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Archive for June, 2009

A brilliant report links frequency of sex with the quality of sperm a man produces.  The longer the soldiers wait for action, the more likely they are to encounter injury from training and other exercises.  Daily intercourse was shown to keep the boys battle-ready. 

Oddly, the study mentioned how men reacted to the news.  Older men appeared more worried, while younger men were pleased.  This feeds into the stereotype that younger men are like ravaging dogs regarding sex, while old men shun away from it.  If you are too old to have sex, then you are too old to have children.  Grow a garden — not more kids, please.

Another point mentioned that telling men to perform leads to undue stress.  This, in turn reduces the man’s virility.  If being told to have sex causes stress in a relationship, then there are already problems beyond fertility.  Consider it nature’s way of naturally preventing children from being born in a unstable environment. 

I have an even better and more comprehensive home report from 15 years of marriage.  The first, and most important way to build a great army is to: love.

In January I told the story of how my Saturn began to break down long before it was paid off. The roof leaked, the engine seals leaked and it sopped up oil like bread dipped in olive oil. The car puffed out oil smoke that we gave it a nickname, Ole Smokey.This pretty much sealed my promise to never buy American-Brand cars again. Since then, I have invested in Hondas. Never will I buy a Saturn, or go back to a GM product. The cars I had before the Saturn were all GM. None of them made it to the loan payoff day. They all had severe defects and needed chronic repairs. At least it kept us in a new car every few years.

Well, it seems GM has the same feelings about Saturns as I do. They have been looking to sell their fleet of disposable cars to some willing buyer. So, even if I was dumb enough to want a Saturn again, they may become another another page in car history. Unfortunately, the shapely cars in the photos will be obscured by the cloud of thick oil smoke bellowing out from its underside. Saturns were famous for oil leak problems. I was another spoke in the wheel of fate. Now hopefully less people will suffer like I did behind the wheel of a Saturn.

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A lot of Obama voters out there still believe he is some sort of superhero.  The JibJab.com team cleverly compartmentalized this folklore with great artistic liberty.  Obama does not fight off enemies, he delegates to others while standing in the center of conflict declaring “Present!”

As outlined in the Financial Times, Obama is letting the Congress draft and pass awful legislation that will upset voters and result in their expulsion in 2010.  He will let them take the credit and the blame when it fails.  At the same time, he is arguing on both sides of every issue.  Obama calculates that when challenged, he can grab credit for whichever one of his opinions falls into the right side of history.

There is a big problem with this approach.  First, his own highly-irritable supporters are going to cry like babies when their domestic agenda items are reduced to an afterthought.  Evidence for this is already erupting from the gay community who think they are getting it in the rear.  They are right, but not alone in that line of thinking.  Second, by framing himself so highly in the minds of many he risks catastrophic failure.  If a terrorist attack, increased war involvement or deepened financial woes occur his picture will be removed from many fireplace mantles around the country.

Third, even the press cannot hide tragedy behind sweet innuendos. The domestic or international failures of this President will be evident for all to see when they occur.  When bad things happen there are many who stand to blame the only one standing there.  You know, the only one who is “Present“.

The president has cast himself not as a leader of reform, but as a
cheerleader for “reform” – meaning anything, really, that can plausibly
be called reform, however flawed. He has defined success down so far
that many kinds of failure now qualify. Without hesitating, he has cast
aside principles he emphasised during the campaign. On healthcare, for
instance, he opposed an individual insurance mandate. On climate
change, he was firm on the need to auction all emissions permits.
Congress proposes to do the opposite in both cases and Mr Obama’s
instant response is: “That will do nicely.”

On the same day that the ME-ssiah announced the government takeover of tobacco by the FDA, the Hav-A-Tampa plant in Tampa, Florida announced it will shut its doors.  I hope most of the Hav-A-Tampa smokers out there are Obama voters so they can live the change they voted for.

…the company attributed much of its trouble to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, a federal program that provides health insurance to low-income children. It is funded, in part, by a new federal tax on cigars and cigarettes.

This is a classic example of how “sin taxes” are such a failure and how government intervention kills jobs.

I will smoke one in honor of those who lost their jobs.  On second thought, maybe I should save a few as collector items in case the whole Social Security thing does not work out for me.

After President Obama signed legislation today bringing tobacco into the authority of the Food and Drug Administration, I began a diligent Google search.  My search was for instructions on how to cross the border from Mexico to America.  Those instructions may be the only way many of us will be able to smoke anything.  I will have to read the instructions backwards to get into Mexico.  Then, follow the wagon trails of illegals back into the states once I have my booty in hand. 

Another day in the Obama kingdom, another Freedom trampled upon.