Scott & Lai

Remind us again why we should care what happens in the next 250 years?

My EYES!!! Now I need an acid bath for my retinas

Oh, it gets better. The bottom of the barrell bathrooms in "that" part of the world always have a layer of less than pristine water on the floor. Changing clothes in that environment is the most amazing thing. You can't do it outside cuz there's people everywhere and modesty is oh so important.

So, you have to choose between modesty and getting vile filth on your clothing?? Again, so very enlightened...

In China I would often see an illustration in a Western-style toilet depicting a person squatting on the seat and a big line crossed through it - no squatting. I'd also often see the warning "no sh*tting."

Did they have a separate place for that?

Depends on how much money the people who built the bathroom wanted to spend on it.

The nicer ones have bidets. The bottom of the barrel bathrooms, however, have a dried feces-covered mug for your use and a tap for running water. Then, you use your hands. Hold the water filled mug with your right hand, wash your bunghole with your left. And when done, you wash your hands with an even dirtier looking bar of soap and hope the smell comes off The nicer places have soap dispensers.

So very enlightened

We traveled to Hong Kong with Lai's green card and her passport with her maiden name, and had no problems. We also went to Macau and mainland China on that trip.

I've never tried squatting before. I wonder if it has any advantages?

I did once in Hong Kong. Not the most comfortable position to maintain for any significant amount of time.

The french have had these kinds of loos for years - but apparently they are now classified as 'Middle Eastern' style toilets. You have to love the Daily Frail

Hmm...I don't recall the ones in Hong Kong being called "Middle Eastern style"...

There is video of NAACP members cheering as a member dissed a Black vendor, calling him an "Uncle Tom" for selling anti-Obama material at a town hall meeting.

I wonder how many who call people "Uncle Tom" have actually read Uncle Tom's Cabin...

Wow...just wow.

Perhaps Booyah will come in here telling us how this is ok, since the First Ammendment is from a 223 year-old document that is irrelevant to the current age

I urge killing of Al-Qaeda.

:thumbs: Every last one of them.

June gloom has lasted well into July this year.

It even rained on the 6th...

No wonder so many people were able to see him -- do you know what the 405 is like during rush hour?

"Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?"

--Mork

So just because he was naked, they assumed he had mental health problems?

No, because he was naked and in the middle of the 405 freeway.

I will take a shot at it. Suffering usually (but not always) follows a bad decision. The suffering teaches us the penalty for those bad decisions and makes us less prone to make that mistake again. If all suffering (if that is possible) is taken out of our exsistence then we will never learn from our mistakes.

So, if someone's house is destroyed or a loved one lost by a tornado or an earthquake or a tsunami or fire, then they made a bad decision? Do birth defects result from bad decisions? How about being a victim of a robbery or rape or murder or being killed by a drunk driver?

Sugary-drink ban starts to affect S.F. sites

Coca-Cola is out, and soy milk is now part of San Francisco's official city policy.

Under an executive order from Mayor Gavin Newsom, Coke, Pepsi and Fanta Orange are no longer allowed in vending machines on city property, although their diet counterparts are - up to a point.

Newsom's directive, issued in April but whose practical impacts are starting to be felt now, bars calorically sweetened beverages from vending machines on city property.

That includes non-diet sodas, sports drinks and artificially sweetened water. Juice must be 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice with no added sweeteners. Diet sodas can be no more than 25 percent of the items offered, the directive says.

There should be "ample choices" of water, "soy milk, rice milk and other similar dairy or non dairy milk," says the directive, which also covers fat and sugar content in vending machine snacks.

It's all part of Newsom's effort to combat obesity and improve San Franciscans' health, similar to a national effort being championed by first lady Michelle Obama.

The mayor's administration points to studies linking soda to obesity, including a UCLA one released last year that found adults who drink at least one soft drink a day are 27 percent more likely to be obese than those who don't, and that soda consumption is fueling the state's $41 billion annual obesity problem. The study also found that 41 percent of children and 62 percent of teens drink at least one soda daily.

"There's a direct link between what people eat and drink and the obesity and health care crises in this country," Newsom spokesman Tony Winnicker said. "It's entirely appropriate and not at all intrusive for city government to take steps to discourage the sale of sugary sodas on city property."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/05/BAMU1E8QKR.DTL#ixzz0t7UPmx5L

I'm confused...I thought the Left was supposed to be all about choice and liberty

Srsly dude, tempeh. If you want to fight for what is right and holy, resist socialism if only for the bacon that might not be.

I had to look up tempeh; wasn't familiar with it. Making bacon from any thing other than pigs is sacrilege; making it from something that never walked especially so

Under capitalism, sure, bacon is made from pigs. Wait until our would-be socialist masters rise up; we will be eating tempeh bacon, I swear.

tempeh??

Or the things that are made from bacon.

Yes, but bacon comes from pigs. Plastics come from oil.

I agree but that's only one piece of the puzzle. Believe it or not, one of the greatest consumers of oil is our current industrial farming methods. Basically, even if you walk to work like I do and rarely use your car, your lifestyle is still heavily reliant on cheap oil.

And let's not forget all the things that are made from plastics...

White people, lol.

Bigotry, lol...

Perhaps the party of no would care to be a little less obstructionist?

Yes, it would definitely help if the Democrats would stop standing in the way of making tax cuts permanent

Nothing about this story proves that guns are a necessity. Of course everyone loves to politicized news stories for their own questionable purposes.

No story will prove anything to those whose minds are already made up.

Sweet. A liberal retard believes the burglar's civil rights have been violated.

Of course...how dare anyone interfere with him as he goes about his chosen career.

This is ridiculous. Why don't people just call the police?

Because the police don't arrive quickly enough. Seconds count, to say nothing of minutes.

How is the country going to pay for its debt genius?

How are taxpayers who are struggling as it is going to pay the increased taxes?

but didn't obama promise no increase in taxes on the middle class?

Simple. If you have a job, you are "rich" and will pay more taxes. If you have no job, you are lower class and won't pay taxes. The middle class no longer exists, so there will be no tax increases on them. So, Obama is keeping his promise.

Well, these are the "tax increases" the GOP lead Congress enacted back in 2001 and 2003. If they didn't want to "increase" taxes down the road, they could have enacted permanent tax cuts rather than the temporary tax relief they enacted.

So, where are the scare tactics? The point of the OP article is that taxes are going up in 2011. Are they or are they not going up?

Ah, the Republican Party goes into scare mode. What a surprise.

Oh, so taxes aren't going up...whew, that's a relief.