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...a staff member stapled his penis to a chair leg, beat him with a soap in a sock, tried to sodomise him and stubbed out cigarettes on his skin. Others said they were sexually abused or locked inside the room for days without a toilet - the smell of urine was overpowering.

Well, nobody ever said that a stay in a Turkish prison was exactly a walk in the park, now did they?

Wait, where was this again?

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Random notes from the past couple of days

Someone needs to add this to the guy's version that never was written of that book:

When the girlfriend you bought a car for, whose rent you've paid, who you bought a giant-ass fancy Bernina sewing machine for so that she could stop working at the gentleman's club and who you subsequently got a hernia for because she wanted the giant-ass fancy Bernina sewing machine moved, can't be bothered to show up to hang out with you before or after your hernia repair surgery, she's just not that into you. 

And your best friend who does show up and sticks around through the entire surgery and spends the night at your place to make sure you're OK and takes you back to the hospital in the morning because your catheter is blocked and is spending another night at your place to make sure everything is OK?  We've come so far with acceptance of gays that every doctor and nurse is going to automatically assume that he's your significant other and start asking him to make medical decisions for you and they're going to try to get him to learn to flush out your Foley and learn wound care for your testicle that's black and swollen to the size of a grapefruit.

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Those Zany Japanese: Part 1,390,203

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Retirement Age

People have been talking about retirement at work a lot lately and somebody objected to increasing the retirement age and I though, "what a stupid fucking position."

Look at it this way, when Social Security was enacted in 1935 the life expectancy at birth was 61.7 years.  That means that more than 50% of people didn't live to be of retirement age in the first place back then.  Now, more than 50% of people will be expected to draw from Social Security for at least 15 YEARS EACH!

Now, if everyone retires at 65 and works approximately 45 years in that time, that means they will spend 35 years not contributing work but still consuming resources.  When the life expectancy gets to 90, we're talking about people spending fully half of their lives developing or in retirement. 

That's just crazy talk.  We just have to move the retirement age back as people live longer and longer.  After all, the idea of a retirement age was to give those no longer to work because of age the ability to survive, not to give everybody a 20 year vacation*. 

I propose we lock the retirement age to our best estimate of life expectancy or perhaps a bit lower than that.  After all, due to the way that is calculated, most people that make it past 25 also make it past the average life expectancy due to the diminishing effect of people dying at an extremely young age. 

Look, Social Security is the red right now and this is just the tip of the iceburg.  Either we raise the retirement age soon to something we can live with or, due to societal bankruptcy, it will be raised FOR us to a billionty. 

Fin.

* - Great if you can afford one but certainly not a government responsibility.

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Finger puppies! Times Two!!!!!1!!1!eleventyone@!!!!

(from the WOW report)

And, FINGER PUPPY! 

OK, yeah, he's not a finger puppy, he's a fucking TOE PUPPY!, but it was just too perfect that both of these came up in such a short period of time.  Blame Chad980whateverthehellhisblognumberis.

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Those damned photoshoppers

Ruining everything.  Can't we just have realistic models with all their flaws and body parts intact for a change?  They've already 'fixed' this picture on the original site.

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I have no comment on this

Yeah, it's kind of a crappy thing to do, but such is business.  And there's no reason to keep your sales staff if you have nothing to sell.

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One sentence tells the whole story

This poor schmuck was born with three strikes against him.

One woman, who is an aunt to both the boy's unmarried parents, who are cousins, said his parents don't get along.

On a purely theoretical level (and assuming this isn't a case of an adult blaming an innocent kid for something he didn't do), I'm wondering what our three readers' opinion is on whether this boy could be rehabilitated.  And if he can't be rehabilitated, what should be done?

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Even Rick Moran sees it...

The social contract between government and governed is collapsing in the US.

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Fantasy Foozball

With great joy I remind you that football season rapidly approaches and with that the opportunity for some fantasy action!  I'll be the first to admit that the format of last year's campaign was flawed so we'll be trying some different stuff this year.

1st, we'll have a standard 12-person fantasy league and if that fills up, try a second. 

2nd, I'm going to set up a pick'em league so we can have as many morons as want to participate playing that.  Hopefully I'll have them both set up within the next couple of weeks. 

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Facebook Friends

I've apparently made friends with enough cool bloggers on Facebook to be suggested some pretty intimidating conservative personalities.  Victor David Hanson?

I think I'd be sad for him if he became my Facebook friend.  Sorta like I'd be against any club that would have me as a member.

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