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Quotaholics:
I found an article
in the Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota Star Tribune that related
an all too familiar story of teen sex.
It seems the young couple met and started having sex when they were
both 14 years old. The young man is now 17 and the young lady is now
16. They are also now the parents of a little girl.
Now this is not an unusual story. Throughout history 16 year olds have
been having babies. Up until my generation, girls were married by the
time they were 16, but even it the 60’s it was not uncommon for girls
as young as 15 to have babies. It was a little more socially unacceptable,
especially to be unmarried, but certainly not unheard of. Heck, these
days it seems that it is the lucky parents who’s daughters aren’t
pregnant before they finish high school.
No, the Star Tribune story would be totally unremarkable except for
the fact that the 17 year old father is now facing charges of sexual
assault on a child for having sex with the teen. The charge carries
a possible 25 year jail sentence.
I just don’t understand the logic of this sort of charge. I know
everyone is attempting to protect young girls from sexual predators.
If the young man were in his 20’s I could understand charging him with
some sort of crime for having sex with a 14 year old. But good lord,
they were both 14 when they started. They have been together for at
least 2 years now. Why didn’t the parents try to break it up if
they thought there was a problem? It’s not like 14 or 15 year
old kids can go rent a room somewhere for their liaisons, they were
probably in the parents homes.
I don’t encourage teen sex. I am, however, realistic enough to
know it is going to happen. But the trend of making criminals out of
young boys for doing something that their hormones are tormenting them
day and night to do is insane.
I did note that the boy’s name is Kou Yang. The skeptic in me
can’t avoid the question of whether ethnic background may have
something to do with the charges being filed.
What do you think? Should Yang be charged with assault? Should he be
charged with any crime? Should the parents of the girl be charged with
some crime for not supervising her activities? Should the parents of
Kou be charged for not supervising him?
Should the people who filed the charges be locked up for being stupid?
Amazed,
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"And I don’t care. The axis
of history starts in Moscow, goes to Bonn, crosses over to Washington
and then goes to Tokyo. What happens in the South is of no importance."
– Henry Kissinger, after the Chilean foreign minister accused
him of knowing nothing about the Southern Hemisphere
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work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" - Edgar Bergen
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The Flu
[Thanks to Bonnie in Louisiana]
I ran into John
at work yesterday. He had been out for a few days with the flu. I
asked him how he was feeling.
"I’m better,
thanks. You know, it was a wonderful experience," John replied.
"Wonderful?
How can the flu be wonderful?" I asked in stunned disbelief.
"Well, I learned
that my wife really loves me. You know that whenever the mailman came
by or a delivery man headed toward the door, my wife ran out to meet
them? I could hear her excitedly yelling ‘My husband is home! My husband
is home’!"
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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther
King Jr.
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"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe
that they contain the whole truth or the only truth." - Charles A.
Dana, American journalist, (1819-1897)
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"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously."
- Peter Ustinov
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Blonde Chick With Nice Pussy
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It never ceases to amaze me that there can be such wide disparity between
members of the medical community on what is good or bad for you.
Most of us realize that some things in small quantities can be beneficial
or at least benign, and that in large quantities the same thing could
be harmful to the point of being fatal. Scientists and physicians are
continuously releasing studies about foods, drugs, and chemicals that
are often in conflict with each other, at least as it appears to the
layman. When the reports came out that red wine was beneficial to the
body, some of my heavy drinking friends switched from bourbon to claret.
The resveratrol in red wine is supposed to extend your life and benefit
your health by increasing insulin sensitivity, decreasing glucose levels,
and protecting against Huntington’s disease. But the dose of resveratrol
you get in one or two glasses is minimal. Drink four or five bottles
and you get the proportional quantity they fed lab animals to determine
the affects, but you’ll probably die an early death stumbling
down the stairs.
Other studies concerning diet don’t let the reader (layman) know
that the people eating the diet had adapted to it over millennia. Within
that certain group of people the diet may work well. There’s a
group of people that live in Siberia that consume large amounts of yogurt
and have an average life span well into the 90’s. Switch Germans
to that diet and they’ll all probably start dieing sooner without
beer.
It wasn’t too long ago that a report came out touting the health
benefits of H2O2, hydrogen peroxide. Now a report is out saying
that cigarettes may become less dangerous as soon as hydrogen peroxide
can be removed which is now
shown to cause lung cancer.
What will be next I wonder? Cholesterol touted as a life saver since
it could clog tiny holes in your arteries to keep you from bleeding
to death? Self-sealing circulatory systems would be the medical equivalent
of run flat tires. How about daily injections of chlorophyll so that
we could benefit from breathing increased atmospheric levels of CO2
like maple trees? I’m holding out for large amounts of beer, chocolate,
and mashed potatoes and gravy becoming diet aids.
