Immoral Republicans

The immoral Republicans hate children. How else can you explain this:

The nation’s top official for consumer product safety has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation intended to strengthen the agency, which polices thousands of consumer goods, from toys to tools.

This summer I remember reports of lead paint in children's toys,nasty stuff in toothpaste. Now this:

WASHINGTON - Millions of Chinese-made toys for children have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful "date-rape" drug when ingested.

They just do not want anything to get in the way of there corporate profits. Children's health is just not important to Republicans. Go read the first article. Guess how many inspectors there are for all those Chinese toys and everybody else's toys. Or you can find out at the end of this video

Hiker Found Dead

A hiker was found on the Ozark Highlands Trail on Monday. No signs of foul play.

Adelsberger was found lying atop a sleeping bag and under a tarp suspended between trees.

My condolences to his family.

Tell It Keith


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Food Fight

The New York Times has a good opinion piece about the upcoming farm bill. It is written by Michael Pollan the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and the forthcoming "In Defence Of Food: An Eaters Manifesto." It talks about the huge subsidies for commodities farmers and

or the first time, about $2 billion to support “specialty crops” — farm-bill-speak for the kind of food people actually eat.

Man do we have our priorities wrong in this country. Coke is the same price as water because of the subsidies.

Massive Beef Recalls

My buddy Pete wont eat ground beef. I can not say that I blame him. This past weekend there was a million pound beef recall from Cargill. This was just the most recent for them.

On Oct. 6, Cargill voluntarily recalled more than 840,000 pounds of ground beef patties distributed at Sam's Club stores

This is just small potatoes compared to the Topps recall in September

Topps Meat Co. has issued a nationwide recall for 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products following

Chef Finds Out That

He is an illeist. (one who refers to himself in the third person.) Over at Freakonomics, They have a cool post about Wordsmith. Wordsmith also has an internet anagram server, where you can find anagrams for cheflovesbeer, like: bee chefs lover or for eve belches.

Beer increase on tap?

I have seen a few articles about this lately it appears that there is or will be a shortage of hops. What kind of hops it does not say.

n 1994 there were 234,000 acres in the world, last year there were 113,000, this year there's 118,000 - that should say it right there," said Olson.

It seem from the article that hops production is up from last year.

The only thing we've had to change is now we have to secure an annual inventory," rather than just phoning suppliers when necessary, he said. "A lot's changed on the logistic front on how we're looking to get hops in the future

Maybe this will be a good thing if small breweries start working with small organic farms to ensure a supply of hops.

Mississippi God Damn

I did not hear of Nina Simone until after she passed on.But dig it.She is awesome.

Lion King

Lion King is hiking the American discovery Trail this year. My guess is he will still be hiking it next year. The American Discovery Trail stretches across more than 6,800 miles and 15 states, it has two routes. Lion King is taking the southern route.He is just about finished hiking through IN.
I first met Lion King in 1998 while I was hiking south and he was going north. He is a very memorable character . I most recently saw him at this years ALDHA gathering. He made a pretty good movie about the Appalachian Trail, Walking with Freedom.

Diet Coke and Mentos

How do people come up with this stuff?

Cephas and Wiggins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33RNw_kEf-s

Good

It seems the nasty Fred Phelps is going to have to pay.

Fucking Asshole
Chris Mathews

More Tools

Chris Mathews keeps bringing up UFOs. He is clearly a Republican tool. Heck, I have seen UFOs. Who has not? Look into the night sky. You will see stuff, that you can not identify. That does not mean you believe in extra terrestrial beings. He Should grow up.

TOOLS

Andrea Mitchel looks like a heroin addict. She does not look well. Hey, I spent most of my life in the city. I have seen too many heroin addicts.

More Tools

Not one possitve thing has been said by the republican tools on MSNBC. Not one tool has said who won. OK now the tools have started.

WE ARE NOT

Heck that is just wrong. The the Republicans are not helping the American people. The Democratic contenders should say that. It is not the Democratic contenders.

Republican tools

Every question I saw tonight put the democratic contender on the defensive. It says to me that Russert and Williams are working for a Republican majority. NBC is a partisan Republican tool. I have not watched the Republican debates. I think I will now to see how they ask questions. I suspect that the talking heads will not be as tough.

You Know You Are A Geek When?
When you are watching the Senate Agriculture,Nutrition,&Forestry Committee.

Full Moon!