UNSUPERSIZE ME

Should our government dictate how much we eat or drink?

Warning, if you are overweight and sensitive, you may not want to read this.

Should our governing entities limit the size of a cola an eating establishment serves us? As much as I hate government meddling in our private affairs or limiting our choices, I tend to agree with Mayor Bloomberg's anti-obesity proposal of forbidding the sale of giant sugar drinks. Someone has to do something to shock this nation back to reality as far as us stuffing ourselves into oblivion goes. Remember back when they began banning smoking in public places? That was mainly for the benefit of nonsmokers, but it triggered many smokers into realizing what they were doing to themselves. I was one of those smokers and I resisted too long. I smoked in restaurants long after they requested us not to. And when they made it a law, I began smoking outside at the entrance. I was more defiant back then than I am now.

Over eating and drinking is a health hazard

Three years after I became smoke free, and started eating healthy, the big C, cancer caught me. The body can only fight off so much abuse before nasty things begin to happen. Believe it or not, gluttony is far more detrimental to the body than is smoking or imbibing alcohol. Sugar is poison and we begin stuffing our kids with it at an early age. Sugar contributes to 35 million deaths a year worldwide, while 2.5 million people die each year from alcohol related causes. So, go ahead, take your kids down to the local burger joint and give them another sugar fix. I'm taking my down to the local bar.

One of these supper sized drinks and a super duper burger with a double order of fries is enough to feed a family of four. Some gluttons can down two or three of these orders at one setting and then gobble down a whole apple pie and wash that down with yet another gigantic drink. Then, they sit back, belch and proudly pat their overstuffed belly. Hell, I couldn't eat that much in a week even if I did eat those pink-slim burgers or partake of their sugar-poisoned carbonated drinks. Pick you drink HERE to see its sugar content. We won't talk about fat and calorie content. That's another story.

We tend to fool ourselves

Those who eat these supersized meals and then order a diet cola to ease their shame have not gained anything. Diet colas are just as harmful to the body as are sugar loaded ones. A while back when I began to wean myself off sugar, I started drinking diet colas. I bought them by the case Thinking they were not harmful, I drank more and more of them, I had one in my hand all day long then I learned the terrible truth. Check that site above and become enlightened. The cravings of our bodies are strong. I've been fighting my craving for sugar for several years. It ain't easy, folks., i.e., there just is not a safe sugar substitute out there. So, if you want to cut sugar from your diet, do it cold turkey as alcoholics do.

Every time I find something new, I learn it too is not good for the body. It's only switching from one poison to another. I'm determined to celebrate my 100th birth day, even if it kills me.

If Brazil can do it, why can't we?

Here is another interesting article on how your body reacts when you drink your favorite cola. President Vargas banned Cola from Brazil. Good for him! I think Brazil is a very progressive country. They out do us in many areas.

The other day I observed a gigantic blob of a woman lumber from a pink slime burger house carrying two grocery-sized bags filled to overflowing, followed by two smaller versions of her carrying more bags. All three huffed as they waddled by like a family of ducks. I remember debating with myself whether one of the woman's thighs would weigh one or two times what I weighed. It's beyond my comprehension just how people get the way they are. Do the not know that food is the cause of their condition? The U.S. leads the world in our percentage of overweight and obese people. Alabama takes first place prize.

Eating establishments are a proud bunch

I remember back in the mid to late fifties one of those burger joints advertised on their signs that they had sold over 1 million burgers. I wonder if they still keep track of that. We cannot blame them for being proud of their success, even though they are killing us with their slop. We can only blame ourselves.

Should the government jump in and save us from ourselves? In this case, It's not so much about ourselves as it is everyone else. Those of us who pay taxes that pay for the medical bills of those who insist on being gluttonous and end up being carried to hospitals on flat bed trucks after being extracted from their special reinforced beds by a crane. We have to pay their bills because they do not have the ability to pay. Some insist their gluttonous abuse of themselves is a disease and they demand their rights as handicapped people where they can park next to the entrance of their favorite burger joint. Heaven forbid they get any exercise.

Call me insensitive, but I believe they should accept responsibility for becoming what they are and should not have any more rights than anyone else. We send drug users and pot smokers to prison for abusing themselves, and we force alcoholics to attend meetings.

Besides, it's no different than banning smoking in bars and restaurants or other non-smoking places. That reminds me. My 70 year-old baby sister finally quit smoking a couple months ago. She told me yesterday, she walked around her block and it felt good that she didn't get winded. Of course, I couldn't resist reminding her this is what I have been telling her for the past 35 years. I don't think she liked that. In fact, I know she didn't. In either case, I'm happy she stopped. Now if I could only wean her off sugar and fat.

