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	<description>Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.</description>
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		<title>By: suek</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/03/03/there-is-nothing-romantic-about-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-92336</link>
		<dc:creator>suek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;They claim that Dead White Men, Colonialism, and plantation slavery has been the bane of human existence.&gt;&gt;
 
That&#039;s because it suits their purpose - keeping blacks on the plantation.  If they didn&#039;t have that line, it&#039;d be something else.  Their modus operandi is divide and conquer.  Their version of &quot;diversity&quot; is simply a means of cutting out a group of people who may have similar interests, stoking the fires of discontent based on those similar interests, and then using the group as a political club.  Reminds me very much of the Cutting Class at a western horse show.  The goal is to cut out one particular animal, move it away from the herd and put it in an individual pen.  The animal - being a herd bound by nature bovine - strives to return to the herd.  The skill of the rider and the quickness of the horse determine whether they can successfully cut out the animal and move it to the desired location.
 
The goal of the conservatives should be to somehow break up the herd bound instinct.  Ain&#039;t a&#039;gonna be easy.  Probably easier to move the entire herd in a different direction.    &quot;Better&quot; and &quot;easy&quot; are often two very different goals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&gt;They claim that Dead White Men, Colonialism, and plantation slavery has been the bane of human existence.&gt;&gt;<br />
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That&#8217;s because it suits their purpose &#8211; keeping blacks on the plantation.  If they didn&#8217;t have that line, it&#8217;d be something else.  Their modus operandi is divide and conquer.  Their version of &#8220;diversity&#8221; is simply a means of cutting out a group of people who may have similar interests, stoking the fires of discontent based on those similar interests, and then using the group as a political club.  Reminds me very much of the Cutting Class at a western horse show.  The goal is to cut out one particular animal, move it away from the herd and put it in an individual pen.  The animal &#8211; being a herd bound by nature bovine &#8211; strives to return to the herd.  The skill of the rider and the quickness of the horse determine whether they can successfully cut out the animal and move it to the desired location.<br />
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The goal of the conservatives should be to somehow break up the herd bound instinct.  Ain&#8217;t a&#8217;gonna be easy.  Probably easier to move the entire herd in a different direction.    &#8220;Better&#8221; and &#8220;easy&#8221; are often two very different goals.</p>
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		<title>By: Bookworm</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/03/03/there-is-nothing-romantic-about-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-92333</link>
		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you so much for your kind words, Zabrina.  I really appreciate it.  The thing I have in common with our President is that I believe words count.  Unlike him, however, I don&#039;t believe the words substitute for deeds, or that lies don&#039;t count.  However, I do believe that, when it comes to the world of ideas, what we say, and to whom we say it, matters greatly.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you so much for your kind words, Zabrina.  I really appreciate it.  The thing I have in common with our President is that I believe words count.  Unlike him, however, I don&#8217;t believe the words substitute for deeds, or that lies don&#8217;t count.  However, I do believe that, when it comes to the world of ideas, what we say, and to whom we say it, matters greatly.</p>
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		<title>By: zabrina</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/03/03/there-is-nothing-romantic-about-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-92332</link>
		<dc:creator>zabrina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Many years after &quot;Pretty Woman&quot; came out, my husband and I attempted to watch it on DVD, wondering what all the fuss and good reviews were about. We couldn&#039;t make it beyond the first few minutes. Agree totally with your take on it. Who would think that &quot;prostitution is not romantic&quot; (let alone glamorous) would ever need to be said? But evidently it does. Perhaps even more so today with the advent of &quot;sex workers&quot; touting themselves and their industry on college campuses to America&#039;s youth in the name of so-called feminism. And with the realization that, with the help of the internet, prostitution, including tourism prostitution and the prostitution of children, is booming in the U.S. and around the world.
Thank you for saying this. And thank you for speaking about morality to the kids you haul. This kind of outspokenness and outreach  is what conservative activism is about--and it is much needed these days. I do it now too. One on one. Every day I can. Your blog is an inspiration. Please keep up the important work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many years after &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221; came out, my husband and I attempted to watch it on DVD, wondering what all the fuss and good reviews were about. We couldn&#8217;t make it beyond the first few minutes. Agree totally with your take on it. Who would think that &#8220;prostitution is not romantic&#8221; (let alone glamorous) would ever need to be said? But evidently it does. Perhaps even more so today with the advent of &#8220;sex workers&#8221; touting themselves and their industry on college campuses to America&#8217;s youth in the name of so-called feminism. And with the realization that, with the help of the internet, prostitution, including tourism prostitution and the prostitution of children, is booming in the U.S. and around the world.<br />
Thank you for saying this. And thank you for speaking about morality to the kids you haul. This kind of outspokenness and outreach  is what conservative activism is about&#8211;and it is much needed these days. I do it now too. One on one. Every day I can. Your blog is an inspiration. Please keep up the important work.</p>
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		<title>By: Ymarsakar</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/03/03/there-is-nothing-romantic-about-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-92275</link>
		<dc:creator>Ymarsakar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Suek, the Left aren&#039;t enemies of humanity for no reason. They claim that Dead White Men, Colonialism, and plantation slavery has been the bane of human existence. I have a different view of the matter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Suek, the Left aren&#8217;t enemies of humanity for no reason. They claim that Dead White Men, Colonialism, and plantation slavery has been the bane of human existence. I have a different view of the matter.</p>
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		<title>By: Ymarsakar</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/03/03/there-is-nothing-romantic-about-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-92273</link>
		<dc:creator>Ymarsakar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is a simple truism that whenever there exists an imbalance of power, injustice will occur, regardless of what philosophy, what ideal, or what good intentions people have. Bad things will happen.
 
