Yes. The problem isn't the food, its that the people are fat. The fact they are only served bacon grease and deep fried butter is a symptom...I'm not sure I follow this logic.

I mean, yeah ok, with enough time and effort you can be your own journalist. There is a wealth of information readily available...all you have to do is sift though it. Not surprisingly though not everybody has/is willing to invest their time to inform themselves and I don't really think we should expect everybody to either. Ofc, you have to make a certain effort or its just willful ignorance, but the mainstream media should exist to make this process more effortless...instead its more of an obstruction.

Who the fuck is Dick Durbin!?? Oh, he tried for Lt. Gov. of Illinois and failed, oh well, he's from Illinois and is probably on the "grease my palm" list with Obama, and his name is dick, AND he's a career politician....oh shit, wait-He's from East St. Louis, real fine digs....How bout, He can't help in spite of his name, being a dick!

Therefore, Politician=Dick

>> ^L0cky:

>> ^Yogi:
Or it could become a democracy and actually take the peoples votes into account rather than doing whatever it pleases and being ruled by the rich.
How do you change the policies when the problem is in the political machine? I believe this is true of all democratic countries now, to varying degrees.

We shall not return to democracy with democracy


not when the wheels of democracy are greased with the money of multinational corporations and banks

not when class warfare is being OPENLY committed by the wealthy on the poor, and any attempt to bring light to it is met with hypocrisy



democrats are the lesser of two evils
Romney is a flat out liar, has no ethics (despite what 'having' religion might say to you), and either doesn't care about anyone not in his socio-economic group... or is just plain out of touch (who let the dogs out)

if you are Republican and aren't in the 1%, you are voting against your interests... you are being distracted by "issues" that may be important to you, but aren't to the people you are voting for for any other reason than to gain power

if you are Democrat... and aren't protesting in the streets (even though your party is "in power") you are failing your country

if you stand back and say "I don't get involved, politics are too dirty"... you are failing yourself, your future, your children, your children's future, your country, and your country's future... you are the OPPOSITE of patriotic, and can only consider yourself a citizen in the form of the burden you place upon others

When are they mounting machine guns on these so I can become a grease monkey for our new noisy overlords?

>> ^littledragon_79:

Would you want to use diet soda so no sticky sugars, or does that not have citric acid?


If you are going for citric acid why not just use citric acid instead of the concoction ? I would think the grease comes off, then wash it off with water. Sugar and water are friends.

*** Oh wait, your talking about the video.. I have not watched the video. Off to do so now.

>> ^shinyblurry:

I'm not talking about technicalities, though. If atheists are really so incensed about the evils of religion, they would be concentrating on religions, countries and cultures that had the most egregious examples of perceived evils. Instead, 99 percent of it concentrates on the God of the bible.

I'm only speaking for myself, not for The Atheists™. I do not generally go around condemning religions, individually or as a whole; I condemn when it is called for or when my opinion on something is requested. When Catholics rape children, I condemn. When Muslims throw acid in the faces of "immodestly" dressed women, I condemn. When Catholics deny their employees access to healthcare, I condemn. When Scientologists destroy the lives of people who want to leave their organization, I condemn. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as they say, and there are no Buddhists or Hindus lecturing me on the meaninglessness of my life. I tend to argue mostly with Christians and so I tend to argue mostly against Christianity.

>> ^shinyblurry:
That is not what he was arguing, by any stretch of the imagination. He argued that to be free = meaningless, and that no one can live that way, on top of all of the logical, emotional, psychological and philosophical convolutions that this truth entails. He proposed Christianity as a solution to this problem, but he did not make it the thrust of his argument.

Nay, he proposed Jesus as the solution to this problem, a problem that I don't even necessarily accept is a problem as defined. It is entirely the thrust of his argument. Let me quote...

Nobody can live that way. To really believe that life is meaningless gets you into convolutions that are emotional, convolutions that are psychological, convolutions that are logical, convolutions that are philosophical, and you can't even live that way because life does have meaning and both freedom and meaning are found in Jesus Christ. That's the argument.

>> ^shinyblurry:
The argument is, though, that if you're free to make up your own meaning, then there is no actual meaning.

Agree. There is no inherent meaning in life; we find meaning as we go.

>> ^shinyblurry:
No, he is saying that there is no way to live that way and be logically consistent with your own knowledge and experience.

That's an even worse argument. I would argue that, at some level, every person who has ever lived has/had logical inconsistencies if you dig far enough. They're on the surface for some and deeply buried for others but we all have elements of contradiction in us.

>> ^shinyblurry:
Give a specific example.

Well there's a half-hour video at the top of this page. Will that do?

>> ^shinyblurry:
I think you might need to rewatch the video because I don't think you understood the point to these sections, or how they were supported by his overall argument.

I've watched it 3x now. If his argument is so poorly constructed/stated that it cannot be understood after 3 listens, that is his fault.

