Month: March 2014

ADHD expert claims disorder is ‘not a real disease’ and EVERYONE fits at least two of the criteria used for diagnosis

/ Mike Buchanan / 2 Comments

An interesting piece in the Daily Mail:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2592641/Expert-claims-ADHD-not-real-disease-fits-two-criteria.html

When I was at school, in the 1960s and 1970s, the majority of secondary school teachers were men. The proportion of women in the profession has risen relentlessly ever since, and the consequences have been predictable:

– relentless dumbing down of curricula and consequent grade inflation has been used to mask mediocrity. In PMQs last year David Cameron reported that a GCSE question the previous year had been, ‘If you want to look at craters on the moon, should you use a telescope, or a microscope?’

– because they want to form interpersonal relationships with their charges rather being interested only in teaching them, teachers over-praise the work of pupils – ‘all must have prizes’. This stops pupils’ normal healthy development, a problem often reinforced by indulgent single mothers.

– female teachers pay more attention to girls than boys, and encourage them to go into low-risk, highly-paid, secure fields – such as medicine. 70% of medical students today are female. GPs earn an average of £105,000 p.a. and more than 50% are women. The proportion continues to rise while the service quality continues to decline. It costs up to £500,000 to train a doctor, and on average the NHS gets about half the working hours over a career from female doctors compared with male doctors. The capacity crash in the NHS has been met by employing thousands of doctors from overseas, at enormous cost to taxpayers.

– teachers have been unable to control their pupils, so classroom assistants – unknown in the 1960s and 1970s – are required.

– acceptable behaviour for all pupils is that which comes naturally to girls, but not to boys. Boys’ spirits are crushed in these hyper-feminised environments, and some of them have to be drugged in an effort to make them behave in ways which come naturally to girls. Female GPs are said to be particularly happy to prescribe such drugs.

The taxpayer pays ever more for an increasingly mediocre state education system. The parallels with the Health Service are striking.

‘Cinderella Law’ to stop emotional abuse of children: Parents who fail to show love could face prison

/ Mike Buchanan / 4 Comments

Our thanks to M for this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2593042/Cinderella-Law-stop-emotional-abuse-children-Parents-fail-love-face-prison.html#ixzz2xWnBcMVk

This is going to be a charter for mothers to claim their male partners are ‘emotionally neglecting’ their children – by acting like father rather than mothers, presumably – in an effort to have them charged and possibly imprisoned, or at the very least ejected from their homes, which is probably the key driver of this proposed legislation. From the article:

Campaigners pushing for a change in the law have included Women’s Aid, which says current legislation focuses too much on specific incidents, such as an assault – and not enough on psychological harm.

M had some interesting comments to make about the story, and they take up the remainder of this blog piece:

“Mike, I predict that 98% of the parents arrested and charged under this proposed new law will be fathers. If a father shows too much affection towards his child he’ll be branded a paedophile, while if he shows too little, he’ll be branded as someone who ‘emotionally neglects’ his child, and may end up in prison.

This law would be insane. You can’t legislate for love and affection. Different people have different parenting styles, and they largely reflect their personalities, which they cannot change. Also, men and women typically have different parenting styles, and that’s a healthy thing for children. You may as well say that parents have to be above a minimum height or below a maximum weight, in which case half the mothers I see waddling around my town centre would get arrested tomorrow. And they COULD change, go on a diet and do some exercise, but they won’t. Why are men always demonised, and women never held accountable?

Time to get rid of all this crooked feminist-driven legislation!!!

Next month this website could be as popular as the main parties’ websites

/ Mike Buchanan / 2 Comments

Our thanks to the good people who run a website dedicated to the run-up to the 2015 general election, now less than 14 months away. Each month they inform of us the chart of ‘hits’ on political parties’ websites, and month by month we’ve been moving steadily up that chart. They’ve just sent us the following message:

Latest chart is out… one more month, and you could be as busy as the main parties.

A link to the chart:

http://ukgeneralelection2015.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/marchs-political-pop-chart.html

 

Traffic to our site has grown steadily since we launched J4MB, just 14 months ago, and continues to do so. Small further increases in traffic will translate into considerable progress in these rankings. Our success in stimulating interest and debate has surpassed our wildest expectations. The current level of traffic to our site is all the more remarkable, given we’ve been around for little more than a year. The most recently-formed of the main parties, UKIP, has been around for about 20 years, and focuses on an issue of considerable interest to a large number of British people, EU membership.

I was also encouraged to read of the sure indicator of interest shown in the parties’ websites, average visitor attendance times:

 

J4MB – 2:52

UKIP – 2:56

Conservatives – 2:15

Labour – 1:56

 

Onwards and upwards!