Monday - June 19, 2006
Here We Go Again
Kim Jung Il is one sick, insane madman. He is racheting up the saber-rattling another notch with a new missile that is capable of reaching the US. Japan is worried and has already issued a warning about any missile overflight. The NOKO’s also reportedly have nukes. It’s enough to make you tear your hair out.
All Kim wants is a payoff of some form or another. He has starved his people to build these blackmail weapons and he thinks the Bush administration will cave in like the Clinton administration did. That’s the problem with asshats like Kim. As soon as you pay them off once you establish a precedent and only encourage them to scream for more. This is Clinton’s “legacy” and we’ll be paying for it for a long time ....
North Koreans Said to Be Near a Missile Test
June 19, 2006
WASHINGTON — North Korea appears to have completed fueling a long-range ballistic missile, American officials said Sunday, a move that greatly increases the probability that it will go ahead with its first important test launching in eight years. A senior American official said that intelligence from satellite photographs suggested that booster rockets had been loaded onto a launching pad, and liquid-fuel tanks fitted to a missile at a site on North Korea’s remote east coast.
While there have been steady reports in recent days about preparations for a test, fueling is regarded as a critical step as well as a probable bellwether of North Korea’s intentions. Siphoning the liquid fuel out of a missile is a complex undertaking. “Yes, looks like all systems are ‘go’ and fueling appears to be done,” said the official who discussed the matter only after being promised anonymity because he was addressing delicate diplomatic and intelligence issues. A second senior official, who declined to speak on the record for similar reasons, also indicated that the United States believed the missile had been fueled.
A launching would be a milestone in the North’s missile capacity and effectively scrap a moratorium on such tests declared by the North Koreans after their last test in 1998. Moreover, a launching would have enormous importance for American security because it would be North Korea’s first flight test of a new long-range missile that might eventually have the capacity to strike the United States.
- More on the story at the NY Times...
As if the missile test launch isn’t enough, Dear Leader is also threatening Armageddon and “wipe out US troops” and blah-blah-blah. I say we give the go-ahead to a few of those sub commanders just off the Korean coast. Kim has already laid waste the entire country with his sadistic methods. Nuking it will be a mercy killing. Besides, it will certainly quieten things down on the Korean peninsula for a long time ...
North Korea Threatens To ‘Wipe Out’ US Forces
6/19/2006 4:48:50
PYONGYANG—North Korea yesterday threatened to “mercilessly wipe out” US forces in case of war during a national meeting to mark leader Kim Jong-Il’s 42 years’ work at the ruling party. The threat, in a ruling party report carried by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), came as North Korea was reportedly preparing to test-fire a long-range missile despite strong protests from the United States and its allies.
Choe Thae Bok, a ranking Workers’ Party official, said Washington was “hell-bent on provocations of war of aggression” in the report to mark the 42nd anniversary of Kim’s start at the party, KCNA said. “If the enemies ignite a war eventually, the Korean army and people will mercilessly wipe out the aggressors and give vent to the deep-rooted grudge of the nation,” Choe was quoted as telling the meeting.
South Korea, which seeks to reconcile with N Korea after decades of hostility since the 1950-1953 Korean War, has urged Pyongyang to abandon any plans to test-fire the missile. But South Korea maintained its usual level of military alert yesterday despite the news reports about an imminent missile test launch. “The military is on the same level of alert as usual. There has been no upgrade in the military alert yet,” a defence ministry spokesman said.
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Permalink • Know When To Fold ‘Em
Eric Devericks - The Seattle Times (WA)
Beginning June 7, place a bet online in the state of Washington and you could receive the same sentence as a child molester. Play poker online, you are in as much trouble as a repeat drunk driving offender. While this may sound like something out of a really unbelievable science fiction film, you might be shocked to realize we are talking reality here.
Effective June 7 it becomes a Class C felony to play poker online in the state of Washington. Players will face a possible five-year sentence and/or a $10,000 fine and/or share a jail cell with Peter the Sex Perv. That’s because the new law will put violators in the same category as child pornographers, repeat drunk drivers, drug dealers and identity thieves. Governor Christine Gregoire signed the bill into law in late March. The bill covers all forms of online wagering including sports betting and internet poker.
