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Michael: I don’t know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They’re more important than sex.
Sam Weber: Ah, come on. Nothing’s more important than sex.
Michael: Oh yeah? Ever gone a week without a rationalization?

from the movie The Big Chill (1983) written by Lawrence Kasdan & Barbara Benedek.  Want a Face-Lift? First, Better Stop Smoking

By the time Ms. Morrison, now 50, went to see Dr. Vincent Giampapa, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Montclair, N.J., she had tried everything to quit for the sake of her health. “Acupuncture, the patch, hypnosis,” she said. “Nothing worked.”

Nothing, that is, until 2007, when Dr. Giampapa told her she would have to toss her beloved cigarettes if she wanted a neck- and eye-lift.

Heart disease no problem. Cancer? Its worth the risk. Your plastic or cosmetic surgeon refuses to operate unless you quite. Goodbye sweet nicotine my old friend. With so much obsession over appearance especially among teens, there must be some kind of mental disconnect at starting to smoke. Not just because of the serious long term health effects, but the fact that nicotine constricts blood flow to the small blood vessels in facial tissue. As facial skin ages it loses elasticity thus the consequences of decreased blood flow become even greater. I’ve known a few people that smoke two or three cigarettes a day – (and no I don’t care all that much about second hand smoke. As a personal health issue being around those lite smokers causes me less stress and high blood pressure then being around obnoxious non-smokers. There goes my daily rationalization allowance). Which I understand within the context of everyday air pollution isn’t that much of a health risk, but I suspect they’re genetic freaks in the addiction department since most smokers don’t have that kind of will power.

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McCain Needs to Be Asked If He’ll “Repudiate and Denounce” Jerome Corsi

Corsi’s inflammatory hatchet job on Obama has just been being published by Mary Matalin – who, in an ongoing arc of moral decline, has now apparently added “smear merchant” to her resumé. But, despite the fact that he says he’s retracted his most inflammatory statements, Corsi’s scheduled to appear on an avowedly “pro-White” radio show whose host has stated that “interracial sex is white genocide.”

What was McCain’s reaction when a journalist asked him today about Corsi’s book? As CNN reports:

“Gotta keep your sense of humor,” McCain responded, before his aides shuttled reporters away.

Let’s not condemn Jerome too quickly. Back in the day growing up in Cleveland, rumor has it that Jerry was known as Puff Corsi and always smoked the good stuff. I either just made that up or made as much of an attempt to get my facts straight as Jerome did in his little book. Why should anyone ask McCain to repudiate anything. It would be a repudiation that would be far from sincere. McDaddy appears to think that when it comes down to counting the votes on election day that white supremacists Stormfront/Corsi vote might be what pushes him over the top. Or maybe McCain is right, he and Corsi are both comedians and the rest of us just aren’t sophisticated enough to get the interracial sex = genocide school of humor. Don’t you love politics and election year with that heavy scent of batshit insane in the air.

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