Life in Central America

The recovery room nurse liked me

And she was quite clear about her interest: she wanted me to live in her house. I must be strongly appealing when I am unconscious.

In the States, there are strong rules about patients dating their nurses - or even their ex-nurses. But not here. Sexual relationships between doctors, dentists, nurses and patients are common. And they can see nothing wrong with Bill Clinton’s sex life. Sexual politics are taken for granted. When I mentioned this incident to Maria, she got into a real huff. How dare another woman lay claims on me!

We think we have more sexual liberties in the States, but we don’t have anything over Costa Rica.

Guns don’t rob banks

James J. Minder, chairman of Smith@Weston, resigned after a news report surfaced that he spent time in prison for a bank robbery spree in the 1950s, reports The Wall Street Journal. Minder said he did not disclose his criminal past because he was not asked.

Being Too Clean May Cause Autoimmune Diseases

From HealthDay

Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute suggest that too much cleanliness could be a cause of diabetes and other diseases such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.

If children are too clean, they're exposed to fewer germs. That means their immune system fails to get properly stimulated and produces too few immune cells, the Scripps scientists write in the journal Cell.

They suggest that when the immune system isn't forced to work hard enough, there's a reduction in the number of T cells in the body, BBC News reports.

People with autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus often have low levels of T cells. The Scripps scientists say "priming" a person's immune system by exposing them to bacteria and viruses may reduce their risk of developing these autoimmune diseases.

Martin Luther and the sow

Martin Luther was a writer, among other things, and a master of the German Language. He also had an off-beat sense of humor. Consider this:

Thou shalt not write a book unless you have listened to the fart of an old sow, to which you should open your mouth wide and say 'Thanks to you, you pretty nightingale; do I hear a text which was meant for me?

And this:

'For a sow,' he writes, 'Lies in the gutter or on the manure as if on the finest feather bed. She rests safely, snores tenderly, and sleeps sweetly, does not fear king nor master, death or hell, devil or God's wrath, lives without worry, and does not even think where the clover (Kleien) may be. And if Turkish Caesar arrived in all his might and anger, the sow wuld be much too proud to move a single whisker in his honor.'

Personal ad in the Tico Times

Costa Rica man seeks soulmate lady to invest in a tourist spa project (mud baths) with ocean and river, Caribbean area.
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Personally, I couldn’t think of a worse idea. You are bound to get screwed, in more ways than one. But you might get nice some mud baths.

Lincoln never said that

Illinois Historic Preservation Society

Undoubtedly the most famous questioned utterance of Abraham Lincoln allegedly part of a speech delivered in Clinton, Illinois, September, 1858:

"You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

In this case, somebody fooled all of the people for quite a long time.

Bad Moon on the rise

Overcoming his church's bizarre reputation and his own criminal record, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon has cemented ties with the Bush administration -- and gained government funding for his closest disciples.
Salon.com
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Coming from Moon that made perfect sense, because he already believes all religions will come together -- under him. "The separation between religion and politics," he has observed on many occasions, "is what Satan likes most." His gospel: Jesus failed because he never attained worldly power. Moon will succeed, he says, by purifying our sex-corrupted culture, and that includes cleaning up gays ("dung-eating dogs," as he calls them) and American women ("a line of prostitutes"). Jews had better repent, too. (Moon claims that the Holocaust was payback for the crucifixion of Christ: "Through the principle of indemnity, Hitler killed 6 million Jews.") His solution is a world theocracy that will enforce proper sexual habits in order to bring about heaven on earth.

What sort of proper sexual habits? According to Moon, in order to restore blood purity, very specific practices are prescribed. Sex before marriage is out of the question, and when sexual consummation does happen, it must adhere to very specific instructions. First, a photograph of Moon must be nearby, so that everything occurs under the reverend's watchful eye. After two nights of woman-on-top sex, the couple reverse positions, whereupon the man, according to Moon, restores dominion over Eve, via the proper missionary position. Then, according to the instructions attributed to the U.C.'s American Blessed Family Department, "after the act of love, both spouses should wipe their sexual areas with the Holy Handkerchief" --referring to the church-supplied washcloth -- which must "be kept individually labeled and should never be laundered or mixed up."

And, it now appears, under the new priorities of the budding Faith-Based Initiative, the federal government has given Moon disciples its imprimatur -- and funds.
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Foil hat for your pet

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You gotta see this!

A great new sensation! Floss in a toothpaste cap - really!

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Hold on to that cell phone!

Article from CNN.com
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A man was on a suburban train from Grand Central Station on Wednesday night when he went to the bathroom to make a phone call, dropped the phone into the toilet bowl and then his hand and arm became stuck trying to retrieve it, officials said.

Metro-North Railroad staff could not help the man, so they stopped the train and called police officers and firefighters to extricate him, a process that took 90 minutes using "jaws of life" rescue equipment. The track was closed and thousands of commuters were delayed during the evening rush hour.

The phone has not yet been recovered.