Junk-Food Junk

There is a lot of noise going around about an “anatomically correct” depiction of Jesus with his arms outstretched. In chocolate, no less. I haven’t seen any pictures of it on the internet, but I’m not interested enough to go looking for any, either. It seems these kinds of attempts at blasphemy seem to take an upswing right around the Christians’ holiest seasons. It’s not enough that these squeaky wheels have managed to have all (Constiutionally guaranteed) public expression of religious faith expunged from the public view. They have to take their contempt that one step further, and try to make as much sport as possible of the holiest things in the Christian faith.

It seems, apparently, that somehow these depictions are supposed to make Christians lose their faith in an all-powerful Creator and run, screaming and tearful, into the arms of the secularists. The other reason for building such a thing might be to show the world just how much the builder does NOT believe: “This is what I think of your God, and all that goes with Him!”

The problem with this kind of “thinking” is that although they think they are striking a telling blow against the forces of superstition and antiquated belief systems, the builders are really only showing the rest of the world how easy it is to scare them into making a stupid move, like trying to mock the Creator. There’s a passage in the Bible that puts it into four words: “God is not mocked.” It means simply that no matter what we puny humans do to show our rebellion, He Who Is is above all of it. Shaking fists at the heavens and calling God names is puny beyond the telling, but for young radicals (I’m just guessing here, but “college student” seems to be the appropriate age group for this kind of silly “protest”), it must seem to them that they have finally made the ultimate gesture of rebellion against God–and all temporal authority while they are at it.

Suffice it to say that childish things like chocolate Christs in revealing poses do very little to turn real Christians away from their faith, but they do go a long way toward showing how infantile and bratty the unbelieving builders of said junk-food junk can be.

Being “shocked” by the construction (somehow, I pictured in my mind a piece of real “art,” but I realize that people of this ilk seldom have the patience with instruction to reach any point of expertise or excellence) is a phony reaction engineered by the lefish press to pretend that the construction had enough merit to actually “shock.” Using the “S” word in regard to this kind of junk is an attempt to give the whatever-it-is more substance than it deserves, and to drum up readership of their yellow rags.

If the chocolate is edible, there might be some redeeming value in the sculpture…just melt it down, provide everybody with long-handled fondue forks and some strawberries, and have to. Otherwise, it would probably be wisest just to ignore the silly thing.

There’s SAD And There’s SAD

SAD and SAD are both acronyms, obviously. One (doesn’t matter which one) refers to Seasonal Affective Disorder (which is what people Outside call what we call “Cabin Fever.”) It occurs in people who are deprived of sufficient daylight. The body’s production of serotonin falls, and the individual becomes sad, moody, negative, eats without hunger, is easily bored, and has poor sleep. In extreme cases, it can lead to fights, even murder or suicide. Not good. Just going to a large window and looking at the sky for a minute or two every day can make a noticeable difference in mood and behavior.

The other SAD (doesn’t matter which one this one is, either) refers to the “Standard American Diet.” Now, the Standard American Diet may sound like it is the optimum diet for American consumers. And it may sound as if the government has given it the official stamp of approval. The truth looks more like this:

Even though the government really isn’t in the nutrition business, it has some resident busybodies in the Wealthy Hellfare Department who seem to think it is their job to watch what we all eat. Unfortunately, they have all taken large lobbying gratuities from the major “food” manufacturers, so the appearance of the FDA’s official pyramid looks more like the above illustration than what a real nutritious diet should look like.

When I was a kid in school, there was no such thing as a “food pyramid.” There were seven (yes, seven) basic food groups. Meats, fish, breads and grains, fruits, vegetables, fats, and dairy. That got condensed by the do-gooders into five basic groups, then lumped together into the fatal pyramid the medical industry insists is “a healty diet.” (Aside from the grammatical problems with that statement, the fact that manufactured items make up the huge majority of items in the Standard American Diet means, “healthy” is hardly the proper descriptor.)

