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From four years ago is this piece by Chris Hedges nailing it about pornography.
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Of course they are making shit up about being "offended." That is what cult members do.
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Obituary: Former Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, 76, who was governor during the Hurricane Katrina crisis, has died after a long battle with ocular melanoma. It is among the rarest of all cancer, with occurrence something like 5.1 in a million people and with a low survival rate.
Blanco held Louisiana’s top elected job from 2004 to 2008. Until her campaign for governor, she spent much of her political career moving steadily and quietly through state politics, rarely creating waves or controversy. Katrina raised her profile nationally and forever impacted her legacy. The devastating August 2005 hurricane killed more than 1,400 people in Louisiana, displaced hundreds of thousands and inundated 80 percent of New Orleans.______
Historians will continue to debate whether any governor could have been prepared for such a catastrophe, but Blanco shouldered much of the blame after images of thousands stranded on rooftops and overpasses were broadcast to the world, and the government was slow to respond. Blanco was criticized as unprepared, overwhelmed and indecisive. The recovery she guided moved ploddingly.
"He died doing what he loved."
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Another obituary: Noted CBS sportscaster Jack Whitaker, 95, known for his reports in sports such as golf and horse racing, has died. I will always remember his coverage of the Triple Crown races, most of all his reporting of Secretariat's sweep of the Crown in 1973.
Whitaker always noted about the Preakness controversy, siding with the CBS side-by-side replay of Big Red's race against then-record holder Canonero II's race, which showed Secretariat clearly broke the record, but for decades it was to no avail. It would be 2012 before the Maryland Racing Commission righted the wrong after irrefutable forensic proof Secretariat did set the record in the Preakness.
CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus issued a statement expressing his condolences to Whitaker's family, saying, "There will never be another Jack Whitaker in sports broadcasting."
"His amazing writing ability, on-air presence and humanity are unmatched. His unique perspective on sports ranging from horse racing to golf to NFL football was extraordinary," McManus said. "My father and Jack shared an incredible respect for each other and had the warmest of friendships that lasted for decades. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jack's family."
Whitaker was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2012. Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later date.
Whitaker, among others, can be heard here where it counted in one of the most famous moments in sports history:
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