In Indonesia, little Ardi Rizal is racking up the bill for his 2 pack a day cigarette habit and getting alot of attention on YouTube.  I say “little” because he’s two years old.  Yup, two.

And you thought it was bad to catch your kids at age 12 stealing a ciggy out of your pack.

His father gave him his first cigarette at 18 months and he’s been hooked ever since.  He’s two, severely over-weight, smokes 40 cigarettes a day, and gets wheeled around in a toy truck because he’s in no physical condition to run and play with other children.  However, the parents see no issue.   The officials in Sumatra have taken notice of our 2 year old friend and even offered to buy the family a car if they get their son to stop smoking. The parents are unaffected by this offer.

Earlier in the year there was a different video of a 4 year old showing off his swearing and smoking skills while adults laughed in the background on YouTube.  Again, the adults saw no issue.

Why should they?  It’s not illegal.  Indonesia is the world’s 3rd largest consumer of tobacco products.  There’s a fight to pass legislation on age along side a fight to get out non-smoking public information, but that fight still has a ways to go.

One of many videos are below.  If the link is broken, go to YouTube and search “smoking toddler Indonesia”.  I believe it’s against YouTube’s TOS to show videos of children smoking.  Not sure why that should apply for a journalistic piece.

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Laura Bush was on Larry King Live.  During the interview she revealed that she supports gay marriage and believes abortion should be legal.  She acknowledged it was a point of contention between her and her husband.  He was always aware of her opinions, but ignored them as he needed to represent the opinion of those in power in the Republican Party.

Laura can’t win for losing.  Liberals are attacking her because they feel she should have come out about this while her husband was in office.  Republicans are upset that one of their icons has gone against their manifesto.  Reality is she’s always hinted at her beliefs; further reality is that she was the woman behind a successful Republican politician.  While he was pursuing and in receipt of his desired power, she had to stand by his side.

Everyone wants to condemn someone if they don’t behave in strict accordance to widely accepted ethics.  Those same people aren’t nearly the masters of ethics they expect the rest of the world to be.

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Wow, how fucking inspiring.  Way to make a difference.

Screw stopping abuse, outting the dirty bags, and letting them rot in jail until some inmate who hasn’t seen his kids in 5 years shanks him in the food hall…just spread the inspiring message of resisting worldly temptation.

I get tempted by a lot of wordly things…women, booze, fast cars…doing the unimaginable to a kid does not even register on that list.

They’re all fucked in the head.  It’s just one big worldwide cult.  America was real quick to call the Feds on the Mormons with their sickness inside their little communes…why not be as quick to corral up the Catholics for the same type of sick accepted shit?

His attempt to save face is so weak.  But I betcha in churches all next week people will be applauding that he addressed the problem.

You can polish a terd, but it’s still a terd.

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Over 200,000 non-profits across the nation are losing their tax exempt status.  They are going to have to pay taxes on donations they weren’t prepared to pay, and have difficulties moving forward.  Many non-profits barely break even as it is.  They are out there doing good, so God forbid they prosper.

The reason their exempt statuses are in jeopardy is because they did not file a new form with the IRS.  Interestingly enough, they never heard of these forms until the media started to contact them.  The IRS did far from due diligence to roll out the new regulations.  Why be concerned with organizations who aim to make the world a little safe, a little smarter, a little more in touch with its historical roots?

Gee, couldn’t be because the government is dead broke and needs more money could it???

Too many individual tax payers are out of work; they’ve already increased taxes on small business; they can’t increase taxes on big business because they’ll lose campaign contributions…let’s tax non-profits now, f*** it.

Some-one’s got to fund the country’s budget until the under-handed deals with drug cartels and terrorists pay off.

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I was reading an article about how the single baby boomers are not only suffering financially but suffering in the love department.

They used this woman who has been unemployed for over a year as an example.  She was laid off from her developer job.  She hasn’t had a date in almost a year.  She can’t afford online dating, and the free sites are full of other people without money looking for love.  Gyms and high end bars are too expensive for her to meet the caliber of man she requires.  And then there’s the added concern of what he’ll think of her broke ass.

Here’s a suggestion:  go on the free sites and have Appleby’s with some other broke dude, have a couple laughs, some good lovin’ and just enjoy life while you look for a job in your new found era of frugality.

If you have been out of work for over a year, I’m not sure you are in a positive to demand the six figure salaried employed man should come to your door and rescue you with his wallet.  Why can’t a working Joe, a WORKING Joe, be enough for your stuck up ass?

Hard working, probably hard playing, probably very enjoyable…that is a bad thing?   That is worse than being alone, poor, and out of a job?  At least then you know you have a man who wants you for you, not for what you do or have.

Oh, but wait, you want a man for what he does and has, not for him.  I guess that makes it even.  Have fun by yourself in your golden years lady.

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When I create websites I like to cross test them in all “main stream” browsers.  I recently downloaded Opera for this purpose.   I was in a time warp.  It looks and loads much like Netscape Navigator (does anyone remember Netscape?).  I felt like I was 15 on a dial up connection from my local library all over again.

Looking at the locations of their offices, it seems it may fill in a much needed niche in certain countries (i.e. Poland and Korea).  I support the company trying to make a name amongst the sharks; competition is of course what breeds better products.  As an American user…who has Chrome, Firefox and Safari…using the Opera Browser makes about as much sense as why something called “Opera” has a little purple bird as part of their branding.

I’m interested to see what they will bring to plate in future releases.  They do have a California office which leads me to believe there are definite long terms goals of battling the titans we all know and may or may not love.   I would like to suggest that while their programming team is pumping away at their keyboards, they have someone with modern marketing experience re-branding their logo, imagery, and redesigning the website.

I’m going to continue to cross test my sites on Opera because I would never want a visitor to be alienated from enjoying the content on this, or any other, site I create.  Actually, a few changes to The Dirty Sun are being uploaded this evening to aid in loading times for all browsers and intelligent mobile viewing.

Do you use the Opera Web Browser?   Share your experience, likes, dislikes, and so on with Opera.

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Check out brethren Jonny2Bad LIVE tonight at 10:30 EST on his Ustream channel

www.ustream.com/jonny2bad

Conscious Reggae music…chat box for everyone to get conversational…I’ll be there.  Slide on by……

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I logged into my Myspace account the other day to find this advertisement huge on the top of the main page for Myspace:

Who the fuck wants to watch a reality show about two slut puppies who hooked up on Myspace and just figured they’d stick it out?   I’d rather watch another season of House of Carters than watch this crap.

So on the right side is this outside advertisement:

What moron needs a fucking quiz to find out if they are fat?   If you have a mirror or ever buy clothes, your ass should know if you’re fat.

And if you don’t know, here’s a clue.   If you spend all your time on Myspace or sitting on your couch watching Elle & Tito The Married Life and still find time to take a quiz of if you’re fat, then you are probably a fatty.

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The owner of the Josef Stalin museum was electrocuted and bludgeoned to death last week. For those who don’t know, Josef Stalin was the Soviet dictator during the time of the World Wars.

Vasily Bukhtiyenko, the owner of the museum, set it up in 2005 in Volgograd (previously Stalingrad) to honor the dictator. Why someone wants to honor him is beyond me.

He was on a tennis court last week when three men shocked him with stun guns and beat him to death. Officials say that there is no clear motive.

I’d like to offer a motive: He conceived, started, and owned the Stalin museum. Seems like enough reason to me.

On a frightening side note, Russia’s government has been going back and forth on rehabilitating the image of Josef Stalin. I know Stalin was in power when defeating the Germans, but come on now, he’s not exactly the saintly type one should want as historice role model for the youth.

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