Month: September 2012

Dancing Naked

It is the weekend once again….and politics is still as disgusting as it was last week….so I venture into the news to try and find really whacky stuff to post……this one is from my local TV station…..as my readers know I from time to time I make fun of the locals in my area…..dirt is smarter than some of them……and that brings us to the post……

GEORGE COUNTY, MS (WLOX) –

A man dancing naked on the side of the road helped lead George County deputies to a working meth lab Sunday in the Ward community.

Around noon, the sheriff’s department received a call about the man dancing along Ward Pineview Road. By the time deputies arrived, the man had disappeared into the woods. But deputies had a hunch who their naked suspect might be, so they headed south about half a mile toward a residence. That’s where authorities said they found a metal toolbox which contained a working meth lab in the back yard.

“The owner of this lab probably didn’t realize dancing naked on the side of the road may bring him some unwanted attention. If he is indeed who we think he is,” Sheriff Dean Howell said.

Sheriff Howell said a hazardous materials cleanup crew was brought in to dismantle the meth lab.

Anyone with any information about the meth operation or the naked man should call Crime Stoppers at 1-877-787-5898 or the George County Sheriff’s Office at (601) 947-4811.

My grandfather use to say…”If you are gonna be stupid, you gotta be strong” and this guy is just plain stupid…..

Another thing to think about…..are rednecks the best people to use chemistry for any reason?

A-Pork-alypse!

First, thanx to Steven Colbert for the title…..got love it!

A news report from the UK……

Britain’s National Pig Association, “the voice of the British pig industry,” warned recently that a global shortage of bacon and pork “is now unavoidable” because of shrinking herds.

The trade group reported Thursday that annual pig production for Europe’s main pig producers fell across the board between 2011 and 2012, a trend that “is being mirrored around the world.” The group tied the decline to increased feed costs, an effect of poor harvests for corn and soybeans.

Even though the pig association issued its dire prediction as part of a campaign to get British supermarkets to pay pig farmers more for their products, the possibility of a pork shortage received plenty of coverage in American news outlets.

But the projected decline isn’t news to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In its monthly outlook report (PDF) from August, the department linked a reduction next year in the United States to this year’s drought in the Midwest. The government expects corn and soybean meal prices to go up and hog producers to cut production in an attempt to control losses in their operating costs.

Considering those factors, the USDA forecasted next year’s pork production at 23 billion pounds, a decrease of about 1.3 percent from this year’s estimated total. That breaks down to Americans consuming slightly more than 45 pounds of pork per capita in 2013, a reduction of more than 1 percent from this year’s estimates.

The decline in production could be worse in Europe. On Wednesday, British Pig Executive Mick Sloyan told European retailers that pork losses could be as high 10 percent in the latter half of 2013, which could double pork prices, according to the U.K. pig association.

My GOD!  All is lost!  How can this be?  The elimination of a whole food group?

Are You A Donor?

I was recently in the hospital to have a couple of screws removed in my leg and the rest were to be snugged up….well I was talking with one of the nurses, to be honest she was a red head and really cute, so that was enough to strike up a conversation.  She asked me if I was a donor.  I answered honestly and said NO.  She went off on the usual con about the lives that the organs will save and that we all should do what we can to help others……yada…yada……she made a good case….but….I had to let her have it!

I waited until she had finished the snow job and then I replied.  The medical profession wants me to donate my organs to help others live, right?  Then do hospitals donate their time and space?  Do doctors donate their time and expertise?  Do people get bumped off the transplant list because they do not have the money?

I smiled and said when a person gets it all free and no one has to wait because they do not have the cash…then sweetheart you can have everything I have….but since that is not gonna happen the profession can kiss my butt!

I digress……seeing this story made me think about the donor thingy….this was in The Week magazine…..

In the United States last year, more than 4,700 people died waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant. Yet in each of the past five years, more than 2,600 kidneys recovered from deceased donors wound up going to waste, highlighting an inefficient donor-matching system in drastic need of an overhaul. What can health regulators change to ensure the much-needed organs go to people in dire need? Here, a brief guide to the problem:

Why are the kidneys thrown away?
“Some kidneys are in pristine condition when they are donated,” says Art Caplan at NBC News, “some are not.” Many donor kidneys have health problems that are only discovered after donors have died. And yet, many experts agree that a “significant number of discarded kidneys — perhaps even half, some believe — could be transplanted” if the system for allocating them did a better job of matching faster, says Kevin Sack at The New York Times.

How does the current system work?
For the past 25 years, it’s largely been a case of “first come, first served,” says Sack. The government’s Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, which tracks the more than 93,000 people in need of a transplant, divides the country into 58 donation districts. When a kidney becomes available, the rules stipulate that it be offered first to the candidate in the area who has waited the longest. Extra consideration is given to children, to candidates whose blood chemistry is hard to match, and to recipients who match up well with the donor. If no recipient is found, the electronic search expands to the region before going national.

What’s wrong with that?
The outdated system fails to take into account the projected life expectancy of the recipient or the urgency of the transplant, unlike current systems for heart and lung donors. (For example, sometimes younger, healthier kidneys go to recipients who only have a few years left to live.) Some argue that record-keeping is imprecise, and the relatively short window of organ procurement — surgeons can only keep a kidney “on ice” for 24 to 36 hours — gives busy hospitals an hour or so to respond. In 2011, for example, 2,644 of the 14,784 kidneys recovered from donors were thrown away (18 percent), according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Nearly 500 of those were not transplanted because a recipient could not be found in time.

I stand by my condemnation of the donor system….the idea is a good one but it is gamed and the cash gets the organ……..my donation will NOT make some goon more wealthy!

Is A World War Possible (Again)?

Inkwell Institute

Putin is a dick!  China cheats!  Arabs hate us!  Chavez wants a war!  Iran wants to nuke New York!  You have heard it all, right?  All this posturing among the politicos…..especially among conservs who seem to want a war with Iran or maybe it is ALL Arabs…….war hawks are beating their chests like sex crazed baboons over the protests in the Middle East….but with all this colorful speech….what is the chance of another world war?

Here is a summary of where the world stands:

The economic crash and the Arab Spring have pushed the world hard…..all the frustrations are coming to the surface and with outrageous politics it could push the whole global into another war.  I do not think the world wants this….but it seems they are doing little to avoid it.