listening to: my own breathing

mood: pissed off

Hello Nut Tang. It is very nice to meet you. I must say, this is probably the nicest "blog" things I have used. I shall start with this rant.

One of the things that pisses me off about America is her conservativeness. Bush has just gone a little too crazy lately. Pardone moi but, I believe we're supposed to separate church and state. I was listening to the Howard Stern show and he was saying how Bush spends so much money fining him because of his "indecent" radio show. They fined him up to $500,000 yet someone who brings in contaminated food to the country only gets fined something like $11000. If you pollute a stream, you'd only get fined like $1000. If you brought a knife on an airplane, you'd still get fined much lower. Why are they worrying so much about a radio show when you could kill someone with contaminated food? This is outrageous.

I was searching around for some anti-censorship orgs and I found the NCAC. Did you know that Congress is considering "Abstinence-only Education"? What is that you ask? Well take a look at this.

"Students in abstinence-only programs receive only information consistent with the abstinence-until-marriage message. Instead of a comprehensive review of the facts about contraception, safer sex practices, and sexuality, they often receive false and exaggerated information about contraceptive failure and are told that contraceptives undermine romance and spontaneity. They typically learn about homosexuality only in the context of HIV/AIDS. Abortion is presented as morally wrong and physically and emotionally dangerous. In some programs, fetuses are referred to as "babies."

The result of this focus on abstinence-until-marriage has been widespread censorship of sexual information. Material on contraception, sexually transmitted disease, and sexual orientation has been razored out of textbooks. Articles about sexuality have been censored in the student press. Teachers have been warned against talking about certain topics, and cannot answer students' questions fully or candidly. Some have been disciplined or threatened with lawsuits for speaking frankly about sexual matters. Many teachers understandably avoid discussing sexuality at all."

Holy shit. People, are we living in Japan or North Korea or something? Why are we censoring information; facts!? It really angers me because, I'm sorry all you conservative-afraid-of-sex-want-to-protect-your-children-from-everything bastards, but you've really lost your heads this time. Why do we censor things? Of all places, shouldn't the United States be the least-censored, if not censorship-free, place? Excuse me but, what's the First Amendment again? I really can't watch this happen to us. What's next? Thought Police?

And the whole thing about Janet Jackson's breast. So many people got all riled up because her fucking breast was exposed. It's. A. Fucking. Breast. The last time I checked it was a part of the human body. Why do we freak out about these stupid frivolous things, when let's say innocent children are dying in Iraq? I bet it wouldn't be nearly as shocking if the news displayed a picture of a dead Iraqi boy. Hell, it wouldn't even be censored. Yet, a breast is. Well, fuck me. What has this country turned into?! If I could vote, I'd sure as hell be supporting the Libertarians who are completely against censorship. People, stop voting democrat. Censorship should be banned.

Interesting...
I would agree censorship is a generally stupid concept. Your entry sort of reminds me of 1984 for some reason... and Fahrenheit 451. But, yeah... Welcome to NuTang. How many blogs is this now?
» desertsnowstorm on 2004-07-17 08:43:56

Interesting indeed
I agree...So people, stop voting BUSH.
» zappay on 2004-07-17 09:40:02

Most In Agreement
I agree with most of what you said... The whole difference-in-fining is that while contamination hurts people/environment/what have you, it doesn't do anything to hurt Bush's chances of re-election. But Stern open talks against him and a lot of people listen to Stern so that makes both he and his show a threat to Bush. If the person that contaminated a stream put a sign next to the stream that read "Bush is anally-raping our country!" you can bet that they'd be assessed an addition $400,000 fine.
» etheracide on 2004-07-18 03:11:47

Being a Comment Whore Here
I completely agree with 99.99% of what you say.. but dont fucking ask me what the .01% is that I dont agree with...... Heh Stern is the man ( and yes I am female ) I think Howard should run for President tho...
» Sherirella on 2004-07-18 07:07:08

IN addition
Thought Police... kinda reminds you of Minority Report......
» Sherirella on 2004-07-18 07:07:58

at least
you dont live in virginia. though i havent checked your prof... you might live in va. va sucks ass.
» ikimashokie on 2004-07-19 12:53:07

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