No no, stay home, have sex, its cool...

(Stock photo of happy Russian couple)
Those wacky Russians may be on to something here...

They apparently want to counteract a shrinking population problem from immigration (as well as that whole AIDS thing), by encouraging people to stay home and make babies!

The governor of a central Russian province urged couples to skip work on Wednesday and make love instead to help boost Russia's low birth-rate.

Now, I am almost 100% behind this concept. The part that gets me is the whole having to have a baby part though.... Not really sure if they'd be cool with this if you were on the Pill, or some other form of birth control, but at least its something!

As a side note to this post, taking the Pill (the most wonderful creation ever) has recently shown to lower women's risk of cancer later in life! Provided, I guess, they keep taking it?

The study found that overall cancer risk was up to 12 per cent lower for women who took the Pill for less than eight years. But, for the minority of women who took it for more than eight years, the news was less good: for them, the risk of cancer increased by 22 per cent.

Well, you take the good with the bad I guess?

Fair and Balanced.... Something

Figure I can prolly get some people's blood boiling on this one :)

Apparently Israel has "spotted" nuclear weapon sites in Syria!

Israel believes that North Korea has been supplying Syria and Iran with nuclear materials, a Washington defense official told the New York Times. “The Israelis think North Korea is selling to Iran and Syria what little they have left,” he said.

Now... Call me a skeptic... But this argument just seems to keep appearing on the radar screen doesn't it?

That and the huge banner for "JDate" on the top of the screen really seems to cloud which side of the argument this particular news agency may be coming from... You think?

And yes I misspelled Israel about 6 times before getting this thing posted...

Back! With a blast....

So, after a brief hiatus (of a few days), I've gotta start getting back into the swing of things here...

What more positive way of doing this, then talking about a potentially new arms race between us and that lovable "I can see his soul" Putin.

Russia has tested the world's most powerful vacuum bomb, which unleashes a destructive shockwave with the power of a nuclear blast, the military said on Tuesday, dubbing it the "father of all bombs".

Also thrown out is the oh-so-important quip:

"The defense ministry stresses this military invention does not contradict a single international treaty. Russia is not unleashing a new arms race."

Now, I'm all for blowing stuff up (all legal ways where I live are boring), but no matter how you sell this, this is indeed a bigger better bomb, so why wouldn't this be an arms race?

We have to have a bigger one right? Its the only way to combat their big one right? We aren't compensating for anything right?

Also have to really love the timing of this announcement as Putin dissolved the government in the run up to their elections...

So to recap.

Russia has bigger bombs on the same day that Putin dissolves the guvmint.

More to come soon...