I buy for taste and nutrition, and I'll pay that little extra more to have it.

It isn't like strawberries grown locally (I live in LA and love Pontachula strawberries) are going to break the bank on my budget. I buy them in season, enjoy the hell out of them, and then move onto the next seasonal fruit for my diet.

I get headaches from spicy food. Doesn't mean it's killing me. My body just doesn't like capsaicin.

Oh wow.

I REALLY feel sorry for you man. That is really one of the great things in life to enjoy...chiles!!

And with a diet filled with plenty of chiles and beer, you never have to worry about regularity!!

:)

I saw an interesting program on Netflix the other day called Fed Up, and I didn't realize till now, that for sugar it is pretty much the only ingredient that does NOT have a daily % listed. It is due to the sugar lobby fighting reports from years back showing sugar is the real killer and reason for obesity in so many folks.

I doubt those colas would fee comfy showing that one can was like 120% of the recommended daily allowances of sugar for a day. 120% just being a made up number....I think it is in the ball park, but don't know for this posting.

Never traveling to Pakistan seems like a reasonable move. I'd place it along side avoiding gang ridden neighborhoods and other acts of common sense.

And more and more evident today add to that list:

NOT running from the cops.

Yes. We usually see Amber Alerts at least once a month. They are usually 'child abductions'. The authorities share the year, make and model of the vehicle plus the license plate number.

Interesting.

I'd heard of the amber alert thing, but didn't quite know what it was in practice. I thought it was something just broadcast on the news on TV at night in CA.

Do any other states have this thing?

Are child abductions a big problem in CA or is the fear and publicity of them bigger out there than in the rest of the US? Do these Amber Alerts come over your phone? Do you have to subscribe to them or do they authorities throw them out to anyone with a CA cell phone?

Does it WORK as a hangover cure???

:O

It is a job. Like most people..you get one, you will get fired from one.

Life goes on.

remix, fired, laid off...WTF difference does it make? Drop the sensitivity, and just start looking for the next gig. This is life.

Get the govt OUT of the behavior modification business....I'm still trying to find where in the constitutions of the fed and states it is supposed to have this as a mandate.

Myself? I've never owned anything other than 2x seat sports cars (ok, the 1986 911 Turbo Porsche technically had 4 seats, but you couldn't fit a human back there). I prefer fun/performance cars. I can afford them, they make me happy every time I jump in the car and turn the key.

It should be up to you or the govt to tell us what to do with our lives to make them happy and what to buy that is useful to us.

If everyone starts to want EV and other vehicles, the market will ask for them. When gas does finally start going through the roof...people will once again start migrating that way.

But where in the constitution of the US does it tell the feds they can mandate what vehicles we can make...or better than that, where does it charge the Federal Govt with trying to alter and mold citizen behavior?!!?

My roommate in college had a chain he'd made of them, it would run from the roof of the dorm to and out into the parking lot a good ways.

I think our dorm was at least 15 floor or so....

By activist you mean corporate lobbyists. They are the ones pushing this computer programming b.s.

Hmm...I wonder if they're pushing for more women in IT, because they can pay women less?

This way they get more cheap workers into the workforce, without having to increase HB-1 foreign workers?

Sounds like an interesting conspiracy theory.

But on the issue of separate (but equal) education. Why stop at boys/girls only schools. I would think ALL groups would do better in similar group schools no? Whites and blacks and latinos and orientals all in separate but equal schools. Separate out of those, the boys and girls...and from those the separate out the straights and gays.

At this point, I'd guess they would show stats that all groups do much better at whatever....right?

They told me that they were checking to see if people were wearing their seat belts and their licenses were not expired.

Funny...

I remember when they were putting in the mandatory "wear your seatbelt" laws, in order to get them passed in many states, they said specifically that you could NOT get pulled over for not wearing one, that it could not be a primary offense for stopping you.

Now, of course..it is.

And people wonder why I tend to be hesitant to grant the police/govt any new powers over me and new regulations.

I can't hardly think of a law passed that later wasn't expanded or used in creative new ways other than it was intended or sold to the public, in order to get it passed.

Congratulations, you won todays "Race to the Bottom", your prize of a fetid pile of turds can be collected from your local Republitard office.

Lighten up Francis.....

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