Muslim Student's True Opinion

Neoconservative thinker David Horowitz was put on the spot by a Muslim student during a speech at the University of California San Diego. His comeback revealed her true goal.

Religion of peace? No way!

It's Not About The Lame Parties!

This is America...back and forth, back and forth. The country is lost, period.

More even...it's not about what party you right your name beside, it's about right & wrong, which most choose to ignore based on their wallet's contents (or lack of contents).

Three Things About Islam

Are they peaceful, no.

Free Healthcare with No Responsibility? No Surprise.

Dear Sirs:

During my last night’s shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B; tune for a ring tone.

Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid.

She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer. And our President expects me to pay for this woman’s health care?

Our nation’s health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture – a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one’s self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance.

A culture that thinks I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me.

Doctor Roger Starner Jones is a seventh generation Mississippian and his extracurricular interests are golf, hunting, fishing and college football. He specializes in emergency medicine at The University of Mississippi medical Center.
This Letter to the Editor, written by Doctor Jones about health care in America, is from the August 29th edition of Jackson, Mississippi’s newspaper, the Clarion Ledger.

McDonald's targeted in US health ad

I really wish more videos like this would come out. 'I was lovin' it' is a nice ending to the ad along with the McD' arches.

It is an image to sap the flabbiest of appetites. An overweight, middle-aged man lies dead on a mortuary trolley, with a woman weeping over his body. The corpse's cold hand still clutches a half-eaten McDonald's hamburger.

A hard-hitting US television commercial bankrolled by a Washington-based medical group has infuriated McDonald's by taking an unusually direct shot at the world's biggest fast-food chain this week, using a scene filmed in a mortuary followed by a shot of the brand's golden arches logo and a strapline declaring: "I was lovin' it."

The line is a provocative twist on McDonald's long-standing advertising slogan, "I'm lovin' it" and a voiceover intones: "High cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart attacks. Tonight, make it vegetarian."

The commercial, bankrolled by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), goes further than most non-profit advertising and has drawn an angry reaction from both the Chicago-based hamburger multinational and the broader restaurant industry.

The National Restaurant Association criticised it as "irresponsible" and said it was an attempt to scare the public with a "limited" view of nutrition. A McDonald's spokesman said: "This commercial is outrageous, misleading and unfair to all consumers. McDonald's trusts our customers to put such outlandish propaganda in perspective, and to make food and lifestyle choices that are right for them."

The commercial, to be aired initially in the Washington area but potentially in further US cities, comes amid an increasingly lively debate in the US about healthy eating. The first lady, Michelle Obama, has made nutrition a signature issue and is leading a campaign to encourage physical fitness and improved diets – particularly among American children, a third of whom are overweight.

The recession has hardly helped the healthy eating cause. McDonald's has enjoyed a relatively prosperous financial crisis as diners opt for its affordable offerings in place of more expensive high-street restaurants. Its global profits for the six months to June were up 12% to $2.3bn, powered by sales rises both in the United States and Britain.

The PCRM's director of nutrition education, Susan Levin, made no apologies for singling out the golden arches: "McDonald's is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the world. Its name and its golden arches are instantly recognisable. We feel we're making a point about all fast food when we talk about McDonald's."

The Only Great Start to Your Morning

The next time you're on your way to Japan, make sure you give this a try. If you want the taste of drinking pancake batter without the health side effects of drinking pancake batter, then Japanese food manufacturer Morinaga has what you're looking for. On September 8, the company released a drink they call Hotcake Milkshake, which is basically a canned drink that tastes like a fresh pancake breakfast.

It costs about $1.40 and each can contains 10 ounces of the milkshake drink, which tastes like a pancake, but doesn’t have any of the nutritional benefits of the pancake. Apparently, the Morinaga pancake mix is a Japanese tradition, like Bisquick or Aunt Jemima in the States.

This is just a way for the Japanese to get their pancake on without having to bake flapjacks in the morning before heading out to catch the bullet train. If you want food on the go, there’s no solution like a canned sandwich washed down with a canned pancake milkshake! Sound yummy?

