1/ The excellent Frank Rich with the stories behind the headlines...... great insights.......
- 11/20/2013 at 12:35 PM
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Frank Rich on the National Circus: Obamacare’s Failures Are Obama’s Fault
- By Frank Rich
Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: Obama's poll numbers plummet, JPMorgan Chase agrees to a record settlement, and the Cheneys engage in a gay-marriage civil war.
President Obama and his health-care law are reeling right now. A CBS poll released today finds that Obama's job-approval rating has plummeted nine points since October to a new low of 37 percent. And, perhaps more ominous, the same CBS poll found that only 58 percent of Democrats now support the Affordable Care Act, down from 74 percent in October. (Overall support is at an anemic 31 percent.) If we continue to see polls like this, will Obamacare survive?
The fate of Obamacare will not be determined by polls, even ones as terrible as these. It will be determined by whether the law works, and starts working in time to recede as a red-hot issue when the 2014 election season begins in earnest. If healthcare.gov does get its act together, the political crisis will evaporate. For all the press hysteria of the past week, this is not Katrina or Iraq. Even if the Affordable Care Act fails, its legacy will not include the destruction of a city like New Orleans or a pointless war that left thousands upon thousands of Americans and Iraqis dead. And also: Let’s not forget — as apparently many have — that only weeks ago, there were apocalyptic poll numbers like this (worse, actually) for the GOP in the aftermath of the government shutdown. Both parties are in a race to the bottom, and the identity of the biggest loser will not be revealed until just under a year from now.
The fate of Obamacare will not be determined by polls, even ones as terrible as these. It will be determined by whether the law works, and starts working in time to recede as a red-hot issue when the 2014 election season begins in earnest. If healthcare.gov does get its act together, the political crisis will evaporate. For all the press hysteria of the past week, this is not Katrina or Iraq. Even if the Affordable Care Act fails, its legacy will not include the destruction of a city like New Orleans or a pointless war that left thousands upon thousands of Americans and Iraqis dead. And also: Let’s not forget — as apparently many have — that only weeks ago, there were apocalyptic poll numbers like this (worse, actually) for the GOP in the aftermath of the government shutdown. Both parties are in a race to the bottom, and the identity of the biggest loser will not be revealed until just under a year from now.
2/ WalMart, the store that destroyed America, is deservedly hammered by Stephen Colbert after a store set up a food drive so it's employees could enjoy Thanksgiving.....
Such a pleasure to watch one of our cleverest comedians......two good minutes.....
Earlier this week, news broke that at least one Walmart store was holding a Thanksgiving food drive -- for its own employees. Many saw this as evidence that the world's largest employer would rather rely on charity than pay a reasonable living wage.
On last night's "Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert sarcastically praised the corporate giant for sticking to its guns in offering low wages to maximize profits, although not for the food drive itself.
"Some critics out there say Walmart isn't doing enough, but they're wrong, because Walmart isn't doing anything," he said. "These bins are for Walmart employees to donate to other employees. And where can Walmart's low wage workers find cheap food to donate? Walmart."
3/ And a good Brian McFadden cartoon in the Times - "WalMart Cares"......
4/ Impressive clip of the Ukranian Womens Gymnastics team and their floor exercise in the Acrobatic Gymnastics category. For three minutes these athletes are amazingly in sync, and do a "Cirque De Soleil"-style floor routine with the slim one doing incredible bends.
If you like womens gymnastics, this is for you.......
5/ Finally the very few Democrats we have with cojones are learning that sometimes the best strategy is to attack - to counter all of the BS surrounding the Republican efforts to cut Social Security there is a groundswell trying to increase and strengthen the program.
In this column Paul Krugman explains why this is a great idea.......
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Expanding Social Security
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: November 21, 2013 498 Comments
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For many years there has been one overwhelming rule for people who wanted to be considered serious inside the Beltway. It was this: You must declare your willingness to cut Social Security in the name of “entitlement reform.” It wasn’t really about the numbers, which never supported the notion that Social Security faced an acute crisis. It was instead a sort of declaration of identity, a way to show that you were an establishment guy, willing to impose pain (on other people, as usual) in the name of fiscal responsibility.
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But a funny thing has happened in the past year or so. Suddenly, we’re hearing open discussion of the idea that Social Security should be expanded, not cut. Talk of Social Security expansion has even reached the Senate, with Tom Harkin introducing legislation that would increase benefits. A few days ago Senator Elizabeth Warren gave a stirring floorspeech making the case for expanded benefits.
