Bruno at New York Fashion Week
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November 10, 2006
Archives – November 10, 2006
FCC Ok’s Profanity on News Shows
I saw this over at Drudge a couple of days ago and got quite a chuckle about it.
Personally, I don’t see what the big deal about swearing is. Granted I don’t think profanity should be used during children’s shows or during prime time when kids could be watching, but at the same time, it just seems like this censorship of swearing or “decency” in this country is just over the top. It’s like these government officials are living in some kind of fantasy land and think that swearing on TV or even nudity on TV is going to bring about the apocalypse.
I just thought this was apropos since I read the article the day after I was watching the Daily Show Midterm Midtacular. Jon Stewart was going over the results of some of the races and one funny they made was about a Republican candidate defeating a Democrat. So they had an elephant graphic come out and lays some turds on the Dem’s head. It was quite funny and Stewart remarked something about the elephant shitting on the guys head. I guess it was the first feed since the shitting part wasn’t bleeped out. I watched the rerun again later that night and the shitting part was bleeped out. Hmmm. I thought that was kind of funny since I’ll sometimes flip to Comedy Central late at night when I am channel surfing and they will sometimes show stand up comedians. What? Comedians on Comedy Central? You don’t say? But what got my attention was that none of the swearing was bleeped out. So if they are willing to broadcast comedy shows late at night with no censorship why the hell would they bleep out a swear word during the Daily Show? I just didn’t get it.
November 10, 2006
It’s A Good Thing
I previously forgot to mention that another good thing about the Dems taking over Congress is that John Bolton will more than likely no longer continue to be our UN Ambassador.
Personally, I would love to see Madeline Albright back in a position of international diplomacy even though I know Bush would never nominate her.
November 10, 2006
Holy Crap!
Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The plaintiffs in the case include 11 Iraqis who were prisoners at Abu Ghraib, as well as Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi held at Guantanamo, whom the U.S. has identified as the so-called “20th hijacker” and a would-be participant in the 9/11 hijackings. As TIME first reported in June 2005, Qahtani underwent a “special interrogation plan,” personally approved by Rumsfeld, which the U.S. says produced valuable intelligence. But to obtain it, according to the log of his interrogation and government reports, Qahtani was subjected to forced nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, prolonged stress positions, sleep deprivation and other controversial interrogation techniques
The odd thing is that I was thinking something like this might happen after I heard the election results. I was going to write about it, but I was thinking more along the lines of the Dems in Congress would start criminal investigations against these people in the administration – not another country. But still – Woot! At least someone out there has the balls to stand up to these people! What they did and allowed was wrong.
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