Washington State isn’t exactly all about anti-gambling. Within its borders are 24 tribal casinos and 94 “house bank” cardrooms, which offer so-called “legalized poker”.
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Permalink • Sunday - June 18, 2006
Net Neutrality
I have not been faced with such an odious choice since the Sixth Grade when I was faced with two ugly girls who both had crushes on me. This was long before I got old, overweight, long in the tooth and slightly gray-haired. I hope they both found husbands worthy of their devotion. Nevertheless, I am faced with a similar choice today and the two gals are extremely ugly ... in fact they’re both FUGLY. I’m referring to the current kerfuffle over “Net Neutrality”.
First, let me introduce the two “gals”. On one side we have Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, eBay, Disney, Amazon, and Apple. This group is known as the CBUI (Coalition of Broadband Users and Innovators). On the other side we have the Bell telephone companies, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Charter and all the major access providers. I shall refer to them heretofore as the APG (Access Providers Group).
Second, let me explain in simple terms what the two “gals” really want.
- The CBUI group wants “net neutrality” as they call it. This is a term that is confusing to a lot of people so The Skipper will try to explain it for you. The term is used to describe a socialist approach to the internet - one for all and all for one. Everybody has equal access to everything. The internet should be non-discriminatory and everyone gets an equal slice of the bandwidth pie. All internet packets are equal and no one should have to pay more for a particular type of content. The CBUI wants to keep the internet “neutral” by (are you ready for this?) getting Congress to pass laws regulating and mandating this one size fits all approach.
- The Access Providers Group is crying “foul” and saying that we need a more capitalistic approach to the internet. They want to charge different prices for different content being pushed across the pipes - and they want Congress to mind its own business and stay out of the internet. They say they need to be able to charge more for things like streaming video, high-definition movies and other similar content from companies like ... you guessed it ... the CBUI group. The APG says they need to let the internet function as a free market so they can offer different pricing models and can thereby afford to upgrade their pipes. The charges would be mainly paid by the content providers in the CBUI, thus their resistance.
Now, you may be asking yourself what this means to you. Let me add a little more background information first. Currently, even though we invented the darned internet ...
… the United States is 16th in the world in broadband use (behind Liechtenstein!) with East Timor catching up fast. The French may burn Citroëns, but they get 10 megabits for 10 euros--50 times your “fast” Internet access for half the price. That’s just not right.[1]
What the CBUI really fears though is that the APG folks will deny access to certain providers or just limit certain content, thereby depriving them of unfettered access to your home computer. The problem I have with this “fear” is that it just won’t wash in a free market. If Charter refuses to give me access to Disney’s latest movies, I’ll drop them like a hot potato and sign up with another access provider. That’s how a free market really works - we have a choice.
Consumers will consider some restrictions, such as a prohibition on the release of viruses on a broadband network, trivial and entirely acceptable. Other restrictions, such as a restriction on access to the website of a competitor or a specific advertiser, will be considered an intolerable restraint by many. But the important question here is whether any of this should be considered illegal discrimination and prohibited by law.
Must regulators adopt regulations governing the underlying infrastructure of broadband networks or the overall architecture of the Internet to ensure that “openness,” “neutrality,” and the “end-to-end” character of the Internet are preserved? And what would the impact of such regulations be in terms of the economic incentives for current and future broadband operators to innovate and invest in expensive new networks? Do the property rights of network owners come into play here? Do high-tech network operators even have property rights in this case?[2]
Are you sufficiently confused yet? I’ve worked in Information Technology for twenty-five years and have watched the network grow from ARPANET to the INTERNET (and Al Gore had absolutely nothing to do with it). My access speeds have gone from 300 bps to 3Mbps (bps - bits per second for those of you who aren’t geeks). Prices have gone down considerably. In 1982, I was paying Compuserve $6.95 per hour for a 300 bps dial-up connection - today I pay Charter Communications $43.00 per month for 3Mbps broadband.
So where does that leave us? Well, all I can do is give you my opinion. Personally, I’ll take the ugly APG “gal”. I have many reasons for taking their side in this: (1) the CBUI wants government to regulate “net neutrality” and I don’t like the government sticking its nose in business any more than it absolutely has to; (2) I believe the free market will keep the APG folks under control like it has done for the last twenty years as evidenced by the steep drop in access prices quoted above; (3) finally, the deciding factor for me is the fact that MOVEON.ORG is backing the CBUI group. So there! Here are links to the two opposing sides if you want more information ....
