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There are so many vested interests in food . . .


. . . that getting to the complete truth is impossible.

Sodium does raise the blood pressure, and it probably isn't good for the kidneys, but the chloride ion is an absolutely essential nutrient. Though it probably doesn't do you any harm in excessive amounts, you're body is happy with an abundance of it. Salt is the yin and yang, that's the joke nature has played on us.

If you stay away from processed food, you could really afford to use salt to your heart's content, no pun intended. Processed food has incredible amounts of salt in it.

If you take that out of your diet, you don't have to measure.

Chechens? Who next?


That comes out of the blue. Are the Tamil Tigers going to make an attack now?

These guys were here for a decade, apparently, after escaping the war-torn hell-hole of Chennya.

The one was actually interviewed by AP because he was a champion boxer, and said he did not understand Americans and didn't have any friends.

I begin to wonder if these guys didn't do this out of boredom. Maybe after you grow up in a war-torn hell-hole nothing else measures up.

Assault weapons ban: from The Onion.

Forcing laughter from despair, via Twitter:

Week In Review: Proud Time To Be A Cowering Sack Of Shit As Democrats Back Off Assault Weapons Ban http://onion.com/WJRAvZ

Data collected on pornstars.

They finally have enough data to draw valid statistics:



Here are the most interesting ones to me:

-The industry is larger than I thought in terms of workforce. The Adult Film Database has a record of 115,000 porn performers and directors and 125,000 movie titles. That's about 6 times larger than I would have predicted.

-Pornstars are considerably lighter than the general population: male pornstars average 17 pounds and female ones average 48 pounds (!) lighter than the average population.

-They start in the industry older on average than you might think: females at 22, males at 24.

-About pornstars being encouraged to do anal: 62% of female pornstars do anal at least once in their careers. In other words, it's far from certain. They have the choice.

-The females are not, as the stereotype would have it, blonde and busty. Most prevalent hair color was brown, and the average bra size was 34B.

Rapist gets called out.


I found this to be amazing. His rationalizations are . . . disturbing.

http://www.davidwraith.com/home/2012/8/23/the-rape-dialogues.html

The trillion dollar coin: now Obama impresses me.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/09/platinum-coin-white-house_n_2442073.html



After negotiating us back from the fiscal cliff only to put us on the edge of another debt limit standoff, Obama has sprung this on the GOP.

He's letting them know that he holds all the cards. He doesn't even have to negotiate with them. He's won their cash, their bank accounts, their wallets, their shoes, socks, pants, shirts and undershirts, and their iPhones. The game's over and they're going home in their boxers.

No they're not. He won their homes, too.

Quite an accomplishment playing chess. Checkmate!

He had to have planned this in December. This is the kind thing that I've only seen Bugs Bunny do, and Bugs lives in a cartoon universe.

I'm impressed with Obama now. Unlike all other two term presidents I've seen, I'm looking forward to a better 2nd term than 1st term.



Pornstars are psychologically as healthy as other women?


I'm not saying it's true, I'm just pointing out that's what a study has found. And it's reported not in some third-rate publication either.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/porn-stars-and-the-naked-truth-8348388.html

It is just one study. However, it does make this note:

"Some descriptions of actresses in pornography have included attributes such as drug addiction, homelessness, poverty, desperation and being victims of sexual abuse," they said. "Some have made extreme assertions, such as claiming that all women in pornography were sexually abused as children. Stereotypes of those involved in adult entertainment have been used to support or condemn the industry and to justify political views on pornography, although the actual characteristics of actresses are unknown because no study on this group of women has been conducted."


Basing your judgment on one study is better than basing it on zero.

Only Gerrymandering saved the GOP from losing the House...


. . . and they know it. This election would be so much more decisive if they hadn't redrawn the districts. Now they're entrenched at least till 2022, but I'm thinking more districts are going to turn Democratic in the decade.

Woman auctions off virginity for $780,000


First, I'll mention, this story does have hoax written all over it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/catarina-migliorini-sells-virginity-780k_n_2010260.html

I have a hard time believing there are men in the world dumb enough. But apparently, female virginity is still of value in the world today. If this story is true, it could cause a gold rush of females into the virginity market. Seriously. And fraud will follow. Women selling their virginity twice or three times, or not being virgins to start.

But if there are people who are willing to part with three-quarters of a million dollars for single sex experience, you're never going to get rid of the sex industry. And there are at least some women, (and men) not in the sex industry at all, who will sell sex for that price.

The article mentions a male whose virginity went for only $3,000. Okay, that's much, much lower, but that's nothing to sneeze at. If I were still in high school, I would be tempted. I wish I had known there was a market . . .

Mass. Chemist Faked Drug Tests, Thousands Wrongly Convicted.


http://news.yahoo.com/mass-chemist-drug-test-flap-arrested-160136833.html

A Massachusetts chemist accused of faking drug test results now finds herself in the same position as the accused drug dealers she testified against: charged with a crime and facing years in prison.

Annie Dookhan, 34, of Franklin, was arrested Friday in a burgeoning investigation that has already led to the shutdown of a state drug lab, the resignation of the state's public health commissioner and the potential upending of thousands of criminal cases.

"Annie Dookhan's alleged actions corrupted the integrity of the entire criminal justice system," state Attorney General Martha Coakley said during a news conference after Dookhan's arrest. "There are many victims as a result of this."

Dookhan faces more than 20 years in prison on charges of obstruction of justice and falsely pretending to hold a degree form a college or university.

Dookhan's alleged mishandling of drug samples prompted the shutdown of the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Boston last month.

State police say Dookhan tested more than 60,000 drug samples involving 34,000 defendants during her nine years at the lab. Defense lawyers and prosecutors are scrambling to figure out how to deal with the fallout.


She also apparently lied under oath about having a degree.

I have to question a justice system where so many people could be convicted on the word of one person, whose integrity, credentials and procedures were apparently never checked over nine years.
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