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lorcanzo said:
does it strike anyone else that it was a fairly shitty year?

- Beslan
- Asian Disaster
- Ken Bigley, Margaret Hassan Killings..
- Iraq
- Sports cheats
- Bush re-elected
- Sudan

:(

hopefully 2005 is better....
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plus, word on the grapevine is that you're hot stuff in d'eyes of d'ladies. thats always good!
 
those cheating sports stars!!!
whoever will i look up to!?
also:
- Beslan
- Asian Disaster
i thought this said - Aslan Disaster
now that'd sukk

andrew
 
best and worst year i've ever lived through. loads of playing gigs and far to many funerals. won't be sorry to see that back of 2004.
 
after the tumped xmas party i got an email saying 'you were right about that lorcanzo!' heh heh
 
the ukraine thing was good. socking it those corrupt ruskie fucks. apart from that, a shitload of shit going down (articulate), all very much in front of our eyes too. i don't know whether we're just more aware of the brutality and destruction in the world or whether humans are just getting better at it.
 
This is a fantastic piece summarizing the BS in America of 2004.
For those interested in that sort of thing.

2004 Year of Perversion

Going to put it in the following post as its 55 characters too long with this bit here.

Happy New Year!

--thomas
 
2004: Year Of Perversion

By Lara Riscol, AlterNet
Posted on December 28, 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story/20857/

What a shame, a sham. When sex morphs into America's daily news staple,
political barometer, only moral compass – even as Armageddon's fetus slaughters and
mutilates innocents daily – you know you survived an election year. As
President Bush's Revival sends shudders throughout the world – certainly over poor
women and children stripped of reproductive health services – corporate media
continues to slam "sex as moral values" down our throat. I am so f---ing glad
to dump 2004 like a bad date who doesn't understand the meaning of No. Don't.
Stop!

From abstinence to Super Bowl's Nipplegate to "The queers are coming to get
you," conservative politicos and pundits have made sexual perversion an art
form. Sex as distraction. Sex as distortion. Sex as defamation. All non-marital
sex as death, disease and destruction. Sex so far away from what is good and
right and beautiful, from our gift to pleasure, to touch the divine.

As the mother of the most beautiful 2-year-old boy in the world, some would
say it's typical for my interest in sex to wane. So despite seeing the retro
right's sexual train wreck barreling down upon truth and integrity, I had better
things to do this year than keep up with sex smears against liberals. Instead
I indulged in such loony left deviances as breastfeeding and otherwise caring
fulltime for my son; traveling with my husband's work to keep the family
together, and buying a new home closer to Jared's papa, and surrounded by great
schools, trees, trails and kids.

Obviously way out of touch with Real Americans who vote their values, which
apparently involve other people's groins, wombs and fallibility.

Not that conservatives can't be considered fallible. They're gay. Have gay
parents, or daughters named Mary. Late August, a gay blogger posted a taped
phone message allegedly of Rep. Ed Schrock (R-Va.) soliciting sex from men.
Considered the second most conservative member of the U.S. House of Representatives,
Shrock was the co-sponsor of the proposed Constitutional amendment to ban
same-sex marriage. The practicing Baptist soon dropped his re-election bid and
went into seclusion with his wife and son – until he was offered a job last week
by fellow Congressman, Rep. Thomas Davis III (R-Va.) as the top staff person
for a subcommittee of the Government Reform Committee.

He still won't be able to personally carry out America's mandate of his
Constitutional amendment – a commitment renewed by Bush immediately after November
2 when 11 states voted for such state amendments – to protect, of course, the
sanctity of marriages like Sprock's and Britney Spears'.

In one year, the world's most famous Lolita pop tart and self-professed
virgin wedded and divorced in the same Las Vegas trip, and then blissfully became
Mrs. Federline just after new hubby's old live-in gave birth to their second
child. See between breaking up families, raunchy photo shoots, and stripper
stage moves, Britney's a vocal Bush supporter and traditional values proponent,
especially of saving, kind of, yourself for marriage.

Ah, abstinence. Bush launched the year with a wink to America's reigning
family dogma nonprofits by pledging in his State of the Union address to double
unproven abstinence education funding, thus fattening even more faith-based
coffers. Although short of his pledge, Congress found another $170 million for
2005 while slashing most domestic spending, including college financial aid.
Almost 1.5 million low-income students will suffer the loss, but at least Bush
appointed another chastity crusader as Secretary of Education, the formerly
divorced Margaret LaMontagne, who now goes by the name Margaret Spellings.