Everything You Need to Know About Fast Food

The saddest fact in all of this: The daily average calorie intake for Americans is 3760

Crazy McNugget Lady

Everyone should have learned their lesson by now: STOP EATING AT MCDONALDS!!!

TOLEDO, OH (WABC) -- Surveillance showed Melodi Dushane jumping out of her car at the drive-thru window of a McDonalds in Toledo, Ohio.

Dushane flew into a rage after being told she couldn't have McNuggets.
She reached through the window and struck the worker in the face several times.
The worker fought back, but Dushane wouldn't give up.
After the window was forced shut, Dushane smashed the glass with an object she grabbed from her car.
She took off, but was later arrested. [I like that last part]

Dear Yellow Pages...

When is the last time you really used a phone book?

Facebook in Real Life

This is entirely true and sad all at the same time. I love the "hide" moment when Jim gets annoyed by the Facebook addict girl. The Hide feature is my favorite for not allowing everyone to get too open with their lives. I mean really...do you need to post hundreds of the same photo or tell the whole world what you're doing every hour?

Enjoy.

New Pledge of Allegiance

I like how something as simple as pointing out plenty of things that are wrong with this country is poetic and speaks truth at the same time. Enjoy below.
NEW School prayer(...by a 15 kid in Arizona):

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene..
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all..
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks...
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong..

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles..
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen

The 80-Ounce Beer Belly

How sad is this invention? Here are some of the selling points listed on Amazon's site for the Beer Belly:

• Polyurethane bladder looks like a beer belly when worn under clothing
• Includes bladder and adjustable neoprene sling with custom-shaped pouch
• Holds up to 80 ounces of any hot or cold beverage
• Fits users up to 6 feet 8 inches tall and up to 40-inch waist
• Easy to clean

Don't worry females! There's a version for you too! Links to these horrible inventions below.

-80 Ounce Beer Belly
-The Wine Rack

Border Closing Taken Too Far?

Does this really happen every single day at the border of India & Pakistan? The special walk make it more official? All this just to close two gates for the day?

Pepsi Removing Sugary Drinks from Schools...Keep Going!

This move by Pepsi or any future deal by that other evil drink corporation only eliminates one small place where children can continue to increase the obesity percentage. Parents who don't think second about how many bottles little Timmy & Susie gulps down everyday will still fill up their lunch-box/book-bag when the schools are vacated from Pepsi's stockpile of carbonated sugar syrup.
Next move: Parents get graphically educated on what this stuff does to your child's body over time. Step in and make changes for you first then your family. See the current worldwide percentages for obesity by country...Guess who is at the top!

Read more:
- Is Pepsi's Removal of Sodas from Schools Just a Publicity Stunt?
- Soda Makers Claim War on Sugary Drinks in Schools Is Won

Affecting Your Healthcare:
Extra weight increases the risk of diabetes, heart disease, some types of cancer and other health problems. Americans who are obese cost the country an estimated $147 billion in weight-related medical bills in 2008...
Overall, about 31.7% of kids are obese or overweight, compared with 29% in 1999... - from USAToday.com

Paul Tripp: What Makes Bad Language Bad?

I appreciate what is stated here in the following video. It's straight forward & biblical. Enjoy.

Doritos Tablet: The Alternative to the iPad

Yummy!

Obama - Leading the Unhealthy American Way(video)

Obama - Leading the Unhealthy American Way

Maybe another way to connect with Americans? Possibly another stab at winning back some of his lost popularity with the widely unaccepted government health reform bill? Who knows...
Well for one, he jokingly asks that no one tell the first lady.

"I don't want any lectures about my cholesterol," he told the press. "Don't tell Michelle."

Keep up the oblivious work, Mr. Obama, of driving more citizens into your rapidly expanding health bill.

How to Fix Our Economy

There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: "How Would You Fix the Economy?" This guy possibly nailed it:

Dear Mr. President,

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan."