- The Access Providers: Hands Off The Internet website. (also see ad in right sidebar)
- The CBUI Official Web site.
References:
[1] The Weekly Standard: “Give Me Bandwidth”
[2] The Cato Institute: “Net Neutrality” - Digital Discrimination or Regulatory Gamesmanship in Cyberspace?
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Permalink • On This Day In History
Paul McCartney Turns 64
James Paul McCartney was born to a working class family on 18 June, 1942, at Walton Hospital in Liverpool. His mother, Mary, had been a nursing sister at the hospital, and was given a bed in a private room for the birth. Sir Paul was baptised as a Roman Catholic, his mother’s faith, but religion did not play a strong part in his upbringing.
His father, Jim, was a gifted musician who played with a jazz band in the evening while holding down a day job as a cotton salesman. Both Sir Paul and his younger brother Michael received piano lessons during their early years, but neither kept up the instrument. The McCartneys moved several times during Sir Paul’s early life, but eventually settled in a terraced house in Liverpool’s Forthlin Road in 1955.
Just one year later, the family was struck by tragedy when Sir Paul’s mother died of breast cancer, aged 47. Her death had a huge impact on Sir Paul. He referred to her in the lyrics of Let It Be, singing: “When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me”. Soon after she passed away, Sir Paul asked his father to buy him a guitar, and the young musician learnt to play by imitating American R&B hits he heard on the radio.
In October 1957, Sir Paul auditioned for John Lennon’s band, The Quarrymen, at a church fair and was asked to join as the group’s third guitarist. The pair began writing songs together and several of their earliest hits were composed in the house on Forthlin Road, including Love Me Do and I Saw Her Standing There. It was also about this time that Sir Paul wrote When I’m 64, and the band are reported to have played it early concerts.
After decamping to West Germany to play a residency in the Indra Club in Hamburg, the band - now rechristened The Beatles - returned to Liverpool in 1960. It was at a gig in the Cavern nightclub that they were seen by Brian Epstein, who offered to become their manager. Epstein secured The Beatles an audition with Decca on New Year’s Day 1962, but the record company decided not to offer the band a contract.
However, the manager eventually persuaded producer George Martin to sign the group to Parlophone Records in May 1962. Beatlemania was not long coming. The group’s first single, Love Me Do, reached number four in October, and by August 1963 they spent seven weeks on top of the charts with She Loves You. By then, The Beatles were household names, with Sir Paul as the band’s main pin-up.
Will you still be sending me a Valentine,
birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I’d been out ‘till quarter to three, would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four?
“When I’m 64” by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Album: “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 1967
Biography Text Courtesy BBC: “The Seven Ages Of Paul McCartney”
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Permalink • Father’s Day
Pat Bagley - Salt Lake Tribune
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Permalink • Saturday - June 17, 2006
Quote Of The Week
The entire country may disagree with me, but I don’t understand the necessity for patriotism.
Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country… I don’t see why people care about patriotism.”
-- Natalie Maines of the Dixis Chicks, London - June 15, 2006
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Permalink • World Cup Update
Today is “WHUP THE WOPS” Day in World Cup play. The United States goes up against the Eye-ties who are heavy favorites. If the US loses, they’re out and Italy goes on to the next round. Ain’t going to happen, I says.
If you’re planning on winning in this heathen game the Euro-Peons play then you gotta play it like they play it - down and dirty, mean and nasty. Spain’s Luis Garcia (below right) demonstrates his famous “Nutcracker” move against some Ukraine player who is obviously in a great deal of pain and is probably screaming in agony, “Take the ball! No, not that ball!”. Now, that’s what I’m talking about, Team USA! Get out there and crack some dago nuts this afternoon. ABC coverage begins at 2:30pm ET.
Update I: Ghana beat the crap out of the Czechs so Group E is still in play even if the USA loses today.
Update II: The wops scored two goals in the first half. One for them and one for us. Stoopid wops! Halftime score: 1-1.
Update III: Tie .... 1-1. The worst referee in the world cut the US to nine men but they held on. Next stop: Ghana, on Thursday.
