When? Are? Straight Johns going to get some quality attention?!

Nothing personal but I’m kind of tired of hearing about gay issues and marriage issues. What about single heterosexual people who just want to have sexual pleasure, but are not currently involved in an active relationship-—id est—-what about just legalizing prostitution?

And let’s face a truth here—-legalizing gay marriage is the equivalent of sanctioning forms of sexuality that traditional, judgmental and puritanical religions condemn. This culture, like it or not, within its context of its sanctimonious self-righteousness and anti-intellectualism, is stuck on maintaining rigid demarcations of sexual identity and behavior.

The is issue is really not about ruining marriages it is about explaining what are considered appropriate norms—which some can not leave their comfort zone. You can dance around the implications all you want but important subjects usually involves issues that people are not willing to articulate.

Why do not so called liberals spent an equal amount of time advocating for the right of sexual pleasure—-as opposed to procreation—-which is what Judeo-Christian religions have espoused to get their market share of the nation states? Why can not erotic pleasure be considered a value in this culture? Why is sex only considered legitimate if it is within the context of a marriage?
Granted promiscuity can have its negative effects, that responsible people need to respect, but why can not a single guy or gal not have a legal right to get laid in this culture without the law wanting to get involved? Maybe liberals should work on this front for a while—just getting some respect for sexual pleasure?

He took the senior senator to task for his blatant comment regarding the recent Supreme Court ruling on detainees at Gitmo in which McCain responded: “…one of the worst decisions in the history of this country”. Nothing hyperbolic there.

Apparently there is no litmus test when it comes to appreciating judicial history and justice here in the U.S. for those running for important federal office? Pity that even the likes of George Will, who seem to care about some traditional values of law, would equally have to endure the aftermath of a John McCain.

Equally in respect to Bush’ response to “redoing” the laws in this country to make his decisions legal-—we should not forget the Natural Law principles that were adapted at the Nurenberg trials-—because the Nazis too changed their laws to allow them to do what they did.

According to lecture notes by Father Joseph Korterski on Natural Law and Human Nature (see The Teaching Company.com):

“…postwar courts in the Federal Republic of Germany recognized the need for consideration of the higher law … [these provisions] were and are by reason of their unjust content and their violation of the basic demands of any legal order null and void; this law could not, even at and during the time of the Nazi regime, produce any legitimate legal effect …” (Judgment rendered on February 28, 1955).

Historically there is recognition of a higher order of law that relates to the conscious pursuit of justice than what any particular wayward government might choose to ordain as technically legal. Apparently some people are more morally blind than are others, and in a culture like the U.S., that can be, and frankly is, a very serious problem.

George Bush is a puppet of much larger problems-—for example some of the real power brokers and financiers behind the scenes—-that get little media attention. Whereas excessive attention and name calling about the “chimp” and his down falls, without equal scrutiny of the larger problems, may feel good—-but such adjurations does not really address issues and sectors of society that need to be confronted-—including spoiled presumptions of the average American who wants his cheap gas and energy but who does not want to face the human rights issues that are violated by corporations and agents of empire, and who work in, too often, non-democratic ways to secure these resources and their profits.

Ignorance may be blissful but eventually ignorance catches up to the plump chickens in the coop when the wolves come home to satisfy their perpetual hunger using their latest strategies. This latest oil shock crisis is another reason to plug Naomi Klein’s book: “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Catastrophe Capitalism”, which can be found at democracy’s greatest institution-—the community library–which has been yet currupted by special interests.

Tim Russert is a big deal to the journalist world because there are so few journalists and editors today who even pretend to have honorable motives. So it is because the U.S. main stream media has been relatively bankrupt in their ethics and methods (for example ignoring important stories) that even a Tim Russert can seem to have heroic proportions.

People who have little in the way of noble instincts are those most prone to adore and worship figures of mythic stature. What America needs is a robust watchdog industry rather than so many lapdog lackeys who have a psychological need for the occasional self-congratulatory ritual—-which is not to say Mr. Russert did not earn merit worthy of mention. It is more that the industry itself has fewer figures on which to honor of any stature.

I sure don’t envy the folks who run this site, since they’re going to have to work lots of overtime to keep up!!

http://sobeale.blogspot.com/2008/06/let-double-standard-begin.html

Regarding impeachment, it was interesting to hear Stacy talking to an expert attorney this week. She certainly convinced me, but what struck me was this. I think the gist of her argument was that the entire Bush presidency has been rife with criminally fascist acts which are truly an abomination to the peoples of the world, the environment and really all that we hold dear. It’s as if Franco himself had risen from the grave. But technically noen of these things are illegal in the eyes of a federal court. It was all done perfectly above-board through existing and brand-new channels of power. Hell, even congress was right beside Bush during the preparation for the war.

I believe that an investigation should focus solely on the issue of torture, which has always been, (since WWII,) clearly illegal under the UCMJ. This is a provable and prosecutable abuse of power which satisfies any standard for a high crime.

This country simply does not have an informed electorate. The fact is that Americans, on average, are ignorant and profoundly manipulable. To expect the majority to simply know better so as to realize the prejudices employed is sheer stupidity.

When the stakes are as high as the currently are-—what matters is winning. If you were forced to fight a criminal who was willing to use any form of force against you—-would you resign to fight fair? Further is such a restrictive policy truly wise and just? Justice is about getting justice–not just hoping it will evolve on its own.

In a world in which elections are stolen and the Congress does nothing to change that status quo-—let alone acknowledge its reality is equally serious negligence. In a world in which the media decides who will be the candidates and who will be ignored where is there fair play?

The mere act of trivializing Obama’s win, as the democratic party’s candidate, with comments about fist bumps and terrorism shows how desperate the mainstream media is to frame him as a terrorist supporter. This was clearly a case of racism against blacks and racism against Muslims.

Obama would do well to have his own swift boaters working to engage the war that he is now up against—-calling out his opponents on “every” form of deception, while he engages his own visceral combat against the evil forces of stupidity and greed.

I had a very disturbing time today realizing that the democratic leadership is just as corrupt as Bush’s crew. That is the only reason that Nancy Pelosi will not pursue impeachment the democratic leadership is as guilty as hell by their non-action. These corrupt sons of bitches bought into Bush’s scheme.