Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Davids Daily Dose - Tuesday September 30th
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Davids Daily Dose - Wednesday September 24th
Three of the best comedy videos for a while - the Jon Stewart, Bill Maher and the John Oliver pieces are wonderful......
1/ I'm not a huge fan of Thomas Friedman, but his column last week nails it - one of the options for this current crisis in the Middle East is to do nothing, and he argues this is perhaps the smartest thing the US could do.
Which won't happen, of course. Our history in this part of the world is always to do the dumbest thing imaginable, because that's what makes money for the boys.....so let's bomb Syria......
Great writing......
LONDON — An existential struggle is taking place in the Arab world today. But is it ours or is it theirs? Before we step up military action in Iraq and Syria, that’s the question that needs answering.
What concerns me most about President Obama’s decision to re-engage in Iraq is that it feels as if it’s being done in response to some deliberately exaggerated fears — fear engendered by YouTube videos of the beheadings of two U.S. journalists — and fear that ISIS, a.k.a., the Islamic State, is coming to a mall near you. How did we start getting so afraid again so fast? Didn’t we build a Department of Homeland Security?
I am not dismissing ISIS. Obama is right that ISIS needs to be degraded and destroyed. But when you act out of fear, you don’t think strategically and you glide over essential questions, like why is it that Shiite Iran, which helped trigger this whole Sunni rebellion in Iraq, is scoffing at even coordinating with us, and Turkey and some Arab states are setting limits on their involvement?
When I read that, I think that Nader Mousavizadeh, who co-leads the global consulting firm Macro Advisory Partners, is correct when he says: “When it comes to intervening in the Arab world’s existential struggle, we have to stop and ask ourselves why we have such a challenge getting them to help us save them.”
So before we get in any deeper, let’s ask some radical questions, starting with: What if we did nothing?
2/ Incredibly good piece of what might be called comedic investigative reporting.......John Oliver giving us a story of a corrupt organisation, in this case the Miss America Pagent, and making it very funny......a wonderful 15 minutes......
And of course it helps to have beautiful women in bikinis........but look at the dumb questions they ask contestants, and the surprisingly good answers....
For some reason, John Oliver and his staff atLast Week Tonight spent the entire week researching and dismantling one of the most important questions of our era: does the Miss America Foundation actually give out $45 million in scholarships to women; and if they do, why do they need to put women in swimsuits in order to give out what is ostensibly an academic scholarship?
The answer is due to some, erm, very creative accounting, and once Oliver managed to crunch the numbers and did some extensive journalistic legwork — involving actually pulling the tax filings from 33 state organizations participating in the Miss America pageant — found that the foundation only actually gave out about 1% of that total amount. “How the fuck is that possible?!” a stunned Oliver asked. “How is that possible?”
Sadly, Oliver knew that simply railing on the Miss America Foundation for their dubious practices would take him nowhere, so he did the only thing that they would understand: host a pageant, force people to answer complex questions in 20 seconds, and get insulted by Kathy Griffin.
3/ We're bombing Syria now, escalating the war to a new level, but with Thomas Friedman's story in mind I found this article really depressing - there are deep suspicions in the Iraqi government and many governments in the Middle East that the CIA is behind ISIS.
We will never know if they are right or wrong, and before you assume they're just dumb ragheads they may well be correct. Personally I don't believe anything the gub'ment or the corporate media say about this part of the world, because the oil companies and the military industrial complex are the real policymakers......
Anyway, interesting story and theory that explains why we will never, ever, ever win a war in this region, if indeed anyone can define winning....
BAGHDAD — The United States has conducted an escalating campaign of deadly airstrikes against the extremists of the Islamic State for more than a month. But that appears to have done little to tamp down the conspiracy theories still circulating from the streets of Baghdad to the highest levels of Iraqi government that the C.I.A.is secretly behind the same extremists that it is now attacking.
“We know about who made Daesh,” said Bahaa al-Araji, a deputy prime minister, using an Arabic shorthand for the Islamic State on Saturday at a demonstration called by the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr to warn against the possible deployment of American ground troops. Mr. Sadr publicly blamed the C.I.A. for creating the Islamic State in a speech last week, and interviews suggested that most of the few thousand people at the demonstration, including dozens of members of Parliament, subscribed to the same theory. (Mr. Sadr is considered close to Iran, and the theory is popular there as well.)
