World Peace with rainbows and unicorns

Evidently there is a big get-together to decide on non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, arsenal reduction, and keeping bad people from making nukes.  Sort of like when one of the first acts of the League of Nations was to outlaw war.  How did that work out, guys?  If our politicians are to be believed, all we have to do is get everyone to pinkie-swear to be good, and utopia will follow.
It seems to me that there are better things to be doing than what amounts to a large group wet dream; if you can't enforce this sort of thing, why bother?  Do you really think people like Ahmadinejad of Iran or Kim Jong-il of North Korea really give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks?

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A group of researchers claim that spanking children turns them into bullies.
What a crock.
It's been my experience that kids who are undisciplined are the ones with problems.  I could understand if they were talking about kids who get knocked around by abusive parents, but spanking a kid is totally different.  What they might like to consider is the fact that more aggressive obnoxious kids are just the sort that end up getting spanked, not the other way around.  When I was a kid spanking was used by most parents, and we didn't turn out more aggressive or violent than the young people growing up now. 

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 Looks like one of the airlines has decided to start charging for carry-on luggage.  Traveling by air is already a major pain in the ass; you have the security theater of the TSA, the long lines, excessive delays, uncomfortable seating, so now they are going to add in extra fees.  Good way to discourage even more business, dumbasses.  If you make it expense and irritating enough, more people will decide to start driving distances that they used to fly.
Of course, this is a chance for the nanny-state to come to the rescue; Senator Schumer has decided that this is the federal government's concern.  Look, I think the extra charge is stupid, but this is no reason to involve the feds; carry-on luggage is not a human right.

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This TV looks like something RobertaX would like.

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