1/ I don't think I, as an average citizen, should have the right to buy an AR15 used by our soldiers in Afghanistan. There is no reason whatever why this could be justified.....
A great column from Nicolas Kristof in the Times this morning on the tragedy in Connecticut.....
IN the harrowing aftermath of the school shooting in Connecticut, one thought wells in my mind: Why can’t we regulate guns as seriously as we do cars?
The fundamental reason kids are dying in massacres like this one is not that we have lunatics or criminals — all countries have them — but that we suffer from a political failure to regulate guns.
Children ages 5 to 14 in America are 13 times as likely to be murdered with guns as children in other industrialized countries, according to David Hemenway, a public health specialist at Harvard who has written an excellent book on gun violence.
So let’s treat firearms rationally as the center of a public health crisis that claims one life every 20 minutes. The United States realistically isn’t going to ban guns, but we can take steps to reduce the carnage.
American schoolchildren are protected by building codes that govern stairways and windows. School buses must meet safety standards, and the bus drivers have to pass tests. Cafeteria food is regulated for safety. The only things we seem lax about are the things most likely to kill.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has five pages of regulations about ladders, while federal authorities shrug at serious curbs on firearms. Ladders kill around 300 Americans a year, and guns 30,000.
We even regulate toy guns, by requiring orange tips — but lawmakers don’t have the gumption to stand up to National Rifle Association extremists and regulate real guns as carefully as we do toys. What do we make of the contrast between heroic teachers who stand up to a gunman and craven, feckless politicians who won’t stand up to the N.R.A.?
As one of my Facebook followers wrote after I posted about the shooting, “It is more difficult to adopt a pet than it is to buy a gun.”
Look, I grew up on an Oregon farm where guns were a part of life; and my dad gave me a .22 rifle for my 12th birthday. I understand: shooting is fun! But so is driving, and we accept that we must wear seat belts, use headlights at night, and fill out forms to buy a car. Why can’t we be equally adult about regulating guns?
And don’t say that it won’t make a difference because crazies will always be able to get a gun. We’re not going to eliminate gun deaths, any more than we have eliminated auto accidents. But if we could reduce gun deaths by one-third, that would be 10,000 lives saved annually.
Likewise, don’t bother with the argument that if more people carried guns, they would deter shooters or interrupt them. Mass shooters typically kill themselves or are promptly caught, so it’s hard to see what deterrence would be added by having more people pack heat. There have been few if any cases in the United States in which an ordinary citizen with a gun stopped a mass shooting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
2/ An excellent Paul Krugman column on the political crisis we are in today, caused by the Republicans in Congress as he says "lost and rudderless, bitter and angry". Slice through the hype of what is going on with the fiscal cliff negotiations - read his insightful analysis....
One of his better articles......
We are not having a debt crisis.
It’s important to make this point, because I keep seeing articles about the “fiscal cliff” that do, in fact, describe it — often in the headline — as a debt crisis. But it isn’t. The U.S. government is having no trouble borrowing to cover its deficit. In fact, its borrowing costs are near historic lows. And even the confrontation over the debt ceiling that looms a few months from now if we do somehow manage to avoid going over the fiscal cliff isn’t really about debt.
No, what we’re having is a political crisis, born of the fact that one of our two great political parties has reached the end of a 30-year road. The modern Republican Party’s grand, radical agenda lies in ruins — but the party doesn’t know how to deal with that failure, and it retains enough power to do immense damage as it strikes out in frustration.
Before I talk about that reality, a word about the current state of budget “negotiations.”
Why the scare quotes? Because these aren’t normal negotiations in which each side presents specific proposals, and horse-trading proceeds until the two sides converge. By all accounts, Republicans have, so far, offered almost no specifics. They claim that they’re willing to raise $800 billion in revenue by closing loopholes, but they refuse to specify which loopholes they would close; they are demanding large cuts in spending, but the specific cuts they have been willing to lay out wouldn’t come close to delivering the savings they demand.
It’s a very peculiar situation. In effect, Republicans are saying to President Obama, “Come up with something that will make us happy.” He is, understandably, not willing to play that game. And so the talks are stuck.
Why won’t the Republicans get specific? Because they don’t know how. The truth is that, when it comes to spending, they’ve been faking it all along — not just in this election, but for decades. Which brings me to the nature of the current G.O.P. crisis.
