OK, OK

  I'm working on my essay.  I haven't picked a topic, that's the first task.  I did just read the next story in chapter 9 and made my goofball paragraph on the topic.  

  So anyway, back to the task at hand.  Pick a subject for my essay, maybe get a start on it.

All is good in the hood

  I have a few more lil'stories to read in chapter 9 and my essay to right after that the class essay and 101 is done.

Reading assignments

The reading assignments are pretty cool, stories that I probably wouln't have read otherwise.  

 

  As far as the essay, I haven't thought about it yet.  lol  I always seem to get mine, for the most part, finished early then it just sits there.  If the essay gets posted too early it gets totally ignored.  So this time I'll wait and post a day or two before, that seems to be the norm.

 

This weekend

  This weekend I will attempt to find what my next essay will be on and read the 3 stories assigned for this week.  It's been a rough week, I have started to fall behind some.  

  

For my third and final essay

  For my last essay,,,,,  I have no idea what I'm going to write this last essay on.  We have a choice to write on race in America or a few other topics.   

  Maybe tonight I figure out which to write about.  Also there is some reading that needs to be done.  That I will do between periods of the Blues game.

Essays

 There have been a lot of essays turned in over the weekend.  In the nest few days I'll have to start think about my last individual essay then the class essay.  

OOOOOOOPPPPPSSSSSS!!!!!!

   I have missed my Wednesday entry.   There has been a lot going on this week.  Jimmy is leaving for the Air Force Monday afternoon and we are having a family and friends good-bye bon-fire this Saturday.  A lot of this week has been spent getting preped for that.    

   Wednesday, I did post my final version of my essay 2, so there was Eng 101 work done.  I just forgot the blog.

   Here is a picture of Jimmy and myself from late August 08.  We were playing Frisbee just before this picture, we play that on occasion.  It'd be hard to tell who has a better time with the Frisbee, I'll miss that while he's gone.  I'm really going to miss him very much, we are very close.

  

Not much to report

  Nothing much to say.  Rams won, Blues won 1st home opener in like 12 years.  My essay is complete.  

  That's really about all I gotz.  

The essay is going great, GO BLUES!!!

I'm pretty much finished with the essay, it was easy to write I was on a role.

 The Eng 101 class is fun as predicted. The arguments for and against the different topics is fun specially when different people participate. There are some smart people in that class.

Hope Eng 102 is as fun.

 Well my friends, Blues home opener tonight, I be watching. Last time I was this excited about a contest was the VP debate.

Essay 2

  I reread my essay, made a few changes.  There wasn't much that I changed.  There wasn't much feedback on the essay, so I'm not sure where it stands with people.

 But I stand behind the essay.  It's harsh and deals with a touchy subject and there are very touchy subjects inside it.  But facts are facts, and I took it where I took it.

Jim Little

English 101

Mr. Lovin

10/01/2008

   Do you have any idea exactly how pornography (porn) is defined?  I didn't and to be honest the definition makes me want to petition for my soul due to the images viewed while google(ing) the words "hole in one".  Didn't we all have a childhood friend who found his father's "dirty magazines" and we learned what nudity was (maybe it's a guy thing)?  So, what happened when we flipped through those pages (rhetorical)?  There is no trauma, nobody became sexually abused by those images.  Just take a look at some definitions I found on the topic.

     Pornography - obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit.[1]

     Obscene - offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved; abominable; disgusting; repulsive.[2]

  With those definitions, I oddly find myself wanting to defending pornography.  My Question is who defines porn for me?  Who decides what should and shouldn't be protected under the freedom of speech?  

    Shouldn't words like obscene, offensive to morality, disgusting, repulsive, dirty, and other such words, shouldn't those extremely harsh words be reserved for the 4% of all priest who served in the US from 1950 to 2000 who face some sort of sexual accusation[3] along with other sexual predators?  That percent, "4%" came from the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church tends to hide such things and has an interest in keeping that percentage as low as possible. There's not much question the percentage is probably double. You see, in my mind pornography is and image, it harms no one. Some of the main critics such as religion have practiced activities that actually do harm people. 

    There is a song by Apocalyptica called "I'm Not Jesus".  Following are links to the lyrics and video.  http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/a/apocalyptica/im_not_jesus.html>  It's just a song, possible from the imagination of the writer, possible written by someone who had been violated by the worse of the worse sex offenders. Such as those offenders who hide behind the bible or hold political office easily gain the trust of children, and the parents of those children whom were abuse. In one single disgustingly horrible act the fictional priest takes trust, childhood, innocence, religion, God, hope, and love while replacing it with hatred, fear, and torment.

   Long before there was a United States of America there was religion and religion is one of the biggest, probably original critic of pornography.  Freedom of speech, religion, and pornography are all related.

   One question we were given with this topic was. Is pornography harmful to women?  Women and men in the pornography industry participate with their own free will and I assume get paid very well for there work. No, pornography does not harm women. 

  A stretch of that question might be. Would pornography in and of itself cause a person to perform a sex crime on another simply from the viewing of it?  Japan has the lowest sex crime rate in the industrialized world and is noted for is large output of rape fantasy pornography.[4]  

  The argument of pornography as a cause for crime just doesn't mix. That isn't to say that some mentally unhealthy individual might not try to live out some deranged fantasy he may have viewed in porn. The same goes for violence in movies, music, or pictures. 

