Military Beta-Tests Internet Kill-Switch

U.S. Military Beta-Tests Internet Kill-Switch on Japanese Relief Pretext

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FLASHBACK: New Bill Gives Obama ‘Kill Switch’ To Shut Down The Internet FLASHBACK: Kill Switch Beta: Government Blocks 84,000 Websites FLASHBACK: Internet ‘kill switch’ bill gets a makeover

Mark Preston and Adam Levine CNN March 16, 2011

U.S. military blocks websites to help Japan recovery efforts

Washington (CNN) — The U.S. military has blocked access to a range of popular commercial websites in order to free up bandwidth for use in Japan recovery efforts, according to an e-mail obtained by CNN and confirmed by a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command.

The sites — including YouTube, ESPN, Amazon, eBay and MTV — were chosen not because of the content but because their popularity among users of military computers account for significant bandwidth, according to Strategic Command spokesman Rodney Ellison.

The block, instituted Monday, is intended “to make sure bandwidth was available in Japan for military operations” as the United States helps in the aftermath of last week’s deadly earthquake and tsunami, Ellison explained.

U.S. Pacific Command made the request to free up the bandwidth. The sites, 13 in all, are blocked across the Department of Defense’s .mil computer system.

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Obama Plays While Japan Begs for Help

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com March 16, 2011

History tells us that Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but Barack Obama is providing the famous emperor with some serious competition when it comes to going AWOL while America and the world face crises the likes of which haven’t been experienced in decades.

Even as the situation at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant continues to worsen by the hour, and as radiation surges across the Pacific towards the U.S. west coast while Americans panic buy supplies of potassium iodide, President Obama seems remarkably sanguine about the whole affair.

While protests and civil wars rage in Libya and Bahrain, Obama is keeping himself busy by videotaping his NCAA tournament picks, hitting the golf course for the 61st time in his presidency, and partying with lawmakers during a Chicago Bulls vs. Charlotte Bobcats game.

The most energy Obama could bother to devote to what is fast coming one of the biggest nuclear disasters in history was to make an empty statement about how people could donate to usaid.gov, while labeling the NCAA exercise a “great diversion.”

While Japan begs the United States for help to rescue the dire situation at Fukushima, Obama seems more concerned about dressing up nicely to please the media elite at the annual Gridiron Dinner.

Even as the planet faces the threat of a “new Chernobyl on steroids,” Obama has chosen to prioritize a speech about “Women’s History Month,” a White House get-together on “bullying” and a meeting with the Chicago Blackhawks instead of offering any kind of leadership.

But forget Japan, it’s not as if Obama hasn’t got any matters to attend to on the home front, with gas prices surging as a result of an oil spike driven by turmoil in the middle east, as well as a massive budget crisis, not to mention the perilous state of the US dollar and the stuttering economy.

Obama’s fiddling has made the crucial deceision of whether or not to impose a no fly zone over Libya all but academic, with Colonel Gaddafi taking the opportunity to use the delay to crush rebel opponents in key regions.

“But the fun stuff won’t end anytime soon,” writes veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler, who accuses the President of succumbing to “childish distractions” while the world is afire. “On Thursday, the Taoiseach of Ireland will be in town to help the president celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. And then Friday it’s off to Brazil for the start of a three-country Latin American tour.

Granted, Obama is not superman and nobody expects him to act as some kind of omnipotent savior, but the remarkable regularity with which Obama goes AWOL when crises hit not just globally but also in America has become characterisitic of his whole presidency.

Lest we forget that during the course of the devastating BP oil spill crisis, Obama took no less than three vacations, disappearing from public view at the very height of the drama when Americans were desperate for a leader.

Obama’s behavior exemplifies the fact that he is a completely hollow sock-puppet of a president. After being billed as an icon for hope, change and fresh leadership as America sought to reclaim its global reputation, Obama has been nothing but a crushing disappointment and a massive failure.

