Bible Belt Town Steals Business!

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The good folks of Lavonia, Ga. have their priorities and their top priority was getting rid of the town's only strip club.

The town spent one million dollars, or a third of their budget, in an underhanded land swap so that they could effectively steal the business from its owners.

This summer, a mob led by the mayor tore down gaudy billboards advertising topless dancers, put plywood over glass doors bearing a nude silhouette and purged the awnings proclaiming the incendiary name of the club—Cafe Risque—in a diesel-fueled bonfire.

And how about spending a third of their budget for a strip club, is it worth it? Well Mayor Ralph Owens thinks so, and residents have been backing him up.

"We're in the Bible Belt," says Ron Walters, the owner of a downtown flower shop. "You just don't do things like that here."

OK - so let me opine here....WTF? Government officials decided that a law abiding business wasn't worthy of their morals so they decided to spend a third of their budget to steal this business from the owners. These people probably voted for Mike Huckabee during the primaries...Let me be clear, social conservatives are just as dangerous to our freedoms as liberals are. This is a clear case of Government abusing the individual and if anyone should be forming and angry mob, it should be us! Those of us that care about personal freedoms and civil liberties...you DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO GO THROUGH LIFE WITHOUT BEING OFFENDED! This shit depresses the hell out of me.

EU Taking Europe Down a Slippery Slope

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/2686538/EU-wants-to-ban-sexist-TV-commercials.html

There is a reason I used that ad in this blog, it's because leftists, socialists and liberals like to take our freedoms away by targeting things that are hard to justify, as in tobacco, firearms, gory movies, naughty language, gangsta rap, death metal..."surely we must think of the children!!!"

And the leftist sheep follow along because they think that by doing so, they look like good people. Well, under this law those anti-fur campaigns get banned as well. Remember, the government that can ban the things that you don't like is also powerful enough to ban the stuff that you DO like. It's called FREEDOM! FREEDOM ISN'T SAFE! FREEDOM ISN'T GUARANTEED! FREEDOM CAN RESULT IN FAILURE! FREEDOM CAN RESULT IN HURT FEELINGS! But, I'll take freedom over safety from hurt feelings any day. I'll take freedom and failure over socialism and guaranteed mediocrity any day, and so should you!

This is why party loyalty on issues that truly don't matter is STUPID. There is one fucking issue that matters, Socialism vs. Freedom. That's it! All you fucking moron Right vs. Left Culture Warriors are the fucking problem...you're distracting America from what's truly important and both sides strengthen the hand of tyranny by their very short-sighted existence.

This election isn't about Jeremiah Wright, Abortion, Teenage Pregnancy, Associations, George Bush, or experience...this fucking election is about Big Powerful Socialist Government vs. Freedom!

Original Story:

MEPs want TV regulators in the EU to set guidelines which would see the end of anything deemed to portray women as sex objects or reinforce gender stereotypes.

This could potentially mean an end to attractive women advertising perfume, housewives in the kitchen or men doing DIY.

Such classic adverts as the Diet Coke commercial featuring the bare-chested builder, or Wonderbra's "Hello Boys" featuring model Eva Herzigova would have been banned.
The new rules come in a report by the EU's women's rights committee.

Swedish MEP Eva-Britt Svensson urged Britain and other members to use existing equality, sexism and discrimination laws to control advertising.
She wants regulatory bodies set up to monitor ads and introduce a "zero-tolerance" policy against "sexist insults or degrading images".

Ms Svensson said: "Gender stereotyping in advertising straitjackets women, men, girls and boys by restricting individuals to predetermined and artificial roles that are often degrading, humiliating and dumbed down for both sexes."

She added: "Gender stereotyping in advertising is one of several factors that have a big influence in efforts to make society more gender equal.

"When women and men are portrayed in a stereotypical way the consequence may be that it becomes difficult in other contexts to see women and men's resources and abilities."
The Advertising Standards Authority however had said there are already checks in place to prevent "discriminatory or harmful" material.

A spokesman said: "Although the ASA supports the overall objectives of the report... the approach suggested is inflexible and impractical."

Do you think sexist adverts should be banned?