Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Happy Rosh Hashanah!
Poor Elvis. When he died, Elvis' colon was at least 3.5 inches in diameter in some places and in some places as large as four and a half to five inches in diameter. For someone Elvis' size, it should have been 2 to 2 and a half inches in diameter. The mega colon was jam-packed from the base of the descending colon all the way up and halfway across the transverse colon; it was filled with white, chalklike, fecal matter, the hazards of the "goo and glue" diet - cheeseburgers, fries, bacon, fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, overuse of laxatives, and prolonged drug abuse.
Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death. And it can be prevented. Studies have found the people with the highest vegetable intake reduced their risk, while people with the lowest intake of vegetables and fiber were at greater risk. Dietary beef induces those polyps that are pre-cancerous in your colon. Aspirin suppresses them. Rye bran eradicates them. Folic acid plays a key role in prevention, as does Calcium, Vitamin D, and Selenium. OMEGA 3 fatty acids - fish oil - exert protective effects against colon cancer. If you're sensitive to these, Udo's Choice has a vegetarian substitute.
Powerful plant based polyphenols, the sub-groups flavonoids and tannins are compounds found in berries, tea, grapes and wine, olive oil, chocolate, walnuts, peanuts and pomegranates, as well as other fruits and vegetables. Green tea phenols have been shown to produce cell-death in tumor cells. Resveratrol is a powerful antioxidant found in grape seed skin extract, grape juice, and red wine Curcumin, or tumeric is a spice found in your supermarket which can prevent colon cancer - pour it on your food and let it go to work. The lower incidence of colon cancer especially in Asian countries have been attributed to their intake of tumeric.
Preaching is not my forte, but, seriously, the tonnage is getting worse out there. Four of my friends who like steaks and martinis have been diagnosed with colon cancer, and they're only in their forties! At least 57,000 people will die this year. So, put down that chicken-fried steak, stop with the deep fried turducken. Kale is the new rib-eye, boys and girls. Because if it's not colon cancer, it's heart disease.
Now that you're afraid to eat the blinzes, Happy Rosh Hashanna!
[posted by richardporter for pixelasana]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Heckler Calls Obama -The Antichrist- At LA Fundraiser...
A heckler shouting about Jesus Christ interrupted President Barack Obama at a fundraiser before security dragged him out. It happened at the House of Blues in Los Angeles on Monday night.
The man positioned himself up in front of the stage and started shouting loudly right after Obama started talking. The heckler proclaimed that Jesus Christ is God and a Christian God.
Obama stopped talking. Then after a moment the crowd started chanting “Four more years! Four more years!” and drowned out the heckler.
As he was taken out by security the man called out that Obama is an antichrist.
Later, another, more-friendly heckler shouted out, “Don’t forget medical marijuana!” Obama responded: “Thank you for that.”
Monday, September 26, 2011
The Vagina Monologues
"I mean has anybody been watching the debates lately? You've got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It's true. You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have healthcare. And booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are." - Barack Obama, speaking at a Democratic fundraiser yesterday.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Michael Feingold - Village Voice - Death to Billionaires - Confiscate Their Money!
In our next edition Tony Montana will share his views on the "Billionaire" problem.
Anniston, Alabama - the “most toxic city in America”
Eight years ago workers were just beginning to burn the massive stockpile of chemical weapons stored in igloos at Anniston Army Depot. With the Iraq war still in its first year, the image of 2,200 tons of chemical weapons stored quietly in the Alabama hills was too much for the media to resist.
The chemical weapons are gone, the last of them burned Thursday.
The total cost to destroy the chemical stockpile, Monsanto’s PCBs and other industrial pollution? According to an analysis by Star commentary editor Phillip Tutor, the price tag is $3.2 billion.
Anniston/Star
Are Republicans Dumber Than Dirt? You Betcha!
The Republican Modus Tollens
September 24th, 2011, by Larry A. Herzberg
Republican leaders have become fond of denying well-supported facts in the last few years, including such well-confirmed phenomena as (at least partly human-induced) climate change, the proven safety of vaccines, and of course evolutionary theory. What seems to be guiding them, at least unconsciously, is (roughly) the following form of argument, known to logicians as modus tollens-
(1) If P then Q
(2) Not-Q
(3) So Not-P
This pattern of reasoning is technically valid. That is, if the premises are true, then the conclusion must be true. So criticizing any argument of this form typically involves arguing that at least one of the premises is false.
