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Are they going to only sell heart healthy foods? I doubt it.
For most people it is not the food but the quantity....snip

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“Healthy Food” and what we *think* is good for us, is not. With all the chemicals, pesticides, hormones, etc. in everything we eat, drink and breathe, my take is that The Powers That Be are not quite looking in *all* the right places for A Healthier America because *they don’t want to.*

Try finding a breath freshener or gum *without* phenylalanie - can we say across-the-board drugging of the masses? Phenylalanine is structurally closely related to dopamine, epinephrine (adrenaline) and tyrosine. OUR KIDS DON’T HAVE ADD or ADHD - they are having it given to them. Try finding a teenager who doesn’t chew through a pack of Orbit a day. Their teeth don’t decay, but they can’t really focus on anything, either. Or else they feel really hyper and stressed. Nutrasweet/Aspartame is finding its way into everything.

When I was little, Heinz Ketchup *didn’t* have High Fructose Corn Syrup in it....why does it now? Why does EVERYTHING have it in it, yet, no one is connecting the dots that diabetes is on the rise (and not just in the obese) as well as pancreatic cancer?

Fluoride intentionally put in our water? Look that one up - that’s a GOOD one - across the board “prozac” plus the cause of several auto-immune and degenerative diseases. Has nothing to do with good teeth, everything to do with $$$ and control.

Oh, and your 25 neighbors on birth control pills and anti-depressants? RIGHT BACK into the water system and not filtered out. Gee - we wonder why the fish in our rivers are being born with both sets of sex organs, but no one is making the connection between the rise in both breast cancer and prostate cancer.

Save yourself the effort of buying bottled water - the chemicals in the plastic bottles cause the same cancers with the release of xeno-estrogens. And if the water isn’t purified by reverse osmosis, that pesky fluoride is still in there, too.

(I could go on an on.)

The same companies that make the chemicals that poison us are the same companies that come up with the “medicines” to manage the afflictions they cause.

“THEY” get us coming and going. And I truly believe this has been carefully and intentionally orchestrated.

Getting on a treadmill and abstaining from McDonald’s is just a small piece of the pie.

...running out to get a parasite cleanse. Thanks.

I see Agenda 21 written all over it.

LOL, was thinking sylphs that CLEAN the chemtrails ;)

if one person in an arena seating 20,000 people has eaten the stuff - the other 19,999 know it!

LOL = Oh BELIEVE me, I KNOW if Yong has slipped kimchi into my husband, I’m on the couch for the night....

Well, I'll be one of the first to comment and agree that kimchi is an acquired taste.

Having recently rented space to a WONDERFUL, **BRAVE** Korean woman who opened a Korean restaurant in the equivalent of Mayberry RFD, I've sampled and fallen in love with MANY awesome Korean dishes...sadly, kimchi isn't one of them.

(Now, stick some kolbi, deaji bulgogi, gimbop or spicy ramen soup in front of me and I will purr like a kitten....)

Because there’s a Chevy dealership every 8.2 miles, the competition is too fierce to “feed” everyone among each dealership - from salespeople to administration to repair techs...you have a whole bunch of people barely making it with the threat of losing their jobs every day.

One way to boost profitability is to do warranty work in the repair facility...sometimes a little “too much” warranty work is performed to pay the overhead of a struggling dealership. Closing a bunch of these low volume stores will save GM millions in unnecessary claims.

Because competition will be lessened, high-volume stores will move more units and in turn, because they are profitable, will pick up more advertising at their own expense which will, in turn, boost more sales.

I wonder if they will do something similar for drivers that are over 70 years old?

And how about convicted DUI’s? How about those with prescriptions for Xanax & Valium? Hmmm - and maybe there could be a plate for _______ (fill in the blank, any other hazard on the road).

Better yet, don’t have a facebook or myspace account

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Ahhh, but it is a very good way to creep on your teenagers to see what they are up to!

This is utterly disgusting. Reward the people who made the bad choices and tax the hell out of the people who were a little more prudent to pay for it.

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My brother-in-law & sister are LIVID, that with their 790 & 750 credit scores, they STILL couldn’t get the 3% deal my deadbeat brother was offered (463 FICO).

The Revolution is coming...

...and we never hear a thing about Galveston.

Well, being in the food business, I can tell you that prices can fluxuate daily from the wholesale/manufacturer side for tons of different reasons...of course Wal-mart (and any other retailer) has to pass that along in their prices.

I still like paying $5.00 less (or $4.94 less if the price goes up a little) on a monster bag of dog food at Wally World vs. a local grocery chain.

