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News Mash: Bacon flavored cat litter will not help your dog with his cat litter addiction!

All addictions are bad…

Even dogs have them.

And if you have a dog AND a cat?

Chances are your dog is addicted to eating cat litter.

And now…

Oh, jeez!

As if you didn’t have ENOUGH trouble…

Keeping your stupid dog out of the kitty litter!

THIS (below) is going to make it that much harder.

If you have cats, you probably have litter boxes and most likely, you use a commercial cat litter. Many cat litters present numerous hazards to cats, humans, and dogs (and other animals, too). Clay-based and “clumping” litters are the real culprits.

Sodium bentonite and silica are two of the most common ingredients in clumping cat litters. Both of these ingredients are considered to be health threats. The dust produced from litters containing silica can coat the lungs of humans and animals and has been identified as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent). Sodium bentonite is a toxin and has been implicated in the poisoning deaths of animals.

Cat litter that clumps is so efficient in hardening that it could actually be used as grout! These litters swell to 15-18 times their dry size and can cause serious blockages in the intestines of animals that ingest the dry material. Dogs often will be attracted to the smell of a cat litter box and will ingest feces and/or litter material. Turning to a cement-like substance in the stomach or intestines, clumping cat litters are probably responsible for far more deaths and illness in animals than is realized.

All cat litter boxes should be inaccessible to dogs in the house (and children, too). Don’t assume your dog isn’t sneaking a bite or two from the cat box, just because you never see it. Keep the litter box up high enough so the dogs can’t get to it, or keep it behind a closed door that has a small cat door installed, so only the cats can get into that room.[Read More]

I love dogs as much as the next person…

Maybe more.

But that doesn’t mean I am blind to their faults.

And yes, one can can easily consider…

Any voluntary choosing of the eating of cat poop, embedded with gravel?

Huge fault.

So do yourself…

AND your dog a favor?

Avoid Fresh Step bacon litter.

Everyone’s stomach will be all the better for it, in the morning.

under dea investigation

News Mash: Who has no morals? The people nefariously feeding you your illness, that’s who!

Money changes everything.

And nowhere is that glaring fact any MORE noticeable…

Than it can be seen in the absolute erosion  of Western Medicine.

(NaturalNews) How in the world did the U.S. change from having the best scientists in the world who were discovering vitamins, minerals, vaccines and cures for disease, tomodern times, where the only medicine available is toxic with horrific side effects, and where nutrient-void, chemical-laden food is being sold at almost every restaurant and grocery store, all in the name of corporate profits that keep the public sick and in need of expensive care?

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The United States of America is the land of the free and the home of …toxic food and venomous medicine, with chronic care waiting for its next 80 million victims. Here are some basic statistics of a country riddled with disease:

Cancer: 1,500,000 diagnosed each year; over 50% will die of it.
Diabetes: 25,000,000 people are diabetics right now (including children); 80,000,000 are borderline.
Heart Disease and Strokes: 81,000,000 (every third adult) has some type of cardiovascular disease.
Alzheimer’s Disease: 5,400,000 have Alzheimer’s right now (every 8th senior)
Birth defects: One in every 33 babies is born with one (accounts for 20% of all infant deaths). (http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/data.html)

Most U.S. politicians have no ethics and no morals

Once upon a time,insider tradingwas a scary law that meant prison time for those who violated it. Now, politicians make money off wars they declare themselves, and health insurance companies invest in fast food operations that slowly kill their own clients. Pharmaceutical companies (Merck, Pfizer, Bayer, Bristol Meyers, etc.) are run by CEO’s who served as Governors, Senators, and heads of the FDA, and the Supreme Court itself seats Judges who worked for major pharmaceutical firms, and whowill return to those jobs after writing new legislation to benefit their current investments.

