LUST OR GLUTTONY?!(Click any image to ENLARGE IT)
MONEY QUOTE
Don't this'n make ya go Hmmm...
"Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate."
[Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German Novelist, Writer, Aesthetician]
HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT THROUGH ANAL LEAKAGEThe Diarrhea Pill - By William Saletan Slate
Jan. 24, 2006
An FDA panel voted to allow over-the-counter sales of a fat-blocking pill.
I predict this pill will be met with the underwhelming enthusiasm accompanied P & G's introduction of Pringles chips made with faux-fat Olestra a few years back. They're no longer available.Good news: The drug, orlistat (marketed as Alli), stops your intestines from absorbing one-fourth of the fat you eat. Bad news: 1) To lose weight, you still have to eat less and exercise. 2) If you stop taking the pill, the weight comes back. 3) The pill also blocks absorption of fat-soluble vitamins. 4) Guess what your intestines do with the fat they're no longer absorbing? "Fecal incontinence, gas and oily discharge that spotted the undergarments of trial participants."
FDA panel chairman's question to executives: "Have you considered placing a warning on the box, 'Don't take this product while wearing your new La Perla underwear?'"
Rebuttal: You'll lose even more weight, because the prospect of "anal leakage" will kill your interest in ice cream.
It occurred to me that if they could find a way to promote these products to fat asses in conjunction with special price reductions on DEPENDS adult diapers they might make a "going product" of this...
YOUR OWN PERSONAL JESUSIf the bigot I encountered the other day lives long enough he'll be part of a dwindling, aging white sub-category in an America full of TAN people. The bigot was outraged that someone had depicted Jesus in a work of art or literature with dark skin. (Yup - he even wondered, "Doesn't the Bible say he was white?") Then he asked, "What's next - Santa Claus?"
It's telling in some way that this buffoon, debilitated by ethno-centric racism as he may be, is tryin' to stir up controversy concerning what is clearly an illustrator's prerogative - the representation of skin pigment and/or racial characteristics in a depiction of mythical characters that are embraced by children and illogical people in many lands across the planet - Santa Claus and Jesus!
I'd like to live long enough to see Santa AND Jesus categorized with the cartoon folks and muppets... thank you.
POLLS: McCAIN BEATS HILLARY & OTHER UNNAMED DEMS IN 2008
Well, I'm not slittin' my wrists in despondency over the prospect of Senator John McCain being the Rethuglicker nominee in '08. While I recognize he's an attractive, marketable candidate who could pull across party lines and suck up Independants - I don't think McCain can get the nomination from the party whose base is controlled by the likes of James Dobson. Here's a case making my point from John Hawkins @ Right Wing News:
Right-Of-Center Bloggers Select The Most & Least Desired 2008 Republican Nominee (2006 Edition)
Right Wing News emailed more than 230 right-of-center bloggers and asked them to send us a ranked list 1-5 of the candidates that they would most like to take the Republican nomination for President in 2008 and the 1-5 candidates they'd least like to see as the Republican nominee in 2008. Representatives from ... 58 blogs responded...
While several names show up on both lists - McCain makes only the "least" favored category - @ #1!Most Desired Nominee For 2008
15) George Pataki (5.5)
15) Mike Huckabee (5.5)
15) Sam Brownback (5.5)
14) Bill Frist (6.0)
13) Bob Ehrlich (7.5)
11) Tim Pawlenty (10.5)
11) Haley Barbour (10.5)
10) John McCain (13.0)
9) Mark Sanford (13.5)
8) Jeb Bush (19.0)
7) Tom Tancredo (19.5)
6) Mitt Romney (24.5)
5) Dick Cheney (26.0)
4) Newt Gingrich (32.0)
3) George Allen (42.0)
2) Rudy Giuliani (58.0)
1) Condoleeza Rice (65.5)Least Desired Nominee For 2008
14) Rick Santorum (6.5)
12) Tom Tancredo (7.5)
12) Tom DeLay (7.5)
11) Condoleeza Rice (8.5)
10) Tom Ridge (15.0)
9) Newt Gingrich (15.5)
8) Mitt Romney (16.5)
7) Rudy Giuliani (17.0)
6) Dick Cheney (20.5)
5) Jeb Bush (22.0)
4) George Pataki (33.0)
3) Bill Frist (43.5)
2) Chuck Hagel (55.5)
1) John McCain (74.5)
Tim Wu @ Slate analyzes the Google records controversy ...
KEEPING SECRETS
Google is being commended by many for standing up to the Bush administration. But however brave Google's current stance may be, the legal debate over Google's compliance misses the deeper and more urgent point: By keeping every search ever made on file, the search-engine companies are helping create the problem in the first place. In the wake of what we're seeing with this subpoena controversy, the industry must change the way it preserves and records our search results and must publicly pledge not to keep any identifying information unless required by court order. This has nothing to do with our mistrust of Google and everything to do with mistrust of the range of government actors—domestic and foreign—that Google must ultimately obey.
People have a place to find basic anonymous information on things like sexually transmitted diseases, depression, or drug addiction. The ability to look in secret for another job is not merely liberating, it's economically efficient. But all this depends on our feeling free to search without being watched. ... living —as if everything you do will be publicly aired one day—is wretched, and the exact opposite of what it means to be living in a free society.
the public's demand must be of Google—not the state. It should be that Google please stop keeping quite so much information attached to our IP addresses; please modify logging practices so that all identifying information is stripped. And please run history's greatest "search and delete," right now, and take out the IP addresses from every file that contains everyone's last five years of searches...MORE... Slate
We were watchin' the 19-incher out in the Last Chance Garage and it wasn't a pretty picture...
Good fortune. COMMENT!! Please spread the meme. Don't smoke in bed...