The Bad SiedSied 
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On this day in history, March
24, 1898: The first American-built automobile is purchased by Robert Allison
of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania – a coal mining town. The Winton horseless
carriage was made by Scottish immigrant Alexander Winton. The Winton Bicycle
Company incorporated in 1897 and began hand building cars, piece by piece.
The body had painted sides. There were padded seats, a leather roof, gas
lamps, and B. F. Goodrich Company supplied the rubber tires. Winton advertised
his product in Scientific American and sold 22 cars the first year.
James Ward Packard bought a car and liked it so much, he started his own
company. Even with competition, Winton remained the top selling car manufacturer
of 1899 when the company sold more than 100 cars. Not only was he making
the car available, but to deliver the carriage, he designed and built
the first car hauler. By 1901, publicity created an expanding market when
two of the Vanderbilts purchased Winton cars. In that same year, Winton’s
car lost a race to young Henry Ford of Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
"A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons
left in the tank. - unknown
"Americans are broad-minded people. They’ll accept the fact that
a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a
newspaperman, but if a man doesn’t drive, there is something wrong with
him." - Art Buchwald
"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine
to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." - Edward McDonagh
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Email
Kirsten
"We are
in the business of giving scholarships to people with particularly gifted
diseases."
- Douglas Adams (The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul) -
As a society, we have a somewhat peculiar relationship with Healthcare.
If Healthcare were a man instead of a concept, he would be someone that
we would have a passing acquaintanceship with. Most of us would like
him well enough, and we certainly wouldn’t purposely do him harm. We
would know that he is very important to us, but we would just kind of
assume that he would always be around. Then, when he was threatening
to leave, we would regret not devoting more attention to the relationship.
We live in a culture of reactive healthcare. While some elements of
our healthcare system are preventative - vaccines, flu shots, standard
medical checkups, and some standard cancer screening procedures - we
tend to stay away from doctors unless we are sick or injured. Unfortunately,
in many instances, the damage is already done by the time we notice
symptoms. All headaches, for instance, are caused by something. The
headache itself is not a problem, it is just the manifestation of one.
Part of the problem is the fact that our definition of "health"
has become skewed. Let’s consider what happens when we go for a medical
checkup. A nurse records our weight, and the doctor checks our blood
pressure and listens to our heart. We are asked a few questions about
symptoms or lack thereof. Blood and urine samples get sent away for
analysis. Depending on age and gender, some other specific tests may
be requisitioned. If everything comes back clear, we are given what
is commonly referred to as "a clean bill of health". This
entire process assumes that health is merely the absence of disease.
Blood pressure is OK. Check. Bloodwork doesn’t reveal any weird diseases.
Check. Heartbeat is strong and regular. Check. Weight could be a problem,
but is within normal range for patient’s height. Check. The whole thing
is a bit like crossing items off a shopping list at the grocery store.
I am not suggesting for a moment that medical checkups are unnecessary
- just that they are one piece of the jigsaw puzzle.
To borrow a wonderful phrase from a book entitled "Discover
Wellness" (Hoffman & Deitch), health is not an absence
of disease any more than wealth is an absence of poverty. Dorland’s
Medical Dictionary defines health as "…a state of optimal
physical, social and mental well-being and not merely the absence of
disease or infirmities."
A logical progression of this thought is that the mere avoidance of
illness or injury is not enough to ensure health. What we need to do
is strive for a lifestyle of wellness. Dr. Adam Sidenberg, Director
of the Movestrong Chiropractic and
Wellness Studio, lists seven components of wellness: physical, emotional,
spiritual, career, financial, family, and social. We are well when we
are operating at optimum levels of health and vitality in all of these
seven dimensions. Too many of us have probably experienced how something
like financial stress or marital difficulty can have crippling effects
on our lives and lead to all sorts of physical and mental problems.
I asked Dr. Sidenberg what one piece of advice he would give to someone
wanting to embrace a lifestyle of wellness. Wearing his chiropractor
hat, he said that we need to ensure that our nervous systems are running
properly and without interference. Since the nervous system controls
everything that happens in our bodies, any physical problem that we
have is a signal that something is not right in our nervous system.
Wearing his hat as a wellness consultant, Dr. Sidenberg said that wellness
means different things to different people. To mix metaphors for a moment,
we were not made in an assembly line and a cookie-cutter approach to
wellness would not work. We need to be in tune with our own bodies;
we need to learn what works and what doesn’t work for us. We have to
consider everything that’s going on in our lives - our careers, our
families, our social support structures, our value systems. Dr. Sidenberg
says that in order to pursue wellness, we need to ask ourselves the
following question: "What does wellness mean to me, why is it worth
pursuing, and what do I want to do about it?"