The whole farce reminds us once again that Obama, like George W. Bush before him, controls absolutely nothing, has no influence on world affairs, and has now stopped even bothering to maintain the pretense that he is anything other than an obedient yes-man whose role comprises of nothing more than following orders from the Wall Street and banking elite that have pulled his strings from the very beginning.

Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show. Read more at www.infowars.com

 

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Teen sexuality at the apocalypse

Tim Kroenert

Kaboom (MA). Director: Greg Araki. Starring: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Kelly Lynch, Chris Zylka. 85 minutes

I interviewed Greg Araki in 2004 at a time when the Classification Review Board, under pressure from several community groups, was considering overturning the R rating that had been given to his paedophilia themed film Mysterious Skin and declaring it instead to be Refused Classification, effectively a ban in Australia.

Araki seemed genuinely hurt by opponents' (sight-unseen) accusations that his film was an 'instruction manual for paedophiles'. He thought (and I agreed) he'd made a thoughtful and sensitive film about the long-term emotional and psychological effects of abuse upon children.

He was eventually vindicated by the Board's decision to uphold the R rating.

I share this in order to illustrate that Araki does not tackle taboo subjects lightly, but in order that they might become subjects of normal discourse and greater understanding.

Lightly, no, though sometimes lightheartedly. His latest film, Kaboom, is much more rambunctious than the sombre Mysterious Skin, but equally willing to explode taboos in the pursuit of honesty and frankness.

Kaboom offers explicit considerations of queer sexuality within the context of an apocalyptic science fiction storyline. In this regard it harks back to Araki's prominence in the 1990s as a proponent of New Queer Cinema, a genre marked by its robust portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender protagonists, usually as outsiders or renegades from conventional society.

Such is the case here with antihero Smith (Dekker), a label-dodging bisexual college student plagued by ominous dreams of corridors and dumpsters and waking nightmares of sinister animal-masked assailants. In spite of such baffling mental phenomena, he is forging an unexpectedly intense partnership with forthright straight girl London (Temple), even as his eye and his heart are perpetually drawn by an assortment of boys.

At the same time, Smith's casually sardonic BFF Stella (Bennett) is dating a possessive French seductress (Mesquida) who may or may not be a witch. This all plays out amid a fuzz of acid trips and increasingly perilous rumours of conspiracies and doomsday cults, all of which is sure to come to a chaotic head.

The film deals with sexuality explicitly, though not graphically. And the sex scenes are as much about character exploration as titillation. We gain greater insight into London's approach to life through one impromptu lesson to a male partner about the proper way to perform a sex act, than we could through pages of dialogue.

In fact this is a quite cerebral exploitation film with plenty of subtext. Smith's aching crush upon his ridiculously straight roommate Thor (Zylka) signifies a sense of alienation that comes with his status as an 'outsider' and a young person. Ditto, Smith's geographically distant mother (Lynch), and his and London's respective absent fathers. Alienation and otherness drive the characters into each other's orbits with the force of a familial bond.

Kaboom also happens to be very funny. Notably, Stella, as impeccably portrayed by Bennett, strides through the film on the back of a series of perfectly honed, po-faced one-liners, never missing a dignified step as her quips deflate pretension and self-delusion on every side.

The film's climax is a bit of a car crash. Nevertheless this remains a challenging and memorable film. Read more at www.eurekastreet.com.au

 

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Radiation may soon reach Alaska

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Alert: Has Radiation from Stricken Japanese Plant Reached Alaska? Read more at www.infowars.com

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com March 16, 2011

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Radiation from the Fukishima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster may soon reach Alaska, according to the state commissioner of health and social services in that state. He said the state could detect a “very small increase in radiation levels – well below levels that would be a health concern.”

The KTVA article headline reports “Radiation Levels In AK Elevated But Not Harmful” and the article then states that radiation has yet to reach the state, a clear contradiction. We are trying to obtain clarification from state authorities in Alaska on whether radiation has reached Alaska or just if it could reach Alaska.

“Right now, we don’t expect any radiation to affect Alaska,” Chris Laborde, the state’s emergency program manager, told KTVA in Alaska.

