Here's an issue the other candidates won't touch with a pole of any length. Prostitution. In the well known words of George Carlin...Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?We're talking about the world's oldest profession. It predates human kind. Many animals will give gifts to the opposite gender in exchange for sex. That is prostitution. In modern times there are women, married women, who will deny their husbands sex until they get their bathroom painted or the lawn mowed. That is prostitution. But in a new and interesting twist, I give you whoring for charity!
A Chilean prostitute has auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise money for the country's largest charity during an annual fund-raising campaign.This is a fantastic idea. I wish I could incorporate this into my campaign fund raising. If this were a legal way to raise campaign funds, I bet Mary Carey(NSFW) would have had a shot at beating Arnold Schwarzenegger. I say let's legalize all forms of prostitution including as a campaign fund raising technique. That way the people can choose between corporate whores and public whores. And I'm sure I would be a stand-out candidate for President.
Maria Carolina became an overnight celebrity in the conservative Roman Catholic country, making news headlines and appearing on talk shows since she made her unusual donation to the televised charity event, which runs for 27 hours starting on Friday evening.
They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is "just full of big young boys who like us older girls."That's right. Yet again we are losing an important source of potential domestic revenue to outsourcing. Let's put the puritanical bullshit aside, let people engage in consensual activities for money, and show rich, older, white women that there is good reason to buy American!
Hard figures are difficult to come by, but local people on the coast estimate that as many as one in five single women visiting from rich countries are in search of sex.
NPR : Clinton Gets Star Power from Ex-President. How does a relatively new Senator get a celebrity Ex-President to stump for her? Maybe she slept with him.Former President Bill Clinton is spending more time on the road by himself plugging Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the senator from New York. His campaign celebrity is being matched by Oprah Winfrey for Sen. Barack Obama, the Illinois Democrat challenging Clinton, and actor Chuck Norris for Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee.Chuck Norris? Really? The same Chuck Norris who is most famous for kicking people's asses? Wait, I don't think people know him for anything but his martial arts skills. And Jackie Chan could kick his ass any day of the week. And Jet Li could take on Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris at the same time without breaking a sweat. Oprah would be judging and Bill commenting, because they're both smart enough to stay out of a fight involving Jet Li, Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris.
Participating in elections is compulsory under Australian law.And I've heard it said that the USA should do likewise. At one time in my life I even argued in favor of such a scheme. Now I am neither for it nor against it. Just like the most recent election in state of residence. We had two ballot measures, I read them over, and decided that I was really neither for nor against either one. In fact one of them was going to suck balls either way! It was either more of the same suckage or a change to a new kind of suckage.
Lying face down on the ground a shell shocked, Mr Massey says 'officer I don't know what you are doing, I don't know why you are doing what you are doing' to which the officer replies 'I am placing you under arrest because you did not obey my instruction.'Somebody has been watching too much South Park. Yes sir. No sir. You are correct sir. May I suck your cock sir? Perhaps you would like to have your way with my wife sir. I will do whatever you say sir, even when I have not broken the law.
This amazing video reveals how eroded civil and constitutional rights have now become. The officer had no legal right to make Massey sign any document he did not understand.Or does it show exactly how dumb some cops actually are? When they beat the shit out of Rodney King it was a citizen who taped it. This dumb fucker filmed himself!
Tasers are supposed to be the last response before lethal action, however, police now use them as if they are batons or pepper spray.Damn, that makes me feel so much better. I'd much rather get beaten with a baton and pepper sprayed when I disagree with a cop over what speed I was actually going. When I feel 50,000 volts pulse through my body I want absolute certainty that the next thing I say will result in it never being able to be used against me in a court of law so why bother with having my rights read to me.
After looking around I have decided to move my campaign gear shop from CafePress over to SpreadShirt for a greater range of apparel and design options. It won't happen immediately, but most likely soon. That doesn't mean the CafePress shop will close, but it might. So just in case you wanted one of those really cool Anarcho-American shirts in military green (just like Jake wears) or an Anarcho-American button (just like Jake has) then you should go order it up now.
On my drive home from work this morning I hatched a plan to rant about the First Amendment. Back in my teen years my peer group had a lot of hippie envy. At least a certain number portrayed a certain level of nostalgia for the mystique surrounding the Summer of Love and the few years surrounding it. Some would even go so far as to actually wish for another Vietnam so they could protest just like the hippies did.
But I got a constitutional surprise when I read news stating The Supreme Court set the stage Tuesday for a historic ruling on whether the fiercely debated 2nd Amendment protects the rights of Americans to keep handguns at home.Can you believe we are even having this conversation? But there is a very legitimate problem at the heart of this issue. To interpret the actual meaning of the Second Amendment would require a fully functional understanding of legal English as used in the 18th century. Even then people disagreed on what it actually meant. For while the originator may have had one idea, it was amended and changed and debated to reflect the ideas of a number of people who may not have agreed at all.
For anyone who I may have recently offended, here is something to make you feel better.
In order to better understand the traditional pirates with all of their yargh's and avasts and peg legs and hooks and rum, we need to understand the environment that created them. Or at least half assed guess at it because I want to construct a model that is accurate to the way I view things and facts might get in the way. It's the presidential way of assembling information.
