posted on 5.16.11
“Down the aisle is Welch’s 100% Grape Juice, with no fat and emblazoned with a red-heart certification from the American Heart Association. An eight-ounce glass has 36 grams of sugar; a regular-sized Snickers, by comparison, has 30.”
From: Foods With Health Benefits, or So They Say - NYTimes.com
We don’t shop in grocery stores anymore. They are - quite literally - filled with nothing but poison.
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Note from Ron: I love that the NY Times leaves out that there is no sugar added to Welch’s Grape Juice (stated as clearly as the AHA certification) and that Grapes have an extremely high level of sugar in them naturally. An 8oz glass of Welch’s Grape Juice contains around 40 or more grapes. They do go on and say “No one is saying that these products are unsafe or unhealthy” but it does not matter. The stain is left on the readers brain. Let’s pray they don’t look into how much sugar is in an orange. I’m sure it would also take a little journalism to explain the difference in sucrose and fructose sugars as well.
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NEWS FLASH! Scientists Discover Why Fruit Is Sweet: It Contains Sugar
posted on 4.12.11
Burden of College Loans on Graduates Grows
Here are some choice quotes from this depressing piece:
“In the coming years, a lot of people will still be paying off their student loans when it’s time for their kids to go to college,” said Mark Kantrowitz, the publisher of FinAid.org and Fastweb.com, who has compiled the estimates of student debt, including federal and private loans.
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The mountain of debt is likely to grow more quickly with the coming round of budget-slashing. Pell grants for low-income students are expected to be cut and tuition at public universities will probably increase as states with pinched budgets cut back on the money they give to colleges.
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“If you have a lot of people finishing or leaving school with a lot of debt, their choices may be very different than the generation before them,” said Lauren Asher, president of the Institute for Student Access and Success. “Things like buying a home, starting a family, starting a business, saving for their own kids’ education may not be options for people who are paying off a lot of student debt.”
In some circles, student debt is known as the anti-dowry. As the transition from adolescence to adulthood is being delayed, with young people taking longer to marry, buy a home and have children, large student loans can slow the process further.
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Unlike most other debt, student loans generally cannot be discharged in bankruptcy, and the government can garnish wages or take tax refunds or Social Security payments to recover the money owed.
Lovely!
posted on 2.18.11
How the GOP House Cut Spending Today:
motherjones:
A rundown of other amendments in the bill that House Republicans used to kill Planned Parenthood’s budget:
Eliminated cancer screening and basic health services for millions of poor women.
Prohibited EPA from regulating greenhouse gases.
Cut financing for the Reagan-era US Institute of Peace.
Chopped funding to the National Endowment for the Arts.
Banned financing of net neutrality regulations.
Stripped salaries from White House advisers.
Eliminated financing for firefighter grants.
But! Here’s some money they kept in the budget:
$7 million for the US Army to sponsor a NASCAR vehicle.
Restored $1.5 billion in planned cuts for Iraq War funding.
Well, that’s just peachy.
(Source: The New York Times)
posted on 9.9.10
“Look back over the past decade. How many films have approached the moral complexity and sociological density of “The Sopranos” or “The Wire”? Engaged recent American history with the verve and insight of “Mad Men”? Turned indeterminacy and ambiguity into high entertainment with the conviction of “Lost”? Addressed modern families with the sharp humor and sly warmth of “Modern Family”?”
posted on 6.29.10
The president of FIFA has apologized to the English and Mexican teams for the horrendous officiating they suffered.
When the president of the organization that runs the damn World Cup is apologizing to teams who get screwed by awful refereeing, you know you’ve got a problem.
This is Sepp Blatter: the same person, by the way, who — before the start of the World Cup — reiterated his anti-replay stance:
“We want to keep football as a game of the people with a human face, so we don’t want technology on the field of play because we want to maintain the spontaneity of football — played, administered and controlled by human beings.”
Is that absolutely idiotic, or what? And even after both England and Mexico got jobbed in the round of 16 — not to mention all the terrible calls in the group stage — the International Football Association Board (FIFA + one association each for the four countries in the United Kingdom, the group that determines the rules of soccer) still isn’t going to consider implementing video replay, which they shot down when they met last December. They’re only going to discuss bringing in technology to determine whether a ball crossed the goal line. Blatter, ever the Luddite, explained:
“The only principle we are going to bring back for discussion is goal-line technology […] For situations like the Mexico game you don’t need technology.”
You don’t need technology to determine whether a player was offsides, but apparently, it sure would help. And you’re saying that you won’t consider it because you want to keep soccer spontaneous? REALLY?
These are the same kinds of arguments you hear from the folks who are against the implementation of replay in baseball, and as far as I’m concerned, they’re just as wrong as the IFBA is here.
