tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363695692011-06-18T18:57:54.573-07:00Just a Girl in short shorts talking about whateverObservations and commentary by a post-modern neo-feminist libertarian cyberpunk on society, culture, politics and whatever.Becky C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06415067599794969890beckychr007@yahoo.comBlogger1141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-12668019923959183322009-07-21T00:51:00.017-07:002009-07-21T15:51:32.730-07:00Au Revoir<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/4259/thoughtcrime.jpg" alt="Thought Crime" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; margin-left: auto; visibility: visible; margin-right: auto; width: 400px;"> <object width="400" height="240"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.profileplaylist.net/mc/mp3player_new.swf"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="flashvars" value="config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Fext%2Fpc%2Fconfig_black.xml&mywidth=400&myheight=240&playlist_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Floadplaylist.php%3Fplaylist%3D67354841%26t%3D1248161948&wid=os"> <embed style="width: 400px; visibility: visible; height: 240px;" allowscriptaccess="never" src="http://www.profileplaylist.net/mc/mp3player_new.swf" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Fext%2Fpc%2Fconfig_black.xml&mywidth=400&myheight=240&playlist_url=http://www.indimusic.us/loadplaylist.php?playlist=67354841&t=1248161948&wid=os" name="mp3player" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" border="0" height="240"></embed> </object> </div><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> Hey kids...<br /><br />The time has come to say <span style="font-weight: bold;">good-bye</span> to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>—and <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">au revoir</span> to my readers—I'll be back somewhere, sometime, somehow.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-million-visitors.html">was started about</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>three years, and 1,146 posts, ago when my sister thought it would be a good outlet for me to share my stupid opinions and charming weirdness with the world, and spare my family and close friends.<br /><br />I had no idea the thing would become as popular as it did. Up until last week I was getting over a 150,000 hits a month. While not exactly breathing down the neck of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Matt Drudge</span> or<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ariana Huffington</span>—a pretty good number for a little part-time <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>.<br /><br />I had a blast, not only sharing my annoying opinions, but interacting with, and irritating all of you—perhaps sometimes being entertaining as well--and not taking any of it too seriously.<br /><br />But those days are gone. Some <span style="font-weight: bold;">readers</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/07/end-of-beckys-blog.html"> complained to </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span>, and the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">“objectionable content” </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">splash page </span>was inserted, no doubt by the click of some rather<span style="font-weight: bold;"> low-level Google employee</span>—<span style="font-weight: bold;">tyranny</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constable</span> is often much more<span style="font-weight: bold;"> oppressive</span> than the <span style="font-weight: bold;">King's tyranny.</span><br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>, which had remarkably high <span style="font-weight: bold;">page rankings</span> on a number of topics, is disappearing from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">search engines</span> by the minute--when an entry is not totally scrubbed it is replaced with an <span style="font-weight: bold;">Objectionable Content Warning</span>. Besides, I am not going to maintain a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> blog </span>which is publicly identified and indexed as <span style="font-weight: bold;">objectionable</span>.<br /><br />Rather than talk anymore about the persons who are responsible for the demise of my<span style="font-weight: bold;"> blog</span>, I want to close my remarks by mentioning a vile <span style="font-weight: bold;">homophobic organization</span>, that I have personally done battle with—but <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.queerty.com/did-google-flag-anti-gay-massresistances-blog-as-hate-speech-20090720/">who along with me has been</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">marginalized</span> by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> liberal do-gooders</span>, and the acquiescence of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span>.<br /><br />A while back a number of people took it upon themselves to flag <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL=http%3A%2F%2Fmassresistance.blogspot.com%2F"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MassResistance</span></a>—an ignorant group dedicated to the suppression of <span style="font-weight: bold;">homosexuals</span> and eradication of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">mythical gay agenda</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google </span>responded by putting up an <span style="font-style: italic;">“Objectionable Content”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">splash page</span>.<br /><br />What kind of country is <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span> becoming when we believe that certain <span style="font-weight: bold;"> ideas </span>should be <span style="font-weight: bold;">marginalized </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">suppressed</span> because they are <span style="font-weight: bold;">unpopular </span>or <span style="font-weight: bold;">incorrect thought?</span><br /><br />No one seems to realize that the beauty of <span style="font-weight: bold;"> free speech</span> is that stupid and vile opinions are out there in the open for all to see and appreciate for what they are—much like a pile of dog poop in the living room.<br /><br />But, we no longer trust the <span style="font-weight: bold;">market place of ideas</span>—the <span style="font-weight: bold;">ideas</span> of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/09/why-i-am-libertarian.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">sassy libertarian dykes</span></a> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">homophobic idiots</span> need to be suppressed—so that no one will get the get the erroneous impression they are worth anything. We are so lucky to have the <span style="font-weight: bold;">officious intermeddlers</span> that report <span style="font-weight: bold;">bad thought</span> to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet Companies</span>, and companies that are willing to implement the <span style="font-weight: bold;">will of the mob</span>.<br /><br />Many <span style="font-weight: bold;">readers</span> have commented that I should not complain about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google's behavior</span>—after all I am a big <span style="font-weight: bold;">free marketer</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">libertarian </span>and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/07/property-rights-kiss-off.html">believe the concept of</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">private property </span>is sacred.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Jefferson</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0880801484?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0880801484">stunned the</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">World</span> when he pronounced the truth that <span style="font-style: italic;">"all men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights."</span> The complaint of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Continental Congress </span>was that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">British Crown </span>was denying citizens, residing in the colonies, their ability to exercise these <span style="font-weight: bold;">natural</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">fundamental rights</span>.<br /><br />Does it really matter whether those rights are being denied by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">King of England</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal government</span>—or a gargantuan <span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet company</span>?<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/03/google-gulag-condemns-microsoft-yahoo.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> </a>is richer and more powerful than most nations. They have the right to do as they wish with their <span style="font-weight: bold;">property</span>—but not to get all <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140267603?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0140267603"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Burkean</span></a>—with that right and power comes an <span style="font-weight: bold;">obligation and duty</span> to <span style="font-weight: bold;">exercise it responsibly</span>.<br /><br />And they do not have a good track record. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google </span>cares much about <span style="font-style: italic;">“collective rights”</span>--<span style="font-weight: bold;">wisdom of the mob</span>—but little about <span style="font-style: italic;">“individual rights”</span>--the right of me and <span style="font-weight: bold;">MassResistance</span> to participate in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">market place of ideas</span>.<br /><br />I do not believe that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal government </span>should regulate how <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google </span>exercises its power—they would only make things worse, and it would result in greater infringements of <span style="font-weight: bold;">individual freedom</span>. But that in no way lessens my disgust and disdain for a company that on a small scale will wipe me out with a key stroke, and on a large scale partner with<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Communist Party thugs</span> in <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70081"><span style="font-weight: bold;">censoring</span></a> the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chinese people</span>.<br /><br />These days most of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">censorship</span> is not the work of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> federal government</span>—it is the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Titans of Silicon Valley</span> , who also strive<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/10/crunching-googles-evil-cookie.html"> to know every single fact </a>about every single living thing in the Universe, that scare the beejeebees out of me.<br /><br />Or maybe you've been brainwashed too.<br /><br />See ya'<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-1266801992395918332?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com102tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-4071349662896744352009-07-15T09:41:00.044-07:002009-07-21T01:34:11.349-07:00End of Becky's Blog--the stupid people win<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/2589/banshes.jpg" alt="Bad Girl" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> Unless something changes this will be the last post on this <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>.<br /><br />Cripes--<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/incredible-shrinking-blog.html">it's happened again</a>--today, upon landing on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>, you were greeted with this <span style="font-weight: bold;">Content Warning</span>, courtesy of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogger</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe this blog's content is objectionable. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Terms of Service.”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/3480/bancensorship.jpg" alt="Blog Censorship" border="0" /></a>Congratulations for being brave enough to continue on into my den of inequity. This is the only <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google-identified porn site </span>which featured a post on each day of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Easter Triduum</span>---<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-journey-begins.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Holy Thursday</span></a>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/04/consummatum-est.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Good Friday</span></a> and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/04/lux-mundi-or-easter-with-meat-loaf.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Easter</span></a>.<br /><br />It might also be the only piece of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google-identified smut</span> to feature <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/01/pro-choice-pro-life-no-choice-no-life.html">pro-life</a> </span><span>banners</span>.<br /><br />I am pretty certain that any readers, who took the time to bitch and moan to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span>, were much more concerned about my <span style="font-weight: bold;">politics,</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> ideological bent</span>, than anything that actually offended their prurient sensibilities--this <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/incredible-shrinking-blog.html">has historically been the case</a> with this sort of thing on this <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/2073/banvatican.jpg" alt="vatican" border="0" /></a>Or was it the side shot of a <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/07/property-rights-kiss-off.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">bare boob</span></a> that is the problem? But the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vatican</span> publicly displays stuff more pornographic than that---until today I have never posted an image of a serial murderer doing the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Full Monty.</span><br /><br />No--- they are offended that<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/03/isabel-paterson-and-age-of-obama.html"> I do not worship</a> the water that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> walks on—but when I was a pretty severe critic of <span style="font-weight: bold;">George Bush </span>these types could not get enough of me.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Liberals</span> can be such<span style="font-weight: bold;"> spoil sports</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/5663/banfascism.jpg" alt="Leftist fascism" border="0" /></a> This <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span> chugged along for two and a half years without any problems, but with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dawn of the Age of Obama</span>—nothing but trouble. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span> has never changed, and it certainly has not changed since May—the last time this happened, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google,</span> after<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/incredible-shrinking-blog.html"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">an avalanche of complaints</span> </a>from my readers, decided that I am not really a purveyor of smut and removed the <span style="font-weight: bold;">content warning splash page</span>.<br /><br />There is no doubt this is an attempt to <span style="font-weight: bold;">marginalize</span> me. Readership will dramatically decrease. In forty eight hours I will no longer appear in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">search engines </span>under the topics I discuss--it will just be described as offensive content. Besides, I am quite sure many folks, understandably, don't continue past the <span style="font-style: italic;">"objectionable content" </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">warning.</span> And those readers who are actually looking for <span style="font-weight: bold;">porn</span> will be pretty disappointed--and will never come back--which is actually fine with me..<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8868/banspanking.jpg" alt="women" border="0" /></a> Its the same old story--<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/16/tantaros_palin_letterman/">putting down </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">conservative women</span> (even if they are<span style="font-weight: bold;"> libertarian-minded</span>—but <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberals </span>don't really understand the distinction)-- especially if they happen to have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">brain </span>and are <span style="font-weight: bold;">gay</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-digg-dont-digg-me.html"><img src="http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/961/bannedbydiggvc8.jpg" alt="Digg" border="0" /></a> It's happened before with <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-digg-dont-digg-me.html">Digg</a>--</span>I was too much for the homophobic progressive pseudo-Geeks (at the same time <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/digg-strikes-again.html">they banned a number of other sites</a> published by members of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">girls' softball team</span>). <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Adsense </span>cut me off for a while. But later I was reinstated,and ,unlike <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogger</span>, they made a notation in my <span style="font-weight: bold;">account fil</span>e not to automatically take action against me just because a few people don't have anything better to do than harass me.<br /><br />The best way to get the attention of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogger </span>on this, short of certified snail mail, is to post something in the <a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger?hl=en">Blogger Help Forum</a>. . I really do appreciate the support--and<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/incredible-shrinking-blog.html"> it did work the last time</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486466043?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=048646604"><img src="http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/581/guillotineb.jpg" alt="French Revolution Reign of Terror" border="0" /></a>If <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> persists in deferring to<span style="font-weight: bold;"> mob rule, </span>and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">blacklisting</span> continues--- sometime in the future I will create a new <span style="font-weight: bold;">website </span>with an independent domain. But unless I get delisted I am not going to waste my time posting here—this is the end of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8872/banstupid.jpg" alt="stupid people" border="0" /></a> I really hate giving in to <span style="font-weight: bold;">stupid people</span>.<br /><br />But lets face it, they rule the world.<br /><br /><center style="font-weight: bold;">------------------------------</center><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE</span>: As I was saying-- in a matter of hours the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> blog</span> has been essentially scrubbed from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">search engines</span>. If you <span style="font-weight: bold;">google</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">"Just a Girl in shorts"</span> this is what you get:<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i265/beckychr007/content.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html"><img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i265/beckychr007/mao.jpg" alt="Digital Maoism" border="0" /></a> This is by far<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.consumingexperience.com/2005/10/flag-as-objectionable-censorship-vs.html"> not the first time there has been mob censorship</a> through use of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Google flagging system</span>. It was noticed back in 2005<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.blogherald.com/2005/08/22/first-report-of-blog-censorship-using-blogger-flag-option/"> just a week</a> after the feature was introduced--it's another form of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Web 2.0</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> collectivist </span> phenomena <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jaron Lanier</span></a> calls<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html"> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Digital Maoism</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/corporate/culture.html"><img src="http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/6683/googleoffice.jpg" alt="Googlers" border="0" /></a> A big thanks to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Carmilla</span> for posting a supporting note in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogger Help forum</span>. If inclined<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=734c54237a1edf58&hl=en">, you can go there </a>and just second her thoughts--I have also posted <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=164b7aa43cfacad4&hl=en">a comment on the forum here</a>, which if so inclined you can ditto. I know, from time to time, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Googlers</span> do get off their <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.google.com/corporate/culture.html">pampered millennial butts</a>, and take a few minutes to read the forum.<br /><br /><center style="font-weight: bold;">----------------------------------</center><br /><br /><a href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/search?hl=en&q=short+shorts"><img src="http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6840/geekgirl.jpg" alt="Geek Girl" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:</span> This guy over at <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/07/girl-in-short-shorts.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Real Blogger</span></a> (who claims to have the inside scoop on<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Google Blogger</span>) is chastising those of you nice boys and girls who have pointed out to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span>, on the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/search?hl=en&q=short+shorts"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogger Help Forum</span></a>, the injustice here. He claims that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">splash page</span> has been removed--and we are not clearing our <span style="font-weight: bold;">caches</span>-- as of Sunday, July 19, at 1:00 a.m. PDT I can not replicate his results.<br /><br />If he needs further proof, I suggest that this helpful fellow check the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Feedjit Live Feed</span> in the right hand margin--if he takes the time to do this, he will notice that almost all of the recent hits are "direct"--this is because they are coming through the splash warning page.<br /><br />The problem with<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Real Blogger</span> is he is one of those ubiquitous little <span style="font-weight: bold;">brown nosers, </span>we all admired and loved so much back in grade school.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/3407/catholicgirl.jpg" alt="Good Girl" border="0" /></a> But being a good girl, I will do as <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/07/girl-in-short-shorts.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Real Blogger</span></a> instructed me to:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"You need to contact your readers, and advise them to knock it off. You aren't bothering Blogger (this is a weekend) - but you are interfering with other bloggers being helped, because of their Denial Of Service technique. Please instruct your readers to clear cache, and restart their browser, if they continue to see an interstitial when surfing to your blog."</span><br /><br />This is the comment<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/07/girl-in-short-shorts.html"> I left for him</a>, in the unlikely event he decides not to publish it:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"I am not going to tell my readers any such thing--and I really don't think the volume is resulting in a DOS.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I would love to be able to give my readers the news that the “interstitial warning” (what a wonderfully geeky word) has been removed—if it was true—but it is not—I have cleaned the cache in both IE 8 and Firefox 3.51 and I can not replicate your results.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">As far as whether it is doing any good—I know it is beneath you, but if you read the article you would learn that in fact when this happened last May, the Googlers responded to this type of notice (despite your insistence that the fact it is a weekend is relevant—the previous interstitial warning was removed on a Saturday evening).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If the people that run these Internet companies created a meaningful way to communicate with them (other than just a slick way to hot flag perceived violations) then the Blogger Help Forum would not be the proper place to address this issue---but there is no alternative other than certified snail mail.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You take being a number 3 ranked helper on the Blogger Help forum way too seriously—relax my friend.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">~Becky</span>"<br /><br /><center style="font-weight: bold;">----------------------------------</center><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE</span>: <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogin.g?blogspotURL=http%3A%2F%2Fmassresistance.blogspot.com%2F"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MassResistance</span> </a>is a rather offensive homophobic organization that I have personally done battle with. But we have something in common--the <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberal mob</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.queerty.com/did-google-flag-anti-gay-massresistances-blog-as-hate-speech-20090720/"> felt their voice should be marginalized and censored</a>--and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google </span>was happy to oblige by putting up an <span style="font-style: italic;">"offensive content"</span> splash page. I just know there is an overlap between the group that flagged <span style="font-weight: bold;">MassResistance </span>and the ones that flagged my blog.<br /><br />Apparently <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> does not feel that the content rises to the level of <span style="font-style: italic;">"hate speech"</span> or per the terms of the TOS, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">MassResistance blog </span>would be totally banned.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">mob </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Google </span>just feel, since they do not agree with the ideas in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>, it should be <span style="font-weight: bold;">marginalized </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">censored</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001N1K1BI?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001N1K1BI"><img src="http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/61/knottyshorts.jpg" alt="bow tie bikini" border="0" /></a> This is about more than me getting my<span style="font-weight: bold;"> shorts in a knot</span>--it's kind of scary stuff.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.eff.org/br/"><br /><img src="http://www.eff.org/br/br.gif" alt="Join the Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign" align="LEFT" border="1" width="112" height="76" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />The <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.eff.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Electronic Freedom Foundation </span></a>should really call <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> on it.<br /><br />This is why the simple solution of shutting up and moving to a new platform is not really satisfactory to me.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-407134966289674435?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com121tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-32063091396419785912009-07-14T09:49:00.019-07:002009-07-15T01:05:34.372-07:00The Libertarian Case For Judicial Activism<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933995025?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933995025"><img src="http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6379/hammerprofile.jpg" alt="David's Hammer" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> There is no greater political smear than accusing someone of being an advocate of <span style="font-weight: bold;">judicial activism</span>. For <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservatives </span>it is the shrill war cry of every election season. And <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberals</span> agree. Yesterday, at the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sotomayor</span> hearing, the well-known clown and newbie senator, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Al Franken</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/sotomayor-hearings-al-franken-says-high-courts-judicial-activism-on-the-rise.html">felt it necessary</a> to go on record as being an opponent of <span style="font-weight: bold;">judicial activism</span>.<br /><br />But the truth is that both <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservatives </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> liberals</span> do not really disfavor <span style="font-weight: bold;">judicial activism</span>. What both the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> left</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">right</span> really dislike is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">neutral application</span> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional principles </span>when it thwarts their <span style="font-weight: bold;">policy goals</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446537519?