Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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?

7 comments:

One Fly said...

A very huge fat chance there Comrade.

Cujo359 said...

There was a similar warning last year. Lack of education is keeping a lot of recruits away, too.

So, if they're not learning and they're not exercising, what are elementary and secondary school students doing nowadays?

Comrade Misfit said...

Cujo, playing video games and smoking reefer?

Hell, I cheer, now, every time I see a kid on a skateboard, for at least that kid is getting some exercise. Even if the kid is the World's Ugliest Crossdresser.

Comrade Misfit said...

World's Ugliest Crossdresser

OK, I should explain that.

A couple of weeks ago, when I was visiting my mother up north, there was a kid on a skateboard wearing combat boots, a camisole top with spaghetti straps and a short skirt. (Not exactly my idea of skateboard gear, but OK.)

The kid was spinning around, so I got to see the armpit hair that was almost long enough to braid and then the mustache and a scraggly goatee.

(The town has a long-standing tradition that is sort of a mix of counterculture dating back to the `60s, blended in with "do whatever you want as long as it doesn't hurt me", which is why that kid could go out dressed that way without ending up in a full-body cast. Sort of like Greenwich Village, without the yuppies and with a lot more snow.)

But anyway, I'm not big on gender-fucking. I hold that if you're going to go outdoors intentionally dressed like a member of the opposite gender, you should at least try to make a passable attempt at it and not be such a freak show that you could frighten the horses.

Cirze said...

It's not a mistake.

And they are getting exactly what they (Cheney/Bushites) bargained for, you know.

Idjits who join the military without a thought in their heads.

Just what is now needed as we head into more wars for control and the energy with which to fight them and rule the world.

Take a look at just the energy required to keep that Armed Forces presence going.

Love your work!

S

Now no art, no PT, no music, little science, just whatever is necessary to pass the "No Child Left Untested" exams.
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Anonymous said...

They already have one, Comrade: http://home.howstuffworks.com/10-wacky-home-inventions6.htm

Anonymous said...

Puts me in mind of all those unnecessary & over-elaborate "kitchen aids" aimed at little old blue-haired church ladies.