You Know, My Penis Is Plenty Happy Without Any Government Handouts, Thank You.

An alert reader tipped me to this story, via MSNBC:

Small city's mayor gives free Viagra to old men,

'They're much happier,' says town's chief of program to spice up sex lives

BRASILIA, Brazil — The mayor of a small Brazilian town has begun handing out free Viagra, spicing up the sex lives of dozens of elderly men and their partners.

"Since we started the free distribution of sexual stimulants, our elderly population changed. They're much happier," said Joao de Souza Luz, the mayor of Novo Santo Antonio, a small town in the central state of Mato Grosso.

Souza Luz said 68 men over the age of 60 had already signed up for the program, which was approved by the town's legislature and has been dubbed "Happy Penis," or "PintoAlegre" in Portuguese.

The fact that the "Happy Penis" program is being implemented in a state by the name of Mato Grosso is a joke that writes itself.

Moving on......one question for anyone who thinks we now live in an age of equality between the sexes. Can you imagine anyone in a position of authority, anywhere on the planet, proposing a "happy vagina" program, much less getting it passed and implemented? Can you?

No, you can't. As a matter of fact right here at home we have this:

The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."

Eric Keroack, medical director for A Woman's Concern, a nonprofit group based in Dorchester, Mass., will become deputy assistant secretary for population affairs in the next two weeks, department spokeswoman Christina Pearson said yesterday. He will oversee $283 million in annual family-planning grants that, according to HHS, are "designed to provide access to contraceptive supplies and information to all who want and need them with priority given to low-income persons."

So, a man who regards distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women" is put in charge of distributing grants designed to provide access to contraceptives. Hmmmmm.... wonder how that will work out? The penises of Brazil may be happy, but those running the executive branch of government of the United States want vaginas here to be very sad.

The jihad watch NEVER stops my friends. The Christian fascists have no respect for the will of the people. Ten days after an election where they get their ass kicked and President Shithead pulls a stunt like this, proving that kicking their ass one time isn't nearly enough. We can't stop until every last iota of their political power is dead. And buried under many tons of dirt. The jihad watch never stops.