Where is this coming from? One answer is that the fiscal scolds driving the cut-Social-Security orthodoxy have, deservedly, lost a lot of credibility over the past few years. (Giving the ludicrous Paul Ryan an award for fiscal responsibility? And where’s my debt crisis?) Beyond that, America’s overall retirement system is in big trouble. There’s just one part of that system that’s working well: Social Security. And this suggests that we should make that program stronger, not weaker.
Before I get there, however, let me briefly take on two bad arguments for cutting Social Security that you still hear a lot.
One is that we should raise the retirement age — currently 66, and scheduled to rise to 67 — because people are living longer. This sounds plausible until you look at exactly who is living longer. The rise in life expectancy, it turns out, is overwhelmingly a story about affluent, well-educated Americans. Those with lower incomes and less education have, at best, seen hardly any rise in life expectancy at age 65; in fact, those with less education have seen their life expectancy decline.
So this common argument amounts, in effect, to the notion that we can’t let janitors retire because lawyers are living longer. And lower-income Americans, in case you haven’t noticed, are the people who need Social Security most.
The other argument is that seniors are doing just fine. Hey, their poverty rate is only 9 percent.
There are two big problems here. First, there are well-known flaws with the official poverty measure, and these flaws almost surely lead to serious understatement of elderly poverty. In an attempt to provide a more realistic picture, the Census Bureau now regularly releases a supplemental measure that most experts consider superior — and this measure puts senior poverty at 14.8 percent, close to the rate for younger adults.
Furthermore, the elderly poverty rate is highly likely to rise sharply in the future, as the failure of America’s private pension system takes its toll.
6/ Guys will think this one minute British clip is hysterically funny, women may think it's disgusting and how dare you put this filth in DDD.......sorry ladies, it's great guy humour......
7/ Madison Kimrey, a 12 year old schoolgirl in North Carolina takes the Republican Legislature to task for denying voting rights to young people, and calls on the youth of her state to protest the unfairness.
I will guarantee that you have never seen a smarter or more articulate young lady [apart from your relatives].....four minutes of watching a future Elizabeth Warren, I hope.....
8/ Even though this article is from the British equivalent to the National Enquirer it's still valid, according to all health experts. Most people don't drink enough water, and whether or not drinking five pints of water a day is equivalent to a facelift is a moot point, but it's still definitely good for you.
We report, you decide, but get guzzling.......
Drinking three litres of water a day took TEN YEARS off my face: Sarah, 42, was hoping to solve her headaches and poor digestion... just look what else happened
- One in five women drinks less than the recommended daily intake of water
- Every system and function in our body depends on water...
- Especially because the liquid flushes toxins from vital organs
By SARAH SMITH
PUBLISHED: 17:08 EST, 30 October 2013 | UPDATED: 21:17 EST, 30 October 2013
You might think I'd have little in common with a camel, but we do share one useful skill: both of us can go for a very long time without water.
Usually I start my day with a cup of tea, then I might have a glass of water with my lunch and one with dinner - that's about a litre of liquid in 24 hours. It feels like plenty, but apparently it's not nearly enough.
After years of suffering headaches and poor digestion I spoke to a neurologist about my regular headaches and a nutritionist about my poor digestion, and both told me I should be drinking up to three litres of liquid a day for my body to function at its best.
After four weeks: Sarah looks like a different woman
Then, when I read a recent survey suggesting that at least one in five women in the UK consumes less than the recommended daily intake of water, I decided to conduct an experiment. What would happen if I drank the recommended amount every day for a month?
The photograph of me taken the day I started this trial demonstrates perfectly - and rather frighteningly - what a lack of hydration does to a face.
I am 42, but have to admit I look more like 52 in this picture, which is shocking. There are dark shadows under and around my eyes, which make me look exhausted, a profusion of wrinkles and strange reddish blotches, and my skin lacks any lustre. It looks dead.
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9/ A wonderful three minute video of an Orca pod swimming up a river estuary in British Columbia.......beautiful creatures......
10/ Great music from the German DJ Zedd, with Hayley Williams of Paramore singing "Stay the Night".....features two dancers, the lovely Hayley tossing her red hair, Zedd on keyboards and some superfancy camera moves.........
If you like EDM [electronic dance music] you will love this one.......
11/ If you are middle class and always have been, it is difficult to understand why poor people make the choices they make, whether it's eating lousy food, having babies they can't care for, shabby clothes, smoking and any other lifestyle choice the rich/middle class look down on.
