search results matching tag: corn on the cob

» channel: motorsports

go advanced with your query
Search took 0.000 seconds

    Videos (11)     Sift Talk (0)     Blogs (2)     Comments (29)   

Porcupine doesn't want to share his corn on the cob (cute!)

Porcupine doesn't want to share his corn on the cob (cute!)

Hybrid (Member Profile)

Porcupine doesn't want to share his corn on the cob (cute!)

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Soft Drink Tax

Lawdeedaw says...

I do not know how to respond to this. First, I wont look at any sources you posted because, as you ignored my main points, I ignore yours. I made the point about reasonable and unreasonable people---not about people smoking even though they know smoking is bad.

>> ^blankfist:
@<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since May 3rd, 2010" href="http://videosift.com/member/Lawdeedaw">Lawdeedaw. Posting on the internet. You're doing it wrong. <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/wink.gif">
"Libertarians like voluntarism?" Yes. Yes they do. Read up what the term means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism

You said, "...reasonable enough to make choices for themselves..." And then you said, "...I think they knowingly make bad decisions..."

Yes. People who smoke do so knowing it's bad for them. You think anyone in this day and age thinks smoking is good for them?

And lastly, many items corn-based are not soda products. It is a food that goes into many products---including the making of corn on the cob.

Corn is in almost everything. Read up: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/22/kd.gupta.column/index.html

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Soft Drink Tax

NetRunner says...

>> ^blankfist:

And lastly, many items corn-based are not soda products. It is a food that goes into many products---including the making of corn on the cob.

Corn is in almost everything. Read up: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/22/kd.gupta.column/
index.html


From that article:

"I think where the danger comes in with corn is that much of the corn grown now in North America is going into making high fructose corn syrup," Dawson says. "So it's not that corn per se is bad, but it's the sweetener made from corn that gets into many of the foods that Americans are probably consuming too much of, and we now see that showing up as obesity and heart disease and potential for type 2 diabetes."

That's another problem with what Penn's saying here. Corn != HFCS != Soda. Subsidizing the corn, and taxing HFCS isn't all that ridiculous.

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Soft Drink Tax

blankfist says...

@Lawdeedaw. Posting on the internet. You're doing it wrong.

"Libertarians like voluntarism?" Yes. Yes they do. Read up what the term means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntaryism

You said, "...reasonable enough to make choices for themselves..." And then you said, "...I think they knowingly make bad decisions..."

Yes. People who smoke do so knowing it's bad for them. You think anyone in this day and age thinks smoking is good for them?

And lastly, many items corn-based are not soda products. It is a food that goes into many products---including the making of corn on the cob.

Corn is in almost everything. Read up: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/09/22/kd.gupta.column/index.html

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Soft Drink Tax

Lawdeedaw says...

Libertarians like voluntarism? Speak for you and myself maybe, but like religous people, leave out the masses of libertarians who do not like to volunteer.

You said, "...reasonable enough to make choices for themselves..." And then you said, "...I think they knowingly make bad decisions..." Wow, is that insane or what? Reasonable would mean they make bad decisions based on incorrect info but try to make the right choices. Unreasonable means they just f-ing do it regardless.

And lastly, many items corn-based are not soda products. It is a food that goes into many products---including the making of corn on the cob. I would agree with this video 100% if corn only made fucktose corn syrup, as I call it. But corn does not just make fucktose... Still, I agree with this video 95%! I want these bailouts, handouts, or cornjobs to end!

>> ^blankfist:
@<A rel="nofollow" class=profilelink title="member since April 27th, 2007" href="http://videosift.com/member/chilaxe">chilaxe, Libertarians don't like meritocracy. Libertarians like voluntarism. That is, they want people to do whatever they want as long as they don't hurt others.
I disagree that the masses aren't reasonable enough to make choices for themselves. I think they knowingly make bad decisions because the positive aspects of those decisions are higher than the negatives, or they make bad decisions because of other circumstances like comfort or the notion of getting ahead quickly, etc. Whatever the reason, people don't need an intelligent society designer guiding them. Common sense is enough to tell you breathing smoke isn't particularly healthy.
And cigarettes aren't 100% bad for you. If you mean they are damaging to health, well certainly that's true, but so is metabolizing food as it causes cell damage and just about everything else we do. But cigarettes don't automatically cause diseases like cancer or emphysema, and they don't necessarily cause health problems that require medical attention. In fact a lot of that is probably genetic. This is anecdotal, I know, but my grandmother smoked every day of her life and just recently passed away at 94. She also ate greasy foods probably with loads of trans fats.

"Also, the more controlled society becomes, the more people get uncomfortable with it, so it doesn't seem like the modern world is very likely to experience a slippery slope 50 years down the road based on small increments of increased control that make sense in the present day."

Can you explain that further? I don't quite get what you're implying.

Star Wars Rube Goldberg Machine

BBQ Ribs Recipe Pit Boys Country Style

Adorable Kitten Eating Corn

Duel of the Fates AMV

Why shouldn't grandma go skydiving?

Louis and the Nazis (BBC Documentary Film, 79mins)

raven says...

Damn! Watching this documentary it just kept getting better and better... Tom Metzger sings kareoke, then we find out his agent/manager used to deal coke with Escobar, corn on the cob and snooker with skinheads, a sloppy abassadorial pub-crawl in TJ... oh man, it just kept getting crazier... all in all I think the mom who is raising her girls to become skinhead teeny-boppers is the scariest... half nazi, half psycho-stage parent... totally scary.



Send this Article to a Friend



Separate multiple emails with a comma (,); limit 5 recipients






Your email has been sent successfully!

Manage this Video in Your Playlists

Beggar's Canyon