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446537519"><img src="http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/6526/hammerronpaul.jpg" alt="Ron Paul" border="0" /></a> Even <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ron Paul</span>, the self-proclaimed<span style="font-style: italic;"> “Defender of the Constitution”</span> is not adverse to <span style="font-weight: bold;">extraconstituional legislation</span>. He <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.breadnroses.ca/birthpangs/2007/10/save-lives-support-ron-paul-for-prez/">was a supporter </a>of the congressional ban on certain <span style="font-weight: bold;">partial birth abortion </span>procedures.<br /><br />The authority of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress </span>to regulate <span style="font-weight: bold;">abortions</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/04/abortion-ruling-and-roosting-chickens.html">purportedly emanates</a> from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Commerce Clause of the Constitution</span>, which permits<span style="font-weight: bold;"> federal regulation</span> of trade between the states.<br /><br />I tend to think the performance of an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> abortion procedure</span> in a free clinic in Cheyenne is not really an activity within the stream o<span style="font-weight: bold;">f interstate commerce</span>—and if <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ron Paul's</span> usual strict <span style="font-weight: bold;">constructionist view </span>of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Constitution</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul98.html">was not clouded </a>by his understandable hatred of <span style="font-weight: bold;">abortion</span>, it is indisputable he would agree.<br /><br />In <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/06pdf/05-380.pdf"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Gonzalez v. Carhart</span></a> the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span> ruled that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress </span>has the authority to limit these<span style="font-weight: bold;"> late term abortion</span> procedures—even though they recognized the serious question of whether <span style="font-weight: bold;">congress </span>had authority over this type of behavior.<br /><br />Criticism of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Judge Sotomayor's judicial activism</span> is the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5yHuJ914m4"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> conservative cause</span> </a>of the day. However, as far as her actual rulings are concerned, their problem is that she has been another boring judicial drone, deferring to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">stare decisis</span>--and when it suits her views and objective she is a bigger <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism"><span style="font-weight: bold;">originalist</span></a> than<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Antonin Scalia</span>.<br /><br />In <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nylaborandemploymentlawreport.com/uploads/file/06-4996-cv_opn.pdf"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ricci v. DeStefano</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sotomayor </span>upheld the <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Haven</span> affirmative action boondoogle. She and her fellow judges did not reach the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional </span>issue—but ruled that the District Court had properly followed the precedence of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Circuit</span> and upheld the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> reverse discrimination</span>.<br /><br />Although the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span> did overturn the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Circuit</span>,<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/08pdf/07-1428.pdf"> they declined to do so on </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional grounds</span>, just like they <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124567014181036773.html">were too timid</a> to take on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutionality</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Voters Rights Act</span>. They simply engaged in some <span style="font-weight: bold;">statutory construction</span>, and determined that <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Haven</span> had incorrectly applied the law as laid down by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Congress</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933995254?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933995254"><img src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/6903/hammerguns.jpg" alt="Second Amendment" border="0" /></a>On <span style="font-weight: bold;">gun control</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-will-eviscerate-second.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sotomayor</span> </a>is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">strict constructionist</span>. She <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/crimprof_blog/2009/02/second-circuit.html">has ruled </a>that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Amendment </span>only puts limitations on <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal firearm restriction</span>—but the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> states</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">localities</span> are free to do as they wish. For over a century the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court </span>felt that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill of Rights</span> only puts restrictions on what the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Federal government </span>can and can not do. However, over time <span style="font-style: italic;">“activist judges”</span> started ruling, on a piece meal basis, that<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-will-eviscerate-second.html"> these rights were applicable to the states</a> by virtue of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fourteenth Amendment</span>— but, they have never ruled on whether the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Second Amendment</span> is one of these rights—but they most likely will in the next term.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446537519?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446537519"><img src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8130/hammerronpaulguns.jpg" alt="Second Amendment Ron Paul" border="0" /></a> When it comes to guns, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/sotomayor-will-eviscerate-second.html">Sonia Sotomayor</a> </span>is a radical <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Originalism"><span style="font-weight: bold;">orignalist</span></a>—far more extreme than <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scalia</span> or even <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ron Paul.</span> She is even in disagreement with the court <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservatives </span>love to hate---the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2009/04/20/0715763.pdf"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ninth Circuit</span></a>.<br /><br />The boring, weak, and bland <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span> of today—is nothing like what the<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451528816?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0451528816">Federalist Papers</a> </span>envisioned.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451528816?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0451528816"><img src="http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/6/hammerfederalist.jpg" alt="Federalist Papers" border="0" /></a> The courts,<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Gene_Healy/Sotomayor-A-presidential-power-skeptic-47271162.html"> declared</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> James Madison</span>, would provide<span style="font-style: italic;"> "an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the executive and legislative" </span>branches, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451528816?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0451528816">and</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">"will naturally be led to resist every encroachment of rights expressly stipulated for in the constitution by the declaration of rights." </span><br /><br />But today, the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> federal courts </span>pretty much <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933995025?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933995025">just rubber stamp</a> the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> constitutionality </span>of powers claimed by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">legislative </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">executive branches</span>—when they chip away at this power it is only because the powers are being misapplied.<br /><br />Opponents of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> judicial activism</span> always decry <span style="font-style: italic;">"legislation from the bench."</span> So they believe the <span style="font-weight: bold;">judiciary</span> must be bound by <span style="font-style: italic;">stare decisis</span>—the fiction the courts engage in that they just follow precedence. But most <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservatives </span>want the court to simply overturn <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/07/norma-mccorvey-the-jane-roe-of-roe-v-wade-fame-is-among-antiabortion-protesters-tossed-at-sotomayor-.html"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Roe v. Wade</span></a>. Many <span style="font-weight: bold;">libertarian</span> minded folks would like the court to overturn <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LF4ATK?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001LF4ATK">the slew of cases</a> which gave the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional</span> seal of approval to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Deal</span> legislation—which are the legal basis for the current <span style="font-weight: bold;">welfare state</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LF4ATK?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001LF4ATK"><img src="http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/5248/hammerdirtydozen.jpg" alt="Dirty Dozen" border="0" /></a> Since the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court </span>has never admitted they have ever actually overturned a case (not even the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Dred Scott</span> decision <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/would-obama-have-defended-fugitive.html">which gave judicial imprimatur to the idea</a> that enslavement of <span style="font-weight: bold;">African-Americans</span> is a constitutionally protected activity)---if they were to overturn <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=410&invol=113"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Roe</span></a>, the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lectlaw.com/files/case30.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Slaughterhouse cases</span></a>, the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001LF4ATK?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001LF4ATK"> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">New Deal decisions</span></a>, etc—it would be the most extreme avalanche of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> judicial activism </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberty </span>blood letting ever seen in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Republic</span>--indeed it would truly be a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Revolution</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933995025?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933995025"><img src="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/1995/hammersmall.jpg" alt="David's Hammer" border="0" /></a> In <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1933995025?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1933995025"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">David's Hammer: the Case for an Activist Judiciary</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Clint Bolick</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/">Goldwater Institute</a>,</span> makes the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> libertarian</span> argument for <span style="font-weight: bold;">judicial activism</span>. And he is right—for better or worse the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> courts </span>are the last line of defense against government running roughshod over<span style="font-weight: bold;"> individual liberty</span>.<br /><br />Not that we can ever expect a lot out of this crew. But they are unique in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal</span> scheme as the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Defenders of the Constitution </span>and the last word on it's meaning. Even if they are increasingly reluctant to take on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">President </span>on <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional grounds</span>—they can never completely ignore their<span style="font-weight: bold;"> primary constitutional function</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Libertarians </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">libertarian-minded conservatives</span> don't really want <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justice Breyer's </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307274942?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307274942"><span style="font-style: italic;">"judicially modest</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span>—they want the court to take its responsibility seriously and be <span style="font-weight: bold;">extremists in the defense of liberty</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9563100212?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=9563100212"><img src="http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/906/hammergoldwater.jpg" alt="Goldwater" border="0" /></a> As<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9563100212?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=9563100212">Barry Goldwater</a></span> famously observed:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue...and extremism no vice.”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.S.---</span><br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/p6W29"><img src="http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/4880/s2jpgq.jpg" alt="censorship" border="0" /></a> Once again <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogger</span> has felt it necessary to put a <span style="font-style: italic;">"mature content"</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">splash page </span>upon entering my <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span>. As <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://bit.ly/p6W29">was the case last time</a>, I am pretty certain that any readers who took the time to bitch and moan to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span>, were much more concerned about my<span style="font-weight: bold;"> politics </span>than anything that actually offended their prurient sensibilities--or was<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/07/property-rights-kiss-off.html"> it the side shot of a bare boob</a> of a chick lounging by the pool that is the problem--but the Vatican displays stuff more pornographic than that. Perhaps <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/07/beware-of-googlers-bearing-gifts.html">trashing</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google </span>a few days ago had something to do with it--perhaps it is the fact that I do not worship the ground <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> walks on.<br /><br />But there is no doubt it is an attempt to marginalize me. Readership will dramatically decrease. In forty eight hours I will no longer appear in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">search engines</span> under the topics I discuss--it will just be described as offensive porn. Besides, I am pretty sure many folks, understandably, don't stop by when they see the <span style="font-style: italic;">"mature content" </span>warning. And those readers who are actually looking for <span style="font-weight: bold;">porn</span> will be pretty disappointed--and will never come back--which is actually fine with me..<br /><br />I wish when this happened last May I had just gotten off <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogger</span> and bought a new domain. But that time, due to a huge outcry from my readers the <span style="font-weight: bold;">blog</span> was saved from condemnation and oblivion--I really felt gratified.<br /><br />If anyone would like to contact <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> I would certainly appreciate it. Some contact information is on the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://bit.ly/p6W29">post about the last time this happened</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/p6W29"><img src="http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3687/58489475.png" alt="sexism" border="0" /></a> Its the same old story--putting down <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservative women</span> (even if they are <span style="font-weight: bold;">libertarian-minded</span>) especially if they happen to have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">brain</span> and are <span style="font-weight: bold;">gay</span>. It's happened before with <a style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/why-digg-dont-digg-me.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Digg</span></a> (at the same <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/12/digg-strikes-again.html">time they banned a</a> number of other sites published by members of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> girl's softball team</span>) and, as I mentioned, with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span>.<br /><br />It really sucks.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Liberals</span> can be such spoil sports.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">~Becky</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-3206309139641978591?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-63630810437443046842009-07-13T01:58:00.012-07:002009-07-13T09:17:48.154-07:00Property Rights Kiss Off<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0817939121?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0817939121"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3064/skinnytrespas.jpg" alt="Property Rights" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> This newspaper dude in <span style="font-weight: bold;">South Carolina</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogs.thestate.com/bradwarthensblog/2007/09/my-own-libertar.html">Brad Warthen</a></span>, admits he doesn't have much use fo<span style="font-weight: bold;">r libertarian ideas</span>, except when it comes to the right of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> property owners</span> to hang their undies out on a <span style="font-weight: bold;">clothesline</span>.<br /><br />Yesterday hundreds of <span style="font-weight: bold;">straight </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">gay couples</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-demonstrators-kiss-to-support-gay-couple,0,7821199.story"> gathered in a </a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Salt Lake City</span> square to protest the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090711/ap_on_re_us/us_mormon_church_trespassing_1"> arrest </a>of a couple of <span style="font-weight: bold;">kissing gay guys</span>.<br /><br />Neither <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brad Warthen</span> nor any of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">freedom smoochers</span> have a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> libertarian</span> bone in their body—they not only have no respect for <span style="font-weight: bold;">private property</span>, and the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> right to contract</span>, but they wish to invite the <span style="font-weight: bold;">government</span> in to<span style="font-weight: bold;"> trash private contracts</span>, and tell folks what behavior they can not prohibit on their own <span style="font-weight: bold;">property</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7638/bathtubmary.jpg" alt="Bathtub Mary" border="0" /></a> Because many snooty <span style="font-weight: bold;">Homeowners Associations</span> feel that <span style="font-weight: bold;">clotheslines</span> are way too lowbrow for their upscale neighborhoods, they are strictly prohibited. When people bought into these communities they were provided with the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> covenants</span>, including the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> drying skivvies prohibition</span>—along with<span style="font-weight: bold;"> prohibitions </span>on such landscaping items as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lawn Trolls</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pink Flamingos</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bathtub Marys</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3347/skinnyclothesline.jpg" alt="Property Rights" border="0" /></a> Since many prospective <span style="font-weight: bold;">homeowners</span> apparently do not feel the <span style="font-weight: bold;">government</span> provides enough restrictions on what they can do—they <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119007893529930697.html?mod=todays_us_page_one">are willing to enter into</a> these <span style="font-weight: bold;">covenants</span> —and they are obligated to follow the agreement, even if later they go through a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Greenie radicalization, </span> and decide these<span style="font-weight: bold;"> low tech solar dryers </span>are exceedingly keen—in a <span style="font-weight: bold;">global citizen</span> kind of way.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7314/skinnyglobalwarming.jpg" alt="Global Warming" border="0" /></a> Now there<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119007893529930697.html?mod=todays_us_page_one"> is a whole movement</a> dedicated to lobbying the legislatures of the various states to nullify these <span style="font-weight: bold;">covenants</span> for the sake of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Earth</span>—and no one cares about the neighbors who actually like the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> no clothesline rule</span> or the fact that everyone agreed to it when they moved in. Not to mention the covenant could be changed IF enough of their neighbors felt the same.<br /><br />I suspect that many of the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.laundrylist.org/index.php/advocacy/76-the-right-to-dry-campaign"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Right to Dry Greenies</span> </a>would be in simpatico with the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2009/07/68494186/1"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Utah Smoochers</span></a>.<br /><br />Although some people think the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mormon Church </span>owns everything in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Utah</span>, that's not true---but they do own a square in downtown<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Salt Lake City</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/378/skinnymormon.jpg" alt="Mormon Girl" border="0" /></a> It is patrolled by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Mormon Security Officers</span>, who <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://law.rightpundits.com/?p=619">enforce the prohibition on </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Public Displays of Affection</span>, whether it is gay or straight—cute or revolting—Mormon or non-Mormon.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1254/skinnynokissing.jpg" alt="No Kissing" border="0" /></a> I am the first to admit the policy is profoundly stupid, and reminiscent of a 1950's high school. But, if the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mormons</span> want to prohibit <span style="font-weight: bold;">hand-holding</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">kissing</span> on their <span style="font-weight: bold;">property</span>—that is their <span style="font-weight: bold;">right</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5221/skinnymormonkissing.jpg" alt=" Kissing Mormons" border="0" /></a> Last week a couple of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/11/gay-couple-detained-after_n_230016.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">face-sucking gay lovebirds</span></a> were stopped by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">morality police</span>—instead of knocking it off, the guys made a big scene, and the cops were called in, and they got charged with trespassing.<br /><br />So on Sunday hundreds of offended souls descended on the square and mounted a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/30303.html">Kiss-In</a></span>. They feel the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> right to kiss </span>is so important the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> government</span> should mandate that <span style="font-weight: bold;">property owners </span>have no right to stop this behavior on their <span style="font-weight: bold;">property</span>:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mARxpWLiVwc&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mARxpWLiVwc&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0817939121?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0817939121"><img src="http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/9752/skinnyg.jpg" alt="Skinny Dip" border="0" /></a> Even putting aside whether there is any <span style="font-weight: bold;">right to PDA</span>, how utterly asinine . I often like to <span style="font-weight: bold;">skinny dip </span>in my backyard pool—but I don't think the <span style="font-weight: bold;">government</span> should force my neighbors to open up their pool to <span style="font-weight: bold;">nude swimming</span>—even if many<span style="font-weight: bold;"> wannabe skinny-dippers</span> do not have access to a tolerant pool.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0817939121?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0817939121"><img src="http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7773/skinnypropertyrights.jpg" alt="Property Rights" border="0" /></a>But this type of <span style="font-weight: bold;">governmental lawlessness</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">disregard for property rights</span>, is rampant these days. In the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Chrysler bankruptcy </span>the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/gangster-in-chief-muscles-chrysler.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama administration</span></a> rolled over the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/retired-pensioners-take-on-obama.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">property rights</span></a> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">retired teachers </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> police officers </span>and gave their <span style="font-weight: bold;">property</span> to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">autoworkers union</span>.<br /><br />Everyone wishes to impose their unique sense of right and wrong on everyone else—and they call it their <span style="font-weight: bold;">right</span>. And like <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/didden-property-court-2489663-public-kelo"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Judge Sonia Sotomayor</span></a> they will come down on the side that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fifth Amendment</span> does not mean what it says, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">government</span> can seize<span style="font-weight: bold;"> property</span> to promote the perceived <span style="font-weight: bold;">rights</span> of any <span style="font-weight: bold;">politically favored group</span>.<br /><br />But it has nothing to do with <span style="font-weight: bold;">rights</span>—but a whole lot of <span style="font-weight: bold;">disrespect</span> for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">rights</span> of other.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-6363081043744304684?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-1065255658070185072009-07-10T18:44:00.016-07:002009-07-12T00:29:50.506-07:00Social Security Administrators' $700,000 Party<center><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/social-security-medicare-and-obamacare.html"><img src="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1931/bilmore1.jpg" alt="Biltmore" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a>Well, I guess we are getting used to <span style="font-weight: bold;">bankrupt financial corporations</span> taking <span style="font-weight: bold;">taxpayer money</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-aig-bailout-bash.html">and then throwing themselves a</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>big part</span>y---but up until now<span style="font-weight: bold;"> bankrupt government agencies</span> have not been doing it.<br /><br />This week<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Social Security administrators</span> got together at the classically upscale<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.arizonabiltmore.com/"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Biltmore Resort and Spa</span></a> in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Phoenix</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.abc15.com/content/news/investigators/story/Social-Security-spends-700K-on-Phoenix-conference/RrHYWi4IRka1mC7wJTm4uQ.cspx"> and threw themselves a</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">$700,000 party</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/social-security-medicare-and-obamacare.html"><img src="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2791/bilmore2.jpg" alt="Biltmore" border="0" /></a>Between<span style="font-weight: bold;"> cocktail parties</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> belly dancing </span>demonstrations the administrators attended various courses including<span style="font-style: italic;"> "Techniques to Empower You,"</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">"Mentoring the Generations,"</span> and<span style="font-style: italic;"> "Emotional Intelligence.”