October 4, 2005

Know your cuts of meat…….yummmmmmmmmm

The FDA has issued new rules regulating what can be fed to cows, supposedly to curtail the possibility of mad cow disease. Read details here
Still allowable are “material that some scientists consider potentially infectious, including the brains and spinal cords of young animals; the eyes, tonsils, intestines and nerves of old animals; chicken food [...]

October 4, 2005

Sunni Day real estate - or why the Sunni’s wanna kick one of the ‘I’s from Shiite

Meanwhile back in Iraq..
There’s this constitutional referendum on October 15th where the Iraqis can either ratify the new constitution or ask their leaders to start over. If 2/3rds of the voters of three districts (out of 18) dis-approve the constitution, then the deal goes south, and the Jefferson wanna-bes get to start again.
Originally, that 2/3rds [...]

October 4, 2005

The greatest story ever told….in Legos

I’m not sure how the dipwad at Southern Sentinel would take this, but there are lots of great Jewish tales in these lego-illustrated bible tales. Particularly powerful is the massacre at Bezel. Parents, don’t let your kids see Samson and the Prostitute. On second thought, maybe these illustrations will be the entree into [...]