The NYT says that Food Inspectors are Ignorant of their own JOBS!!!!

When I was seven or maybe eight...my Father took me to a slaughter house... I cannot say the idea ever occurred to me in the raising of my brood...but looking back I don't think it actually had a negative impact either...
Nobody likes to see the sausage being actually made. And I certainly don't think children should be allowed to. Not until they express an interest and desire to see that. And only after first explaining the process and possibly even showing them video... I dunno, each child is different...
At any rate...I think there is a gigantic disconnect between the Consumer and the Processor... Maybe If people were schooled about these type of thing in school fields trips for instance, Maybe there would be more responsible conduct all around...
The Processor is bending and breaking laws to meet demand, Demand is pushing for More and Faster to keep up with the Consumers Buying habits...
In the end we all get poisoned by our own greedy guts...
Truly it isn't intentional, and the victims would rightly argue that "They" did not force the it breakdown of these strictures and regulations...and they are Correct ...partially.
But we all bear a bit of the responsibility....NO, don't flame me about this ( or go ahead ) but the fact remains that with food and the production of same...it really is a market driven thing...surely the market "Forces" we all hear about have been exaggerated and or lied about at every turn due mostly to greed...but We Consumers need to get some education about our food sources instead of assuming that they will be there when we decide that we are feeling a bit peckish...
And hey, I'm a big fat , slob of a guy that got that way eating junk... so I can bitch only a little...but I Can bitch nevertheless....
It is TOO Expensive in this Country to eat "Healthy" for most folks...so you end up eating junk...
Just,...if you eat meat...go see where it comes from..thats all I'm saying....

STUPID, POINTLESS, WASTEFUL VOLCANO MONITORING..

I was in the Coast Guard , stationed in Garibaldi , Oregon when Miss Helen performed her amazing disappearing mountain act...we had warning also, but not really...it was so much more astounding than anyone thought it would be...ash fall, people dying, mud flows, people dying, and terror .
And we were on the opposite side of the mountain from the main event...
If not for the warnings that were available and put out I dare say there would be to this day a memorial mourning the "hundreds or thousands" that died that day instead of the tragedy that there was.
Jindal and the Republicans are welcome to decry the need to watch these massive frightening things...hell, go live on them, please.
Then they , like Harry Truman can be buried under the half mile of ash and earth gutrock that results when one of these monsters decides enough is enough..
That sounds harsh and ugly I know...but I tire of hubris easily these days...like ,"They will welcome us as Liberators", or, "There are weapons of mass destruction just lying around everywhere", or, "The fundamentals of the American economy are sound",,,,,,.or. "There is no need to Waste much needed capital on something as silly as Volcano Monitoring"....
Yeah silly waste...cause everyone already knows how many active volcano's there are in the Pacific North-west...right ??? So we'll simply steer clear of that area...
Sorry Seattle, you are on your own with your silly volcano... It isn't worth the CASH to monitor it. But Hey ! You got windows , look out of them every now and then...
Of course ,...some of you will have to die pointlessly, but that is the will of GOD and the Republican Party...

I for one will wait ..........

I am trying to be as positive as I can be... Seriously dude...!!!!
Really though...this is just crappy behavior by the GOP... Does EVERYTHING have to come from their own goddam lips to even at the least a moderately OK idea???\
BECAUSE IT IS NOT LIKE THAT !!!!!!
They got voted out....THEY LOST!!!!!!
So, now they are resorting to the sort of tactic like tha "Spontaneous" outburst by the Santelli guy a while ago...

" President Obama, Are You Listening ??" he asks with his arms outstretched as though he just cannot believe what he is hearing...

What a tool... I think this was a set piece, pure and simple staged acting....
This manhole is one of those ,"people who can carry the water" as he himself put... But you can tell that he also is one of the frequent bathers in the private baths that the rest of us slaves work our asses off to keep heated for the likes of this bought and paid for object.
I was alerted to something calling itself the grizzly movement or some such...more of the same hate mongering..
Ever want to find a directionless hate filled , angry person just listen to the talk radio shows (if you can stand it) and listen to FauX Newz... Plenty of snarky , self congraulatory , hatred...

SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS !!!! THIS HAS TO STOP !!!!!

So,...Now Obama Is A CHIMP ?? Is That Right????

In response to the cartoon in the New York Post I can only say the following......

