Month: June 2013

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In my past I worked in many kitchens and I became a solid foodie….I enjoy cooking, the more elaborate the better, I am famous for my campfire beans, chili and pork on the grill…..I am always looking for a new recipe to try…..and then there is this……

Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement the diets of billions of people globally and help feed livestock, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Monday, calling for more investment in edible insect farming.

“One of the many ways to address food and feed insecurity is through insect farming,” the report said, pointing out that insects were “nutritious, with high protein, fat and mineral contents”.

“Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly, and they have high growth and feed conversion rates and a low environmental footprint,” it said.

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Appetizing, eh?  How hungry will you have to be?

Good News Saturday!

I have been doing the blog thingy for about 7 years….it started off pretty slow but has slowly built into a pretty well read site……I was thrilled when I posted my 5000 post and really excited when I went over 100,000 hits….but I think the thing I am most proud of is that sometime after midnite I went over 500 followers…….

I want to take this opportunity to express my sincere gratitude to all those people that are helping me make this a site that people can appreciate and find informative.

Thanx everyone….now let’s get busy!

Talk About A Bad Trip!

I recall that during the wild 60’s I tried a lot of stuff to alter my perception…..one of the better was the original LSD…the stuff that could help one see and talk with God….and all thise trips I took I never had a bad one….unless watching it raining and thinking the window pane was melting…..and then there was my religious experience…..I was looking down a long pipe and saw the face of God….it appeared as a very intelligent ape with g;lasses and a glass of wine….no conversation too k place…

What I am trying to come around to see this poece on a dude that had what I would call a “bad trip”……….

(Newser) – Something weird is in the mushrooms in Michigan’s Ypsilanti Township: Police say a man ripped off part of his own penis, almost killing himself through blood loss, after taking hallucinogenic mushrooms. Cops found the naked, screaming man outside a school after responding to a late-night burglar alarm, the Detroit Free Press reports.

“He really wasn’t saying much at all—a lot of yelling and screaming,” a police spokesman says. “He wasn’t making sense. They couldn’t really communicate with him in terms of constructive conversation.” The man, a Columbus, Ohio, native, was nearly dead by the time they got him to hospital. Police say he has no history of mental illness or extensive drug use and blood tests will be carried out to see if the mushrooms were laced with anything.

A whole new definition for “jerking off”……Please share your thoughts…..Besides……..OUCH!

2013 Babbling Buffoons Of Babylon #2

Just a post that lets my readers know just how moronic politicians can be when they open their slimy mouths…….

First up is the candidate of Lt Gov of Virginia……

Virginia Lt. Gov candidate E.W. Jackson (R) said that Americans “should remember” the country’s history of slavery, but “not wallow in it,” the Hampton Roads Daily Press reports.

He stressed that it was “not slavery that eroded the black family but government policies in the 1960s.”

Said Jackson: “In 1960 most black children were raised in two parent monogamous families. By now, by this time, we only have 20 percent of black children being raised in two parent monogamous families with a married man and woman raising those children. It wasn’t slavery that did that. It was government that did that trying to solve problems that only God can solve, and that only we as human beings can solve.”

And then another Repub has to open his ignorant mouth…..

In a speech Monday on the House floor, Gingrey stressed his continued support for the Defense of Marriage Act — which defines marriage as only union between a man and a woman — and suggested that children need to be carefully taught about the traditional roles of their genders:

GINGREY: You know, maybe part of the problem is we need to go back into the schools at a very early age, maybe at the grade school level, and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, you know, this is what’s important. This is what a father does that is maybe a little different, maybe a little bit better than the talents that a mom has in a certain area. And the same thing for the young girls, that, you know, this is what a mom does, and this is what is important from the standpoint of that union which we call marriage.”

Continuing with stupid……this from a think tank…..the American Center For Democracy……..

While many of the fires that have scorched millions of acres and destroyed thousands of homes in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and other states have been identified as arson, none have been publicly attributed to criminal or terrorist groups, despite the presence of Mexican gangs and large number of other illegals in our Western states … How many Tzarnaevs are hiding in Colorado’s woods?

