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• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Space Shuttle Saturday Edition
• Have Pole, Need Strippers
• President Obama’s Bad Week In Commissionville
• Want to Live a Long and Happy Life? Take A Look at Your Grandparents’ Traditional Family Life

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Space Shuttle Saturday Edition Posted: 29 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST Yesterday was the 25th Anniversary of the Challenger explosion. I didn’t write about it, even though I watched it happen live on television because I feel a lot like Moe Lane does and I don’t think you should be subjected to more than one righteous rant from me a week. On that terrible day in 1986, our manned spaceflight program suffered a mortal wound from which it never recovered until President Obama delivered the coup de grace this year when he finally put it out of its misery. As I told a group of people a couple weekend ago, in my lifetime astronauts have gone from heroic gunslingers of the heavens to cargo haulers to hobos who have to bum rides from the Russians or Europeans. Perhaps the only good thing that came of the disaster was this speech by Ronald Reagan, who reminds us again today that we deserve a President with vision and heft. And now, links! Thanks to our President ill-informed policies about drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, over 30 oil rigs have left the area, not to return anytime soon. So, you know, enjoy that $3.00 gasoline, because the price won’t be headed lower very soon. If Michael Scherer of Time magazine isn’t the most dishonest journalist in America, he’s at least a finalist. I want a lot more of this: “GOP Introduces Secret Ballot Act”. The bill is a full-frontal assault on labor unions and their egregious “card-check” legislation they want to foist on us. I’m for any bill that takes power from corrupt union leaders who act as the informal funding arm of the progressive movement and gives it back to workers whose money ends up in the pockets of crooks. This is an old link, but I figure this story of how Britain’s population is getting very old, very quickly would be instructive given how the President all but ignored both Medicare and Social Security in his State of the Union address. To heck with those skyrockets in flight, get your delight first thing in the morning and feel good all day. What? It’s scientifically-proven! Andrew Klavan is a smart man, and funny too. We’ll have to hustle, but I think we can get Troglopundit to one million hits by his anniversary.

Have Pole, Need Strippers Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:57 PM PST Were I posting this story on Twitter, I’d give it the #firstworldproblems hashtag: A 9.4 percent unemployment rate? Pish posh! In Dallas-Fort Worth exotic club managers across the city are desperately seeking strippers for Super Bowl weekend. These adult clubs currently are estimated to be experiencing a total shortage of 10,000 exotic dancers as they attempt to meet a tourist to stripper ratio of 30:1. Dallas strip joint Showtime Cabaret is advertising like crazy to bring in the chicas. The gentlemen's club is currently in need of 140 more gams (or, for those who failed math and/or never mastered 1930s colloquialisms, 70 additional girls) to bring their total number of dancers to 120. So, if your pole-dancing skills are up to snuff, or even if you’re simply an inspired amateur (possibly NSFW, unless you work for James Cameron), you can make big money for a week down in the Big D.

President Obama’s Bad Week In Commissionville Posted: 28 Jan 2011 12:12 PM PST It’s been a bad week for the Obama administration, according to two government investigative commissions. First, the hand-picked panel of financial and government experts on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its findings on, well, the financial crisis. Its findings will not surprise you. The commission echoed the administration and blamed the whole affair on reckless rich people, not enough regulation, and us (yep, we’re at fault, too). On the other hand, the Washington Examiner noted how shoddy the comission’s investigation was. About 700 interviews, including those with the heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the administration’s economic pointman Larry Summers, were conducted by panel staffers. In most of those cases, members of the panel didn’t know the interviews were happening and had no input about what was asked. One of the co-chairs, Phil Angelides (who is also Chair of a Soros-funded left-wing “green” activist group that helped write and push the Vote Buying Act Stimulus bill), frequently made changes to sections of the report and asked other members to sign off on them without adequate review.It is Angelides who today is pushing out the Obama line under the guise of an impartial and rigorous commission finding. Fortunately, Angelides isn’t very good at deception. Meanwhile, the U.S. Commission for Civil Rights issued its final report on the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case and, again, the administration looks very bad. Jennifer Rubin detailed the most damning parts of the report at her Washington Post blog. In short, top people at the Justice Department ordered their people to selective enforce the law and attempted to cover up their actions when the investigation began. Members of the Commission itself also did their best to cover up for the Justice Department’s inexcusable behavior as did the Vice-Chair, who decided early on that, despite evidence to the contrary, the allegations weren’t worthy of investigation. Both reports tell a similar story: the administration is working steadfastly on a political agenda that few in America really want. The progressive idea of a totalitarian government where expert bureaucrats have ultimate sway is antithetical to the America we know and love. Perhaps the President will realize that and step back from the lofty unicorn and puffy cloud promises of utopia he made to his most ardent followers during his campaign. Admittedly, that would cost him  second term, but he’d be doing it for the country, and I think we’d remember him fondly for that, if for nothing else.

Want to Live a Long and Happy Life? Take A Look at Your Grandparents’ Traditional Family Life Posted: 28 Jan 2011 10:41 AM PST Chalk two up for traditional family life! Marriage cheers you up, improves your diet and helps you live longer, researchers say. It brings better mental and physical health, reducing the chance of premature death by 15 per cent, according to major studies in seven European countries. And the longer a marriage lasts the more the rewards accumulate – the only catch being that the relationship has to be loving and supportive. In other words, if you marry and work hard to keep your marriage “loving and supportive”, you’ll be healthier and live longer. And work is the operative word here because, as we all know, any relationship that’s going to last more than the lifespan of the average fruit fly has to involve negotiation, compromise, and each party playing to his or her strengths. Odd how that last part remains true even as the new feminist left tries to make us forget it. Dads, if you want to avoid rows with your wife, play with the children but let her do the caring. Although many fathers would say they are often in trouble for doing just that, a study suggests that couples have a stronger relationship when the father spends more time playing with their child. But when he participates in care-giving – such as giving baths – parents undermine each other. Maybe our grandparents were on to something with those traditional gender roles and compromise for the sake of strong, lasting relationships. Go figure.

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