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The Washington DC metropolitan area has a major undiscovered crime problem. Today, for the first time, in an exclusive, inclusive, and obtrusive video, we have started the process of exposing these atrocities.

Over the weekend, I began to notice a conspicuous series of clear violations of the law. Be it deceased men on the ground, nazis espousing nonsense or illegally parked drug vans. We found crime to be rampant both in the city and the suburbs. Underground, above ground, over ground and on the lawn. Law breakers, bigots, murders, stealers, bankers, thiefs and lairs. Everywhere. Anywhere. Nowhere at all. Nothing is as it seems.

What an unpleasant weekend.

I was born to church-going Catholic parents with enthusiastic hopes for my future as a Catholic, following in the family tradition. Many would say that I was a Catholic child, but I reject that wording for a few reasons. There is no such thing as a “Catholic child,” “Muslim child” or a “Jewish child,” there are only children born to Catholic, Muslim and Jewish parents. If I ever could have been considered a Catholic child, I was never a very good one. I always had big questions and concerns that most children were stifled about. Those questions lead to an early rejection of religious establishment, followed by the existence of god.
My indoctrination began in first grade at the local church once or twice a week. I eagerly received my first communion in second grade; around the time I learned the truth about Santa Claus. These weekly religion classes continued, and by third grade, I felt the irritation of doubt. I always perceived biblical stories to be made up in order to teach a lesson. I never realized that the Bible was supposed to be an historical account of events. When I figured out that these were supposed to be real such as Noah’s arc, I began to question the stories.
The first major trigger of my dissent was the child molestation scandals going on at them time. Every week as I was reluctantly dragged to church, I would hound my family with questions about why any real god would let this happen to children. I asked them why the pope and bishops tried to cover it up. I started to deny everything in anger, and my parents brushed it off as a phase. By the end of the third grade I was already angry about religion.
I calmed down for a while, but I still had occasional arguments with my parents about the existence of god. Around sixth grade my parents gave me an option to stop attending religion classes for confirmation. I decided that I might be too naive to make that decision, and I continued on to get confirmed as David Edward “James” Mazza.

Now I am no fan of censorship, but there is one banner ad that has recently appeared all over the place titled “Flat Stomach Rule.” I usually find it right next to an article I am trying to read, and after being completely distracted and disgusted, I usually give up on the article. I rarely click on banner ads because I prefer text ads myself. This one in particular is simply too hard to ignore. The only way it could be worse is if it was animated. I won’t show it on this page, because then you would be too distracted to read the rest of my blog, but you can glance at it here.

What ever happened to ad content quality standards? I know they exist because I have been both an advertiser and a content publisher. As an advertiser I had to comply with certain standards to fit into a criteria for certain target websites. Although these standards usually only restricted adult content and profanity, the content publisher has even more control by blocking certain ads from appearing. I thought the system worked fairly well until now.

Are we now too sensitive to bogus diet ads to block them? Am I the only one who finds this distracting and distasteful? At the very least they could have put a little more effort into the design of the ad. In any case, I hope content publishers will find these soon and start blocking them. I also hope that bogus dieting companies will find better ways to trick me into shelling out a monthly fee (if I ever require their services). Until then, I’ll just have to try harder to ignore it.

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