The Japanese government has consistently misled the public on the radiation threat and we should expect the federal and state governments in the United States to follow suit.

Moreover, state bureaucrats failed to note that the amount of radiation descending upon Alaska is from the smaller magnitude release from the stricken plant last week. Since then, the plant has released considerably more radiation after explosions and fires ravaged the site in Fukushima. It takes several days for prevailing winds to deliver the radiation across the Pacific Ocean.

State officials describe monitoring radiation levels at stations throughout the state – in Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks – with technology that transmits the information to state and federal computers.

Earlier in the week, a nuclear expert noted that the large quantity of irradiated nuclear fuel released from the Japanese plant would make the disaster far worse than the Chernobyl nuclear reactor catastrophe of 25 years ago.

“Up to 100 percent of the volatile radioactive Cesium-137 content of the pools could go up in flames and smoke, to blow downwind over large distances,” warned Kevin Kamps. “Without cooling water, the irradiated nuclear fuel could spontaneously combust in an exothermic reaction.”

Alex Jones’ flagship news websites, Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com, warned that the calamity now unfolding would be far worse than government and the corporate media said last week. Although government – including the state government of Alaska – continues to downplay this unprecedented disaster, the corporate media seems to be coming around, albeit slowly.

In the days ahead, the monitoring stations in Alaska and elsewhere in the United States will begin to report drastically elevated levels of radiation and bureaucrats will be obliged to tell the truth. Read more at www.infowars.com

 

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Images Show Devastated Nuclear Reactors

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Newly Released Images Show Devastated Nuclear Reactors

Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com March 16, 2011

UPDATE: It is important to stress that 40 years’ worth of deadly spent fuel rods that would have been blown sky high by the blasts were stored in the roof of the facilities you see devastated in these images. See our article for more on this urgent aspect of the story.

The Tokyo Electric Power Company has released new images that show the devastated nuclear reactors at the stricken Fukushima plant, as authorities confirm that a second reactor containment vessel has been damaged, leading to yet more deadly radiation being released into the atmosphere.

Following news that a containment vessel at reactor number 2 had cracked, it was later confirmed that reactor number 3 had ruptured and was releasing radioactive smoke.

“Top government spokesman Yukio Edano told a press conference in the morning that smoke has been recognized from about 8:30 a.m. around the No.3 reactor and said, ”As we saw in the No. 2 unit, steam has been released from the (No. 3) reactor’s containment vessel,” reports Kyodo News.

A fire in the plant’s number 4 reactor, where massive numbers of highly radioactive spent fuel rods are stored, was likely caused by the water that is in place to cool the rods boiling and exposing them to open air. As we have documented, the threat posed by the spent fuel rods burning and releasing radioactivity is even greater than the active fuel rods.

The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools dedicated to spent fuel rods. These are located at the top of six reactor buildings – or were until explosions and fires ravaged the plant. On the ground level there is a common pool in a separate building that was critically damaged by the tsunami. Each reactor building pool holds 3,450 fuel rod assemblies and the common pool holds 6,291 fuel rod assemblies. Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. In short, the Fukushima Daiichi plant contains over 600,000 spent fuel rods – a massive amount of radiation that will soon be released into the atmosphere.

Images released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company appear to confirm the worst – that the spent fuel rods stored near the roof of the facility were impacted by the blasts.

Close up of reactor no. 4 – CLICK FOR ENLARGEMENT.

Reactor no. 3 is completely devastated.

Another shot of reactor no. 4.

Radiation levels in Tokyo have not increased, but that’s probably only because strong winds are blowing the radiation out into the Pacific Ocean. The fact that the prevailing jet stream is heading towards the U.S. west coast has prompted a run on potassium iodide pills, with U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin contradicting assurances from government officials by encouraging Americans to obtain potassium iodide as a precaution.

That’s easier said than done given the fact that manufacturers are telling retailers that there won’t be any more available until the end of April or even May after existing supplies were bought up as early as Saturday.

