Don't stipple needful medical research!

Worried about research into serious illness being stalled?
Read this!

Excession on the part of the FCC...

Have you noticed that the FCC Chairman is going after anything remotely seeming like sex if it is on football games?

Janet Jackson's left breast was exposed during a football game. (Large, a bit saggy and I wish she hadn't pierced the nipple. All together, I nice sight. I didn't see said breast on the football game and had to wait till Matt Drudge published a "special" featuring Janet's left breast.)

There was a "racy" segment during a football game last Monday. ABC apologized, the NFL says there were offended and somehow hurt and FCC Chairman Michael Powell wants to fine ABC for "indecency". There was nothing "indecent" about a back shot of a woman. If you want "racy", then look at the cleavage the female cheerleaders show! (I like it.) Look at how the cheerleaders in the first game of that 1 season football league were dressed. Chaps over a skin tone (matched to each woman's skin) colored pair of skin tight shorts. If that wasn't a "look here, boys", I don't know what would/could have been.

What do these right wingers have against sex or female skin? Don't they know that the quickest way to desensitize men from interest in looking at women is simply to let them see everything. I once spent a couple of afternoons on a beech where the women dressed like the men - that is, with shorts and nothing else. It didn't take more than an hour before I went from thinking "tits! Got to look!" to "small tits, not going to look" and finally "not large tits, not going to look." I had become desentisized. (Oops, accidentally but telling misspelling there.)

I still have the photos I took that day in November, 1987. I don't know where I'd be able to publish them on the internet. They certainly aren't racy and the women are attractive but not beauty queens. Just average, attractive and fit young women (ages 20 - 30).

But, I keep digressing. The FCC personnel, like all Federal Employees, are required to sign an oath stating they "will defend and protect the Constitution of the United States of American from all enemies foreign and domestic". A pity the FCC has apparently forgotten it's responsibility to protect the First Admendment Rights of all citizens and not just those whose speech they approve of!

Fummingly,

Moi

It was just before 6 am and I was on-line entering "scribbling" into a blog when an enticing ad popped up: "Get a free $50 gift certificate to Applebys"!

I figured it was a scam but I'd fill in the blanks and get the free $50 for my family. I figure there was some male-bovine-feces involved and I was right! The mailing address was followed by page after page of "Yes! I want to sign up for whiter teeth! I want a technical BS! I want a free trip to Florida! (I spent 12.5 weeks at the Navy Recruit Training Command - boot camp - in Orlando Florida and have an intense disliking for all things Florida since. I also went to Navy "A" and "C" schools in Pensacola Florida and that didn't help my negative attitude any either.)

It finally got to the point where I was being told that if I did not sign up for some pay-and-pay item, I would not be able to complete the survey and I would not get the "free" gift certificate. Also, this process had spawned about 8 additional windows (not counting the fricking popups) and somewhere in the process, my access to blogspot had disappeared. So, having wasted nearly a half hour and having not gift certificate to show for it, I shut off my browser, opened this window and started b1tch1ng here! (Did you notice that I used ones instead of Is in b1tch1ng? That was to keep Michael Powell, God King of the FCC, from fining me for violating FCC rules against "obscene or indecent language". Oh wait, the FCC only regulates EM frequency allocation and the content of over-the-air broadcasts and doesn't "govern" what I say on a blog. Whew! Had me worried there for a minute.)

Go Vote Today!!!

Der
Tag!

This is the day to vote for the man you would
have as President!

Go out and vote!

I've read that in Russian, "to be
silent",
is an active verb. In the context of the 2004 election, this
means
that not voting is actually a vote for whoever your neighbors and
folks you'll never met will vote for! If you're fine with surrendering
to the collective will of strangers, then don't vote. (But if you don't
vote, you forfeit the moral right to complain about the actions of the
man elected!)

Be a man or woman (as the case may be) about
this and vote! At least you will  earn the right to
be bitter about the outcome; you could also earn the right
to gloat about the outcome of the election and to celebrate.FACE="Calisto MT">

BTW, while this note is expressly about the
US Presidential election, it also applies to all other
political
races. Thus, the use of "man" should not be taken as a "don't
vote for women". There are many fine female candidates undoubtedly
worthy of election. The state I live in has a female governor  who
has done a fine job.

Vote tomorrow! Vote tomorrow! Let the people chose the President!

Al Gore was elected President of the United States 3 years 11 months 25 days ago.

Then the Supreme Court of the US and Governor of Florida made George W. Bush the current incumbent (i.e. "President") 3 years, 10 months 25 days ago.

Fortunately, the next Presidental election will be tomorrow.

Hopefully, Senator Kerry will be elected President. If not, then I actually hope that the incumbent, George W. Bush, will actually win an honest election. That is, an election that the Supreme Court did not get involved in!

As for the battle ground states, I live in a state that folks consider so certain to vote Republican that none of the candidates have changed planes in let along actually seem to care about our vote. We're just being taken for granted...