I don't eat a lot of fast food.  Aside from the fact that I try to watch my slim, girlish figure, I'm just not crazy about most of their food.  Their boasts of all-white-meat chicken and prime USDA beef never convinced me.  You ever eat a McDonald's burger or chicken nugget and had your teeth crunch down on something hard?  I have.  Hence, the avoidance of fast food.

Apparently, I should be comfortable with fast food - since, chances are, it's safer than your average school lunch:

In the past three years, the government has provided the nation's schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn't meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat it buys for the National School Lunch Program "meets or exceeds standards in commercial products."

That isn't always the case. McDonald's, Burger King, and Costco, for instance, are far more rigorous in checking for bacteria and dangerous pathogens. They test the ground beef they buy five to 10 times more often than the USDA tests beef made for schools during a typical production day.

And the limits Jack in the Box and other big retailers set for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school beef.

For chicken, the USDA has supplied schools with thousands of tons of meat from old birds that might otherwise go to compost or pet food. Called "spent hens" because they're past their egg-laying prime, the chickens don't pass muster with Colonel Sanders — KFC won't buy them — and they don't pass the soup test, either. The Campbell Soup Company says it stopped using them a decade ago based on "quality considerations."

Kids in public school may be eating pet food.  This is why my daughter will not be going to public school.  The best line of the article, by the way:

President Obama noted earlier this year that, for many children, school lunches are "their most nutritious meal — sometimes their only meal — of the day."

Yummy, nutritious pet-food.

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No one here has any use for this.  Except as a suggestive (no, not that kind of suggestive, you fucking pervert) present.

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I can't wait to see his ... OH THE HORROR!

A chemistry student in the Ukraine was found dead with his jaw blown off by what is believed to be exploding chewing gum, according to reports.

The 25-year-old's disfigured remains were discovered at his parent's home in the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop, reports in the Eastern European country said.

The young man, who studied at Kiev Polytechnic Institute, was working at a computer late on Saturday when the alleged explosion happened.

"A loud pop was heard from the student's room," the ukranews.com Web site said, citing an aide to the city's police chief.

"When his relatives entered the room, they saw that the lower part of the young man's face had been blown off."

Well, how the hell could that happen?

The student apparently had a bizarre habit of chewing gum after dipping it into citric acid, Russian news agency Ria Novosti said.

Officers found both citric acid packets and a similar-looking unidentified substance, believed to be some kind of explosive material, on a table near the body, the agency continued.

Investigators suspect that the student simply confused the packets and put gum covered with explosive material into his mouth.

Moron.

Once again, I'm left wondering what percentage of stories that come out of Russia are true. 50%?  60%?

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Yeah, I know Moron Central has a post up about the Scandi Lights, but Alice used her secret decoder glasses and discovered a darker truth.

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Yeah, I know. Obama claims he saved or created a bazillion and eleventy jobs with the Porkulus. And he thinks it was so awesome that Round 2 or 3 (I forget which) would be just the fix to the jobs problem.

If so, expect a lot of Democratic Pollsters to have their jobs saved or created just in time to tell their paymasters they are gonna get the goatse fuck treatment a year from now.

Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn (photo above), Hillary Clinton’s pollster in 2008.

Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.

Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn’s polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.

In a way, I wonder if some of the Democrat politicians careening into oblivion are/were promised jobs at firms that will get this sort of payment.

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Attention NEPA morons, Lou is in for another round.


http://www.loubarletta.com

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I only have one fucking thing to say to you after what you posted in Ace's thread last night.

Come over here and say that.  That's right, you syphilitic twat, get out of your mom's basement and say those manly fucking things within arm's reach of another human being.  It's people like you that make me wish the internet had never been invented so that low-functioning retards like you would have to suffer the viscous beating you earn every time you open your fat fucking faces. 