   Is pornography offensive? That is a very simple question to answer.  Yes, absolutely.  Some think beach volleyball is offensive. There isn't anything in this world someone won't find offensive.  Luckily, there is a simple solution to this problem.  Don't participate in it.  Your opinion on what is acceptable is just that, "YOU'RE OPINION".  Assumable Japanese rape fantasy porn is something that I would find offensive, so I wont view it, it's just that simple.  However, if that type of porn is something you like to view it should be your choice.  If nobody is hurt in the making or viewing and it's all consenting adults, where is the problem?

  Should porn be viewable in public areas? No, that would be impractical and nobody wants that. What about children viewing porn?  Of course not. There should be age limits just as in alcohol consumption and gambling.  However if adults choose to purchase and view such materials in the confines of their homes, who has the right to say they can not?  

  Look at how the sale of porn is discouraged. The following is a section of a news story when and adult store was trying to open in Fairview Heights.

St. Clair Journal. By J.W. Campbell 2006. 1 Oct 2008

City May tax X-rated Material

Attorney will research the matter before it is considered by Fairview Heights council.

An attempt to discourage the sale of X-rated material in the city of Fairview Heights will have to wait for additional legal research before it can be considered by the City Council.

 Kinda makes me wonder how many if any of those council members have "dirty" magazine hidden away in their homes.

  

 Let's take a very small glance at the behavior of some of the judges of freedom of speech. 

Seattle-Post-Intelligencer Reporters. By Chris McGann and Kathy Mulady 2005. 1 Oct 2008 

Gay sex scandal rocks Spokane

Mayor denies he abused boys in 1970s or misused his office

 Spokane Mayor Jim West, who championed an anti-gay agenda during his tenure as one of the most powerful Republicans in the Legislature, yesterday admitted to using the trappings of his current office to entice what he thought was a young adult man but denied allegations that he molested two young boys more than 20 years ago.

West confirmed to The Spokesman-Review of Spokane that he offered gifts, favors and a City Hall internship during Internet chats with a man he believed was 18. The online pen pal was actually a forensic computer expert working for the newspaper. After the story hit the newsstands yesterday, West sent city staffers a remorseful e-mail.

"I want to sincerely apologize to you personally for the shame I have brought to the Mayor's office and the city," West wrote. "I stumbled and let you down."

The accusations of child molestation stem from The Spokesman-Reviews three-year investigation and interviews with two felons who said West fondled them and forced them to perform sexual acts on him when they were Boy Scouts

 This guy wants to "sincerely apologize".  Are you kidding me? This guy and all others brings to mind another controversial topic, the death sentience.  If he molested those two men when they were Boy Scouts he desires major or capital punishment.  

 There are literally hundreds if not thousands of these stores from the toe tapping Senator Larry Craig’s bathroom antics, to Senator Mark Foley’s sexual predatory behavior with male pages, to the 69-page document with the seal of Pope John XXIII that was sent to every bishop in the world. It instructs a policy of 'strictest' secrecy in dealing with allegations of sexual abuse and threatens to excommunication those who speak out.[5] Pope John XXIII should have been excommunication for sending that document. In my mind severely punished.  

  These are the groups and people who tell us that porn is acceptable or not, what is and what isn't acceptable under the freedom of speech. Personally I think my judgment on what is acceptable to me should be my choice and not what hypocritical perverts think is acceptable.  My moral judgments and theirs couldn't be further apart, thankfully.

  Last note.  There are many offshoots from the subjects in my essay.  Do to limits, what was discussed is what I decided to focus on.  Only a relatively small percentage of priest and politicians are hypocritical child molesters, and possible not all porn should be allowed.  I chose to focus on hypocrites and their judgments.

References

1. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pornography

2. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/obscene

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography#Effect_on_sex_crimes

5. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/17/religion.childprotection

Hi Blog

   Hey blog,  not much to say today.  I've been typing in my eng 101 group site all morning. 

   I found out last week my one and only son is leaving Oct 21st for the Air Force.  We knew he was leaving, just not exactly when.  So we are going to have a bon-fire thing at the house as a going away party.  

   He'll be missed, of course but I'm glad to see him starting to blaze his own trail.  He told me that he will take some college while in, I hope he does.  Then after 4 years I hope he gets out with his Assoc degree and finishes his degree locally.  

  Well, not my choice, but I will have my opinion and he will hear it.  lol

Well, I turned in a 2nd essay draft.

  No feedback on it as of yet.  That is somewhat a suprise.  No, your right, your wrong, your a lunatic, I got nothing.   Maybe that's a good thing.  lol

 Then again, it was posted yesterday, the Biden/Palin showdown was lastnight.

  So, I guess it's about time to start thinking about next semester.  Next semester I think that I'm taking intermediate algebra, geometry, and English 2.  Then this summer I can take Algebra/Trig. This way I can start the Calc classes.  I should and probably will take pre-calc. 

  If I stick to that plan my math classes will start counting towards an Engineer degree in 16 months.  I can't wait to get started.

  L8r

  

Well, well essay 2. Light on funny, heavy on attitude.

 I'm liking my essay 2.  There is a lot people slamming, opinion, and  facts.

  I'm close to putting out my 1st draft. It's edgy so there will have to be a few predraft readers.