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link Britain sends South Africa 42m condoms in HIV fight before World Cup | World news | The Guardian.

As if.  Forty two million condoms sent to South Africa for a soccer tournament?  Who are they sending, Warren Beatty clones?  The recently held Olympics in Vancouver made big headlines when 100,000 condoms were shipped into the athletes’ village and it occured to people just what the 5 Olympic rings really symbolized  Forty two million makes those people out to be nuns by comparison.  Doing a quick fact check on the World Bank website, reveals that the entire population of South Africa is 47 million people. 

Come to think of it, is that the real reason to hold sporting events worldwide, to spread the genetic pollen of tourists and participants?   Why don’t they just hand out condoms with the boarding passes?  There’s an entrepreneurial idea.  Come to think of it, there have been some mysterious extra  ‘charges’ on plane tickets recently.  In regard to South Africa, how do they logistically even distribute 42 million condoms?  Does the post office do it?  Do they drop them on citizens from low flying aircraft? Are they included with breakfast cereal, or attached to Starbucks cups?  Then again, think of having to dispose of those things afterwards.  SHIVER.

For this amount of product to be shipped for the World Cup event implies a couple of possibilities about South Africa.  One is that people there are a little on the promiscuous side, or at least have the reputation of it.  Another, is that it’s a nation of hookers.  Either way, it must be a very compelling group of people to meet since the incidence of HIV/AIDS there is among , if not the highest in the world.  That a flimsy piece of rubber is the only thing standing in the way of possibly acquiring a fatal disease falls squarely in the idiot category.  More on this later.

link Obama calls entrepreneurship summit with Muslims.

Hmm.  Imagine being on airplane screening duty for this event!

“…The summit will highlight the role entrepreneurship can play in addressing common challenges while building partnerships that will lead to greater opportunity abroad and at home,” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said…”

What does this even mean?  Over the past year, this is pretty representative of the kind of vague nonspeak coming out of this administration.  Is the goal to nurture entrepreneurship among Muslims?  Or among Americans to Muslims?  Who would represent Muslims?  The largest Muslim population in the world is in Malaysia and Indonesia?   Is the intent to make Muslims more aware of America? 

It’s doubtful in my mind that Muslims worldwide have not been aware of business opportunities with the U.S.   According to the Foreign Trade Statistics from the U.S. Census bureau, the American trade deficit with Indonesia was over 7 billion dollars in 2009, which means the U.S. buys a  lot more stuff from that nation than stuff sold to them.  So, if that’s any indication, it looks like entreprenerhip is in pretty good shape over there.   Similarly, the Chinese, Koreans, Germans, Japanese, Australians, heck even the French have long established trade ties with the U.S.  Though in the case of the French, it’s mainly in fries, cheese and wine.  They tried to sell Peugeots in the U.S., but apparently, Americans weren’t totally indiscriminate.

 The fact is, there have never been any impediments to trade with Muslim nations. The real intent of this touchy feely sounding summit is presumably to show just how Muslim friendly America really is.   While this summit will be showcased as an olive branch to that population, it’s effect will be moot.  Logically, the group that the White House wants to influence are radical Muslims, they of the fiery rhetoric and loaded underwear.   No amount of wining and dining is going to change the opinions of this group.  What are they going to do,  show episodes of Jerry Springer to convince them that America is not the Great Satan? 

 But perhaps the stated goal of the radical jihadists has been misinterpreted:  I mean, kill all infidels can be a bit ambiguous.  Maybe it’s just a matter of inferior communication skills.  The U.S. can certainly help the jihad boys with some media savvy.  Pretty soon, you’ll have talk shows over there, emulating our own programming.  Imagine the Ahmed Letterman show for example, or Two And A Half Martyrs.  I’m sure by the end of the summit we’ll have achieved historic bi-cultural, global understanding with cultural bridges built upon mutual peace and kumbaya.  Somebody should print T-shirts to mark the occasion.