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2009/2/28

"Porn in the USA"

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@ 09:35 AM (8 months, 27 days ago)

Guess who's watching all that porn? A new study might surprise you...or maybe not. People from coast to coast like their porn fix...but it seems that conservatives are the biggest consumers. Yep, Republican states gobble up more nekkid pitchers than Democratic states.
 
It would seem that the more repression, oppression, or prohibition...the more popular drooling over feelthy peectures becomes.
 
They'll say the devil made them do it...
 
...with a box of tissues and some petroleum jelly.
 
From the New Scientist: "Americans may paint themselves in increasingly bright shades of red and blue, but new research finds one thing that varies little across the nation: the liking for online pornography.
 
A new nationwide study (pdf) of anonymised credit-card receipts from a major online adult entertainment provider finds little variation in consumption between states.
 
...However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
 
...The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. "The differences here are not so stark," Edelman says.
 
Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32. [..]"
 
 
I do remember reading that prostitutes get much more business in a city hosting Republican conventions than they do in a city hosting Democratic conventions.
 
There's always been plenty of evidence that sexual repression brings out a plethora of porn. The Victorian era in England was famous for it. It also creates a lot of unhealthy sexuality - look at the Catholic priesthood, Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.
 
So...them what scream the loudest against it turn out to be the biggest porn freaks...the forbidden fruit thing must increase the thrill.
 
OR maybe users in blue states are just smarter about finding free porn online.
 

What we have here is Compassionate Conservatism

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@ 07:24 AM (8 months, 27 days ago)

Yep, Colorado state senator Dave Schultheis opposes HIV testing for pregnant women because he wants their babies to have AIDS - "What I’m hoping is that, yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that...”
 
 
Because that’s what it is all about, right? Making women feel guilty. This may be the most pathological thing I’ve ever heard from a public official...poor Colorado.
 
How arrogant and ignorant! Or are all Republicans so dumb about AIDS and the different ways it's spread to women and children?
 
Besides, doctors need to know to appropriately treat mother and child in utero...does he want the hospital or medical clinic to absorb the cost?
 
From coloradoindependent.com: "Schultheis: HIV testing for pregnant moms rewards ‘sexual promiscuity’
 
Democrats were outraged Wednesday morning when Republican state Sen. Dave Schultheis said he planned to vote against a bill to require HIV tests for pregnant women because the disease “stems from sexual promiscuity” and he didn’t think the Legislature should “remove the negative consequences that take place from poor behavior and unacceptable behavior.” The Colorado Springs lawmaker then proceeded to cast the lone vote against SB 179, which passed 32-1 and moves on to the House.
 
“HIV does not just come from sexual promiscuity, it comes from many other things — contaminated blood, for one,” fired back one of the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Lois Tochtrop, after Schultheis spoke on the Senate floor....
 
...Reaction to Schultheis’ remarks rippled through the Capitol.
 
“Sen. Schultheis drew the conclusion that anyone who may have HIV is sexually promiscuous,” said Sen. Jennifer Veiga.....“I think [Schultheis] owes the [Legislature] and the public at large an apology,” Veiga said.
 
She castigated the GOP for staying silent when its legislators make outrageous statements during debates on bills. “Republicans continue to allow comments like this to go unchecked,” she said, referencing statements made Monday when Republican Sen. Scott Renfroe compared homosexuality to murder in a debate over a bill sponsored by Veiga to expand health benefits to same-sex partners of state employees. “They quietly sit by and acquiesce.”[..]"
 
 
You want to talk about poor behavior? I'll show you some poor behavior - Larry Craig, David Vitter, Mark Foley, Tim Mahoney. How about not paying their health insurance!
 

Time for a little Willie

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@ 06:03 AM (8 months, 27 days ago)

Nelson, that is. Here's "Fan It"...a new song from his latest CD, "Willie And The Wheel."
 
Asleep At The Wheel, that is...doing this song up fine, country swing with a little blues on the side.
 
"Fan It"
 
"If the Sun's too hot, cool it if you can
Better go out and get yourself a five-cent fan
And fan it, fan it, you gotta fan it and cool it
Honey 'til the cows come home....[..]"
 
 
And that's not the only goodie on this album...there's Hesitation Blues...I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of This Jelly Roll...Bring It On Down To My House...Oh! You Pretty Woman...Corina, Corina...
 
Why did it take so long for Willie and this excellent western swing band to team up together? I mean both acts have long been mainstays of Texas music.
 
Willie's voice is...well, Willie's voice...and he's no slouch on the guitar either. Pair that up with Asleep at the Wheel and their classic western swing packed with horns, fiddles and a steel guitar...a marriage made in heaven.
 

2009/2/27

Late-night jokes recap 2/27

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@ 07:26 PM (8 months, 28 days ago)

"Let's begin with the big story, President Barack Obama's not State of the Union address. His first speech to Congress is not technically a State of the Union address, which is nice, because this is one year you probably do not want to complete the sentence, 'The state of the union is...'" --Jon Stewart
 
"The State of the Union addresses, they're a funny thing. It's very formal, but the president comes in the room like a boxer. He comes in, he makes his way through the crowd in little satin shorts, and then he takes off his robe and he goes up on the stage." --Jimmy Kimmel
 
"Nation, once again, the political stage was set on fire by a brilliant orator, a man whose charisma even I have to admit can only be rivaled by a giant Brad Pitt made out of puppies. I'm speaking of, of course, of Bobby Jindal." --Stephen Colbert
 
