Do's and Don'ts

At risk of sounding like Andy Rooney (of 60 minutes... it's a news magazine program... started in the 70's... oh never mind), did you ever notice that everything "they" say is good for you a few months later, they say is bad for you? For example, take alcohol. The Europeans have been living on the stuff for thousands of years and in mass quantities I might add.

Some Dr's and Scientists have said in the past decade, that for non-pregnant females and healthy males of legal age, one drink a day is probably good for your health. They have cited numerous benefits ranging from heart benefits, lowered LDL cholesterol and better circulation. More than 2 drinks per day seem to lower the benefit and then getting hammered every day is probably bad for your health in hundred ways.



Then we hear Wine (Red specifically) has some miracle ingredient that has kept the French from keeling over from a heart attack! Drink Red Wine!

Then the hammer drops - alcohol in ANY amount increases cancer, could increase certain types of neurological diseases, etc. So it WAS good, now not good.

How about Yogurt?? Those little dudes in Tibet or something like that live to 140 years and they eat yogurt every day!! It must be the yogurt! Then we hear dairy isn't good... no, no good. Bad Dairy. No Yogurt.


Not this one - the other one

How about Orange Juice! Yeah - it cures friggin cancer! It'll give you a boner that lasts three days!! DRINK ORANGE JUICE!!! Who needs Levitra anyway! Ooops... it doesn't do all those things.

What your being is manipulated. Bamboozled. Snookered. When the dairy people need a lift - they give a few fat grants to some scientists who (we'll marginally call them scientists) work for and are paid by the Dairy people to issue a press release that Milk cures the common cold! Result: There's a rush on milk and lactose intolerant people are crying in their perverbial Soy. Then someone (a legitimate someone) checks the story out and refutes the findings saying the results weren't as claimed! SHOCK! BETRAYAL!

Consumers in this country are willing to bounce from one thing to the next. I was recently listening to a guy on an Ohio AM station that said his little product did everything from prevent cancer, help reverse heart disease, makes you loose weight, grows hair and will help you perform sexually like you were 18 again (in a womens view - 30 again).

This is what was called a "SNAKE OIL SALESMAN" in the old West. If you watch some of those old western movies, you'll see these guys riding around selling al sorts of junk they claim to do everything and anything. People buy it because they want to believe it. When it doesn't work, they move on to the next product, hoping against hope.


If you buy this, I have an almost new bridge for sale!

So what's the point of this... what the hell are you going on about snake oil salesmen for? Did you finally loose it?

No no no - silly reader. This is why the U.S. is so damn strong in the world. Why Chirac and Schroeder detest the americans - why we're stupid, insipid, uncouthe, un-educated, primative and just dirt. We spend and spend. When it doesn't work we move on to the next thing and spend more. The American consumer spends more on crap they use once and throw away or use all the time that doesn't do a damn thing than any other human that ever existed!! Other country's wouldn't put up with that rubbish! They'd come and burn your store down and rightfully so - selling snake oil that didn't make some guys wee-wee perform for the missus. Fer shame - so now we burn your house down.

Americans only smile - shrug their shoulders and spend more on the next pretty bottle of dreams. Bin Laden, Terrorists, Evil doers everywhere... you are put on notice:



The American Consumer this way comes.

Spreading Disease for the Holidays

Well a New Year eh? Holidays are over, and I'm back to blogging again and of course after my observing over the last 3 weeks has given me a lot of material.




Can someone explain to me what the deal is with going to relatives houses when people are on their death bed? Seriously. Don't. If you're coughing up a lung from the flu, stay the hell home already and don't spread it to the rest of your family. Why would you want to go to a New Year's party with your kids who are hurling all over the place? The last thing I want is someone sneezing and coughing all over the ham during dinner or ralphing in the bathroom because you haven't been able to keep anything down for a few days because of some bad seafood.

Here's a news flash - STAY HOME. Yes, it's a sacrifice and the holidays only come around once a year. I'm sympathetic... really. But don't put the rest of your family and friends at risk of catching you or your kids infections. Especially since Grandma and Grandpa will be there and catching a nasty little virus that you may not think is a big deal may be the Grandparents last holiday in this world - thanks to your selfishness.

Prime example - I'm at a friends house over the past few weeks and they get some visitors early for the New Years party. The entire group of them look like their going to fall over. Come to find out little Billy's been to the Dr. three times for a 103.5 temperature. Mom and Dad have been living in their bathrooms with all sorts of interesting things pouring out of all their orifices and after a whole 3 minutes in the house little Courtney looses her dinner on the floor. This opens up an opportunity for the dog who starts lapping up the up-chuck then starts licking my friends kids and playing. Well - I know another family who's going to be praying in the bathroom this week. I promptly left and scrubbed with every known antiseptic.

This is the same INSANITY that prompts family members to call and say something like the following:

"Good morning! Are you going to be home today on vacation? Can you do me a favor? Jimmy's been throwing up and I have to go to work - could he come and stay with you today. I have some medicine for him and he'll just sleep all day - thanks!"

Ah... no he/she can't come here. YOU should stay home because he's YOUR kid and YOUR responsibility. And THANK YOU for being so STUPID and INCONSIDERATE as to bring over a sick child to a healthy household - so we can ALSO get sick. No really, thank you.

How about next time I get the splatters I invite myself over and poop all over your house. That sound like a good idea?? No? Then why the hell would you bring over a barfing kid to my house - do I have sign on my house that says, "Viruses and Bacteria laden children welcome!" It's too politically correct to refuse, except by me. I usually say something like, "That probably won't be a good idea. I don't want to get sick." This doesn't usually go over too well, but that's just the way it is. I don't go places, party's or dinner when I'm sick and I wouldn't want that done to me either. Family or not. If it's non-contagious that's a different story - but if it's the flu, colds, food poisioning or something like that - stay the hell away.

It's a New Year and it's a new set of anti-Politically Correct standards that need to be set. This is just the tip of the iceberg.