With a third of our HIV prevention billions promised to anti-abortion
Christian-based groups, America is now exporting white weddings as social panacea
from here to Africa. Masters of misinformation, theo-conservatives have spun
abstinence successes into justification for their bulging billion-dollar
entitlement. Abstinence works, they say, seizing upon 2004 data showing a big drop in t
een pregnancy during the 90s – attributing 25 percent to abstinence and 75
percent to increased contraception use.

Duh. Abstinence from intercourse avoids pregnancy. And 30 years of
peer-reviewed research says that comprehensive sexuality education delays first
intercourse and reduces risky behavior once one's sexually engaged. Not only does the
data say nothing about the impact of abstinence programs, but President
Clinton's abstinence dollars under Welfare Reform didn't reach states until 1998.
Bush's more restrictive abstinence didn't hit the streets until 2001. Recent
preliminary results actually show that abortion has increased since Bush has been
pandering to its sex-obsessed base.

But it's all about perception. Though almost no one does it – that is, sex
only with one's spouse until death do you part – the retro right has
mainstreamed abstinence, which obscures its larger agenda to legislate a biblical
worldview. Think The Handmaid's Tale, or at least strict "man on top" gender roles
and reinstituted enforcements of sexual morality.

But 2004 proves once again that purity politics works. In October, Bush
spotlighted "real families" in Iowa when signing the Working Families Tax Relief
Act. After Bush celebrated Mike and Sharla Hintz' 13th wedding anniversary, Mike
– a youth pastor and father of four – told reporters: "Where we are in this
world, with not just the war on terror, but with the war with our culture
that's going on, I think we need a man that is going to be in the White House like
President Bush, that's going to stand by what he believes."

Earlier this month, the First Assembly of God Church fired Mike Hintz for
sexual exploiting a 17-year-old girl in his church youth group.

Still, conservatives perpetuate their perceived stand for moral absolutes as
a salve from our sex saturated culture, and their opponents as promoters of
moral relativism, or even perversion.

In the aftermath of 2004's greatest smirch upon America, the Abu Ghraib
prison scandal, the conservative Heritage Foundation – source of strict
abstinence-only language driving funding and intervention throughout the world –
syndicated a column linking the Iraq prisoner torture to liberal rot:

"With the non-judgmental, sex-crazed, anything-goes culture that we have
become at home, it seems that America has set herself up for international
humiliation. Our country permits Hollywood to put almost anything in a movie and
still call it PG-13. We permit television and computers to bring all manner of
filth into our homes. We permit school children to be taught that homosexuality
is an acceptable lifestyle. We allow Christianity and the teaching of
Judeo-Christian values to be scrubbed from the public square. We allow our children to
be taught how to use condoms in school, rather than why to avoid sex."

In one distorted swoop, conservatives discredit proponents of sexual health
and justice with the sick, the bad, the ugly.

But Abu Ghraib marked just one occasion for conservatives to paint liberals
into the perv corner. During Super Bowl halftime, Justin Timberlake rips bare
Janet Jackson's breast in mock sexual aggression. The Free Speech Coalition –
an adult film industry advocate – denounces the stunt as inappropriate. And
though more a symptom of unfettered capitalism, the liberals still get saddled w
ith this new cultural low (one the media is forced to digitally blur and repeat
over and over again in slow-mo for outraged Americans everywhere).

The right's latest oppositional snuff campaign surrounds the Oscar-nominated
Alfred Kinsey biopic. Through distortions and lies, traditional attack dogs
slime as pedophile the decades-deceased pioneering sex researcher, whose
blasphemous conclusion was that American men and women are diverse sexual beings.

But in the Age of Abstinence, sexual health educators and researchers are
easy targets for dumping all that is wrong in the world. Last year Bill O'Reilly
had multiple field days sliming a Kansas University sexuality educator
attacked by a Republican state senator. After enduring months of pedophile
accusations and death threats, a formal university investigation cleared the beloved
Dennis Dailey of all wrongdoing. Swiftly killing his own scandal this fall,
O'Reilly settled sexual harassment charges involving masturbatory phone sex and
falafel shower fantasies. Ratings shot sky high. Recently, Dailey – who refers to
his wife of 43 years as his "partner" – announced he's retiring.

The good guys don't always win. The worst perversion of 2004 is the retro
right's march to ensure sex does, in fact, lead to death, disease and despair.
Pushing traditional values, abstinence advocates have lowered condom use by
inflating its failure rate, blocked emergency contraception from over-the-counter
status and from rape victims at hospitals, allowed pharmacists to refuse filli
ng contraceptives based on moral grounds, and again de-funded the United
Nations Population Fund, a family planning and health lifeline in more than 140
countries.

