Why Ban Stupidity?

We've banned or attempted to try and protect people in everyway possible. We've tried to get society to stop smoking. We tried to get drivers to buckle up. We legislated cell phone usage rules. Told others they can't purchase transfatty oils in restaurants in certain cities. We've scented nail polish (acetone). Taken a whole bunch of cough syrups off the shelves to spoil the day for huffers. People have managed to turn fertilizers into bombs. It's amazing just how ingenious these dummies are!

Doesn't this care & concern seem just seem a tad against God's will? You know the one... The decree to 'cleanse the Earth of stupidity'.

Cavemen discovered fire and ever since then God's plans have been set in motion. Intelligent beings benefited from the heat & light of the flame as they sat AROUND the fire in their caves.

Stupid people, on the other hand, sat ON the fire while sipping on a weaved straw cup of Hemlock tea, naked, while roasting their chestnuts on an open fire.

There are a zillion ways to try and avoid death, but truth be told, none get out of this world alive. It's just that some of the "STUPID" ones find new creative ways to do it. Whom are we to stifle creativity?


Fact is if it weren't for these,
the rest of us wouldn't feel so damn good about ourselves.

* Just because there's dumber people, doesn't make you smart

A Silly Intelligence Test (Repost)

There are 4 questions.


1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator?
Stop and think about it and decide on your answer before you scroll down.

The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door.
This question tests whether you tend to do simple things in an overly complicated way.


2 How do you put an elephant into a refrigerator?

Did you say, Open the refrigerator, put in the elephant, and close the refrigerator?
Wrong Answer.
Correct Answer: Open the refrigerator, take out the giraffe, put in the elephant, and close the door.
This tests your ability to think through the repercussions of your previous actions.


3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals
Attend .... Except one. Which animal does not attend?

Correct Answer: The Elephant.
The elephant is in the refrigerator. You just put him in there.
This tests your memory.
Okay, even if you did not answer the first three questions correctly,
you still have one more chance to show your true abilities.


4. There is a river you must cross but it is used by crocodiles, and
You do not have a boat. How do you manage it?

Correct Answer: You jump into the river and swim across.
Have you not been listening?
All the crocodiles are attending the Animal Meeting.
This tests whether you learn quickly from your mistakes.



If all this weren't frustrating enough !

Talk About Making A Monkey Out Of Oneself..

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Information About Food Additives

The battle wages over smokers and non smokers. Even as bars and the casino patrons bemoan their hatred of smokers. Complainers refuse to see what's under their very noses and either wish to remain ignorant or find some group of smoker's to blame for the entire health problems of this world.

Folks it's about money (isn't it always). They tax cigarettes 250%. They fine bars and casinos and yet.. Literally there are 1,000's of extra synthesized ingredients in our food supply. Many poorly tested if at all.


HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. (More About This Later)
It's found in nearly all our foods products. Study the 'high fructose corn syrup' usage on the ingredients labels you are consuming and you will understand, people are not getting fat for the reasons officials claim. Go, right now pick something off the shelf in your home.

Our food and water's being adulterated with literally 1,000's of synthetic chemicals in which we have no idea how they interact within our body's chemistry.

The Huge FDA List of Food Additives
What this list doesn't contain...:
*Obviously safe substances not cited in a regulation as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS).
* Synthetic flavoring substances in 21CFR 172.515. The CFR does not contain a complete list of permissible flavorings. Certain trade groups such as the Flavor Extract Manufacturers Association have established expert panels to evaluate and make determinations on the GRAS status of their own products
* Those pending administrative determination
* Substances granted prior sanction for specific use prior to enactment of the Food Additives Amendment
* Indirect food additives
* Color additives

Food Additives Under GRAS (Generally Recognized As Safe)
Designated that a chemical or substance added to food is considered safe by experts, and so is exempted from the usual Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) There are over 880 of them!

Here's a small sampling of GRAS allowed ingredients..

Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose - expanded substitution pattern (HPMC-ESP) Use in food in general, including meat products (a filler)

Phosphatidylserine Ingredient in yogurt (excluding fat-free yogurts), powdered milk, ready to drink soymilk, meal replacements, cereal bars, powdered beverage mixes, chewing gum, and breakfast cereals at 20 milligrams per serving

Carbon monoxide In modified atmosphere packing (MAP) for red meat products at levels of 5.5 milligrams/pound (12 milligrams/kilogram) of packaged meat

alpha-Cyclodextrin Use in selected foods, except meat and poultry, for fiber supplementation, as a carrier or stabilizer for flavors (flavor adjuvant), as a carrier or stabilizer for colors, vitamins and fatty acids and to improve mouthfeel in beverages

Conjugated linoleic acid Ingredient in yogurt, meal replacement beverages, meal replacement bars, fruit juices, milk-based fruit drinks, and milk-based beverages at a level of 1680 milligram per serving; in liquid cream substitute, powdered cream substitute, and milk chocolate at a level of 400 milligram per serving

Bovine milk-derived lactoferrin Use as an antimicrobial spray on beef carcasses that will subsequently be washed to reduce the levels of exogenously applied lactoferrin

Laccase enzyme preparation produced by Aspergillus oryzae expressing the gene encoding a laccase from Myceliophthora thermophila Use in breath freshening products (such as breath mints and chewing gum) as an enzyme

Glucose oxidase enzyme preparation from Aspergillus oryzae carrying a gene encoding a glucose oxidase from Aspergillus niger Use as an enzyme in baking applications and (in combination with a catalyze enzyme preparation) in the manufacture of foods such as cheese, beer, carbonated beverages, and fruit juice

