I've kinda noted that if it's not explicit (and bad), the guy's gonna be a Dem. The papers are a running joke - it's like

"Jeff Gannon (KKKarl Rove's Rethug Henchman - who also likes to maim babies) asked a "softball" question of President Bush, thereby undermining the moral fabric of our society, which in turn caused North Korea to threaten the mainland US with nukes the developed with help from AQ Kahn from Pakistan, with whom the Bush KKKamp has ongoing dialogues"

That is all.

Speaking of sexy, uh, cheerleading... Another new Dusty! My head's spinning.

Plus, holy cow, a female wrestling movie ad? Fascinating advertisers you have, Ace...

Come on folks. As if this is new. My mother is now 57 years old. She was in HS in the early 60s. She was a varsity cheerleader in a rural Connecticut school. She quit the cheerleading squad as a senior because she said it became nothing more than "finding new ways to show off their asses".

This is nothing more than the world being more sensitive to it, or more outraged, or just being more uptight. But Cheerleaders have been doing nothing more than showing off their asses for decades.

Ace, two things:

First off, tread lightly on the "teenage sexuality" discussion thingie. I wrote a post on all those female teachers/male students as of late, and I swear, it was a rough ride getting called nearly everything but a pedophile for taking what, in some eyes, was a little-too-understanding attitude towards it.

Second off, what, ban sexy cheerleading? ARE YOU NUTS?!?

To paraphrase Bill Simmons, after watching "Bring It On" alone, I needed an IV.

Don't get me wrong, little kids shouldn't look sexy. But. . . there's a cutoff, right?

Man, I am sooo going to hell. . .

Cheers,
Dave of the Virginia State Correctional Facility.

I'll take Sherard's point. Early eighties high school for me and the cheerleaders had no problems. The "drill team" however, got full on controversy coverage for the whore-it-up makeup and outfits and the humping and bumping on the halftime hardwood. Yea, I said "hardwood." I recently watched a nephew's high school basketball game and my thoughts on the halftime show will have me waiting for Dave in hell with a "glad you could make it."

Slightly OT, but I also have a personal favorite photo from my senior yearbook. The cheerleaders are making a pyramid and the cheerdudes are on the bottom. One guy is immortalized while taking a good peek up the nearest skirt. His expression could have been used by someone like Rubens when he painted an Ascension of Christ picture. Absolutely beatific.

And by mentioning "Rubens" I hereby vow to never mention Robert Frost in another comment on this site.

I was at a HS basketball game earlier this season when I ran into some parents from my daughter's old soccer team. Their daughter had given up the game for the Dance Squad, and they were there to watch her perform. All I could say afterwards was, 1) I'm glad I didn't have to talk to them AFTER the "performance," and 2) I'm glad my daughter stuck with soccer. The girls looked like little sluts, the "dance moves" were nothing more than stripper come-ons, the "music" was some rap stuff about getting it on, and all I could think of was how embarrassed I'd be if that was MY daughter. And no, there was nothing even remotely titillating about the whole thing.

I don't think a law is what is necessary, but we do need to bring shame back into the equation. As an earlier poster said, sweaters and short skirts were plenty sexy.

Ace:

Guess: The Democrats are doing what Rush says in his parody of them becoming the party of values. It's a joke piece (which you get to hear lots of in between the commercial breaks if you have Internet access to Rush's show), a guy who sounds like James Carville discusses the reason and solution to the Democrat's loss with a guy who sounds like Tom Daschle on the "Tom Daschle All Night All the Time Talkshow. Tom say, "we have a caller on our line, James from Louisiana."

Carville: "I'm telling you this party must be born again!"
Daschle: "So, we should repent of our past evil ways, and follow the truth?"
Carville: "Heck no! I wasn't born yesterday. I'm just sayin' we need a new hula dance with a religious grass skirt."

Well, as a former cheerleader and the mother of a high school cheerleader, I can tell you that they do not allow sexual dancing in cheers here. I am uncomfortable with the short skirts, but at least they wear short bike pants now instead of "bloomers" which were just blue (or whatever color) panties.
I guess it depends on the school.

Rightwingsparkle:

Love your Blog, by the way.

I taught middle school about 8 years ago, and let me tell you that it was pretty disgusting what those chearleaders wore (it was an independent school, though).

And a private school, no less. Worse still, my kids go to a Catholic school run by nuns, and though the uniforms are much more tasteful, there is a carnival every year with talent show night for the kids. And the outfits are terrible. I've complained to the headmistress, as have others, but the parents seem not to care.

The best you can do is keep your kids into things like "American Girl" and such, monitor who their friends are and the parents, also. Who says you shouldn't shelter your kids? I say, shelter them as long as possible. Sort of Plato's Republic theory: Kids aren't ready to understand Evil until they understand firmly that the Good is the best choice and will be well armed to say "no" to bad choices.

Speaking of dance routines....let's just say that this left me "hypmotized!".

http://allalongtheblogtower.blogspot.com/2005/03/how-to-hypnotize-any-man.html

KCTrio, Thanks for the compliment!
I couldn't agree with you more on the sheltering kids thing. I get asked that all the time. Like it is a bad thing to try and keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
I know that if her cheer squad had done anything sexual I would have let the sponser know that if that didn't change she would be off the squad.

Nice duck, Sparkle (just saw that rather horrific thing on your site). Unfortunately, if a guy found that duck for his lady friend, he'd end up out of the picture. What a waste of effort. You get superhuman ability to fly, to show your lady a glorious duck, and she turns you down for the duck.

