He should.

Maybe he already does.

However, Cindy McCain should also help Obama's brother. And my brother. And your brother. She's the alleged Christian. She's charged with loving others like she loves herself. So, she should buy my brother seven houses.

Thanks.

@ Terry

Shame on you! Republicans care about poor people! Poor people are their pool people, the people who clean their pools and remove Poopsie's poop from the pool! They care enough to check their Rolexes to see that the poor pool people will arrive on time!

That scrub might scrub those useful calluses from their feet. Man, even as an adult, I couldn't make it through summer, or even across gravel, without hardened feet.

Oh, wait. These are princesses, as in Princess and the Pea, so softened that they can feel a pea beneath a mattress.

Blah. Blech. They're sissies and I don't care that many believe girls can't be sissies. They are.

I was at a public event this past Sunday and I was amazed at how many soft kids were there. They weren't just pudgy. They didn't just lack muscle tone. They didn't know how to locomote. Throw. Run. But in their homes, with their game controllers in hand, they're likely all hardened killers.

I think it's more likely that the status quo will collapse. Doesn't it always? And there are certainly indicators that it's collapsing right now, economically and ecologically.

I hate spas anyway. The only women who can afford them are the very women who don't need them. Spas should be for women and men who labor.

It's cool that you painted your nails and rode your bike. I'm all for range, as anyone who reads my posts already knows.

@ davidterry, re: the cruise

The horror, the horror. I pray for pirates.

Let's hope, in a few years, that that young girl in China is sending your mother, the one she's never met, some money. Your Mom, post-BushCo, like so many of us, will likely be needing some charity.

Cindy McCain can't have had plastic surgeries. Why, that would be opposing the will of God for her to grow old in the normal ways and she believes, she believes, she believes in Jesus.

"The high degree of artifice also destroys the message that the product is "natural." For example, it's male peacocks that have the plumage, so we're looking at a chorus of drag queen birds."

So, gay men are unnatural?

The ad isn't nearly as offensive as Mr. Hannaham and all the Salon staff who permitted, by their silence and indifference, such an assertion.

Self-coaching here: "Calm yourself, Bigguns, calm yourself. The bad man knows not what he said."

The ad was too plush and in all that plushness, there was very little that was fresh. So, it was a smorgasbord of stale bread and moldy fruit. I know that there are people who find strippers and chorus girls and all that jazz to be sexy. I just find such images hoary, overused, and ho-hum.

I always like finding you in a thread, whether to disagree or agree.

You wrote, "Might this ad freak out kids? Sure...but the world needs more things that don't slavishly cater to children and their fawning parents."

I agree. Living is deadly. Better to pry children's eyes wide open than leave them looking for happily ever after.

My primary concern is with the waste. Orangina poured a lot of moola juice into this ad. Is the Flashdance bucket the best that millions can buy? Strippers and chorus girls no longer transgress: they're trite through overapplication. The ad's brilliant production values deserve brilliant conception.

P.S. - I'm still sore at Mr. Hannaham and his colleagues, who permitted his heterosupremacy. Mr. Hannaham doesn't owe anyone an apology. He would likely say, as too many do, "I'm sorry you were offended." He does, for the sake of professional ethics, owe himself an ethical enema. There's a lot of shit clogging his ideological tract.

You just want to fight, but I pity you. You don't even understand what old-fashioned is. I will try to tease the ignorance from your eyes, but I'm afraid you're as webbed up as the robbers in a Spiderman flick. Nevertheless, here's the old-fashioned way:

Grandpa dies.

Grandpa's body is hoisted on the kitchen table.

Grandpa's body is stripped and cleaned, for everyone in the kitchen can smell that Grandpa soiled himself at his death.

Grandpa's body is dressed and carried into the parlor for display.

Grandpa's body isn't displayed for long, for it's steadily going back to stinking, due to the decaying.

Meanwhile, little Anna keeps busy in the corner doing her sampler verse about her own dying and how soon that will come.

Now, that's old-fashioned.

Now, no more posting for you, kufir77. You need an education. Off to register for college! Quick like a bunny!

Wanting to revert to one's childhood is in keeping with conservatism's infantile relationship with authority.

Neocons believe that "Bush knows best," just as they once believed that "Daddy knows best." One eventually realizes that Daddy didn't know best, but generally did the best he could with what he had. Neocons haven't even evolved that far and neither has Bush. "Parody" has been used in this thread, so I apply it to Bush, who is a parody of authority.

You too: "Children should be exposed to the most vile filth at the earliest age possible...."

Meds? I don't even take aspirin. So much for your guarantees.

Now, off to college registration and I won't be chatting with you anymore anyway today, since we're gumming up this thread.

How would Jesus troll?

What kufir77 is missing is that the Salon staff agrees with him. Like him, they don't like the ad. As someone noted, the ends of the left and right reach other, for the continuum is a loop, not a line. So, right now, kufir77 is cuddling, albeit ideologically, with the Salon staff.