Make no mistake, the pesticides used on most U.S. farms give humans cancer, and the politicians who support genetically mutated foods know it. GMO means that the seedlings of fruits and vegetables are spliced with toxic pesticides in a lab, so even if you wash off your food, you are still eating dioxin, the same toxic chemical (Agent Orange) the U.S. dumped on Vietnam which gave our own soldiers cancer. (http://people.oregonstate.edu/~muirp/pesthist.htm) [Read More - GREAT ARTICLE! Click link to read the whole fantastic thing!]

Your argument: “That is ridiculous. No one is pure EVIL enough to want to make money off of the misfortune of others!”

Because that is what it would have to be, pure evil…

Right?

In order for anyone to seek financial gain via the exploitation of a ‘client base’ one devised for nefarious  intent.

[via TampaBay] MIAMI — Federal drug agents have searched six Walgreens pharmacies and a company distribution center in Florida as part of an investigation into prescription painkiller drug abuse, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said Friday.

The distribution center in Jupiter and the six pharmacies — one each in Hudson, Port Richey, Fort Myers and Oviedo and two in Fort Pierce — all showed signs of suspiciously high distribution of the drug oxycodone, a DEA investigator wrote in an affidavit for the search warrants.

Such large amounts, investigator Marjorie Milan wrote, indicate “a pharmacy that fills prescriptions issued by physicians at pain clinics and/or a pharmacy which services primarily drug-seeking individuals who abuse the medication.” Oxycodone is highly addictive.

The searches for pharmacy records conducted Wednesday are the latest in a crackdown by federal and state authorities on “pill mills” and other illegal sources of prescription drugs in Florida, which has become the nation’s leading source of oxycodone and similar drugs. The DEA says prescription drug abuse now exceeds abuse of all illegal drugs combined, except marijuana. [Read More]

Your additional argument: “This is just ONE report. Surely they are blowing the seriousness of the situation out of proportion.”

And yes, in a way they are…

In that?

The ‘out of proportion’ part is that the above article DOES NOT even come close to explaining how serious the current prescription medicine epidemic has become.

[via AP]NEW YORK (AP) — Sales of the nation’s two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts

who say the push to relieve patients’ suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic.

From New York’s Staten Island to Santa Fe, N.M., Drug Enforcement Administration figures show dramatic rises between 2000 and 2010 in the distribution of oxycodone, the key ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan. Some places saw sales increase sixteenfold.

Meanwhile, the distribution of hydrocodone, the key ingredient in Vicodin, Norco and Lortab, is rising in Appalachia, the original epicenter of the painkiller epidemic, as well as in the Midwest.

The increases have coincided with a wave of overdose deaths, pharmacy robberies and other problems in New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Florida and other states. Opioid pain relievers, the category that includes oxycodone and hydrocodone, caused 14,800 overdose deaths in 2008 alone, and the death toll is rising, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Nationwide, pharmacies received and ultimately dispensed the equivalent of 69 tons of pure oxycodone and 42 tons of pure hydrocodone in 2010, the last year for which statistics are available. That’s enough to give 40 5-mg Percocets and 24 5-mg Vicodins to every person in the United States. The DEA data records shipments from distributors to pharmacies, hospitals, practitioners and teaching institutions. The drugs are eventually dispensed and sold to patients, but the DEA does not keep track of how much individual patients receive. [Read More]

So…

Argue all you like.

And deny any connection that you wish.

But one exists…

Between those who are suppose to be ‘protecting us’, and the very thing that causes our need for THEM in the first place.

For the simple fact?

That they are prescribing to us our very destruction…

In pill form.

And we’re swallowing it.

Readily.

pizza pan style

News Mash: Obesity is worse for you than smoking… Now enjoy that bacon sundae, eh?

Being health cost as a result of being obese?

EXCEED…

Those of smokers.

[via HuffPo] Obesity may be more expensive than smoking when it comes to health costs.

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic found that people who are obese have an extra $1,850 in health costs, on average, a year compared with normal weight people. People who smoke, on the other hand, have $1,275 extra, on average, in health costs per year.