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Permalink • Mexican Election Nonsense
HA! You just thought politics and elections in America were weird. Wait until you see what’s going on “South Of The Border”. National elections are coming up in a few weeks and Mexican candidates are trying to raise the bar in the prestigious Howard Dean Political Insanity Contest.
Voodoo dolls, wild turkeys, peeing in their pants ....? All the more reason why we need to keep the MESS-cans out of America. We’ve already got our quota of political weirdos on the Left and in the Liberal madhouses in Kalifornicatia and Taxatwoshits.
Key quote in the story below: “he told supporters his rivals came to eat pigeon, but what they got was a fighting cock.” Aye, Caramba!
Hot Air, Wet Pants Spice Up Election Race
Fri Jun 16, 10:25 AM ET
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A squawking wild turkey as president, voodoo, a dancing grandpa pharmacist and a nervous criminal urinating in his pants on television—welcome to Mexico’s election race, as wacky as it is vitriolic. Full of colorful insults, blaring pop songs and nonsensical sparring, the campaign for the July 2 election has been based as much on personalities and petty point-scoring as policies.
Sick of weeks of mudslinging and silliness, voters have been sticking pins in voodoo dolls of the candidates, and the Federal Election Institute has axed some political ads as too slanderous to be aired. “It’s a very basic, very crude, very coarse, very clumsy election campaign,” commentator Guadalupe Loaeza told Reuters.
The battle for the presidency is the first since 71 years of one-party rule ended in 2000 and fierce competition between the three main parties has sparked flaming tensions. Probably the oddest campaign moment yet is a TV ad by third-place candidate Roberto Madrazo showing a criminal wetting his pants out of fear for Madrazo’s tough stance on crime.
“For me, it’s lacking in creativity. Vulgar. It’s resorting to something very childish,” said Loaeza. Among outlawed ads are spots by conservative Felipe Calderon calling his leftist arch-rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador a danger and linking him to Venezuela’s fiery leader Hugo Chavez. Calderon, a balding lawyer whose hairline is inked in on his campaign posters, is in a neck-and-neck race with Lopez Obrador, a crusader for the poor who dons floral garlands and tropical-style guayabera shirts.
In their latest spat, Lopez Obrador sent Calderon’s campaign office huge cardboard boxes he said contained documents proving Calderon awarded his brother-in-law lucrative contracts when energy minister. But Calderon said the boxes were a farce, empty but for a few meaningless papers. He said his rival was a liar, called him “Lopez Hablador” (Lopez Talker) and his aides “clowns.” Rhetoric has been harsh, reflecting a nation split between left and right that is still learning some of the rules of democracy.
“If the players persist in just insulting each other, they may win the contest but could not lead the country,” wrote columnist Javier Oliva in daily La Jornada. Lopez Obrador has laid into President Vicente Fox, who he says is illegally helping Calderon, dubbing him a “chachalaca”—a wild turkey known for its piercing squawk. “He acts like a chachalaca, he screeches like a chachalaca,” the leftist said, also accusing Fox of “verbal incontinence.”
Keeping with the bird theme, he told supporters after a heated election debate last week that his rivals “came to eat pigeon, but what they got was a fighting cock.” Amid all the madness, frustrated voters have lobbed plastic bottles, paper airplanes and inflated condoms at candidates and even offered one, Patricia Mercado, a puff of marijuana. Some of the most colorful campaigners cannot legally run because no political party will back them.
They include oddball magnate Victor Gonzalez, who has adopted the persona of his pharmacy chain’s rotund and grandfatherly mascot, “Dr Simi,” with fluffy white hair and mustache. Claiming more Mexican fans than Mickey Mouse, and fond of models in mini-skirts, Gonzalez hires people to wear spongy Dr Simi costumes and dance outside his pharmacies.
“I have money but I earned it honestly. I have women but I am single. The people love these things,” he said recently. Also seeking support is Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, who gave his first live TV interview in years in his trademark ski mask and smoking his pipe to call for the overthrow of the government, whoever wins.