"The whole cast of 'Slumdog Millionaire' came out to see the Oscars. 'Slumdog' won best picture, which everyone seemed to know was going to happen. It was the big favorite going in. They're saying the only way it could have possibly lost is if it had picked Sarah Palin as a running mate." --Jimmy Kimmel
 
"It is our first show back since the Obama administration. Or, as Rush Limbaugh calls it, 'End Times.'" --Bill Maher
 
"But I've got to tell you people, I'm a little nervous tonight. We started 16 years ago with 'Politically Incorrect' in 1993, moved over here to HBO with 'Real Time' in 2003. In all those years, I've never done a monologue where the president wasn't either a horny hillbilly or an illiterate dumbass. ... This is challenging, and it hasn't quite set in that Obama is president." --Bill Maher
 
"Well, he's had quite an opening. Been a month in office -- he signed the stimulus bill, he closed Guantanamo Bay, ordered the planning of our withdrawing from Iraq -- it's like he's spraying the country with a giant can of 'Bush Be-Gone.'" --Bill Maher
 
"But what a task this guy has. He's got, on the one hand, to tell the people the truth. And on the other hand, try to lift our morale. Bill Clinton said today, you know, come on, lift morale, get out there and sell the hope thing. And both sides of the aisle are saying this. We have finally found something Democrats and Republicans agree that the president needs to do: lie." --Bill Maher
 
"The new chairman of the Republican party, Michael Steele, says that he wants to bring a greater Republican presence to the urban setting. Yeah. Well, there's already a Republican presence in the urban setting. He's called the landlord. He comes around every month." --Jay Leno
 
"Airports all around the country now are switching from metal detectors to those high-tech scanning machines that show a naked image of your body. And this is raising a lot of privacy concerns, especially among women. The good news? Airport security guys now are paying attention 100%." --Jay Leno
 
"There's a new study that says that in America, rich people are ruder than poor people. This is shocking because I didn't know America had any rich people left." --Craig Ferguson
 

I am shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you

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@ 10:12 AM (8 months, 28 days ago)

...that there would be lies spread over at the Conservative Political Action Conference!
 
Mmm...CPAC. Better than pie.
 
Want to see some crazy? All the heavyweight neo-cons are gathering there...and instead of trying to fix their broken party, they're still spreading lies about President Obama.
 
There was Cliff Kincaid - ironically, the head of Accuracy in Media - who, while introducing Rep. Mike Pence, once again raised questions about whether Barack Obama is really a natural born US citizen and called him a communist. Rep. Pence thanked him for his "kind words" in the introduction...and did not correct him.
 
 
And Former UN Ambassador John Bolton delivered a speech where he joked about bombing Chicago...the room erupted in laughter and applause.
 
The same folks who six months ago said news outlets and American citizens who made disparaging remarks about President Bush should face "charges of treason during a time of war" are now the same people who are publicly discussing scenarios where "patriots" like themselves must take up arms to resist the "illegitimate Obama administration."
 
Will this be on C-SPAN, pretty please?? It needs to be broadcast on network TV...just so the American people can follow every nauseating belch.
 
Will Gov. Palin bring her witch doctor? Will Gov. Jindal be the exorcist and cast out demons? Now that's entertainment...
 
And while I'm on the subject of comedy, I am truly looking forward to this week's SNL. I think that Gov. Jindal is gonna get lampooned big-time.
 
Seriously folks, Republican politicians seem to feel they have no choice but to pander to the rabid righties that CPAC represents. Thus they are trapped in the extremist corner they've painted themselves into, with no way out.
 
The only way they can escape from this trap is another thrashing, another electoral defeat...where the extremists are run out of town on a rail. Only after this Extinction of the Wingnuts will the little timid Republican moderates be able to venture forth to reclaim the party.
 

Joe the Plumber's 15 minutes of fame...

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@ 09:24 AM (8 months, 28 days ago)

... '15 . . . 14:59 . . . 14:58 . . .'
 
Well, it was a good ride.
 
Shiftless doofus with few prospects stumbles into the limelight, hooks up with and campaigns for big-shot Republican, doesn't like what he sees, throws said Republican under the bus, branches out on his own...and then watches it all start to fall apart.
 
From the Washington Post: "Joe the Plumber (no longer a plumber; first name actually Samuel) popped into our town yesterday evening to sell his new book and to remind people that he's still a plain and simple guy. Mission accomplished, on at least one of his missions.
 
About 11 people wandered into the rows of seats set up hopefully in the basement of a downtown Border's bookstore to hear Joe speak. Joe addressed them from behind a lectern and with a microphone, but that seemed unnecessarily formal....
 
...Wurzelbacher was scheduled to speak and sign books for three hours, but the Joe Show was over in 55 minutes. Total copies of "Joe the Plumber" sold: five. "
 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022600005.html
 
I heard on TV that things didn't go much better for Joe the Unlicensed, Tax-evading Plumber over at the crackpot Conservative Political Action Conference...that he spoke to only 1/4 full room.
 
Maybe it was because he talked about running for public office.
 

When it rains it pours

@ 05:45 AM (8 months, 28 days ago)

I've been having problems...big time! With computer, with ISP and with my Bloghi Sooner Be Blue blog. I'm trying to get everything straightened out...already solved the ISP glitch, still working on the computer and my original Blog.

It may be a few days before the folks at Bloghi read my email about my problem here...so, until then I'll be posting in this new Sooner Blue blog. Which is okay and all, I'd just hate to lose my original blog's archives...over two years worth.