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I complained to google news about 2 years ago about MichNews, pointing out that it wasn't news at all but an opinion blog.

When you read shit like this(which is a random article just off the front page representative of their thought), you just really have to question the sanity of not just the publishers of the site, but the readers as well. Yet nobody is stopping any of these moonbats from reading the site. They just aren't getting the free advertising that google news provides.

This complaint is what you call whining. If you think there are other sites aggragated which aren't news, you can complain to google about them. Obviously if they receive enough complaints they'll yank them.

Your reply was filled with so many misunderstandings of what I typed that I don't know where to begin. Let's just stick to your talking points.

a) Porn is addictive. Show me a valid study to that effect. I have seen anecdotal evidence trotted out time and time again but that no more proves the addictiveness of porn than does the anecdotes about exploding toilets prove the life-threatening nature of chili.

That is just silly. People reporting of porn addiction shouldn't be dismissed the same as Bigfoot sighters or alien abductees. Here are a few links for you:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/443437.asp?cp1=1 2000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_addiction Wiki controversy, but with links
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65772, 00.html (With dissenting opinions) 2004
http://cbs4boston.com/seenon/local_story_322191259 .html (From "liberal" Boston) Nov. 2005
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_103 07.shtml Nov. 2005
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568380550/104-28 35526-9122335?v=glance&n=283155&v=glance
http://www.sarr.org/
http://www.sexaa.org/

I would also point out that your assertion about educational phamplets: "Educational pamphlets don't help heroin addicts and they won't help porn addicts either." is way off. Yes some hardcore addicts ignore all else but that doesn't mean that all do. The ex heroin addicts that I have known are, in large part, walking educational phamplets themselves, and ten minutes discussion with one of them did more to illuminate the problems with heroin than any drug-free education I got as a child.

None of the drug addicts I have known have been reached by pamphlets. You only make my point by showing how much more effective talking to actual addicts is as opposed to drug-free pamphlets and D.A.R.E. t-shirts. Extend the same respect to "anecdotal" victims of porn addiction.

b) Kids today are experimenting with kinkier stuff Again, show me proof not anecdotes. While I will grant you that people seem more comfortable talking about kinkier stuff on TV than they were 50 years ago that proves nothing about what is actually happening.

More people are comfortable talking about kinkier stuff but not because they are doing it? The papers are filled with high schoolers having oral sex on school grounds all across the country. That didn't happen so often ten years ago. I certainly never read about it. http://news.google.com/news?client=safari&rls=en&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&tab=wn&q=bus+oral+sex&sa=N&start= 10 We're also having a rash of female teachers across the country having sex with young boys, also something that didn't happen often 10 years ago. A study on teenagers and sex was just released this Fall: http://thesplinteredmind.blogspot.com/2005/10/teen -depression-sex-drugs-and-shockin.html

c) The industry is getting more hardcore Again give me some average data. The last time I glanced at a Playboy (for the articles) was last week and the model in there was...Marylin Monroe. Playboy was celebrating the oldies not the awful hardcore days of

absolutely amazing that there is no mention of that part of the bill in the AP stories,
for example (caution, wacky javascript)

this jackass who calls himself a conservative, actually supports it. hey dumb fuck, the federal govt does not have the authority to institute REAL-ID. Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D., you are not a conservative, you fascist asshole. mailto:Daneen@frontiernet.net It doesnt matter how much you agree with the legislation or if it supports your racist views, it violates the CONSTI fucking TUTION you treasonous bitch.
one more fake "conservative" who is really just a pathetic scared jerk face willing to exchange freedom for so called security

and holy cow, What the hell has become of our lawmakers ?

I agree with the poster above, the experiment is over. our government disgusts me.

Democrats were only accused of doing this by the Republicans and only laptops (the easiest and most valuable hardware to steal) were taken, quickly from an office where they were plainly visible from the street.

Engaging in vandalism against Bush offices by teenagers is not quite as bad as tearing up valid registrations.

Criminally negligent op-ed pieces do not facts make.

Accusing a group of committing illegal activities with no evidence is a typical Republican tactic.

Press releases aimed at creating a non-existant scandal and failing are pretty weak as a source.

Finally, defrauding a company by making up fake voter registrations to earn more money in a $9 per hour job is not making people think they are registered when they are not.

Yeah, it's not like the Democrats ever engage in criminal activities aimed at defrauding and intimidating their way into office.

Yeah, those French anti-Nazi laws seem to be working real well.

It's a work in progress, okay?