how effed up is this?

people? what about torturing? what about not assisting those taking playboy and penthouse away from military men and women will "right a bureaucratic--and moral--wrong." A MORAL WRONG? what about invading a country who never attacked us, never was going to attack us? what about turning over 1,000,000 people into refugees? what about lying to the american public to the DETRIMENT of the americanamericans who were harmed by natural disasters? what about not caring about millions of americans who go to bed hungry each night? oh it goes on forever.

i am NOT a fan of playboy and penthouse. they more than demean women. they portray beauty (and sensuality and sex and attractiveness) as being only ONE way. i don't mind 'pornography' at all. i mind HOW women and WHAT women are portrayed in the playboys and the penthouses of the world.

IF our military men and women want access to those types of magazines, IT'S THEIR RIGHT to have them. they are allowed to torture and kill and maim but they're not allowed to get a stiffy?
bullshite on that
(and oh, this headline is certainly worthy of the ny post, isn't it? but it ain't the post)
Legislation aims to jack soldiers' 'off time' reading materials

Nick Langewis
"Pro-family" organizations and members of Congress are continuing the push to limit the range of reading materials available to members of the military.

House Rep. Paul Broun (GA-10), with 15 co-sponsors and the support of organizations such as the Alliance Defense Fund and the American Family Association, recently introduced a bill that would strengthen the ban on sales of adult-themed publications on U.S. military installations.

While the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997 bans the sale of "sexually explicit material" on property under Department of Defense jurisdiction, the Pentagon doesn't consider certain items explicit enough to take off of base store shelves; a certain percentage of a film or magazine's content would have to be considered "sexually explicit" for sale or rental to be barred.,............

let's hurry up

and approve the raises for judges while we're leaving our heads stuck in the sand for the raises of military members

this isn't a democratic or republican thing. both sides are, as it turns out, a bunch of spineless cowardly id-jits. let's just concentrate on giving our troops THEIR raises then we can worry about the judges. ok?

Chief Justice Again Calls for Pay Raise for Judges

By LINDA GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Monday renewed his call for a pay increase for federal judges. A measure now moving through Congress with bipartisan support is “vital” and long overdue, the chief justice said in his annual report on the state of the federal judiciary.
This report, his third, struck a tone quite different from the one issued a year ago, which was devoted completely to the salary issue. The chief justice used sharp language then to depict a looming “constitutional crisis” if Congress did not grant a prompt and substantial raise; since 1989, Congress has withheld from the judges the cost-of-living adjustments that other federal employees have received.
The tone was softer this time. “I simply ask once again for a moment’s reflection on how America would look in the absence of a skilled and independent judiciary,” the chief justice said.
Judges have been leaving the federal bench at an increasing rate, some expressing bitterness at the fact that their law clerks can expect to outstrip them in earnings in the first year of law practice. First-year associates at some major law firms are now paid as much as $180,000, not counting bonuses.........


Veto Pinches Troops' Pockets
The new year rolls in today with a 3 percent pay increase for servicemembers.
And also with yet another military pay snag.
President Bush's veto Dec. 28 of the National Defense Authorization Act will delay military personnel from receiving an extra half percent raise today.
That means a loss of slightly less than $12 per month for an Army buck sergeant until the White House and Congress resolve the issue.
The delay will take a pinch out of the pay of between 50,000 and 60,000 people in the Fayetteville area.
The National Defense Authorization Act included authorization for a 0.5 percent additional pay raise for troops, on top of the 3 percent increase that will go into effect today regardless, the White House said. The 3 percent increase amounts to about $70 per month for a buck sergeant.
White House officials pledged to work with Congress upon its return this month to adjust the Act to protect Iraqi funds in the United States and ensure that the additional pay raise is retroactive to today. ................