In addition, it appears that the government has enforced a blockade on potassium iodide. A caller to the Alex Jones Show yesterday related how U.S. health authorities could be blocking Americans from obtaining the radiation-fighting drug, after his doctor refused to prescribe the drug following a “conversation” with the CDC.

Despite surging demand, the U.S. government only has enough potassium iodide in reserve to cover populations living within 10 miles of nuclear reactors, leaving hundreds of millions of Americans exposed to potential radiation clouds without protection should the winds carry any radioactivity across the Pacific. Read more at www.infowars.com

 

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'Jesus sign' dangerous?

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'Jesus sign' dangerous?

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow

Gas station roadside signs are okay in Concord, New Hampshire, but Christian signs are apparently dangerous, according to the Alliance Defense Fund.

ADF has filed the lawsuit for their client, Signs for Jesus, which wanted to erect an electronic sign displaying a Bible verse and change it every few days.    "Now this is a stretch of road where there are plenty of signs of all sorts," explains ADF attorney Joe Infranco. "They're the same dimensions. They're also lit up. In fact, there's a gas station right nearby -- and [yet] the town denied permission to do this because of the content, because it was going to be a religious message."   The town tried to justify its decision by saying that some passersby might look at the sign and have some sort of negative reaction.   "Just a short distance from that location there's a gas station with an even larger sign showing the price of gas. My reasoning would be, if you're worried about motorists' reaction, I'd maybe tell the gas station to stop showing the current price of gas," Infranco adds.   Infranco argues Signs for Jesus has a constitutional right to display their signs, and that the town's decision denies them that right. Read more at www.onenewsnow.com

 

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Contaminated Wind to Blow Toward U.S.

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Radiation Contaminated Wind to Blow Toward U.S.

Reuters March 16, 2011

The wind near a quake-damaged nuclear complex in northeast Japan, which has released radiation into the atmosphere, will blow from the northwest and out into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, a weather official said.

The wind speed will get stronger in the afternoon, blowing as fast as at 12 meters (39.4 ft) per second, said the official at the Japan Meteorological Agency in Fukushima prefecture where the plant is based.

The Fukushima Daiichi plant, run by Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), is about 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo on the country’s northeast coast.

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Israeli Baby Decapitated by Palestinian

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Israeli Baby Decapitated by Palestinian “Partners for Peace”

By Debbie Schlussel

I’ve posted several items, including very graphic photos, of the Palestinian Muslim stabbing murder of the Fogel Family of Itamar, Israel, while they were sleeping on the Jewish Sabbath.  But what I didn’t note is an important detail of the Muslims’ bloody murder of these innocent Jewish civilians.  That detail is that the three-month-old baby girl, Hadas Fogel, was decapitated.

3-Month-Old Hadas Fogel: Decapitated by Muslims

Why haven’t you seen that detail–that Palestinian Muslims, Israel’s “partners for peace” severed the head of a living, breathing three-month-old baby–anywhere in the mainstream media? I guess Jewish life is cheap and disposable. And we can’t have innocent, harmless Jewish babies and the details of their brutal murders get in the way of our pandering and political correctness toward this violent, disgusting religion, Islam.

But the detail is noted, though only in passing, even in the few Israeli media sources mentioning it, like the Jerusalem Post:

“[A] little child’s head was decapitated,” said David Ha’ivri, executive director of the Shomron Liason Office.

(Shomron is Hebrew for Samaria, which is the area of Israel/the so-called “West Bank” in which Itamar, the Fogel family’s town and the site of the massacre, is located.)

Remember the justified outrage–though it wasn’t nearly universal or strong enough–when Muslims beheaded Nicholas Berg and other Americans and Westerners in Iraq and Saudi Arabia? And here is an innocent baby. And the media refuses to let Westerners be so outraged against Muslims again. You know–we must protect the “religion of peace,” at all cost and not let people find out that it’s really the religion of pieces. We must protect the West from the truth about Islam at all cost.

