In the name of all that is holy!!!

Seriously now, do we really need a milkshake that has over 2300 calories??? What is wrong with people? Why would you even create something like this??? Observe...

Who had the bright idea to try and choke the customer with half a pound of sugar?? And 320% of the RDA for Saturated Fat?? If heart disease doesn't get you first then I'm sure the Type II Diabetes that all the sugar you consume will. This is insane. In a world where people sue MacDonalds for making them fat, we have people selling these death shakes to anyone who wants to chug one down. Imagine your kid eating two or three of these a week. You need ID to buy cigarettes and beer, but a 4 year old can order up one of these meals in a cup without a parent present even. Baskin Robbins is sick and wrong... They just lost a customer.

And if that wasn't bad enough, check out this death burger! Hardee's Monster Thickburger. Imagine having one of those 1420 calorie burgers for lunch and sucking down a death shake on the way back to the office. The wonders of fast food have now made it possible to consume nearly 4000 calories in a simple meal.

This is a very interesting chart that is worth taking a look at . CLICK HERE TO SEE IT It is a little long to cut and paste, but if you ever wanted to know how many calories you were forcing into your body, or your kids' bodies, then this is something you need to look at.

I'm seriously the last person on Earth who is going to be watching what I eat. I'm 6'2" and weigh about 160 fully dressed with a leather coat on. I could probably stand to eat a couple burgers and a milkshake once in awhile. What I'm concerned about are the people who have heart disease in their history or have a potential for it by their diets, and the fast food industry seems to be hell bent on killing every single one of them with their menus. Don't we have enough to worry about??

Generations...

- The Silent generation, people born before 1946.

- The Baby Boomers, people born between 1946 and 1959.

- Generation X , people born between 1 960 and 1979.

- Generation Y, people born between 1980 and 1995.


Why do we call the last one generation Y? I did not know, but a caricaturist explains it eloquently below...



Gee, you really do learn something new everyday!

Hand Sanitizers: Good or Bad?

Read this article Hand Sanitizers: Good or Bad?




What is up with hand sanitizers? Do people seriously think it is a good idea to kill the germs before your body gets a chance to take a shot at them?



Here is what I think... We are going to just get sicker and sicker as long as we keep using this stuff. If you kill every germ that comes in contact with you, then you won't be able to fight them off anymore. It is like becoming addicted to nose spray or lip balm. If you continually use a product that replaces what your body will naturally do if you let it, then your body will stop trying. If you use lip balm every time your lips seem a little dry, then your lips will stop producing the moisture needed to keep that from happening. Why should it waste energy creating moisture when you are handling it with the lip balm? Hand lotion is the same story. Your hands are dry because you are addicted to lotion and your body isn't producing the necessary oils to do the job right.



My kids are incredibly healthy. They rarely have sick days. They also rarely use hand sanitizer. If we go to a petting zoo then they for sure use it, but soap and water keeps their hands clean. If they get a germ from dropping their sucker on a swept floor and putting it back in their mouth, then so beit. Their body has an immune system for a reason and the germ will be dealt with. Think about how you were raised. Did your parent's boil your pacifier everytime you dropped it? Did you sanitize your hands like you were about to perform brain surgery every time you shook hands with someone?



My message to the world is to STOP FREAKING OUT!!! They are just germs. Unless you have a disease that has seriously compromised your immune system, then you shouldn't have much to worry about. Your body will take care of it UNLESS you have taught your body that it doesn't need to attack germs. If you teach your body that germs will be handled by hand sanitizer and not your immune system, then you can just expect to get sick and be sicker for longer. The sickest people every year are the ones who use hand sanitizer like it is going out of style. Sooner or later you get hit with a germ that you don't catch with your precious sanitizer and because your body has no memory on how to defend itself, you are going to fall and fall hard.



Purell gives 99 places that germs are likely to hide. They then go on to advertise that their product kills 99.99% of the MOST COMMON GERMS. Well, what do you think happens when you get one of the uncommon germs that Purell can't kill? Do you think that just maybe the defenses that you develop for naturally fighting off 99.99% of the common ones just MIGHT help in fighting off the uncommon ones? What is going to happen when you don't have any of those defenses. I'll tell you what. That germ is going to kick the living shit out of you. It is like eliminating all of the little guns in your army and deciding that all you need are the big guns. But then you find out that the little guns are what clear the path for you to get the big guns into range. Without the ability to fight off the 99.99% of the most common germs, the uncommon germs are just going to dominate you.




My advice is this: Wash your stupid hands with soap and water and leave the hand sanitizer in the hospital and at the petting zoo. You need the germ fighting skills to ward off serious illness. You know how the flu shot is actually just a shot of the flu virus? They do that so your body will learn how to fight the virus so it doesn't make you sick when you get a full strength dose of it later on. If you haven't taught your body how to fight 99.99% of the most common germs out there, then what makes you think that it is going to learn how to fight a bug like the flu? Put the hand sanitizer down and back away. For cying out loud...

Our Growing Earth

You seriously have to watch this video.

I am just shocked and amazed simply because I never considered this a possibility. The gist of the video is that the continents didn't separate from each other by some strange drifting of the tectonic plates. In fact, they only moved at all because the Earth itself has been expanding.

The concept of Pangea is relatively new. In the 1920s there was a German scientist who theorized that the continents could have formed one giant landmass at one time in the past. This would explain all sorts of things. Things like why certain dinosaur fossils have been found in continents nowhere near each other, yet not found anywhere else in the world. If they lived on a seam, so to speak, and that seam separated, then that would account for such things.

What I never understood about this theory is why all of the land would be in one place and then just decide to separate. On a sphere like our planet is, wouldn't the land masses just eventually join up again? According to Pangea experts, in 250 million years or so we will have one great big continent again.

My thing is that I don't like complicated explanations. I like things to make sense, but without all the stretching that sometimes seems to be done when explaining something that should be simple. Pangea seems complicated. Expanding Earth is simple. There have been well thought out reports that have been written about this theory for many years longer than the Pangea theories. In fact, Nikola Tesla (inventor of the radio as well as many other things. You might recognize the name from the post before this one) said it best in 1935 in the New York Herald Tribune.

"Condensation of the primary substance is going on continuously, this being in a measure proved, for I have established by experiments which admit of no doubt that the sun and other celestial bodies steadily increase in mass and energy and ultimately must explode, reverting to the primary substance."

I'm not looking forward to any planets exploding, but it just make sense. Everything is getting bigger. We have evidence that the Universe is expanding based on distance between objects growing farther apart. Planetary orbits are getting larger. Space is expanding. Everything grows. Believe it or don't believe it, but now you know what I believe.