Child prostitution, both real and imagined

Over the last few weeks, as you probably know, short youtube style videos have been coming out that seem to show ACORN employees offering tax advice to two undercover conservatives disguised with dime store pimp-and-ho outfits.

Over the last decade, at least two defense contractors have been investigated over involvement with foreign child sex slaves. Others have cases of rape, debauchery, more debauchery, and coverup. Some notables are Dyncorp from Bosnia, Blackwater(Xe), KBR(a former Halliburton subsidiary), and ArmorGroup(this one is the most comical).

(Is it coincidence that the Armorgroup and ACORN scandals, which happened to be the ones with funny pictures and videos, received substantial puiblicity, while the others much less? Or is it some sort of sign of the reality-teevee times we live in?)

Last week, as the ACORN videos were gaining prominence, both the Senate and the House voted to cut off all federal funding for ACORN, and the DoJ is launching an investigation.


Congressional actions to cut off funding for pretend child prostitution: 1
Congressional actions to cut off funding for real child prostitution: 0


An Update: It turns out that I was wrong, and the legislation meant to end ACORN funding actually cuts off funding for any organization that has been charged with certain misdeeds. Turns out if it is enacted, it will de-fund the entire private defense establishment. Can it be re-written or re-interpreted to apply only to ACORN? If it is then it may be a 'bill of attainder', which would then be unconstitutional. Heavens, what a pickle!

sublime

I did hear right

It seems that Mr O'Reilly actually would like a 'public option'. Who knew?

Best news story of the week

All I can say is, that if someone punched me twice, and after the second punch their finger "ended up in my mouth", I might be tempted to bite the sucker off too.

Just who are these dirty fucking hippies?

I want to know who these people are that are angry about the indoctrination video Obama made to show children next week, that allegedly brainwashes them into believing in education, hard work, and being a productive member of society (aka a conformist corporate slave). hippies.

An Update: The near and dear to my heart Elmbrook School District did not show the video in school.

Another Update: A Texas school, that would not show the video during school, is planning later this month to bus kids to the local domed sporting complex to hear George W Bush, among others, speak. A Nested Update: They have now canceled the trip.

Yet Another Update: If interested in a case of real and worrying political indoctrination of schoolchildren, see this article of the fight to put Newt Gingrich in Texas Textbooks.

Plenty of outhouses (13:04)

I wish I would have gone for the free Faygo. Mmmm that's good.




motherfucking

An Update: I had a tip

Time to come home?

Yesterday the NYT ran a cover story about Obama's need for GOP support in the continuation of the Afghanistan occupation. Perhaps it is an ominous omen then even that support is showing signs of ebbing. One of the higher profile conservative columnists, George Will from the Washington Post, just wrote a column making the case for withdrawal; and just as surprisingly also published this week another column making the case for withdrawal from Iraq. At the same time, former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel writes a column in the same paper, a paper not known for its anti-war stance, highlighting the futility of our efforts to bomb the Middle East to peace. No one realistically should expect this to signal an imminent mass shift of the GOP's commitment to our indefinite involvement in these two countries, but if more unelected conservatives find the sense and/or courage to lose the strong on national security schtick and accept the wisdom of disengagement it is definitely an encouraging step in the direction of hastening the day of withdrawal. I thought Will's Iraq piece was especially well written, and while it would have been better had it appeared 5 years ago, it's better late than never.

Jersey

Can there be any room for a centrist at a health care reform town hall meeting

An erotic journey from Minsk to Milan

SC governator Mark Sanford's Lt. Governator is calling for him to quit. No word yet on who the successor would be.

Robert Novak needs a ballad.

To anyone who says not to speak ill of the recently deceased, I would like to say that Robert Novak was a useless waste of human flesh. I would also like to say that Gerald Ford did the entirely WRONG thing in pardoning Nixon, and it is a shame that everyone felt the need to whitewash that fact when he died.

Calling out edgrimly

I think this post had edgrimly in mind, pretty sure.

Death Panels

Have you heard the scary talk about the "death panels" and euthenasia that will be in Obama's health care overhaul? Have you heard breathless reassurances that it will not, in fact, have these death panels that will kill grandma?

While it is true that there are no signs that the proposed reform will have panels to determine whether or not you are worthy of saving, it is my opinion that they should. Everybody wants 'reform' and 'lower costs' for the country's health care system. However, very few want any expense spared when their loved one is about to die. If you have had any experiences with health care in this country, I am probably not telling you anything you didn't already know. When death is imminent, it is commonplace to take drastic measures and use expensive methods to squeeze out just a little extra time, time which is often spent unconscious and braindead, being kept alive by machines, or just as often someone is brought back from the brink to live out the few remaining months of their life as an incoherent shell of their former self that struggles to even put shoes on.

As Newt Gingrich pointed out, 1/3 of Medicare spending is spent in the last year of life, and half of that amount is spent in the last 2 months.

If universal insurance of some form is enacted, should everyone have to pay for these practices? Chances are you are currently doing so with your health insurance premium, and definitely are with your medicare tax dollars. It seems to me that a rational standard for end-of-life care should be established, and those wishing for expensive and extraordinary end-of-life measures to be taken should purchase supplemental insurance to cover these costs.

Did I hear right?

I thought I just heard Bill O'Reilly endorse the public option. I'll see if I can find video of it.

Talking Heads Healthcare Edition

Billy and Johnny are in a heated argument at the local school recess area.

Billy's dad is a greedy CEO and his older brother is Angry Guy.

Johnny's dad is a union thug and his older brother is Don't taze me bro dude.

Edifying hilarity ensues


My dad said you're a socialist


No mine said you're a fascist

Nu-Uh, your a socialist

No your a socialist

Am not

Are so

Yea? Well your a nazi

No way you're the nazi

Hitler Hitler Hitler Hitler


{playground supervisor approaches}


What's going on here? I've been receiving viewer complaints.

He called me a socialist

He called me a nazi

Do you know what nazi's and socialists are?

Yea he is one of them

Yea he is one of them

Did you know that one tried to exterminate Jews and one is a worker's paradise that disincentivisis productivity?

I can't believe you called me that

I can't believe you called me that

Now apologize and shake hands

I can't stand this horseshit anymore

This, sir, I should not, cannot, and will not stand for

Your participle is dangling, pinhead

Up yours! You're the wost person in the school

{dramatic music}

Fuck your mother

kiss my bunghole

lick my teabaggers

....

some people have no common decency these days

Apparently someone is stuck arguing on a third grade level.
Some of us successfully passed on to the fourth grade

Well, I hope you two have learned an educational lesson today,
and thanks for being with us this recess.

If you haven't visited yet, you better hurry up

If you haven't yet made it to the creationist museum I mentioned a while back, time is running out because the IRS is preparing to confiscate it. (C&L)