Could any organization that makes such ignorant claims be called a “Think Tank”?

And then there are candidates that have NO scruples and make wild claims…….

Montgomery County GOP Chairman Jim Allen emailed the website Republican News Watch with his remarks about former Miss America Erika Harold, who will challenge incumbent Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) in the Republican primary for Illinois’ 13th congressional district.

“Rodney Davis will win and the love child of the D.N.C. will be back in Shitcago by May of 2014 working for some law firm that needs to meet their quota for minority hires,” he wrote. “… Now, miss queen is being used like a street walker and her pimps are the DEMOCRAT PARTY and RINO REPUBLICANS.”

And then there are politicians that use conspiracy nut jobs as fact…….New Hampshire state Rep. Stella Tremblay (R)……

Just a week after the Boston bombings, the birther lawmaker had posted a link a link to an Alex Jones video on Glenn Beck’s Facebook page. Tremblay suggested that Saudi nationals, Secretary of State John Kerry and “black ops” soldiers had conspired to carry out the attack.

Recently Speaker has been embarrassed by the failure of a farm bill….but the best best of the defeat was all the crap spread by idiots like Rep. Gohmert of Texas…….when addressing the food stamp issue within the bill said…..

On the other hand, Gohmert said, poor people were using food stamps to buy food that other Americans could not afford. He claimed his “broken-hearted” constituents had repeatedly told him they had seen people use food stamps to buy king crab legs.

“Because he does pay income tax, he doesn’t get more back than he pays in, he is actually helping pay for king crab legs when he can’t pay for them for himself,” Gohmert explained.

“How can you begrudge somebody who feels that way,” he added. “How can you begrudge anyone who steps up on behalf of constituents who feel that way. We don’t want anyone to go hungry, and from the amount of obesity in this country by people who we’re told do not have enough to eat, it does seem like we could have a debate about this issue without allegations about wanting to slap down or starve children.”

These people just do not realize how moronic they sound every time they make a statement like this…….they just get more pathetic…..

I lost a lot of respect for Red State’s Eric Erickson when he jumped on the idiot bandwagon about women becoming the family bread winners……and then there is Jeb Bush, who I thought would be a good choice for the GOP in the future…..but likie Eric he had to be stupid……..

Jeb Bush has created a stir with remarks he made during a speech on immigration, in which he said that women who immigrate to America are more fertile than women who are born in the country.

“Immigrants create far more businesses than native-born Americans, over the last 20 years,” Bush said. “Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.”

And then there is another GOP state rep that just had to show their ignorance…………the debate on the new abortion bill being debated in Texas……this rep said with a straight face……..

Texas Republican (of course) Rep. Jodie Laubenberg, who had this to say while denying an exception for rape in the draconian abortion bill Texas Republicans (of course) are in the process of jamming through the legislative process:

In the emergency room, they have what’s called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out.

And to beat all….she is……a WOMAN.

Even organizations pass on crap information like this woman who works for an anti-abortion place……. Cleveland’s Womankind “maternal and prenatal care” center,

“It sounds like the morning after pill. If you have intercourse and then take this pill and it causes a period to come on or something, or bleeding. It’s like having kind of an abortion.” She adds, “That could harm you. It really could harm you … You could hemorrhage from anything like that.”

Finally, we have a completely ignorant statement on the SCOTUS DOMA ruling……

“I think this is the conundrum and gets back to what you were saying in the opening — whether or not churches should decide this. But it is difficult because if we have no laws on this people take it to one extension further. Does it have to be humans?

“You know, I mean, so there really are, the question is what social mores, can some social mores be part of legislation? Historically we did at the state legislative level, we did allow for some social mores to be part of it. Some of them were said to be for health reasons and otherwise, but I’m kind of with you, I see the thousands-of-year tradition of the nucleus of the family unit. I also see that economically, if you just look without any kind of moral periscope and you say, what is it that is the leading cause of poverty in our country? It’s having kids without marriage. The stability of the marriage unit is enormous and we should not just say oh we’re punting on it, marriage can be anything.”

