An Indication Why This Country is Doomed

Self-closing toilet seats and lids.



We have apparently become too lazy to even close the lids on our frakking toilets.[1]

It is becoming a national security issue:

Excess weight is the leading reason the Army rejects potential recruits. And while that has been true for years, the problem has worsened as the waistlines of America’s youth have expanded. This year, a group of retired generals and admirals released a report titled “Too Fat to Fight.”

“Between 1995 and 2008, the proportion of potential recruits who failed their physicals each year because they were overweight rose nearly 70 percent,” the report concluded.

There was a time when gym class was mandatory all the way through high school. But that was when public education was perceived to be a good thing, before the Confederate party began demonizing public education. Now no art, no PT, no music, little science, just whatever is necessary to pass the "No Child Left Untested" exams.

But to be fair, the problem with fat kids also has something to do with more and more junk foods, the introduction of video games and computers, as well as the fears that if the kids were allowed to just play outside, they would be snatched by some molester.

Still, the rising obesity rate in children is becoming a matter of national security. Fat chance, though, that it will be addressed in a meaningful way.

[1]The video touts that you don't have to touch the plague-ridden underside to close the lid. So I gather that self-lifting toilet lids will be the next invention?