Of course, the medical industry/food manufacturers/pharmaceutical manufacturers don’t want anyone to know that the rise in heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure, alzheimer’s, and stroke is virtually identical to the rise in the use of the modern “Standard American Diet.” Coincidence? I think not… ;o) Of course it’s not a coincidence. Simple cause-and-effect: Eat poisons, be poisoned. Simple.

Just because the test rats don’t die immediately from the ersatz diet doesn’t mean the fake food is safe for humans to eat for the rest of their lives. Take a look at the shelves of the grocery store next time you are in there, and see how much shelf space is taken up by items that are manufactured from beginning to end. The problem is, humans are still made the old-fashioned way, and the old-fashioned diet is still necessary. Like original manufacturer’s parts for your great old “Muscle Car,” we need to be eating the things that made grandma and grandpa tougher than old boots and live to ripe old ages.

Years ago, our parents and grandparents ate wholesome, natural diets loaded with animal fats: butter, cream, lard, tallow, and all variations in between. They ate foods that could be identified as “living” at a specific time, just before being consumed. They didn’t drop dead from heart failure, complications of diabetes, hypertension, or cancer. They were killed off by accidents and/or infectious disease and old age. It’s probably safe to say that it wasn’t their diet that killed them in those days.

Then, along came margarine, the first “created food” in the great decline in American health. Margarine was a nasty, oleaginous greasy white paste made from denatured vegetable oils, that came packaged with a little pellet or packet of food coloring to make it yellow. The consumer put the goo into the mixing bowl, broke the pellet, and squidged the stuff around together with hands or electric mixer until the color was evenly distributed. And, although high-fructose corn syrup hadn’t been invented yet, it was on the way, bringing even more metabolic misery to be added to the disruption of the natural balance of fatty acids in the human diet. The REAL, correct “pyramid” should look more like this:

I know…there’s not a Ho-Ho or a Ding-Dong in sight. Not a can of Vault, a bottle of Mountain Dew, cup of Starbucks, or a single bag of Fritos anything. No flour-based, high-fructose corn syrup loaded anythings. No pancakes, not a single slice of Wonder Bread or Kraft American Singles. No soy. Look at the bottom pyramid and understand that long before we made fritters, we ate critters. Humans are NOT vegetarians. No matter what.

The two SAD’s? They could even be related. In fact, the reality is that they are connected in many ways. The deficiencies in the second SAD make the miseries of the first SAD more or less inevitable.

Maybe that’s why it feels so much better when we are suffering from the first kind to stuff our faces with the second kind. Sad is sad is sad…

Tesla Down Under, Etcetera…

THIS… Is an AWESOME page. Sheesh! An unsung scientist who understands electricity better than just about anybody in the world, I’ll bet. This guys needs a rubber suit, with a hobby like this one…Plan to stay at the site for a while. The pictures are worth the visit.

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Progressive??

But, wait!! I thought these guys loved to be called “Progressives…”

Gathering Of Eagles

Once again, Michelle Malkin is in the right place at the right time…

From a post in Michelle’s blog…(Be sure to read the comments on this one.)

Ripped from the Conservative Propaganda Blog:

SHE KNEW THE BOY CASEY BUT, SHE DIDN’T KNOW THE MAN

BY MARK A. WRIGHT 01 OCT 2005

HMC(SS), USN

Her cheeks were streaked with tears

There was a tremble in her voice

Her heart was ripped in two

Because her son had made a choice

He chose to go and rescue

His men out in the sand

You see, she knew the boy Casey

But she didn’t know the man.

Now Casey loved this country

He was a Soldier through and through

While others rode the fence

He knew exactly what to do

He would take the fight they started here

Take it to their foreign land.

She knew the boy Casey

But she didn’t know the man

Some of his troops and been attacked

They were in it ….. in it deep

He didn’t have to go

But said “My place is with my sheep

He gave his life that they might live

And come home to this land

You see, she knew the boy Casey

But she didn’t know the man

Now my heart goes out to Cindy

And all of those who cry

For the daughters and the Sons

Who went to serve and had to die

But she does him a dishonor

As she rants about the land

Because she knew the boy Casey

But she didn’t know the man

Now I have been a warrior

For half of all my life

Seen a lot of loneliness

Pain and blood and strife

And I’ve fought beside these soldiers

Who protect our home and land.

