I'm watching Bones in HD. That was not a scene that needed the HD.
Flames wouldn't be eternal if they actually consumed anything.
Lilah ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2009 3:10:49 pm PST #22814 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Jessica - Dec 03, 2009 3:10:56 pm PST #22815 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people. This is just government cheese with a new logo.
sarameg - Dec 03, 2009 3:12:29 pm PST #22816 of 30001
Ahahaha! Everyone else is as scarred as me.
OK, the product placement for a movie is ANNOYING AS FUCK.
Trudy Booth - Dec 03, 2009 3:13:33 pm PST #22817 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, I added that additional money for fresh produce would be good for producers and comsumers too.
And it IS wider variety. When you have more money for food you can get a wider variety of food. When you have more money for meat, you can get less fatty meat. It's more money for poor people to eat better. That's a good thing.
Hil R. - Dec 03, 2009 3:13:43 pm PST #22818 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people. This is just government cheese with a new logo.
Yeah, same with a lot of the foreign food aid, which has totally screwed up the agriculture (particularly dairy) industries in a lot of developing countries -- we produce too much dairy, give it to those countries as food aid, and the price of the milk reconstituted from American milk powder is so much cheaper than local milk that the local dairies end up going out of business, so that there's no chance of rebuilding the local agriculture to the point where they don't need food aid anymore.
Amy - Dec 03, 2009 3:16:46 pm PST #22819 of 30001
Because books.
OK, the product placement for a movie is ANNOYING AS FUCK.
Yeah, that was blatant and gross.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2009 3:17:45 pm PST #22820 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I enjoyed the product placement for the car on White Collar a couple of weeks ago. It was blatant, but amusing to me.
bon bon - Dec 03, 2009 3:18:18 pm PST #22821 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Yeah, it sounds more like government largesse to meat producers -- which is an industry whose costs are already incredibly distorted -- rather than nutritional aid. Protein is available through lots of sources other than meat.
Trudy Booth - Dec 03, 2009 3:22:15 pm PST #22822 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people.
Looks like the first one had a split: some stamps could be used for any food, some only for surplus.
When you've got too much food and hugry people you can address both those problems at once. Its pretty win-win, like cash for clunkers.
Half of U.S. children are going to be on foodstamps soon. Anyone who wants to lobby for further supplements should go for it.
The article isn't exactly without an agenda of its own. "Dumping food nobody wants" isn't exactly the only interpretation possible of what appears to be a combination of health concerns and people in a recession cutting back on more expensive foods. Not everybody considers all meat, dairy, eggs, and cheese akin to cigarettes as they are at the end of the article.
sarameg - Dec 03, 2009 3:37:20 pm PST #22823 of 30001
It's a little freaky when the first kid you babysat to teach you all about projectile vomiting friends you on fb and holy shit, he's a very attractive man. Like, seriously. It's just...weird. I changed his goddamned diaper. He barfed on me. Yet, seriously cut now. I can't reconcile the two.