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TERRY’S TIDBITS – Sex Clubs, Education Accounts, Heart Attacks

By Terry Gray

September 6, 2004

Sex Clubs.

  I saw a couple of upstanding busy bodies on the news the other night who want to be sure that the citizens of Louisville have a voice against adult entertainment.  It seems to me that there is already a voice and its called supply and demand.

         These two people, a man and a woman, say that people in Louisville don’t like sex clubs.  I wonder why there are so many flourishing adult entertainment clubs then.  It must be the same rule that is used for smoking; see someone that doesn’t want to be around sex or smoking and drag them into the nearest place that offends them. 

          It seems that Louisvillians don’t have a personal choice when confronted with such earth-shattering vices.  Build them, and they will come.  As if mesmerized, otherwise meek citizens who use sex exclusively for procreation will find themselves standing at the edge of a stage with a handful of dollar bills vying for the attention of a lovely dancer.  When the dollars are gone, they’ll amble away in search of an ATM and a cigarette.

          I don’t think I’ve ever been in a knitting shop.  I’ve heard tales though - all that yarn and dangerously long needles just lying about the place.  Old ladies glancing nervously about scare me.  Don’t they know that those needles can put out an eye?

          I live in constant fear that some day I’ll take up knitting.  It won’t be a conscious thing but will be subconsciously caused by the influences of the existence of such places.  I bemoan the day when a gaggle of elderly grandmothers hijack me on the sidewalk and cart me off to their den of evil knitting.  And there is no amount of personal decision making that will change the outcome.  I’ll be introduced and seduced not through choice but by force.  I’ll be overwhelmed by the intoxicating yarns they spin.

KAPT

 Payments to KAPT are made with after-tax dollars so you gain no pre-tax advantage, and they are not tax deductible.  If you cancel your KAPT account, you are subject to further taxation of the refund and a 10% tax penalty.  You cannot use KAPT until the account has been paid in full for 2 years, even if you pay the entire balance in a lump sum.

         So if your child is a junior in high school and you’ve just paid your account in full, he won’t be eligible to receive KAPT assistance until his sophomore year in college, even if you have $40,000 sitting in the account for his college education.

          Why would someone pay KAPT with a lump sum payment?  What is the purpose?  If you have the money to pay for your child’s education, then pay for your child’s education.  I certainly don’t want the state to have its hands on that money.

          I talked to four teachers about KAPT.  Two liked the plan, and two didn’t.  The two that didn’t cite the fact that the state is always trying to take money from the teachers’ retirement account.  The two that liked the plan were also upset that the state is always trying to take money from the teachers’ retirement plan.  What they all failed to recognize is that maybe the state will leave alone the teachers’ retirement plan if the state has KAPT to steal from.

Attack!

 I’m always receiving links concerning smoking and smoking bans.  They are either from some group trying to make me a Nazi or from supporters in the fight for freedom.  They come from around the world and many times are about “scientific” studies.  I laugh at most so-called “scientific” studies, because their definition of “scientific” is getting two researchers together and writing stuff in language that no one understands.

          A recent story that I received rambled on about how smoking increases one’s chances of a heart attack by 3%.  It goes on to say that stress increases one’s chance of a heart attack by 2.5%.  Going by this study, I’d say that antis are trying to kill us when they suggest that we quit smoking.

          After someone quits smoking, the risk of heart attack doesn’t just go away.  Even the antis will tell you that you still have all the poisons in your body, and most times an exorcist is needed to remove the demons.  It could be years before you are clean and whole again. 

          So you are running around with a 3% chance of getting a heart attack from a habit that you gave up, and your level of stress from quitting has gone through the roof, another heart attack risk.   Add to that the fact that your family and friends will hate you for being such an ass while you go through withdrawals.  You'll probably get fired when you smack the boss for asking you to please use staples, not paper clips.  After losing your family, friends and job, you'll lose your house and car.  Now you'll be a homeless, hungry, psychological mess just begging for a heart attack.  See?

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