Since the 1970s, the Republican Party has fallen increasingly under the influence of radical ideologues, whose goal is nothing less than the elimination of the welfare state — that is, the whole legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society. From the beginning, however, these ideologues have had a big problem: The programs they want to kill are very popular. Americans may nod their heads when you attack big government in the abstract, but they strongly support Social Security, Medicare, and even Medicaid. So what’s a radical to do?
3/ A classic movie scene - Tom Cruise and the incredible Jack Nicholson face each other in the courtroom from "A Few Good Men"......powerful stuff......2 minutes....
Probably Jack Nicholson's best performance ever......
4/ Most interesting story from Frank Rich on how we demand heroes in this country, and then are disappointed when they turn out to be human. His example is General Petraeus, how he was built up by the media, fawned over by politicians and worshiped like a deity-like figure only to succumb to his failure to hide his emails....
A very good look at our culture of hero worship.....one of our best journalists on great form......
The carnival has moved on, but many are still mystified why David Petraeus abruptly abdicated his seat of power after a mere marital lapse. Even some Republicans who once flayed Bill Clinton over Monica were magnanimous to Petraeus, seeing no reason why his disloyalty to his wife should sully his reputation as a loyal patriot. So what was the real story? Benghazi? Classified documents stashed in Paula Broadwell’s mess kit?
I adhere to a less sexy explanation. Once the country learned that the man in charge of guarding the nation’s secrets was too inept to hide his own, his directorship of the Central Intelligence Agency could no longer pass the laugh test. Petraeus will always be remembered as the Spy Who Trusted Gmail. But let’s not waste tears on him. Adultery is no bar to pursuing other venerable Washington callings, most particularly the Senate and the House. With the Beltway fixer Robert Barnett by his side, Petraeus will soon better the six-figure advance Broadwell received for All In, even if his chances of improving on her title are approximately nil.
Perhaps it’s the country we should be a bit concerned about instead. What’s really shocking about the Petraeus affair is not Petraeus’s affair but the fact that once again, we were taken in by a secular plaster saint who turns out to bear only a faint resemblance to the image purveyed by the man himself and the mass media that abetted his self-glorification. (There were at least three book-length hagiographies before Broadwell’s and three Newsweek covers too.) The toppling of King David, as the Petraeus fanboys anointed him, is just the latest in a string of such flameouts. He was directly preceded, more grievously, by the disgraced sports legends Lance Armstrong and Joe Paterno and by the memoirist Greg Mortenson, whose best-selling Three Cups of Teawas spiked with derring-do fiction to sate his own thirst for money and self-promotion along with the professed goal of championing education for Muslim girls in remote corners of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Though we’ve also lived of late through the scandals of the Catholic Church and Major League Baseball, the unmasking of megaministers and Wall Street titans, and the penile pratfalls of John Edwards and Tiger Woods, our serial susceptibility to bogus heroes and their hoaxes remains undiminished. It’s as if there’s something in the national DNA that makes us suspend disbelief once our icons are anointed. You’d think in our digital age, when everyone can seemingly find out anything about anyone in a nanosecond—when transparency, thy name is Twitter—this pattern would have long since been broken and the country wouldn’t be so easily snowed. Instead, our credulousness seems as entrenched as ever, if not more so, with the same myopia by the press and public alike recurring with scant variation, whether the instance be as chilling as Paterno or as farcical as Petraeus.
As toppled heroes go, Petraeus is more tacky than tragic, more silly than sinister. He committed no crime, and since he was neither a preacher nor a public moralist, he is innocent of hypocrisy. Yet it is precisely the preposterously stark contrast between the cheesiness of the Petraeus we are now discovering and the gravity of the Petraeus we were sold that makes him so instructive a case study for this kind of national fraud.
5/ Trawlers are about the most seaworthy boats afloat, but occasionally even they can get in trouble.....here two trawlers attempt to cross the Columbia River bar in bad weather......
Don't know how your sea legs are, but eeek......7 minutes of OMG's......
6/ And speaking of the military......the bloated, corrupt drain on our national treasure certainly needs a good haircut......
Good story that begins with how many potentate-like Generals we have......
7 Shocking Ways the Military Wastes Our Money
Hint: none of them have anything to do with national defense.
