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« Last post by Renegade on August 11, 2012, 03:16 PM »For mouser:
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I'm starting to sound like Renegade......-4wd (August 11, 2012, 12:03 PM)
But it's interesting that they'd find a mass of it floating free. It's usually only found in areas with current or past geologic activity. And those lumps have rounded edges, they may have been in the water a long time.
Ph'ngluii mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
R'yleh is rising! The stars again are right! The Old Ones have returned! Hail Cthulhu!-40hz (August 11, 2012, 12:31 PM)
(see attachment in previous post)-Renegade (August 11, 2012, 11:58 AM)
what's your man's name (English comedian I think?)
Fox is good, all right!-tomos (August 11, 2012, 01:54 PM)
Maybe someone else knows? One of their various disguises, (there are two of these things) .
The single eye represents a camera - or if you were of a conspiracy mindset, the proliferation of CCTV wielded by a police state.
Just saying ....
I'd put a link in to what they're supposed to be but it's too painful to do from a 2.4" screen.-4wd (August 11, 2012, 11:02 AM)
Nom nom nom~! Your risk of getting sick from raw milk is so infinitesimally small as to be of no significant consequence.Believe me, if that (getting sick) happened to me, I'd not consider it, "... of no significant consequence."-Renegade (August 10, 2012, 05:57 AM)
Nor, I suspect, did the folk to whom it happened.-barney (August 10, 2012, 02:33 PM)
The state has ZERO business in telling people what they can and cannot eat. None.I guess this depends a bit on where you live, but around here, the state pays for medical bills. And I don't want to pay the medical bills of the guy who decides to have his every meal at mcdonalds-Renegade (August 10, 2012, 05:57 AM)-jgpaiva (August 10, 2012, 03:09 PM)
The state has ZERO business in telling people what they can and cannot eat. None.-Renegade (August 10, 2012, 05:57 AM)
They don't. They have never told people what they can and can't eat. You are free to buy your own cow and milk it and drink all the raw milk you want. There is no law in any state in the US that would stop you from consuming raw milk from your own cows.-app103 (August 11, 2012, 04:48 AM)
However, there are laws in a lot of US states that forbid you from selling that milk to other people without it being pasteurized first, and a federal law that forbids transporting it across state lines unless it is heading to a pasteurization facility.-app103 (August 11, 2012, 04:48 AM)
And all the crap you spouted about how safe raw milk is isn't going to console the parents of the children that became sick after 2 kindergarten classes (about 30 kids) went on a trip to a small old fashioned organic dairy farm in NJ (early 90's) where the kids got to watch the cows being manually milked, and each child was given a small cup of raw milk, fresh from the cow, in violation of state law. The entire group of kids got sick, with many of the kids being hospitalized, and a few deaths. A lot of those kids will suffer life long health problems over a shot glass worth of raw milk. Go tell the parents of the kids that died, just how safe raw milk is and see what they say. See how they feel about the laws in our state that forbid the sale of raw milk.-app103 (August 11, 2012, 04:48 AM)
Ok, that's a bit silly, but never-the-less, everything incurs a risk. The risk with raw milk is simply incredibly low. Pasteurization, discovered by Louis Pasteur in the late 1800s, is the rapid heating and cooling of a product in order to kill bacteria while keeping the nutrients in place. In fact, the vast reductions seen in infant mortality, birth defects and premature death since the 1900s can be directly linked to the widespread use of pasteurization.State laws allowing for raw milk go back for decades and are mostly antiquated structures of a bygone era. In the states that continue to allow raw milk for human consumption, the incidence of dairy-related foodborne illness is much higher than in states that do not allow raw milk sales. The same is true for countries. France, known for its raw milk products, has three times the amount of dairy foodborne illness as does the United States.Despite all the potential harm behind raw milk, it still does have its advocates. One of their key arguments is consumer choice. No one disputes the fact in a free society such as ours people should have the independent ability to make choices on what they consume. However, the most common victims of raw milk illnesses are children who do not have a choice on what their parents feed them. Government routinely makes laws to protect the most vulnerable in our society, with a specific focus on kids. We require children to wear bike helmets, prohibit parents from smoking in cars with their children, and new moms cannot take their child home unless they have a car seat. This situation is no different.