The first step is to equalize power through the redistribution, proper redistribution, of power. Power, however, isn&#039;t a material good. It is not money nor is it happiness. Power is the relative difference between capability and deterrence between, say, two parties.
 
Two equally matched factions, with equal power, capability, and deterrence, will be almost powerless against each other. If another faction comes into the picture with more power, then the two previous factions must ally to face the new power. This is how power dynamics function and it is an element of the US Constitution&#039;s balance of powers: the triumvirate.
 

Legalized prostitution doesn&#039;t work because idiots and plutocrats like Gore and the EU don&#039;t give a damn about applying the law evenly, fairly, and comprehensively. Law does not function properly in pursuit of justice when written and enforced by evil men. Remember that.

Lose the idealism and face reality. For those that have wished to see Utopia more than they have wished to see the truth, that&#039;s the first step of their 12 step program.
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is a simple truism that whenever there exists an imbalance of power, injustice will occur, regardless of what philosophy, what ideal, or what good intentions people have. Bad things will happen.<br />
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The first step is to equalize power through the redistribution, proper redistribution, of power. Power, however, isn&#8217;t a material good. It is not money nor is it happiness. Power is the relative difference between capability and deterrence between, say, two parties.<br />
 <br />
Two equally matched factions, with equal power, capability, and deterrence, will be almost powerless against each other. If another faction comes into the picture with more power, then the two previous factions must ally to face the new power. This is how power dynamics function and it is an element of the US Constitution&#8217;s balance of powers: the triumvirate.<br />
 </p>
<p>Legalized prostitution doesn&#8217;t work because idiots and plutocrats like Gore and the EU don&#8217;t give a damn about applying the law evenly, fairly, and comprehensively. Law does not function properly in pursuit of justice when written and enforced by evil men. Remember that.</p>
<p>Lose the idealism and face reality. For those that have wished to see Utopia more than they have wished to see the truth, that&#8217;s the first step of their 12 step program.<br />
 <br />
 </p>
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		<title>By: Ymarsakar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ymarsakar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;hat they themselves produce&quot;
 
 
Correction, that they themselves patronize.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;hat they themselves produce&#8221;<br />
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Correction, that they themselves patronize.</p>
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		<title>By: Ymarsakar</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/03/03/there-is-nothing-romantic-about-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-92269</link>
		<dc:creator>Ymarsakar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I got a good intro into the international sex slave trafficking in John Ringo&#039;s novel, Ghost.
 
Other Americans had their intro with the movie about an intelligence agent searching for his daughter that got kidnapped.
 
I hadn&#039;t yet connected that underworld with the shiny official image of legalized prostitution, however. But that would make sense. Government and bureacrats are the ones that pay the highest prices for exotic prostitutes and non-official snuff sex. Especially European power elites. Their legalization of prostitution is to simply lower the bar for importing or exporting of the luxury goods that they themselves produce. That was always my opinion and the new data on prostitution only reinforces that view of mine.
 
The government and its individual slave masters, whether we call them Democrats here or plutocratic aristocrats in Europe, really does not care to protect the human interests of individuals. Their interest is power, the control rather than proper distribution of power.
 
I would handle legalized prostitution differently and would attempt to actually gain the purported benefits it has. But I&#039;m that way, and the government is not. Presumably because my methods would eliminate the competition in the form of Arabs, criminals, pimps, Mafias, and everybody else. The red light district would look empty because I&#039;d have most of the important people there eliminated. The armed goons would either work for me and my allies, or they&#039;ll be resting in an incinerator. This then becomes counter-insurgency. The elimination of underworld, unofficial, and insurgent populations through supplanting, replacing, and taking care of the natural instincts those insurgencies prey upon.
 