So sick of today's sexual perversion, I yearn for the days of simple
toe-sucking. My New Year's resolution is to balance my personal mom duties with my
more public responsibility to keep the newly emboldened moralizers out of my
pants and their hypocritical sh-t out of my kid's head.

© 2005 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/20857/
 
2004 = shittiest year to exist ever

roll on a good un this year

so who's this secret admirer???
 
too much writing! too wuch writing!

I could never read that much text (unless it was about aphex twin)

stunning said:
2004: Year Of Perversion

By Lara Riscol, AlterNet
Posted on December 28, 2004
http://www.alternet.org/story/20857/

What a shame, a sham. When sex morphs into America's daily news staple,
political barometer, only moral compass – even as Armageddon's fetus slaughters and
mutilates innocents daily – you know you survived an election year. As
President Bush's Revival sends shudders throughout the world – certainly over poor
women and children stripped of reproductive health services – corporate media
continues to slam "sex as moral values" down our throat. I am so f---ing glad
to dump 2004 like a bad date who doesn't understand the meaning of No. Don't.
Stop!

From abstinence to Super Bowl's Nipplegate to "The queers are coming to get
you," conservative politicos and pundits have made sexual perversion an art
form. Sex as distraction. Sex as distortion. Sex as defamation. All non-marital
sex as death, disease and destruction. Sex so far away from what is good and
right and beautiful, from our gift to pleasure, to touch the divine.

As the mother of the most beautiful 2-year-old boy in the world, some would
say it's typical for my interest in sex to wane. So despite seeing the retro
right's sexual train wreck barreling down upon truth and integrity, I had better
things to do this year than keep up with sex smears against liberals. Instead
I indulged in such loony left deviances as breastfeeding and otherwise caring
fulltime for my son; traveling with my husband's work to keep the family
together, and buying a new home closer to Jared's papa, and surrounded by great
schools, trees, trails and kids.

Obviously way out of touch with Real Americans who vote their values, which
apparently involve other people's groins, wombs and fallibility.

Not that conservatives can't be considered fallible. They're gay. Have gay
parents, or daughters named Mary. Late August, a gay blogger posted a taped
phone message allegedly of Rep. Ed Schrock (R-Va.) soliciting sex from men.
Considered the second most conservative member of the U.S. House of Representatives,
Shrock was the co-sponsor of the proposed Constitutional amendment to ban
same-sex marriage. The practicing Baptist soon dropped his re-election bid and
went into seclusion with his wife and son – until he was offered a job last week
by fellow Congressman, Rep. Thomas Davis III (R-Va.) as the top staff person
for a subcommittee of the Government Reform Committee.

He still won't be able to personally carry out America's mandate of his
Constitutional amendment – a commitment renewed by Bush immediately after November
2 when 11 states voted for such state amendments – to protect, of course, the
sanctity of marriages like Sprock's and Britney Spears'.

In one year, the world's most famous Lolita pop tart and self-professed
virgin wedded and divorced in the same Las Vegas trip, and then blissfully became
Mrs. Federline just after new hubby's old live-in gave birth to their second
child. See between breaking up families, raunchy photo shoots, and stripper
stage moves, Britney's a vocal Bush supporter and traditional values proponent,
especially of saving, kind of, yourself for marriage.

Ah, abstinence. Bush launched the year with a wink to America's reigning
family dogma nonprofits by pledging in his State of the Union address to double
unproven abstinence education funding, thus fattening even more faith-based
coffers. Although short of his pledge, Congress found another $170 million for
2005 while slashing most domestic spending, including college financial aid.
Almost 1.5 million low-income students will suffer the loss, but at least Bush
appointed another chastity crusader as Secretary of Education, the formerly
divorced Margaret LaMontagne, who now goes by the name Margaret Spellings.

With a third of our HIV prevention billions promised to anti-abortion
Christian-based groups, America is now exporting white weddings as social panacea
from here to Africa. Masters of misinformation, theo-conservatives have spun
abstinence successes into justification for their bulging billion-dollar
entitlement. Abstinence works, they say, seizing upon 2004 data showing a big drop in t
een pregnancy during the 90s – attributing 25 percent to abstinence and 75
percent to increased contraception use.