What I'm attempting to get across is our bad habits most always affect others. Sometimes, those in power have to step in and force us to change our ways for the betterment of all concerned.

Does anyone regret our meddlesome government forcing smallpox vaccinations upon us? I know I know. In one hand, our government forces our schoolchildren to eat appalling lunches at inappropriate times. Now they want to regulate what we eat and drink at eating establishments.

Well, as for school lunches, this involves big companies and big money paid to the campaign funds of our electives. We all know how that works. Our representatives just do not represent us. When they do, they screw it up. I believe this happens because their forethoughts are always on what is more beneficial to them and those who contribute large sums to their campaigns. We have to do something about this. However, Roam wasn't built in an election year.

Sugar should be controlled like tobacco and alcohol. Make it expensive forcing us to make other options like smoking pot instead of cigarettes. Was that a good analogy? There are other substitutes for sugar. However, I hear some claiming these sugar substitutes are harmful to us. People just will not stop diddling around with substances and coming up with new views on how they are detrimental to our health. All I can say is let them keep on keeping on. Can anyone tell me why no-sugar-added food cost twice as much?

How To Sell Death

I just came across this on the internet. How To Sell Death is a book on how the tobacco industry advertises their product in order to stay in business. They realize the young generation is their future customers and their ads are slyly targeting this group. Does anyone remember candy cigarettes? Pink slime burger companies draws in their customers by targeting the younger generation. The only difference is, the fast food industry is far from going under, in fact, it is thriving mainly, because of their advertising audience. Have you ever seen one of their ads that did not portray happy smiling children? They are selling death, too.

Fast food joints are becoming, or have become, a way of life. They are becoming as popular around the world as they are here. In some places, you come across several of them in as many blocks. Soon we will have a worldwide epidemic of overweight and obese people. Maybe another country will take our first position as having the largest percentage of fat people. After all, we are world leaders. Eventually, we will wake up minus the smell of sizzling pink-slime burgers and the fizzling sound of sugar-poisoned drinks. Glory halleluiah, we has seen the light.

If you haven't seen it before, watch this Supersize Me video.

Talk about supersizing, once again I managed to turn a 500 word article into 1,500 words .

Thanks and have a pleasant day. Ray

BIG BROTHER'S EYE IN THE SKY PART 3

Policing for profit

What happens to property confiscated by state and federal officials? It becomes the property of the seizing authority to be used as they see fit, even though you are innocent of any wrongdoing. They have the authority to confiscate property and cash involved in a crime. It becomes their property and they can use it in their operations. Once they have it, sometimes not even an act of congress can get it back for you, and they were the ones who made the rules to begin with. Check here to find out how policing for profit works. They don't think of these angles when making and implementing their bills, and they could care less after. First, let's clarify some acronyms, something our Government is not in short supply of.

NSA--National Security Agency What a monster this agency has become.

DNI--Director of National Intelligence

CSS--Central Security Service

DNSA--Director of the National Security Agency

USCC--United States Cyber Command

USCIS --United States Citizenship and Immigration Services formerly the INS

INS--United States Immigration and Naturalization Service

DHS--United States Department of Homeland Security

DOJ--Department of Justice
CISPA--Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. This bill is another bill similar to SOP (Stop Online Piracy Act) which failed to pass. If they don't get it done one way, they change the name and start over.


The House of Representatives just pass CISPA. If approved, we lose again. This bill gives broad powers and immunity to government and military intelligence agencies including the Department of Homeland Security- DHS- to collect and share the private data on individuals through service providers. Enough said.

The NSA is a component of the USIC and headed by the DNI. The CSS coordinates intelligence activities between NSA and other cryptanalysis agencies, while the DNSA is the Commander of the USCC, (an armed forces sub-unified command subordinate to USSC) and Chief of the CSS. The USCIS is a component of DHS and performs administrative functions formerly carried out by the INS a part of DOJ. The USCIS promotes national security to eliminate Immigration case backlogs. I don't attest to any of this.

Now that that's as clear as mud, let's move on. If you can figure this out, maybe you should be the one writing this article.

NSA is the USA's version of Germany's SS Forces

Both countries developed these entities to protect the State, one against Jews, the other against terrorist. Both received authority to do what was required, without reprisal, to accomplish their mission. Our government is going to protect us even if it kills us. Between the TSA and the NSA, the USA may be accomplishing just that.