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Permalink • Barking Moonbat Of The Week
See the man in the photo below. The one on the left. That’s Joe Wilson. He thinks we should negotiate with the terrorists in Iraq. Maybe get down on our knees and plead with them to stop killing people. Joe is our nominee for Barking Moonbat Of The Week this week because he obviously is suffering from brain damage to think that the terrorists just need a group hug and a few bars of “Koombayah” to get them to play nice. As for the other person in the picture, we hear she has no name but is known as “006”, has a license to kill and reports to some mysterious person named “M”.
With Iraqi Terrorists
June 15, 2006
Washington (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, whose wife was at the center of a CIA leak case that led to the indictment of Vice President Cheney’s top aide, argued Wednesday that the U.S. needs to bring Iraqi insurgents and their “foreign patrons” to the conference table for negotiations.
During a panel discussion at the liberal Take Back America conference in Washington, D.C., Wilson said diplomatic efforts to establish Iraq as a democratic power in the region should also include “the Egyptians, the Jordanians, the Saudis, the Iranians ... the Turks, probably some leading powers from Europe and Russia, all of whom have interests at stake.”
Wilson, a former U.S. diplomat in Iraq and ambassador to Gabon, has been a leading critic of the Bush administration since his wife, Valerie Plame, was outed as a CIA operative in 2003. He alleges that the White House leaked her identity as payback for an op-ed he wrote in the New York Times arguing that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements in the aftermath of the Plame leak case, but this week Karl Rove, President Bush’s top political adviser, learned that he will not be indicted in the case.
“Make no mistake about it, if you still support the [war] policies of this president and this administration, you don’t deserve the vote of Democrats, independents or, shall I say, even Republicans,” Wilson said, echoing a larger theme of the three-day conference.
Several organizations passed around informal pledges asking conference attendees to promise not to vote for a candidate in the 2006 election who does not support an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
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Permalink • Saturday Silliness
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Permalink • Friday - June 16, 2006
Through The Looking Glass
“Totems”
Brockton Point at Stanley Park
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Permalink • You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream For …
Today’s Stoopid Criminal Du Jour is brought to you courtesy of the Richmond, Texas police department who pulled over poor Oscar and found more than a cherry on top of Oscar’s ice cream sundae. Ice Cream A La Crack Cocaine. Now Oscar is off to prison where he will probably lose another cherry. Don’t worry, though. I won’t mention the crack in that cherry. Bwah-hah-hah-ha-ha-ha-ha ....
June 16, 2006, 6:57 AM EDT
RICHMOND, Texas (AP)—This banana split was topped with something more potent than just a cherry. A motorist was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance after he was caught with two rocks of crack cocaine he had stashed in his ice cream dessert.
Oscar Martinez, 41, of Richmond, had been pulled over by police officer David Bentley late Sunday after he failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing on the campus of Wharton County Junior College.
Bentley discovered that Martinez had a suspended driver’s license and an outstanding traffic warrant. Richmond police spokesman Sgt. Lowell Neinast said Martinez told Bentley that he wished he could finish the banana split he had in his car.
When Bentley saw the melting banana split on the front floorboard of Martinez’s car, he noticed that it was topped with a square-shaped object that turned out to be crack cocaine.
“One of the crack rocks was sitting right on top of the bananas,” Neinast told the Fort Bend Herald-Coaster. “Once he found the first crack rock, he figured there were more inside. He emptied it out and there it was.”
Martinez was arrested and charged with driving with a suspended license, a traffic warrant and possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone, a third-degree felony. He was released from the Fort Bend County Jail after posting an $8,500 bond, Neinast said Friday.
“I’ve been doing this for 20 years and I could give you all kinds of stories, but this is really one of a kind,” Neinast said. “But true.”
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Permalink • Breaking News: House Vote
The vote was 256-153. The troops are doing good, Iraq is part of the war on terror and no timetable for withdrawal. Too bad the Donks were against all of that. Remember that in November ....
House Rejects Timetable for Iraq Pullout
Jun 16 11:28 AM US/Eastern
(BREITBART) - The House on Friday handily rejected a timetable for pulling U.S. forces out of Iraq, culminating a fiercely partisan debate between Republicans and Democrats feeling the public’s apprehension about war and the onrushing midterm campaign season.
In a 256-153 vote, the GOP-led House approved a nonbinding resolution that praises U.S. troops, labels the Iraq war part of the larger global fight against terrorism and says an “arbitrary date for the withdrawal or redeployment” of troops is not in the national interest.