That's why this story is so powerful, and moving. It's written by a poor young woman who also has the kind of talent it takes to put you inside her skin.
Both Mary and I were really touched by her story......
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There's no way to structure this coherently. They are random observations that might help explain the mental processes. But often, I think that we look at the academic problems of poverty and have no idea of the why. We know the what and the how, and we can see systemic problems, but it's rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that, sort of.
Rest is a luxury for the rich. I get up at 6AM, go to school (I have a full course load, but I only have to go to two in-person classes) then work, then I get the kids, then I pick up my husband, then I have half an hour to change and go to Job 2. I get home from that at around 12:30AM, then I have the rest of my classes and work to tend to. I'm in bed by 3. This isn't every day, I have two days off a week from each of my obligations. I use that time to clean the house and soothe Mr. Martini and see the kids for longer than an hour and catch up on schoolwork. Those nights I'm in bed by midnight, but if I go to bed too early I won't be able to stay up the other nights because I'll fuck my pattern up, and I drive an hour home from Job 2 so I can't afford to be sleepy. I never get a day off from work unless I am fairly sick. It doesn't leave you much room to think about what you are doing, only to attend to the next thing and the next. Planning isn't in the mix.
12/ How not to Instagram.....a Florida video.....40 seconds......
DDD Reality time - 2 stories on the Climate
13/ The continent that will be most affected by climate change is Australia, but last year the government changed to Conservative and everything "green" was abandoned, probably because of the pressure from the coal industry which is about 19% of Australia's GDP. In other words, climate change was politicised and the official stance of the Ozzie gumment is denial.
But as the quote says....."you may not believe in climate change, but climate change believes in you".....and it's happening fast......
This article is interesting - it's written by an Australian, and though she is trying to be objective for the Times you can tell she's angry at the way policy is going in Canberra. Can it be [as she says] the campaign by the Rupert Murdoch media [Fox News is huge in Australia] that has skewed the reality?
Read for yourself.....
Australia's Politics of Global Warming
By JULIA BAIRD
Published: November 14, 2013
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SYDNEY — Huge clumps of strange, pink-stringed jellyfish drifted into the protected bay near my home in Sydney last year. Thousands swarmed under the surface, stinging indiscriminately. I swam through them in a full-body wet suit for several long months with my swimming group, wondering if warmer currents had changed the habitat patterns. Scientists are now talking about a peculiar “jellification” of the sea, prompted by climate change. We smeared ointments on our faces and packed antihistamines and creams for the red welts on our exposed skin.
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Last month, smoke hung over the water as we swam, and charred leaves fell onto the beach. Another bout of fires in western Sydney burned more than 300,000 acres of land near the city’s fringes. October is relatively early for major fires. What was going on?
As usual, some of it was due to boys with matches. An 11-year-old was charged for one fire in October and a 14-year-old for another. An army munitions training exercise started another blaze. One Christian group argued it was a sign of what would happen if gay marriage laws were passed.
But the most provocative question is, as it has certainly been this week in the Philippines in the aftermath Typhoon Haiyan: Is global warming to blame?
Australians have long associated summer with the acrid smell of smoke and images of singed koalas. As Prime Minister Tony Abbott said defensively, bush fires are “just a function of life in Australia.” But we have just had the hottest year on record. The real question is: How does global warming affect the probability and severity of fires?
Most scientists agree that higher temperatures are more likely to create drier soil, increase the length of the fire season, and create more dangerous fire conditions. So why are we so reluctant to accept this? And why are we regularly asked to trust poll-driven politicians more than data-driven scientists?
When the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, said that there was clear evidence that heat waves in Asia, Europe and Australia were on the rise, and that fires are an example of the “doom and gloom” the world may be facing,” our prime minister said Ms. Figueres was “talking through her hat.” When Al Gore weighed in to suggest there was a link, Mr. Abbott called it “absolute hogwash.”
Professor Lesley Hughes of the Department of Biological Sciences at Macquarie University in Sydney is co-authoring a report on bush fires and climate change for the Climate Council, a nonprofit organization designed to educate Australians on such matters, to be released this month. She said an exhaustive study of the research had found that “Australia is a fire-prone country and it will get more fire prone as the climate changes.”
14/ Even after reading the lead article in Tuesday's DDD, you may have held out some hope that out politicians and "leaders" are seeing what might happen and take some action.
A quote - "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"........based on this story that ran in all of the "serious" media headlining Japan's retreat from CO2 reduction targets, our civilisation is on the road to extinction.
