A Rant.
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This morning, I read this.. Andrew is one of their writers I’m least likely to have issues with.
Then, one of the writers I’m most likely to have issue with, “Klo” wrote this in reply. Kathryn, for what it’s worth, is everything I don’t like about some type of conservative women. Just for the record, she is rather violently opposed to both women in combat and gays in the military, plus seems a bit weird about parents in the military in general.
Lady, you can’t have it both ways. You seem to want young single straight male to be the US military.
Clue the first, young straight males think about sex a lot. Really a lot. You have no more chance of getting Playboy and such like out of the Military than you do getting any one under the rank of Lt. General to stop saying “Fuck”. It’s not going to happen.
Next clue. I know what they sell in the PX. What they sell is not porn. Also, at least in Germany and Ft. Bliss, where they sell Playboy’s isn’t where under age folk are going to find it. It’s not in the main PX, it’s in the ‘barracks’ PX’s I will grant that my info is a few years (few defined as roughly 20) out of date, but if your going to tell me that the 1970’s and 1980’s was less porn friendly than now, I don’t think we really live in the same world. If any thing, it’s harder to get “porn” in main stream America than it was in 1986 when I got out. It’s much harder to find real honest by gosh naked women photos in a random store than it was in the 80’s. The internet has a lot to do with that, of course.
Next clue: Playboy isn’t porn. It’s naked women, yeah, but it’s at best R rated. There have been PG movies with as much nudity as your average issue of Playboy. You can show images that would fit in a copy of Playboy without needing to jump through most of the 2257 hoops.
Next, Congress critter Broun, don’t you have any thing else better to do? I went to your taxpayer paid for page web page and your own page, which I assume is paid for by your campaign
Here are the top parts of the tax payer paid for page:
“I am committed to protecting the constitutional rights and pocketbooks of every American. I will apply the following four-way test to every piece of legislation that comes before the House for a vote:
1) Is it Moral / Right? 3) Is it Necessary?
2) Is it Constitutional? 4) Is it Affordable? “
And the news photo caption:”On a visit to the University of Georgia, Congressman Broun
talks with head football coach Mark Richt and discusses legislative issues facing the university.”
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
I don’t want you, or any other Congress critter to decide what is Moral, much less make it your number one test. Morality is not the government’s job. I’d also be MUCH more impressed if you spoke with, oh I don’t know, Michael F. Adams , the president of the UoG or Steve Wrigley the Vice President for Government Relations of the UoG instead of the fucking football coach. Maybe you did, but that didn’t make it to your web site.
Don’t even get me started about your own flash encrusted, audio playing (with no off button) piece of crap personal page. Let’s just start with who is INTERSCAPE, INC and why are they listed as both the administrative and technical contact in your WHOIS database entry?
While I don’t live in Georgia, I can’t vote for or against you, you just made it to my watch and rant list.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:49 pm - Edit
I agree with you that K-lo is off base, and that Playboy is probably, on the balance, a good thing in a combat zone. (See Heinlein, Starship Troopers and the last thing a MI grunt heard before a drop.). I also think the the esteemed gentleman from Georgia is not what I like best about the GOP.
All of that said, consider this: Morals extend far beyond the province of inserting body part A into body part B. I consider it a good thing that at least some representatives might oppose a bill because, for example, it would be immoral to use government force to seize somebody’s home so that it could turned over to developers. The examples where government power can be used in an immoral way are innumerable.
Broun does sound like a tool though.
April 23rd, 2008 at 8:01 pm - Edit
If any thing he showed on his web site weren’t knee jerk “pro life” and/or “God in the public square” issues, I would cut him some slack. Yes, he does think wounded veterans need support, and I suspect I support his stance on illegal workers.
Those aren’t his bread and butter issues however.
This is part of the problem with living in a two party vs multi party country. I have very little in common with this tool, yet, to get what I want the feds to do (kill Jihadist ass-hats before they can kill Americans) I have to more or less support him, never mind the fact that he is so wrapped up in the tab A / slot B aspects of modern life he is actually hurting that cause. He’s the type that would have gotten his nose out of joint about pin-up on the noses of B-17 over Germany, I suspect.
Of course in those days he would have been a Democrat…