And for people who are morbidly obese, the costs are even higher, up to $5,500 a year.

The study was based on the health costs of 30,000 adult retirees and employees of the Mayo Clinic, all of whom had health insurance between 2001 and 2007.

The researchers noted that the extra costs by people who are obese went down after they took into account other health problems those people had. But they noted that obesity is a major risk factor for a number of health problems, so people should be careful not to underestimate the true health costs of obesity. [Read More]

In other words…

No matter how sickeningly delicious it may look?

Picking UP that slice of pizza…

[via Gizmodo]Holy heart attack, this hot dog stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut UK is probably the most delicious meal you can get in England and I assume two is a lethal dose. I’ll have seven, please. [...]

Just give me the hot dog pizza! Just put some processed pig and cow parts in that crust and let me shove it in my mouth again and again and again until my arteries rip open from a massive blockage and cholesterol oozes out of my pores like impetigo. Just make it happen, Pizza Hut brain trust, make it happen now!!!!!1!!!one!!![Read More]

Or?

Heading to Burger King and trying out their new Bacon Sundae…

And, yes, I said ‘Bacon Sundae’!

[via FitPerez] Dear America: Burger King Is Testing A Bacon Sundae

Mmmmm sundaes.

Mmmmm bacon.

Mmmmm bacon sundaes??

That’s what Burger King is testing RIGHT NOW!

Looks like Denny’s might have to move over if they perfect the recipe!

For right now, though, a Nashville Burger King location is the only one with the new Bacon Sundae being offered.

[Read More]

Is WORSE for you than smoking a pack of cigarettes…

Every day…

For YEARS.

Think about THIS the next time you dare look at a group of people smoking outside with elicited derision…

As you stuff that fast food into your face: YOU are the bigger idiot.

Now, enjoy that bacon sundae, eh?

*shakes head sadly*

BOSS Gif – Animated Gif Story Telling, Edition!

The story telling today dramatically changed with the new technology.

When using the animated GIF there is no limits what story we want to tell.

We only need our imagination.

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Like a BOSS

Photoshop wizard Kevin Weir has turned animated GIFs — those blinking relics of early web imagery — into freakish, alt-history fantasies that call to mind Monty Python animations and H.P. Lovecraft’s creatures.

I just stare at the picture for a while and things start coming to me that I want to bring to life,” he told Wiredin a phone interview.

Turned on by a friend to the Library of Congress’ royalty-free photo stream, Weir trawls the site for pictures that appear ripe for his ingenious mini-movie morph jobs, which he posts on his Flux MachineTumblr.

“I just look for great compositions and compelling characters,” said Weir, a 23-year-old student working on a master’s degree in advertising at Virginia’s VCU Brandcenter.

 

Axl Rose

Poetic Celebrity Parody – Appetite For Destruction, Edition!

Axl Rose will be not be attending the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio Saturday.

The last-minute decision weighed heavily on Rose’s mind. “I certainly don’t intend to disappoint anyone, especially the fans, with this,” he wrote. “Since the announcement of the nomination we’ve actively sought out a solution to what, with all things considered, appears to be a no win, at least for me, ‘damned if I do, damned if I don’t’ scenario all the way around.”

Axl Rose doesn’t forget
He doesn’t forgive either
Once he burns the bridges
He doesn’t build them back
Axl Rose has unlimited appetite for destruction
An Hall Of Fame introduction
Is not enough to curb
His Appetite For Destruction

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Aporia Politico: Who wouldn’t want more of THIS Big Government successfully utilizing our tax dollars, goodness?!

Some people in Big Government politics these days…

Vehemently argue that MORE taxes?

Will get us economically moving (kinda, maybe…HOPEFULLY cause they have no idea what else to do)…

In the right direction!

[via WP] President Obama admits it: His proposed “Buffett Rule” tax on millionaires is a gimmick.

