September 23, 2005
Hurricane Rita hits: Adult Entertainers, Single Mothers Disproportionally Affected
Things were just about getting back to normal in New Orleans. The lushes were out in force, transvestyte hookers were trickling back into the city, and a strip club had reopened to service the needs of armies of insurance adjusters and lonely FEMA workers. There were even rumors of a new Girls Gone Wild: Hurricane Victims edition about to begin production work. Alas, it will all have to wait. Damn you Rita! Damn you to hell!!!
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If you want to see the picture accompanying this story, better check out Riehl World View--and yes, that picture actually was part of a news story. Because journalists are after the important scoops. Notice that both the Reuters story and the pic that Dan Riehl have is of the same stripper. Why do I have the feeling that one Reuters reporter is a very satisfied customer? Reuters :
In a sign that things may be returning to normal in New Orleans, strip shows are back in the city's famous French Quarter.But don't you worry. FEMA cards are accepted for lap dances. Via QandO this Times Online story entitled Vote Republican for Free Lap Dances. I knew there was a reason I voted for that guy!:Erotic dancers and strippers are entertaining crowds of police, firefighters and military personnel instead of the usual audiences of drunken conventioneers and tourists in Bourbon Street's Deja Vu club, which reopened this week.
It's the first strip joint to resume business, three weeks after Hurricane Katrina struck in the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States.
"It's nice to get back to work, and all these men need some entertainment," Dawn Beasley, 27, a dancer at the club, said on Tuesday night. "They haven't seen anybody but their buddies for two weeks."
The crowd hooted and hollered as women peeled off their tops and gyrated, as customers tucked tips into their G-strings.
Interviewed by a reporter for the local TV station, Abby over at Baby Dolls said she had seen many clients using their debit cards. She had nothing but praise for this exercise in government largesse. “A lot of customers have been coming in from Louisiana and they’ve been real happy about the $1.75 beers and they’re really nice.” It was only fair, she added that they should get a little publicly funded help. “You lost your whole house, then, why not?” she said. “You might want some beer in a strip club. There are a lot of guys out there that like to do that.”With the mandatory evacuation of Houston's adult entertainment establishment, what will thousands of single mothers do to feed their children? Just one more way in which in Bush's America, single mothers are once again affected more deeply by natural disasters. ;-)
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Notice, too, that if you click on the pic in Rueters, at the bottom is the clickable link "Buy Pictures".
Posted by: Oyster at September 23, 2005 02:21 PM (fl6E1)
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Reuters=journalism at its best.
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at September 23, 2005 02:31 PM (JQjhA)
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WTF... is she wearing tube socks?
Posted by: Ariya at September 23, 2005 03:55 PM (noCGr)
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Bushie is running around there, promising not to get in the way - potemkin loser off-the-wagon punk
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 23, 2005 06:45 PM (VhNDM)
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SCREECHING DRUNKEN MONKEY!
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 23, 2005 07:16 PM (VhNDM)
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Tube socks are hot on a girl. I used to have a girlfriend who would wear her softball socks and hat. And nothing else. YEAH BABY!
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 23, 2005 08:52 PM (0yYS2)
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Potemkin, as in fake prop, Homer
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 23, 2005 10:05 PM (VhNDM)
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ADULT PSYCHO-ENTERTAINMENT!! I LOVE WAR!!!
New reports of the 82nd Airborne TORTURING IRAQIs surfaces:
"Murderous Maniacs" attacked and tortured!! It was Sport!!
"On their day off people would show up all the time. Everyone in camp knew if you wanted to work out your frustration you show up at the PUC tent.1 In a way IT WAS SPORT. The cooks were all U.S. soldiers. One day [a sergeant] shows up and tells a PUC to grab a pole. He told him to bend over and broke the guy’s leg with a mini Louisville Slugger, a metal bat. He was the fucking cook. He shouldn’t be in with no PUCs."
"Military Intelligence personnel, they said, directed and encouraged army personnel to subject prisoners to forced, repetitive exercise, sometimes to the point of unconsciousness, sleep deprivation for days on end, and exposure to extremes of heat and cold as part of the interrogation process. At least one interrogator beat detainees in front of other soldiers."
SSSSMOKIN!!
The torture of detainees reportedly was so widespread and accepted that it became a means of STRESS RELIEF for soldiers. Soldiers said they felt welcome to come to the PUC tent on their off-hours to “Fuck a PUC” or “Smoke a PUC.” “Fucking a PUC” referred to beating a detainee, while “Smoking a PUC” referred to forced physical exertion sometimes to the point of unconsciousness. The soldiers said that when a detainee had a visible injury such as a broken limb due to “fucking” or “smoking,” an army physician’s assistant would be called to administer an analgesic and fill out the proper paperwork. They said those responsible would state that the detainee was injured during the process of capture and the physician’s assistant would sign off on this. Broken bones occurred “every other week” at FOB Mercury."
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 23, 2005 10:22 PM (VhNDM)
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Rusty, this piece of shit moron is giving aid and comfort to the enemy and lying about our troops. If you insist on letting him continue, I will not be back.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at September 23, 2005 10:48 PM (0yYS2)
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Impy, DSM is your only truthful FRIEND in all the Bushie-Chimpie swirling madness:
http://hrw.org/reports/2005/us0905/ and http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1108972,00.html
They were being beaten by mini-sluggers and more!
You can't get awaaay! You can't get awaaay! Woo-hoo!
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 23, 2005 11:00 PM (VhNDM)
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DSM, I just shed a tear for the terrorists who got "tortured" by the 82nd Airbourne, no --- I did really.