</span> With all that heavy lifting we can only hope they were able to get in some golf on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Biltmore's</span> most excellent 18 hole course:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yS9vZacY32c&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yS9vZacY32c&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Social Security</span> said, in defending the conference, that it was necessary inorder to motivate the administrators.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1403961468?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1403961468"><img src="http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/3348/obamacarepropoganda.jpg" alt="Social Security" border="0" /></a>There is a need for motivation alright—th<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/social-security-medicare-and-obamacare.html">e <span style="font-weight: bold;">Social Security Ponzi Scheme</span></a> will start running deficits by 2016, and be totally depleted by 2037. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Medicare</span> is already running deficits, and will fiscally collapse by 2017.<br /><br />On the positive side, I guess this will help hasten the day the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/social-security-medicare-and-obamacare.html"> ill-conceived agency</a> can finally be put out of its misery for good.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://www.adultcomments.net/Images/Comments/party/images/lets_party_4.gif" alt="Party" width="200" border="0" height="214" /></a> Party on.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-106525565807018507?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-27226174268557714512009-07-09T18:49:00.007-07:002009-07-09T20:01:33.490-07:00Beware of Googlers Bearing Gifts<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141654691X?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=141654691X"><img src="http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4608/googleprofile2.jpg" alt="Google" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Google</span> is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Technology Industry</span>.<br /><br />It's quite astounding that a company which <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/168129/google_successful_failure.html">makes 97% </a>of its revenue off of <span style="font-weight: bold;">advertising</span> gets a <span style="font-weight: bold;">free pass </span>virtually all of the time.. and for the most part the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> technology press</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/168141/google_chrome_os_will_reshape_desktop_landscape.html"> is absolutely giddy</a> over the announcement of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10282442-2.html">Google's Chrome Operating System</a></span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141654691X?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=141654691X"><img src="http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/348/googlepageorchestra2.jpg" alt="Larry Page Orchestra" border="0" /></a>At this time <span style="font-weight: bold;">Goggle</span> knows who you are ,where you live and everything else it can gather as your browsing goes through their computers. While <span style="font-weight: bold;">Larry Page</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sergey Brin </span>have some pretty scary <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/10/crunching-googles-evil-cookie.html">Orwellian dreams </a>of what to do with all this information—at this time it is primarily used to sell us stuff.<br /><br />Back in the old days <span style="font-weight: bold;">newspapers </span>depended on <span style="font-weight: bold;">advertising</span>, but it was not<span style="font-weight: bold;"> seamlessly integrated</span> into their news-gathering, reporting,and editorial functions--and certainly not in distribution. In communication courses budding young reporters, and pretty boys and girls attractive enough to have anchor potential, spend countless hours learning about <span style="font-weight: bold;">conflicts of interests</span> and their<span style="font-weight: bold;"> ethical responsibilities</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/10/crunching-googles-evil-cookie.html%20"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/375/brendaj.jpg" alt="Brenda Starr" border="0" /></a>Although these <span style="font-style: italic;">Edward R Murrows </span>are often self-important douches, particularly when they pompously discuss their role as the<span style="font-style: italic;"> “Fourth Estate”</span>--the historical truth is that <span style="font-weight: bold;">newspapers </span>play a key role in keeping a check on the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> government</span> and the powerful interests in society. It was so important that their <span style="font-weight: bold;">freedom</span> is specially protected in the very <span style="font-weight: bold;">First Amendment</span> to our <span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Newspaper reporters</span> have been known to go to jail for defying orders coming from the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> judiciary</span>. Who was the last<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Information Technology guy </span>who went to jail because they refused to hand over information to a <span style="font-weight: bold;">government</span>?<br /><br />Well, that would be none.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/10/crunching-googles-evil-cookie.html%20"><img src="http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3741/evilo.jpg" alt="Google Evil" border="0" /></a> These <span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet companies</span> tailor thei<span style="font-weight: bold;">r search engines</span> to comply with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">censorship requirements</span> of each individual country where they are doing business—whether it is <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4645596.stm">China</a>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/2360351.stm">Germany, France </a></span>or the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-03-02-n19.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">United States</span></a>. When<span style="font-weight: bold;"> tyrannical governments</span> crack down on the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Internet</span>, users<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=103220"> resort to things </a>such as<span style="font-weight: bold;"> proxy servers</span> to get information out—but don't expect <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> to provide any space to host these <span style="font-weight: bold;">proxies</span>. And at times they are not adverse to providing<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amnestyusa.org/individuals-at-risk/priority-cases/shi-tao/page.do?id=1101243">identifying information</a></span> to the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> despotic governments </span>so they can arrest their critics.<br /><br />While all the <span style="font-weight: bold;">technology companies</span> are, to a greater or lesser extent, guilty of this behavior—<span style="font-weight: bold;">Google </span>is the one that matters. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft</span> continues to lag behind, since<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Bill Gates</span> only belatedly woke up and realized that the future of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> personal computing </span>was not storing recipes on a hard drive—and the sale of <span style="font-weight: bold;">shrink wrapped software</span> to index them.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft</span> business model is so 1980's—they make products and charge money for them. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> collects and stores every single fact it can garner about its users on their servers inorder to manipulate us into buying stuff. At the very real risk of being way over the top—one could say that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google model</span> is rather <span style="font-weight: bold;">Faustian</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> is <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23211">already scanning </a>your <span style="font-weight: bold;">email</span>, and storing the <span style="font-weight: bold;">thumbprints of your soul</span> regardless of what<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Internet Browser </span>you use—but that is not enough. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> wants it all. They want to choose what <span style="font-weight: bold;">applications</span> you can load to <span style="font-weight: bold;">manipulate dat</span>a. They want all of your data--thus they would like to give you a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> free operating system</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/10/crunching-googles-evil-cookie.html%20"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3827/googlecookie22.jpg" alt="Evil Cookie" border="0" /></a> It improves the already extraordinarily refined ability o<span style="font-weight: bold;">f Google</span> to target us with their ads. They don't want to be thwarted by annoying people who do such things as occasionally crumble the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/10/crunching-googles-evil-cookie.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> evil Google cookie</span></a>. And the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Feds</span> will appreciate the efficiency of only having to make one stop inorder to find out what nefarious activities you have been engaged in.<br /><br />But don't expect the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet fanboys</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Twitter Twats</span> to be screaming how creepy <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> is. They will continue to bore us with their praise of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Google</span> for taking on the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Evil Microsoft Empire</span>—as they listen to music on a hip device manufactured by a monopolistic company that owns the operating system, software, hardware and Internet download Tune site.<br /><br />However, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/google-ceo-censoring-we-did-evil-scale-394"> has modified </a>the <span style="font-style: italic;">don't be evil </span>mission statement.<br /><br />After they <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/09/censorship-and-google-gulag.html">chose to cooperate </a>with the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chinese Communist Party</span> thugs in <span style="font-weight: bold;">censoring</span> the Chinese people,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Eric Schmid</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/google-ceo-censoring-we-did-evil-scale-394">t said</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">“We actually did an evil scale and decided not to serve at all was worse evil.”</span><br /><br />So the mantra is now sort of an <span style="font-weight: bold;">evil minimization algorithm</span>, utilizing the theorems o<span style="font-weight: bold;">f evil relativity</span>, with an overriding postulation that not maximizing the number of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google users</span> is the worst evil of all.<br /><br />People should have been bringing this up when <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> announced its plans to give us an <span style="font-weight: bold;">operating system</span>.<br /><br />But it will be a cold day in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mountain View</span> when we decide it might be prudent to beware of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Googlers</span> bearing gifts<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-2722617426855771451?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-14838767133242797212009-07-08T09:49:00.012-07:002009-07-08T15:41:58.380-07:00Invasion of Obama Medical Privacy Snatchers<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159403219X?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=159403219X"><img src="http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/3003/hipaa.jpg" alt="Healthcare Czar" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> As a general rule we should be skeptical when the <span style="font-weight: bold;">government</span> passes a law and creates a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> regulatory agency</span> if there is little indication there is a problem which needs to be addressed. And as a universal rule, whenever <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress </span>passes any legislation regarding <span style="font-weight: bold;">individual privacy</span> you know that it has little to do with <span style="font-weight: bold;">privacy</span>.<br /><br />The<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj22n1/cj22n1-3.pdf"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">HIPAA</span></a> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act</span> ) <span style="font-weight: bold;">privacy provisions</span> are no exception.<br /><br />I can vividly recall the period of time when the federal government reached into my doctor's office to protect my <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical records</span>. At the time I was living in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Massachusetts</span>, and was seeing a dermatologist. The doc primarily practiced in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boston</span>, but once a week he had office hours in a little town in <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Hampshire</span>, only about five miles from my home.<br /><br />His practice was to bring the day's <span style="font-weight: bold;">patient files</span> up from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Boston</span>, and would have them stacked on the desk next to the receptionist. One day in 2003 I noticed they had put a towel over the pile of files—<span style="font-weight: bold;">HIPAA </span>had gone into effect—and the blanket was the doctor's way of ensuring he was in compliance with the new <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal law</span>.<br /><br />I had never fretted over this stack of files—and had never really been concerned about the <span style="font-weight: bold;">privacy</span> of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical records</span>. I was aware that <span style="font-weight: bold;">doctors</span> have an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> ethical </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> legal obligation </span>not to release <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical information</span> about me without my consent—and if he ever violated my <span style="font-weight: bold;">privacy</span> I would have a viable lawsuit.<br /><br />And I do not recall any great outcry from the people, begging the <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal government</span> to come in and protect the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> privacy </span>of their <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical records</span>—it was simply not a big problem<br /><br />So why did <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress</span> feel it necessary to create a complicated <span style="font-weight: bold;">regulatory structure</span> to ensure the privacy of <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical records</span>?<br /><br />The answer is they wished to erode general <span style="font-weight: bold;">ethical</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">common law privacy rules </span>and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2975.">facilitate the</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">transfer of personal medical records</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">government </span>is not really concerned that an unauthorized wandering eye might catch the name of one of my dermatologist's patients as a snoop passes by the stack of files---they want to encourage the doctor to digitize all the records so they can be transferred to variou<span style="font-weight: bold;">s databases </span>at lightening speed.<br /><br />The good intentions of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> HIPAA</span> supporters is not the point—what is important is that this was a <span style="font-weight: bold;">governmental power grab</span>. After the failure of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hillarycare,</span> and it's effort to exert<span style="font-weight: bold;"> federal regulatory control</span> over the entire <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical industry</span>, they went the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj22n1/cj22n1-3.pdf">Salami route</a></span>—take control of <span style="font-weight: bold;">American Healthcare</span> one slice at a time.<br /><br />The<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Obama administration </span>has plans to slice another big chunk of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Salami</span>. The<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/reports/plans/onc_hit.pdf"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> American Recovery and Reinvestment Act </span></a>budgeted $2 billion dollars to fund the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology</span>. The<span style="font-weight: bold;"> administration</span> has <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/advocacy/current-topics-advocacy/hr1-stimulus-summary.shtml">also budgeted </a>$19 billion in federal taxpayer dollars earmarked for investment in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Health Information Technology</span>.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Recovery Act</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/stimulus-38604-1.html">also mandates</a> that every provider acquire and implement <span style="font-weight: bold;">health information technology</span> to create an <span style="font-weight: bold;">electronic health record </span>for every person in the nation by 2014 and transfer<span style="font-style: italic;"> “minimum necessary”</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">patient information</span> , whether or not they are enrolled in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Medicare </span>or <span style="font-weight: bold;">Medicaid</span>, to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technolog</span>y.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Minimum necessary information”</span> is to be determined by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service</span>.<br /><br />Of course, the purpose of all this is to develop so-called <span style="font-style: italic;">“best practices” </span>and otherwise limit the <span style="font-weight: bold;">treatment</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">healthcare options </span>available to<span style="font-weight: bold;"> patients</span>—regardless of whether the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> federal government</span> is picking up the tab (albeit their intent is to eventually get everyone pretty much on the public medical dole)<br /><br />However, on principle, I wish to be selfish and not transfer any of my <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical information </span>to the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> federal government</span> even if <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/03/kathleen-sebelius-has-tiller-instinct.html"> Kathleen Sebelius</a> does deem it important, and it might give the bureaucrats a sense of joy, empowerment and superiority.<br /><br />But the <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal government</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=2975">has already asserted</a> that it has virtually unlimited discretionary power to examine our <span style="font-weight: bold;">personal medical records</span>—these new laws, regulations and gathering apparatus are only designed to fully implement this power and make the process legally unassailable.<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/070709bb1.doc"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beatrice Heghmann</span> </a>, a registered nurse in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Durham, New Hampshire</span>, feels the same way. She has filed a class action in <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal court</span> challenging the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutionality</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> legality</span> of the scheme.<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_C._Peel"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr. Deborah Peel</span></a>, founder of <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/site/PageServer">Patient Privacy Rights</a>,</span> and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.patientprivacyrights.org/site/PageServer?pagename=PrivacyCoalition"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Coalition For Patient Privacy</span></a>, predicts more lawsuits will come on the heels of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Beatrice Heghmann's</span> efforts.<br /><br />It's gonna be a tough row to hoe, but I wish her the best.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-1483876713324279721?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-43084795665649094712009-07-07T05:56:00.020-07:002009-07-15T07:29:26.806-07:00Greening Up the World's Sex Life<center><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=36369569" com="" 20=""><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6080/ecogogreen.jpg" alt="Green Sex" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> The leaders of the industrial world will be attending the <span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5760120/Silvio-Berlusconi-picks-former-topless-model-Mara-Carfagna-as-G8-escort.html">G-8 conference</a></span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5760120/Silvio-Berlusconi-picks-former-topless-model-Mara-Carfagna-as-G8-escort.html"> </a>in <span style="font-weight: bold;">L’Aquila</span>, this week. The <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2009/s2619011.htm">hot topic </a>will be<span style="font-weight: bold;"> global climate</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">environment </span> and how to encourage the development of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Green Technology</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/3396/ecomaracar.jpg" alt="Mara Carfanga" border="0" /></a> The meeting will be hosted by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Italian Prime Minister<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07italy.html?ref=europe"> Silvio Berlusconi</a></span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07italy.html?ref=europe"> </a>and the hottest politician on the planet,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Italy's Minister for Equal Opportunity</span>,<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_Carfagna"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mara Carfanga</span></a>, who prior to entering politics was an exceptionally beautiful topless model and dancer.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307270742?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307270742"><img src="http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3954/ecolesbianguard.jpg" alt="lesbian bodyguard" border="0" /></a> No doubt the couple will be protected by <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6638172.ece"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Berlusconi's</span></a> lesbian bodyguards. But there is no word on whether <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michelle</span> will be invited to one of the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/world/europe/07italy.html?ref=europe"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prime Minister's</span></a> parties which feature such things as spectacularly attractive <span style="font-weight: bold;">faux lesbians</span> frolicking in the nude and <span style="font-weight: bold;">scantily clad women</span> enjoying the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Prime Minister's </span>merry-go-round.<br /><br />We can only hope that our President takes to heart the old adage---<span style="font-style: italic;"> when in Rome do as the Romans</span>—for it will be at this party where <span style="font-weight: bold;">Berlusconi </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Miss Carfanga </span>will most likely unveil their plan on <span style="font-weight: bold;">greening up the world's sex life</span>.<br /><br />Say what?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0022812KA?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0022812KA"><img src="http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/1632/ecotreehugger.jpg" alt="Tree hugger" border="0" /></a> You are an <span style="font-weight: bold;">environmentalist</span>. You’re an <span style="font-weight: bold;">Enlightened Green Consumer</span>. You buy organic food and carry it home from the local market in string bags. Your coffee is shed-grown and fair-trade, and you drive a hybrid. But <span style="font-weight: bold;">sex</span>?<br /><br />Well how about those toys you play around with under those organic cotton sheets or in the solar heated shower?<br /><br />Forget the carcinogenic lubricants and non-biodegradable <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><span style="font-weight: bold;">grrl toys</span></a> topping off our landfills—there are some fabulously healthy and pleasurable <span style="font-weight: bold;">eco-kinky alternatives</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BL24JG?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B002BL24JG"><img src="http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8738/ecomarygreen.jpg" alt="Mary Green chemise" border="0" /></a> Patronize entrepreneurs such as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary Green</span>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Miss Green</span> is a practitioner of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_capitalism"><span style="font-weight: bold;">social capitalism </span></a>and devoted to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">ethical production </span>of <span style="font-weight: bold;">organic intimate wear</span>—such as the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002BL24JG?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B002BL24JG"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">100% Silk Satin Chemise/slip </span></a>or the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000F7PHKQ?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=B000F7PHKQ"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lynx with Strawberry Glow Cami & Thong</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EJP7VI?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001EJP7VI"><img src="http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5370/ecopanties.jpg" alt="Mary Green One-of-a kind panties" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mary Green</span> is famous for her<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EJP7VI?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001EJP7VI"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">One-of-a-Kind Silk Eco Panty</span></a>. Since they are made from silk remnants using at least four fabrics for each<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Panty</span>, no two are alike—a girl never has to worry about wearing the same thing as another reveler at one of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Prime Minister Berlusconi's </span>parties.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/10/queen-of-recession-chic.html"><img src="http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3771/ecoshortshorts.jpg" alt="daisy dukes" border="0" /></a> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/10/queen-of-recession-chic.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Recession Chic</span> </a>is also <span style="font-weight: bold;">eco-friendly</span> because it is all about <span style="font-weight: bold;">recycling</span>. A sexy summertime favorite is the transformation of a pair of old jeans into <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-make-daisy-duke-short-shorts.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">daisy dukes</span></a>—which are ideal for <span style="font-weight: bold;"> pedaling a bike</span>—the preferred method of transportation in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Big New Green World</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://cocoecomag.com/new/"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6840/ecococo.jpg" alt="Eco Coco" border="0" /></a>Every library, gym, salon and <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0810992590?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0810992590">Japanese Green Sex Club</a> </span>absolutely must have a subscription to<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://cocoecomag.com/new/">Coco Eco</a></span>—the best <span style="font-weight: bold;">eco-fashion magazine</span> ever to come out of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">LA eco-greenscene</span>.<br /><br />But what about those <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><span style="font-weight: bold;">girl toys</span></a>?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ITWCFE?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000ITWCFE%20"><img src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/1308/ecoscout.jpg" alt="hiking" border="0" /></a> If you live somewhere other than the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pacific Northwest</span> a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Solar Vibrator</span> is great for <span style="font-weight: bold;">camping </span>or <span style="font-weight: bold;">backpackin</span>g. Take this<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M17B7M?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000M17B7M"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">spot massager</span></a> or the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000ITWCFE?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000ITWCFE"><span style="font-weight: bold;">California Exotics Solar Sensations</span></a> on your trip, put it out in the sun for five hours and buzzzzzzzzzzzzz.