First Time

A girl asks her boyfriend to come over Friday night to meet, and have dinner with her parents. Since this is such a big event, the girl announces to her boyfriend that after dinner, she would like to go out and make love for the first time.

The boy is ecstatic, but he has never had sex before, so he takes a trip to the pharmacist to get some condoms. He tells the pharmacist it's his first time and the pharmacist helps the boy for about an hour. He tells the boy everything there is to know about condoms and sex.

At the register, the pharmacist asks the boy how many condoms he'd like to buy, a 3-pack, 10-pack, or family pack. The boy insists on the family pack because he thinks he will be rather busy, it being his first time and all.

That night, the boy shows up at the girl's parents house and meets his girlfriend at the door. "Oh, I'm so excited for you to meet my parents, come on in!" The boy goes inside and is taken to the dinner
table where the girl's parents are seated. The boy quickly offers to say grace and bows his head.

A minute passes, and the boy is still deep in prayer, with his head down. 10 minutes pass, and still no movement from the boy. Finally, after 20 minutes with his head down, the girlfriend leans over and whispers to the boyfriend, "I had no idea you were this religious."

The boy turns, and whispers back, "And I had no idea your father was a pharmacist."

File under "we told you so". August 21st on this blog we surmised that the recent spate publicity surrounding recalls and problems with Chinese products was related to the Chinese threat to devalue the dollar.

Recently China floated a threat that it would sell off US Treasury Bonds if Congress imposed sanctions against the growing Asian giant.

The Chinese government has hinted that it may liquidate its vast holding of US Treasury bonds, potentially triggering a crash in the dollar, if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation, The Telegraph reported. source- Forbes.com

Since that story broke there have been a number of stories about problems with Chinese manufactured products.

From Mattel toys to Toys R US bibs, to tires, pet foods, tooth paste, the list goes on.

So it is curious that suddenly, we are hearing about the Chinese products in a way that has people checking the Made In labels before they buy.

Read the rest here.

"People have reason to fear that some government officials and media in the United States hope to use doubts about the overall quality of Chinese goods to press for narrow trade protection." source- Reuters

Are we seeing a new kind of trade war using bad product publicity instead of tariffs?

If Senator Craig of Idaho really did try to signal an undercover officer to engage in sex with him in a Minnesota airport restroom as is alleged, it is really disgusting.

As if it wasn't disgusting enough, a news crew has created a video reenactment.

As usual, whenever a conservative is caught doing something that stinks of hypocrisy, the left goes wild, but in the process demonstrates their own.

Where is the reenactment of Monica Lewinsky performing fellatio on President Bill Clinton in the Oval Office at the White House?.

It was just about sex as I remember.

The headline from the Drudge Report reads: Iran Prepared to Fill Iraq Power Vacuum

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned Tuesday that a power vacuum is imminent in Iraq and said that Iran was ready to help fill the gap.

"The political power of the occupiers is collapsing rapidly," Ahmadinejad said at a press conference in Tehran, referring to U.S. troops in Iraq. "Soon, we will see a huge power vacuum in the region. Of course, we are prepared to fill the gap, with the help of neighbors and regional friends like Saudi Arabia, and with the help of the Iraqi nation." source: Breitbart.com

Credit goes to the Democrat Party who's incessant calls for immediate troop withdrawal and Maliki's resignation emboldens the Iranians and Al Qaeda, and prolongs the war.

"Alberto Gonzales was never the right man for this job....

Columnist Jennifer Hunter takes credit for setting the news abuz with a column that interpreted Michelle Obama's recent Family Values comments as being directed at Bill and Hillary Clinton.

...in the fifth paragraph of the story, I suggested that during an introduction to a speech by her husband, something she said could be interpreted as a swipe against the Clintons, and that set the tongues wagging, hit Drudge's Web site, was discussed on CNN, ABC and MSNBC and prompted an e-mail from Michelle Obama's communications director, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, who said I had completely misunderstood what Michelle Obama had said.

