Rupert apologizes, Obama rallies the public and Bristol is criticized... endless barrage of news loops.

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Watched Obama's speech in congress tonight and Jindal's "rebuttal" afterward... (we should support the president but...)
Need to absorb it a bit, maybe tomorrow I'll have a better feel for what I really think.
It was indeed a good rousing speech. I imagine the republicans wish Obama wasn't as good at communication.
The lines are being drawn in the sand and the country be damned... question is what do we all do?
We back our president just like we backed GW even if we didn't really like him.
Still I need to absorb all the information and rhetoric. It made my head hurt tonight.
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Also saw Bristol Palin's interview with Greta Van Susteren where she states that she thinks that abstinence only isn't realistic at all for teenagers... Coming from a young person in her situation it would seem a reasonable enough statement. She is speaking from her own experience. However, the National Abstinence Education Association takes exception to that. They are far more fundamental in their abstinence beliefs. So we're once again on the debate of abstinence vs birth control availability to teens (or hell even information never mind available contraception)
If teens have sex (and they have throughout the generations, not just this one) before marriage then I want them to avoid unwanted pregnancies and especially potentially life changing, life threatening diseases. Is that too much to ask?

Anyway I was thinking that if there's a National Abstinence Education Association out there that espouses no sex until marriage (or death if you don't get married?) then is there somewhere out there a National Masturbation Education Association that promotes the safe release of sexual tension without actual sex to avoid pregnancy, etc.? (doubtful anyone actually needs this education in reality but you never know.)
I don't know if there is or not because I didn't really want to google masturbation groups... but to even things out there should be one, eh? Like, Ying and Yang or Matter and Anti-Matter.
I doubt the anti-abortion/anti-contraception/pro "just say no" abstinence groups would approve of it anyway but-

Hey just wondering...
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That cartoon I saw in the NY Post and mentioned here previously got picked up and created quite an uproar the last few days.
The first response from the paper which was totally inadequate to say the least, wasn't really an apology or any admittance of a mistake in printing the cartoon. So today, days later, Mr. Murdoch tried to make amends to their readers and everyone else that saw it and thought it was horrible.
He stated, "Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted." There's more but that's the important part. Is it sincere? Well who knows.
So what is the word of the day for Mr. Murdoch? I'd say FEAR...
The written word in newspaper format is under duress as it is. There's question whether some papers will go out of production over the next few years. In this climate a threatened boycott and very bad press for a paper that represents a city as diverse as NYC could be a game changer for the Post. Bad press at a bad time.
Hence, we get a more adequate apology from the person ultimately responsible for the paper, the owner.
Still, I can't figure out what the hell they were thinking in the first place.
How could one be so dumb as to not find that tasteless, racist and violent? I hope they chastised the editor.


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On that note-
G'night,

Laura
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