4/ Todays guy video.....ahoooooooogah.......
5/ Mary and I were in an airport and saw a pillow in one of the shops with the slogan "Fly First Class, or your kids will" which has stuck with us ever since, so this story from the Times was apropos......
The point is that most middle age kids don't have any expectations of getting an inheritance, it's just in the back of their minds.....
Parents, the Children Will Be Fine. Spend Their Inheritance Now.
Once people hit retirement, they do not know how long they will live or how long their money will last. Still, the vast majority of retirees with children cling to an intention to leave something behind, even though many of those offspring have no expectation of receiving an inheritance.
This parental instinct might seem loving and generous, but there is another way to look at it. All of this devotion to the next generation may also be the height of foolishness. After a few decades of spending well into the six figures to rear and educate each child (and increasingly, years more backstopping young adults who are not quite financially independent), the parents probably ought to cease feeling this sense of obligation. Far better to spend their retirement money in the present on making meaningful memories with family members or on top-notch care that can help make aging more comfortable and graceful — in their own home if possible.
So how can we middle-aged kids convince our parents that they are officially off the hook?
6/ One of the best Bill Maher segments for a long time - very funny indeed, while also delivering a message to all spineless Americans who are terrified of ISIS.........five excellent minutes.....
For his final “New Rule” on Friday evening’s Real Time, Bill Maher went after war hawk conservatives for hyping domestic threats from ISIS and “other brown people,” while ignoring other pressing matters at home.
“When it comes to being baited into war, America has to try and not be so fucking easy!” Maher shouted. The HBO host suggested that before video emerged of ISIS beheadings, most Americans had been hesitant to intervene in foreign affairs. But upon seeing the footage, they went weak at the knees, saying, in his estimation, “Oh, war, we can’t stay mad at you.”
The comedian went after hawkish Republicans like Sen. Lindsey Graham, who likely “collapsed onto his fainting couch” after declaring that we are all dead if the president does not eradicate ISIS immediately. He also mocked Republican lawmakers who claim that along with undocumented immigrants, ISIS forces are currently invading the United States via the southern border.
“Oh, my God, the brown people, and the other brown people,” Maher teased. “Mexicans and ISIS sneaking into the country together? They’re going to cut off our heads with a hedge trimmer.”
The HBO host noted that he does feel bad about the journalists beheaded by the jihadist group, but cautioned: “When you choose to live among cutthroats, you might get your throat cut.”
“Do Americans living here actually think it’s going to be them next?” he asked. “Get a grip.”
7/ If you live in a big city occasionally you will have your car towed, which is a pain in the ass and inconvenient, but you will always come up with the charges and get your car back. However for a lot of Americans, it's a nightmare....
If You Want to See Inequality in the U.S. at Its Worst, Visit an Impound Lot
For millions of Americans a towed car can lead to a crippling spiral of stress, debt, joblessness, illness and, in many cases, incarceration.
On a recent San Francisco afternoon, I returned to where I’d parked my car, but it was gone. A “No Parking” sign indicated that parking was prohibited after 3:00 PM on weekends. It was 3:15. I called the telephone number on the sign and a clerk affirmed that my car had been towed to an impound lot.
I took a cab and entered a single-story brick building where a few dozen people were crowded together in a scene that evoked Kafka; weariness, frustration and anger were palpable. Some stood in line, some paced and some sat hunched on the floor. A family huddled in a corner, an infant asleep on the father’s shoulder. A woman on a pay phone wept as she begged whomever was on the line to find money so she could get her car back–she said she needed $875. “I’m gonna lose my job if I’m not there at 5.”
Clerks sat on stools behind Plexiglas. At a window, a man pleaded with an agent, “I have to pick up my kids in less than an hour. What am I supposed to do?” At the next window, another man railed loudly and furiously, yelling, “How the hell am I supposed to get my goddam money if I can’t get to goddam work?” The clerk said, “If you can’t get cash, you can pay by credit card or cashier’s check.” The man shouted, “And if I had a goddam limousine, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”
A man waiting in line with me told me that he owned a landscaping business that depended on his truck, which had been towed three days earlier. “I can’t work,” he said. “The crew don’t work. Everything I need is in the truck.”