In a way, it would be simpler if our bodies were like cars. But we cannot
trade it in when it gets a little rusty, and we cannot just get bits
of it replaced without waiting for a very long time for the parts. We’re
stuck with these bodies of ours, and we owe it to ourselves to look
after them at least as well as we look after our cars.
Kaleidoscopically yours,
Kirsten
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I had a tough week at work. You see, I’m responsible for getting our
new web server up and running. Now, this isn’t quite as simple as
downloading some free website software like Apache’s
HTTP server. Our new web server requires authorization. You actually
have to log on in order to see the page you need to see in order to
log on. I got the “guest” login working last week, but just before
I left work I got an e-mail from the guy that runs our theater. Their
website wasn’t working because of a guest login error.
This didn’t bother
me because I’m not responsible for their website. I replied to everybody
that he sent his plea of help to that it wasn’t our problem since
he didn’t use us as a host. But since I had just learned all about
guest authorizations on websites, I thought I’d be nice and try to
help. I told him to contact his hosting service. They would fix it.
A few minutes
later he called me. He wanted to know what I meant. I explained in
very simple terms that he would need to get in touch with the people
he pays to run his website. There was nothing the college could do,
because we didn’t run his website. He pays someone else to do it.
I told him to call them.
So I went home
for my long 4 day weekend (Happy Easter everyone!), and when I checked
my e-mail, I found that my boss, one of the people included in Mr.
Theatre’s original e-mail, decided to forward it to our academic computing
director. I quickly replied to all that I had already talked to Mr.
Theatre, and all was in control. There was nothing our academic computing
director (”ACD”) needed to do. He could go on vacation with no worries.
Just because
I’m such a nice guy, I looked into theater’s problems. I called their
web host and left a message, asking them to look into the guest login
problem I knew theater had. I also e-mailed Mr. Theatre and explained
to him that if this was expected to be a prolonged outage of his website,
we could set up a simple web page explaining that there were technical
difficulties with the “official” web page and that patrons that wish
to go to a show needed to actually use a phone and call the number
provided. I also explained that in order for people to be able to
see the page, Mr. Theatre would have to log into his account at his
hosting service and change his IP address, but if he could do that,
he could probably fix the login error.
I didn’t hear
back from Mr. Theatre, but I did hear back from his host, who spoke
Chinese (I think). Anyway, the problem got fixed last Friday.
This morning
I got an e-mail from our ACD. It was a novel about how many people
would be involved in setting up the web page, and how many more would
be involved in getting it online. He explained how it could take up
to 24 hours for everyone in the world to know we made this web change.
He further explained that he was going on vacation and wouldn’t be
able to help with this endeavor.
I replied with
an e-mail saying that it was fixed, but I’m still going to get this
huge lecture from my boss about all the e-mail he got because of this
and about how busy he is and how he doesn’t need the grief and how I
don’t have the time to be playing around and blah, blah, blah, but I
don’t have to go back to work until Tuesday. Hopefully, he’ll have forgotten
his mistake by then.
I’ll miss you
ACD.
Tim a’Musing
Having a Ball with Yarns
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If you have a problem opening jars: Try using latex dishwashing gloves.
They give a non-slip grip that makes opening jars easy. - Peggy in Tonawanda,
New York
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Whoa! Now this is more like it!
Next opening line…
I stubbed my toe on the stair…
Hints: There’s a great rhyming dictionary at
http://www.rhymezone.com/
Limerick rules. http://freespace.virgin.net/merrick.sheldon/limerickrules.htm
Submit
Opening Line
Submit Limerick
Today, as
I got out of bed…
Friday’s RGQ waiting to be read
Only two? OMG! Bruce opined
But three limericks I did find
Hope those good drugs he does spread!!  - Peggy in Tonawanda,
New York |
Today, as
I got out of bed…
My day I started to dread.
Another work day
Was right in my way
Of a weekend of staying in bed. - Cliff |
Today,
as I got out of bed…
I noticed a sky of quite red.
Sailors take warning,
Or delight they are fawning,
I don’t know. I’ll just go and ask Ted. - Cliff |
Today,
as I got out of bed…
My night had just quickly sped.
Just a little more time
And I’ll finish this rhyme
And not have to go and ask Ted. - Cliff |
Today,
as I got out of bed…
I realized what it’s like being dead.
For it was too much to drink
Because I just didn’t think.
Alive I was,! It was just my head! - Cliff |
Today, as
I got out of bed…
I tripped on a stick, hit my head.
Twas then I discovered
My tush was uncovered.
Abashed! But it’s better than dead. - Lola |
Today,
as I got out of bed,
I had a great pain in my head.
I was sitting around thinking,
And decided I’d rather be drinking.
Now, I’m facing this day with much dread. - Bonnie in Louisiana |
Today, as
I got out of bed
Was nervous–as I was to wed!
