasn’t Oprah, nor Michael Moore, nor Hollywood stars and starlets, nor the LGBT coalition, nor any other mind-numbed robots of the Left.  They were all considered for the numero uno spot but disqualified mainly because they all had been factored in already.

And, no, it’s not ACORN, that grass roots organization that probably registered more illegal alien voters, more phony Dallas Cowboys linemen voters, and more people who never entered a polling place before being enticed by a pack of Marlboros and a quart of Ripple on November 4th, than Mayor Daley I of Chicago ever dreamed of.

There were a large number of contenders for winner of the Single Most Significant Factor In the Obama Victory but none even approaches the role of the Windy City, America’s Second City, the City of the Big Shoulders situated on the shore of Lake Michigan.

The reason for that dubious award can be boiled down to one simple fact of Obama’s political life:  Without Chicago he would not have had a political life.

I previously explored this topic in “Obama and His Tainted, Adoptive Town, Chicago, Part One” (September 23, 2008) and in “Obama:  Moving on Up in Chicago Politics, Part Two”  (October 2nd, 2008), both of which articles can be found at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/index.php?s=chicago&paged=2.

Without the fanfare...

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Late breaking news:  Barack Hussein Obama won the presidency of the United States on November 4th, 2008.

Okay, that’s a tad late for late breaking news but I’ve been in political recovery in a conservative rehab facility since that sorry day and night.

Okay, again, that’s not exactly true either but I haven’t focused on what has to be the single most significant factor in his election since then.

No, it wasn’t Oprah, nor Michael Moore, nor Hollywood stars and starlets, nor the LGBT coalition, nor any other mind-numbed robots of the Left.  They were all considered for the numero uno spot but disqualified mainly because they all had been factored in already.

And, no, it’s not ACORN, that grass roots organization that probably registered more illegal alien voters, more phony Dallas Cowboys linemen voters, and more people who never entered a polling place before being enticed by a pack of Marlboros and a quart of Ripple on November 4th, than Mayor Daley I of Chicago ever dreamed of.

There were a large number of contenders for winner of the Single Most Significant Factor In the Obama Victory but none even approaches the role of the Windy City, America’s Second City, the City of the Big Shoulders situated on the shore of Lake Michigan.

The reason for that dubious award can be boiled down to one simple fact of Obama’s political life:  Without Chicago he would not have had a political life.

I previously explored this topic in “Obama and His Tainted, Adoptive Town, Chicago, Part One” (September 23, 2008) and in “Obama:  Moving on Up in Chicago Politics, Part Two”  (October 2nd, 2008), both of which articles can be found at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/index.php?s=chicago&paged=2.

Without the fanfare...

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FROM THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE MILLENIUM DEPARTMENT:

Former Conservative Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania says, “Next President Must Understand Challenge of Radical Islam,” according to a CNS News headline:  http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=38453.

No kidding, Rick! 

More to the point, most Americans and one presidential candidate seem unable to fully understand that challenge, or the danger, or the threat posed by Islamic radical fundamentalists. 

That presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama, may become our next president.    

I address those issues, the challenge, the danger, and the threat to America, throughout my book and it is important to realize that they are three separate, although interrelated, issues.

First, the challenge:

We Americans must realize that Islam is no longer that relatively quiescent religion of recent centuries.  Indeed, Islam is at its heart an extremely violent and warlike faith and has been throughout its long history.  It is only because nations which were ruled by Muslims, for the most part, had devolved into backwater, Third World countries over the centuries that we hadn’t heard from them.

Until recently. 

Radical Muslims have now gained a foothold, a financial base in Mid East oil treasures and for the last three decades have been waging war against Western civilization.

The most significant international, and domestic, challenge to America and to our next president will be to comprehend that new reality of geopolitics in the twenty-first century and to come to grips with how the West must deal with it.

Denial, ignoring threats and hoping they will just go away, is best suited to ostriches.  For the West it is suicidal.  Islam has no intention of “just going away” and its greatest advantage in its quest to conquer the West is the refusal of too many Americans to accept the fact that we are at war.  Pretending otherwise is easier, more comfortable, more sleep-inducing– and fraught with serious peril.

Second, the danger:

Islamists do not anticipate losing the Third World War. ...

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Involved in the ”very organized” and “successful” ring were 73 pimps and 518 adult prostitutes who had seduced and forced at least 47 kids ranging in age from 13 to 17 into sexual servitude. The kids, all but one of whom was a girl, were all rescued.

Assisted by state and local officials, Operation Cross Country II made the huge bust after a five year investigation and was conducted over a three day period.  (http://www.huliq.com/2623/71617/fbi-busts-600-child-prostitution-ring)

In an apparently unrelated but equally ill-covered report, a Michigan man, Robert Daniels, was convicted of running an “Internet child prostitution network:” http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/news-58/122514898188620.xml&storylist=newsmichigan. 

“Daniels is accused [was convicted] of taking sexually explicit photographs of minors and posting them on Internet sites that advertised prostitution services. Authorities say minors and adult prostitutes also were taken to Washington, D.C., Maryland, Indianapolis, Chicago and New York.”

In a somewhat related and equally sordid story,