ginmar grouses about wartime strictures on shopping for items a female soldier finds to be personal, essential, and almost unobtainable (not even accessible via the Web).
I can’t get to Victoria’s Secret any more. That means that Pat Robertson is, in fact, in charge of what we can see and read. And you know, I’m a girl, which means they’re censoring me from looking at halfway decent underwear! Jesus Fucking Christ, if I can be trusted with a fucking weapon, can’t I be trusted with a fucking thong? Because I’m really trying to see what kind of danger this could pose to anybody. I suppose I could make a slingshot out of the damned thing. That’ll terrify the insurgents! “Run, Ahmad! They’re using Rocket-Propelled Undies!”
You’ll be interested to know that I have now been blocked from my own livejournal under the heading of ‘tasteless.’ for a few minutes I could get to livejournal itself, which was decidedly odd.
Someone from the unit I replaced just found this yesterday. The timing is just a tad suspicious.
I am SO voting for Kerry, and resigning once my boots get back on the ground in the US. Enough of this bullshit. What the fuck else are they going to restrict? While I’m fighting for them? Let’s see them fight for our rights instead of restrict the damned things!
I’m interested, and I’m outraged. Ironically, you may have to go through some of the same hoops Salaam Pax did just to get his blog out to the world during the early part of the war.
You’re officially one of the few, the proud, the tasteless according to the US Gummint. That’s an achievement in itself.
Do they have online voter’s registration over in your area? Had you heard about the “Take 5” friends to register and to vote initiative?
I suppose marching them to the polling place at gunpoint is not a viable option. Pity, eh?
Did this just happen today? I read ginmar’s entry about the MD’s “conscience” bill over the weekend, and it was fantastic. And since when does “taste” or lack thereof threaten security, which I assume is the excuse for blocking site access?
I’ve since heard from the gentleman from the previous unit. He said he didn’t have anything to do with it, and I believe him. I’ll have one of my friends post an apology to him. Why I suddenly blocked, however, is still up for grabs. And ‘tasteless’? That’s certainly a value judgement. Given that there’s not a lot of political commentary, but plenty about feminism, I have to wonder.
I guess the odds are even that it’s some relatively low-level bluestocking that’s taken it upon themselves to “clean up” the dirty old Internet by installing NetNanny at some chokepoint in the military net. I’m hoping that it’s not personal, but general.
I mean, I’m really hoping hard… but who knows?
Woops, hey, replies in real time. Now that’s service. I bet it’s some flack upstream who doesn’t know the Internet from his sitmedownupon.