Rush Limpaugh's Sexellent Adventure

All joking aside, I wonder why the corporate media has supressed the real story behind this. It is not importing a little illegal Viagra, but the real story is Limpaugh's sex tourism.

Indeed, the Dominican Republic is one of the biggest sex tourism destinations in the world, thanks in part to Internet sites that extol the country as a "single man's paradise."

Yes, the paragon of the right needs to explain who else was using that Viagra with him. Did he have Ann Coulter or some other thing that would screw him on his flight? Or, was Limpbaugh trolling for little girls....or boys?

And don't tell me that's not what he was doing. From the above story:

Among banner ads for Viagra, members can shuffle through pictures of dull-eyed prostitutes engaged in flagrante delicto with the members/amateur pornographers.

Well, is that a coincidence???

In the Dominican Republic, as in many developing countries, many women are driven to sell their bodies by poverty and lack of alternatives. It is a profession that is illegal but tolerated by local authorities, who accept kickbacks to turn a blind eye to the seedier side of tourism.

In Puerto Plata there are so many streetwalkers competing for the attention of vacationers that one hair stylist said she doesn't leave her home after dark because she doesn't want to be mistaken for a puta. In the town's discos, bars and restaurants, solitary women stare suggestively at male tourists or rub up against them like cats.

"I don't have an education, and I've got two children," shrugged 15-year-old Belkis as she slinked along the busy beach promenade here in a hot pink Lycra dress. "Where else can I make such good money? To be a prostitute, you don't need schooling, all you need is your body."

Belkis' rates start at $15 for oral sex, and she charges $5 extra if a man doesn't want to use a condom.

I do wish Limpaugh well, though:

Public health campaigns exhort men to use condoms with prostitutes to protect their families from the disease, which is the primary cause of death among Dominican men under age 45.

You can read more about the Dominican Republic child prostitution problem here.

Thoughts on Zarqawi's Death

First, let me say that no one is sorry to see this slime go. I wish our government would wrap him in bacon like a terrorist filet mignon as a message to others: if the Koran is right, we'll make sure you go to Hell.

However, after the media euphoria that swept today, I could not help but wonder at the difference a month makes.

Remember last month, they were making fun of Zarqawi as a kid of Shemp of terrorists? Notice how none of that was repeated today? Today we killed a terrorist leader, a mastermind, not a moron who can't operate an automatic weapon.

But, lest we forget, here's the beginning of the Zarqawi saga:

In June 2002, U.S. officials say intelligence had revealed that Zarqawi and members of al-Qaida had set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide.

The Pentagon quickly drafted plans to attack the camp with cruise missiles and airstrikes and sent it to the White House, where, according to U.S. government sources, the plan was debated to death in the National Security Council.

“Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn’t do it,” said Michael O’Hanlon, military analyst with the Brookings Institution.
Four months later, intelligence showed Zarqawi was planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe.
The Pentagon drew up a second strike plan, and the White House again killed it. By then the administration had set its course for war with Iraq.
“People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,” according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey.
The Pentagon drew up still another attack plan, and for the third time, the National Security Council killed it.
Military officials insist their case for attacking Zarqawi’s operation was airtight, but the administration feared destroying the terrorist camp in Iraq could undercut its case for war against Saddam.
The United States did attack the camp at Kirma at the beginning of the war, but it was too late — Zarqawi and many of his followers were gone. “Here’s a case where they waited, they waited too long and now we’re suffering as a result inside Iraq,” Cressey added.

Gays should be unhealthy, unhappy, unsafe, poor and dead: GOP

Sen. Sam Brokeback, er, Brownback, spoke eloquently about why the GOP should keep gays from marrying yesterday in the Senate. I could not find his exact quote online, and it is not in a press release on his website, but I did find a National Review article he wrote 2 years ago, the last time the GOP trotted out this amendment because they needed voters, with the same basic argument.

Not least of the reasons heterosexual marriage is a positive social good is the fact that, in a married state, adults of both sexes are vastly healthier, happier, safer, and wealthier, and live longer lives.

And, Sen. Brokeback, er Brownback is right, according to the CDC.

So, he apparently does not want gays to have the same opportunity to live vastly healthier, happier, safer, and wealthier, and live longer lives.

And, why should they? Wouldn't the right be happier, healthier, safer, wealthier and live linger be too....Christian? Or maybe Jesus would want them to die sooner, in misery and poverty.

I have been ambivalent about the gay marriage amendment, until now. Sen. Brokeback, um, Brownback has made the case for me that gays should be allowed to marry. There is no legitimate reason to deny any Americans the right to live vastly healthier, happier, safer, and wealthier, and live longer lives. Certainly, as a Christian, I cannot condemn anyone to the fate the GOP wants to sentance gays to.