I didn’t know the boy Casey

But I salute the MAN.

A Couple of Tidbits…

These are the people who make me so proud to be an American. God bless CSM Jeffrey Mellinger and all our valourous, faithful troops, wherever they are deployed.

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The Sub-Prime Blame Game (from American Thinker)

When events conspire to create a perfect storm, combining subsidy, environmentalist “smart growth” restrictions, and record low interest rates needed to stave off deflation after the NASDAQ crash, well, you could have seen it coming: a mega-boom followed by a bust.

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Just Wondering…

…what those who insist the rest of us believe in their version of “human-caused global warming” think about the following:

…Montserrat
…Saddam Hussein’s firing of numerous oil wells in Iraq at the end of Gulf War I
…Mount St. Helens then and now
…Stromboli
…Mauna Loa
…Numerous volcanoes in Alaska that erupt frequently
…Forest fires, brushfires, chemical fires at refineries, etc.

If HUMANS are capable of producing the kinds of “emissions” that cause permanent harm to the atmosphere, I’m wondering what the long-term harm from the above mentioned events has been. Anybody keeping track?

Meanwhile, Back In The Halls Of Congress…

Much as I hate to wallow in other people’s misfortunes,( :o) ) look what happened today in Congress…

The Global Warming Swindle

The REAL villain

Now that THIS has hit the internet, and been watched by untold numbers of people who would otherwise never have seen it, it is going to be very interesting to see how the Universal Church of Environmental Wackiness in Perpetuity With Signs Preceding, During, And Following is going to deal with it. (Please note: video at link is 75 minutes long. Get comfy…)

There are a couple of ways it can go. I won’t be surprised at either. One way will be to deny it up one side and down the other. It’s tough on True Believers to discover that their god(ess) has feet–and everything else–of clay. So it’s natural for them to insist that the real scientists have it all wrong, and the True Believers are still right, no matter what those pesky facts say. This, obviously, can come into play no matter what other responses are chosen by the True Believers. Denial in the face of such revelations of fact is a very common response.

The other reaction will be to go immediately to the barricades and begin fighting back with all the hate, slander, and loud/foulmouthed rhetoric they have become notorious for. How dare those evil, scientific scientists put up stuff that pokes holes in their True Believer beliefs? I do predict a lot of loud protestations along the order of, “Don’t believe those guys! They’re just jealous! Their scientists were paid off to say those things!” or something similar. Lots of attemps to undercut credibility, to invade private lives, and even to send death threats–which has happened before, frequently. All of this in a frenzied attempt to keep their little Global Warming boat from capsizing in a sea of real scientific fact.

All of this, in spite of the fact of the facts. For years, there has been a quiet movement afoot by REAL scientists to get the truth out to the public. The sad part of it is, that here in the United States, we had to wait for a foreign production to actually put into words what has been known all along: Global Warming is not only benign and desirable, “greenhouse gasses” are what make life possible on Earth, the warming is following an ancient, historical pattern repeated over millennia, CO2 is NOT the cause of Global Warming, but is caused BY Global Warming, and the oceans are the main producers, and that “Climate Change” has a real name. It’s called, “Weather.”

As I said above, it’s difficult for True Believers to deal with the death of their gods. All the Kubler-Ross “Stages of Death” will apply, and will be experienced by those unwilling to be taught by real science. It will be more comfortable for the True Believers to continue to believe in the face of the facts than it will be for them to open their minds to the possiblity that they have been hoodwinked by a few pseudo-scientific snake-oil salesmen. The name of the scam is “protect my academic ass no matter what–must have grant money!”

By now, obviously, Global Warming and all it entails has become such a household word that whole industries have been built on the strength of its power to convince and create apprehension. All these people will be out of work if the truth about Global Warming ever becomes widely known and accepted. This is going to be one of those battles that won’t be quickly fought. The press will force it to continue long after it has been decisively accepted, simply because they are the vanguard of the “True Believer” cadres. Brace yourselves for a long, tedious, acrimonious fight.