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theearthangel.ie/"><img src="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7532/ecohandcrank.jpg" alt="Earth Angel" border="0" /></a>For sun-deprived <span style="font-weight: bold;">S</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">eattle tree huggers</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">extreme eco-hippies</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Amish girls</span> there is the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.theearthangel.ie/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Earth Angel Wind-Up</span></a> . It is an 8-inch multi-speed <span style="font-weight: bold;">vibrator</span> made from 100% recyclable materials that is charged up with a hand crank. Four minutes of cranking give the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Earth Angel</span> a 30 minute charge--more cranking can get it up to 60 minutes of power:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_rctvoFXLCw&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_rctvoFXLCw&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="325"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/10/margaret-chos-magic-wand.html"><img src="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/189/ecohitachi.jpg" alt="Hitachi Magic Wand" border="0" /></a>That's cool, sustainable and everything— but hardcore <span style="font-weight: bold;">vibaholics </span>like <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/10/margaret-chos-magic-wand.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Margaret Cho</span></a> will never be satisfied—they should stick with the power guzzling <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/10/margaret-chos-magic-wand.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hitachi Magic Wand</span></a>.<br /><br /><br />However, there are certain<span style="font-weight: bold;"> girl toys</span> which the <span style="font-weight: bold;">eco-conscious</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">health conscious consumer</span> should scrupulously avoid. Some <span style="font-weight: bold;">sex toys</span> contain substances called <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/sextoys/a/phthalates_sex.htm">phthalates</a>. </span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/4431/ecosmallpenis.gif" alt="wee wee" border="0" height="240" width="320" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Phthalates</span> have been shown to disrupt the human hormonal system—adversely affecting the kidneys and liver. There are also studies which show they promote the birth of babies that grow up to have<span style="font-weight: bold;"> small wee wees</span>. I don’t think any of us want to promote that.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OWMRNM?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000OWMRNM%20"><img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/378/ecowormie.jpg" alt="Rub My Wormie Personal Massager" border="0" /></a>The good news is that most manufactures are phasing out the use of <span style="font-weight: bold;">PVC plastics</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">phthalates</span>— but it has nothing to do with <span style="font-weight: bold;">government regulation</span>. This is one area where government has been reluctant to regulate (except the eight states <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/05/down-home-alabama-dildos.html">which totally ban</a> these toys of the devil ). It's just that consumers are demanding safe masturbatory sex. So these days, quite often <span style="font-weight: bold;">sex toys </span>are labeled as being <span style="font-weight: bold;">non-toxic</span>—such as the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OWMRNM?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000OWMRNM"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rub My Wormie Personal Massager</span></a>—which is not only cuter than a bug-- but a five star viber.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029A7T80?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0029A7T80%20"><img src="http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5338/ecorabbit.jpg" alt="Jessica Rabbit" border="0" /></a> If unsure--- check and see if the toy which catches your eye is made of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elastomer</span>—it is safe and nontoxic. You can get the stupendously popular <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005NAUI?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005NAUI"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rabbit</span> </a>in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.holisticwisdom.com/sex-toy-materials-glossary.htm">Elastomer</a></span>—indeed the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Vibratex Elastomer</span> model is the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0029A7T80?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0029A7T80">Rolls Royce of Rabbits</a></span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/rabbit-amnesty/"><img src="http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/4651/ecorecycle.jpg" alt="Rabbit Amnesty" border="0" /></a> Incidentally, if any of you ladies have an old<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AT9AZG?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001AT9AZG"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rabbit</span></a> that has lost its jump, an outfit in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Britain </span>offers <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/rabbit-amnesty/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">a zero waste orgasm and recycling program</span></a>. You ship the old <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rabbit</span> to them, they donate a British pound to the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.worldlandtrust.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">World Land Trust</span></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>and send you a hopping new <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rabbit</span> at half price.<br /><br />But if you want to be real pure go for such things as the fascinating <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0019LWL0G?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0019LWL0G"><span style="font-weight: bold;">cobalt blue glass wand</span></a>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00163CQP2?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00163CQP2"><span style="font-weight: bold;">glass Ben Wa Balls</span></a>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHP6BM?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000EHP6BM">Silver G-Spot Vibe</a> </span>or the classic<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U59S3O?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001U59S3O">seven inch silver trinity</a></span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307270742?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307270742"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6048/ecobubble.jpg" alt="Bubble Bath" border="0" /></a>Finally there are socially responsible, vegan, cruelty-<span style="font-weight: bold;">free bath products</span> from people such as the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NCVAH2?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NCVAH2">Organic Bath Company</a></span>. And toss the <span style="font-weight: bold;">KY Jelly</span>—use such wonderful lubricants as the 100% natural <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0024BTTAU?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0024BTTAU"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Liquid Goddess</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061575569?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061575569"><img src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/5316/ecogoreouslygreen.jpg" alt="Gorgeously Green" border="0" /></a> Enjoy...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Silvio Berlusconi </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mara Carfanga</span> commend you for being an ecologically responsible citizen of the world.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-4308479566564909471?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-67458957523917602062009-07-05T01:28:00.031-07:002009-07-07T06:49:03.322-07:00The Victimization of Sarah Palin<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RS8L00?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001RS8L00"><img src="http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7726/palinprofile.jpg" alt="Sarah Palin" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> I almost hope that<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Sarah Palin</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/03/sarah_palin_wont_seek_second_term_will_resign_mid-term.html"> is calling it quits</a> because an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.spreadit.org/palin-indictment-palin-scandal/">indictment</a></span> is about to be unsealed or she has been involved in a long-distance<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/10/in-search-of-sarah-palins-lesbian.html">lesbian affair</a></span> with an <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/dont-cry-for-mark-sanford-argentina.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Argentine firecracker</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/02/restoration-of-tara.html"><img src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4207/palinpillary.jpg" alt="Blondenfreude" border="0" /></a> Otherwise it means<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/02/restoration-of-tara.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Blondenfreude</span></a> has won again—and the only path to redemption is embracing <span style="font-weight: bold;">victimhood</span>.<br /><br />Recently it seems that all <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah</span> has been doing is whining about her treatment at the hands of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">mainstream press</span>, other <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Republicans</span></a>, and a dirty old man who thinks himself a sophisticated late night comic. I realize some of this can not be ignored—no <span style="font-weight: bold;">mother </span>would stay silent in the face of <span style="font-weight: bold;">statutory rape jokes</span> about her <span style="font-weight: bold;">adolescent daughter</span>. But playing the <span style="font-weight: bold;">victim</span> is always a <span style="font-weight: bold;">no winner</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.hollywoodcelebgossips.com/2009/06/22/crying-baby-perez-hilton/"><img src="http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3135/perezcrybaby.jpg" alt="Crybaby Perez Hilton" border="0" /></a> And unleashing a legal mouthpiece,<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://twitter.com/AKGovSarahPalin/status/2478233787"> to threaten your detractors</a> with <span style="font-weight: bold;">lawsuits</span>, does not make you a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> gutsy victim</span>—just a sniveling <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,528103,00.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">litigous crybaby</span></a> of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.hollywoodcelebgossips.com/2009/06/22/crying-baby-perez-hilton/">Perez Hilton</a></span> variety.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/07/barracuda-sarah-palin-for-vp.html%20http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007QJ1RU?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007QJ1RU"><img src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8629/palinbedtimebonzo.jpg" alt="Bedtime For Bonzo" border="0" /></a>For years <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/07/reagan_palin_and_that_vanity_fair_palin_story.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ronald Reagan</span> </a>took vicious flack from both <span style="font-weight: bold;">Democrats </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Republicans</span>—an unqualified nutcase, whose greatest achievement was being <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007QJ1RU?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007QJ1RU"><span style="font-weight: bold;">best supporting actor</span> </a>to a <span style="font-weight: bold;">chimpanzee</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Reagan</span> did not <span style="font-weight: bold;">whine</span>—nor did he<span style="font-weight: bold;"> quit</span>—he just pressed on, and in the end the laughingstock got the last laugh.<br /><br />I am sure it has been difficult for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">governor</span>—the <span style="font-weight: bold;">feeding frenzy</span> has survived the <span style="font-weight: bold;">election </span>and shows no signs of abating. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Conservative women</span> always make the <span style="font-weight: bold;">left</span> go wild—but <span style="font-weight: bold;">Caribou Barbie</span> is a special case. At one time there was a serious possibility she would derail the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama Express</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979047080?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0979047080"><img src="http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3123/palinfootball.jpg" alt="Sarah Palin" border="0" /></a>After <span style="font-weight: bold;">Palin </span>took the stage with <span style="font-weight: bold;">John McCain</span>, for the first time in the campaign, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/09/dispatch-from-baggy-pants-war.html">polls showed </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">McCain</span> beating <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama</span> in the electoral college. Picking <span style="font-weight: bold;">Palin </span>was a brilliant gamble, and one that<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/07/barracuda-sarah-palin-for-vp.html"> I had suggested long before he made the decision</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Palin</span> did not just shore up <span style="font-weight: bold;">social conservatives</span>, she had <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/09/should-libertarians-support-mccain.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">libertarian tendencies</span></a> that could have broadened the ticket's appeal, was a <span style="font-weight: bold;">reformer</span> and there was the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/08/should-women-consider-voting-for-sarah.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">female factor</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/04/electablility-of-bitch.html"><img src="http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4500/palinpuma.jpg" alt="Hillary Clinton sexism" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> had won the nomination by defeating the first serious <span style="font-weight: bold;">female candidate</span> for <span style="font-weight: bold;">president </span>and one who happened <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/06/clinton_touts_p.html">to have received more votes</a> in the primaries than him. A whole lot of <span style="font-weight: bold;">women</span> (and residents of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/05/florida-disenfranchised-again.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Florida</span></a>) were really pissed. I thought it foolish of him not to pick <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hillary Clinton</span> for veep—and <span style="font-weight: bold;">McCain </span>could capitalize on the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/08/joe-biden-gives-mccain-historic.html">bitch slap</a> and all the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/04/electablility-of-bitch.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">sexism</span></a>.<br /><br />But <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama</span> was smarter than <span style="font-weight: bold;">McCain </span>and myself. He knew that virtually all <span style="font-weight: bold;">African-Americans</span> would vote for him simply because of his race even if they disagreed with his politics—but that is <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/08/should-women-consider-voting-for-sarah.html">not the pattern</a> among <span style="font-weight: bold;">women voters</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cwluherstory.org/myblog/women-against-sarah-palin.html"><img src="http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2664/palinwomensrights.jpg" alt="feminist" border="0" /></a> Unlike <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservative African-Americans</span>, many<span style="font-weight: bold;"> women</span> were indignant at the suggestion they might vote for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Palin</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/08/should-women-consider-voting-for-sarah.html"><span style="font-style: italic;"> “simply because she was a woman”</span>.</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>By this they really meant they <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/09/is-sarah-palin-feminist.html">would not vote for her</a> because she was a <span style="font-weight: bold;">woman</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-as-female-uncle-tom.html"><img src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3046/palincunt.jpg" alt="Palin Misogyny" border="0" /></a> And the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> smear attacks</span> began in earnest—much of it being extraordinarily mean, and often vile and disgusting,<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/01/ms-magazine-crowns-obama-feminist.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> misogynistic slanders and crude sexist witticisms</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1887166602?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1887166602"><img src="http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/865/palinquayle.jpg" alt="Dan Quayle" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Palin</span> was certainly no more uninformed or underqualifed than the dolt picked by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">First George Bush</span>—<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1887166602?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1887166602"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Danforth Quayle</span></a> or the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/06/30/the-sad-sick-tale-of-john-edwards-continues/?cxntfid=blogs_jay_bookman_blog">caddish ambulance chaser </a>selected by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> John Kerry</span>. Her <span style="font-weight: bold;">Church</span> was much less offensive than the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Reverend Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ</span>, which <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> attended for twenty years.<br /><br />As far as experience, since <span style="font-weight: bold;">Palin</span> had served more than one day in an <span style="font-weight: bold;">executive position</span>, she beat <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>. And she had not obtained public office by riding <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/03/silda-spitzer-and-power-of-misplaced.html">a tidal wave of sympathy</a> engendered by the public exposure of a philandering husband.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6370/palinwasilla.jpg" alt="Wasilla Girls" border="0" /></a> But that did not fit the story line. A <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wasilla hillbilly girl</span>, with a typical slightly dysfunctional family, who attends an evangelical church—could not possibly, on merit alone, achieve high office—nor have a brain in her head.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0967063167?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0967063167"><img src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5033/trashl.jpg" alt="Trailer Trash" border="0" /></a> They<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-shaw/reading-the-pictures-empa_b_225908.html"> don't get </a>how any self-respecting intelligent <span style="font-weight: bold;">woman</span> could ever be <span style="font-style: italic;">"proud to be trash"</span>...<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4223/trailertrash.jpg" alt="Trailer Trash" border="0" /></a> just like they don't get why I took it as high praise when one of my<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/03/one-million-visitors.html"> nitwit readers slammed me</a> as <span style="font-style: italic;">"Trailer Trash With a Brain."</span><br /><br />So the <span style="font-weight: bold;">press </span>and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">left</span> were relentless, and have now been joined by certain elements of the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Republican Party</span></a>—the descendants of the country club <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Republican"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rockefeller Republicans</span></a>—whom <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ronald Reagan</span> also had to contend with, and even tried to make peace with by picking <span style="font-weight: bold;">George Herbert Walker Bush </span>as his vice-president, even though<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ivy League Poppy</span> had accused him of such things as <span style="font-style: italic;">“voo doo economics.”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RS8L00?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001RS8L00"><img src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4118/palintowel.jpg" alt="Sarah Palin" border="0" /></a> But<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Barracuda Sarah</span> has seemingly thrown in the towel.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0882708619?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0882708619"><img src="http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/8240/palinfamily.jpg" alt="Sarah Palin" border="0" /></a> To knowingly and intelligently choose<span style="font-weight: bold;"> victimhood</span> is disturbing, but I think I know the reason—she is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">woman</span>. For <span style="font-weight: bold;">women</span> the most important thing is their<span style="font-weight: bold;"> family</span>—a cause for which most <span style="font-weight: bold;">women </span>will always suck it up and sacrifice everything. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Palin</span> is unwilling to let them throw any more dirt into the face of her family.<br /><br />The collective asses of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">left</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/01/ms-magazine-crowns-obama-feminist.html">hags of the Hamptons</a> </span>should feel quite ashamed.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE:</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blackhippychick.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/i-remember-how-he-treated-anita-hill-joe-biden-obamas-vp-pick/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anita Hill's</span></a> favorite woman-sensitive guy, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lunchbucket Joe Biden</span>, has opened his mammoth pie hole <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2009/07/05/2009-07-05_joe_biden_slap_shot_at_sarah_palin_says_quittin_gov_isnt_any_victim.html">to let us know</a> that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sarah Palin</span> is no <span style="font-weight: bold;">victim</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-6745895752391760206?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-72339303350001591942009-07-03T10:11:00.025-07:002009-07-04T12:01:17.910-07:00Nearly Naked Fireworks<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3"><img src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6699/fireworksnaked.jpg" alt="Nearly Naked Fireworks" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fireworks</span> are getting hotter.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=35"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8098/fireworksnakedsign.jpg" alt="Nearly Naked Fireworks" border="0" /></a> This is the kind of thing that gets me all conflicted. As an intelligent <span style="font-weight: bold;">woman</span> I should be deeply offended, by the sight of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> minimally clad young women</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/407832_naked02.html">hawking</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">fireworks</span> at a stand in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Puyallup</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Washington</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/9959/firecrackernakedpinup.jpg" alt="Firecracker" border="0" /></a> And if I was a totally<span style="font-weight: bold;"> straight girl</span> (or a <span style="font-weight: bold;">1993 lesbian</span>), I might be. But alas I am neither—when it comes to stuff like this no guy has me beat for shallowness:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2hYmuQ1Tghs&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2hYmuQ1Tghs&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sexpresso-coffee-shops-take-seattle-by-storm-435093.html"><img src="http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2973/fireworksnakedsexpresso.jpg" alt="Sexpresso" border="0" /></a> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">bodacious enterprise</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.thenewstribune.com/topstory/story/797583.html"> is setting off some sparks</a> among the good people of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Washington State</span>. But it is just an extension of the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sexpresso-coffee-shops-take-seattle-by-storm-435093.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">sexpresso stands</span></a> which are now passe in that caffeinated corner of the world.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cowgirlsespresso.com/main.php"><img src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/607/baristasexpresso.jpg" alt="Cowgirls Espresso" border="0" /></a> A couple years ago some entrepreneurs discovered that a lot of guys prefer to purchase their Joe from a chick in a see through blouse and bottomless chaps, rather than the girl in khaki and Birkenstocks.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><img src="http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2729/fireworksnakedstimulate.jpg" alt="Stimulate sales" border="0" /></a> Lets face it--regardless of the product--it's a <span style="font-weight: bold;">business model</span> that is sure to<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><span style="font-weight: bold;">stimulate</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/11/hookers-for-ron-paul.html"><img src="http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1830/fireworksnakedhooters.jpg" alt="Hooters Protest" border="0" /></a>Of course the usual suspects have been bitching and moaning. I heard one <span style="font-weight: bold;">woman </span>complain about the <span style="font-weight: bold;">exploitation</span> of it all. I know my <span style="font-weight: bold;">feminist </span>friends would agree—and surprise—so do I. As a girl<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/11/hookers-for-ron-paul.html"> who has bounced around </a>selling cocktails, and in college even briefly went <span style="font-weight: bold;">pole dancing</span> until it had the desired effect of prodding my Dad to raise his cash strapped daughter's allowance-- I get it—but the issue here is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">who is doing the</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">exploiting</span><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/11/hookers-for-ron-paul.html"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7882/fireworksnakedwhores.jpg" alt="Hooker Protest" border="0" /></a>No attempt should be to made justify<span style="font-weight: bold;"> nearly naked fireworks hawking</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/09/strippers-for-ron-paul.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">stripping</span></a> or <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.modernhooker.com/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">hooking</span></a> on <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/03/blogging-against-sexism-third-wave.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">third wave feminist theory</span> </a>or anything vaguely esoteric like that. Its just a matter <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/11/hookers-for-ron-paul.html">of managing and maximizing</a> the use of natural resources.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3"><img src="http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/130/fireworksnakedstrippersr.jpg" alt="strippers" border="0" /></a> If <span style="font-weight: bold;">guys</span>, or <span style="font-weight: bold;">shallow lesbians</span>, are willing to pay more for their sparklers or a cup of Joe, if it is served up by a <span style="font-weight: bold;">scantily clad chick</span>—more power to said <span style="font-weight: bold;">chick</span>—so long as she knows what she is doing and is getting a fair return.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2039/fireworksnakedrocket.jpg" alt="Rocket Girl" border="0" /></a> Getting more <span style="font-weight: bold;">bang for the buck</span> is an <span style="font-weight: bold;">American tradition.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/10/revolutionary-times.html"><img src="http://dl7.glitter-graphics.net/pub/9/9347xnm0suheoh.gif" border="0" width="100" height="200" /></a> It is that sort of thinking and initiative that made this country great.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/07/libertarian-fourth-of-july.html"><img src="http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/6366/fireworksnakedfourth.jpg" alt="Happy Fourth" border="0" /></a> And is <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/07/libertarian-fourth-of-july.html">why we celebrat</a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">e </span>the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fourth of July</span>.<br /><br />Have A Great One!!!!