Here is something nifty:
Breaking News: Medicare will pay for a penis pump!
Let’s take a time out on politics for a moment.
Being a night owl I get to see some funny television and crappy television. Late at night, stations show commercials they wouldn’t show during the day. Usually they focus on sex. Male “enhancement” pills, condoms, and personal lubricants are some of the products seen when the kids are asleep. The other night I saw the following commercial during a late movie and it just cracked me up.
So, Medicare pays for a penis pump… WOW!
Erectile dysfunction is a real medical problem and I don’t intend to insult those who suffer from it, I just thought this pump commercial was comedic in an adult comedy way.
It just amazes me that products like the pump have to “nudge nudge wink wink” around the fact they are for sex related issues. The pills are for “male enhancement” and the lubes are “personal lubricants” for example. I’m sure most adults catch on and the kiddies miss it, but unless the words used are obscene, the makers shouldn’t have to use innuendo.
It reminds me of the scene in the movie Kindergarten Cop when the little boy tells Detective John Kimble, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina”. The kid probably had no idea what he said but the adults all did.
There seems to protests if there is too much sex on TV – or commercials about sex related products. It took years for even a watered down condom commercial to air on TV.
The reasoning is “we must protect the children”, but on the other hand protecting the children leads to sexual repression and that isn’t good either. The best defense against sexual issues is information – clear and frank information.
Okay, sorry. Said I would take a break from politics on this post…. my bad.
Beware! I now have a Facebook page!
Well it seems some friends of mine “forced” me to finally setup a Facebook page.
You know what that means…. yep, Facebook jumped the shark.
Joe vs Sam on tax cuts
Sorry, this part would have been in the previous post had I seen it earlier — dlb
John Seery, a Professor of Politics at Pomona College, wrote an article for the Huffington Post that was published yesterday.
In it he talks about Sam the Gas Station Guy, who he met at his gym the other day. Sam is a small business owner. He owns more than 100 gas stations and 25 restaurant franchises in southern California and has over 800 employees.
While talking about the current political scene Sam, a life long Republican said he would be voting for Barack Obama.
“My gas station businesses are hurting. I make the same profit margin–5 to 8 cents per gallon–no matter whether the price of gas is $1.99 per gallon or $4.99. The big oil companies are the ones raking in the profits when prices go up, not me. I can make money on gas only through volume sales–and if people are hurting, I make less on gas. Or I start to lose money, like now. Where I make money, though, is when they come inside and buy discretionary items–food, drinks, lottery tickets. Right now, people aren’t buying. I know 20 of my gas station colleagues are about to declare bankruptcy. It’s bad.”
“So I’m fed up with the Republicans. Tax cuts for the rich, the war–all that stuff. The middle class needs help. I’m finally convinced. I’m going for Obama. First time in my life, I tell you.”
I asked him about paying higher taxes.
“I don’t care about that. If I’m making money, I don’t care. I’ll pay my taxes. But I’m not going to make any money if the middle-class guy doesn’t have money in his pocket to buy my gas or my food. I don’t need the big tax cut right now. That’s not going to bring the customers into my gas stations.“
So there you go.
That is a better said reason why I don’t like McCain’s and the GOP’s view on taxes. Small businesses aren’t going to make money if the middle-class guy doesn’t have money in his pocket. Cutting taxes for the rich and those who invest doesn’t put money in people’s pocket quick enough to help small businesses – if at all.
Cutting taxes for the middle class are jumper cables for a broken economy and we need jumper cables right now.
Childhood influence passes on
Someone who influenced my life, even though he didn’t know it, passed away on Saturday.
Dick Daugherty was a DJ at WFIN radio for as long as I could remember. He hosted a Big Band show on the weekends on the AM station. It was on that show that would get my first taste of some great music that popular in the 1940’s and Daugherty would pass on trivia or other tidbits about the artists or music. 
I learned about Glenn Miller, Bennie Goodman, and all the stars that younger people today may not have heard. Big Band music is one of my favorite forms of music.
Daugherty also had a hand in the summer concert seasons at the Band Shell at Riverside Park and he played drums for some of the bands that played there.
WFIN back then had an eclectic weekend of programing – from church programs, polka music, and for several hours Mexican music.