If I was running a War on Drugs, it&#039;d be a real war, like Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than a law enforcement matter that is being continuously upgraded to goon squad tactics and totalitarian police standards due to the inefficiency of applying lawfare to warfare.
 

But governments don&#039;t care about running wars when they can increase the supply of their luxury goods via less expensive means. This is true of Obama, Clinton, and Gore as it is true of the patrons of sexual slavery in Europe and Eastern Europe and Arabia and Africa.
 
Criminals thus wish to keep what they have and they wish to do business. Politicians wish to keep what they have and they wish to do business. I, on the other hand, wish the complete elimination of enemies of humanity, as the first step in ensuring individual human liberty and prosperity. There&#039;s a sort of inconsistency there, you see. Which is why policies tend to be different when you compare.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got a good intro into the international sex slave trafficking in John Ringo&#8217;s novel, Ghost.<br />
 <br />
Other Americans had their intro with the movie about an intelligence agent searching for his daughter that got kidnapped.<br />
 <br />
I hadn&#8217;t yet connected that underworld with the shiny official image of legalized prostitution, however. But that would make sense. Government and bureacrats are the ones that pay the highest prices for exotic prostitutes and non-official snuff sex. Especially European power elites. Their legalization of prostitution is to simply lower the bar for importing or exporting of the luxury goods that they themselves produce. That was always my opinion and the new data on prostitution only reinforces that view of mine.<br />
 <br />
The government and its individual slave masters, whether we call them Democrats here or plutocratic aristocrats in Europe, really does not care to protect the human interests of individuals. Their interest is power, the control rather than proper distribution of power.<br />
 <br />
I would handle legalized prostitution differently and would attempt to actually gain the purported benefits it has. But I&#8217;m that way, and the government is not. Presumably because my methods would eliminate the competition in the form of Arabs, criminals, pimps, Mafias, and everybody else. The red light district would look empty because I&#8217;d have most of the important people there eliminated. The armed goons would either work for me and my allies, or they&#8217;ll be resting in an incinerator. This then becomes counter-insurgency. The elimination of underworld, unofficial, and insurgent populations through supplanting, replacing, and taking care of the natural instincts those insurgencies prey upon.<br />
 </p>
<p>If I was running a War on Drugs, it&#8217;d be a real war, like Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than a law enforcement matter that is being continuously upgraded to goon squad tactics and totalitarian police standards due to the inefficiency of applying lawfare to warfare.<br />
 </p>
<p>But governments don&#8217;t care about running wars when they can increase the supply of their luxury goods via less expensive means. This is true of Obama, Clinton, and Gore as it is true of the patrons of sexual slavery in Europe and Eastern Europe and Arabia and Africa.<br />
 <br />
Criminals thus wish to keep what they have and they wish to do business. Politicians wish to keep what they have and they wish to do business. I, on the other hand, wish the complete elimination of enemies of humanity, as the first step in ensuring individual human liberty and prosperity. There&#8217;s a sort of inconsistency there, you see. Which is why policies tend to be different when you compare.</p>
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		<title>By: suek</title>
		<link>http://www.bookwormroom.com/2010/03/03/there-is-nothing-romantic-about-prostitution/comment-page-1/#comment-92243</link>
		<dc:creator>suek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just happens to be topical...
 
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35886</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just happens to be topical&#8230;<br />
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<a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35886" rel="nofollow">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35886</a></p>
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		<title>By: suek</title>
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		<dc:creator>suek</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How about Nevada...any info on how prostitution fares with the law and society there?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How about Nevada&#8230;any info on how prostitution fares with the law and society there?</p>
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		<title>By: Bookworm</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bookworm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m definitely a small government person, HappyAcres.  That said, there are certain normative behaviors and rules a society has to have in order to function.  Subject to caveats, the big operative rules tend to be no murder and no stealing.  The experiment with legalized prostitution seems to point to another rule:  no government support for women selling their bodies.  One could argue that they should be free to do so, but the societal damage is so great (since drugs, sexually transmitted disease, abuse, etc. go hand in hand with burgeoning prostitution), that freedom probably has to draw back a bit.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m definitely a small government person, HappyAcres.  That said, there are certain normative behaviors and rules a society has to have in order to function.  Subject to caveats, the big operative rules tend to be no murder and no stealing.  The experiment with legalized prostitution seems to point to another rule:  no government support for women selling their bodies.  One could argue that they should be free to do so, but the societal damage is so great (since drugs, sexually transmitted disease, abuse, etc. go hand in hand with burgeoning prostitution), that freedom probably has to draw back a bit.</p>
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