<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=40"><img src="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1848/libertybelle.jpg" alt="Liberty Belle" border="0" /></a>And after the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Patriotic Pyrotechnics</span>, and enjoying a a few of the other things <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/04/liberty-dyke.html">Liberty Dyke</a> </span> recommends for a proper<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/07/libertarian-fourth-of-july.html"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Libertarian Fourth of July</span></a>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Liberty Belle</span> has a <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=40">dozen books</a> that every<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Patriot </span>should have in their library.<br /><br />That's<span style="font-weight: bold;"> freedom</span> baby!!<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-7233930335000159194?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-28462247582491309142009-07-03T02:03:00.012-07:002009-07-03T04:23:03.145-07:00Honduras Hopes Obama Butts Out<center><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html"><img src="http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6562/hondurasprotestprofile.jpg" alt="Birds of a feather" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> For years the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States</span> has been criticized, with a great deal of justification, for interfering in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Latin American</span> politics. Not only was this resented by the people of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Latin America</span>, but inevitably we chose the wrong side.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-286708"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7932/hondurasprotestrebel.jpg" alt="Manuel Zelaya " border="0" /></a>And here we go again. Deposed <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran</span> thug <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/02/honduras-thug-help-me-barack-obama-youre-my-only-hope/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Manuel Zelaya</span></a> has run to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>, telling him that he is the only <span style="font-weight: bold;">hope</span>. By this he means the only <span style="font-weight: bold;">hope</span> of getting the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chavist Bolivian Revolution</span> back on track in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduras</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Zelaya</span> was deposed by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">military<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html"> </a></span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html">because he was attempting to subvert</a> the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Honduran Constitution,</span> and setting himself up as <span style="font-weight: bold;">president for life</span>—just like his heroes <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hugo Chavez </span>and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Castro twins</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span> ordered him to cease and desist. When he refused, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">military</span> came in and whisked the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> traitor</span> away to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Costa Rica</span> in his pajamas.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3"><img src="http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/7350/hondurasprotestdecider.jpg" alt="Decider" border="0" /></a>It is the same kind of thing that <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html">might have happened</a> if in January, <span style="font-weight: bold;">George Bush </span>had declared a state of emergency, justifying a suspension of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitution</span>. I am quite confident the <span style="font-weight: bold;">military</span>, which <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-duty-to-protect-and-defend.html">has taken an oath</a> to support and protect the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution</span>, would have removed his <span style="font-weight: bold;">traitorous ass</span> from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House</span>.<br /><br />As always happens with efforts to remove <span style="font-weight: bold;">leftist douchebags</span>, organizations like the <span style="font-weight: bold;">UN</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">OAS</span>, and the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-286708"><span style="font-weight: bold;">mainstream Western Press</span></a> (as well as<span style="font-weight: bold;"> leftist truthers ,</span>like humorless comedian <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allison-kilkenny/patiently-awaiting-the-us_b_222664.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Allison Kilkenny</span></a>, who wants us to know that an <span style="font-weight: bold;">American government conspiracy</span> is behind the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zelaya</span> ouster) become quite offended. But in the past, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States </span>government has generally not jumped on the bandwagon.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html"><img src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/8966/obamahope.jpg" alt="Obama Hope" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>, a world renowned expert on<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Honduran law</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE55S5J220090629?sp=true">has said the removal</a> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zelaya</span> is illegal, and<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blog.aeortiz.com/2009/07/ileana-ros-lehtinen-writes-to-obama.html"> aligned himself </a>with <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.proceso.hn/2009/07/02/Nacionales/Ch.C.A/14626.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chavez </span></a>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Castro</span>, in committing the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States</span> to a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran Dictatorship</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://immodestproposals.blogspot.com/2007/04/word-of-day-ap-spreading-cuban.html"><img src="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/103/hondurasprotestwissert.jpg" alt="Will Weister " border="0" /></a> And the press has backed him, noting that there is universal international support for restoration of the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-286803"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chavez lackey</span></a>. But, even propagandists slip up sometimes. A couple days ago reporter<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/DN-honduras_01int.ART.State.Edition1.4bf4e39.html"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Will Weissert</span></a> let this slip:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“With no international support but a <span style="font-weight: bold;">SIGNIFICANT FOLLOWING AT HOME</span>, the new Honduran leadership called thousands of flag-waving people into a downtown plaza”</span> (emphasis added).<br /><br /><a href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/honduran-democracy-protesters-lash-out.html"><img src="http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/4383/hondurasprotestobama2.jpg" alt="Honduran Freedom Fighters" border="0" /></a>Indeed the removal of this <span style="font-weight: bold;">tin horn dictator</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/07/honduran-news-obama-should-not-succomb.html"> is widely supported</a> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hondurans</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://hondurans4democracy.blogspot.com/">who are proud </a>of their <span style="font-weight: bold;">democracy</span>, and the only thing they hope for is that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> leaves them alone.<br /><br />Although, there has been no censoring of the Internet or restrictions on foreign press coverage in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduras</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans</span> have pretty much only been shown <span style="font-weight: bold;">Manuel Zelaya</span> being treated like a hero by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">UN General Assembly</span>, and a couple dozen scruffy <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marxists</span> indiscriminately tossing bricks.<br /><br />Oh—and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Friends of the Earth </span>as well:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cUDGDfILh8w&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cUDGDfILh8w&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Whatever hippie.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html"><img src="http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/6673/hondurasprotest2.jpg" alt=" Zelaya opponents" border="0" /></a> But the supporters of the ouster have been <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.elheraldo.hn/">out in force</a>—and all but ignored by the media:<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dC9mLkdgURQ&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dC9mLkdgURQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html"><img src="http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/8255/63278798.jpg" alt="Honduran Freedom Fighters" border="0" /></a> These are the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://faustasblog.com/?p=13639#comment-20431">freedom fighters</a></span>. They are not asking for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama's</span> help— they only ask that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States</span> , for the first time ever in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Latin American history,</span> leave them alone and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/honduras_and_iran_obama_betray.html">not assist the forces of</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">tyranny</span>.<br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/during_times_of_universal_deceit-telling_the/193642.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">George Orwell</span></a> once said,<span style="font-style: italic;"> "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."</span> When the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran military</span>, in defense of their <span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution</span>, removed <span style="font-weight: bold;">el presidente </span>they spoke the truth—<span style="font-weight: bold;">Chavist Socialism</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Democracy</span> are fundamentally incompatible.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Viva Honduras! Viva la revolucion! </span><br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/constitutional-coup-detat-in-honduras.html"><img src="http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/9012/hondurasprotestobama.jpg" alt="Honduran Freedom Fighters" border="0" /></a> This is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">hope </span>of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran people</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-2846224758249130914?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-75516122632333714082009-07-02T01:15:00.009-07:002009-07-02T05:02:45.299-07:00The Dumbing Down of America<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026LTN7W?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0026LTN7W"><img src="http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7374/dumbs.jpg" alt="Stupid Americans" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> During the presidential campaign <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_09/014620.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> </a>would often use a catch phrase to rebut <span style="font-weight: bold;">McCain</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Republican talking points</span>---<span style="font-style: italic;"> “the American People aren't stupid.”</span><br /><br />I am sure <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> is quite aware that is not true at all—<span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans</span> are <span style="font-weight: bold;">dumber</span> than dirt and susceptible <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026LTN7W?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0026LTN7W">to all kinds of manipulation</a>--- whether it is the existence of weapons of mass destruction in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iraq</span>, or that it is somehow possible to drastically increase <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal spending</span> and reduce the crushing <span style="font-weight: bold;">national deficit</span> at the same time.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=10"><img src="http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/3023/dumbgirls.jpg" alt="Dunce School Girls" border="0" /></a> The <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article/3211"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Goldwater Institute</span></a> commissioned a study to find out if recent <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arizona</span> high school graduates had the requisite knowledge expected of <span style="font-weight: bold;">naturalized American citizens</span>. The result was that, except for the fortuitous circumstance of having been born on <span style="font-weight: bold;">American </span>soil, only 6.4% of public high school graduates would be entitled to the benefits of <span style="font-weight: bold;">American citizenship</span>.<br /><br />Most of these scholars were unable to identify the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> first president</span> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States</span>, or the name of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ocean </span>located on the East coast of <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3"><img src="http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/985/dumbleno.jpg" alt="Leno Simpson" border="0" /></a> When I was young and naive I used to think there had to be an explanation for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jay Leno's</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">“Man on the Street”</span> shtick. I always thought the participants were nervous, intentionally attempting to get their thirty seconds of fame on the <span style="font-style: italic;">Tonight Show</span>, or that one of Jay's producers passed them a couple bucks.<br /><br />But the explanation is much simpler—<span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span> is the land of the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743249453?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743249453"><span style="font-weight: bold;">dumb and dumber</span></a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.alternet.org/politics/90161/">are much better versed</a> in the composition of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Homer Simpson family</span> than they are with the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Constitution.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6"><img src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1459/simpsonlesbian.jpg" alt="Simpson lesbian kiss" border="0" /></a> A study<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.alternet.org/politics/90161/"> found that </a>about 1 in 4 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans</span> can name more than one of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">five freedoms</span> guaranteed by the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> First Amendment</span> (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances). But more than half of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans </span>can name at least two members of the cartoon family.<br /><br />They found that 22 percent of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Americans</span> could name all five <span style="font-weight: bold;">Simpson family</span> members, compared with just 1 in 1,000 people who could name all five <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">First Amendment freedoms</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6"><img src="http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9273/dumbgeography.jpg" alt="Simpson in Paris" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Europeans</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/ambrosebie164710.html">have long joked</a> that<span style="font-style: italic;"> "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4295/dumbsexy.jpg" alt="Dunce Pinup" border="0" /></a> But it was not until the advent of modern scientific polling that <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026LTN7W?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0026LTN7W">it has become clear </a>what spectacular <span style="font-weight: bold;">dumbasses</span> we really are—and how rapidly we are becoming even <span style="font-weight: bold;">dumber</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026LTN7W?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0026LTN7W%20"><img src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7230/dumblittejustbook.jpg" alt=" How Stupid Are We" border="0" /></a> In a book, called <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026LTN7W?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0026LTN7W"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Just How Stupid Are We?</span></a>, destined to never become a bestseller, historian <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://home.sprynet.com/%7Ershenkman/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rick Shenkman </span></a>stares into the deep abyss of <span style="font-weight: bold;">American Ignorance</span> and directly confronts the continued legitimacy of the cherished notion of the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">wisdom of the people</span><span style="font-style: italic;">.</span><br /><br />And the sad thing is while there is greater <span style="font-weight: bold;">participatory democracy</span>, and unprecedented access to information, as a society we are getting <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743249453?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743249453"><span style="font-weight: bold;">dumber and dumber</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743249453?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0743249453"><img src="http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4093/sumbamerican.jpg" alt="Fat Dumb American" border="0" /></a> As the <span style="font-weight: bold;">American voter</span> dumbs down they are increasingly misusing, abusing, and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595550976?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1595550976">abdicating</a> their <span style="font-weight: bold;">political power</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595550976?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1595550976%20"><img src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8590/nationofsheep.jpg" alt="Nation of Sheep" border="0" /></a> The end result is the erosion of <span style="font-weight: bold;">freedom </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberty</span>, and everything that made <span style="font-weight: bold;">America </span>special. Since we are so <span style="font-weight: bold;">stupid </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">uniformed</span> we are increasingly willing to hand over all decision making and power to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal government</span> and it's<span style="font-weight: bold;"> apparatchiks</span>.<br /><br />Indeed, nearly half of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://earthhopenetwork.net/forum/showthread.php?tid=942">think that the</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span> has the authority to suspend the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution</span>.<br /><br />In the end<span style="font-weight: bold;"> dumb dumbs</span> get what they deserve—<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1595550976?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1595550976"><span style="font-weight: bold;">tyranny</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=35"><img src="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/7234/dumbconstitution.jpg" alt=" Dumb American" border="0" /></a> As <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/jefferson.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Jefferson </span></a>observed:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-7551612263233371408?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-54688064344981469352009-07-01T00:04:00.011-07:002009-07-01T00:41:53.342-07:00A Thumbs Up For OfficeMax<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><img src="http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2962/officemaxproile.jpg" alt="OfficeMax Girl" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> About two and half years ago, in partial reparation for years of sibling annoyance and a very long two-week stay at my home-- complete with the usual spectacle of her alley cat ways, my little sister went to <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.officemax.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OfficeMax</span></a> and bought me a very nice <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NPDKU8?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001NPDKU8"><span style="font-weight: bold;">HP Pavilion Laptop</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.elfyourself.com/"><img src="http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4871/officemaxelf.jpg" alt="OfficeMax Elf" border="0" /></a>Because she had the hots for the cute salesman, he was able to sell her a three year <span style="font-weight: bold;">extended warranty</span> with <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="https://www.productassist.com/officemax/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MaxAssurance</span></a>.<br /><br />Of course, I was delighted by the unusual thoughtfulness, but I must admit I did not really feel there was any kind of maximum assurance that <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://twitter.com/OfficeMax"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OfficeMax</span></a> would make good if the puter croaked.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=8"><img src="http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/1883/officemaxfinger.jpg" alt="One finger salute" border="0" /></a> My skepticism has an empirical basis—you <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/office-max--max-assurance-service-contract-c169752.html">will be hard pressed</a> to find a decent review of <span style="font-weight: bold;">MaxAssurance</span> on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Internet</span>—or even one that is not ridden with quite a few explicatives and one- fingered salutes.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6"><img src="http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/2043/officemaxgirls.jpg" alt="OfficeMax" border="0" /></a> Perhaps I am the exception that proves the rule—but I feel an obligation to give the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OfficeMax</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">extended warranties program</span> a thumbs up, even if it does feel kind of like giving<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Bernie Madoff</span> a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Better Business Bureau award</span>.<br /><br />About three weeks ago the hard drive crashed. I called up the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> MaxAssurance</span> number. Like with all businesses or government agencies that truly care about us, I had to go through endless automated phone menus.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=3"><img src="http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6561/officemaxups.jpg" alt="UPS" border="0" /></a> In the end I was instructed that <span style="font-weight: bold;">UPS </span>would deliver an empty prepaid box and I was to ship the ailing<span style="font-weight: bold;"> laptop</span> to this <span style="font-weight: bold;">repair shop</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Texas</span>. This was a bit irritating. It's like if an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> auto warranty </span>required that a car be shipped back to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Detroit</span> for repair—and there are plenty of <span style="font-weight: bold;">computer shops</span> in my area that would certainly appreciate a contract with<span style="font-weight: bold;"> MaxAssurance</span>. Besides, I could pretty easily sweet talk a geek into putting in a new hard drive—which are not real expensive.<br /><br />But a couple days later they called up and said the <span style="font-weight: bold;">computer</span> was totaled, and they were sending me a <span style="font-weight: bold;">gift card</span> for the purchase price. It arrived in pretty good time—and even included the sales tax that Sis had forked out.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><img src="http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/74/officemaxhappygirl.jpg" alt="UPS" border="0" /></a> What a deal it turned out to be. Because<span style="font-weight: bold;"> electronics </span>always go down rapidly in price, I was able to purchase a new<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NPDKU8?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001NPDKU8">laptop</a> </span>that is four times more powerful than the old one—and I decided to even get the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> extended warranty </span>on the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> gift card</span>—if this works out right I may never have to actually put out any cash for a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> laptop </span>again! Jill truly got me a gift that keeps on giving.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VX6UNW?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000VX6UNW"><img src="http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7239/officemaxgeekgirl.jpg" alt="Geek Girl" border="0" /></a> And I even had thirty bucks left on the card—<span style="font-weight: bold;">OfficeMax</span> mad money—something a girl can only dream of.<br /><br />I still think, by and large, these <span style="font-weight: bold;">extended warranties</span> are a rip off—and <span style="font-weight: bold;">laptops </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">notebooks</span> may be a special exception. Although there have been big improvements, they are inherently pretty weak and frail and prone to various diseases.<br /><br />And if this had been an essential<span style="font-weight: bold;"> business computer</span>, the service would have been way too slow.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://dl10.glitter-graphics.net/pub/131/131810dy7i1vxma1.gif" border="0" height="135" width="37" /></a>But kisses and hugs to <span style="font-weight: bold;">OfficeMax</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-5468806434498146935?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-80210221031193657892009-06-30T00:39:00.009-07:002009-06-30T11:50:24.643-07:00Constitutional coup d'état in Honduras<center><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR2009062903702.html"><img src="http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7113/hondurasprofile.jpg" alt="Defend Constitution" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> The only branch of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">federal government </span>which does not have the power to enforce its orders is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span>. They depend on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">congress</span>.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span>, not only as <span style="font-weight: bold;">commander-in-chief</span>, but as executive of all the various agency paramilitary forces, is best equipped to enforce his orders, and is constitutionally expected to enforce the orders of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span>.<br /><br />Even<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Congress</span> has the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional power<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress"> </a></span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_Congress">to enforce its orders</a>—including the power to arrest the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span>.<br /><br />But in a <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional crisis</span> between the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span>, whose primary function is the defense and preservation of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution</span>, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span>—there is no specific constitutional way for <span style="font-weight: bold;">SCOTUS </span>to rein in the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> president</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-duty-to-protect-and-defend.html"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2758/hondurasmilitarysavecon.jpg" alt="military defend constitution" border="0" /></a> Other than the general will of the people, there is only one institution which can enforce an order of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span> against a recalcitrant <span style="font-weight: bold;">President of the United States</span>—that is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">military</span>—each member of which takes an <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.army.mil/CMH/faq/oaths.htm">oath</a> to <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/2009/06/my-duty-to-protect-and-defend.html">support and defend</a> the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124623220955866301.html"><img src="http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/4004/honduraspresident.jpg" alt="Manuel Zelaya" border="0" /></a>That's<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/saving_democracy_in_the_hondur.html"> what happened</a> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduras</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0792846060?