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Archive for March 24th, 2008

Nationalized Waiting

Posted by TRO on March 24, 2008

Ladies, you probably won’t want to be birthing any babies under Obama or Hillary’s nationalized health care schemes if Britain is any indication of how well it works.

Nearly half of Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) maternity units had to turn away women in labor last year because they were full, figures showed on Thursday.

Furthermore, a shortage of facilities or staff led to almost one in 10 of these units closing more than 10 times.

One closed 28 times, while another was forced to shut its doors 39 times.

Eh, just another reason the man should just show up with flowers and a box of cigars after it’s all over.

Posted in Childbirth, Hillary, Obama, Politics, Women | 1 Comment »

Our Marines

Posted by TRO on March 24, 2008

These are the Marines of Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment.

Pretty cool - check it out.

Hat-tip to Op For.

Posted in Marines, Military | 4 Comments »

Gals, Marry Ugly And You Won’t Have To Marry Often

Posted by TRO on March 24, 2008

No doubt this was loving wife’s motivation.

The best marriages are those where women marry men who are less attractive than themselves, research has found. Psychologists who studied newlyweds found men who were better-looking than their wives were more likely to be unhappy and have negative feelings about their marriage. In couples where the wife is more attractive, both partners tended to be very content.The research, published in the Journal of Family Psychology, suggests that, in evolutionary terms, women are less choosy about their man’s looks as long as he is able to help them reproduce.Men, however, are programmed to choose a mate who is most likely to pass on their genes and look for youth, health and physical attractiveness.

The tests involved 82 couples married within the previous six months.

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How Proud Their Parents Must Be

Posted by TRO on March 24, 2008

Three dickless guys and three butt-ugly women disrupt Easter Mass at a Chicago Catholic church in an anti-war protest.  (Pictures at the link.)

A few observations:

1) The group is called “Catholic Schoolgirls Against The War” and from what I see there were indeed six schoolgirls involved in the disruption - that includes the three wussy guys, of course.

2)  Where are the short plaid skirts and white knee-socks?  They are Catholic schoolgirls after all.

3)  Like I said, the Catholic Church is against the war, so why interrupt a Catholic Mass?  Morons.

4)  Kudos to the Cardinal for asking if they were okay when that girl screamed like a whiny little bitch.  At least I think it was a girl.  It might have been one of the guys.

5) If they had sprayed anything on me I would have physically defended myself and my family (i.e. punched them in their respective faces).  I would have claimed self-defense since I would have thought they were spraying me with something dangerous.  That’s my story and I am sticking to it. 

UPDATE:

These six morons have had some serious bail set - from $25,000 to $30,000 - and have been charged with felonies.  Good.  I just hope the Cardinal doesn’t feel sorry for them and not press charges.  And even if he does I hope some hard-assed parishioners who got splattered presses charges in his stead.

Also, check out the picture of one of the protesters, Ryane Ziemba, at the link. He either got his butt kicked recently or has one hell of a nasty skin rash he got from who knows where. Eww.

UPDATE:

The video was taken down.  Leftist nuts don’t like looking like, well, leftist nuts.

Posted in Anti-American, Anti-war Nuts, Crazy Leftists, Faith, Iraq war | 1 Comment »