http://blog.nj.com/n...ld_not_legalize.html-app103 (August 11, 2012, 04:48 AM)
(see attachment in previous post)
Maybe I'm a little slow but it just occurred to me that the Olympic mascots chosen kind of epitomise the direction of the UK society.-4wd (August 11, 2012, 02:54 AM)
The guardian has found a unique way to get past restrictions on coverage of the Olympics. A cool way to watch and give no money to the sponsors or the IOC.-wraith808 (August 10, 2012, 07:18 AM)
In the US, from 1998 through 2009, 1,837 people became sick from drinking raw milk, 195 became sick enough to require hospitalization, and 2 died.-app103 (August 09, 2012, 02:26 PM)
Each year in the U.S. 31 major food borne pathogens cause 9.4 million cases of food borne illness, 55,961 hospitalizations, and 2612 deaths.
In the United States, foodborne diseases have been estimated to cause 6 million to 81 million illnesses and up to 9,000 deaths each year.
In the United States, 1 in 3 or 76 million people contract food poisoning annually. That’s 1,461,538 cases per week, 208,219 per day, 8,675 per hour, 144 per minute, 2 per second.
From January 1990 through August 2000, CPSC received reports of 147 deaths to children younger than age 15 that involved playground equipment.
About 9,500 people nationally were killed by police during the years 1980 to 2005–an average of nearly one fatal shooting per day.
0.63 per million people died from electrocutions in the US 2001 (US Consumer Product Safety)
Damn that Nicola Tesla for tricking us all~! 
)I thought it was the UK. Guess we'll have to battle it out for gold, silver and bronze positions.-nudone (August 09, 2012, 12:14 PM)
You can't win if you are willing to believe the articles. You either don't have a Facebook account and it means that there is something wrong with you, or you do have a Facebook account and it means there is something wrong with you. Either way, there is still something wrong with you.
http://www.dailymail...low-self-esteem.html-app103 (August 09, 2012, 11:08 AM)
A spectator seeks an exoneration after he claims he was arrested for “not smiling” during the 2012 London Olympic Men’s Cycling Road Race.
Mark Worsfold, 54, a martial-arts trainer who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, wants a “letter of exoneration” after what he claims was a gross over-reaction on the part of Surrey Police.
Worsfold explains, “I was sitting minding my own business…Before I knew anything the police grabbed me off this seven-foot wall, threw me to the floor and cuffed me so all I saw of the cycle race was between the feet of people from the pavement.”
Due to his degenerative disorder, Worsfold says his face can seem expressionless.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA~!kkipple | Ars Centurion
So is New Zealand America's 51 state or what?
Bolivia’s minister of foreign affairs declared last week that December 21, the cyclical end of the Mayan calendar, would usher in a “new era free of capitalism,” and because he is not completely disconnected from reality, he did the media savvy thing and pegged his pronouncement to Coca-Cola, specifically that “December 21 has to be the end of Coca Cola, and the beginning of mocochinchi .”
@Ren - it's a vicious circle here in the US. In order to make money running a small restaurant you need to price almost any entree at about $10 per. For dinner that's not a problem. But in order to justify the price for a lunch or breakfast they need to deliver huge servings to make it seem worthwhile to the average customer Small wonder obesity (especially in kids) is a major health issue here...
-40hz (August 09, 2012, 08:26 AM)
It's quite sad. I think part of the problem is that most people just aren't educated at all about food or nutrition. Then, they eat "food-like-products", and not real food. Things get so processed that they, well, that's another rant. 
Like, on what planet is that sane? 
Seems processed wheat products in any form is bad:-SKA (August 09, 2012, 04:18 AM)
But I do like them still! (Something that I need to change in my diet, but man... it's hard...) Yes, I'm amazed that with all that weight up there, the USA hasn't slid down the face of the planet and become the new land "down under". tongue
It's because we're the most decadent, lazy society on Earth. And, the mentality of the dining-out (and -in, for that matter) American public is "you call that a full portion!?" When it comes to food portions, Americans tend to have a Texan attitude. We want it 'bigger and better'. Not to disparage the dedicated minority of US citizens who take their health seriously and even ... *shudder* ... exercise regularly.-kyrathaba (August 09, 2012, 07:00 AM)
Ren, can I have the Kangaroo Taco recipe?-kyrathaba (August 09, 2012, 07:01 AM)
Nom nom nom nom nom~! 