So, where does the “swindle” mentionend in the title come from? See above. Hundreds of thousands of jobs in government and in the private sector depend solely on the Global Warming Swindle for their existence. Worldwide, even more hundreds of thousands of people stand to lose lucrative positions simply because the truth about Global Warming is beginning to come out. It’s not going to be pretty. Finding out the truth about a worldwide swindle is going to be hard on a lot of people.

Perhaps, now, those poor people in Africa and other undeveloped countries will be able to get their electricity, so they can live like human beings…No, that’s probably not going to happen…the governments who insist on “Green” societies are the same ones who, in Hillary!’s words, want to “Take things away from you for the common good!”

In the immortal words of Sherlock Holmes, “Come, Watson! The game is afoot!”

My Gosh, I LOVE These Guys!

HEROES

I can’t watch something like this without tears in my eyes. I can’t help wondering why the MSM simply refuses to allow this kind of information to make its way to the general public. Please pass this link around, and help our HEROES achieve the VICTORY we sent them to win, and bring them home safely. These people are the FACE OF AMERICA in the Middle East. God bless each and every one of them, and their replacements. We are so blessed.

But this time, I’m going to let Thomas Sowell tell you why “honoring” our troops doesn’t mean showing pictures of the wounded soldiers coming home, any more than showing pictures of nothing but amputees tells the whole story. The story of Jason Dunam is a case in point. Tell me if you saw this account in ANY major newspaper or on any national news broadcast. I thought so…

Why Have We Forgotten These Things?

Who has the corner on the truth these days? To hear them tell it, it is obviously the left in general, the Democrats in particular. Of course, when you have every decision-making body and news outlet in the country eating out of your hand, it’s easy to proclaim yourself as the only living source of real truth.

Ann Coulter is never shy about speaking her mind or taking body blows from the lefty press like George Foreman, blows the right dances around like crazy to avoid. She puts her finger on the truth of the truth yet again and gets treated to a public shellacking one more time, simply because she’s the most visible and voluble of the Right’s commentators, and she’s so tough. The rest of the commentators on the right should be ashamed of themselves for leaving her turning in the wind over her comments last week, and not just distancing themselves from her, but actually attacking her for her forthrightness. What have they forgotten here? Whose side are they on, after all??

This time, Ann cleans out the Democrat closet and finds all those skeletons that the left thought they had stashed so carefully. We on the right should be ashamed of ourselves for letting the left get away with covering up all this crap and sweeping it under the rug again and again, especially in view of the fact that any evil they do is quickly buried, while even the slightest misunderstanding or accidental event on the right is trumpeted loudly and repeatedly to the skies, hashed and rehashed for weeks at a time.

Ann is right: The Republicans are a pack of appeasers. Not only that, but we should take every one of these instances of leftist double-dealing, hypocrisy, and manipulation of the legal system and drag them before the public repeatedly and loudly. Enough is enough. How much more of this kind of behavior are we on the right going to take without fighting back?

Fran Porretto at Eternity Road adds a couple of instances:

Wasn’t Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank discovered to be shacked up with a younger man who was running a brothel in their shared apartment? Didn’t New Jersey Governor James McGreevey disgrace himself and betray his wife by his homosexual affair with an aide he had hired? Did anyone on the Left speak a word of chastisement to these men about their shamelessness?

No, of course not. They’re Democrats. Democrats are a protected species — and not by virtue of being endangered. “No opprobrium for Democrats” must be tattooed on the eyelids of every liberal in America. After all, there are abortion rights to protect, homosexual mascots to pander to, and same-sex marriage to advance!

You may never read anything by Ann Coulter. You may think she isn’t credible because she’s “glamourous/skinny/smart.” You may also think she shouldn’t be encouraged to speak her mind because her words are so pithy, earthy, or on point, but you can’t possibly not read this one. Remember the things she lists here? After you read this, ask yourself why the Republicans, simply by doing NOTHING, have let the country forget the things Ann recalls.