7/ Continuing the theme Stephen Colbert looks at the story that Fox News chief Roger Ailes wanted Petraeus to run for President......an amusing four minutes.....
Stephen Colbert mocked the recent sandal involving Fox News chief Roger Ailes and Gen. David Petraeus on his Monday night Comedy Central show.
Ailes, who Colbert fondly referred to as "Fox News chairman and goblin king," made headlines after a secretly recorded tape revealed that he told a Fox News analyst to tell Petraeus that he should run for president.
Colbert played part of the recording in which Petraeus joked about Ailes wanting him to run in the 2012 election, and News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch suggesting he would fund the campaign.
"So if Petraeus ran for president, Rupert Murdoch would fund it, Roger Ailes would run it, and Fox News would sell it to their audience," Colbert said. "If you think about it, a news network choosing the candidate sounds like a conflict of interest—so don't think about it."
8/ A compilation of the 10 best commercials of 2012 worldwide.....and some very good ones too......
My favourites were #10 the Carlton Beer Chase, #9 Axe deodorant "Susan Glenn", #8 Proctor and Gamble "Best Job", and #1 The Guardian "Three Little Pigs"......
9/ How would you feel about taking one pill a day that would significantly lower your chances of developing some serious cancers, and as a bonus prevent some types of cardiovascular disease?
You would?
Good.....then go out and buy a low dosage aspirin and take one a day.......the miracle drug the medical system doesn't tell you about.
Why, you ask? Because noone makes money from aspirin - it's generic, the pills cost pennies and most importantly unless you are sick, the medical system doesn't make money so why would they tell you about a commonly available non-prescription drug that prevents nasty expensive cancers from happening.
Take charge of your health folks.....
THE inexorable rise in health care spending, as all of us know, is a problem. But what’s truly infuriating, as we watch America’s medical bill soar, is that our conversation has focused almost exclusively on how to pay for that care, not on reducing our need for it. In the endless debate about “health care reform,” few have zeroed in on the practical actions we should be taking now to make Americans healthier.
An exception is Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, who is setting new standards that we would do well to adopt as a nation. In the last several years, he’s changed the city’s health code to mandate restrictions on sodas and trans fats — products that, when consumed over the long term, harm people. These new rules will undoubtedly improve New Yorkers’ health in years to come.
Such bold moves prompt a provocative question: when does regulating a person’s habits in the name of good health become our moral and social duty? The answer, I suggest, is a two-parter: first, when the scientific data clearly and overwhelmingly demonstrate that one behavior or another can substantially reduce — or, conversely, raise — a person’s risk of disease; and second, when all of us are stuck paying for one another’s medical bills (which is what we do now, by way of Medicare, Medicaid and other taxpayer-financed health care programs).
In such cases, encouraging a healthy behavior, or discouraging an unhealthy one, ought to be a matter of public policy — which is why, for instance, we insist on vaccinating children for the measles, mumps, rubella and polio; we know these preventive strategies save lives.
Under that rationale, then, why not make it public policy to encourage middle-aged people to use aspirin?
10/ Ho hum, another climate change story affecting our lives....this one is about skiing in the US, and how many resorts are becoming economically unviable so if you like skiing, better enjoy it now....
By the way this is also a big deal in the European Alps.....lots of ski resorts in Austria and Switzerland are closing because of lack of snow......thanks Exxon.....
NEWBURY, N.H. — Helena Williams had a great day ofskiing here at Mount Sunapee shortly after the resort opened at the end of November, but when she came back the next day, the temperatures had warmed and turned patches of the trails from white to brown.
“It’s worrisome for the start of the season,” said Ms. Williams, 18, a member of the ski team at nearby Colby-Sawyer College. “The winter is obviously having issues deciding whether it wants to be cold or warm.”
Her angst is well founded. Memories linger of last winter, when meager snowfall and unseasonably warm weather kept many skiers off the slopes. It was the fourth-warmest winter on record since 1896, forcing half the nation’s ski areas to open late and almost half to close early.
Whether this winter turns out to be warm or cold, scientists say that climate change means the long-term outlook for skiers everywhere is bleak. The threat of global warming hangs over almost every resort, from Sugarloaf in Maine to Squaw Valley in California. As temperatures rise, analysts predict that scores of the nation’s ski centers, especially those at lower elevations and latitudes, will eventually vanish.