You see, people like atc have friends.  Fake, pretend internet friends, sure, but friends nonetheless.  You, on the other hand, have a tiny needle dick and Vesuvian sebaceous glands.  In the really real world, people that say the kinds of things you say get beaten savagely and left in a pile of their own shame and uselesness.  You're just a hateful, sexually confused coward with a great big keyboard. 

In the really real world, if you said something like that to one of my friends in my presence I'd pop every monster zit on your face with a fucking baseball bat. 

Seriously, get fucked. 

Die in a fire**,
MP


* - Why don't we have a FUCKING OUT OF CONTROL RAGE category?
** I love that sign off.

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Once again, Wisconsin (and apparently the entire midwest) is caught in the icy grip of Global Warming.  When I looked at the radar map last night the pattern was vast, at least the size of a major hurricane.

The Day After Tomorrow is clearly coming true.  Its time to make a run for the border.

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Something occurred to me this morning and I'm torn between thinking I'm overreacting and thinking that I'm a fucking idiot for missing the obvious.

For those following the banhammer thread over at the Head Moron's last night, did A Certain Commenter pretty much infer that I should off myself?  I didn't take it like that but now that I think about it, well, dude. 

Huh.  It's been some time since that's happened.  Part of me is a bit freaked while the rest finds it hilarious.  Or I'm overreacting and being extra dramay queeny this morning. 

(To clarify, I'm talking about #815, not anything else)

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The GOP may be the "Stupid Party," but I don't recall its members defending a Senate Majority Leader who was this unpopular. Especially when he's making such dumbass claims.

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It's that he knows how to kick ass and win.  I saw this story of local HOA busybodies harassing the good Colonel because he had a flagpole in his yard, did you think that was gonna stop him?  Col. Barfoot has faced worse, much worse, we joke about HOAs busybodies being Nazis, well, Barfoot knows how to handle real Nazis. Barfoot is a well decorated veteran, one of those rare individuals who has earned the Medal of Honor (as if you had to ask, yeah he's got a Wiki), the Wiki has his MOH citation, but I like Mark Levin's reading of it, which I'm shamelessly borrowing from Hotair,

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ACLU. (NYT link).

“This family, that has sought to protect its privacy by arranging its gifts anonymously, notified us last month that due to market conditions it will be unable to make its expected sizable donations of over $20 million,” Mr. Romero said.

A.C.L.U. board members, who insisted on anonymity because the loss of the gift was reported in an executive session of their meeting, identified the donor as David Gelbaum, who made a fortune as a hedge fund manager and is now better known as a major investor in clean technology.

Mr. Romero said that donors like the Leon Levy Foundation, the Open Society Institute, Peter B. Lewis and John Sperling had stepped up with pledges totaling $23 million spread over the next three years. But unlike the annual Gelbaum gifts, the new money will have to be shared with state affiliates.

“Even with this incredible outpouring of support, we may still not have sufficient resources to replace our revenue gap,” Mr. Romero said. “Therefore we will need to consider a number of budget reductions as well as the possibility of drawing down from our reserve funds if necessary.”

Late last year, suffering from a decline in charitable giving caused by the economic downturn as well as the loss of income from two foundations hit by the Bernard L. Madoff scandal, the A.C.L.U. pared 10 percent of its national staff, or 36 jobs, and Mr. Romero agreed to a 15 percent cut in his salary, reducing it to $302,048 this year, compared with $355,000 in the prior year.

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Comment from our fearless leader: "Well that couldn't have happened, handguns are banned in the UK."



(h/t @_vinyltap)

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I for one, welcome our porcine zombie overlords...

A Pentagon study is using pigs to test a technique that would drastically slow a wounded soldier's metabolism in order to extend the "golden period" for life-saving medical treatment.

Wired reports:

The institute’s research will be based on previous Darpa-funded efforts. One project, at Stanford University, hypothesized that humans could one day mimic the hibernation abilities of squirrels — who emerge from winter months no worse for wear — using a pancreatic enzyme we have in common with the critters. The other, led by Dr. Mark Roth at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, used nematode worms and rats to test how hydrogen sulfide could block the body’s ability to use oxygen — creating a kind of “suspended animation” where hearts stop beating and wounds don’t bleed. After removing 60 percent of the rat’s blood, Dr. Roth managed to keep the critters alive for 10 hours using his hydrogen sulfide cocktail.