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0792846060"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7416/hondurasbananas.jpg" alt="Bananas" border="0" /></a>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran constitution</span> provides for<span style="font-weight: bold;"> term limits</span>—and it does not permit that prohibition to be changed by a referendum. With<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Latin America's</span> long dismal history of <span style="font-weight: bold;">tin horn dictators</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">demagogues</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> tyrants </span>the reason for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional provision</span> is obvious.<br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124623220955866301.html"><img src="http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/222/hondurasmarxists.jpg" alt="Manuel Zelaya and comrades" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">President Manuel Zelaya </span>is <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://paulitics.wordpress.com/">an ideological cousin </a>of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hugo Chavez</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Castro brothers</span>. In order to implement his <span style="font-weight: bold;">socialist </span>programs, he, as is the rule rather than the exception with<span style="font-weight: bold;"> socialist leaders</span>, wished to become a <span style="font-style: italic;">tin horn dictator</span> who could rule indefinitely like his fellow <span style="font-weight: bold;">Latin American Marxist comrades</span>.<br /><br />So, in violation of a direct order of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/americas/26briefs-Honduras.html">Honduras Supreme Court </a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, el presidente</span> was setting up an assembly to rewrite the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Constitution</span>-- making it possible for him to become president for life.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.daylife.com/photo/07rf8wq4xC6IY"><img src="http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/116/hondurasconst.jpg" alt="Defend Honduras Constitution" border="0" /></a> Like <span style="font-weight: bold;">SCOTUS</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran Supreme Cour</span>t, has no way to enforce its orders—but in something that should please all who admire<span style="font-weight: bold;"> law</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> constitutional democracies</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran military</span> stepped up to the plate and removed a <span style="font-weight: bold;">president </span>who was determined to trample over their <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitution</span>, and implement his <span>personal version of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_Revolution"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Bolivian Revolutionary Democracy</span></a></span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=38"><img src="http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/5958/hondurasobama.jpg" alt="Obama" border="0" /></a>Not surprisingly, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>, a man with an <span style="font-weight: bold;">ego</span> bigger than the collective machismo of all of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Latin America</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE55S5J220090629?sp=true">has declared</a> that the military's action was illegal. Apparently he knows more about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduran law </span>than the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Honduras Supreme Court</span>—as do <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hugo Chavez</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fidel Castro</span>.<br /><br />This is not a situation like the ouster of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Allende</span> by <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet"><span style="font-weight: bold;">General Pinochet</span></a> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chile</span> and the implementation of a brutal military dictatorship. The congress<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/z/jose_manuel_zelaya/index.html"> quickly named</a> an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> interim president</span>, who is a member of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zelaya's party</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court </span>confirmed that they had asked the <span style="font-weight: bold;">military</span> to remove the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span>, who was in <span style="font-weight: bold;">contempt of court</span> and their <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitution</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0912453001?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0912453001"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/6042/hondurasmyob.jpg" alt="MYOB" border="0" /></a> It is, of course, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/minding-our-own-business-in-iran.html">another situation</a> where <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/butting-out-setting-middle-east-free.html">should mind their own damn business</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=38"><img src="http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9677/obamabrazilnude.jpg" alt="Obama" border="0" /></a> But the suggestion that they might not be the final arbiter and interpreter of their country's <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitution</span> bothers leaders like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>.<br /><br />And <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hugo Chavez</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fidel Castro</span> as well.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-8021022103119365789?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-50922604255872677062009-06-29T03:59:00.020-07:002009-06-29T14:14:40.960-07:00The Shame of Gay Pride Month<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=10"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/444/gayparadepenis.jpg" alt="Penis at Gay Pride" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> It's the anniversary of the day after the death of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Judy Garland</span>--and the outbreak of the <span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/stonewall_rebellion/index.html">Stonewall Rebellion</a></span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=19"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5686/gayparadedykesbikes.jpg" alt="dyke bikers" border="0" /></a> This <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/stonewall_rebellion/index.html">means</a> well-oiled young studs in denim <span style="font-weight: bold;">short shorts</span>-- shorter than even I dare wear, obese <span style="font-weight: bold;">topless women</span> on Harley-Davidsons tossing clitoris-shaped lollipops to the crowd, gyrating drag queens in see through dresses and all the rest have been parading down the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Main Streets</span> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=32"><img src="http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/5725/gayparadesax.jpg" alt="naked saxophonist" border="0" /></a> It's called <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.sfpride.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gay Pride</span> </a>and I admit it can be quite amusing—like the time I saw this elderly <span style="font-weight: bold;">naked saxophonist </span>running down <span style="font-weight: bold;">Market Street</span> wagging his very ample flaccid dick at the horrified<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Latina lesbians </span>in the rainbow Afro wigs.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=19"><img src="http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2628/gayparadedeviant.jpg" alt="gay pride parade" border="0" /></a>But at what a cost—this stuff comes right out of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Righteous Right's playbook</span> and <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hotstories/6498193.html">confirms the fears</a> of many that <span style="font-weight: bold;">homosexuals</span> are, at best, some type of <span style="font-weight: bold;">sex-crazed deviant mutants....</span><br /><br />And they want to get <span style="font-weight: bold;">married </span>and have kids?????????????<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=19"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/8060/gayparadekids.jpg" alt="gay pride kids" border="0" /></a>And they even bring the kids to these celebrations of <span style="font-weight: bold;">perverse diversity</span>!!!!!!<br /><br />Now I am not saying that everything about these <span style="font-weight: bold;">parades</span> disgusts me to the core:<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=21"><img src="http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2507/gayparadewarrior.jpg" alt="lesbian warrior" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8939/lesbianparadegirl.jpg" alt="lesbian parade" border="0" /></a>I also understand how they are loads of good natured <span style="font-weight: bold;">burlesque fun</span> for many <span style="font-weight: bold;">gays </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">lesbians-</span>-- who presumably are already with the cause.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6"><img src="http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/7511/gayparadeclassylesbians.jpg" alt="girls" border="0" /></a> But, at the risk of sounding like an <span style="font-weight: bold;">uptight queer homophobe</span>, I have to ask—<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">where is the pride?</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6"><img src="http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3341/gayparademanhatingdyke.jpg" alt="man hating dyke" border="0" /></a> Call me a <span style="font-weight: bold;">man-hating dyke</span>—but a lot of this bullshit is caused by the same substance which often morphs redblooded men into asses at sporting events—maybe a bit of booze—but a whole lot of <span style="font-weight: bold;">testosterone</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=19"><img src="http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/7001/gayparadeleather.jpg" alt="leatherdaddies" border="0" /></a> Many <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gay Women</span> feel a certain obligation to do a once a year hookup with these guys for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pride Parade</span>—but we are forced to endure the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> diapered twink</span>s , <span style="font-weight: bold;">leatherdaddies</span> in spiked thongs and being chased down the street by <span style="font-weight: bold;">well-endowed dirty old saxophonists</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=21"><img src="http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8199/gayparadeposter.jpg" alt="lesbian recruiting poster" border="0" /></a> And then to top it off—<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/12/dyke-behind-harvey-milk.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">lesbian womyn</span></a> get no credit—it was only this year, when the original police reports were released, that <span style="font-weight: bold;">gay rights activists</span> were forced to admit that a<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j4uKjb-SSPpst2tyBHD1GYrlhAkQD99325880"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">butch dyke</span></a> was one of the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://outhistory.org/wiki/Document_3">primary instigators</a> of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stonewall Rebellion</span>—it had always been a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> gay man</span> thing and they denied that <span style="font-weight: bold;">women</span> were involved--which has always <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-11620-Atlanta-Lesbian-Relationship-Examiner%7Ey2009m6d28-Stonewall--Hug-a-TrannyButch-Day">been known to be patently untrue</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/would-obama-have-defended-fugitive.html"><img src="http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3228/gayparadeobama.jpg" alt="obama gay rights" border="0" /></a> But this year there is a special<span style="font-weight: bold;"> shame </span>to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Season of Gay Pride</span>. Although there has been much whining, the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid93604.asp"><span style="font-weight: bold;">gay community</span></a> rewarded the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Democratic Party </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>, <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">f</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/would-obama-have-defended-fugitive.html">or doing essentially nothing</a>, by donating a million dollars at a <span style="font-weight: bold;">LGBT fund raiser</span> over the weekend.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/ted-olson-challenges-proposition-8.html"><img src="http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/2598/panderbear.jpg" alt="pander bear" border="0" /></a> To make matters worse, this exceeded the amount donated last year—when at least they could legitimately pretend that the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/11/barack-obama-lies-to-gays-again.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama pander</span></a> was the real thing.<br /><br />And on Monday, a few self-identified<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/06/28/ST2009062802402.html"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">gay rights leaders</span></a> are going to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">White House</span> and will pay <span style="font-weight: bold;">spiritual bareback homage</span> to the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/gay-memorial-day.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Panderer-in-Chief</span></a>--as he commemorates the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stonewall Rebellion</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=10"><img src="http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4540/lesbianavengers.jpg" alt="Lesbian Avengers" border="0" /></a> I don't see how anyone could be proud of that...<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-5092260425587267706?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-50232710076460484502009-06-26T15:47:00.010-07:002009-06-27T12:00:15.271-07:00Michael Jackson—The Androgynous Black Elvis<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000WS4QJG?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000WS4QJG"><img src="http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3793/jacksond.jpg" alt="Michael Jackson Lisa Marie" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; margin-left: auto; visibility: visible; margin-right: auto; width: 400px;"> <object width="400" height="170"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.profileplaylist.net/mc/mp3player_new.swf"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="never"> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> <param name="flashvars" value="config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Fext%2Fpc%2Fconfig_black.xml&mywidth=400&myheight=170&playlist_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Floadplaylist.php%3Fplaylist%3D65983105%26t%3D1246054785&wid=os"> <embed style="width: 400px; visibility: visible; height: 170px;" allowscriptaccess="never" src="http://www.profileplaylist.net/mc/mp3player_new.swf" flashvars="config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.indimusic.us%2Fext%2Fpc%2Fconfig_black.xml&mywidth=400&myheight=170&playlist_url=http://www.indimusic.us/loadplaylist.php?playlist=65983105&t=1246054785&wid=os" name="mp3player" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" border="0" width="400" height="170"></embed> </object> </div><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Don McLean</span> sang <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009P1MP?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00009P1MP">how the music died</a> the day <span style="font-weight: bold;">Buddy Holly's</span> plane crashed into a cornfield in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iowa</span>. But the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Texas Bopper </span>admitted he owed it all to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elvis Presley</span>---the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“White Negro”</span> --a likeable, swivel-hipped hillbilly through whom <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span> was formally introduced to the sex and violence of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> subterranean sou</span>l of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> America</span>—no longer hidden beneath the cerebral riffs of jazz.<br /><br />It was called <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rock and Roll</span>.<br /><br />But more than a musical idiom, the beat was a sanitized expression of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">American existential crisis</span> of the second half of the last century—the era of what <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000NWPEWE?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000NWPEWE"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Norman Maile</span>r</a> called the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> hipster</span>—later to be reduced, in a somewhat different form, to<span style="font-style: italic;"> “hippie”</span>—reaching its most pure early expression in psychopathic bohemian philosophers, like<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437255?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0142437255">Jack Kerouac</a></span>, who were pushed (and ran) to the fringes of society—all the time superficially fusing aspects of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">African-American</span> experience.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">White Negro </span>from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Memphis </span>became the undisputed <span style="font-weight: bold;">King of Rock and Roll</span>. English lads scoured the cotton fields of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mississippi</span> in search of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> blues</span>—and the kids jived, puffed reefers, and thumbed their noses at the establishment.<br /><br />But <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elvis</span> went <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vegas</span><span>/</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hollywood</span>, and then, as worn out <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vinyl Heads</span> will point out, on August 1, 1981 the music died again—<span style="font-weight: bold;">MTV </span>began broadcasting and became a cult sensation in <span style="font-weight: bold;">white suburban teenage wasteland</span>. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">VJ's</span> didn't feature any <span style="font-weight: bold;">African-American</span> entertainers—because by this point—<span style="font-weight: bold;">rock and roll</span> was an angst-driven pimply white thing.<br /><br />On March 2, 1983 the <span style="font-weight: bold;">MTV</span> producers could no longer ignore it, and had no choice but to play the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En-cHBv7UpA"> <span style="font-style: italic;">“Billie Jean”</span></a> video—followed by <span style="font-style: italic;">“<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqxo1SKB0z8">Beat it”</a></span>--and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Androgynous Black Elvis</span> virally reformed<span style="font-weight: bold;"> popular rock and roll</span> by dipping back into its <span style="font-weight: bold;">African-American</span> roots and <span style="font-weight: bold;">moonwalking</span> across the TV screens of <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span>--transcending both black and white, as well as sexuality.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hipness</span> was back.<br /><br />Without <span style="font-weight: bold;">MJ</span> there never could have been a<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001EUSYE4?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001EUSYE4"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ludacris</span> </a>or <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005O54T?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00005O54T"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jay-Z</span></a>—but it is more universal than that. Without the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> King of Pop</span> there still might have been a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Timberlake</span> or<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Britney Spears</span>—but they certainly would not have been the same.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jackson's</span> existential meaning was symbolically tied to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">House of Elvis</span> when he married<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lisa Maria</span>. And he also knew that a similar fate, as had befallen the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> King of Rock and Roll</span>, was destined for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">King of Pop</span>.<br /><br />Today on her <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=42291868&blogId=497035326">MySpace</a> </span>page<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lisa Marie</span>, recounted a conversation she had with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jackson</span> years ago.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"He stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, 'I am afraid that I am going to end up like [Elvis], the way he did”</span><br /><br />Beyond their remake of pop music, the similarities between <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elvis</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">MJ</span> are quite obvious— the enablers, prescription drugs, the self-imposed isolation, the wackiness , the handlers, and perhaps most striking-- their lifetime endeavors to experience the joys of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> childhood</span>.<br /><br />For many of us the death of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jackson </span>is kind of the end of childhood.<br /><br />It's so sad that he had to sacrifice his for ours.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-5023271007646048450?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-86854838044563045362009-06-24T16:49:00.015-07:002009-06-25T17:27:11.823-07:00Don't Cry for Mark Sanford Argentina<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6304806418?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=6304806418">l<img alt="Evita" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6195/evitaa.jpg" border="0" /></a></center><p><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img alt="Becky" src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" border="0" /></a> Since <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">South Carolina</span> is not<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Italy</span>, <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Governor <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/antigay-south-carolina-governor-sanford-admits-to-affair.html">Mark Sanford</a> </span>is in deep ka ka. The adulterous banging of an <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Argentine firecracker</span> is the final political blow for the governor—and further dims the exceedingly dismal hopes for a <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/04/gay-and-libertarian-republican.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Republican Reformation</span></a>.<br /><br />However, there was a palpable sigh of relief in the press conference room when <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sanford</span> said <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">"she"</span> and not <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">"he".</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img alt="Argentine firecracker" src="http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/8594/evitagirl.jpg" border="0" /></a> Not that things were going all that well anyway—the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/22/mark-sanford-stimulus-sup_n_168926.html">Democrats</a> </span>hated <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jun/25/mark-sanford-affair-republicans"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sanford</span></a> because he was<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> fiscally conservative</span>, and the bulk of the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Republican legislature</span> felt the same way—they are<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> big spending social conservatives</span>—<a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316496,00.html">Reverend Huckabee</a> is their man--the biggest self-righteous<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> big spending conservative</span> of them all. The<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> legislature </span>forced<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Sanford</span> to accept<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Obama's stimulus money</span>—and the legislative battle stressed him out so much he sought relief from the pain in <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Argentina</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2008-07-23-south-carolina-gay-ad_N.htm"><img alt="South Carolina so gay" src="http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/2104/evitagay.jpg" border="0" /></a>It was the moment the dominant <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Holy Roller</span> wing of the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">South Carolina Republican Party</span> had been waiting for. Despite the governor's put down of the <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2008-07-23-south-carolina-gay-ad_N.htm"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">“South Carolina is so gay”</span></a> tourism project, they always suspected he might be a surreptitious agent of the<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Gay Agenda</span>---even though, to a one, they don't seem to realize that their senator,<a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/02/very-gay-presidents-day.html"> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Lindsay Graham</span></a>, is so <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">gay</span> ---who <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mark Sanford</span>, to his credit<span style="COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">,</span><a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://washingtonindependent.com/43458/mark-sanford-whacks-lindsey-graham-over-libertarianism%20http://demo.wonkette.com/205063/from-the-argentine-firecracker-to-maf54"> criticized</a> when <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Lindsay</span> recently got all neocon and went off on a<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> libertarian-bashing </span>tirade:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ikqJ_KB66WQ&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ikqJ_KB66WQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />Quite a disappointment that the guy let his dick get away from him.<br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sanford</span> always had the requisite<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> god talk</span> down (and frequently invoked it in his shameful press conference today) but he also, from time to time, <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=3502">talked about how </a>the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Republican Party's</span> position on<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> gay issues </span>is driving young voters away. Yep—<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">bigotry</span>, like <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">adultery</span>, is a turn off.<br /><br />Among some people there was hope that <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">libertarian-leaning </span>politicians like <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.reason.com/blog/show/133567.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sanford</span></a> and <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://jimunro.blogspot.com/2009/03/jeff-flake-on-republican-revival.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Representative Jeff Flake</span></a> would<a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/04/gay-and-libertarian-republican.html"> become the new voice</a> of the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Republican Party</span>, and the clerics would be asked to move to the back of the bus.<br /><br />But alas--<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mark </span>will rightfully be thrown under the bus—where he will join the pile of roadkill composed of public officials like<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142107?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061142107">Creepy McGreevey</a></span><a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061142107?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061142107"> </a>and <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/03/silda-spitzer-and-power-of-misplaced.html"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Eliot Spitzer</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OLY5H8?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001OLY5H8"><img alt="Wilbur Mills" src="http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9800/evitawilbur.jpg" border="0" /></a> Times have changed since the 1970's when House power-broker <a style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OLY5H8?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001OLY5H8"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Wilbur Mills</span></a> was caught <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">“cavorting in the Tidal Basin with Fanne Foxe, the Argentine Firecracker.”</span> He didn't resign, wasn't disciplined—in fact he was reelected. However <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Wilbur Mills</span> never pretended to walk on the right hand side of God the Father.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000MNOXJO?