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@Mark K, re: it never ceases to amaze that anything that informs people about potentially negative effects--whether in food, the workplace, the environment, in life itself--the right opposes.
Yes - the right supports your right to be born - ONLY! ... from there on, son, YER ON YER OWN!!!
@Zero G, Pikelhaube (correct name of that spiked helmet). You never know who in your family might know something, or have some written documentation from family research and all. That's how I came across my great Uncle's volunteering story. My dad's WWII experiences I keep getting a little bit more and more from him from time to time.
Since Thom is talking about fast food, isn't it interesting how fast food commercials always portray their products as so big that you can barely hold them up with two hands? I saw the McDonalds ad for the so-called "Big Mac Wrap" for a buck-49. It was huge. I never go to McDonalds because it is so expensive, but I decided to check-out what appeared to be a real "bargain." But I should have known better. It was 80 percent "wrap."
Dan Gainor looks a bit chubby-cheaked to me, so he's probably a bit self-conscious. But it never ceases to amaze that anything that informs people about potentially negative effects--whether in food, the workplace, the environment, in life itself--the right opposes.
I am sure that Dan Gainor is kind to animals and a wonderful human being. Although the views he expresses regularly on this show tend to display sociopathic tendencies . . . Literately directed towards the destruction of the cohesive nature of society and to the detriment of the least amongst us, but they are not a reflection upon him or his character.
Sigh.
harumann, is no worse then a BigMac, the similar to the concept no worse then a Atom Bomb?
Just wondering what our scale of bad, worse and worst is?
N
@Maxrot,
Though Zero G's great uncle that fought on the other side, now that's a person's story I would like to hear (I know so very little about the Austrian-Balkan campaigns).
I wish I could give you a story. All I ever knew about him was an old black and white photo of a young man who looked remarkably like my dad, wearing one of those old spiked helmets.
The Double Down is available in a grill chicken breast version too. Only 460 calories vs. 540 for the fried version. I thought they both would be higher. Amazingly a BigMac is exactly the same, 540 calories. I think KFC is getting what they wanted if it's just a buzz going. The double Down is not good but no worse then a BigMac.
mstaggerlee, you say Deep Fried Oreos like that's a bad thing.
@mstaggerlee, does that meatloaf come with chili-cheese fries (salivating, I eagerly await your answer)?
Oh yes - I almost forgot - when we left the Bar that served Dan's Meat Loaf Surprise, and went into the concert grounds, the snack bar there had the PERFECT follow-up for dessert -
DEEP-FRIED OREOS!
Gainor, now-a-days most people don't even have a Job (physical or office)... jackass.
Gainor, why should the burden be placed on me to hunt down the nutrition status of foods, for every place I might want to go?
Diet soda is such a misnomer, there is no evidence that its less fating, but there is evidence that its even more difficult for your liver to process the sugar substitute.
N
Disgusting Foods
Full disclosure - I did NOT eat the item described below, but 3 other people at my table did!
Last August, we went up to Utica NY, for a concert in the Courtyard of the Saranac Brewery. We got to the area early, and went looking for someplace to have dinner before the show. We probably should not have been too surprised that the only businesses in the area of thw brewery were bars, but we were a bit taken aback by how few actually served food.
So we sat ourselves down at a table in the least objectionable-looking institution, and the waitress told us aboutr the day's "special" - Dan's Meat Loaf Surprise!
Are ya ready for this, kiddies - Meat Loaf, stuffed with Macaroni and Cheese and (here's the kicker - the 3 words no suicide-eater can resist) wrapped in Bacon!
Can ya FEEL the Cholesterol, children?
mstaggerlee,
Yes, Phil and Wendy Graham are pretty bad.
I realize I wasn't very clear in my previous comment. I meant I could mention other, more despicable Republicans --- especially in the leadership --- who happen to be gay...(I have an inside "source.")
The Los Angeles County Fair is a virtual treasure trove of deep fried everything, Snickers Bars, Macaroni, Twinkies, Cheese,.... to name a few. Perhaps Thom should plan on taking a trip to LA at the end of August... it'll blow is Vegetarian status away just walking through the oil heavy atmosphere of the place.
N
@Maxrot,
They [fried twinkies] were found in a lunch box on the oil rig...
@Mark K re: The real problem there, as I have said many times here, is the nonsensical and prohibitively expensive work visa program that ignores the fact that there isn’t a “native” work force willing to do the required work that will keep these businesses, which must compete with imported produce, viable.
That, as well, is a neocon meme, Mark. There are PLENTY of "citizens" willing to work - just not for slave wages. Hey, Big Agro! - so sorry that we're not willing to work for a nickel an hour, like the 6-year-olds who pick your crops in Clile are.
In the long run though, Mark (referring to the ENTIRE post now), I kinda think this will eventually blow up in the faces of Arizona's lawmakers. I mean, in a state that gets as much strong sunshine as Arizona does, can one REALLY tell who's darker than who? Heck, my own Yiddishe Grandma, who'd spend the afternoons of her days off in the summer on a bench on the boardwalk of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, would get WAY darker than any member of the Obama family by August!
What about fried Twinkies?
Workers Missing After Oil-Rig Explosion
By GUY CHAZAN , RUSSELL GOLD And BEN CASSELMAN
Twelve people were missing and seven critically injured after an explosion and fire at an oil-drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.
Four Coast Guard helicopters and an airplane are being used in rescue operations and five Coast Guard cutters are also responding, the Coast Guard said. "We are still in a search and rescue operation," Transocean spokesman Greg Panagos said.
mmmm Taco Bells' Double Decker Tacos... luv them even though I get heartburn from them everytime.
Well said (written) rladlof.
What is given short shrift in the immigration debate is the way US foreign policy and trade policy drive migration patterns. The history of US supported coups, death squads, drug wars, market manipulations, etc., drive massive population exodus.
Grossest thing I ever eaten... pig intestines.
My e-mail yesterday to Senator Boxer, Senator Feinstein and Representative Berman:
"If you all good folk in Washington DC are serious about cleaning up the economic mess, you will:
Until these things are done . . . Our Great Country remains unsafe from another economic disaster."
@ Quark, re: BTW, I could name more despicable members (especially in its leadership) of the Republican Party than Graham! (I won't, though.)
Gotta say, though ... "Foreclosure Phil", the man who almost single-handedly tore down the Glass-Steagle wall between Commercial Banks and Investment Banks, and called us all "a bunch of whiners" 2 days before the meltdown, is pretty damn high on MY list of despicable Rethuglicans.