For instance, here’s the Republican modus tollens argument against climate change:
(1) If climate change is occurring, then we should regulate CO2.
(2) We shouldn’t regulate CO2.
(3) So climate change isn’t actually occurring.
Or, similarly, in the case of the vaccine Michele Bachmann doesn’t like:
(1) If the HPV vaccine is safe, then we should encourage its use.
(2) We shouldn’t encourage its use.
(3) So the HPV vaccine is not safe.
Or, finally:
(1) If evolutionary theory is true, then the biblical story of creation should be denied.
(2) The biblical story of creation should not be denied.
(3) So evolutionary theory is not true.
Read More/Here
Can Michele Bachmann Come From Behind?
The results of Saturday's straw poll of Republican activists in Florida
Herman Cain 37%
Rick Perry 15%
Mitt Romney 14%
Rick Santorum 11%
Ron Paul 10%
Newt Gingrich 8%
Jon Huntsman 2%
Michele Bachmann 1%
Does Carbon Dioxide Trap Heat? You Betcha!
In the paper, Columbia University geoscientist Wally Broecker calculated how much carbon dioxide would accumulate in the atmosphere in the coming 35 years, and how temperatures consequently would rise. His numbers have proven almost dead-on correct. Meanwhile, other powerful evidence poured in over those decades, showing the "greenhouse effect" is real and is happening. And yet resistance to the idea among many in the U.S. appears to have hardened.
What's going on?
"The desire to disbelieve deepens as the scale of the threat grows," concludes economist-ethicist Clive Hamilton.
Global Warming/Deniers
Saturday, September 24, 2011
President Sarah 'Barracuda' Palin
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| Hey Boys |
I'm beginning to thnk that this book by Joe McGinniss is looking like a game changer! Sort of like Rick Perry's debate performance. We'll see how it plays out.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Porter Humor
Hey Porters,
I had to defend our good name the other day. Imagine that?
And so I brought my arms foward and hunched over ever so slightly and said under my breath to no one in particular -
"What you talkin bout Willis!"
I had to defend our good name the other day. Imagine that?
And so I brought my arms foward and hunched over ever so slightly and said under my breath to no one in particular -
"What you talkin bout Willis!"
(Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service lowered debt ratings for Bank of America Corp, Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co on Wednesday, saying the U.S. government is getting less comfortable with bailing out large troubled lenders...
No surprise here because we all know what the business of big banks is and that is tripping up customers into incurring overdraft fees. And they gain this from Americans who can least afford to give it. And we wonder why our standing around the world is sinking.
Fat/Fucks
Here Comes The Sun
The congressional investigation into Solyndra has cast a shadow across the solar energy industry, but two new reports show continuing growth in the sector.
A report from the Solar Energy Industries Association finds that grid-connected photovoltaic installation in the U.S. grew 17 percent from the first to second quarter of 2011 and a whopping 69 percent from the second quarter of 2010.
Furthermore, prices continued to plummet as completed module prices dropped 12 percent in the second quarter.
And the initial findings of another report, from the nonprofit Solar Foundation, concludes that the solar industry added 6,735 U.S. jobs between August 2010 and August 2011.
Solar/Energy
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Obama by the Numbers
According to Gallup's latest Presidential Approval Poll 42% approve while 50% disapprove. According to Rasmussen's latest Presidential Approval Poll 46% approve while 52% disapprove.
I think this Obama Jobs Plan has some traction!
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Could You Imagine Reading This About Martha Washington!
"She emerges, holding Trig. Once the TV cameras and still photographers have had their fill, she hands him off to an assistant, who soon puts him down on the asphalt parking lot and lets him crawl. The lot is covered with broken glass, cigarette butts, and old chewing gum, and Trig is barefoot. Eventually Piper comes along and puts him in a stroller."