8/ It's been a great week for our comedy shows - this is one of the best Jon Stewart clips for a while, and he takes on the climate change hearings at the House Committee for Science, Space and Technology with the classic quote "Pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain".
One of his better ones, nine minutes of hilarity and Jon getting excited too.....wonderful!
He starts the segment with clips from the march in New York over the weekend protesting climate change, with some hilarious media fails.....but the fact is there was hardly any media coverage at all. This was 400,000 people marching, one of the largest climate demonstrations ever but our corporate media didn't think it worthy of attention. Compare that to the buzz whenever 50 Tea Party assholes protest something.
Jon Stewart on Monday slammed a U.S House hearing regarding climate change, comparing the Republican-led session to “pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain.”
The Wednesday hearing featured testimony fromJohn Holdren, President Barack Obama‘s adviser on science and technology. Stewart showed clips of Republicans Steve Stockman of Texas, Dana Rohrabacher of California andLarry Bucshon of Indiana doubting the effects of climate change.
Stewart labeled Holdren the hearing’s “Sysyphus, charged with the impossible task of pushing a million pounds of idiot up a mountain.”
“How far back to the elementary school curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up?” Stewart said. “Do we have to bring out the paper-machet and the baking soda so you can make a volcano?”
9/ Concurrent with the 400,000 people protesting and the conference to follow, an excellent story from Robert Stavins in the Times about the realities of climate change....he tells it like it is, discussing both the economics and the politics of trying to get meaningful action on this, the biggest challenge to the planet modern man has ever faced. If you read this article, with it's well argued logic, you may want to think about his final sentence which is, in my humble opinion, a little optimistic.
But read this anyway - it's excellent. We report, you decide.......
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — ON Tuesday, world leaders will converge atUnited Nations headquarters in New York for a summit meeting on the climate that will set the stage for global negotiations next year to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the threat of global climate change. The summit is titled “Catalyzing Action,” a decidedly hopeful characterization.
I wish I were so hopeful.
It is true that, in theory, we can avoid the worst consequences of climate change with an intensive global effort over the next several decades. But given real-world economic and, in particular, political realities, that seems unlikely.
There are emerging hints of a positive path ahead, but first let’s look at the sobering reality.
islands and coastal wetlands, greater storm frequency and intensity, the risk of species extinction
and a significant spread of infectious disease.
Then there are the politics, which are driven by two fundamental facts.
The guards who stand sentry outside Buckingham Palace are the embodiment of decorum and regularity. Many British children have grown up with little dolls of them in their sentry boxes (I was one). Innumerable tourists over decades have watched them make their nobly pointless little marches to and fro between A and B. They are absurd, glorious, dependable, stiff-upper-lip, constant: They mean “There’ll always be an England.”
Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(Credit: AP/Jae C. Hong/Pictureguy via Shuttersto
Hialeah
Last night, Stephen Colbert was forced to use his safe word (“Pumpkin patch! Pumpkin patch!”) when he saw Sean Hannity smacking his belt on live TV to prove a point about the Adrian Peterson arrest.
Awards it could be up for: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
The United Nations has set a goal of keeping global temperatures from rising by no more than two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. (The average global temperature has increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius since 1880, with two-thirds of the warming occurring since 1975.) Meeting this goal would require a worldwide reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 40 to 70 percent by midcentury, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. That’s an immense challenge.
The reality is that 300 years of economic growth in the industrialized countries have been fueled by the combustion of fossil fuels — coal, petroleum and natural gas. We still depend on these. And the large emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico and South Africa are rapidly putting in place new infrastructure that is also dependent on burning fossil fuels.
Two points are important to understand if we’re going to be serious about attacking this problem.
One, it will be costly. An economic assessment might be “difficult, but not impossible.” And two, things become more challenging when we move from the economics to the politics.
Doing what is necessary to achieve the United Nations’ target for reducing emissions would reduce economic growth by about 0.06 percent annually from now through 2100, according to the I.P.C.C. That sounds trivial, but by the end of the century it means a 5 percent loss of worldwide economic activity per year.
And this cost projection assumes optimal conditions — the immediate implementation of a common global price or tax on carbon dioxide emissions, a significant expansion of nuclear power and the advent and wide use of new, low-cost technologies to control emissions and provide cleaner sources of energy.
