We are a culture of voyeurs.  Admit it, we love to watch.  We watch the news to see the exciting things happening to someone else.  We watch the paparazzi as they chase down the rich and famous for us, to gift us with the candid glimpses.

We see John Edwards primping his hair, George Bush flipping off the camera and OJ in a drive by slow speed chase, all in blazing glorious colour, brought to us by toilet paper commercials and fast food resturants.

We like to watch the indiscretions of others on Cheaters, and the foolishness of people in everyday life, all for the chance to win 10 grand on America’s Funniest videos.  In friendlier moments we watch silly pets, but then we tune into Hells Kitchen to watch hopeful chefs be browbeaten by a megalomaniac, or watch the hopeful top models be diligently trained in the creation of illusion.

Cops and Dog the Bounty Hunter make us feel safe as the bad guys are brought down, and Dateline makes us secure as another pervert is exposed, and not in the way they wanted.

SVC alerted me to this.

Mama Sheehan was continuing her campaign against reason, and Atlas Shrugs was there.

See the video below and enjoy how the conservative voices of dissent were pushed as away as possible, and their American Flag were called dangerous weapons…by the cops.

See the exploited kids too.  The pictures are at Atlas Shrugs.   But the picture at the bottom of this page speaks a thousand words.  Or see it here.

And Pam is my hero for keeping her temper and filming so much of this idiocy.

And here it is:  Saint Cindy speaks.  She want to beat Nancy Pelosi for congress. Well, here is what you will get:  A rambling diatribe against the protesters, against Bush and Hallyburton, and against the democrats.

Saint Cindy still hates everyone.

Nothing new here…move along folks.

  And the picture of the day:

Pam is my hero.

Once again an issue has cropped up that is being completely misrepresented by all parties, and once again, it is up to me, your host, to clarify the real issues.

First of all, the Plan B pill, or the morning after pill was developed to act as a preventative to contraception.  It does not terminate pregnancies, it prevents them from happening at all.  Specifically they prevent ovulation, like birth control pills, or they prevent fertilization, like a condom.  The active ingredient is the same as the one in the Norplant birth control implant.

So the conservatives who blast this as an abortion pill need to get a grip.  The only Christians with any moral standing might be catholics, or other faiths who (by dogma) oppose all forms of birth control.

Now.  The pharmacists.  Some pharmacists refuse to dispense it on moral grounds.  Sounds bad, but how bad it is really depends.

Let’s break this down with some of the common scenarios and my take on them.

• If the pharmacy stocks the pill, then the pharmacist should suck it up.  If it’s stocked, dispense it.  Period.

One liberal blog has jumped on the bandwagon about the two middle school kids being charged as sex offenders for running down the hall slapping butts.

This is hardly a shock, this particular blog, Shakespeare’s sister, has left common sense behind ages ago.

First up was Jeff who wrote:

Boys Will Be Boys and They’ll Always be Jerks

I’m always fascinated by what people find to be a travesty of justice. I myself worry about things like torture, or death penalty cases with shoddy evidence. But the right seems to be perpetually concerned about a different class of case.

Most of you have heard about the case of Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, two middle-schoolers in Oregon who were arrested for slapping the behinds of several of their female classmates. Now, I tend to agree with Tracy Clark-Flory that some of the consequences Mashburn and Cornelison are facing — most notably lifetime registration as sex offenders — are excessive for the crime. But that has to do with my objections to the sex offender registry laws in general, which tend to be extremely punitive and cast too wide a net in affixing scarlet letters, while not actually helping prevent diddly squat.

As expected, Ward Churchill did not accept his loss of tenure gracefully.

Fired Colo. professor sues university

A professor who was fired after comparing some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi sued the school Wednesday, saying officials retaliated against him for exercising his right to free speech.

Note that straight off the bat the article screws up the facts.  They imply that he made the comparison and was fired for it, when the truth is much different.  The irony is that they knew that, as the next paragraph shows.

Ward Churchill was ousted by the University of Colorado’s governing Board of Regents after three faculty committees accused him of plagiarism, fabrication and other research misconduct.

Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, had triggered a national outcry with an essay comparing some World Trade Center victims to organizer Adolf Eichmann.

That is clearly true, but he has been busy since then.

said his dismissal was based on other writings and that his firing was unrelated to his Sept. 11 comments. The academic investigation did not include the Sept. 11 essay but began after university officials concluded it was protected by the First Amendment and that he could not be fired for writing it.