Duh. Abstinence from intercourse avoids pregnancy. And 30 years of
peer-reviewed research says that comprehensive sexuality education delays first
intercourse and reduces risky behavior once one's sexually engaged. Not only does the
data say nothing about the impact of abstinence programs, but President
Clinton's abstinence dollars under Welfare Reform didn't reach states until 1998.
Bush's more restrictive abstinence didn't hit the streets until 2001. Recent
preliminary results actually show that abortion has increased since Bush has been
pandering to its sex-obsessed base.

But it's all about perception. Though almost no one does it – that is, sex
only with one's spouse until death do you part – the retro right has
mainstreamed abstinence, which obscures its larger agenda to legislate a biblical
worldview. Think The Handmaid's Tale, or at least strict "man on top" gender roles
and reinstituted enforcements of sexual morality.

But 2004 proves once again that purity politics works. In October, Bush
spotlighted "real families" in Iowa when signing the Working Families Tax Relief
Act. After Bush celebrated Mike and Sharla Hintz' 13th wedding anniversary, Mike
– a youth pastor and father of four – told reporters: "Where we are in this
world, with not just the war on terror, but with the war with our culture
that's going on, I think we need a man that is going to be in the White House like
President Bush, that's going to stand by what he believes."

Earlier this month, the First Assembly of God Church fired Mike Hintz for
sexual exploiting a 17-year-old girl in his church youth group.

Still, conservatives perpetuate their perceived stand for moral absolutes as
a salve from our sex saturated culture, and their opponents as promoters of
moral relativism, or even perversion.

In the aftermath of 2004's greatest smirch upon America, the Abu Ghraib
prison scandal, the conservative Heritage Foundation – source of strict
abstinence-only language driving funding and intervention throughout the world –
syndicated a column linking the Iraq prisoner torture to liberal rot:

"With the non-judgmental, sex-crazed, anything-goes culture that we have
become at home, it seems that America has set herself up for international
humiliation. Our country permits Hollywood to put almost anything in a movie and
still call it PG-13. We permit television and computers to bring all manner of
filth into our homes. We permit school children to be taught that homosexuality
is an acceptable lifestyle. We allow Christianity and the teaching of
Judeo-Christian values to be scrubbed from the public square. We allow our children to
be taught how to use condoms in school, rather than why to avoid sex."

In one distorted swoop, conservatives discredit proponents of sexual health
and justice with the sick, the bad, the ugly.

But Abu Ghraib marked just one occasion for conservatives to paint liberals
into the perv corner. During Super Bowl halftime, Justin Timberlake rips bare
Janet Jackson's breast in mock sexual aggression. The Free Speech Coalition –
an adult film industry advocate – denounces the stunt as inappropriate. And
though more a symptom of unfettered capitalism, the liberals still get saddled w
ith this new cultural low (one the media is forced to digitally blur and repeat
over and over again in slow-mo for outraged Americans everywhere).

The right's latest oppositional snuff campaign surrounds the Oscar-nominated
Alfred Kinsey biopic. Through distortions and lies, traditional attack dogs
slime as pedophile the decades-deceased pioneering sex researcher, whose
blasphemous conclusion was that American men and women are diverse sexual beings.

But in the Age of Abstinence, sexual health educators and researchers are
easy targets for dumping all that is wrong in the world. Last year Bill O'Reilly
had multiple field days sliming a Kansas University sexuality educator
attacked by a Republican state senator. After enduring months of pedophile
accusations and death threats, a formal university investigation cleared the beloved
Dennis Dailey of all wrongdoing. Swiftly killing his own scandal this fall,
O'Reilly settled sexual harassment charges involving masturbatory phone sex and
falafel shower fantasies. Ratings shot sky high. Recently, Dailey – who refers to
his wife of 43 years as his "partner" – announced he's retiring.

The good guys don't always win. The worst perversion of 2004 is the retro
right's march to ensure sex does, in fact, lead to death, disease and despair.
Pushing traditional values, abstinence advocates have lowered condom use by
inflating its failure rate, blocked emergency contraception from over-the-counter
status and from rape victims at hospitals, allowed pharmacists to refuse filli
ng contraceptives based on moral grounds, and again de-funded the United
Nations Population Fund, a family planning and health lifeline in more than 140
countries.

So sick of today's sexual perversion, I yearn for the days of simple
toe-sucking. My New Year's resolution is to balance my personal mom duties with my
more public responsibility to keep the newly emboldened moralizers out of my
pants and their hypocritical sh-t out of my kid's head.

© 2005 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/20857/
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