Butterflies were aflutter
And I heard myself mutter
If he doesn’t show up he’ll be dead! - Maria in Illinois |
Today,
as I got out of bed
I hastened so that I’d be fed
Poured juice on my plate
Toast burned, which I hate
My presence of mind had since fled. - Maria in Illinois |
Today, as
I got out of bed…
I looked in the mirror and said
Who is that old guy ?
Then I thought with a sigh
I’m standing so at least I’m not dead. - Rick in Roanoke |
Today,
as I got out of bed…
I rubbed the top of my head
Not a hair could be felt
What a blow I’d been dealt
When I lose My toupee I see red. - Rick in Roanoke |
Today, as
I got out of bed…
I was facing the day with dread
I’d been romantic with Kate
Then she said she was late
So today is the day that I wed. - Rick in Roanoke |
Today,
as I got out of bed…
I noticed that my nose had bled
Plus I had a black eye
And a bruise on my thigh
Instead of fighting, I should have fled. - Rick in Roanoke |
Today, as
I got out of bed…
I picked up the paper and read
We’re in Global Warming
With high temperatures forming
So why is the snow over my head? - Rick in Roanoke |
Today,
as I got out of bed…
I threw my hands up over my head
I had no Easter basket
So I just blew a gasket
With no candy, I’ll eat the bunny instead. - Rick in Roanoke |
Today, as
I got out of bed…
I fell down and hit my poor head…
I ranted and raved
I was nobody’s "fave"
because of all the mean things that I said. - Cassandra in New
York |
I’m
really quite angry that he…
would never pay ‘tention to me…
and so when I danced
I just pulled down my pants
and showed him the other side of me. - Cassandra in New York |
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Re: Britain’s "No Gun" Stupidity
Oh, I just love a good gov’ment joke. Thanks Mike. In answer to your question,
I sure as heck wouldn’t turn the gun over to the police. The term "fuzz"
seems to be short for "fuzzy-headed". By the Way, Tim, I know
where you live, and I’m going to sick my Hoosier Hogs on you. - Lucille
from Indiana
Re: Tiny but Mighty
What would it have taken to
persuade you to kill your story based on those false promises for Acabion?
Do you generally draw distinctions between fact and fiction? If their
mock-up could run, they would have let somebody watch by now. My spy thinks
that they are afraid to risk balancing it on two wheels. Dalniks can be
hard to ride, especially the first time, and expensive to restore to showroom
condition.
I once wrote to Rodale press, complaining that the new editor for Bike
Tech had run an article that was so self-contradictory that it had become
famous while sitting in the drawer of his predecessor. They ceased publication
entirely.
BTW, the Ecomobile factory requires their customers to take a course before
they will deliver a machine that works like the Acabion is supposed to,
and still, on average, owners forget to deploy the outriggers when stopping
and fall over once a year. The retracted wheels rise amidships, protecting
the vehicle from accidental damage, unlike the Acabion, which swings its
landing gear back like a bird.
The Aptera is equally swoopy looking, and much closer to reality. The
VW Ein Litre is a decent demonstration of what you can do with a heavy-armour
mentality, still getting over 250 MPG. The record in the Shell Economy
run is over 10,000 MPG, but that’s with a fuel cell. Meanwhile, an ‘89
Geo Metro can still beat the best gas mileage available now. Only the
diesel Smart beats it. A Honda CRX can be tinkered up past 80 MPG with
streamlining and other work. - Best, Bob of the North
Re: Who’s Your Daddy?
Ruth, I couldn’t agree with you more. I only have one son, but it has
always looked like someone chopped me and my husband up into pieces and
reassembled them to make him. He has my hands, feet and face, stuck onto
his father’s body. Truly, it is almost comical. Of course this means,
that in the face he looks just like me.
When he first returned from Germany, after being discharged from the army,
he was staying with me for a while, before sending for his fiance and
her son, to come to the states. One of the first days, i had him meet
me after work at a little Pub I frequented at the time. The bar maid kept
telling him that he reminded her of someone, but she couldn’t figure out
who.
Then I waked in. It was a priceless look she had on her face. - Faithy
in Baltimore
Reader Submission
For those thinking that socialized medicine is the answer, this is from
This is True:
More than 43,000 patients had to wait outside in ambulances for at least
an hour last year before they could be seen in Britain’s National Health
Service emergency rooms. Standards require that patients must been seen
within four hours when they arrive at an emergency room, so when busy,
patients must wait outside so the clock doesn’t start ticking. A Department
of Health spokesman shrugged off the report. "These figures must
be seen in the context of the 4.3 million patient journeys undertaken
by emergency vehicles," he said.
(London Daily Mail)
As can be seen, they got their informaiton from the London Daily Mail.
- Patti
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