Then there are the politics, which are driven by two fundamental facts.
If the new technologies we hope will be available aren’t, like one that would enable the capture and storage of carbon emissions from power plants, the cost estimates more than double.
First, greenhouse gases mix globally in the atmosphere, and so damages are spread around the world, regardless of where the gases were emitted. Thus, any country taking action incurs the costs, but the benefits are distributed globally. This presents a classic free-rider problem: It is in the economic self-interest of virtually no country to take unilateral action, and each can reap the benefits of any countries that do act. This is why international cooperation is essential.
Second, some of these heat-trapping gases — in particular, carbon dioxide — remain in the atmosphere for centuries, so even if we were to rapidly reduce emissions, the problem would not be solved immediately. Even the most aggressive efforts will take time to ramp up.
These realities — the global nature and persistence of the problem — present fundamental geopolitical challenges.
10/ Contrary to what the British media have said, this Buckingham Palace guard is not in jail.......for doing some pretty cool dance moves while on duty in front of the Palace, filmed by a tourist who then posted it........three minutes.......
Yet subversiveness has at last struck even these pillars of the establishment, or one of them. In late August, a clip was posted on YouTube of a guard tweaking the routine. During the three minutes and 23 seconds of footage, he is seen three times doing a few slow chaîné turns, and for this he has been hailed in British newspapers as the pirouetting guard. This feat alone — pirouettologists will note that he is a left-turner.
Two excellent stories about the same issue, the recent troubles of Olive Garden, but with a different emphasis to each article.
11/ The first from New York Magazine looks at the business model, from the allegations of lousy product put about by the hedge fund that owns a large portion of it to the real reason sales have dropped - it's middle class customers have less money.
Both of these reasons for it's decline are truthful, which you can confirm if you've eaten at an Olive Garden recently.......
For Olive Garden, 2014 has been almost as tough as its lasagna fritta.
Last week, an activist hedge fund that owns shares in Darden, OG's parent company, put out a scathing, 300-slide presentation arguing that the strip-mall purveyor of soft pasta and complimentary breadsticks is dreadfully mismanaged. The fund, Starboard Value, dinged its food quality, corporate strategy, and top executives — arguing that the firm could bring in more customers and make more money if it only tried a little harder. It was a public humiliation for a company that has struggled mightily of late, its sales sliding and its food mocked.
Alas, the mockery feels merited. Last night, a group of friends and I piled into a car to head to the closest branch to Washington, in a suburban strip mall in Virginia. Expectations were low. “Wanna see what waiters high on weed look like?” said one Yelp review of the branch in question. “Wanna see what ‘2300 mg of sodium per serving’ chicken and shrimp carbonara with overcooked noodles tastes like?” Well, yes, and it tastes like salt.
But the visit left me convinced that Olive Garden’s problems run far deeper than its kitchen or its boardroom. What OG and other sit-down chains offer is in essence escapist kitsch. Come, eat your $14 dinner, drink your nine-ounce pour of wine, enjoy unlimited breadsticks, feel safe. But in this economy, transmitting a feeling of security through a plate of salty, reasonably priced carbohydrates seems a task far beyond any restaurant chain, no matter how well run.
None of this is to dismiss Olive Garden’s own problems, of course.
12/ The second [from Salon] delves into the financial details of Olive Garden's ownership, and the real reason the hedge fund owns it's stock - they want to do a "pump and dump", slicing off the lucrative real estate portion and leasing it back to the restaurants, probably leading to the bankruptcy of the company and thousands of employees out of a job.
This is a story of capitalism at work......and it's not pretty, just greed.....
(Credit: AP/Jae C. Hong/Pictureguy via Shuttersto
Last week, you may have noticed a kooky story about a hedge fund named Starboard Valuechastising Olive Garden for handing out too many unlimited breadsticks at a time, and failing to salt its pasta water. The snarky 294-page presentation
Business Insider’s Joe Weisenthal called the presentation a masterpiece. Vox and Mother Jones and Slate and the New Yorker debated its finer points. Business Insider even sent reporters on a field excursion to Olive Garden to check things out.