Under certain warming forecasts, more than half of the 103 ski resorts in the Northeast will not be able to maintain a 100-day season by 2039, according to a study to be published next year by Daniel Scott, director of the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change at the University of Waterloo in Ontario.
By then, no ski area in Connecticut or Massachusetts is likely to be economically viable, Mr. Scott said. Only 7 of 18 resorts in New Hampshire and 8 of 14 in Maine will be. New York’s 36 ski areas, most of them in the western part of the state, will have shrunk to 9.
In the Rockies, where early conditions have also been spotty, average winter temperatures are expected to rise as much as 7 degrees by the end of the century. Park City, Utah, could lose all of its snowpack by then. In Aspen, Colo., the snowpack could be confined to the top quarter of the mountain. So far this season, several ski resorts in Colorado have been forced to push back their opening dates.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
11/ Michigan has been passing all kinds of extreme right wing policies in their lame duck session, just because they can.....
But as George Carlin said about the mainstream media "nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care".......the only ones pointing out how badly this will screw working people are Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow.....here is a good Jon Stewart, at least for the first four minutes.....
On Tuesday, protests broke out at the Michigan state capitol after state legislators passed the anti-union "Right To Work" bill, which was quickly signed into law by Governor Rick Snyder only hours later.
But, surely, it couldn't be all that bad. As Jon Stewart explained, "Right To Work" sounds like "a positive and uplifting message."
After laying out how the law diminishes the leverage of unions, Stewart went on to give protesters in Michigan a quick primer on how to make their voices heard.
12/ This is a puffpiece from Corning Glass from a couple of years ago, touting a future lifestyle [say] 20 years hence where we are plugged in everywhere, home, work and even out on the streets......actually very well done, but as I watched it images from the "Hunger Games" surfaced........this may well be the future for the oligarchy and their handlers but not for the rest of us, who will be lucky to have food the way things are going.....
Watch it anyway, just because it's cool......
If you wonder why HP, Dell and other leading computer manufacturers believe the end of the computer as we know it is near. It's not the iPad that has them concerned about the future. It is developments like the ones Corning is working on.
CLICK HERE... GLASS
CLICK HERE... GLASS
13/ Taylor Swift "I Knew You Were Trouble"
The impossibly beautiful Ms. Swift with a video in Cinemascope.....she narrates a tale of woe half the time, the other half is an undistinguished song set in what looks like a backdrop for the Hunger Games.....or a zombie movie maybe....
If you can figure this one out you must be a teenage girl.....
14/ Consumer protection time.....
Ever wonder why stores put in the mindless Xmas music at loud volumes? It's so you become upset, and if you are off balance you spend more.......so take a Xanax before you go!
IN these final weeks before Christmas, it may strike you that retailers have gone out of their way to make holiday shopping as unpleasant an experience as possible. The odd truth is that they probably have. And there’s a reason for that: evidence suggests that the less comfortable you are during the seasonal shopping spree, the more money you’ll spend.
So stores crank up music, repeat the same songs, over and over again, pipe in smells, race shoppers around to far-flung points of purchase and clog their heads with confusing offers. All of which makes it more likely we’ll part more readily with more money.
Take those Christmas songs — the ones that begin to play in stores in November and last for what seems like eternity. Few of us would claim to love listening to “The Little Drummer Boy” over and over; just last month, customer complaints reached such heights in Canada that Shoppers Drug Mart, the country’s largest pharmacy chain, caved to consumer pressure and announced it would switch off Christmas music “until further notice.”
But what we love or don’t love isn’t really the point. (The Canadian chain’s ban lasted only a couple of weeks.) Music played at high volumes, for example, may be irritating, but researchers from Penn State and the National University of Singapore concluded it was one of several factors that leads to overstimulation and “a momentary loss of self-control, thus enhancing the likelihood of impulse purchase.”
Those who create shopping environments really don’t care what music you like to listen to. A classic 1982 study by the marketing professor Ronald E. Milliman, now at Western Kentucky University, found that slower tempos make it more likely that shoppers will linger inside stores — and spend more money. If “White Christmas” keeps you in the store, who cares whether you like its languid phrasings?