Reader Joel:

Remarkable how cheap Jewish life has become. Nothing to see here, move along. So much for the Jew-controlled media. Actually, it’s Jews who are the biggest self-hating offenders. Ssssh, they might see us.

Exactly.

That Was Then . . .

This Is Now . . .

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Large Hadron Collider: Time Machine?

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Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine

These are theoretical physicists Thomas Weiler, right, and Chui Man Ho. Credit: John Russell / Vanderbilt University

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in time.

"Our theory is a long shot," admitted Weiler, who is a physics professor at Vanderbilt University, "but it doesn't violate any laws of physics or experimental constraints."

One of the major goals of the collider is to find the elusive Higgs boson: the particle that physicists invoke to explain why particles like protons, neutrons and electrons have mass. If the collider succeeds in producing the Higgs boson, some scientists predict that it will create a second particle, called the Higgs singlet, at the same time.

According to Weiler and Ho's theory, these singlets should have the ability to jump into an extra, fifth dimension where they can move either forward or backward in time and reappear in the future or past.

"One of the attractive things about this approach to time travel is that it avoids all the big paradoxes," Weiler said. "Because time travel is limited to these special particles, it is not possible for a man to travel back in time and murder one of his parents before he himself is born, for example. However, if scientists could control the production of Higgs singlets, they might be able to send messages to the past or future."

Unsticking the "brane"

The test of the researchers' theory will be whether the physicists monitoring the collider begin seeing Higgs singlet particles and their decay products spontaneously appearing. If they do, Weiler and Ho believe that they will have been produced by particles that travel back in time to appear before the collisions that produced them.

Weiler and Ho's theory is based on M-theory, a "theory of everything." A small cadre of theoretical physicists have developed M-theory to the point that it can accommodate the properties of all the known subatomic particles and forces, including gravity, but it requires 10 or 11 dimensions instead of our familiar four. This has led to the suggestion that our universe may be like a four-dimensional membrane or "brane" floating in a multi-dimensional space-time called the "bulk."

According to this view, the basic building blocks of our universe are permanently stuck to the brane and so cannot travel in other dimensions. There are some exceptions, however. Some argue that gravity, for example, is weaker than other fundamental forces because it diffuses into other dimensions. Another possible exception is the proposed Higgs singlet, which responds to gravity but not to any of the other basic forces.

Answers in neutrinos?

Weiler began looking at time travel six years ago to explain anomalies that had been observed in several experiments with neutrinos. Neutrinos are nicknamed ghost particles because they react so rarely with ordinary matter: Trillions of neutrinos hit our bodies every second, yet we don't notice them because they zip through without affecting us.

Weiler and colleagues Heinrich Päs and Sandip Pakvasa at the University of Hawaii came up with an explanation of the anomalies based on the existence of a hypothetical particle called the sterile neutrino. In theory, sterile neutrinos are even less detectable than regular neutrinos because they interact only with gravitational force. As a result, sterile neutrinos are another particle that is not attached to the brane and so should be capable of traveling through extra dimensions.

Weiler, Päs and Pakvasa proposed that sterile neutrinos travel faster than light by taking shortcuts through extra dimensions. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, there are certain conditions where traveling faster than the speed of light is equivalent to traveling backward in time. This led the physicists into the speculative realm of time travel.

Ideas impact science fiction

In 2007, the researchers, along with Vanderbilt graduate fellow James Dent, posted a paper titled "Neutrino time travel" on the preprint server that generated a considerable amount of buzz.

Their ideas found their way into two science fiction novels. Final Theory by Mark Alpert, which was described in the New York Times as a "physics-based version of The Da Vinci Code," is based on the researchers' idea of neutrinos taking shortcuts in extra dimensions. Joe Haldeman's novel The Accidental Time Machine is about a time-traveling MIT graduate student and includes an author's note that describes the novel's relationship to the type of time travel described by Dent, Päs, Pakvasa and Weiler.

Ho is a graduate fellow working with Weiler. Their theory is described in a paper posted March 7 on the arXiv.org physics preprint website.