The story had all the proper elements for our Twitter-fueled “you won’t believe what happened next” media age. Readers could mock that silly chain restaurant they remember from their childhoods in the suburbs, and the silly hedge fund that took the time to write the world’s worst review.
Except Starboard Value does not spend its time crusading for better mid-market Italian meals for no reason. It owns a bunch of shares in Olive Garden’s parent company, Darden Restaurants, and wants to take control of the company’s board. The scheme it’s concocted to increase its share price has little to do with breadsticks and pasta water. It really wants to steal Olive Garden’s real estate, and make a billion dollars in the process.
13/ Stephen Colbert jumps on the Lindsey Graham bandwagon, and like Jon Stewart does his version of the fear spewing from this asshole's mouth.......I'm afraid I haven't watched this because this video won't play in the UK where we are on vacation, but I'm sure it's funny.....and it's probably less than five minutes.....
Stephen Colbert followed in his good friends Jon Stewart’s footsteps last night by dedicating a good portion of his opening segment on ISIS to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s over-the-top fear that the terrorist network will kill every single American citizen.
After emerging from under his desk, Colbert repeated Graham’s fears that “We’re all gonna die!” He added, “And worst of all, no one will be alive to blame it on Obama.”
“Because it’s all true folks,” Colbert said. “Without ground forces in Syria, every man, woman, and child, in the United States, including Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa, are just dead men walking. Those 30,000 ISIS fighters will kill all 300 million of us over Columbus Day weekend.”
Colbert applauded his fellow South Carolinian’s “statesman-like pants-crapping,” but urged his audience not to panic because the Kurdish Peshmerga and America’s “imaginary” Arab partners can just do the dirty work for us.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/
14/ Some of you still live in Miami-Dade County, and a lot of you used to, so this listing of the worst/best cities in Dade may be of interest......all subjective, done by the people at the Miami New Times who are pretty tuned in......
Quite interesting overall, but eye-opening about the little city we used to live in [Biscayne Park], which came in at #27 out of 34 cities.....oops!
There's nowhere in the U.S. quite like Miami-Dade County. It's larger than Rhode Island, has twice as many people, and is bordered by two national parks. Its 2.5 million residents are among the most diverse in the nation. And they live in a smattering of 34 incorporated cities, which range from 400,000-person metropolises to 86 solitary residents.
But we're not here to celebrate all of those unique statistics. We're here to argue about which of those 34 cities is best. What follows is the definitive ranking of each and every one of those communities.
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| via City of Hialeah Facebook |
Pros: Pastelitos and cafecitos galore! Three-fourths of the city's population is Cuban -- the highest percentage in the nation. The Hialeah Park Race Track is among the oldest in America. Amelia Earhart's final flight took off from Hialeah's airfield.
Cons: Recently ranked among the most boring cities in America. Driving hell. The streets were apparently numbered by someone on a raging rum binge.
Bottom line: Forget Little Havana. If you want real blue-collar Cubano life and don't mind getting lost, Hialeah is your spot
15/ The NFL scandal went from bad to worse with the child abuse scandal last week, and of course the right wing brigade went on defense mode, with the brainless idiot Sean Hannity leading the charge.
Stephen Colbert in this clip takes him to pieces......again I haven't watched it, but it went viral in the blogosphere.....about three minutes I believe.....
Last night, Stephen Colbert was forced to use his safe word (“Pumpkin patch! Pumpkin patch!”) when he saw Sean Hannity smacking his belt on live TV to prove a point about the Adrian Peterson arrest.
“Hannity is right on this one,” Colbert agreed, saying that the Fox anchor had grown up to be a fine, upstanding individual despite being subjected to corporal abuse as a child. “After all, Sean’s dad whipped him with a belt, and he never needed to go to a psychotherapist! He just has to have them on his show three times a week.”
“Mentally, he grew up to be a psychologically healthy adult who cleaves desperately to strong authority figures, lashes out at perceived weakness and takes his belt off on live TV,” Colbert added. “All Hannity is saying is that some children deserve to be punched in the face, although it is sad to see that, so many years later, the swelling still hasn’t gone down.”
16/ One for you film buffs - 11 movies [with trailers] that are generating Oscar buzz......
With the crisp fall air comes the promise of award-worthy movies as Hollywood shifts its focus from tent pole blockbusters to prestige pics and Oscar bait. For fans of well-written biopics, epic dramas and classic Hollywood dramedies these next few months are a treasure trove.