Not that faster music slows spending. The researchers at Penn State and in Singapore found that upbeat music can, in fact, overstimulate shoppers and prompt impulsive purchases. Other studies suggest that classical music incites more spending than Top 40 tunes when played in wine stores and that songs with “pro-social” lyrics result in higher tips for restaurant staff.
Smell is another part of the retailer’s arsenal. Like music, smells are selected to encourage spending, not to make your shopping experience more comfortable.
15/ What a pity - I was so looking forward to this new trilogy based on "The Hobbit", directed by Peter Jackson, but as this and other reviews state he has taken a nice happy little story and tried to stretch it out , and the result is a little thin.....still good with amazing visuals and CGI, but not in the same class as LOTR......oh well......
In “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s first Middle-earth fantasy novel, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) sets out with the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a posse of dwarfs to battle a fearsome dragon. [Spoiler alert] they do not kill the dragon, although [spoiler alert] they eventually will, within the next 18 months or so, because [spoiler alert] this “Hobbit,” which is [migraine alert] 170 minutes, is the first installment in [film critic suicide-watch alert] a trilogy
What’s that old saying so memorably garbled by a recent president? Fool me twice — won’t get fooled again! This is not to say that Mr. Jackson is a con man. On the contrary: He is a visionary, an entrepreneur, a job creator in his native New Zealand. And his “Lord of the Rings” movies, the last of which opened nine years ago, remain a mighty modern gesamtkunstwerk, a grand Wagnerian blend of pop-culture mythology and digital magic now available for easy, endless viewing in your living room.
“The Lord of the Rings” was the work of a filmmaker perfectly in tune with his source material. Its too-muchness — the encyclopedic detail, the pseudoscholarly exposition, the soaring allegory, the punishing length — was as much a product of Tolkien’s literary sensibility as of Mr. Jackson’s commitment to cinematic maximalism. These were three films to rule them all, and they conjured an imaginary world of remarkable complexity and coherence. This voyage, which takes place 60 years before Frodo’s great quest, is not nearly as captivating.
Part of this has to do with tone. The “Rings” trilogy, much of which was written during World War II, is a dark, monumental epic of Good and Evil in conflict, whereas “The Hobbit,” first published in 1937 (and later revised), is a more lighthearted book, an adventure story whose comical and fairy-tale elements are very much in the foreground.
The comparative playfulness of the novel could have made this “Hobbit” movie a lot of fun, but over the years Mr. Jackson seems to have shed most of the exuberant, gleefully obnoxious whimsy that can be found in early films like “Meet the Feebles” and“Dead Alive.” A trace of his impish old spirit survives in some of the creature designs in “The Hobbit” — notably a gelatinous and gigantic Great Goblin and an encampment of cretinous, Three-Stooges-like trolls — but Tolkien’s inventive, episodic tale of a modest homebody on a dangerous journey has been turned into an overscale and plodding spectacle.
Also, not to be pedantic or anything, but “The Hobbit” is just one book, and its expansion into three movies feels arbitrary and mercenary. This installment takes Bilbo and his companions, led by the exiled dwarf king Thorin (Richard Armitage), son of Thrain, through a series of encounters with orcs, elves, trolls and other beings, some scarier or more charming than others. The only character who manages to be a bit of both is the incomparable Gollum, once again incarnated by Andy Serkis in what remains an unmatched feat of computer-assisted performance.
"The Hobbit" trailer.....looks wonderful, but.......
16/ This might be fun instead - "Stand Up Guys" with Pacino, Walken and Arkin as old gangsters......
The three geezers who run riot in “Stand Up Guys” aren’t just grumpy old men acting up. They’re veteran gangsters whose final rampage before they surrender to the dying of the light is a triumphant affirmation of vitality that the movie milks for two parts comedy to one part pathos.
Their discovery that they can still stir up plenty of trouble at their age gives this last hurrah a bogus poignancy. In their words, you either raise hell “or chew gum,” and the more hell they raise, the younger they feel. You might describe the movie as a bad-boy “Bucket List.”
Because these amigos are played by Al Pacino, 72;Christopher Walken, 69; and Alan Arkin, 78, “Stand Up Guys” feels like a sentimental elegy for a generation of first-rate actors who, having nothing left to prove, are enjoying themselves. Most of the modest pleasures are in the ways the men expertly play off one another and invest their shallow characters with more depth than any filmmaker could reasonably expect.
