It Isn't Just That Legal Prostitution

is bad for Nevada's image. It is the fact that prostitution in ALL of its forms is a human rights violation and is NOT acceptable in any society.

We need to move past the lies pushed by the tabloid media in the seventies and eighties this is a lifestyle choice and the current glamorizing of this on cable television, as the Moonlite Bunny Ranch was on HBO. The owner of this brothel should be jailed on human rights violations, not be glamorized.

Reid is right legal brothels should be gone, but it isn't just a matter of luring businesses. It's the exploitation, stupid.

Miscellaneous

Alaska's Mount Redoubt continues to erupt.

Redoubt began erupting last night, with the first explosion coming at 10:38 p.m. Sunday followed by another at 11:02 p.m., and a third at 12:14 a.m, the AVO reported.

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I think I am going to throw up.

This is sick, sick, sick.
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Speaking of sick, the Monster of Amstetten has finally been caged--for life:

Fritzl's trial last week can be summarised through numbers: 8,642 days his daughter spent underground, which breaks down to 207,408 hours; 3,000 rapes; seven incest children; one miscarriage; the 66 hours it took one newborn baby to die; 650 square feet of living space; six charges; eight jurors; and a 400-strong media pack to report to a world repelled yet fascinated by his crimes.

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As I was taking a hike around Virginia Lake and heading back towards home on Plumb Lane, I came upon somebody trying to escape Reno police, and I heard some shots. I turned around and was heading back before I realized the suspect was tasered. He was right on the street with the police "on top" of him while cars had to go around them so there wouldn't be a bunch of roadkill on the street. Then I turned around and proceeded to head back home. There were police cars coming from all over, and then later I saw an ambulance, so I don't know how the suspect made out although he appeared to be okay.

Anyway, that was enough damned excitement for one day.
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Speaking of police stories, some revelers made horses' asses out of themselves with a law enforcement officer and got arrested.
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The legislator who wanted expand legal prostitution in Nevada, Bob Coffin, now wants to impose a $5 surtax per john, per day.

Nevada needs to get rid of the legal whorehouses since they traffic in human beings and crack down on illegal prostitution as well. Human rights violations should NEVER have a government seal of approval.

What a Goddamned STUPID Idea

Some idiot Nevada legislator, a Democrat named Bob Coffin, wants to put the nail into his career by looking into the possibility of legalizing prostitution all over the state of Nevada in order to raise additional tax revenue.

No, this is no joke. This is one of the most appalling things I have ever heard. In truth, the legal whorehouses (called "brothels" in Nevada) should be put out of business in the state. Only a truly ignorant person would even suggest such a thing as legalizing something that is a human rights violation. The prostitutes in the legal brothels in Nevada live and "work" in the middle of nowhere and as virtual prisoners. Moreover, Las Vegas is already known as one of the major world centers for sex trafficking. But to hear the advocates for legal prostitution, who see nothing wrong with exploiting women's bodies for money, it's a "victimless" crime between two "consenting" adults.

I have written on this blog about how I feel Phil Donahue and other television talk show hosts of the 1970s and 1980s did a terrible disservice to the public by glorifying this kind of thing, even making the likes of tax dodger and pimp Joe Conforte into some kind of folk hero.

I have linked this article before, but it's worth noting it again:

Described as "pussy penitentiaries" by one interviewee, the brothels tend to be in the middle of nowhere, out of sight of ordinary Nevadans. (Brothels are officially allowed only in counties with populations of fewer than 400,000, so prostitution remains an illegal - though vast - trade in conurbations such as Las Vegas.) The brothel prostitutes often live in prison-like conditions, locked in or forbidden to leave.

"The physical appearance of these buildings is shocking," says Farley. "They look like wide trailers with barbed wire around them - little jails." The rooms all have panic buttons, but many women told her that they had experienced violent and sexual abuse from the customers and pimps.

"I saw a grated iron door in one brothel," says Farley. "The women's food was shoved through the door's steel bars between the kitchen and the brothel area. One pimp starved a woman he considered too fat. She made a friend outside the brothel who would throw food over the fence for her." Another pimp told Farley matter-of-factly that many of the women working for him had histories of sexual abuse and mental ill-health. "Most," he said, "have been sexually abused as kids. Some are bipolar, some are schizophrenic."

Then there is the fact that legal prostitutes seem to lose the rights ordinary citizens enjoy. From 1987, prostitutes in Nevada have been legally required to be tested once a week for sexually transmitted diseases and monthly for HIV. Customers are not required to be tested. The women must present their medical clearance to the police station and be finger-printed, even though such registration is detrimental: if a woman is known to work as a prostitute, she may be refused health insurance, face discrimination in housing or future employment, or endure accusations of unfit motherhood. In addition, there are countries that will not permit registered prostitutes to settle, so their movement is severely restricted.

What a great career and lifestyle to which all women should aspire.

Miscellaneous News

Maybe this young woman needs to develop some other hobbies.

Some bad punsters note she puts the "sex" in Essex.
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Everybody has seen this story of an eight-year-old Flagstaff, Arizona, boy accused of two murders.

Such tragedies are extremely rare:

FBI statistics show instances of children younger than 11 committing homicides are very rare. According to recent FBI supplementary homicide reports, there were at least three such cases each year in 2003, 2004 and 2005; there were at least 15 in 2002. More recent statistics weren't available, nor were details of the cases.

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Times are tough for Nevada's legal brothels.
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You aren't kidding these roads are scary. California 120 is about the worst, and it's even worse going straight into Yosemite Valley if you have a bad driver at the wheel.

More Miscellaneous News.

Stunts like this are why Democrats are derided as elitist and out of touch with the average person.

If I were a delegate or even a volunteer at the convention, I'd go to KFC or a local Chinese restaurant or steakhouse just to spite these idiots.
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Goody. Maybe the whorehouses will go out of business altogether.

Unfortunately, there are many women, strapped for cash, who are applying to "work" at these glorified prisons.
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