While a 1-2 cent price increase from week to week at Wal-mart might seem to be a diabolical plot to scam the masses, I assure you it’s not...their revenues are up, but *profits* are down.

Here in PA there are posters inside cigarette retailers that say The State shall be "watching" your debit card purchases and if they suspect you are crossing state lines to buy smokes, you're in trouble.

There are several royalty-free image sites, but they aren’t going to be “free” to use. Some have different use and licensing rules, depending on what you want to do with the image.

Is the final artwork on the t-shirt going to be full color or screen print with 1 or 2 colors? If the latter, I’d pay some kid from the local art school $50 (or go to elance.com) to draw one up for you and then you own it.

At the very least, these online newspapers should be collecting names and e-mail addresses from anyone who hits the site to read the news “for free” - from there, a massive e-mail list could be built and advertising sold on the basis of bulk e-mails sent to subscribers.

Most missed this boat a LONG time ago.

Many people of all walks of life come down with this insidious cancer

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Just returned home from the funeral of a dear friend - pancreatic cancer. Never smoked, watched her diet, exercised...doesn’t matter. My aunt died from it too, same circumstances.

Seriously, I hope we can agree buying our wifes/girlfriends/mothers/daughters a Volvo is an act of uttermost consideration and gallantry

It is! And much appreciated!
(I LOVE my ‘98 A6!!)

Where I live, you can request to have your property removed from the public website. Only an in-person visit to the county court house would yield any information. Perhaps Cook County is the same.

And since the house has been placed in a trust, it is the trustee that pays the taxes, not the beneficiary - the would be no record of RE paying the taxes directly.

What if the house is put into a trust, payments made on cards for, oh say, a year, and person claims a “gambling problem?”

My God, is that creepy. (Why doesn’t the Board just remove her?)

Well, if it eliminates any ‘LaQueeshas,” I’m all for it.

But the look and feel of the video

I disagree - Web 2.0 is about “getting it out there, fast” and the need for fancy filming and editing is not necessary. PLUS, it would be wasteful for the RNC to pay for such services if Mike can sit down each week, get his message done and uploaded in under 5 minutes (well, theoretically). THAT’S efficiency.

(Plus, if you took a look at OBambi’s weekly address, he looks like an angry and scared little boy obviously reading a teleprompter....Mike was MUCH more comfortable and calm :)

It’s the MESSAGE that’s important and the RNC needs to get with the social media groove FAST.

The world could use many more of people like her.

I think the world is FULL of Maxines. . .we just don’t hear about them because news outlets are more concerned with Doom & Gloom News.

(I have been on a mission to find “happy news articles” - talk about a challenge!)

Wow. Took this long? ;)

The rep here in our 46th District was probably the first to announce his giving it back.

I do know him, quite well as a matter of fact, and almost told him he should donate it to charity rather than ‘give it back.’

One way or another “They” will figure out how to blow it. At least if each senator and rep donated to a good cause, it wouldn’t evaporate into the inevitable chasm of waste we all know will happen.

It’s probably a good strategic move on the part of NYT.

Personally I think the reason the limits are being reduced is so people can hit their credit limits easier and pay more money in over-the-limit fees

...AND, if the credit line is lowered to a point where usage exceeds 50%, it will impact FICO scores. In turn, it will mean higher interest rates on car loans & mortgages and higher insurance premiums.

“stunned when her high school senior...”

Not middle school...and yes, 17 & 18 year olds can handle the controversial nature of such questions as subject of debate and critical thinking. They are gonna get this kind of crap diversity training when they hit the corporate world, may as well get ‘em used to it.

(and it doesn’t mean they have to like it...)

A lot can be said about the pros and cons of a college education, but I see the extremely high costs as a way to suck in young people at a very young age into the Credit/Debt Loop with heavy debt burdens from the get go. The college and universities are complicit in this banking “scam.”

To come out with a 4-year Certificate of Attendance and $50K+ in debt is saddling our younger generations with debt slavery from the get go. We all complain on here about not using credit cards, but it’s OK to burden our children with this kind of debilitating debt for years?

They don’t all come out making $40K a year...in fact, from my experience as a car dealer trying to get them financed, it is much less. Even when their only debt is student loans and they went back to living with mom and dad, it’s a challenge to get them financed because of the huge D-T-I. OR, the bank slaps them with a higher interest rate because of the “risk.”

A lot of Mom & Pop stores and restuarants won’t take credit or debit cards for this reason. It costs them too much money. They’d have to raise their prices to compensate, and if they do that, they’ll have fewer customers.

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That’s the crux of it...even at 1.69%, there is also an $.18-$.25 “swipe” fee on top of the rate every time you run a card...not to mention “statement fees” (about $7-10 per month) and a $25 per month minimum discount fee.