“Retreat is not an option in Iraq,” declared House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. “Achieving victory is our only option, for the American people and our kids.”
“Stay the course, I don’t think so Mr. President. It’s time to face the facts,” House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California answered, as she called for a new direction in the conflict. “The war in Iraq has been a mistake. I say, a grotesque mistake.”
Four months before midterm elections that will decide control of Congress, House Republicans sought to force Republicans and Democrats alike to take a position on the conflict that began with the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in the spring of 2003.
Democrats denounced the debate and vote as a politically motivated charade, and several prominent Democrats joined Pelosi in saying they would vote against the measure because, they said, supporting it would affirm Bush’s “failed policy” in Iraq.
Balking carried a risk for Democrats, particularly when they see an opportunity to win back control of Congress from the GOP. Republicans likely will use Democratic “no” votes to claim that their opponents don’t support U.S. troops.
Republicans and Democrats alike explained the decision, as each side saw it, that voters have to make in November. “The choice for the American people is clear; don’t run in the face of danger, victory will be our exit strategy,” Rep. Mike Conaway, R- Texas, said. Countered Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.: “It’s not a matter of stay the course. It’s a matter of change direction.”
| Party | Yeas | Nays | Present | Non-Voting |
| Republican | 214 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| Democratic | 42 | 149 | 3 | 7 |
| Independent | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 256 | 153 | 5 | 19 |
* - http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll288.xml
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Permalink • Words You Cannot Use: Deviancy
Your Attention, Please! You are hereby required to remove from your vocabulary the following word as it pertains to persons of alternative lifestyle, also known as homosexuals. It seems they are offended by the term and have alerted the Politically Correct Police to that fact. The PC Police are herewith ordered to arrest and imprison anyone using the word in public. Punishment may include either 200 hours of community service or having to watch an entire season of “Queer Eye For The Straight Guy” and write a report on “The Benefits of Homosexuality” of no less than twenty single-spaced typed pages, describing in detail how you think homesexuals have truly benefited mankind over the course of history.
de·vi·ant
adjective: Differing from a norm or from the accepted standards of a society.
noun: One that differs from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes differ from accepted social standards.
[Middle English deviaunt, from Late Latin dvins, dviant-, present participle of dvire, to deviate; see deviate.]
devi·ance, devi·an·cy n.
-- American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Deviant behavior is behavior that is a recognized violation of social norms. Formal and informal social controls attempt to prevent and minimize deviance. Crime, the violation of formally enacted law, is formal deviance while an informal social violation such as picking one’s nose is an example of informal deviance. It also means not doing what the majority does or alternatively doing what the majority does not do. For instance, behaviors caused by cultural difference can be seen as deviance. It does not necessarily mean criminal behavior.—Wikipedia
So why are we bring this to your attention? Read the news story below from the Washington Post and learn why another word has been expunged from your dictionary. We urge you not to deviate from this new verbal proclamation in any way shape or form.
Metro Board Member Fired for Comment on Gays
Friday, June 16, 2006
Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. yesterday fired Robert J. Smith, his appointee on the Metro transit authority board, for referring to gay people as sexual deviants on a cable television show. “Robert Smith’s comments were highly inappropriate, insensitive and unacceptable,” Ehrlich (R) said in a statement less than five hours after the controversy erupted during a Metro board meeting. “They are in direct conflict to my administration’s commitment to inclusiveness, tolerance and opportunity.”
At the Metro meeting, board member Jim Graham, who represents the District, had called for Smith to disavow his remarks or apologize or for Ehrlich to remove him. “As someone who cares deeply about human rights, and as an openly gay elected official . . . I cannot remain silent in the face of these comments,” Graham said, reading from a prepared statement. Smith acknowledged after the meeting that he had referred to homosexuals as “persons of sexual deviancy” during a political round-table discussion on a Montgomery County cable show that was shown on Sunday.
“Homosexual behavior, in my view, is deviant,” he said. “I’m a Roman Catholic.” Smith said his comments had been part of a discussion about a proposed ban on same-sex marriage. “The comments I make in public outside of my [Metro board job] I’m entitled to make,” he said. His personal beliefs, he said, have “absolutely nothing to do with running trains and buses and have not affected my actions or decisions on this board.”
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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