Salutations

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Beer-Fueled Rantings

I don't have anything special to say. Just a retarded quiz that coincidentally labeled me as my favorite beer. Maybe that would've been more meaningful if it were a more unique one.

What's Your Beer Personality?

You Are Samuel Adams

You're fairly easy to please when it comes to beer - as long as it's not too cheap. You tend to change favorite beers frequently, and you're the type most likely to take a "beers of the world" tour. When you get drunk, you're fearless. You lose all your inhibitions. You're just as likely to party with a group of strangers as you are to wake up in a very foreign place.

Now, here's a beer you might not have heard of:

From http://trayman.net.

http://www.weimax.com

Yep, that's one I don't see on the shelves up here too much.It was even fairly rare in Alabama. But my dad drank it when he was my age, and I wear my dad's Dixie Beer shirt while I drink a cold one from time to time (when I can find it) because it's from New Orleans -- just like me.

Oh, that reminds me. I finally got my Michigan Driver's License this week. But only barely. My New Orleans birth certificate is downright ancient, and I really had to pretend to "feel" the raised seal, but I finally convinced the poor gal she was crazy if she couldn't feel it too. I've been waiting for my new one since just after Katrina -- and God, I moved out of there 20 years before the damn thing hit and I still get screwed over! Of course, my suffering pales in comparison to even the most recent insults our government has thrust on these people.

Children could be scarred for life. That one speaks for itself, I think.

FEMA withheld supplies for hurricane victims, which then went to casinos. As if they don't have enough money already.

Poisoned in their new "homes" while they wait for assistance to rebuild their old homes -- and then they're told they have to pay that money back. And if you read that last article closely, you'll notice some interesting finance/accounting information. Like the fact that the company is essentially hitting up homeowners for the errors it made, which just so happens to be the same amount they have to repay to the state of Louisiana. Or the fact that that very contract award allowed the company to buy out several competitors, essentially creating a monopoly...

But enough of that. I don't really feel like getting into all the anger I feel over how my birthplace, a cultural center for our country, has been allowed to devolve into what it is today.

Because Easter is the Celebration of Zombies and Cannibalism

What better way to honor this holiest of Christian holidays than with a playlist? The official title is They Shall Rise Again (And I Don’t Mean the South!). But really: What better way to honor a man who raised the dead (and who came back from the dead himself) and commanded his followers to eat His Body and drink His Blood?




And good grief, before you start sending me hatemail, please note that I’m a Christian, too (though not an active churchgoer at the moment). I think it’s perfectly healthy to joke about your own faith. If God can’t have a sense of humor and laugh at himself/herself every now and then, then Screw Him (or Her).


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Excerpt From: Taking the Easy Way Out

For those of you who don’t know, the AP reported last week that a good bit of drinking water here in the US contains trace amounts of all kinds of different pharmaceuticals. People are taking these medications -- hormones, painkillers, antibiotics, anticonvulsives, vitamins, illegal drugs, etc -- and when they go to the bathroom, they pass on whatever amounts their bodies didn’t absorb. Government agencies don’t require water treatment plants to remove or even test for quantities of any of these drugs, so for the most part they don’t. The water is either flushed out to other bodies of water or recycled back to your drinking water (if your area uses water reclamation).

You might be tempted to think that because these are only trace amounts, they won’t hurt anything -- Right? Well, you could be making a grave mistake there, bucko. Research has only just begun on the long-term effects of minute exposure to some of these drugs over extended periods of time; some of these drugs continue to build up over time. And lets not get started on the effects of different combinations of drugs, or the threat this might pose to children, the elderly, and pregnant women. Or the super vitamin and hormone boosts we’re giving to sewer creatures. Those things are probably thriving on all this super water.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Sewer_gator.jpg

And they’re plottin’ us too, I bet...

From http://www.freewebs.com.

...Just like those damn dolphins in The Simpsons (unfortunately, Fox disabled all the good clips of it)...

So, do you really think your Brita water pitcher is filtering out all the estrogen these menopausal women are taking? Is your bottled water really as pure as you think it is? Ha! I laugh at your ignorance. There’s no way your Brita pitcher is filtering all the crap the water treatment plant isn’t required to take care of. And -- I hate to burst your bubble, oh Cautious Health Nut -- but that bottled water comes straight from a tap (whose original source happens to be the beautiful spring or aquifer on the label), and isn’t any better than what you could’ve been getting practically for free; not to mention that you either hurt the environment with all that plastic waste, or if you reuse your bottle then it’s probably teeming with all sorts of bacteria right now, on top of the drugs I mentioned above. Even if you collect water from a well on your property or from some remote spring, it could be contaminated.

Even if these drugs are tested for in our water, this may not help us very much. In the first place, the EPA hasn’t set limits on what might be considered safe -- as much because there hasn’t been conclusive research on what’s safe or unsafe as it is the fact that the EPA doesn’t want to get involved in this yet. And the ones who do test aren’t likely to tell us the results. Of all things, they claim post 9/11 security reasons. Yet another way the "War on Terror" is being used against us.

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