But don’t ask Ari Armstrong how to do it.
So you don’t have to read the whole thing, here are the only fact(like) things in this article:
I spent Feb. 4 through Feb. 10 eating a highly nutritious, low-carb diet for $33.07, or $4.72 per day, less than food stamps provide. For a month in 2007 my wife and I ate a higher-carb — but still nutritious — diet for $2.57 per day each.
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My two most expensive purchases were a whole turkey at $7.77 and olive oil at $4.48. My produce included red leaf lettuce, onions, tomatoes, grapefruit and bananas. I actually prefer more carbs in my diet, so normally I’ll continue to eat modest amounts of grains, sugary fruits and occasionally even cane sugar.
Counting the only two purchase figures we are given: 7.77 and 4.48 Ari and his wife spent 12.25. 7.77 of that on a turkey that was either ludicrously small (as turkey tends to price out at about 3 bucks a pound off season) or they simply lied. I think that 4.48 for olive oil could be correct. Seriously, 8 bucks for turkey. The Cheapest turkey I saw at the thrifty bulk foods and serve yourself or else store today was 17 dollars. I guess when you live in an actual city and don’t shop at your dad’s store, the prices can be different.
That is all that is there in the Article about living on food stamps. The rest is a screed about how the Welfare state is theft. Now you don’t have to read the rest.
#4 posted by Anonymous , February 12, 2009 11:27 AMAbout a year ago my wife and I visited a Darwin exhibit at the Field museum in Chicago. She grew up in Northern Ireland and was educated in a Catholic school. Partway through the exhibit she started crying. She said she was never taught this stuff, didn’t really understand it until the exhibit, and felt stupid.
Less than 40% of US residents polled accept the existence of Evolution as a concept. That would be startling if what was discussed was any other country; but the USA produced Paris Hilton, Carrot Top and Sarah Palin.I can accept anything that excoriates the general lack of intelligence that marks North American society as a whole.
It is no wonder Americans are perceived as loud morons who lack the simple ability to locate their rectum using a map and two hands. Surely they would eat the map (once it was doused in cheese) and then proceed to lick their hands clean while denying the existence of said rectum. Later; when it was explained that rectum meant “asshole” they would drive to Texas and locate George Bush’s house in a near savant-like trance.
General Motors plans to invest $1 billion in Brazil to avoid the kind of problems the U.S. automaker is facing in its home market, said the beleaguered car maker.
According to the president of GM Brazil-Mercosur, Jaime Ardila, the funding will come from the package of financial aid that the manufacturer will receive from the U.S. government and will be used to “complete the renovation of the line of products up to 2012.”
General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations — Money to Come from U.S. Rescue Program
Somewhere out there; there is a comptroller saying how this is a good idea for long-term goals and that it makes good sense. That comptroller needs to realize that they still have to deal with their neighbors.
If you didn’t see this “thinking” coming down the pipe when Justice Roberts intentionally flubbed the Oath, then you should shake your head and get it on straight. The Hope-Sauce won’t stop the serious nuts from trying to tear down their enemy by any mean necessary, imagine the rules-lawyering that will be deployed over that series of words!
Expect more of this kind of stuff over the next few weeks; it’ll be on snopes by end of week in an email circulated by the National Review’s readership.
In case you think I’m crazy:
Obama’s Oath: ‘Faithfully’ misspoken
Faithfully Misspoken: Close enough for Government Work?
As if on cue
Republish this everywhere; okay?
From The Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/570638
The Canadian Auto Workers is criticizing the federal government for awarding a $254 million contract to a U.S. company to build trucks for the Canadian Forces at its plant in Texas while it is laying off workers at its plant in Chatham.
“Somebody has to explain to us why Canadian workers can’t build military trucks for the Canadian military,” said senior CAW executive Bob Chernecki, referring to a defence department contract to Illinois-based Navistar International Corp. to build 1,300 medium-duty trucks for the Canadian Forces.
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Asked yesterday why the contract couldn’t have stipulated the trucks be built in Canada, a spokesperson for
Defense Minister Peter MacKay referred the Toronto Star to the public works department.“The workers in these facilities absolutely deserve the support of their government as we go through these very difficult and challenging times in our country,” said Lewenza’s letter.
“It seems the federal government has lost sight that in 2003 they invested in the Chatham facility, by
agreeing to provide over $30 million of assistance to Navistar to maintain these important jobs in the community and Ontario,” he told MacKay.In 2003, the Ontario government gave $35 million to Navistar to avert threatened closing of the Chatham plant.
Chernecki called it “nonsense” for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty to promise to boost the Canadian economy
with infrastructure jobs in the Jan. 27 budget, while another department “is putting taxpayer dollars into the U.S. economy.”A regional benefits clause requires Navistar to match the $254 million contract with equal investment in Canada.
My response:
Dear Pres. Obama,
Just caught the news that the Harper Tories are handing out cash from our taxes to your citizens, sweet deal. Tell you what; apply this “bailout” towards any unresolved debt I have left behind in the USA as I feel strongly that my 10000 dollar tax bill for 2008 will easily cover anything I have left behind. Use the remainder for your kids, I think they may need more school clothes or something.
Hugs and Kisses,
Kevin.
Seriously; could the Harper Government be any more transparently pro-USA? Its no wonder that the Harper Government is rolling towards Bush Levels of approval (35% right now) .
Why not just outsource the bureaucracy to some overseas form while you’re at it Stephen?
Climate Change is Impossible
Published by NiteMayr on March 9, 2009There it is, in once simple statement. The Veritable “God of the Gaps” in Climate Change denial. Humans are puny, how could humans take any hand in the alteration of the Environment?
One does not have to look far to see the veracity of the claim that human activity affects the local enviornment. Trash and industrial waste go a long way to demonstrating the the localized power of human misadventure. How about on a transnational scale? Look at the Acid Rains that have ravaged the forests in Northern Ontario and Quebec, passed from plants in the USA and Canada. What about Chinese pollution that reaches North America?
Doesn’t humankind sport the ability to crack mountains?
Doesn’t humankind have the ability to shirk gravity?
Seriously; there are people who use the internet every day and say “pfft, human achievement is nothing when compared to the rain and babies. Babies are amazing mysterious things.”
I can type a few bits of text on a box with wires in it and EVERYONE ON EARTH CAN READ THEM IF THEY HAVE A BOX AND SOME WIRES WITH ELECTRICITY IN THEM. Why is it beyond some people to think that humankind might influence weather patterns a bit?
It’s amazing to live in a world with such people in it. Dunderheads all.