I am afraid that the two colleagues of mine that wonder about their individual reactions to it are both correct...
It is a tactic of this type of person (the cartoonist in this case) to use offensive terminology, or imagery in a tangential way that leaves them with what to their mind is effective obfuscation of their intention,..to wit the spreading of a racist ideal or image....
At the same time they can say to anyone that dares question them, "That must be how You see it, but I was not trying to do that".. Shifting the onus of racism to the questioner...
It is rather cowardly and intellectually questionable but that is the right-wing in the U.S. today...full of themselves and ready to push their collective asses in your face at every opportunity.
I remember another comment from someone who was quick to point out that they were both overreacting and that, "Sometimes a monkey is just a monkey"...or words to that effect....

Sometimes an apologist is just the racist's friend in disguise...


Just to be clear about whom I'm calling racist...it was NOT my friends....they are feeling outrage and should be doing so...saying otherwise only outs the person saying it as either a racist for political belief or a racist from pure hatred ...
Another friend is right also; even tho satire has a long history here in this country...there are currently historical boundaries that have the absolute Need of being untouched...
Just like you cannot falsely scream ,"Fire" to get better theater seats, you just can't go past these boundaries at this time...maybe in the future it will be an acknowledged format of satirical import...but there are No level headed folks around that would really try to defend this cartoon as other than it was intended ,...skewed racism.

Will The Liberals Be As Obstructionist In Their Own Well Intenioned Way ????

Someone was saying that the Liberals would be worse that the GOP in the amount of Government Intervention they allow.

I don't think liberals are reduced to censorship, not yet.
Power and authority are very contra-intuitive agents however.. ANYONE finding themselves suddenly able to change the tone of , or completely silence some source of public exposure which they personally find reprehensible and may in fact feel is possibly criminal will likely do so.
It is human nature.. Power is corrupting. It is a fact.
What was it King George ( the real one) said about President Washington ???
Something about if he really did willingly step down and hand the office over to another man...then the British would Never be able to conquer people like this again ???
I know how I would act...I can't be trusted not to retaliate in some fashion or action that would (in my mind) cause the GOP pain and possibly kill it off....
BUT THAT WOULD BE WRONG !!!
It is a failed party and philosophy... but hurting them would only make them stronger and give them the ammunition they desperately need right now to make people identify with them personally... Everyone feels bad for the underdog that is mistreated and most feel like in some sense that could easily become themselves.
I say let them rant...let them continue to scheme. Let them continue to derail and destroy.
Few people feel like being identified with / as a relentlessly , needlessly, and pointlessly angry poisonous snake.
One that is self admittedly intent on inflicting maximum damage and harm even to the point of repeatedly biting it's own tail...

So,...He IS NOT Interested After All...Huh ????

So,....Gregg withdraws himself from the Commerce Secretary Slot after First going on Television and saying,"When the President asks, you really should accept..!"
I think this misanthrope was a Fat Karl Rove martinette, a puppet, a shill.
I think he was thinking of himself as a male Mata Hari for the GOP....
I mean, go in ...look around...find out ALL the juicy secret stuff that those Bastard Democrats were planning and then run.... Tell,...and get a gold star.
"Well Done Judd !!!" ,... "GOOD BOY !!"
Now the Criminal Republicans have actual emails and such to use as cannon fodder against their hated rivals...
And to think...it was all too easy...just act like you actually respected Obama and they just give you EVERYTHING....

It's Entertainment.... Right ????

Seriously...it IS entertaining to see somebody getting mauled by a wild animal isn't it?? Or the aftermath of a horrible train-wreck ??? EVEN BETTER to be able to see the train wreck AS IT HAPPENS !!!
Oh Dear God YES !!!! Please GOD, let me see a Train Wreck as it happens and actually witness the beheadings, disembowelments, traumatic amputations and such that accompany a horror like that !!!
PLEASEEEeeee !!!
But from a safe and harm free vantage point of Course !!!
Okay GOD ????
Orrr..... could you manage to allow a ,...hmmm..., let's say possibly mentally challenged woman to actually give birth to what can only reasonably be described as a litter of puppies...Could YOU GOD ??? For ME????
What's that Lord ??? I'm sorry, your small-still voice is almost impossible to hear over my news-updates...thanks for the techonology by the way... but I seriously didn't hear you Lord.
OH...YOU already Did That...For ME LORD???? WOW...YOU REALLY DO LOVE ME.....
Well at least YOU Do want me to be entertained....
WOW MY GOD IS GOOD !!!!