Did you forget the part where they stepped up the torture to include chinese rope burns, nipple twisters, camel bites and atomic wedges, or will I have to read more later?
Posted by: dave at September 23, 2005 11:57 PM (CcXvt)
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Davie,
It's all fine and dandy to beat detainees until their friends decide it's fine and dandy to torture Americans back, right?
What goes around comes around?
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 24, 2005 12:21 AM (VhNDM)
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"It's all fine and dandy to beat detainees until their friends decide it's fine and dandy to torture Americans back, right?" You got your argument backwards, DSM. It was the other way around.
I read your links. TIME, being the anti-American publication they've become, is bound and determined to keep old news alive regardless of what corrective measures have been taken to curb or stop abuse. What you and they want are public hangings. Nothing less would shut you up. Isn't that a little hypocritical?
You won't EVER see a TIME article outlining any of those corrective measures. It's the same old mantra in their headlines "Abuse!" - never "20 New Iraqi Hospitals Open". You'll never read the word "terrorists" in their stories. It would dilute their message. They prefer "insurgents" or "resistance" to describe them and soften the blow of their horrendous acts committed against soldier and civilian alike. And HRW uses moral equivalence to an astounding degree. Unless they start documenting and condemning Palestinian human rights infractions, they are just mouthpieces. Until HRW takes a stance on the murder and maiming committed by terrorists instead of whether they're being treated kindly enough when caught, they can climb up my arse and fight for air.
From the mysterious "former Captain":
"We had these new high-speed trailer showers. One guy was the cleaner. He was an Iraqi contractor working on base. We were taking pretty accurate mortar fire and rockets and we were getting nervous. Well one day we found him with a GPS11 receiver and he is like calling in strikes on us! What the fuck!? We took him but we are pissed because he stabbed us in the back. So we gave him the treatment. We got on him with the jugs and doused him and smoked and fucked him."
All this from a guy who gleefully participated? This guy's not a whistle blower. He's trying to save his own neck.
And your "chickenhawk" arguments are nothing but empty insults because you, yourself, seem to have plenty to say about something you have no firsthand experience of, so you can't say what you'd do. Just what would you have done? Give the guy a massage? I think they should have put a bullet between his eyes.
You are so single minded and hell bent (not to mention the fact that you NEVER contribute a coherent message because you hate everyone and everything equally) that no one here can take you seriously. You're an absolute joke. How long have you been spouting off here and have yet to win a single convert with your nonsensical, regurgitated crap?
It really scares me that you're out there walking around among sane people. [shudder]
Posted by: Oyster at September 24, 2005 07:36 AM (YudAC)
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Hey Oyster,
Common sense says don't torture or they'll torture back. Want an all-out mob war over there with no friggin rules? Mad Max rules? Want captured American soldiers burned alive in front of video cameras? Hell No! War is hell and we are becoming frigging barbarians beating people to death. Want war? Go pick up a 16 and go over to that rotten place.
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at September 24, 2005 07:47 AM (VhNDM)
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Wow, Oyster. I've never seen such dissembling in the name of supporting torture. To wit:
1. It's a liberal media outlet. (Ignores the fact it's information provided by a credible source, a participant and troop member.)
2. He participated and is trying to cover his butt. (What precisely does this do in terms of making the story true or untrue? There's more than one whistleblower. Whether they participated or not, they are still a whistleblower and pretty damnhonest to admit they were involved.)
To use your own wording against you: it really scares me that people like YOU are out there walking among sane people. Soulless ghouls should only be out on Halloween.
Just cut the crap and say it: you support torture as long as it furthers your goals.
Posted by: Anne at September 24, 2005 08:47 AM (ERpL1)
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I guess you'll say it for me, Anne. Since I said no such thing.
Posted by: Oyster at September 24, 2005 03:28 PM (YudAC)
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Oyster does everyone just like fith with you or what? I've not noticed you being too radical but then again this is the Jawa Report.
Posted by: Howie at September 24, 2005 03:34 PM (D3+20)
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People seem to put words in my mouth a lot lately, Howie. They have their own ideas and unless I shouted from the rooftops exactly what they want to hear then they'll take my words and make them into something they can spout their indignance at.
It's the recognition of their selective reasoning that gets them upset. These are the people who quickly and vocally condemn anything the US military does and don't just as openly give, at the very least, equal voice to wrongs done "to" the US military. But they support the troops! In a nut shell, if we do something wrong, it's bad, if they do something wrong, it's because of something we did.
Anne "assumes" too much. She assumes I endorse torture because I disapprove of TIME'S efforts to keep alive issues that have been and are being addressed without saying that they are, in fact, being addressed. I never said the Captian was lying, but because I question his motives and point out his own guilt (which he pointed out himself) she assumes many things. One, that I imply his story is untrue and then she goes on to defend him for his "honesty". That's fine. But, it doesn't erase his guilt and it doesn't make it right for TIME or anyone else to continue to beat that drum which emboldens their "insurgents" and feeds the flame of anti-American sentiment. But heaven forbid if "I" defend anything. Becuase "I'm wrong".
I guess I have to spell out in elementary terms that I believe torture is wrong. But let me add that I think it's wrong for ANYONE, not just us. The double standards just don't cut it.
Regarding my above post and the story of the guy who was caught with the GPS - Anne was indignant over the fact that the guy was beat up, but didn't have anything to say about him directing mortar attacks on the soldiers?
These people don't realize that our defense of the military or anything American didn't spring out of a void. It was born out of incessant verbal attacks that focused on one thing; America bashing to the exclusion of all else. And I'm just one of those people who are sick of it.
Posted by: Oyster at September 25, 2005 08:46 AM (YudAC)
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