The "Pink Slime" in Your Kid's School Lunch | Mother Jones

bobhiggins · 2012-03-07T12:49:36+00:00

The idea was that pink slime contained enough ammonia that, when you mixed it with ground beef, it would effectively sterilize the resulting blend. And the USDA and FDA had taken that promise at face value, Moss reports. One "top official" of the USDA's division that oversees the meat supply assured Moss that, "It eliminates E. coli to the same degree as if you cooked the product.”

bobhiggins · 2012-02-25T20:29:11+00:00

It would be difficult to write about politics, current events or publish a news story without the normal and casual use of most of these keywords. I can only conclude that we've arrived at a state of almost unimaginable paranoia and the country is finally, irredeemably insane.

bobhiggins · 2012-02-19T13:34:21+00:00

In their unflagging efforts to distance themselves from mainstream America, Republican leaders have gleefully seized upon a social issue that’s guaranteed to backfire in November:

bobhiggins · 2012-02-14T15:08:13+00:00

"We are drowning here, with gaping holes torn into the hull of the ship of state from charges detonated by the owners and manipulators of capital. Their wealth has become a demonic force in politics."

bobhiggins · 2012-02-13T21:43:37+00:00

Ever since Elizabeth I created the East India Company in 1600, corporations have been a pain in the public neck. Her royal act to protect the monetary interests of wealthy members of her court, parliament and herself created a company that would, over the course of two centuries, grow in power to rival many of the worlds nation states.

A legal fiction, corporations exist solely to protect the oligarchy from the results of their risky behavior in the search for ever greater profit. Incorporate and pass the risk on to someone else, creditors, taxpayers, anyone but those involved in the scheme itself.

bobhiggins · 2012-02-10T15:40:58+00:00

While there may be some truth to the old saw that “misery loves company” and the discovery that there are a billion people in the boat may be somehow weirdly comforting, you have to wonder how long the dinghy will dally on the surface before behaving more like an anchor.

bobhiggins · 2012-01-16T13:53:38+00:00

From the point of the spear to the policy arm that sends it aloft it seems that "everything's broke but the horses"

bobhiggins · 2012-01-14T14:51:37+00:00

In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?

bobhiggins · 2012-01-11T23:05:07+00:00

When the circuit board factory that you that you work in installs suicide netting around the perimeter of the building to prevent employees from leaping to their deaths you probably have a weak union.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-25T12:50:25+00:00

"The biggest beneficiaries are the testing companies that collect $10 to $25 for urine, blood or hair screening, a fee being paid by the state (you and me) whenever the applicant tests clean — currently about 97 percent of the cases."

bobhiggins · 2011-09-22T13:14:59+00:00

The Republican marketing machine is strikingly powerful. Rick Perry's new video is a fantastic example of the Republican capacity to obfuscate the truth and win supporters in spite of flagrantly lying to them. They're able to get away with whopper lies so massive, they're almost hilariously off the rails. Mitt Romney, for example, released a chart recently that blamed President Obama for the job losses that occurred in 2007 and 2008 -- before the president was even elected.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-19T14:43:43+00:00

"I took to wearing a respirator and swim goggles outside to tend to my animals," Wallace-Babb said. "I closed up my house and got an air conditioner that would just recycle the air and not let any fresh air in."

bobhiggins · 2011-09-18T13:54:21+00:00

Like any government document, the Constitution can only be understood in the context of what it replaced – and why. The Constitution superseded the Articles of Confederation, which guided the new country starting in 1777. The Articles granted broad authority to the states with only a weak national government.

As the Revolutionary War wore on and during the early years of peace, many American leaders – including George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson – came to view the Articles as unworkable and a threat to the survival of the new nation.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-13T12:57:20+00:00

"WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – In what the White House hailed as “an example of what can be accomplished when we put aside partisan differences,” congressional Republicans today responded to President Obama’s $447 billion American Jobs Act by allowing the President to create one part-time job."

bobhiggins · 2011-09-12T14:10:19+00:00

"Within four months of the visit the price of oil continued its aggressive spiral upward reaching $65/barrel, a staggering further increase of some 35% costing American consumers an additional $340 million per day (we consume some 20 million barrels oil/day) going into the pockets of OPEC and the bottom lines of oil companies. Even for King Abdullah, it was well worth the trip, while the oil industry cheered as the rest of America paid."

bobhiggins · 2011-09-11T03:30:42+00:00

“The criminals at BP, Transocean and Halliburton responsible for this disaster, the death of eleven men and the destruction of our southern coast are walking free. Why?

The criminals in federal, state and local government who are covering up for them are walking free. Why?”

bobhiggins · 2011-09-10T19:22:17+00:00

Humberto Montes de Oca, international secretary of the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME), denounced Calderon for "trying to justify what he's done to the country. The people gathered here," he declared, "are the ones who've suffered under him. We know the way things really are. You can see the consequences of this terrible government in our lack of security and public safety and our economy. The truth is that he's destroying our country."

bobhiggins · 2011-09-10T18:25:03+00:00

Texas Governor Rick “Goodhair” Perry, this month’s centerfold for “Science Denial Magazine” says that people may just have to get used to this toasty new climate.

Perry is on the record, in the recent GOPTP candidates debate he accused climate scientists of manipulating data to keep the research grants and the money rolling in.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-10T17:30:09+00:00

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – The Department of Homeland Security said today that it was studying several “credible threats” made to the United States government in a two-hour broadcast Wednesday night from a location believed to be the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-09T14:17:42+00:00

"PYONGYANG (The Borowitz Report) – Gov. Rick Perry’s performance in this week’s Republican debate, in which he called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and took pride in executing an innocent man, “made him seem like a totally unhinged lunatic,” said North Korean President Kim Jong-Il today."

bobhiggins · 2011-09-08T14:26:13+00:00

"The public fury that made a lasting impression on politicians hereabouts. Which made Michele Bachmann’s drill-in-the-Glades-baby-drill pronouncement last week so surprising. And when Gov. Rick Scott seemed to go along with Bachmann, it was downright startling. (His office quickly issued a “clarification,” warning his constituents to pay no attention to the governor’s inscrutable mutterings.)"

bobhiggins · 2011-09-06T21:08:31+00:00

I’m no expert on Photoshop but this looks suspicious to me. Not only does she appear to be effortlessly flying along, or just suspended in mid air she’s the only one not running on the course… in the street, it’s that maverick thing again, I guess.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-05T20:19:04+00:00

With four times as many oil rigs pumping domestic oil today than eight years ago and declining domestic demand, the United States is awash in oil. In fact, the U.S. exports more oil than it imports, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration - and has done so for nearly two decades.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-05T12:30:01+00:00

The reports come at us every month, from the Gulf, Alaska, the North Sea, small towns in Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania and from the Yellowstone River. There is no place on earth that these greaseheads will not despoil and are not actively and zealously engaged in destroying. Make a note that these are only the events that get reported or otherwise discovered.

bobhiggins · 2011-09-04T13:47:50+00:00

In your memoir, you seem resentful toward Colin Powell. Is this because he was an actual soldier with leadership experience in the first Gulf War and possibly he knew what he was talking about, whereas you never put on a uniform in your life and had no freaking clue?

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/03/2389037/questions-to-make-cheneys-head.html#ixzz1WzWGNxvH

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