Empire rant

Alot of you could probably care less about the Juneau Empire blog, the VoxBlog.

At one period of time for about 4-5 months I couldn't get enough of it.

We had great topics...SEACC vs. Goldbelt, the Dixie Hood story(if you haven't heard about it ask me and we can go over it again), the smoking initiative, the bong hits for Jesus supreme court bs, the capital move, the new high school costs.

Everything was going great until out of nowhere, they up and pulled the Bong Hits blog...All of a sudden I wake up one morning and it's gone! The speculation from the regulars is that we pissed off Mertz(the attorney for Bong Hit banner-waver-flake-boy). We were all pretty upset, I mean this guy is going before the Supreme Court of the United States for God's sake.

If it was him that got the blog pulled then I for one am calling him out on it. He's a public figure and fair game. My opinion is if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

He's not all bad, he is the ACLU lawyer of the year or something like that...LOL! Well, guess this is one of those issues we can say is either good or bad, depending on your perspective. This is an interesting article re: what he stands for...
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06.n175.a08.html

Back to my Empire rant, not only did they pull that particular blog, they also are pretty much letting anyone get rid of comments if they don't like them. We're talking over-moderation in a bad way. Clearly affecting our freedom of speech.

Like after that Abbott dude killed his family, the news coverage basically was letting us know there was probably some serious mental health issues...so I posted that this is should be a wakeup call that when our friends or relatives that have mental health issues start showing serious signs they may be deteriorating, we need to act. Well, Empire moderators pulled that comment? WTF!! How can that be bad? Whatever...

One of the things I want to do here is post articles, news clips, etc...and have actual discussions where we can give our true opinions without being shutdown.

Oh yeah, I heard Dixie was back in all her glory. In typical Dixie fashion she is saying there is plenty of parking downtown...WTF! How is she a marriage counselor? Don't you have to be able to read into things a bit? LOL!! Can you imagine getting some feedback from her. Can you imagine any local working man or woman sending any business her way...Me neither.

By the way, you're welcome here even if you disagree with my opinion(s)...I'll just love you a little less...psych! Lot's of my family are left-wingers...not that I'm a right winger, I just tend to lean a little more to the right...minus the religiousness...

I know, rambling again...Please comment so we can have some discussion. I am really excited about my own blog and I will stay on top of it!