Stop the MADDness

Sometimes crap like this ircs me....

Mothers Against Drunk Driving said Wednesday it was severing ties with Miss Teen USA Katie Blair [18] because it was "disappointed" by news reports that she had been spotted partying with Miss USA Tara Conner in New York clubs.

Elsewhere in our universe, other 18-yr-olds patrol Tirkit in the service of Uncle Sam.

American electorate to teenagers: No, you can't drink. You're too young and immature to shoulder the responsibility. Instead, shoulder this machine gun and go make split-second life-or-death descisions.

We have soldiers dying everyday who are well under the legal drinking age. Any mothers mad about that? (... obviously not "security moms"...) It's ok to have teens in a war in Iraq, but booze is teh DevIL. Some fucking priorities. I'm of the opinion that anyone with a military ID should be allowed to drink whatever they want. (Better do it before deployment though, 'cause Iraq's pretty dry.) It would amuse the hell out of me to see that proposed in Congress. It's too radical of course. No one would dare to go on record either for or against it. You never know though... it could even boost military recruitment. Not that I'm suggesting a new special way to prey on the teen psyche...the 40k signing bonus is predatory enough. (Yes soldiers deserve that and more. It's still a gimmick; otherwise we'd drop the bonus and increase the salary.)

Mad Mothers. Talk about a nanny state. We've got bigger things to worry about than fluzies getting loaded (and here's as good a place as any to point out that hotties in college tend to party...it's beyond the norm into near-certainty). Yeah, they were breaking the law, but A: it's a stupid law, and B: they weren't driving. So MADD can drop that second D. This isn't about drunk driving, it's just about drinking. Link credit to RTLC. Lee's forming a group, Drunks Against Mad Mothers.

Also, Trump's a sick bastard. Yes, this is to be expected of a superficial media-whore who runs organizations based on young women's sex-appeal and people's gambling adicitions. No, it doesn't excuse him, and the sooner people start treating him like the shit he is, the better.

As for Trump's new battle with Rosie, I don't think it's going to benefit either of them. I do think it would be cool though, if Rosie started a scholarship fund to rescue those poor girls from Trump...or at least to assist Miss Blair now that she's been thrown to the wolves.