The extreme weather globally in the last few years, including the droughts in the US, the record wind speed typhoon that just hit the Phillippines, even the 17 inches of rain in 24 hours that just last week ruined the island of Sardinia among many, many other weather events were caused by less than 1C rise in temperature. The UN agreed limit we are going to try to hold to [of 2C] will mean much worse weather to come, mainly for poorer countries.
A rise of 3.7 C by 2100 like this article says may lead to sea levels rising about 10 meters, and noone can predict the climate effects but it won't be pretty. This means your 10 year old grandkids will be facing some very interesting times when they are in their 40's/50's, at the turn of the century [2050] when it will start to get really nasty.......
If you are in your 50's now, wherever you live, you would do well to anticipate the effects a Sardinia-type rain would have on your house, and if there are trees overhanging your place make sure they are properly trimmed to withstand major winds. These are just the basics.
WARSAW, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The world is getting further off track in limiting global warming with setbacks in Japan and Australia outweighing positive signals from the United States and China, a study showed on Wednesday.
A Climate Action Tracker compiled by scientists said the world was headed for a temperature rise of 3.7 degrees Celsius (6.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times by 2100, against 3.1C (5.8F) if governments stuck to promised cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Governments meeting in Warsaw from Nov. 11-22 are trying to find ways to limit global warming to an agreed ceiling of less than 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels to avert more heatwaves, droughts, downpours and rising sea levels.
"We are seeing a major risk of a further downward spiral in ambition, a retreat from action, and a re-carbonisation of the energy system led by the use of coal," said Bill Hare, director of Climate Analytics.
Wednesday's study, by Climate Analytics, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Ecofys, said Japan's decision last week to ease its 2020 greenhouse gas emissions goals made it harder to reach the global 2C goal.
Japan said its original emissions goal of a 25 percent cut below 1990 levels was out of reach after its nuclear power industry was shuttered by the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The new goal is for a maximum 3 percent rise.
A Climate Action Tracker compiled by scientists said the world was headed for a temperature rise of 3.7 degrees Celsius (6.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times by 2100, against 3.1C (5.8F) if governments stuck to promised cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Governments meeting in Warsaw from Nov. 11-22 are trying to find ways to limit global warming to an agreed ceiling of less than 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels to avert more heatwaves, droughts, downpours and rising sea levels.
"We are seeing a major risk of a further downward spiral in ambition, a retreat from action, and a re-carbonisation of the energy system led by the use of coal," said Bill Hare, director of Climate Analytics.
Wednesday's study, by Climate Analytics, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Ecofys, said Japan's decision last week to ease its 2020 greenhouse gas emissions goals made it harder to reach the global 2C goal.
Japan said its original emissions goal of a 25 percent cut below 1990 levels was out of reach after its nuclear power industry was shuttered by the 2011 Fukushima disaster. The new goal is for a maximum 3 percent rise.
And if you missed Tuesdays lead story, which was an epiphany for me as I had always had some irrational hope we would get out of this climate spiral, here it is. I read it again, and it's just as convincing the second time.......
15/ Hilarious video of Florida's own disgusting Governor, the Skeletor, being booed off the stage at a Major League Soccer event.....45 seconds of watching this scumbag spin.....
The event was to announce Orlando City Soccer Club coming to town......I guess soccer fans don't like the Rickster.....
16/ "Hunger Games - Catching Fire" is good! Yeay!
Not often the sequel to a successful movie is as good as the original - Godfather 2, Aliens maybe, but as the Times says it's well worth seeing......
Decent review.......
When “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” opens, its lethally resourceful teenage heroine, Katniss Everdeen, is crouching in a forest, surveying a terrain as pristine as the one once scouted by American Indians. However pastoral, this isn’t the forest primeval but the very edge of free land outside the impoverished zone in which Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and her relatives, friends and the other starved souls labor for Panem, the authoritarian state built on the ruins of North America after a catastrophic war. It’s here that she hunts game to feed her family and where this startlingly new pioneer — with her bow and arrows, leather jacket and boots, primitive individualism and totally awesome strength of character — was forged.
“Catching Fire” is the follow-up to “The Hunger Games” and the second in what will be four movieadaptations of Suzanne Collins’s fantastically successful book trilogy. (The studio behind the series, Lionsgate, is splitting the final book into two flicks.) It’s largely satisfying as far as screen adventures go, and comes fully loaded with special effects and action scenes, and embellished with the usual brand-name character actors, including the new arrivals Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright and Amanda Plummer. It also has a different director, Francis Lawrence (replacing Gary Ross), who showed he knows his way around the post-apocalypse with the Will Smith vehicle “I Am Legend.” (Given Katniss’s increasingly valiant trajectory, that title would have been apt for this dystopian romp.)
