I’m not that damn conservative
Posted by TFG on April 23rd, 2008
“Our troops should not see their honor sullied so that the moguls behind magazines like Playboy and Penthouse can profit,” said Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., unveiling his House bill April 16.
His Military Honor and Decency Act would amend a provision of the 1997 Defense Authorization Act that banned sales of “sexually explicit material” on military bases.
Somebody should ask this dipshit who’s selling them the pens and paper for Capitol Hill, and if they profit.
#1, someone needs to explain the problems inherent in verticalization to this moron, and #2, I’m putting it at 8-3 that his wife put him up to this, or a recent Baptist conversion. And a #3 - is every other bit of American hash settled? Do we have time to be worrying about tit mags? Or maybe Paul can find some time to clear the way for DRILLING FOR OIL?
That right there is why I will never honor another politician with a vote. Piss on them all.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:41 am
It’s the old sleight-of-hand trick. When you’ve got your hand in the till, get them to look the other way. IOW, baffle them with bullshit.
April 24th, 2008 at 8:47 am
If a 20-year old young man out risking his life for me wants to look at a nekkid woman in a magazine when he has a break, I have no problem with that.
Kathryn Lopez at NRO has reached heights of silliness over this that go way beyond her usual prissiness. Too bad we won’t all act the way you want, eh? Nanny-statism isn’t limited to Democrats, but you already knew that.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Oh, it happens every couple of years. Some slime-ball politican or bureaucrat discovers to his or her shock, horror and amazement that the military is made up of about 80% young men. And that those young men like to drink, look at feelthy pictures and generally screw around. And that the BX/PX sells Playboy/Penthouse! Or alcohol! And cigarettes!
Said slime-ball politician will grab some splashy headlines and a couple of thousand more votes in the next election by attempting to make the BX/PX not do that any more. Happens every couple of years - like a bad hurricane striking Florida. Don’t worry, someone on staff at AAFES will probably have a quiet word with someone on the slime-balls’ staff and explain some of the facts of life to him.
April 24th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Yeah, I think I remember the last episode of Playboy at the PX. What I guess I find fascinating is the utter ignorance of these reformers, and I mean, complete, total, utter cluelessness. And I can’t feature a single damn voter thinking “That’s why I voted for that Broun, to take Penthouse away from soldiers!” Fooking busybodies.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Rereading, I think it is a mistake to imagine that this is conservatism speaking. It is religion, populism, or perhaps even progressivism, but it has nothing to do with conservatism as I understand it.