DamSpot’s World

This week an 88 year old man walks into the Washington Holocaust museum and kills a guard. This man is also reported to be a neo-Nazi.
The headlines screech hate crimes. Jews targeted. 1 man, 1 dead guard.
Also, since Israel doesn’t happen to like the fact that it’s being told, by the country that gives it money, what to do, it’s going to boycott us and buy their toys elsewhere. With what money? They get their fucking money from the US to start with.
In addition to that, they hope to cover up the Nuremberg crimes that they have and still are committing in Gaza and all of Palestine.
I have said it before and I’ll say it again. The present day population of Israel are Eastern and Western immigrants, not Israelite.
Also, prior to WW2, when the Euro Jews attempted to boycott all German goods, their population totaled just 600,000.
I feel bad for the guard who was shot, but will not rest until the Israeli’s get their comeuppance in the world courts for the animals that they have made themselves to be.
So boycott away, you bastards. So far, you are the most hated government in the middle east anyway.

Out of the sky falls a plane with 200 and some unknown souls to many of us.
David Carradine, 72, is found dead in a motel room.
9 mutilated cats are found.
We now own GM. Poor GM. The government couldn’t even run a brothel they took over in an IRS case.

Where’s this going?

All of these items are getting more than their 15 minutes of fame that supposedly everyone gets.

You do your job, if you still have one. You take care of your family. Might even do some charity work or give money to a group who does.

You wake up in the middle of the night, the nicest, kindest unknown person in the world, feel a sharp pain and die.

Will you be on CNN?

I haven’t been around for awhile as I have been watching the political scene and waiting longer than others to comment.
In the mean time, I have been testing Microsoft’s new op sys known as Windows 7.
Testing with the beta went fine. Just the usual missing print drivers, but thats normal. However, all of my machines. except the MAC I’m using to post this are AMD/ATI driven. All drivers, video, tv etc worked great with the Beta, However, somewhere between the Beta and the RC, MS must have cut another deal with INTEL and now all AMD/ATI drivers are failing or running with generic drivers.
I was also a tester for Vista. Vista is somewhat slower than ‘7′, and is more of a resource hog, for those who buy cheap machines, but it has no problems with drivers, crashes, or lock-ups.
My recommendation is to stay with XP, or Vista for at least a year after the final release of ‘7′, and then run a driver compatibility test(if they have one) before you spend the money for the new software.
To be fair to MS, all new systems have problems, but the idea of going from a Beta to an RC is to move forward, not backwards.

It seems as though just about everyone else has weighed in on the subject, so now it’s my turn.
What doctor, in their right mind, full and well knowing that this woman already had 6 kid’s would not seriously advise her against another pregnancy, rather than go ahead and just do it for the money?
As of today, the mother she has been living with, with her 14 kid’s received a foreclosure notice.
In addition, the woman is receiving disability(she is apparently not disabled if she can have a litter of kid’s). Obviously, she has taken a lesson from all the unmarried sister’s in town, and gotten food stamps. Now, where do we draw the line between what is moral and what is foolish?
There are struggling families with 2 or 3 children who are ineligible for either benefit and are losing their homes as well.
Who will help them?
In addition, there are families living in tents in some areas. I am sure that a circus would be more than happy to donate one of their tents to this woman and her litter.
Do I feel the least bit sorry for her? NO!
She spread her legs, was artificially inseminated, when she obviously did not need any help getting pregnant as her 6 children should show.

Go ahead and beat me up with your comments. But think about those who deserve help more based on their natural births.

It has been a routine service for years, that airlines hand out little bags of peanuts during their flights. Especially during short hops.
Northwest Airlines is under attack by people with peanut allergies.

Now, I was born in the 50’s. You know. Lead paint on the windows, asbestos in the ceiling of the school, and mercury thermometers that you occasionally bit in half and DDT.
How is it, that within the last 20 years, peanut allergies have gone through the roof. Hell, that’s all most of us ate.

We weren’t even Lactose intolorent. Is it the hormones in the beef? Is it the spray they use on peanuts?
What the hell is going on?