There are others who are saying: ‘Well, this is just a gimmick. Just taxing millionaires and billionaires, just imposing the Buffett Rule, won’t do enough to close the deficit,’ ” Obama declared Wednesday. “Well, I agree.”

Actually, the gimmick was apparent even without the president’s acknowledgment. He gave his remarks in a room in the White House complex adorned with campaign-style photos of his factory tours. On stage with him were eight props: four millionaires, each paired with a middle-class assistant. The octet smiled and nodded so much as Obama made his case that it appeared the president was sharing the stage with eight bobbleheads.

And if that’s not enough evidence of gimmickry, after his speech Obama’s reelection campaign unveiled an online tax calculator “to see how your tax rate stacks up against Mitt Romney’s — and then see what the Buffett Rule would do.”

Obama argued that his plan to make sure that those earning north of $1 million a year don’t pay a lower tax rate than average Americans — although gimmicky and insufficient — is an advance. “The notion that it doesn’t solve the entire problem doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do it at all,” he explained.

That’s true, to a point. But Obama’s claim that the Buffett Rule “is something that will get us moving in the right direction toward fairness” would be more convincing if he took other steps in that direction, too. [Read More]

As opposed to?

Oh, I don’t know…

Say curbing our CRAZY government spending, which at this point?

Pretty much out-paces the Euro of all freaking things!

[Read More]

But, come on…

Who wants to do that?!

No.

The answer must be?

MORE taxes, cause all the taxes we have NOW…

Obviously NOT enough.

[via SmartMoney]The U.S. tax code is insane and out of control. It’s tripled in a decade. It now runs to 3.8 million words. To put that in context, William Shakespeare only needed 900,000 words to say everything he had to say. Hamlet. Othello. The history plays. The sonnets. The whole shebang. But the IRS needs four times as many words? Really?[Read More]

Especially when one considers how the fruits of our labors?

Utilized by Big Government!

And it’s not like Big Government doesn’t spend (i.e. fritters away) our tax dollars wisely…

After all.

Every penny, every American PAYS IN TO THE GOVERNMENT, with the intention of individual betterment of ALL people’s in the United States?

In your best interest…

Totally.

[via Boston Herald] A convicted drug dealer — who cops said wanted to use cash from his taxpayer-funded EBT card to post bail — is the new face of welfare abuse, according to tough-minded lawmakers who are pushing the reform-resistant Patrick administration for a crackdown.

Kimball Clark, 45, was locked up Friday on drug-dealing charges — again — when he was overheard using his one phone call to ask the person on the other end of the line to “get my EBT card and go to the ATM and get the money to bail me out, get me outa here tonight,” according to a Boston police report.

“It’s another outrage,” said state Rep. Shaunna O’Connell (R-Taunton), a member of the EBT Task Force who criticized the group for failing to push tough restrictions on the use of the controversial cards. “When we were on the EBT Card Commission, I fought to get bail bondsmen on that list of places where people could not use their EBT cards. They fought me on it and told me people can’t use their EBT cards in that way.”

Beacon Hill was forced to mull reforms after the Herald reported people were spending welfare cash on booze, cigarettes and scratch cards.

“Obviously the Department of Transitional Assistance has no idea how people use these cards and how the cards work,” O’Connell said.

State Rep. Russell E. Holmes (D-Boston), another advocate for tough reforms, said he was hardly surprised that a drug suspect would try to bail himself out with money from a taxpayer-funded EBT card. [Read More]

Uh…

This is YOUR tax money well spent!

Seriously?

Uh huh.

And there actually exists…

Some people who think NOT giving Big Government more of your tax money to blow on drug dealers on welfare,  is a bad idea?

Nope.

As they see it? MORE taxes as the ONLY solution to our current economic problem.

Right.

Pffft, who wouldn’t believe that?

(see an example, of you tax dollars at work in the form of bail money for a drug dealer, above)

water is

None can withstand it, keep your head above it, there is no life without it…Come Away To The Water!

“Keep your head above water” ~Proverbs

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“Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.” ~Lao Tzu