1,1,1,2-Tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a) Use in the production of food flavors and flavorings as an extraction solvent

ARASCO (arachidonic acid-rich single-cell oil) Provide ARASCO (as a source of arachidonic acid) in term infant formula, at a maximum level of 1.88 percent of total dietary fat when used in combination with DHASCO (docosahexaenoic acid-rich single-cell oil; as a source of docosahexaenoic acid) at a maximum level of 1.25 per cent of the total dietary fat and at a ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2 (DHASCO:ARASCO)

Pullulanase derived from Bacillus licheniformis carrying a gene encoding pullulanase from B. deramificans Use in the manufacture of starch hydrolysates and high fructose corn syrup as a processing aid at a minimum level necessary in accordance with good manufacturing practice

Lipase from Penicillium camembertii Use on fats and oils to produce fatty acids or glycerides at a level up to one percent of the weight of the fat or oil

The Murky World of High-Fructose Corn Syrup
(Excepts from)"When sugar (gloucose) is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems. The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose (high fructose corn syrup) or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems.

So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given high amounts of fructose. The glucose group was unaffected but the fructose group had disastrous results.

The male rats did not reach adulthood. They had anemia, high cholesterol and heart hypertrophy--that means that their hearts enlarged until they exploded. They also had delayed testicular development.

Dr. Field explains that fructose in combination with copper deficiency in the growing animal interferes with collagen production. (Copper deficiency, by the way, is widespread in America.)

In a nutshell, the little bodies of the rats just fell apart. The females were not so affected, but they were unable to produce live young.

Every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic.

Comment: Nothing Natural About It!

High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is produced by processing corn starch to yield glucose, and then processing the glucose to produce a high percentage of fructose. It all sounds rather simple--white cornstarch is turned into crystal clear syrup.

However, the process is actually very complicated. Three different enzymes are needed to break down cornstarch, which is composed of chains of glucose molecules of almost infinite length, into the simple sugars glucose and fructose.

First, cornstarch is treated with alpha-amylase to produce shorter chains of sugars called polysaccharides. Alpha-amylase is industrially produced by a bacterium, usually Bacillus sp. It is purified and then shipped to HFCS manufacturers.

Next, an enzyme called glucoamylase breaks the sugar chains down even further to yield the simple sugar glucose. Unlike alpha-amylase, glucoamylase is produced by Aspergillus, a fungus, in a fermentation vat where one would likely see little balls of Aspergillus floating on the top.

The third enzyme, glucose-isomerase, is very expensive. It converts glucose to a mixture of about 42 percent fructose and 50-52 percent glucose with some other sugars mixed in. While alpha-amylase and glucoamylase are added directly to the slurry, pricey glucose-isomerase is packed into columns and the sugar mixture is then passed over it. Inexpensive alpha-amylase and glucoamylase are used only once, glucose-isomerase is reused until it loses most of its activity.

There are two more steps involved.

First is a liquid chromatography step that takes the mixture to 90 percent fructose.

Finally, this is back-blended with the original mixture to yield a final concentration of about 55 percent fructose--what the industry calls high fructose corn syrup.

HFCS has the exact same sweetness and taste as an equal amount of sucrose from cane or beet sugar but it is obviously much more complicated to make, involving vats of murky fermenting liquid, fungus and chemical tweaking, all of which take place in one of 16 chemical plants located in the Corn Belt.

Yet in spite of all the special enzymes required, HFCS is actually cheaper than sugar.

Past Political Leaders Getting Their Groove On

Digging around my old archives I came across this old 3 minute clip I put together.

Ah, the good times :-)

Here Is What People Really Care About

If you will note there are 329 comments about this on The Morning Call's Facebook page in less then 24 hours. And people wonder why TMC isn't spending a wad of money on what really should be the important stuff?

Time and again I've seen where all they had to do is post a AP story on Trump or announce a new food or mattress store opening in Whitehall and people go nuts.

Tips 4 Men Shopping With Women

Face it, when it comes to shopping with the wife or girlfriend it's like oil trying to mix with water. For most men tagging along while their wife or girlfriend shops can be like going to a NASCAR race without the cars. Men like to dash, grab & go. After all, we all know how a man's time is more valuably spent drinking beer in front of the TV then frittering it away in some frilly store. Besides, 90% of the crap is geared towards women anyway!

The electronics department: This is where disenfranchised omega males gather. You'll see multiples of them gathered in front of big screen televisions. It is here they find comradery with one another's longsuffering. It is as if it were some sort of waiting room for those hoping to escape from eternal boredom.

As I public service I offer this little primer on how to make the experience a little more pleasant. Here are a few alternate suggestions in lieu of heading to the electronics department with the rest of the Buffalo. If you're really successful, who knows you just might be excluded from future shopping safaris invites from the little lady.* Take 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people's carts when they weren't looking.

* Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.

* Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women's restroom

* Go to the Service Desk and try and put a bag of M&Ms on layaway.

* Hide in a clothing rack and when people browse through, yell 'PICK ME! PICK ME!'

* When an announcement comes over the loud speaker assume a fetal position and scream, 'OH NO! IT'S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!'

* Take a box of condoms to the checkout clerk and ask, where is the fitting room?

* Go into a fitting room, shut the door. Wait awhile, then yell loudly, 'Hey! There's no toilet paper in here.'

Funny Newspaper Clippings (VIDEO)

A video I made back in January 2009