If anyone has the answers, I’d sure like to hear them. BTW, The excuse that they have always had peanut allergies and didn’t know what they were won’t wash. I was tested in 1960 for every allergy you can think of including peanuts.

It has bee a routine service for years, that airlines hand out little bags of peanuts during their flights. Especially during short hops.
Northwest Airlines is under attack by people with peanut allergies.

Now, I was born in the 50’s. You know. Lead paint on the windows, asbestos in the ceiling of the school, and mercury thermometers that you occasionally bit in half and DDT.
How is it, that within the last 20 years, peanut allergies have gone through the roof. Hell, that’s all most of us ate.

We weren’t even Lactose intolorent. Is it the hormones in the beef? Is it the spray they use on peanuts?
What the hell is going on?

If anyone has the answers, I’d sure like to hear them. BTW, The excuse that they have always had peanut allergies and didn’t know what they were won’t wash. I was tested in 1960 for every allergy you can think of including peanuts.

THESE THINGS NEVER RUN IN JUST ONE PLACE. DO NOT BUY CRACKERS, CANDIES OR JARED PEANUT BUTTER UNTIL THE FDA GETS OFF THEIR DEAD ASS’S.

By JAMIE STENGLE
The Associated Press
Thursday, February 12, 2009; 9:49 PM

DALLAS — Texas health officials ordered the recall Thursday of peanut products from a plant operated by the company at the center of a national salmonella outbreak, days after tests indicated the likely presence of the bacteria there.

Peanut Corp. of America was ordered to recall all products ever shipped from its plant in Plainview after the Texas Department of State Health Services said it found dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in a crawl space above a production area on Wednesday.

Health Department spokesman Doug McBride said it was up to Peanut Corp. to inform its clients around the country of the recall. It wasn’t immediately clear if the company was complying: Phone messages seeking comment from the company weren’t returned, and no information regarding the Texas action was posted on the company’s site.

However, even before the order, many customers of the Texas plant said they had begun holding products back, pulling them from shelves or running their own tests.

The order regarding the plant, which operated unlicensed and uninspected for nearly four years, is the latest bad news for the company being investigated in connection with an outbreak that has sickened 600 people and may have caused at least nine deaths. More than 2,000 possibly contaminated consumer products have already been recalled in one of the largest product recalls ever.

Federal investigators last month identified a Georgia peanut processing plant operated by Peanut Corp. as the source of the salmonella outbreak.

Texas inspectors also found that the air handling system was pulling debris from the infested crawl space into production areas at the Plainview plant that processed dry roasted peanuts, peanut meal and granulated peanuts. The plant, which voluntarily closed Monday, was also ordered by the state to stop producing and distributing food products.

McBride said he did not know the volume of products that needed to be pulled back.

Private lab tests returned Monday showed likely salmonella contamination at the plant, which opened in March 2005. Further testing was needed to confirm the results, but the health department said Thursday that their orders are not contingent on finding salmonella.

The health department said that lab tests are being done on food and environmental samples as well.

The plant in Plainview, located in the Texas Panhandle, was run by a Peanut Corp. subsidiary, Plainview Peanut Co. It was not inspected by state health officials until after problems arose at the Georgia plant.

Kenneth Kendrick, who worked as an assistant manager at the plant for several months in 2006, said Thursday he had sent several e-mails to the state health department while he worked there.

He said his complaints included a leaking roof, which he knew could be a problem because of bird excrement.

“Anything nasty you can think of comes from water off a roof,” said Kendrick, who said he left the plant voluntarily.

Kendrick said his initial complaints about the plant spurred no action. Last month, he complained again to state officials after his grandchildren became sick after eating peanut butter crackers.

The federal government has opened a criminal investigation into the company, and its president, Stewart Parnell, repeatedly refused to answer questions Wednesday before the House Energy and Commerce investigations subcommittee, which is seeking ways to prevent another outbreak.

A message left seeking comment from Parnell Thursday wasn’t immediately returned.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which sent inspectors back to the plant after Monday’s test result, also didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday.

Many companies hadn’t waited for state or federal officials to take action. Robert Grauer, president of In a Nut Shell, a San Leandro, Calif., said his company decided to hold back about about 200 cases of peanuts from the Texas plant before the order was issued.