Even in romantic silly songs that never exist, males always have none of the power in the mating ritual.

Sigh.

Of course, the late nite TV comics and commentators would rather you believe this about some cartoon Jesusland Republican redneck, all het up about that dancin' and short skirts and teachin' evolution over at the Godless high school.

Truth? Not only is Al Edwards a Democrat, he is an African-American Democrat, from inner city Houston; and for the most part, he's correct.

How many of you have been to a recent high school sporting event featuring cheerleading squads predominantly Black high schools? I have. Anybody who has visited my site knows I'm anything but a prude, but I had the largely the same reaction as Edwards... deep embarrassment for everyone involved. The complaint isn't about short skirts and doing splits. These girls (and I mean children -- 14 to 18 year olds) are engaged in what only can be described as choreographed dry-humping/simulated sex routines -- under the aegis and wearing the uniform of a public school.

I bow to no man in my appreciation for the unclad female form, as well as a night of bump-and-grind at the local burlesque house. But what I've seen suggests Edwards has a legitimate complaint, and indicates almost willful negligence by Black school administrators.

iowahawk is 100% correct on this one

"I grew up with just the saddle-shoes and skirts" wow ACE, how old are you? Those days are from the 1950's! I thought you said you were 32? That would make you like, 55! Wow! You're even older than Dave!!!

There once was an old guy named ACE ...

72Virgins:

Never apply fact-based reading on every one of Ace's posts. Sometimes he's telling you about something and makes references to things to draw out the metaphor or funny story. Perhaps he's just knowledgeable enough about pop-culture of the 20th century to reference saddle shoes and skirts to write the humor the way he wants, and that fit the theme just splendidly. How much would you have to read or watch to come up with saddle shoes and skirts? Come on. I get my knowledge of the '50s from Back to the Future. Or, most of it.

Or maybe those things were what they wore when he was in high school.

But I'm guessing artisitic license to enhance the funny factor.

Now bring the collective home, to us living beings, and let's have a look at them. Saddle shoes and skirst or nothing at all. Or, the latest in Victoria Secret high fashion. However they are clad, it'd be nice to capture a fleeting glance.

Though it is deeply troubling that anyone should pass a law regulating cheerleading, at least it highlights a persistent and growing problem. When I saw the national cheerleading championships years ago I was shocked to see that every single team included the vulgar and crude "push-push-in-the-bush" move, they were all spreading their legs and frontally humping the air (and left side, and right side and rear side)! If I were to do this in public I'd be arrested for public lewdness and thrown in jail! (And the way I move that'd be a good thing too). But these are not adult performers before a consenting adult audience in a private setting. These are kids, and we send them the wrong message by pretending that we're all so hip and open minded that we approve of vulgar and obscene dancing by cheerleaders (that we all pay for) right in our faces!

KCTrio - "Never apply fact-based reading on every one of Ace's posts." Absoloutely! Matter of fact I know there are no other real bloggers besides me and you "ACE" on this website at all, just different names and addresses made up by you to scam that crazy blog money by pretending to have all these readers when actually you only have one, me. So I have a propostion for you "ACE" or "KCTrio" or whoever you are pretending to be right now: cut me in and I'll write in under fake names too and I won't even rat you out. What'da 'ya say, "ACE?" Going once, going twice ...

Come on, 72Virgins. Are you being serious, or sarcastic? I didn't mean to offend you. I like your posts, and have always enjoyed corresponding (though we did have that Economic debate that got rather throny).

If I did offend, please accept my appologies if I did offend. I was simply trying to suggest an answer to your post about Ace's age. Hell, I don't know how old he is. I was simply taking a stab at it.

KCTrio - I went to Catholic school from 7th thru 9th grade when I succeded in getting myself kicked out for dress code violations. While we wore typical Catholic school uniforms, my friends wore "cool" clothes. It was a shock when I went back to PS and I knew immediately I had made a big mistake. The PS challenged no one, and I was academically at least an entire year or more ahead of everyone there, and bored. The kids were lazy, apathetic and intellectually uninterested. The nuns that taught us in Catholic school were the most dedicated and best teachers I had until college. If I could've gone back I would've. You're doing the right thing!

KCTrio - No, I don't engage in vitriol or invective, I don't have the time or the imagination. But I do know it's just me and you alone on this blog because: I am the Center of the Universe!

Sorry, 72Virgins, missed that one by a mile. Let's just say my Almighty radar was working in the shadows, as usual. But looking at the Catechism, that's the best we can do to understand the Almighty.

Now, onward. I have some humble requests, though I will not quite make these as if I were talking to Allah, since he is the One, and I don't want to make the grave sin of trying to speak to two gods. Godhead, I'm OK with, but that's the Trinity and not Allah or the 72Virgins.

Here's my request:

1) Do you like Hoagy Carmichael and Stardust?
2) Ever read the lyrics to Twisted Stockings?
3) How about Frim Fram Sauce?
4) How will the virgins be dressed when I get to see them in human form? I would like to have that image in my mind before I meet them. Kind of helps the lust thing.

1) We wish we had Stardust! In Paradise there is only the droning, monotonous, ugly atonal bleating like the call to prayers puncutated by the ubly, obnoxious ALLALALALALALA noise made by Moslem women!
2) No but we will.
3) Yeah great lyrics!
4) We wear burkas all the time and for an infidel we wear them premanently. Besides, there ae no Dusty models like the Dirty Pretty Thing anywhere in Islam.