I’ll play this one straight

I’d never heard the term “Addictionologist” before reading the article, so I googled it. the first google hit was this “Addictionology is not a medical specialty recognized by the American Medical Association. Most addictionologists are physicians or others that went to rehab and couldn’t practice in their trained specialty anymore because their reputation was ruined. So they become consultants for rehab facilities or otherwise. The “science” of addiction is very much in it’s infancy, and the methods used are unproven by scientific studies. For instance, the rate of recovery from cigarretes and alcohol over a 5 year period of time is the same for those who go into rehab and those who don’t. Addictionology is a pseudo-specialty based on pseudo- science, populated by shunned health professionals long on sincerity and short on science. Maybe someday we will understand addictions properly.”
Sounds pretty accurate to me.
The bill is ridiculous. Way to support the Troops.

The most obvious observation is that if Republicans wanted to “restore military honor and decency”, they wouldn’t have fought McCain so hard on the torture issue.

Putting serious matters aside to get back to the funny… is there ANYBODY left in the country who still considers Playboy to be “pornography”? I haven’t personally seen a copy since Al Gore gave me the Internet… but I recall it as basically being Maxim with the thongs airbrushed out, and some really left-wing political articles thrown in. Also, I thought I read that Penthouse went bankrupt years ago.

I thought the number one problem facing the minority in Congress was coming out against earmarks that they no longer receive

Do Nothing Congressman comes to mind when I think of Broun’s congressional record…

Nevermind…I forgot that pedophiles can go to Starbucks to get their kiddie porn fix and not get caught.

Broun will certainly be receiving the NAMBLA endorsement.

He should start up the Pornography in the Military Removal Coalition (PMRC) and see if Tipper Gore wants to get involved.

I remember some music awards show back in the 80’s or 90’s, when Aerosmith thanked Tipper Gore for ensuring that they could always sell an extra million copies of an album by putting a sticker on it. I imagine that Playboy would love it if Congress held hearings about them… it might boost their readership and win back some of the young guys who abandoned them for the Internet. Keep the hits on coming, religious folks!

Every time I read a story like this, it makes me want to donate subscriptions of Playboy to the Marines.

“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.

I know a lot of people say Broun is a constitutionalist conservative who borders on being a Libertarian, but some of his rhetoric and actions are very populist and hypocritical.

First he goes overboard with the franking, basically having the Federal Government pay his for his campaign’s direct mail and now the ban on boobies.

Hey Mr. Free Market Conservative; why don’t you let the troops decide for themselves whether they want to purchase Playboy or not.

These guys are out there putting their life on the line for their country and you’ve got Broun treating them like they are a bunch of 12 year olds. Are Broun and Pat Robertson going to team up and make sure the only magazines sold on base are Highlights, Boys Life, and American Quilter

I’ll play this one straight

I will too.

This is stupid! Maybe moral. But definitley bad for Morale

As quoted by Joy while performing a self Whitesnake photoshoot on Hi, My Name is Earl, “The boys just need to be reminded what they’re fighting for.”

bowersville has it right. Fleming just lost that whole pornography/morality issue, in one fell swoop. Tim Echols is a genius.

BG,
Do you honestly believe that social conservatives are too stupid to realize that there is a moral difference between pedophiles using the internet to prey on children and Marines reading Playboy?

I know Paul Broun does, but do you?

OK, Broun is definitely staking out that coveted “don’t take this man seriously” political territory. This all started with the infamous B-1 Bob Dornan’s legislation. I recall I was spitting mad at the time that some Congressman had nothing better to do than worry about than what magazines were being sold in the PX so I called him on it one day in DC. ” I can kind of understand why you may be opposed to gays in the military” I said, ” but what have you got against heterosexuals?

“Have you ever looked at Hustler Magazine?” he responsed, “That magazine is filled with nothing but lezbo shots - nothing but women on women.” You can’t make this stuff up.

Now Broun wants to take away Playboys. And I say you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands, uh, well…… hand.