A thrillingly atypical heroine, Katniss is the heart, soul and bloodied embodiment of the series and the primary reason that both the book and screen versions soar above the usual adventure-fiction slag heap. Like most cultural sensations, which invariably owe part of their success to their recognizability (familiarity breeds revenue), “The Hunger Games” builds on stories deep in our collective databanks, from the Greek myth of the Minotaur to the fall of Rome, and “Survivor,” the seemingly indestructible reality TV franchise. Like the 2000 Japanese movie “Battle Royale,” to which it bears some resemblance, “The Hunger Games” works because it hits that sweet spot where classical myth meets contemporary anxiety to become a pop mind-blower.
The trailer is descriptive, and hints at the plot twists......
Todays video - the opening scene of "28 Weeks Later", and it's actually the best bit of the movie which goes downhill from here. But watch as the zombies find the survivors. This is the first zombie series of films ["28 Days Later" was first] where the creatures aren't slow and easily killable. These things are fast!
Note - this is not for the squeamish.....
Todays grandfather joke
A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly-behaved grandson.
He has his hands full with the child screaming for sweets, biscuits, all sorts of things.
The grandad is saying in a controlled voice: "Easy, William, we won't be long . . . easy boy."
Another outburst and she hears the grandad calmly say : "It's okay William. Just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of here. Hang in there, boy."
At the checkout the little horror is throwing items out of the trolley.
Grandad says again in a controlled voice : "William, William, relax buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes, stay cool William."
Very impressed, she goes outside to where the grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car. She says : "It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don't know how you did it. That whole time you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying things would be okay. William is very lucky to have you as his grandad."
"Thanks," says the grandpa. "But I'm William. The little bastard's name is Kevin."
Todays Adult Truths
1 Sometimes I'll look down at my watch 3 consecutive times and still not know what time it is.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind-of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu-ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.
17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
22. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.
23. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Ladies.....Quit Laughing.
2. Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.
3. I totally take back all those times I didn't want to nap when I was younger.
4. There is great need for a sarcasm font.
5. How the hell are you supposed to fold a fitted sheet?
6. Was learning cursive really necessary?
7. Map Quest really needs to start their directions on # 5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
8. Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.
9. I can't remember the last time I wasn't at least kind-of tired.
10. Bad decisions make good stories.
11. You never know when it will strike, but there comes a moment when you know that you just aren't going to do anything productive for the rest of the day.
12. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blu-ray? I don't want to have to restart my collection...again.
13. I'm always slightly terrified when I exit out of Word and it asks me if I want to save any changes to my ten-page technical report that I swear I did not make any changes to.
14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.
15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.
16. I disagree with Kay Jewelers. I would bet on any given Friday or Saturday night more kisses begin with Miller Light than Kay.
17. I wish Google Maps had an "Avoid Ghetto" routing option.
18. I have a hard time deciphering the fine line between boredom and hunger.
19. How many times is it appropriate to say "What?" before you just nod and smile because you still didn't hear or understand a word they said?
20. I love the sense of camaraderie when an entire line of cars team up to prevent a jerk from cutting in at the front. Stay strong, brothers and sisters!
21. Shirts get dirty. Underwear gets dirty. Pants? Pants never get dirty, and you can wear them forever.
22. Even under ideal conditions people have trouble locating their car keys in a pocket, finding their cell phone, and Pinning the Tail on the Donkey - but I'd bet everyone can find and push the snooze button from 3 feet away, in about 1.7 seconds, eyes closed, first time, every time.
23. The first testicular guard, the "Cup," was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. That means it only took 100 years for men to realize that their brain is also important.
Ladies.....Quit Laughing.
Todays old lady joke
The secret to long life...
She was sitting on her front step smoking a cigar, so he walked up to her and said,“I couldn’t help but notice how happy you look! What is your secret?”
“I smoke ten cigars a day,” she said. “Before I go to bed, I smoke a nice big joint.
Apart from that, I drink a whole bottle of Jack Daniels every week, and eat only junk food.
On weekends, I pop pills, have sex, and I don’t exercise at all.
“That is absolutely amazing! How old are you?”
“Forty,” she replied
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