— from The Rogue, by Joe McGinniss
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Evolution of Man
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| He looks like a Chipmunk! |
The British idiot Simon Cowell had some plastic surgery. I'm hoping this is the beginning of his transformation into Michael Jackson. Then we'll know there really is a God.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Stop The Madness!
Here's how the right-wing frames the above poster - Anti-Israel subway signs in NYC spark religious war of words...
Anti-Isreal, I don't think so.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Palin likes the Long, Black Wood?
According to leaked excerpts of a coming Sarah Palin expose, Lady Half-Term has a history of using cocaine, smoking pot, and had at least one hook-up with an NBA player. Which is nothing all that scandalous unless God himself has hand-picked you to run His Own Country.
In the book, which will be published on September 20th, McGinniss claims Sarah had a steamy interracial hookup with basketball stud GLEN RICE less than a year before she eloped with her husband Todd. Rice is reported to have Sarah hooked up with the NBA great, then a 6-foot-8 junior with a schlong the size of a Mississippi rattle snake at the University of Michigan when he was playing in a college basketball tournament in Alaska in 1987, the book says. At the time, Sarah, just out of college, was working as a sports reporter for the Anchorage TV station KTUU. A publishing source told The ENQUIRER that McGinniss claims Sarah had a “fetish” for black men at the time and he quotes a friend as saying Sarah had “hauled (Rice’s) ass down.”
O Shit/National Enquirer
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
You Gotta Love Gary Trudeau
Sarah Palin’s hated author-neighbor enemy Joe McGinnis will soon release his secret spy diary of details about the Palin family. The actual faux-controvery surrounding Sarah Palin’s mind-numbing existence today comes courtesy of the fact that McGinnis gave an advanced copy of the book to “Doonesbury” comic strip author Gary Trudeau, who pulled some random embarrassing anecdote from one of Sarah Palin’s old advisers as fodder for his most recent syndicated political cartoon. This is illegal, in journalism, according to the Chicago Tribune, which has removed the cartoon.
Gary Trudeau/Wonkett
richardporter's observations of tampa fl tea party republican presidential debates
I noticed an interesting thing last night while watching the debates. The camera shots of the audience. The audience reminded me of an audience one might find at a country music awards ceremony and I noticed too how the majority of the audience members appeared to be grossly overweight. Is there a correlation between obesity and being a Tea Party member? My beef with Obamacare is that will we hard working americans have to foot the bill for keeping these fat a$$es alive?
Tea Party Audience at Tampa Tea Party Republican Presidential Debate Mimic Crowds When Romans Fed Christians to the Lions
CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the event's moderator, posed the hypothetical question to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas): What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? "Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked.
"Yeah!" several members of the crowd yelled out.
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| Audience Members at Tea Party Debate |
Monday, September 12, 2011
richardporter's solution for world peace
I have a solution for achieving world peace. Let's take American extremist as represented by the American Tea Party and ship them to a neutral country where they can participate in hand to hand combat with Muslim extremist while the rest of us sit on the sidelines and have a good laugh.
richardporter: helping out where I can!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Reflections On 9-11 by pixelasana
Everybody remembers where they were on 9/11/2001. My mother-in-law was sheduled for heart surgery that morning. Both my husband and me were by her side, as well as my husband's sister were all at her side as her physician explained to all of us what would take place over the next few hours. It was just before 9 a. m. on a beautiful clear September morning in Brooklyn. Suddenly, my brother-in-law Bob, came rushing in.
"Ah, a plane just crashed into the World Trade Center."
We all looked at him like he was growing another head. The doctor stopped in mid-sentence, starred at him over his readers, and then carried on, making sure the rest of us were paying attention. He totally ignored Bob. We all did.