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1• They MUST retire. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2• They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.

3• They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes..
Mr. President, while you're at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I'll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!

Be Courageous, President Barack Obama

iPad Parody

How many notebooks can you buy for $500 and get the same functionality as the iPad?

The New Apple iPad...Another Letdown

Sure, Apple makes truckloads of money each year with their "new" technology, but for the drones to just sit back & say this new tablet is revolutionary is plain naive. Yes the original iPhone & its 3G versions are great & innovative from their first release dates, but this new device cannot cover or replace what you already have in a phone or netbook. Look a little deeper...

It has too much of an overlap. It can't take place of your phone/laptop/netbook or whatever portable computer you use. Why? Where is the multitasking with the new processor (which might be nVidia's second generation Tegra chip)? Where is at least one camera for video conferencing? It can't take place of your phone...simply because it's not a phone. Yes it might become a possibility to make calls from this device using a VoIP application(like the one available just last night) but I can't see this actually being held up either someone's head or used through a Bluetooth device.

The only big selling point with the larger screen size is being an e-book reader. The transition between pages makes it look & feel like you're turn the pages. Some productivity applications will be nice but who knows yet how frustrating work will be with the lack of physical keyboard?

So, what is the new iPad then? Combine the two things below:

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It seems that they've made another "device" to add to everyone's collection who are doing just fine with what they have already. This device is just an iPod Touch placed on the lame All-American diet of McDonald's making an overweight oversized Ipod with less features. You'll pay a minimum of $500 for the 16GB version & a maximum of $830 for a 64GB version with 3G. That's all before the cost of accessories that should come with it...a $40 VGA cable, camera kit for reading images, then the overpriced keyboard dock.

Apple should be aiming higher than what they provided yesterday to avoid any chance of being over shadowed by a much more capable device. Their only chance of delivering on their promise of a useful device is to come through with features that we don't know of yet or applications that will only be feasible on the large screen of the iPad. Basing it on yesterday's showing, it's not worth the price.

If you want to branch out from the large corporation holding you in to their standard, check out something like MSI's 10" tablet coming this year. They showed it off at CES recently. Specifications will be optional to the consumer...how it should be.

[For more information, read Engadget's full editorial on their take from yesterday's offerings from Apple's event]

Wasteful Pelosi! New Administration Please!

Cafferty explains just how lame house speaker Pelosi is along with congressmen in wasting more money that the USA doesn't have to spend. By the way, this is CNN...not Fox News.

You Know What I'm Saying?

Be declarative!

Sal Avoids Purry Duty

Boston, Jan 10 - Have you ever heard a cat receiving a jury call? A cat called for jury duty sounds quite unnatural but it is true. It has happened with a Boston cat, named Sal Esposito. In a recent report the owners of the cat, Anna Esposito and Guy Esposito stated that their cat has been summoned for performing a jury duty in March. The couple had been extremely surprised when they received the letter in the name of their cat and wondered how this thing happened.

After considering several facts, they realized that they had entered the name of their cat during the census. The feline was listed as a family member but not as an animal. They insisted that they had categorized Sal Esposito as pet cat and never expected that the call for jury duty would come in his name. The surprised couple tried to save their cat from the jury duty and tried to get exemption. However, as per the last report, the cat has not yet been granted any kind of exemption and if the issue is not sorted out before the scheduled date, then the owner of the cat would have to take it to the Suffolk County Court to perform its duty.

A feline called for a jury duty is quite strange and media sources tried to contact the officials to know their comment in this case. However, the officials have not yet made any comment on the issue. Therefore, the reason for this mistake is not yet clear. If the cat is not disqualified from the list then it would have to visit the court for performing his duty.

Engagement Snaps

This past weekend, Shannon & Company traveled with me to China Grove to set in place many details for our special date, May 22nd. On Sunday afternoon before we headed back to Fayettenam, I asked Shan's mom to shoot some pictures for me to edit later. Check them out...