“We’re not going to take a chance risking our customers _ not over some peanuts,” he said.

A handful of Whole Foods Market supermarkets in northern California that received products containing peanuts from the Texas plant pulled from them from shelves two days before the Texas recall “in an overabundance of caution,” said Libba Letton, spokeswoman for the Austin, Texas-based company.

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Once upon a time, there was a blog called Political Puzzle.
This was a liberal site bemoaning the Neo Cons and their destruction of America.
Among the poster was a Radio DJ from Seattle, several out of work agitators, a Vietnam Vet and the owner himself.
Some where down the road the site became Grouchy’s Liberaltopia. The debating remained the same, but a few New Yorker type writers began to post regularly.
This was all well and good, except that the regular posters began to dry up to the point, that you can’t even get a post past who ever is editing the blog.
The blog used to be free form. What you posted was posted that very minute. Anything overly controversial was censored, which was not an issue. A lot of things were written in the heat of the moment. Now, you go through a moderator, who ever he is and the only thing that gets posted are New Yorker style hash, without the cartoons.
None of the old regulars either do not post or are also censored.

RIP Grouchy. Yours was once one of the sharpest tongues, and now you are nothing but a mime.

Al Capone probably said it best when he set up soup kitchens, in Chicago during the depression. He said that he would appear as a benevolent person by feeding the poor and out of work.
In the ’80s a different type of program emerged and that was food banks.
Many of the food banks started out as dumpster divers and gradually sought out venders who had an overstock of particular produce and can goods.
Then came along the discount grocery stores, where venders found they could make a profit selling slightly out of date items or products with the word ‘NEW’ on them. (the law stipulates that any item with the word NEW can only remain on a grocers shelf for one month)
This really cut into the food banks inventory, so they began to seek cash donations to keep going. This worked for several years until this re/depression hit and thousands more hit the food banks. Most of these people are too proud to apply for food stamps or cannot qualify due to their living in too large a house, or having too many assets.
The money is also drying up for the cash donations. People are finding that due to the crash of the stock market, they no longer can even pay their credit card bills.
I have a neighbor who lost $80,000 in one week. Imagine those with thousands of shares of stock.
What can we do?
Dig deep. Find discounted items that can help others. Give these to the food banks. If you live in a rural or farming area, convince farmers and chicken/turkey producers to set aside a percentage of their animals or crops for these food banks.
We were once called the bread basket of the world. We still are. We produce more wheat, corn, soy and other crops than we can sell.
In addition, make it a crime that when a milk producer cannot get his price for milk, he pours it into the drains and rivers.

Together we can survive, or together we can die. Take you choice. You very well may be one of those people.

‘Where do we go from here now that all of the children are growing up?’
Us boomers, through the 60’s and 70’s had all the answers. We were going to change the world. Peace, love. dove.

Well, lets see how our score card looks.

We manage to have 2 senseless wars going at the same time. Nether of which we were asked to participate in.
We have pissed off the entire world with our support of Israel, a country who is beginning to make Adolf Hitler look like a saint.
We have the largest deficit, and unemployment numbers since 1929.
We are no longer a manufacturing economy, merely a service business, and we can’t even run that right. Looking at all the store closings and layoffs should tell you that.

Score cards looking pretty bad, so far.

We just came out of 8 years of the most horrible presidency, even surpassing Herbert Hoover at the beginning of the depression.
We have overwhelmingly elected the first Black President. He has been in office 2 weeks and people are yelling that he isn’t doing anything. This would be the same crowd that sat with their heads up their ass’s for 8 years. Now that the President is Black and not a Republican, the neo cons are pointing and saying that he can’t get the job done.
It’s a little hard to float the Titanic after it laid on the ocean floor for 8 years isn’t it?
The best anyone can do is try and cut as much of the pork out of the government.

The score card just went up a bit, except that Obama isn’t a boomer. He belongs to Gen X.

So, we as boomers have screwed up ourselves, elected those who would screw up for us, and now are losing our jobs, houses and what shred of dignity we have left.

Don’t worry boys and girls. Retirement is coming soon and we’ll all be demanding the benefits that the boomers we elected have stolen from us.