More information: Causality-Violating Higgs Singlets at the LHC, Chiu Man Ho, Thomas J. Weiler, arXiv:1103.1373v1 [hep-ph]. http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1373

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Store Sells Kids “Candy G-Strings”

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Detroit Candy Store Sells Kids “Candy G-Strings”

By Debbie Schlussel

Why would a candy store owner sell candy “G-string underwear” to kids?  Because the almighty buck wins out over any sense of ethics.  That’s what I saw, today, at a Detroit-area candy store.

Sweet Thing Candy Store Not So Sweet For Kids

I just returned from a critics’ movie screening of a flick that is Exhibit A of when I tell you that sitting through all this dreck ain’t a bed of roses.  The movie, whose name I can’t give you until the day the movie debuts and I post my review, was your typical Hollywood fare:  overtly anti-Christian, gratuitously violent, disgusting piece of crap.  But that’s not the story here.  The story is the new candy store I stopped into on the way out, what it was selling, and what the store owner told me.

The screening was in Birmingham, a swanky Detroit suburb, which is sort of like the winter version of Miami’s Coconut Grove.  Expensive boutiques, fancy cars, high-priced lawyers’ offices, people who think they are supermodels, and other typical accoutrements of pretension.  And on the way to my car, I popped into a new candy store, “Sweet Thing,” which I wanted to check out.  I eschew almost all sugar from my diet, but every once in a while, if there is a new store and some interesting type of candy, I will make that rare exception.

As I walked around the store–which is clearly marketed toward kids, as are almost all of its items for sale–I noticed that the store had a stack of “Candy G-Strings,” thong underwear made of little candy disks a la candy necklaces.  While I was paying for the gum and cinnamon breath spray I bought, I asked the woman who identified herself as the owner, “What happens when kids ask their parents to buy them candy G-strings?”

Candy Store Owner:  “Well, the kids don’t really see them because they are high up.”

Actually, they are very noticeable, not high up, and have a sign pointing to them.

Candy Store Owner:  “But the high school kids love them!”

Me:  “Well, if you’re in high school, you probably shouldn’t be buying edible underwear.”

Candy Store Owner:  “I know, but, well, I have to sell it to them.  I can’t not sell it to them.”

Huh?  This woman chose to offer this item for sale in a candy store marketed to kids.  She doesn’t have to sell them.   And since she chose to sell them, she can refuse to sell anything to anyone, so long as it isn’t based on race, ethnicity, or some other illegal classification.  Selling this item at a candy store is just totally inappropriate, especially when you know this is THE venue for kids.

But don’t expect people like this–with absolutely zero ethics or sense of community–to do the right thing.  They’d rather make a buck.  I can’t even imagine the struggles parents encounter trying to raise decent kids these days, when unscrupulous store owners like this will sell them anything to make a dollar.

I’m all for capitalism.  But this is what I mean when I write about the problems of capitalism without limits.  Capitalists need to make their own limits and do the right thing.  But they simply don’t anymore.  It used to be that store owners wouldn’t be caught dead selling this kind of thing to kids, and if they sold it to anyone, it would be in a brown paper bag.  But, now, hey, the high school kids just love it.

Here’s a tip:  if a high school girl is buying a candy G-string, it isn’t for the candy, or because she doesn’t have any clean underwear available.  It’s a sexual aid, plain and simple, and it’s for adults, not kids.  I know it.  You know it.  And so does the woman who owns this candy store, who sells this sex toy. . . to anyone.

Call me uptight, a prude, or whatever, but I won’t be shopping at this store again.  The stores I patronize don’t sell sex toys to kids in the guise of, “Oh, but it’s only candy.”

There’s simply nothing sweet about it.

On another note, I don’t expect this store to last, anyway.  As an MBA holder, it’s obviously a poor business model.  The candy is mostly a dollar a piece, and I don’t think there’s enough business possible to make up for the high Birmingham rent this store is paying for its prime spot.

But that’s little solace so long as the store is open and selling “eat me” underwear to kids. Read more at www.debbieschlussel.com

 

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