Thank God the House is acting on this critical issue:

House Votes to Ban Permanent Bases in Iraq

“The Democratic Congress will go on record – every day if necessary – to register a judgment in opposition to the course of action that the President is taking in Iraq. The Democratic Congress will go on record – every day if necessary – to fight for a redeployment of our forces as the central element of a New Direction strategy for Iraq.”

- Speaker Pelosi, 7/25/07

Today, the House passed H.R. 2929, Banning Permanent U.S. Bases in Iraq. This bill states that it is the policy of the United States not to establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing a permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq. It also states that it is the policy of the United States not to exercise U.S. control of the oil resources of Iraq. The measure bars the use of any funds provided by any law from being used to carry out any policy that contradicts these statements of policy.

You would think he would have been nailed long before.  He was active constantly in his never ending quest to convince people his wild theories are true, did it never occur to him that his own truth would be exposed?

The story comes from Newsbusters and Hot Air, via Orbusmax:

Movie creator charged

An Oneonta man who helped produce a 9/11 conspiracy documentary that became an Internet hit was arrested Monday for allegedly deserting the Army.

Korey Rowe, 24, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, was picked up by deputies at about 10:45 p.m. Monday, Otsego County Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. said.

Rowe was arrested on a “military warrant” that Devlin said was brought to the attention of deputies by the Oneonta Police Department, who received information from a source outside of that department.

Rowe previously told The Daily Star he enlisted in August 2001. He left the Army in June 2005, according to the Louder Than Words website.

He seems to have not shared how and why he left.

The DA has backed off of the initial severity of the charges for the two boys going to trial for slapping bottoms.

Prosecutor: Jail unlikely for teens in “spanking” case

Yamhill County prosecutors say jail or sex offender status is unlikely for two McMinnville middle-schoolers who spanked girls in the school hallway.

Psst:  Quick, act tough…

But District Attorney Brad Berry said his office considers the matter involving two 13-year-olds, Ryan Cornelison and Cory Mashburn, to be more than just horseplay.

Berry said his office has been swamped with calls and e-mails by people who say the initial ten counts of sex abuse and harassment was an overreaction.

Yea, duh!

The boys families said they were furious at what appeared to be backpedaling by Berry.

Tracie Mashburn asked why the family would be threatened with severe consequences if the state wasn’t going to follow though.

Ryan’s father, Joe Cornelison, said Berry is simply doing damage control.

Initially the boys had been charged with felony sex abuse and spent several days in detention. They also were temporarily suspended from school.

The idea here is that you do not buy any fruit that is imported because of the carbon footprint in transporting it.

No tangerines for you?

The politics of global warming got very concrete, and oddly difficult, In a meeting with local environmentalists in the coastal town of McClellanville today, where Elizabeth Edwards raised in passing the importance of relying on locally-grown fruit.

“We’ve been moving back to ‘buy local,’” Mrs. Edwards said, outlining a trade policy that “acknowledges the carbon footprint” of transporting fruit.

“I live in North Carolina. I’ll probably never eat a tangerine again,” she said, speaking of a time when the fruit is reaches the price that it “needs” to be.

Edwards had talked about “sacrifice,” at the meeting, but Elizabeth’s suggestion illustrated just how difficult it is to sell the specifics of sacrifice.

Asked about her comment immediately after the event, John Edwards avoided the question twice, then said he isn’t sure.

“Would I add to the price of food?” he asked. “I’d have to think about that.”

It took long enough, but after years of irresponsible comments, plagerism and God knows what kind of liberal crap shoved into the heads of his students, Ward Churchill is history.

‘I’m going nowhere’ says Churchill after firing

The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to fire Ward Churchill on Tuesday evening, prompting the promise of a lawsuit from the embattled professor.

The Board of Regents passed a motion to accept the recommendation from CU President Hank Brown to fire Churchill from his position in the Ethnic Studies department.

The measure passed with an 8 to 1 vote. The vote was made just after 5:30 p.m. and Cindy Carlisle was the dissenting vote. The move came after academic committees found in 2006 that Churchill was guilty of academic misconduct, including plagiarism.

Churchill and his supporters then participated in a Native American ceremony outside of the building.

“I am going nowhere,” said Churchill. “This is not about break, this is not about bend, this is not about compromise.”