The movie, directed by Fisher Stevens from a screenplay by Noah Haidle, isn’t really about anything much beyond being a showcase for its stars to cut loose. Mr. Pacino, in particular, is given license to devour the scenery with his usual manic ferocity. His character, Val, newly sprung from prison after 28 years, is by far the noisiest and most hyperactive of the three. Val is a certified “stand-up guy” for having refused to rat out his partners-in-crime in a shootout; he served the time and kept his mouth shut.
Now he is ready to embark on a binge of sex and carousing. The first stop is a decrepit brothel, but Val discovers he can’t perform sexually. He and his best friend, Doc (Mr. Walken), with whom he is staying, promptly rip off a drugstore. Val gobbles a handful of the magic blue pills, which lands him in a hospital, where he is treated for priapism.
By coincidence, one of his nurses, Nina (Julianna Margulies), is the daughter of their getaway driver, Hirsch (Mr. Arkin), who has been in a nursing home. Impulsively, they lure him out of the place for a wild night on the town. Once Hirsch, clad in pajamas, finds himself behind the wheel, he becomes a highway maniac.
“Stand Up Guys” plays with the concept of honor among thieves. Val correctly senses that Doc has been instructed by a vengeful mob boss (Mark Margolis) to kill him within 24 hours of his release. (The boss’s son died accidentally in the shootout for which Val took the rap.)
Once Doc, prodded by Val, confesses that the order has been given, it becomes a question of when, how and where Doc will kill his best friend. Or is Doc, who has retired from crime to spend his time painting, enough of a stand-up guy to sacrifice his own life and refuse?
The movie likes these good bad guys. We know that from a gratuitous plot turn in which they avenge a victim of gang rape by finding her attackers, shackling them and letting her have at them with a baseball bat. That, I suppose, is the movie’s twisted notion of gangland chivalry.
"Stand Up Guys" trailer......
Todays video - the classic arrival scene from "Terminator 2", where Arnold walks into a biker bar and needs clothes, and mayhem ensues.....with T2 [the liquid metal Terminator] encountering a cop ......
The Taylor Swift video reminded me of this scene!
Todays winter joke.......
On a bitterly cold winters morning a husband and wife in Belle River were
listening to the radio during breakfast.
They heard the announcer say, "We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow
today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so
the snow ploughs can get through."
So the good wife went out and moved her car.
A week later while they are eating breakfast again, the radio announcer
said, "We are expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your
car on the odd-numbered side of the street, so the snow ploughs can get
through."
The good wife went out and moved her car again.
The next week they are again having breakfast, when the radio announcer
says, "We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must park...."
Then the electric power went out.
The good wife was very upset, and with a worried look on her face she said,
" I don't know what to do.. Which side of the street do I need to park on so
the snow plough can get through?"
listening to the radio during breakfast.
They heard the announcer say, "We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow
today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so
the snow ploughs can get through."
So the good wife went out and moved her car.
A week later while they are eating breakfast again, the radio announcer
said, "We are expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your
car on the odd-numbered side of the street, so the snow ploughs can get
through."
The good wife went out and moved her car again.
The next week they are again having breakfast, when the radio announcer
says, "We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must park...."
Then the electric power went out.
The good wife was very upset, and with a worried look on her face she said,
" I don't know what to do.. Which side of the street do I need to park on so
the snow plough can get through?"
Then with the love and understanding in his voice that all men who are
married to blondes exhibit, the husband replied, "Why don't you just leave
the damn car in the garage this time?"
married to blondes exhibit, the husband replied, "Why don't you just leave
the damn car in the garage this time?"
Todays supermarket joke
A man walked into a supermarket with his zipper down.
A lady cashier walked up to him and said, 'Your barracks door is open.' Not a phrase that men normally use, he went on his way looking a bit puzzled.
When he was about done shopping, a man came up and said,'Your fly is open..'
He zipped up and finished his shopping. At the checkout, he intentionally got in the line where the lady was that told him about his 'barracks door.'
He was planning to have a little fun with her, so when he reached the counter he said, 'When you saw my barracks door open, did you see a Marine standing in there at attention?'
The lady (naturally smarter than the man) thought for a moment and said, 'No, no I didn't. All I saw was a disabled veteran sitting on a couple of old duffel bags.
Bit of culture for you - Todays poem
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