NSA's new baby

The birth of NAS's pride and joy is due to take place in 2013 and it's going to be a big one, a whapping one million square feet at a cost of over a billion dollars. Plans for the First Intelligence Community Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative Data Center took place a decade ago, and seeding the behemoth monstrosity took place a year ago. Its main duty is to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store the agency’s intercepted communications—everything from emails, cell phone calls, Google searches, and Tweets, to retail transactions, to protect the nation's cyber security eavesdropping and code-breaking operation. HERE is a list of hundreds of words you might want to avoid while surfing the internet.

NSA is not above snooping in on US citizens

Although designed for collecting intelligence from foreign communications, the feds say that would never eavesdrop on average Americans. Yeah, right. How many times have we heard that one? One wonders what their definition of an average American is. The Utah Data Center is the largest spy center in the nation. It will collect data from hundreds of lesser data collecting facilities around the country, and will target everything from web addresses to web searches to social media sites to email and phone calls and will analyze and store it. It is a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the Intelligence Community’s efforts to further strengthen and protect the nation. Does this mean it will protect us citizens? Sure it does, just as it protects us from illegal search and seizures.

Tell me they are not snooping on us now. They are, and we know they are, and they know we know they are. Why do you think they built that monstrosity in Utah? They are going to have everything on everybody. They will know, where we are, what we are doing, and everything we are about to do. This is going to be War On Everybody.

A look into the future

I believe, in the not too distance future; our federal leaders will have their snoop partners or teams watching and listening to us wherever including our homes. You might say, we are already wired for it. Most everyone has a smart phone or two in hand. They can detect them even when they turned off. To disable them you must stomp on it three times, run over it three times with your car, tie it to a large rock, take it three miles offshore and drop it in the water. Don't be surprise that in the near future they will implant these at birth. After all, it's for our own protection.

Then, there are laptops, most of which are equipped with a camera or camcorder. They have already developed these contraptions to fit in a pair of glasses. With a little double talk from our government, manufactures must insure they are always active. Remember, this is war and all it takes to declare war is a snap of the finger and 'bam' we are at war. These ladies and gentlemen representing us in Washington are adapt connivers and schemers. They learned that in Conniving and Scheming-101. Do you think they will keep track of our bathroom duties?

Land of the free, home of the brave

Is this true any longer, maybe home of the brave still applies. But then, some day, they will need to do something about all that land taken up for burials. Dig em up. That is good fertile land going to waste This country leads the world in number of per capita prisoners, most of which involves marijuana arrest for use, sales or growing. Prohibition did not work for liquor and it's not going to work for Marijuana. If we legalized it and controlled it as we have with liquor, we could probably do away with half the prisons we now have. We won't do it because it is a big money maker for all concerned, i.e., the crooks as well as the cops. Privately operated prisons are lucrative. Doing away with so many would put lots of businesses out of business, not to mention, the tens of thousands of workers standing in the unemployment lines.

Everyone but marijuana users is winning. For crying out loud, smoking weed is not as bad for you as drinking liquor or smoking tobacco. No one has died from smoking weed. Personally, I stay away from both. I tasted them, but I never inhaled or swallowed any of that nasty stuff. J.

Smoking cigarettes is what we need to outlaw. This is what damn near killed me twenty-three years ago. Tobacco too, is a thriving business and much of its profit goes into campaign funds for our hoggish representatives. I believe, if we did away with them, the cigarettes that is. On second thought, add the representatives too. Our country would be in a hell of a lot better shape than it is now.

We have the right to photograph anything in public

One of our rights as a US citizen is we are allowed to photograph, just about, almost, nearly, anything in public as long as we are lawfully standing on public property. However, there is always a however, we cannot photograph some federal buildings, even though there is no sign stating such. We are responsible for knowing this crap. This falls under, IGNORANCE OF THE LAW.

Yeah, right. That is unless cops think otherwise. Some cops believe they are exempt from the law. "We don't need no stinking warrant. Empty your pockets, scumbag." They are the ones breaking the law, stripping our rights from us. Some think they have the right to modify or amend the law on the spot. I wonder sometimes, do their supervisors give them explicit instructions on how to do this. Aren't cops supposed to know the law, too? They do but some like to twist it a little and take advantage of some of us who are not so sure about it.

They photograph us until we turn blue in the face, but when it comes to us photographing them, some have a lapse of memory or get huffy and throw their authority at us. They strip our rights from us, bully and intimidate us and chase us away. They illegally confiscate our cameras and arrest us, see a video here and an article HERE, You just can't fight City Hall or the police. Here is a link to ACLU on our right to photograph in public.

Watch out. Big Brother has his eye on you.