In Chicago there’s a hotdog stand where insults are the name of the game.
Crazy, but apparently the employee’s like it because of the big tips, not sure this would ever fly in PC San Francisco.

 (blue = pop, yellow = soda, red = coke)
Growing up on the East Coast (for the most part) people where I lived in Southern Maryland called carbinated sugar water that you buy in cans soda, or, sometimes coke (even if it wasn’t coke), but mostly soda.
Then during the summer I would visit my cousins in […]

From The BBC: 
Too much bacon ‘bad for lungs’
Eating large quantities of cured meats like bacon could damage lung function and increase the risk of lung disease.
A Columbia University team found people who ate cured meats at least 14 times a month were more likely to have COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
COPD, which includes chronic […]

By Restless
In Shandong Province, China, a woman has setup a breeding farm for flies. These insects may seem disgusting for most of us, but to Ai Baorong, these are beautiful little “angels”.
Ai Baorong, a Jinan University graduate, was seeking employment in every way after her graduation, but was unsuccessful in finding her ideal job. She […]

 
From YahooNews:
Neighbors react to alleged slay-grilling
HOUSTON - For at least two days, neighbors at a city apartment complex noticed an acrid aroma, black smoke and leaping flames coming from two barbecue grills on the balcony of a second-floor apartment.
What, neighbors at the Red Oak Place apartments wondered, was going on in the unit where 27-year-old […]

 
From USA Today:
Farm aid plumps up Iraq funding
Democrats insert $3.7B that’s unrelated to war
WASHINGTON — Three months after promising to curtail spending on pet legislative projects, House Democrats have salted the Iraq emergency spending bill with $3.7 billion for farm interests that make significant donations to Democrats.
Rep. Sanford Bishop, a Georgia Democrat who refers to […]

By Restless
“A country with two great rivers should have been the biggest exporter in the world, but now we beg for food from those who participated in killing us.”
Iraq is rich in agricultural resources.
Barley, wheat, pulses and the famous Iraqi dates are staple diet. Common meals in Iraq include rice, lamb, chicken and locally grown […]

By Restless
Overshoot: when a species reproduces to a number that its environment can not sustain.
In 1944, for example, 29 reindeer were introduced onto St. Matthew Island in the Bering Sea. With few competitors, no predators and plenty to eat, the herd increased to about 6,000 by the summer of 1963, consuming almost all available food. […]

By Restless
Professor Ben Mepham, of Nottingham University, said the impact of bio-engineering, creating [genetically-modified] and cloned animals, is huge.
Factory farming techniques, most commonly used with pigs and chicken, often involve keeping animals confined in cramped conditions.
For pigs, who are highly intelligent, these conditions can lead to stress and aggression.
However, GM scientists are actively investigating ways […]

Good Afternoon from Racine Wisconsin.
I have one more day here, and then I head back to San Francisco tomorrow.
Aurora and Aaron both wanted me to give a little information about Kringle, as Racine is the Kringle Capital of the USA.
So what is Kringle?   It’s a Danish pastry that this town is famous for.  Apparently, Racine […]

From The WorldNetDaily:
A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals
There’s a slow poison out there that’s severely damaging our children and threatening to tear apart our culture. The ironic part is, it’s a “health food,” one of our most popular.
Now, I’m a health-food guy, a fanatic who seldom allows anything into his kitchen unless […]

By Restless 
An IHOP in Quincy, MA, required all diners to hand over some form of ID to be seated.  Finally, one guy objected and they reversed their policy.  However, the security guard at the restaurant (a security guard at an IHOP?) had “at least 40 licenses in hand” when the guy arrived to eat.
Full story is […]

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