FishFearMe asks: This isn't the Pizza Hut on-line ordering page?

Actually, Fish, it is.  And your pizza is ready.

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They're proposing a regulation that would force anyone who grows or produces food or food products, then transports them for sale to register with a new bureaucracy, and submit to a bunch of different tests, submitting all kinds of samples and keep all kinds of records, even beyond what is required already. 

This bill is going to cover nearly everything, and would probably put a lot of family farms and small businesses under.  This would leave most of the food production in the hands of a few major corporations...which are of course fairly easy for the government to take over.  Thought the state taking over the financial system and housing market was scary?  Just wait till they move to take over food and medicine.

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Folks, just a PSA:

When riding horses, watch out for angry donkeys.

"I have no feeling in my backside. It's like a Novocain feeling. It starts right here and goes down the middle of my leg," said Curtice.

Curtice and her boyfriend, Angel Velez, were on their first date riding horses in Spring Hill. Two donkeys that escaped from a ranch attacked the horse Curtice was riding.

"That's the only thing I remember is the teeth coming at me. I never got bit by the donkey, I got trampled by him, but the teeth, I remember the teeth," said Curtice.

Now, she's filing a lawsuit against the owner of the Blackberry Ranch, Tampa car dealer and philanthropist Frank Morsani.

"It's an accident. I don't blame anybody but if the man had fixed the fence, I wouldn't be in this mess," said Curtice.

"If we can show negligence release outside the boundaries of the property they live on, then the law provides for compensation," said Tom Carey, a trial attorney who represents Curtice.

Morsani told 10 Connects the donkeys accidentally got out for a few hours when someone cut his fence. Curtice says one good thing has come from the accident. She and Velez are now engaged.

"I think we found out how much we care about each other. I hope everything works out," said Angel Velez, Curtis' fiancé.

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British Hospitals throw away this much food?

Preston and Chorley's hospitals throw away 150 meals EVERY DAY – worth nearly £42,000 in the last year.New figures published in Parliament show a vast food mountain ends up wasted year, either because patients' refuse to eat the food or the meals were never served.

Patients at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust, which runs both hospitals, requested 988,998 meals in 2007/08. However, 54,980 meals were recorded as either untouched or never served.

According to a hospitals spokesman this equates to £115 a day, or nearly £42,000 a year.

Meanwhile, separate figures released by the NHS Information Centre found that, during the same year, 22 patients were discharged from either Royal Preston or Chorley and South Ribble hospitals suffering from malnutrition.

An additional 2,298 were discharged with nutritional anaemia and 178 left with other nutritional deficiencies.

Ribble Valley Conservative MP Nigel Evans today demanded that the hospital trust's bosses address the issue.

He said: "Relatives will be concerned that food is put before their relatives and then not eaten, for whatever reason."

Posted by: eddiebear at 08:51 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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Still classy.

Barack Obama.  Still a public fister.

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Part one here.

(h/t)

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There's a crowd of probably more than a hundred people outside the octuplet mom's new house, waiting for her to come home with two of the babies, and news crews are there interviewing some of the idiots.  One of them that they talked to mentioned that he had just rushed over after getting off from work.

Oh, and hundreds of Obamatrons camped out overnight to get tickets to see Teh Teleprompter Messiah in a town hall meeting in Costa Mesa.  Judging by the people the local Fox affiliate interviewed, he won't have to worry about getting too many tough questions.  Well, that is, except for, "Where's my gubmint money?  Gimmie gimmie gimme!!!"

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P.S. - This mug is HUGE.  It currently holds two full 12 oz beers and, as you can see, is not remotely full.

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Voting along strict party lines, the Texas State Senate passed legislation today that would require people to provide photo ID before voting.  Go ahead and guess which party was for it and which was against it.  Yeah.

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Goldstein expounds delightfully on the nature of language and intent.*

* - I bring this up in the interest of engaging the debate about receivers of information being able to twist that information in ways the speaker did not intend and, do not intend**,  to imply any opinion or reference to the now infamous four fucking words of doom. 

As it applies to that, I will just say that there is a difference between linguistically, morally and politically good/bad/right/wrong and I think the event falls into different categories depending on which angle you're using.  It was almost certainly impolitic but definitely morally defensible and clearly linguistically acceptible. 

What's the term for that?  Inartful?  Maybe that.

** - Please ignore the fact that I've discussed this.  I just think it is important that J.G.'s battle against victim interpretation be successful.  If it is not, it won't matter what Rush said because we'll all be incapable of speaking our minds.  Hell, we already are to a large extent.

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Meanwhile, is anybody answering the phones at the Treasury Department?

Drink up, folks.  It's gonna be a loooooooooong four years.

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Nice to see that people in England who are deemed "too fat to work" can live off the dole. Even better? The lardasses claim it's not enough.

Mr Chawner said: "What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It's not our fault we can't work. We deserve more."

The family claim to spend £50 a week on food and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men.

"We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner," Mrs Chawner told Closer magazine.

"All that healthy food, like fruit and veg, is too expensive. We're fat because it's in our genes. Our whole family is overweight," she added.

Each week, Mr and Mrs Chawner, who have been married for 23 years, receive £177 in income support and incapacity benefit. Mrs Chawner is paid an extra £330-a-month disability allowance for epilepsy and asthma, both a result of being overweight.

Mr Chawner gets £71 a month after developing Type 2 diabetes because of his size. He was on a waiting list for a gastric band last year, but a heart condition made the operation unsuitable. Their daughter Samantha receives £84 in Jobseekers' Allowance each fortnight while Emma, who is training to be a hairdresser, gets £58 every two weeks under a hardship fund for low-income students.

Emma, said: "I'm a student and don't have time to exercise" she said "We all want to lose weight to stop the abuse we get in the street, but we don't know how."

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I mean, how can you explain this?

The hot line began last week to offer callers free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges to help them quit smoking or chewing tobacco. By Monday, the heavy volume of calls had overwhelmed the hot line.

State officials say the hot line will shut down until October because the department has run out of the free products. The new budget year starts Oct. 1.

The quit line was contacted by more than 65,600 callers in five days, and more than 400 staff members were fielding calls

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Here you go, now we need someone to leak what's going on at this place.

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What a twat.  Needless to say, the American Legion is none too pleased about this development. 

So, will some of the Democrats in Congress who served in the military make some noise about this?  Why isn't the GOP leadership making noise about this, this is a no-brainer for them, besides, the military is the only institution the American people have any faith in, this is a winner for them. 

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Why isn't this bigger news?  And why isn't Attorney General Eric Holder being questioned about it?

(Yeah, I know, both are rhetorical questions.  Also, RAAAAAACISSSST!!!)

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I'm afraid that Robert Gibbs signed his own death warrant today.  They'll probably never find the corpse.  Condolences to his family.

(Note that this post is in no way meant to be a threat against Mr. Gibbs.  It is simply a joke about ridiculing the only Vice President in U.S. history to carry a wallet embossed with the words "BAD MOTHER FUCKER.")

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