The next logical step: Try the same thing on pigs. They’ve got a similar cardiovascular system to humans, and TIPS researchers Theresa Fossum and Matthew Miller think they can accurately predict human results from the swine trials. Using anesthetized pigs, the doctors are testing various compounds, some containing hydrogen sulfide, to find one that can safely keep the hemorrhaging animals “as close to death as possible.”

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This is actually really fucking cool, but I can't post this article without poking some fun at the environmentalist groups that have decided that carbon dioxide is Enemy Of The State Number One, and that all of your silly breathing in and out is killing teh earth.  Using some sort of crazy super-science, some guys from Stanford made a battery out of paper.

How amazing!  With the correct application, we could make cloth batteries and paper batteries and your hybrid could guzzle paper instead of fuel.

Wait - wait a minute.  Someone just told me that paper is made of trees.  So, to create green, sustainable energy, they want to cut down trees?  I guess the good thing is that with all the carbon credit schemes, ManBearPig and his cronies have planted groves of trees all over the earth that we can cut down.  Unfortunately, that means fewer trees to convert the poison that we filthy humans dare to exhale back into oxygen.

So, if I were a global warmer, I would assume that we're all fucked.  No matter what we do, we're going to fail.

So, fuck you, paper batteries.  I hate you.

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Hilarity Ensues.

via McArdle

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FrnakJ Gets Off a Good One^(TM)

Why do liberals need federal money for abortion? Can’t they just start a “Stop the Babies!” charity? “Right now there are babies waiting to be born and ruin people’s lives. We can stop that. With your help.” See, you can voluntarily spend you money on others. It’s called charity. I’m not sure who came up with it.

If you aren't reading his Random Thoughts every day, you loss.
Today is a particularly good one though.
They pretty much all made me laugh out loud I'm glad I wasn't drinking when I read it.

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Seriously, an Amish dude asleep at the *umm* "wheel"", I guess*umm* and blowing over the limit? What has this world come to?

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This.

Really, this is a concept with which I identify utterly. "Walker's house was constructed specifically to accommodate his massive library".  Oh what a glorious concept. 

Seriously, I would never ever ever ever ever leave if I had that. Ever. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need a cigarette.

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I am too lazy to look it up, but I criticized John McCain and the Senate GOP last week for their apparent cluelessness on their handling of Obamacare in the Senate. Well, it appears as though they are dead set to allow Stupak, Part Deux to roll them again, this time in the Senate.(since it was Karl, not Allah, who wrote this, I'll link directly to him).

After my outburst last week, a person who I trust and respect pointed out to me that (and I am paraphrasing, because I lost the emails) making the Democrats have to face their voters, constituents, and interest groups for their choices, as well as dragging this process out as long as possible, is a smart move. That's all well and good, and I am all for destroying the Democrats at the ballot box, but shouldn't the non-Democrats be more interested in stopping the bill now? Shouldn't the non-Democrats be more interested in preventing the abomination that Obamacare is? The Democrats are set to suffer mightily, and allowing the political equivalents of Dead Men Walking to continue with their "Profiles in Courage" type of votes for this pile of shit may help us next year, but it will allow the Leviathan to take root. And nothing short of 100% non-Democrats in both chambers will kill the beast once it hatches.

So, maybe I am wrong. I hope I am. I hope that somewhere, somehow, the GOP can outsmart the Democrats. But, then again, we are pinning our hopes on the GOP and the Senate. Maybe the frustration I am feeling with the inherent retardadtion that is the GOP establishment is why these numbers do not surprise me. The feckless and incompetent GOP brought this upon itself, and better be careful how it proceeds, vis a vis its own very agitated base.

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