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>> ^BoneRemake:

The wheel bearings are not made for that sort of speed, I wonder how hot they got.
Just the other day wheel speeds was learned unto me by my co-worker, We were watching a "portable advertising sign" being towed down the highway and it was sorta bouncing side to side and swaying a bit and my boss goes and clues me into the fact that they are going 100km/h with the truck wheels, but the trailer wheels where little doughnuts maybe eight/ten inch tires , THOSE tires are going twice as fast if not faster than the truck wheels, the bearings are not made for highway use. Never really thought about it before but smaller tires on a trailer work harder than the tires on your towing vehicle.


Portable signs, like boat trailers, tend to sit around for weeks or months at a time. The grease dries out and that's what destroys the bearings. Lack of lubrication. The smaller wheels may rotate faster, but they also aren't carrying as much weight.

If his wheels are well lubricated (I don't think they are, but HE probably is) they would have no more problem than a bicycle at that speed.

He was touchin' on the candies. ..then the police showed up.

>> ^Shepppard:

It's the greased up deaf guy!

It's the greased up deaf guy!

Ditto on the "bake it" camp. Plus you don't risk getting showered with sputtering grease.

Must agree with the baking pan with foil method~425 till golden perfect PLUS: No greasy over-spray on stove and saturated greased-air floating through the house soaking everything in a cloud of bacon odor.:))

>> ^savethecirclepit:

I am in the cylinder head business. This issue and overheating are the top reasons to prompt an engine to be torn down. I have seen some pretty catastrophic engine damage when these things break. We actually have units that come in where the valve hits the pistons, breaks and on the next stroke takes the broken pieces and jams them into the cylinder head.
Don't stretch the mileage out on these things if the book says 60,000 change it at 50-55. Also don't be cheap and just get the belt changed. I know it seems like video is just trying to sell you extra parts but it is good advice to change the belt tensioner and the water pump. Always go for the "timing set" rather than just the belt. It will seem like a lot of money 300-500 bucks to get this done but when you figure the alternative 2000-4000 bucks or maybe even an entirely new engine, that cost will be minimal. I have seen too many people get burned by trying to cut corners and be cheap. Don't let this happen to you.
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I prepare cars for the track but in a previous life I was a grease monkey and I can confirm everything ^savethecirclepit wrote.

That and chains stretch over time so even if the book says its a non serviceable item find out when others have had to change it and do the same.

This only serves to aggravate me. Another taxpayer panel in which we enjoy the benefit of plausible deniability (or whatever there greased 300,00$K lawyers claim works for the current system of worked in loopholes). More so, because I know not a single one of these sons of bitches will do time or ever care--really care. They should be in jail for life. They should be in a federal prison, full security, no white collar bullshit.

They should live on a meager sum the rest of the entirety of their days with all their buildings, lands, businesses, capital, funds, CDs, IRAs, everything except their social security and even that should be looked at (as they should be allowed a low middle income and that is IT); they can gain no earmarks, no passes from their buddies or gifts (although he can live with him as long as his money is not being paid out), they cannot benefit from a will or other form of transfer ship at an appointed time or setting, and then ANYTHING I haven't covered. No politics, no books, no television, no movies, you're in the "white collar" death knell that is their true jail cell. He CAN enlist in the army, they may have a modest job, but the dream of riches are OVER. They chose the ultimate path of pressure that can be exerted on a white collar criminal.

If only we thought that crime like that could be as dangerous as a murderer (and trust me--I'm sure many of you do know already--but, if you don't white collar crimes can end up killing thousands of people, but their hands are virtually clean). Perhaps it is part of the taboo we have with mental disease, we'd rather it remain in the back-room or rather in the back of your mouth. Strangely many of these white collar criminals most likely all suffer from having almost NO empathy for others; they literally could care less what it is like to be me or you. This is a mental issue, but we never talk of such things--it's rude! But, violence has its own mental disease "shards" as well that cause it to start either young or later in life...

But, we refuse to deal with the main topic, so how about punishment(s) atleast? White collar crime is seen as something you do at your beach house in Florida on the weekend. Your lawyer tells you about it on your flight into Boston on Monday, you have three death threats sent to your e-mail, you mildly humming, "Hip To Be Square", send them to your spam folder and block the senders after you send them a death threat/repossession letter back through a company proxy, which then you use another proxy to feed the final bytes through. Your lawyer tells you you'll have to show up to an injunction and say this exact prepared statement, which of course, nicely enough they allow you to read from when they take your testimony. This is our guy. Right now he's eating a stake with a glass of Chardonnay from Italy in the early 90's--meanwhile, "Easy Lover", is booming in the background while his mistress takes a swim in his Penthouse's swimming pool. He doesn't have to get up early, so it'll be a long night--after all nobody is coming for him.

Attack them hard and they might take notice.



What a new punishment that would be for white collar criminals--a death sentence, for them.



Just institute what I said above and it may change things. Attack the problem psychologically, as jail-time is either meaningless or to them it's "Club Fed". But, this of course requires good lawmakers, which requires competent voters, which requires a great education system...

No calls, no businesses, no helping: they are burnt.

It stuns me that your typical Republican nutter cannot see through the lies and hypocrisy from their party when they're as transparent as the grease paper on the inside of a KFC box of chicken