Crazy Train: Friday Edition

This.

What a wild coincidence...I was thinking about digging a tunnel in a nearby park too!   Five years and thousands of man-hours and cash? Pfft. This guy has the right idea.  It'd be GREAT to barbecue in an enclosed underground space. *cough cough* And what better place to invite friends over to watch a game? Oh hey, sorry about the dirt that fell in your guacamole dude....

What Are We Eating?

 Have you been reading about horse meat entering the food chain in Europe?

How about a toxic dose of horse medications to go with that spaghetti?  While many people are saying "ew" simply because they have an aversion to tucking into Black Beauty, they should be worried about what drugs are contained within the meat.

Horse meat has now been detected in Swedish meatballs packaged by Ikea. Who knew that Ikea was into food manufacturing? Another mystery solved:  the sawdusty-taste of store bought, processed meatballs.

While horses have not been physically slaughtered here in the US for the past five years, they are transported to Canada and Mexico for that very reason.

"In 2011, about 140,000 American horses were eaten abroad. But they weren’t slaughtered in the U.S. When America closed its last horse slaughter plants five years ago, American horse buyers turned their trucks north and south to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada. From there, most of the meat goes to the European Union.

But American horses are given drugs that humans should not consume."

I wonder how much of this meat is finding its way into the American and Canadian food supply, and for how long?

A tip o' the hat to Aridog, our much loved and respected Cranky Old Fart Extraordinaire. 

From My Email

The Mess and how Obama inherited it

This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.
Don’t just skim over this, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out.
The day the democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009, it was actually January 3rd 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.
The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.
For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault”, think about this:
January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621..77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB GROWTH