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What this Country Elected 2

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Here is the second installment of “what this country elected”.

This whole Cambridge Professor Gates, and Cambridge police Sergent Crowley incident. Most people forget how this whole incident started. Gates came home from a trip to find his front door hard to open. In trying to get it open a neighbor saw 2 black men trying to get into a house of a known Cambridge professor. After seeing this go on she called the police. Which i would thank this neighbor for at least looking and seeing that something wasn’t right. To keep this background short, both MEN acted in a very UN-professional manner. There are to things about this whole incident and that’s all it is an incident. 1 professor Gates started with the racial card (i will explain) 2 The president got involves.

First of all professor Gates, from what i have read here and there the man is a great professor and wealth of knowledge to his students and anyone that gets to talk to him. As he should know better than to do he started with the racial comments. Gates accused the investigating officer of being a racist and told him he had “no idea who he was messing with,” Gates told the officer that he was being targeted because “I’m a black man in America.” This man should know better to start making  statements of this nature. In the end he made some foolish and border line stupid comments.

Now Cambridge police Sergent Crowley, what i read I agree with up till he had proof from professor Gates. After that the officer was pushing it to far. The officer in my eyes was borderline out of his scope of the law, and probably should not have pushed the situation any further. In the end he made some foolish and border line stupid judgments.

Now the good part, President Obama, What concern is it to him or why is this manner taking up the time of the nations highest elected official. There is a hell of a lot better things that he should be doing than sitting down with these two foolish men. I would like to know how much money this cost you and me as tax paying Americans. As im sitting hear thinking about this foolish situation, maybe this is what we need him to do commit all his time to just flat out stupid things. That way he will leave the rest of us alone to help fix the economy and the state this country is in. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again that boy most of America’s blundering idiots elected is a flipping moron that shouldn’t be running a blender.

ben

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It’s not the Mayo

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

After watching a video about the makers of mayonnaise. Mullins  is
huge, and is owned by 11 brothers and sisters in the Mullins family.
The tour of the plant was hosted by, Jeanne, is the CEO.

Questions about food poisoning came up, and I wanted to share what  I
learned from a chemist.

The guy who gave us our tour is named Ed. He’s one of the brothers. Ed is a
chemistry expert and is involved in developing most of the  sauce formula.
He’s even developed sauce formula for McDonald’s.

Keep in mind that Ed is a food chemistry whiz. During the tour, someone
asked if we really needed to worry about mayonnaise. People are always
worried that mayonnaise will spoil. Ed’s answer will surprise  you

Ed said that all commercially-made Mayo is completely safe.

“It doesn’t even have to be refrigerated. No harm in refrigerating it, but
it’s not really necessary.” He explained that the pH in mayonnaise is set at
a point that bacteria could not survive in that environment.  He then
talked about the quaint essential picnic, with the bowl of potato salad
sitting on the table and how everyone blames the mayonnaise when someone
gets sick.

Ed says that when food poisoning is reported, the first thing the officials
look for is when the ‘victim’ last ate ONIONS and where those onions came
from (in the potato salad?). Ed says it’s not the mayonnaise (as long as
it’s not homemade Mayo) that spoils in the outdoors. It’s probably the
onions, and if  not the onions, it’s the POTATOES. He explained, onions are
a huge magnet for  bacteria, especially uncooked onions.

You should never plan to keep a portion of a sliced onion. He says it’s not
even safe if you put it in a zip-lock bag and put it in your refrigerator.
It’s already contaminated enough just by being cut open and out for a bit,
that it can be a danger to you (and doubly watch out for those onions you
put in your hotdogs at the baseball park!)

Ed says if you take the leftover onion and cook it like crazy you’ll
probably be okay, but if you slice that leftover onion and put on your
sandwich, you’re asking for trouble. Both the onions and the moist
potato in a potato salad, will attract and grow bacteria faster than any
commercial mayonnaise will even begin to break down.

So, how’s that for news? Take it for what you will. I (the author) am going
to be very careful about my onions from now on. For some reason, I see  a
lot of credibility coming from a chemist and a company, that produces
millions of pounds of mayonnaise every year.’

Also, dogs should never eat onions. Their stomachs cannot metabolize onions.

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Some words of Advise for any industry

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

This is something that i learned the hard way and would like to share with you all. I’ve been noticing for a while that some people that i talk with are opening there mouth about topics that they have very little experience with. Take this bit of advise from someone that learned this the hard way. If you are new at a job or carrer path keep your mouth shut and learn from people that have been doing the job for a while. If you hang around with the new people you will learn nothing but if you listen to the so called old timer’s of the industry you can learn. 1 thing i didnt do was take the time to learn and ask questions about how or why something is done a certian way. I did very little of what i am talking about. I learned a lesson in life that I didn’t get at the time but in a new carrer path i used the advise that i didn’t use the first time and it is working out very well for me. As a truck driver i’ve meet all kinds of peole and learned a whole bunch of tips and tricks about this industry that have helped me out and when i to other drivers they are amased that i only a little bit of time invested in the industry. If you reading this think that i’m fully of shit just wait and see you will learn this life lesson the hard way. If you have a storie about this nd would like to share it with the rest of us please do. Have a good day.

ben

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