The statement by Mrs Obama said:

"One of the most important things that we need to know about the next president of the United States is, is he somebody that shares our values, is he somebody that respects family, is a good and decent person? So our view is that if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House...

It is clear to anyone who witnessed the Bill and Monica affair, the Bill and "bimbo's name here" allegations in the news and the Clinton's "married but keeping separate houseolds" lifestyle that the Clintons do not share the same family values that mainstream America has.

Despite denials by the Obama camp, Michelle Obama's comments WERE directed at Billary Clinton.

So much for the granola crunching Berkeley liberals smug in their Prius's. The Prius is gaining "street cred".

Street Credibility is what rap stars achieve by getting in the news for committing a crime that contributes to their persona as a bad ass. This is said to increase record sales.

So now that the Toyota Prius Hybrid car has been featured in a couple of high profile over 100 mile per hour incidents, it may not be just for hippies anymore. Really, a Prius can do 100?

Al Gore's son was recently arrested for drug possession after being pulled over doing 100 MPH in his Prius, and Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer was recently given a $700.00 speeding ticket.

What's next, a Prius get away car in a robbery?

Recently China floated a threat that it would sell off US Treasury Bonds if Congress imposed sanctions against the growing Asian giant.

The Chinese government has hinted that it may liquidate its vast holding of US Treasury bonds, potentially triggering a crash in the dollar, if Washington imposes trade sanctions to force a yuan revaluation, The Telegraph reported. source- Forbes.com

Since that story broke there has been a number of stories about problems with Chinese manufactured products.

From Mattel toys to Toys R US bibs, to tires, pet foods, tooth paste, the list goes on.

Considering the volume of products coming in from China, it is silly to assume that the quality issues plagueing them lately are new. What is new is the amount of publicity they are receiving. There are new stories it seems, popping up every week.

The US has allowed cheap Chinese products to enter the US because the low prices to consumers have helped to offset increases in food and energy costs at home. The huge trade imbalance this causes puts China in a position to threaten the US, and the currency devaluation that China could presumably cause if they carried out their threat could have a big impact on inflation in the US.

So it is curious that suddenly, we are hearing about the Chinese products in a way that has people checking the Made In labels before they buy.

China may have power to leverage their success against us, but threatening to kill the cash cow is never a good idea. It is a good bet that sales of Chinese goods will slow in the US. This will negatively impact the Chinese economy, all without imposing sanctions on Chinese products.

One has to wonder what the source is of these stories in the first place.

*OLD VERSION*: (when we had a strong work ethic)

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold,

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

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*MODERN VERSION:*

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, "It's Not Easy Being Green."

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton stage a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, "We shall overcome." Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi , John Kerry and Barak Obama exclaim in an interview with Larry King Live that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC and ACLU lawyers draft the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs(invented by AL GORE) and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government

Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients as well as over 400 Presidential Pardons Clinton gave before leaving office.

The ant loses the case.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow, off to build another house.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.

And that is how it happens folks - so...

MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote!

Posted by Sacto Dan (received by email from a friend without attribution, source unknown)

posted by SactoDan, ht Foxnew.com and Youtube

From Starbucks...

The Way I See It # 198

"You can shower a child with presents or money, but what do they really mean, compared to the most valuable gift of all - your time? Vacations and special events are nice, but so often the best moments are the spontaneous ones.

Being there. Every moment you spend with your child could be the one that really matters."

--Tim Russert
Host of NBC's Meet the Press and author of Wisdom of Our Fathers

After fits and starts, the Federal Communications Commission handed a partial victory to Google July 31 in the company's bid to ensure open access to the 700 MHz band that is to be auctioned to cell phone service providers.

Some analysts consider the wireless band to be the last chance for new players in the cell phone market. It is being made available because the TV broadcasters who currently occupy the range are moving to digital TV transmission in February 2009.

Google had announced that it was willing to bid at least $4.6 billion in the upcoming 700 MHz auction, but only if the government placed some conditions requiring open access to the spectrum.

Wanna know why...

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