82nd Airborne Twinks

Thank goodness the 'gentlemen' of the 82nd Airborne that participated in gay pornography on the web were finally sentenced. Three months in jail and a dishonerable discharge on a plea bargain. The 'gents' said the Army doesn't pay well, and they did it for the money. Seems they have an agent, an agent in Fayettenam that recruits and sells big, hunky, military beefcake to porn producer Dennis Ashe. Dennis has three production companies in fayetteville, North Carolina that produce porn. Don't ask, don't tell? I have to say not all Clinton's policies worked, and this one seems to have bit the big one. It is a difficult issue. Since proponents of gay have flourished in the last decade, maybe it seems PC to support it. Afterall Cheny's daughter is in the news these days. The problem lies much deeper with issues that never have been resolved in our current government. In fact the country seems so disparate and uninformed, how could anyone know what an "American" stands for. We are such a melting pot or country of immigrants anyway. But for a country to hang together as a structure it is becoming apparent there has to be some community to our thinking and beliefs. Freedom of religion and speech and all the rest, but there must be some common thread that bonds us all together. I feel we have been going the opposite direction for a while. The internet probably doesn't help. If we lose our social programs, the ability to socialize, to relate as people, how can we survive? Living in bomb shelters working, playing, and communicating via the internet? Is this really the path we want to go? I have made decisions about my computer use. It is a tool to be used for a very specific thought out purpose. It, for me, doesn't provide creativity. It is a tool. It does provide entertainment, but when you consider you are sitting alone in a room, it doesn't seem that entertaining anymore. I have always felt that the world has two choices. We can embrace our history of human development, the arts, or we can choose cyberworld. Either we stand by literature, music, and art, our history, or we choose a different path. There is no question 9/11 has changed the world in which we live. The world is a different place. I have difficulty understanding it everyday. Then I tell myself to remember what I have learned in nine years of college. The world can't be that different than three years ago, and yet seems that way. Television has changed. If one reads the definition of Politically Correct on Wikopedia, it says political agendas are trying to be implemented by influencing pop culture, i.e. cinema, music, and television. If that is the case, all I can say is we are being brainwashed to be ignorant. When the elder Bush was in office, it was a far different country than today with the "War on Terror." Jesus, how could we let a country so distant dominate our lives to such a degree at the expense of our own well being? Readin' Writin' and Rithmatic? That was Bush Sr.'s agenda. Now our SAT scores are lower than ever. Original music or art? So you ever see anything like that on TV, in the news? Anything good, ever? Not much. The atrocity of American Idol has duped the country into believing one can become an "artist" just by having a behemoth corporate structure promote your sorry ass. There was a great skit on the now tired and old SNL that personified it perfectly. They took some Joe on the street talking, and took him through the rise and fall of commercial success, having nothing to do with creativity, inspiration, a vision, or talent. Who wants to listen to some snot kid sing a song some producer wrote about something they know nothing about? Talent or not, I don't think there is a damn thing Aguilera can teach me about sex. Let me teach you something. But the issues that aren't resolved are separation of church and state. That in itself seems to have slowly dissolved the foundation of our country. No one has figured out yet how to live together in a country and be so Politically Correct as to not insult anyone. We have to have beliefs! They don't have to be all the same, but we must believe something to have a soul. If we don't believe in some kind of Supreme Being, then our lives are reduced to a superficial pile of shit. Look at television now. Does anyone really want to watch Charlene Tilton and Paris Hilton behave badly like ill behaved valley girls? It makes me sick. And what happened to our music channels? I am a musician, and there is NO music on. What happened? Shite college high jinx? Flav-a-flav? How about a band or two? Some good videos? It is a shite state of affairs. We doubt everything today. Have we lost our minds? AT the expense of this turning into a rave, which it all ready has, the issue is we have to stand for something. We as a country have to choose what that it. We have to agree on something. We are working towards that slowly but surely. Gas prices? Well, that a start. How about poor healthcare? No support of public education. Ridiculous laws everywhere. Send a guy to prison for having a little sniff of coke in his pocket. Where is the justice in that? Ten years. I am glowing that Vincente Fox had the balls to legalize small amounts of drugs. Prostitution is legal in many countries. Let's hope the planet stays around long enough for us to solve our social and legislative problems.