Whatever happened to just doing the best thing for your Nation?

I’m not sure if this is it exactly but I know when I was in the Army, you could go to the PX and the magazine section was filled with porn mags up, down, and across the shelves. There were no covers or wrappers and they were all easily accessible to kids. The ones at Ft. Benning had recruits sitting there flipping through pages right in front of wives with kids walking right past them. I think this is what caused the initial outcry back in the 90’s. Perhaps someone more “in the know” can verify if this is the same sort of issue but more in depth?

I disagree with the premise that Pornography is ok. I hate to say it guys… but the fact that all of you are so free and open about your willingness to indulge in this behavior is a sad reflection on what has become mainstream.
I recognize that I will be ridiculed for this spot… I frankly don’t care. I believe that pornography is actually very dangerous and hurtful to society in general.
Let the making-fun begin.

Thadius: I disagreee with the premise that soldiers who give up a whole hell of a lot of rights including free speech should have their reading habits dictated by you or some Congressman sitting fat and happy in DC. I haven’t personally opened a Playboy magazine since I was on the DMZ in Korea but don’t share your premise that it was a hurtful and dangerous endeavor. The North Koreans were hurtful and dangerous but not the Playboy.

Let’s keep some perspective. Living in a renovated shipping container for months isn’t right. Having to dodge IED sfor months isn’t right. Not seeing your kids grow up isn’t right. There is just a whole lot of crap that soldiers have to put up with and for some amazing reason a whole lot of great young men and women do and when some crusading politician, trying to get further to right of some other politician for political reasons puts soldiers in the middle, those of us who served have a responsiblity to say “knock it off” and “go score your political points somewhere else.”

This is pretty simple to me, IEDs and terrorists thugs are hurtful and dangerous to soldiers - Playboy? Not so much.

Social Conservatives are not true conservatives. They are authoritarians at best Fascists at worse and lovers of the Nanny State. They are enemies of liberty for sure. Maybe Broun should also ban Catholic Teachings from the Military due to the Pedophilia Episodes of the past years.

Speaking of government and, erm, what I’ve been told is the use of pornography, here is the English Office of Government Commerce’s new logo.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/23/ogclogo.jpg

And turn it 90 degrees:
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/23/ogc.jpg

The explanation from the OGC spokesman is priceless:

“We concluded that the effect was generic to the particular combination of the letters ‘OGC’ - and is not inappropriate to an organisation that’s looking to have a firm grip on government spend.”

How about all of you social conservatives let us who serve decide what is appropriate for us to buy in a store?

If a kid is old enough to be blown up by an IED, he’s old enough to see a magnificent set of tits. Plain and simple. I lost a lot of respect for Paul Broun over this.

“I believe that pornography is actually very dangerous and hurtful to society in general.”

Thadius, I believe that, too. I also believe that beer, liquor, drugs, cigarettes, gambling, debt, sex outside of marriage, and general stupidity are dangerous and hurtful to society. However, the Constitution was not written so that government could control every harmful thing. Freedom is allowing each person the ability to make his own choices. It also allows each person to experience the consequences of his choices.

We’re either going to be a free society, or we’re not. If we really believe in freedom, we won’t tell adults whether they can buy beer or pornographic magazines, and we won’t mandate when or how they can or cannot buy them.

Liberator, why would I want to give up my money for something I can’t touch.

Just like Playboy mags and porn, it makes no sense to me.

Some of you (and Paul Broun) need to go to this site

http://www.sexinchrist.com/pornography.html

Some of you need to go to sexinchristdotcom

Touching a picture of a centerfold with your fingers or…other body parts, does not constitute “touching”, Lib.

OIC

Right…because we don’t include acts with sheep like they dream about.

Next he will want to get rid of National Geographic magazines, too

I think he should include a ban on the sale of Land O Lakes butter at the PX’s too. Those knees on the box are just a bit too provacative.

nice find Icarus. I heard GOPeach is going to work on his campaign