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000MNOXJO"><img alt="Pervert" src="http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9886/evitapervert.jpg" border="0" /></a> In these dreary days of semi-closeted congressmen pounding out one-handed text messages to teenage pages-- <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Americans </span>are sick and tired of these<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> hypocritical moral authorities</span> lecturing us on how to be better<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"> Christians</span>—especially if, like <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mark Sanford</span>, they are not so much doing it out of some psychic self-delusion, but as an intentional effort to gain political favor.<br /><br />In <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mark Sanford's</span> press conference he apologized to God and everyone in the world except one person—the <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Argentine Firecracker</span>.<br /><br />I doubt he realizes what a schmuck that makes him.<br /><br />Perhaps she is the only person crying for <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mark Sanford</span>. </p><p> </p><p><strong>---------</strong></p><p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Now it is my time to apologize for my poor listening skills--<strong>Sanford</strong> did apologize to the <strong>Argentine Firecracker</strong>--as pointed out by one commenter.</p><p>Now as to the <strong>Annonymous Expert on Libertarianism</strong> in the comment section--he is critcial that I am not much of a <strong>libertarian</strong>--just a <em>"gay democrat".</em></p><p> He admits not reading the blog much, which may account for his ignorance. But he also has poor reading skills on this post. My criticism of <strong>Sanford </strong>was that he could have been a positive force for moving the <strong>Republcian Party</strong> along a more <strong>libertarain </strong>path--but blew it by letting his dick do the talking.</p><p>Self-described<strong> libertarians</strong> are often nothing if not infuriating in their myopic dweebishness--one of the flaws of the movement.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img alt="Becky" src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img alt="Becky" src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" border="0" /></a> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-8685483804456304536?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-12309290211079473242009-06-23T15:46:00.006-07:002009-06-23T16:15:47.102-07:00Ed McMahon & the Last Hot Dog in Lowell<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/5673/edprofile.jpg" alt="Hot Dog" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> Its like when one of the those forever married spouses dies, and the other has no will to live, I knew when I heard last Spring that the venerable culinary institution in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lowel</span>l, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Massachusetts</span> known as <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Elliot</span> had closed it's doors, that it's most famous patron—<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/06/ed_mcmahon_amia.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed McMahon</span></a>—was sure to follow.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed McMahon</span> is known mostly for being to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Johnny Carson</span>, what <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lunchbucket Joe Biden</span> is to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>—an amiable dancing bear.<br /><br />But, before the world knew about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Johnny Carson </span>or <span style="font-weight: bold;">Publishing Clearinghouse</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed McMahon</span> was an <span style="font-weight: bold;">Irish kid</span> from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lowell</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0738537608?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0738537608"><img src="http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1429/edlowell.jpg" alt="Lowell Mill City" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lowell</span> sits alongside a large curve in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Merrimack River</span> as it heads from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">White Mountains</span> o<span style="font-weight: bold;">f New Hampshire </span>toward places like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lawrence</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Haverhill</span>, before dumping into the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Atlantic</span> at <span style="font-weight: bold;">Plum Island</span>. Because of the geography of that bend, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lowell</span> became the birthplace of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Industrial Revolution</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span>, and ended up also being the birthplace of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Rust Belt</span> as<span style="font-weight: bold;"> textile mills</span> shut down and moved <span style="font-weight: bold;">South</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0756517311?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0756517311"><img src="http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/2463/edlowellgirls.jpg" alt="Lowell Girls" border="0" /></a> Wave upon wave of <span style="font-weight: bold;">immigrants</span> moved into<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lowell</span> to operate the <span style="font-weight: bold;">looms </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">spinners</span>—after the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0756517311?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0756517311"><span style="font-style: italic;">“Lowell Girls”</span></a> from the hills of <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Hampshire</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vermont</span> became dissatisfied with the planned<span style="font-weight: bold;"> industrial Eden</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://lucytheblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/lowell-folk-festival-2009-with-rosie-goodness/"><img src="http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4691/lowellimmigrant.jpg" alt="Lowell Immigrants" border="0" /></a> There were the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Irish</span>—then came the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Greeks</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Polish</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">French-Canadians</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Portuguese</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Colombians</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Puerto Ricans</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cambodians</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Laotians</span>. The various neighborhoods of the city, such as <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pawtucketville</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the Acre</span>, are dotted with venerable institutions such as the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Portuguese Club</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gallic Club</span>—all of which are rented by betrothed couples to stage what is an unique <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lowell</span> event—a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Jack and Jill Party</span>—which is mostly just a big drunken throwdown—with ticket sale proceeds used to defray the cost of the wedding, or get the newlyweds started.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0156907909?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0156907909"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/189/edkero.png" alt="Jack Kerouac" border="0" /></a> When <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Elliot</span> started on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elliot Stree</span>t in 1920 the area was not populated primarily by what have to be the ugliest<span style="font-weight: bold;"> prostitutes</span> in the world, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkQpawBClK0">crack addicts</a> and their<span style="font-weight: bold;"> dealers</span>. But even when the neighborhood went into permanent decline—everyone went to <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Elliot</span> for their <span style="font-weight: bold;">hot dogs</span>—heroin addicts rubbed elbows with lawyers and bankers—which is the way a joint, which nourished the growing bodies of such Benzedrine-drenched Lowell luminaries as <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Jack Kerouac</span>,</span> should be.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4490/edhotdog.jpg" alt="New England Hot Dog" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elliot hot dogs</span> were, of course, made with<span style="font-weight: bold;"> New England rolls</span>—which are unlike<span style="font-weight: bold;"> hot dog </span>rolls in the rest of the civilized world—which <span style="font-weight: bold;">New Englanders</span> disdainfully call <span style="font-style: italic;">“Coney Island”</span> rolls. <span style="font-weight: bold;">New England rolls</span> have no crust on the sides, and a split top—and they are impossible to purchase south of the southern <span style="font-weight: bold;">Connecticut</span> border.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/06/ed_mcmahon_amia.html"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1571/edriver.jpg" alt="Ed McMahon" border="0" /></a> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elliot</span> did the <span style="font-weight: bold;">New England dog</span> the best it can be done—<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed McMahon</span> always stopped by when he was back in his hometown, and even had a dozen mailed to him in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Los Angeles</span> on a regular basis. And in 1996 Ed scarfed down a few <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elliot dogs</span> on the bench erected in his honor on the walkway alongside the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lower Locks</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/8855/edkerouac.jpg" alt="Hot Dog Girl" border="0" /></a> Who knows what made an <span style="font-weight: bold;">Elliot dog</span> what is was. Maybe it was the grill smashed roll, the crunch of the steamed dog--- or the way they tossed on the tangy relish (the secret ingredient was <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ipswich Ale Mustard</span>) if you did as most customers did—ordered a dog with <span style="font-style: italic;">“the works”</span><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jj3tDfXvwQA&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jj3tDfXvwQA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />But<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Elliot dogs</span> are the kind of thing no one really appreciates until they are gone.<br /><br />Kinda like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed McMahon</span>.<br /><br />Every dawg finally has it's day.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-1230929021107947324?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-2816334137416914662009-06-22T13:18:00.008-07:002009-06-22T13:56:48.808-07:00Minding Our Own Business in Iran<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/894/myobuse.jpg" alt="MYOB" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranian election protest</span> has demonstrated how deeply <span style="font-weight: bold;">neoconservative</span> thinking has infiltrated <span style="font-weight: bold;">mainstream conservatism</span>, as well as its <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberal</span> roots.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312341164?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312341164"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8481/myobbuchanon.jpg" alt="Right Went Wrong" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama</span> is widely condemned as a coward on<span style="font-weight: bold;"> FOX News</span>, with frequent appearances by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lindsay Graham</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Charles Krauthammer</span> and the usual suspects. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Neocon</span> giant <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Wolfowitz</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/22/iran.us.wolfowitz/">was on</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">CNN's</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Larry King Show</span>, calling for the president to form an alliance with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Moussavi </span>(even though the guy is a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/8siuk/moussavi_was_responsible_for_this_attrocity_in/">socialist thug</a></span>), American and European college campus <span style="font-weight: bold;">hippies</span> are on the march—and not a few of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">CNN anchors</span> have pulled out their <span style="font-weight: bold;">green </span>St Patrick's Day ties.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300122535?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300122535"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6697/myobneocon.jpg" alt="Neoconservatives" border="0" /></a> It's beginning <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/SouthernAvenger/archives/2009/06/21/iranian-neocons">to seem the only person</a> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Washington</span>, on the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> president's</span> side, is<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ron Pau</span>l. Everyone else is on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Wilsonian</span> warpath to make <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran safe for Democracy</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2449/myobgirl.jpg" alt="Iranian Protest" border="0" /></a> They want the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States</span> to intervene on behalf of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> protesters</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran</span>. The only thing this would achieve would be the ruin of an authentic, brave, indigenous political movement. Does anyone seriously think that endorsement by a country, commonly known as the <span style="font-style: italic;">“Great Satan”</span>, which is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">non-Muslim occupying force</span> in two countries that border <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran</span>, and is the country whose meddling put in power the despotic <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shah of Iran</span>, who was overthrown by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranian people </span>in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Islamic Revolution</span>—would be a welcome or useful ally?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805075593?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805075593"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3442/myobblowback.jpg" alt="Blowback" border="0" /></a> Besides, when we meddle on behalf of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> freedom</span>, it never turns out well. The aforementioned <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shah of Iran</span> is one example—after years of savage brutality <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran </span>ended up with the current atrocity. And then there was our assistance to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mujahideen</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Afghanistan</span>, who were the <span style="font-weight: bold;">freedom fighters</span> battling the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Soviet occupiers</span>. We legitimized and strengthened<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Osama bin Laden </span>and company. We are still paying a very heavy price—as is the entire world.<br /><br />And by what <span style="font-weight: bold;">moral authority</span> do we have the right to weigh in on an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iranian election</span>? The <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span> has correctly pointed out that we don't even know there was any <span style="font-weight: bold;">fraud</span>—or if there was, that the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> fraud</span> was so widespread that the rightful candidate was denied victory. In fact,<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/06/just-chill-ahmadinejad-won.html"> as I mentioned a few days ago</a>, there is some pretty persuasive evidence that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ahmadinejad</span> was the legitimate winner.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AMHNKW?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001AMHNKW"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7486/myobflorida.jpg" alt="Recount" border="0" /></a> In 2000 it is highly likely that<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Al Gore</span> was cheated out of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> presidency</span>. But, I don't recall the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president of Iran</span>, or any other country, calling for<span style="font-weight: bold;"> protests </span>in the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> streets of America</span>. We went the legal route—which is what they are doing in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iran</span>. In their country the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Council of Ragheads</span> will decree whether the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> election</span> was legitimate, whether there should be a recount or redo. In our country the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Court</span> threw out the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitution</span> and ordered the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Florida Supreme Court</span> not to conduct a <span style="font-weight: bold;">recount</span>.<br /><br />In looking at the demonstrations, both in and outside <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran</span>—I have seen many signs calling for <span style="font-style: italic;">“Election Not Selection.”</span> By this I assume what they object to is how the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Supreme Council of Ragheads</span> must give prior approval to anyone who gets on the ballot as a candidate for president. Being the great <span style="font-weight: bold;">democrats </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">freedom lovers</span> we are—<span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans</span> sympathize with this argument—and are somewhat outraged.<br /><br />But I don't know why this is. We recently had an <span style="font-weight: bold;">election</span>, where the two candidates were selected by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Republican</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Democratic Parties</span>—a couple of rather offensive organizations that most <span style="font-weight: bold;">Americans </span>are not actual members of. And if the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Democratic Party </span>was truly <span style="font-weight: bold;">democratic</span>—<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hillary Clinton</span> would have been their candidate—not <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>—<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/05/28/20080528.supers.memo.pdf">she won the popular vote</a> in the primaries.<br /><br />It would be pretty hypocritical for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> to get real huffy about the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iranian electoral system</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/7509/myobiraq.jpg" alt="Iraq War" border="0" /></a> Repeatedly our country is excited at the outset about helping some<span style="font-weight: bold;"> resistance fighters</span>— <span style="font-style: italic;">e.g.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Vietnam</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iraq</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Afghanistan</span>---but it does not take all that long for the luster to wear off—and before long we are wondering how we could have been so stupid.<br /><br />One good way to avoid a lot of stupid mistakes is to mind your own business.<br /><br />It's so simple—but always hard to do.<br /><br />So far the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span> is doing a pretty good job.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-281633413741691466?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-45838759747930651602009-06-19T19:33:00.008-07:002009-06-26T16:16:35.882-07:00RIP Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000003DDB?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000003DDB"><img src="http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/1716/magicuse.jpg" alt="magic fingers" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> One of the dubious benefits of doing a <span style="font-weight: bold;">road trip</span> with me is you often get to spend the night in one of those old <span style="font-weight: bold;">Motels</span> that still have the neon signs <span style="font-style: italic;">“Heated Pool” </span>and lordy lordy a <span style="font-style: italic;">“Color TV”</span>. I guess it is the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> cultural historian</span> in me that attracts me to these relics of the fifties, sixties and seventies—it is certainly not the opportunity to end a day of travel with a nice bubble bath in a cum laced, athletes foot infested tub.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=32"><img src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8964/magicmotelroom.jpg" alt="Cheap Motel" border="0" /></a> And the fact that almost all of these joints are now owned by <span style="font-weight: bold;">East Indians</span>, and the lobby smells like curry, does not add to the authentic experience—but I appreciate it that they almost always have WiFi.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811702294?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0811702294"><img src="http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/9114/magicjack.jpg" alt="jackalope" border="0" /></a>In a few of these living fossils you can still find a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed</span>. There are several maintained in some of the overly kitsched <span style="font-weight: bold;">motels</span> on <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0970995164?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0970995164"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Old Route 66</span></a>—and in the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811702294?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0811702294"><span style="font-weight: bold;">gift shop</span></a> there will be the requisite<span style="font-weight: bold;"> jackalope postcards</span>, shot glasses, moccasins, state-shaped refrigerator magnets, commemorative spoons, snowdomes and perhaps a few of those politically incorrect <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/04/cute-little-deer-with-bear-behind_28.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">novelty spanking paddles</span></a> emblazoned with cute sayings like <span style="font-style: italic;">“Heat for the Seat”</span>--which I suspect are now, with<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nj.com/parenting/amber_watsontardiff/index.ssf/2009/06/kate_gosselin_spanks_leah_is_i.html"> the possible exception of</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kate Gosselin</span>, purchased more for adult use on the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Magic Fingers Vibrating Beds</span> than the more socially useful purpose of addressing the national epidemic of spoiled brats.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883323819?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1883323819"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1138/magicmotel.jpg" alt="Cheap Motel" border="0" /></a>I can also confirm that there is (or there was the last time I passed through) a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed</span> in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bridal Suite </span>of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Super 8</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rapid City</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">South Dakota</span> off <span style="font-weight: bold;">I-90</span>. It is not necessary that you be on your honeymoon to spend the night there—in fact it would be rather sad if this was the case. The primary difference between this room and the rudimentary room is that it is large enough to accommodate a real <span style="font-weight: bold;">Whiskey Tango</span> hoedown, and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">King Sized Bed </span>is equipped with a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> coin operated Magic Fingers.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=20"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7811/magicunit.jpg" alt="Magic Fingers" border="0" /></a> In 1958, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_vibrating_bed_inventor"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John Houghtaling</span></a> invented <span style="font-weight: bold;">Magic Fingers</span>, a device mounted onto a motel bed that would shake the mattress under you for 15 minutes, promising escape from the work-a-day non-vibrating bed world.<br /><br /><a href="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3361/magicgirls.jpg"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3361/magicgirls.jpg" alt="vibrating bed" border="0" /></a>You drop a quarter into the device and then a deep buzz begins from deep in the mattress and after you get over wondering whether it is scientifically possible to shake your eyeballs out, and can stop laughing, you will forget that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">vibrating bed</span> has been used more frequently as a <span style="font-weight: bold;">giant kink machine</span> than a <span style="font-weight: bold;">therapeutic devic</span>e, and actually fall into a state of <span style="font-weight: bold;">cheap motel zen enchantment</span>—so much so that at the end of fifteen minutes many people actually pluck in another quarter.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/04/cute-little-deer-with-bear-behind_28.html"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4373/magicpaddle.jpg" alt="paddle" border="0" /></a>After the ecstasy of laying fifteen or thirty minutes on a <span style="font-weight: bold;">purring mattress</span>, even the most harried parent will not feel a need to whack their smart ass kid with the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/04/cute-little-deer-with-bear-behind_28.html">newly purchased souvenir</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.magicfingers.com/"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2707/magicjohn.jpg" alt="John Houghtaling" border="0" /></a>I bring this all up because today the world lost another of the pop culture starz of the sixties and seventies—<span style="font-weight: bold;">John Houghtaling</span>, the inventor and CEO of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_vibrating_bed_inventor">has passed on</a> to that great <span style="font-weight: bold;">vibrating mattress </span>in the sky<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=13"><img src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8342/magicsignmotel.jpg" alt="Magic Fingers Motel" border="0" /></a>In its heyday, there were about 175 <span style="font-weight: bold;">Magic Fingers </span>franchise dealers across the country, and the gadgets collected about $6,000 to $7,000 a month in quarters. Toward the end, the problem was that we became a less civil society, and patrons began to break into the quarter stash.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. Houghtaling</span> was actually a pioneer in attempting to set up a <span style="font-weight: bold;">debit system</span> to get your vibrations—but he was too far ahead of his time. Besides, the world has becoming more sophisticated......<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=6"><img src="http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/5900/magiccheap.jpg" alt="Cheap Thrills" border="0" /></a> and people no longer have the aesthetic sensibilities to appreciate a <span style="font-weight: bold;">cheap thrill</span> in a <span style="font-weight: bold;">tacky motel</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">RIP Magic Fingers.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-4583875974793065160?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-7365556769638083852009-06-18T17:07:00.001-07:002009-06-18T17:10:29.121-07:00Technical Difficulties<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i265/beckychr007/repair.jpg" alt="Broken laptop" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> Just to let all my faithful readers know—my trusty<span style="font-weight: bold;"> laptop</span> is seriously ill—most likely terminally. So for the next few days I will not be as lightning fast on shooting out my annoying opinions on the day's events.<br /><br />But there is always a silver lining.<br /><br />Maybe I will have to get a new computer, which is always fun.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/04/bestest-vibrator-in-whole-world.html"><img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2053/hitachigirlxz2.jpg" alt="Hitachi Girl" border="0" /></a>And the interlude gives me time to indulge in my <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2007/04/bestest-vibrator-in-whole-world.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">other electronic toys</span></a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-736555676963808385?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-43269726634775944952009-06-16T16:28:00.005-07:002009-06-16T16:45:09.535-07:00Just Chill---Ahmadinejad Won<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3442/ahm.jpg" alt="Ahmadinejad " border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> I realize it doesn't fit the script, but get over it--<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ahmadinejad</span> won.