So goes another week of douche bags attempting to be relevant….they fail every time!

Reminds me of a quote by John Stuart Mill…….I am not saying that all conservs are stupid, only that most of the people I know that are stupid are conserv”…….

They Are Printing Money!

Today’s subject is economics.  Hear That!  Thant sound is most people falling asleep and falling out of their chairs.

I know economics is not the most interesting thing to read about…..but before one can understand what is going on with our fiscal policy….one needs to understand economics….without understanding there is nothing but ignorance.

How many times have you heard the argument against the Fed….is that they are turning on the printing press?  How many times has the Fed been blamed for all the economic problems?

The accusation may be a metaphor but way too many seem to think that the Fed will just turn on the printing presses whenever we are in dire financial straits…..

What does it mean when they say the Federal Reserve is printing money? It doesn’t mean the Fed has a printing press that spouts out dollars. Only the Treasury Department does that. However, most of the “money,” or capital, in use today is not cash. That’s because the large financial institutions that do most investments prefer using borrowed money, or credit.

The Federal Reserve does manage the liquidity of capital, which is the amount that is available for investment. High liquidity means there is a lot of capital because interest rates are low, and capital is easily available. When credit is cheap, businesses and investors are more likely to borrow. The return on investment only has to be higher than the interest rate, so more investments look good. In this way, high liquidity spurs economic growth.

The Federal Reserve manages liquidity with monetary policy and the Fed funds rate. By lowering the Fed funds rate target, the Fed lowers all bank rates. This adds liquidity, which adds to the money supply. This has the same effect as printing money.

The Fed then “prints money” to spur borrowing, investing and economic growth.

I realize that I am nit-picking on this subject……but I like precise definitions…….. I just want people to grasp what is going on with our fiscal policy and to watch out for dog whistle slogans that explain nothing……..the Fed cannot actually print money!

SCOTUS And The Vote Killer

I was going to relax today and enjoy my 66 years of life…..but….NO!  News just had to come out that I could not turn my back on……

By now most of America has heard about the court’s screwing of the Voters Rights Act (VRA)….how long will it be before we have a rush of Repub controlled states with new laws on Voter ID or times to vote or early registration or a lessening of polling sites….

The Brennan Center for Justice called these schemes “the biggest rollback in voting rights since the Jim Crow era.” Those measures included voter ID laws that disproportionately impact minority and Democratic Party voters.

Most of the states passing restrictive voter ID laws are in the South and are covered under Section 5. Voter ID laws in Texas and South Carolina (as well as in Wisconsin) were struck down by the courts prior to the 2012 elections. Moreover, in Texas a federal court recently refused to clear the state legislature’s redistricting plan, finding “the new lines intentionally discriminated against minorities.” Because of Section 5, Texas was blocked from racial gerrymandering.

How long will it be?

Rather, the Court’s conservative majority has taken advantage of a gap in the Constitution that must be addressed.

The Court’s 5-4 ruling invalidated the formula used to determine which states come under the requirement that changes to voting laws, procedures and polling place locations in all or part of fifteen targeted states be approved in advance by the Justice Department or a panel of federal judges. The ruling says that Congress went too far in seeking to prevent racial discrimination in voting when it reauthorized the historic act in 2006, with votes of 98-0 in the Senate and 390-33 in the House.

The argument I hear most about all this voter suppression stuff is that the system, state Repub system, is doing all they can to secure the ‘integrity’ of the institution of voting….to hear them talk voter fraud is running rampant…….that is so much crap!  That is kinda like the racist that says he has lots of ‘black’ friends….we know he is lying……the integrity thing is a dog whistle to help sooth the nerves of voters……my retort to this argument is….if we keep one qualified person from voting then all integrity has been lost!

Dems have promised to go through Congress to reinstate VRA…..that ought to be a hoot and half…….Clowns arguing with mimes!

But not to worry!  SCOTUS has made all right by voting 5-4 to find DOMA unconstitutional…….!