Of the dozens of films released during this window of time, only a few will secure an Academy Award nomination. Here are 11 likely contenders to put on your must-watch list.
1. Foxcatcher
Awards it could be up for: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
Todays [nice] video - Andre Rieu, the renowned violinist, plays "My Way" with the New York Philharmonic.......
*Rieu is a renowned Dutch violinist, conductor and composer, and his orchestra did a tribute to Frank Sinatra with "My Way" on his Stradivarius violin at Radio City Music Hall - New York.*
Rieu doesn't often play his violin thru whole pieces!*
Todays blond joke
A man got on the bus with both of his front trouser pockets full of golf balls and sat down
next to a beautiful blonde.
The puzzled blonde kept looking at him and his bulging pockets.
Finally, after many glances from her, he said, "It's golf balls."
The blonde continued to look at him for a very long time, thinking deeply about what he had said.
Finally unable to contain her curiosity any longer, she asked, "Does it hurt as much as
tennis elbow?"
Todays pregnancy jokes
How long is the average woman in labor?
~Whatever she says, divided by two.
Is there any reason I have to be in the delivery room while my wife is in labor?
~Not unless the word “alimony” means anything to you.
What does it mean when the baby’s head is crowning?
~It means you feel as though not only a crown but the entire throne is trying to make its way out of you.
What are forceps?
~Giant baby tweezers.
Does labor cause hemorrhoids?
~Labor causes anything you want to blame it for.
I’m modest. Once I’m in the hospital to deliver, who will see me in that delicate position?
~Authorized personnel only - doctors, nurses, orderlies, photographers, florists, cleaning crews, journalists, etc.
Where is the best place to store breast milk?
~In your breasts.
What does it mean when a baby is born with teeth?
~It means that the baby’s mother may want to rethink her plans to nurse.
What are the terrible twos?
~Your breasts after your baby stops nursing cold turkey.
What is the best time to wean the baby from nursing?
~When you see teeth marks.
What is the grasp reflex?
~The reaction of new fathers when they see a new mother’s breasts.
What causes baby blues?
~Tanned, hard-bodied bimbos.
What is colic?
~A reminder for new parents to use birth control.
What are night terrors?
~Frightening episodes in which the new mother dreams she’s pregnant again.
Our baby was born last week. When will my wife begin to feel and act normal again?
~When the kids are in college.
Is there anything I should avoid while recovering from childbirth?
~Yes, pregnancy.
When choosing a name for your baby, go to the back door and shout it out a few times.
~Whatever she says, divided by two.
Is there any reason I have to be in the delivery room while my wife is in labor?
~Not unless the word “alimony” means anything to you.
What does it mean when the baby’s head is crowning?
~It means you feel as though not only a crown but the entire throne is trying to make its way out of you.
What are forceps?
~Giant baby tweezers.
Does labor cause hemorrhoids?
~Labor causes anything you want to blame it for.
I’m modest. Once I’m in the hospital to deliver, who will see me in that delicate position?
~Authorized personnel only - doctors, nurses, orderlies, photographers, florists, cleaning crews, journalists, etc.
Where is the best place to store breast milk?
~In your breasts.
What does it mean when a baby is born with teeth?
~It means that the baby’s mother may want to rethink her plans to nurse.
What are the terrible twos?
~Your breasts after your baby stops nursing cold turkey.
What is the best time to wean the baby from nursing?
~When you see teeth marks.
What is the grasp reflex?
~The reaction of new fathers when they see a new mother’s breasts.
What causes baby blues?
~Tanned, hard-bodied bimbos.
What is colic?
~A reminder for new parents to use birth control.
What are night terrors?
~Frightening episodes in which the new mother dreams she’s pregnant again.
Our baby was born last week. When will my wife begin to feel and act normal again?
~When the kids are in college.
Is there anything I should avoid while recovering from childbirth?
~Yes, pregnancy.
When choosing a name for your baby, go to the back door and shout it out a few times.
Todays golf joke
Got home really late last night after a full day of golfing and hanging out drinking with
the guys, and Mary left a message in the kitchen.
I think she wants me to eat more fruit, bless her heart!
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