<br /><br />Although <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran</span> is not a flower of <span style="font-weight: bold;">democracy</span>, over the thirty year history of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Revolutionary Islamic Republi</span>c, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/ahmadinejad_won_get_over_it_14722">there have been several </a>robust and competitive <span style="font-weight: bold;">elections</span>—and no real evidence of <span style="font-weight: bold;">fraud</span>—at least no worse than in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Florida</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/618/ahmcampaign.jpg" alt="Ahmadinejad " border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ahmadinejad</span> is a douche by our standards, but he is popular in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iran</span>—the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> 62.6 percent</span> of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> vote</span> he received in this year’s<span style="font-weight: bold;"> election</span> is <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/ahmadinejad_won_get_over_it_14722">essentially the same</a> as the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> 61.69 percen</span>t by which he won the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> presidency</span> in 2005.<br /><br />All the talking heads in the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> West</span>, and the bitter expatriate <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranians</span>, have, without any evidence, dismissed <span style="font-weight: bold;">Amadinejad's reelection</span> as a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> fraud</span>. The fact is, the only real evidence I can find indicates that he legitimately won.<br /><br />The only first hand <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jun/15/iran-election-polling"><span style="font-weight: bold;">scientific, nation-wide pre-election poll</span></a>, conducted by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Westerners</span>, showed A<span style="font-weight: bold;">hmadinejad </span>leading by two to one-- three weeks before the <span style="font-weight: bold;">election</span>—which is greater than his margin of victory in the actual <span style="font-weight: bold;">election</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6820/ahmsexy.jpg" alt="sexy Muslim" border="0" /></a> The stories of possible <span style="font-weight: bold;">fraud</span> that come to us through <span style="font-weight: bold;">Western reporters</span> inside <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran</span> are, besides not being based upon any scientific evidence, pretty suspect. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranians</span> they are in contact with are <span style="font-weight: bold;"> students </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> upper middle class professionals</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tehran</span>—which is hardly reflective of the sentiment of the country as a whole.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061358304?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061358304"><img src="http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/776/ahmtales.jpg" alt="Tales of the City" border="0" /></a> If a modern day <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tocqueville</span> was to confine his exploration of <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span> to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Marin County</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">San Francisco</span>, he would come back with a wildly inaccurate portrait of <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span>.<br /><br />In the <span style="font-weight: bold;">West</span> it is <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberals</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">neoconservatives</span> that have a hard time swallowing the idea the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranian people </span>would select a hard ass, Holocaust denying, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Muslim fundamentalist</span>. Both of those schools of thought proceed on the assumption that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranian people</span> are good and desirous of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Western </span>concepts of <span style="font-weight: bold;">freedom</span>—it is only their brutal leaders that are the problem.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.meydaan.com/english/default.aspx"><img src="http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/7865/ahmstoning.jpg" alt="Stoning" border="0" /></a> Even though<span style="font-weight: bold;"> liberals </span>are always trying to be <span style="font-weight: bold;">moral and cultural relativists</span>, they have a hard time swallowing the idea that maybe this <span style="font-weight: bold;">fundamentalist society</span> is composed of a lot of real sucky folks who endorse such things as the stoning of women.<br /><br />The most soft headed comment on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">election </span>I have heard came from this <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranian</span> guy who was pontificating on <span style="font-weight: bold;">CNN</span>. He heads some kind of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iranian Freedom Organization</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">Switzerland</span>, where he lives—not having actually been in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iran</span> since he was three years old.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This “Resistance Fighter”</span> was totally baffled how such a thing could happen in the <span style="font-style: italic;">“Age of Obama.”</span> And then I heard someone else on the same program say the same thing.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/4599/ahmunicorn.jpg" alt="Obama unicorn" border="0" /></a> This is, of course, pure <span style="font-weight: bold;">unicorn whispering</span>.<br /><br />The present state of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran</span> came into being through a wildly successful <span style="font-weight: bold;">populist uprising</span>, led by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> fundamentalist Shiites</span>—who were openly antithetical to everything the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United States </span>and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">West</span> stood for.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6880/ahmrevolution.jpg" alt="Iranian Revolution" border="0" /></a> Isn't it presumptuous of us to assume that in thirty years the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iranian people</span> have totally renounced their <span style="font-weight: bold;">revolution</span>?<br /><br />There are, of course, many people in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Iran</span>, who, to a greater or lesser extent, reject<span style="font-weight: bold;"> governance by Mullahs</span>—but as a whole the culture is pretty sick.<br /><br />And until we can accept the fact that they are truly a people who would make a conscious and deliberate decision to select a nutcase like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ahamdinejad </span>as their president—we can not really understand or deal with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Iran</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-4326972663477594495?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-5471122439235802472009-06-15T15:08:00.014-07:002009-06-15T19:57:29.407-07:00Would Obama Have Defended Fugitive Slave Act?<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/2465/obamax.jpg" alt="Obama pander" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> More tales from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pander Web </span>as our intrepid, but foolhardy, heroes realize how deeply ensnared they are...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> "I think it's a big mistake,"</span> said<span style="font-weight: bold;"> San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom</span>,<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gaypride15-2009jun15,0,1449845.story"> agreeing with</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigos</span>a, as they kicked off the annual <span style="font-weight: bold;">L.A. Pride parade</span> in <span style="font-weight: bold;">West Hollywood</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gay Rights </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/15/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5090503.shtml">advocates are also</a> vocally expressing their dismay over this <span style="font-style: italic;">“mistake.” </span><br /><br />The <span style="font-style: italic;">“mistake”</span> they are bemoaning is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justice Department's</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/16355867/Obamas-Motion-to-Dismiss-Marriage-case">brief </a>defending the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutionality</span> of the<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/01/doma-day-of-protest.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Defense of Marriage Act</span></a><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=38"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3379/obamaclinton.jpg" alt="clinton pander" border="0" /></a> Although the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justice Department</span> argues that it has a duty to defend the legality of laws passed by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Congress</span>, regardless of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> president's</span> personal views, these schmucks need to understand that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> is a true believer, and slicker than <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Obama_Administration_s_DOMA_Defense_Unacceptable_7031.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Clinton</span></a>, who claimed he was begrudgingly signing<span style="font-weight: bold;"> DOMA</span> and then went on to tout it in his reelection campaign as evidence of his<span style="font-weight: bold;"> family values</span> orientation.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span> does not believe the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Fourteenth Amendmen</span>t has any applicability to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">same sex marriage </span>issue. Unlike<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/170044.asp">Dick Cheney</a> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">--Barack Obama </span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/04/gay-and-libertarian-republican.html">does not even believe in</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">gay marriage</span>.<br /><br />He has never wavered on that core belief, which is at odds with that of <span style="font-weight: bold;">George Bush's</span> former <span style="font-weight: bold;">Solicitor Genera</span>l, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2009/05/ted-olson-challenges-proposition-8.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ted Olson</span></a>, who has filed a lawsuit challenging the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutionality</span> of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Proposition 8</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Professor Barack Obama</span><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/02/professor-barack-obama.html"> taught his students at the</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> University of Chicago Law Schoo</span>l that<span style="font-weight: bold;"> same sex marriage</span> did not raise any <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitutional issues</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=38"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1978/obamapander.jpg" alt="pander bear" border="0" /></a> You all just got caught up in the<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/11/barack-obama-betrayed-gay-marriage.html"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">pandering web</span></a> the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Democratic Party</span> is so adept at spinning in order to capture various minorities around election time. The only promise <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama </span>ever made to you is if somehow a repeal of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> DOMA </span>makes its way through <span style="font-weight: bold;">Congress</span> he will sign it—nothing more.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/08/kos-edwards-bastard-purge.html"><img src="http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3071/obamaedwards.jpg" alt="John Edwards" border="0" /></a> Over on the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Daily Kos</span>, where they<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/08/kos-edwards-bastard-purge.html"> only recently stopped</a> defending the moral decency of <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Edwards</span>, there is an unnamed person who claims to be a federal government attorney <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/12/741817/-Obama-on-DOMA:-He-IS-Keeping-A-Promise">defending our</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">“Here's the promise you claim he is breaking: By defending DOMA in court, he is breaking his promise to fight for gay and lesbian rights. He is breaking a policy promise.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I think that is incorrect.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Rather, here's the promise he is keeping: He is keeping his promise that he will serve and act as President as if America is a nation of laws, which it is. He is keeping his promise to uphold the law.”</span><br /><br />Ok, that sounds good, but I have a question....<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=38"><img src="http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/6717/obamaahs.jpg" alt="obama panties" border="0" /></a> Would <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> have felt it necessary to direct his <span style="font-weight: bold;">Justice Department</span> to defend the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive_Slave_Law_of_1850"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fugitive Slave Act</span></a>?<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-547112243923580247?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-26367869656868321992009-06-14T12:34:00.008-07:002009-06-14T13:25:22.251-07:00Holocaust Deniers and Them Obama Haters<center><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/3096/richwhiteguilt.jpg" alt="Ed White Guilt" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> Once again the pundits are dragging out their tired old <span style="font-weight: bold;">guilty white asses </span>and lecturing us about the immorality and social irresponsibility of criticizing the first<span style="font-weight: bold;"> African-American</span> president.<br /><br />Any criticism of the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> presiden</span>t is verboten, not only because it is so boneheaded wrong, but these critiques encourage homicidal creeps like <span style="font-weight: bold;">James B Von Brunn</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Holocaust Museum shooter</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/frankrich/index.html"><img src="http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/5261/richpic.jpg" alt="Frank Rich" border="0" /></a> That's what <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Rich</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/opinion/14rich.html">writes in the</a> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>—<span style="font-style: italic;">“Obama haters are the silent enablers”</span> of this despicable elderly gasbag (although I, along with the overwhelming majority of those critical of the president's polices and ideology do not <span style="font-style: italic;">“hate” </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>, I am sure<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Mr. Rich</span> would see it that way). Most of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Rich's</span> analysis centers on <span style="font-weight: bold;">FOX News</span> commentators—which is in and of itself pretty strange, since <span style="font-weight: bold;">Von Brunn</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/11/inconvenient-truth-holocaust-museum-shooter-hated-fox-news-murdoch-weekly-standard-possible-target/">hated</a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">FOX News</span> ( <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill O'Reilly</span> specifically, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0609/Weekly_Standard_may_have_been_shooter_target.html">along with</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">The Weekly Standard</span> and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> George Bush</span>).<br /><br />While it is true that many of the commentators on <span style="font-weight: bold;">FOX News</span> have seriously questioned the policies of our president—and this does overlap with some of the beliefs of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Von Brunn</span>-- so what?<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/7453/richnewyorker.jpg" alt="Obama New Yorker" border="0" /></a> If these <span style="font-weight: bold;">liberals</span> can not get past the idea that any criticism of (or humor about) the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span> is <span style="font-weight: bold;">racist,</span> and likely to set off nasty <span style="font-weight: bold;">racial hate crimes</span>--then they really have not gotten over their <span style="font-weight: bold;">white guilt</span>. And if so--then sadly-- <span style="font-weight: bold;">America</span> is not yet ready for a <span style="font-weight: bold;">black president</span>--since that type of wholesale<span style="font-weight: bold;"> self-imposed censorship</span> is really the antithesis of everything the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Republic</span> stands for.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767917189?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767917189"><img src="http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/3087/richliberalfascism.jpg" alt="Liberal Fascism" border="0" /></a> Besides, this sort of overlap happens all the time.Many<span style="font-weight: bold;"> liberals</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767917189?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767917189">have beliefs</a> that overlap with those of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hitler</span>—such as vegetarianism, the eradication of tobacco and benevolent economic control through an unequal partnership between the federal government and private industry.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767917189?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767917189"><img src="http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/9218/richvon.jpg" alt="James Von Brunn" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Von Brunn </span>hates<span style="font-weight: bold;"> black people</span>, but he hates <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jews </span>much more passionately—in fact hatred of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jews</span> is the driving force of his life. Look at<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.arsenalofhypocrisy.com/blog/?page_id=2"> his blog</a> for thirty seconds, or as much as you can stand, and you will get the point. Hatred of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jews</span> is the reason he showed up at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Holocaust Museum</span> with a rifle—not for the purpose of shooting an <span style="font-weight: bold;">African-American</span> security guard.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767917189?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767917189"><img src="http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/1120/richwright.jpg" alt="Obama Jeremiah Wright" border="0" /></a> More than his hatred of the race shared by the slain guard with the president, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Von Brunn</span> shared the concerns of the president's old pastor, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/06/11/rev-jeremiah-wright-says-jews-are-preventing-obama-from-talking-to-him.html">Jeremiah Wright</a>-</span>-that the president is now surrounded and under the influence of<span style="font-style: italic;"> “them Jews.”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Ca"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/8404/richantizionism.jpg" alt="anitzionism" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Antisemitism</span> is a hallmark of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> modern political nuttery</span>—although the respectable<span style="font-weight: bold;"> left</span> will often embrace and describe it as <span style="font-weight: bold;">anti-Zionism.</span> This is an <span style="font-weight: bold;">Orwellian</span> attempt to mask the contradictions of an ideology that is not so much dialectic as schizoid.<br /><br />To accuse mainstream, or even far right, <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservatives</span>, and any of the commentators on<span style="font-weight: bold;"> FOX News</span>, as being <span style="font-weight: bold;">anti-Semitic</span> is absurd. If anything, the criticism of many on the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> left</span>, including <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>, is that we have, under<span style="font-weight: bold;"> George Bush</span>, been too staunchly <span style="font-weight: bold;">pro-Israeli</span>—and failed to give <span style="font-weight: bold;">Palestinians</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arabs</span> a fair shake.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521674603?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521674603%20"><img src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/3330/richamericaalone.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521674603?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0521674603"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Neoconservatives</span></a>, the adherents of a political school of thought founded primarily by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> liberal Jewish academics</span>, consider <span style="font-weight: bold;">Israel</span> to be an outpost of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> liberty</span> on the frontline of the war against, what they like to inaccurately call, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Islamo-fascism</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/03/john-mccains-catechism.html"><img src="http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/1345/richrapture.jpg" alt="Rapture" border="0" /></a> And many <span style="font-weight: bold;">social conservatives</span> call themselves <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/03/john-mccains-catechism.html"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">“Christian Zionists.”</span></a> They view <span style="font-weight: bold;">Israel </span>and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jews</span> as their allies (although ultimately cannon fodder) in bringing about the coming of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rapture</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Armageddon</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> has more or less rejected those world views.<br /><br />And many <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservatives</span>, particularly on <span style="font-weight: bold;">FOX News</span>, have been harshly critical of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama</span>--arguing that he is betraying <span style="font-weight: bold;">Israel</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jews</span>.<br /><br />How can modern day <span style="font-weight: bold;">conservatives</span> be equated at all with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Von Brunn</span>?<br /><br />Besides being hopelessly ignorant, blaming<span style="font-weight: bold;"> conservatives</span>, or critics of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span>, as <span style="font-weight: bold;">enablers</span> of this worthless piece of human trash—is actually pretty offensive.<br /><br />If <span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Rich</span> had any decency he would apologize.<br /><br />And it would be nice if the <span style="font-weight: bold;">president</span> would spend thirty seconds explaining this to his zealous followers.<br /><br />Then, of course, they would have no choice but to accept the fact that they were mistaken.<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-2636786965686832199?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36369569.post-75758452913158088442009-06-12T15:36:00.011-07:002009-06-12T16:17:04.690-07:00Ed Whitacre--GM's Government Stooge<center><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307280543?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307280543"><img src="http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/440/whiteprofile.jpg" alt="Ed Whitacre" border="0" /></a></center><br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8600/mejt6.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a> Since<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Ed Whitacre</span> <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ratcliffe/?p=409">was a less than outstanding leader</a> of<span style="font-weight: bold;"> AT & T</span>, and certainly never pretended to be creative—perhaps you wonder why <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama's</span> automotive task force<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/09/AR2009060901172.html?hpid=topnews"> tagged him</a> as the first<span style="font-weight: bold;"> CEO</span> of the new <span style="font-weight: bold;">Government Motors</span>.<br /><br />Not to mention, like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> and Auto Czar<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Steve Rattner</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/06/10/new-gm-chair-i-dont-know-anything-about-cars-hes-just-latest-long-line"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Whitacre</span> </a>admits he <span style="font-style: italic;">“knows nothing about cars.”</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002NY8X0?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0002NY8X0"><img src="http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3973/whitestooge.jpg" alt="Stooge" border="0" /></a>The answer is that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Whitacre</span> is a compliant <span style="font-weight: bold;">government stooge.</span><br /><br />In 2001 when the <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307280543?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307280543"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bush administration</span></a> came around asking the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> telecommunication companies</span> to assist them in violating the law, and vandalizing the <span style="font-weight: bold;">constitution</span>, by permitting the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> f</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">ederal governmen</span>t to <span style="font-weight: bold;">wiretap Americans</span>, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/07/att-wiretapping-your.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Whitacre</span> </a>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">AT & T </span>could not jump fast enough.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307280543?ie=UTF8&tag=jusagirinshos-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0307280543"><img src="http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3449/whitewiretapping.jpg" alt="Bush Wiretapping" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold;">AT & T</span> went so far as to build<a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/12/att-built-warrantles.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> warrantless wiretapping rooms</span></a> for the <span style="font-weight: bold;">NSA</span> at their switching stations.<br /><br />Compare that to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Quest</span>, whose CEO, <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/tech/article/0,2777,DRMN_23910_5719566,00.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Nacchio</span></a>, refused to go along with the secret spying program. He was indicted and convicted on dubious insider trading charges.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Joe Nacchio</span> is now in federal prison, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Whitacre</span> is getting a cushy retirement job.<br /><br /><a href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/07/slick-barry-obama-and-democratic-shame.html"><img src="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1430/whiteobamap.jpg" alt="Obama Wiretapping" border="0" /></a> It's highly unlikely that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ed Whitacre</span> would be getting any kind of job if<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Congress</span>, with the hypocritical flip flopping of <a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" href="http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/2008/07/slick-barry-obama-and-democratic-shame.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Senator Barack Obama</span></a> (who had originally vowed to not only vote against, but filibuster, the bill), had not granted <span style="font-weight: bold;">AT & T immunity</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mr. Whitacre</span> would be busy saving his ass.<br /><br />What more could <span style="font-weight: bold;">Barack Obama</span> ask for than a reliable<span style="font-weight: bold;"> government stooge</span> who owes him one?<br /><br /><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3628/me2mx7.jpg" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/jusagirinshos-20"><img src="http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/3160/me3eb6.gif" alt="Becky" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/36369569-7575845291315808844?l=girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Becky C.http://girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com/beckychr007@yahoo.com0