The doctor finished, my mother-in-law was rushed into a waiting elevator. I turned on my heel and pushed through swinging doors. We walked silently down the corridor; my thoughts were only of poor Janet and how she was either crazy or incredibly brave to have a by-pass at 89. As I entered the waiting room, I saw the second plane fly into the second building from the enormous window in the waiting room. I glanced at the TV. Same picture. I didn't know which to look at, the view out the window or the TV. Outside the window was closer, bigger, the color was better. I looked at the TV. There were specks flying around the building, partially in flames, now. I looked back at the building. The specks were chairs, desks, bodies, copier machines, trash, papers, people holding hands and jumping together. Flames leapt at some windows. People tumbled through the air. I couldn't believe how many people were in the air. Directly across from the window where I was standing, I saw a man appear in an open window. He was still sitting in his office chair, but the building had somehow shifted, and he was in danger of rolling out. He grabbed onto both sides of the window, but was unable to hold on. the weight of the chair pushed through first. It forced his hands in an upward motion, and he and the chair somersaulted into the air.
I turned back to the TV just in time to see the first tower fall.
"I can't believe I'm watching the World Trade Center come down just like those old hotels in Vegas," I said to no one in particular. My immediate thought was that someone must have bombed the headers, because that's the only way a building like that can fall in a heap like that - those were my first suspicions that it was an inside job. No one was talking. Everyone was glued to the scene outside in Manhattan.
My daughter was at FIT in college. Thank God they hadn't bombed Times Square! The cells were all out. She had awoken to an explosion which had been when the first plane hit. She ran all the way up to 86th Street to call us on our accountant's land line to let us know she was ok. All the bridges were closed. She was a prisoner of New York.
"There's fighter jets -fighter jets!!! over New York," she wailed. "What kind of asshole would bomb New York?"
By evening, the news was reporting someone had claimed responsibility - that was the first time I'd ever heard the name Osama Bin Laden or his infamous Al Quaeda.
"I remember Colin Powell's response: Those guys can barely get a car bomb to go off, much less coordinate something like this -"
And then there was Donald Rumsfield. "We oughta get a bunch of chemicals in a crop duster and just shshzzzzooommmm right over Afghanistan!" He looked a little unhinged, zooming his arms in front of his face to simulate a plane in flight, the light from his glasses catching the camera, the crazy grin on his face.
Life somehow went on. My daughter's boyfriend, Keith, had been looking for a house to rent on Long Island, but staying with us in the meantime. We came home one afternoon to see the answering machine blinking.
"Hi. This is Al (pause) Kaida, (pronounced the same way!), your real estate expert on Long Island calling you to let you know I've got quite a few listings here that we could go see..."
Keith was too freaked to even call him back! But I always had this fantasy in the back of my mind to introduce Al to Osama - just to see the look on his face when he found out his almighty terrorist organization had the same sounding name as some ordinary kike on Long Island.
"Oy, nice cave. And I can see you've put in some lovely improvements here, with the rock. But a little far to the market for the wives, eh? If you ever think about living on The Island, call me. I know some great properties right next to King Kullen in Wantaugh - nice neighborhood - good schools. Oy, why the long face, Osama?"
[posted by richardporter for pixelasana]
Thursday, September 08, 2011
A fresh placenta simmers with ginger, lemon, and a jalapeño pepper.
Jennifer Hughes’s placenta was delivered ten minutes after her first child, just before midnight on March 31. It was on the large side, with a liverish texture and a bluish tinge; it measured nine inches in diameter and weighed a pound and a half.
For a growing number of mothers, there's no better nutritional snack after childbirth than the fruit of their own labor.
New York Magazine/Healthy Snacks
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
The TSA Agent Who Visited My Vagina by Amy Alkon
Upon leaving, still sobbing, I yelled to the woman, "YOU RAPED ME." And I took her name to see if I could file sexual assault charges on my return. This woman, and all of those who support this system deserve no less than this sort of unpleasant experience, and from all of us.
In our next edition Amy describes how her vagina was taken advantage of in a Piggly Wiggly In Macon Georgia.
Amy Alkon's/Vagina
Monday, September 05, 2011
Looking For Work
How might one go about asking permission to be included in wonkette's blog roll? Does one have to suck someone's dick? I have a blog I'm trying to get off the ground and I would love the opportunity to be included in this not so dubious honor.
I'm only slightly familiar with the big headed, old, British wannabe something Denton. Does this something or another have an email address I can direct my correspondence to?
I'm used to rejection, so give it to me straight!
And btw, how come none of my posts get posted. They're very tame.
Richard Porter
http://richardporterwritechatmessage.blogspot.com/
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