So that was pirating. And I think the resurgence in piracy, especially media piracy, has similar roots for a lot of people. I wouldn't say a majority. I'm fairly certain that the majority don't even really think about it. But there are those who do. They see a company charging too much and the people working at the top of it having better stuff than they do. Many have even worked within those old industries and revolted. We have a pirate resurgence as a result of giant multi-national corporations seizing monopoly like controls. People have the tools with which they can steel and share with other pirates. What they do is not legal, but the way the companies they steal from operate shouldn't be legal. Many of these big companies are exploitive and use their power to squeeze out competition.Bill Richardson's a believer. So is Dennis Kucinich. Even Rudy Giuliani is willing to admit that extraterrestrials might be out there. The 2008 presidential race is starting to look like an Alf convention. Last week, Kucinich's alien beliefs were outed by his good friend Shirley MacLaine. Her new book details Kucinich's run-in with a UFO on her porch: 'It hovered, soundless, for 10 minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn't comprehend. He said he felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.' One can only guess what those directions may have said.
'We gave it our best shot, and for a while it seemed like the American people actually had a chance of coming out on top,' Weare, NH resident Mark Simmons said at a press conference in front of his suburban home. 'Unfortunately, as much as we'd like to remain optimistic, it's become clear that this just isn't our year.'But they aren't the only ones talking about this. What does the New York Times in an article titled 'Why Vote?' have to say?
Because voting exacts a cost - in time, effort, lost productivity - with no discernible payoff except perhaps some vague sense of having done your "civic duty." As the economist Patricia Funk wrote in a recent paper, "A rational individual should abstain from voting."The Onion got it closer.
The odds that your vote will actually affect the outcome of a given election are very, very, very slim. This was documented by the economists Casey Mulligan and Charles Hunter, who analyzed more than 56,000 Congressional and state-legislative elections since 1898. For all the attention paid in the media to close elections, it turns out that they are exceedingly rare. The median margin of victory in the Congressional elections was 22 percent; in the state-legislature elections, it was 25 percent. Even in the closest elections, it is almost never the case that a single vote is pivotal. Of the more than 40,000 elections for state legislator that Mulligan and Hunter analyzed, comprising nearly 1 billion votes, only 7 elections were decided by a single vote, with 2 others tied. Of the more than 16,000 Congressional elections, in which many more people vote, only one election in the past 100 years - a 1910 race in Buffalo - was decided by a single vote.
But there is a more important point: the closer an election is, the more likely that its outcome will be taken out of the voters' hands - most vividly exemplified, of course, by the 2000 presidential race. It is true that the outcome of that election came down to a handful of voters; but their names were Kennedy, O'Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas. And it was only the votes they cast while wearing their robes that mattered, not the ones they may have cast in their home precincts.
Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich may have been ridiculed for saying he had seen a UFO, but for some former military pilots and other observers, unidentified flying objects are no laughing matter. An international panel of two dozen former pilots and government officials called on the U.S. government on Monday to reopen its generation-old UFO investigation as a matter of safety and security given continuing reports about flying discs, glowing spheres and other strange sightings.And I've seen one. After a while you learn not to talk about it all that much. You just get sick of answering all the questions from people who weren't there and couldn't possibly understand. So you just live with it, get on with your life, and run for President.
Former presidents Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter are both reported to have claimed UFO sightings.
"It's a question of who you going to believe: your lying eyes or the government?" remarked John Callahan, a former Federal Aviation Administration investigator, who said the CIA in 1987 tried to hush up the sighting of a huge lighted ball four times the size of a jumbo jet in Alaska.Sounds like what I saw.
"It would certainly, I think, take a lot of angst out of this issue," said former Arizona Gov. Fife Symington, who said he was among hundreds who saw a delta-shaped craft with enormous lights silently traverse the sky near Phoenix in 1997.
Him: Speaking of loser politicians, all the Democrats running for President were at some event and they play the national anthem. There's our boy Obama standing with his hands in his pockets. And this guy wants to be President? If you're running for President you should have a little respect for the country you want to lead.I may not be much for singing the national anthem, but I have a mix tape in my truck with a celebrity saying the pledge on it. Every time I listen I say it right along with him.
Me: Actually, I'm running for President with a pledge to tear the whole damn thing down.
Adding daylight to afternoons generally benefits shopping, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but it can cause problems for farmers and others whose hours depend on the sun. Extra afternoon daylight appears to cut traffic fatalities; its effect on health and crime is less clear. An early goal was to reduce evening usage of incandescent lighting, formerly a primary use of electricity; nowadays, though, DST sometimes increases overall electricity costs and peak demand.A vote for Jake is a vote for abolishing this stupid ritual.
Supporters of Mr. Colbert’s candidacy have said it cast an amusing and revealing eye on the hype and folly of presidential politics and could have brought younger voters into the process.Serious campaign? Who? Where?
But it also drew critics, who said it was a self-promotional distraction that was draining news media time and attention away from a serious campaign.
Kicking off another year of NaNoWriMo. Any documentation of this effort will happen over at Repeated Expletives. If you want to read the result of my 2005 endeavor, you can download the e-book or purchase a paperback over at Lulu.com. My 2006 effort, while a very interesting journey, was far too random for publishing. I didn't want to subject even my friends to that.No sense, no sanity. No rules or propriety. Can you dig that with a spade or a shovel? Then you might just get underground. There are good folks and lawful folks and never the two shall meet. There are bad folks and awful folks but only one can ride with me. This isn’t poetry, damn it! This is life. This is morning. This is when the rooster crows but that’s happening on the other side of the mountain. All the concrete and stucco and aluminum siding in the world can’t reflect the sound inwards to your little hole in the world. But you wake up. Sooner or later you have to wake up. The trick is to not go back to bed.
The road calls to you. The interstate is for everyone. The back alley can get you there. Do you dare? Do you care? Wrap yourself in leather and wrap your mind in tomorrow. This one is going to get bumpy.