For a small retailer, it’s nuts - especially in a convenience store (where you make nickles and dimes) which is why there are minimum purchases to use a card or a small “transaction fee” put onto it.

Oh...and then on top of all this, it takes 24-48 hours for the money to show up in your account...who’s making $$ off that interest???

Interesting that these “professional” marketers do not see the value in using Facebook & MySpace. They don’t teach internet marketing in college, yet, those who know how to do it successfully, of course, use those two venues.

They aren’t used to primarily drive the sale - they are used to a) drive traffic to main site and b) HERE’S WHERE THE MONEY IS...get people to get on their mailing list. The article stated that they get back about $.20 on every e-mail sent out (which is lean if you ask me)...they are missing the boat if they don’t get this.

Bis A has been around for a long time

And cancer rates have skyrocketed...

The Canadians are taking this seriously.

Having lots of Canadian friends and relatives, if Canada is taking it seriously, it’s definitely worth noting.

This chemical is a crouching dragon in so many of our food packaging products.

But bottom line, would someone actually dare to run for President while not being qualified?

..yeah. It’s called “audacity.”

Later, all three marveled about how it was “amazing” that Obama “watches us watching him.”

How could he with that nose up in the air all the time?

Welcome to Free Republic!

Nice essay and the “policies vs. pigment” statement gets my applause.

Stick around and grow with us - you will see what conservatism is and grow stronger with us each day.

Welcome to Free Republic!

Nice essay and the “policies vs. pigment” statement gets my applause.

Stick around and grow with us - you will see what conservatism is and grow stronger with us each day.

So those that couldn’t bring themselves to vote (and I was appalled when I talked to many friends today who do a great job of Conservative Speak and find out THEY ARE NOT REGISTERED TO VOTE because they don’t want to worry about jury duty!!!) deserve what we end up getting as much as those of us who have voted.

Digg it here:

Obamas in 'Regular Close Contact' With Ayers & Dohrn?

I think after this is over, there is going to be some sort of DNC ‘come to Jesus’ meeting about the process that literally stole the nomination from Hillary.

While I don’t agree with her policies, she absolutely got shafted. And there are 6-7 million Hillary voters who are well aware of this fact. (the PUMAs). They will be voting McCain/Palin.

To my braindead D friends voting for Zero, I ask them if it bothers them that their own party’s process was usurped and bastardized to serve up an illegitimate candidate that tears at the fabric of our democracy. How could they reward the man and the machine that did this with their vote? They shrug their shoulders like it doesn’t matter.

Zo is really cool - and he is a member of FR.

In the world of fast food sound bites, this guy serves it up perfectly.

The link doesn’t work.

Four days before the election, Fast Eddie Rendell is on the news talking about reducing state expenditures. It’s about time,

My husband noticed an “odd” trend in our business checking account today....we own a car dealership in PA and send in the sales tax right along with the title fee and registration. The “big” checks (over $1000) are getting cashed right away while the smaller ones for a hundred bucks or so hang out there for weeks. It’s like The State is scrambling for money in full throttle.

The difference is that the Palin’s ALWAYS have their kids around - it’s SOP.

I think the last time I saw Barry with his kids was at the convention.

Well, if you watch the “PUMA” infiltration and how things are worded, you can clearly see that there are Those In Clinton DNC Power dropping small bombs all over the place.

My most favorite of recent history is when Ed Rendell dropped the “there is no wealth in Palin’s audiences” statement. Brilliant! (it ticked off the pubbies AND the PUMAs!)

The PUMAs are pissed, and I am pissed for them...Hillary DID get scammed during the primaries with the vote fraud going on. Doesn’t mean I’m a supporter or a democrat...but I am 100% in favor of open and legal elections and Hillary was screwed.

The PUMAs are what’s gonna bring it home for McCain/Palin!

Clinton always chooses his words carefully in order to obtain the desired result.

THANK GOD!

Why do I continue to view these threads? Note to self: “Have your head examined.”

We do it because it is excellent entertainment and a really cool twist on the Nigerian 411 scam!

..and - this generation of yutes take pictures of themselves in front of the mirror all the time (trust me, I have two teenage daughters and a hard drive that seemed to fill up a little too fast because of said photos). If this girl took the photo of herself in a mirror, that too could explain the backwards B.

Oops, my bad. Thought they were one in the same.

BEAVER Pa? Why would they send Sarah to BEAVER?

Having just come from the rally, and thinking about the various venues in the area she could have spoken at, the location of the field as well as parking was most likely a factor. Oh, and it's Beaver Falls. Right by the Beaver River.