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"Stanley Kubrick Confesses To Faking The Moon Landings"

I don`t know what to make of it ...

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with
3. Avoid clichés like the plague. They’re old hat.
4. Comparisons are as bad as clichés
5. Be more or less specific
6. Writers should never generalize
Seven. Be consistent!
8. Don’t use more words than necessary, it is superfluous and dilutes the point to keep on and on saying more than you need to on any particular topic as people could give up and stop reading if you can’t make your point concisely
9. Who needs rhetorical questions?
10. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.


(Not my own, this is a lightly-edited copy-paste)

How Many Rodent Hairs and Insect Parts Are In ...

Here is a very brief sampling of the FDA's Food Defect Action Level list. They begin investigation when foods reach the action level they've set. According to the FDA, typical foods contain about 10 percent of the action level, but others say they contain more like 40 percent.

CHOCOLATE AND CHOCOLATE LIQUOR
• Insect filth: Average is 60 or more insect fragments per 100 grams when 6 100-gram subsamples are examined OR any 1 subsample contains 90 or more insect fragments
• Rodent filth: Average is 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams in 6 100-gram subsamples examined OR any 1 subsample contains 3 or more rodent hairs

CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED
• Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml

RED FISH AND OCEAN PERCH
• Parasites: 3% of the fillets examined contain 1 or more parasites accompanied by pus pockets

MACARONI AND NOODLE PRODUCTS
• Insect filth: Average of 225 insect fragments or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples
• Rodent filth: Average of 4.5 rodent hairs or more per 225 grams in 6 or more subsamples

PEANUT BUTTER
• Insect filth: Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams
• Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams

POPCORN
• Rodent filth: 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples OR 2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples OR 20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples

WHEAT FLOUR
• Insect filth: Average of 75 or more insect fragments per 50 grams
• Rodent filth: Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 50 grams


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This is a man that knows what he is talking about.

My asthma is like the tides in the ocean... high on some days and low on others. Normally, I'll go with only a puff or two of Albuterol (rescue) inhaler. If I'm around someone with really strong perfume, I'll need another 'hit' to keep things rolling.
A few months ago I had a tough time after getting into a rental car. It was sprayed and prepped minutes earlier. I had to wait for the car as nothing else (to my liking) was available. The chemicals they use are toxic and within a few days my asthma medicine wasn't working. I was coughing up green chunks and went to the doctor because it turned into a respiratory infection.
I know, TMI, but every morning when I got up and showered, it would loosen 'stuff' in my lungs and I would go through a coughing session. This happened a few times a day, especially when exercising in my morning walks.
I use lots of paper cups and after a drink, I'll keep the empty cup... just in case and it's often used as a spittoon.



Ya gotta do what you've gotta do...

I see that cuspidor is the Portuguese word for spittoon. May be I'll use that as it has a nicer sound...

CS blog number 71,200.

I notice some blogs, are prone to being deleted, here, without notice. What are your thoughts on this? Is the famous "Freedom of Speech", (of which Americans are so mightily proud); in real danger?

Please discuss in the broader context of wider American society. Is this a sign of the times, that we are living in? Is America, inevitably, veering closer to China, in this respect?


The right to Free Speech, is more important, than the content of the speech.

- Voltaire

(Voltaire, by the way, was estimated to have an IQ of 190, and I'm willing to BET that nobody here, does (myself included). Therefore, having said that, maybe (just maybe), we should listen to, and study Voltaire?)

"Ignorance exists even though one may have great knowledge, a good education, be sophisticated, have capacity in the exercise of which one achieves fame, notoriety, money. Ignorance is not dispelled by the accumulation of a great many facts and much information—the computer can do all that better than the human mind. Ignorance is the utter lack of self-knowing. Most of us are superficial, shallow, have so much sorrow and ignorance as part of our lot. Again, this is not an exaggeration, not an assumption, but an actual fact of our daily existence. We are ignorant of ourselves and therein lies great sorrow. That ignorance breeds every form of superstition, it perpetuates fear, engenders hope and despair and all the inventions and theories of a clever mind. So ignorance not only breeds sorrow, but brings about great confusion in ourselves.

Until we begin to break down this vicious circle of ignorance which only creates further ignorance, self-reliance cannot bring about release from sorrow. Yet to understand this continuity of ignorance and sorrow, each one must become utterly self-reliant to be able to probe into craving, fear, tendencies, memories, and so on. Mere self-expression is not creativeness, and to be truly creative, one must understand the process of the self and so be free from it. Through earnest awareness as to what it is that is expressing itself, we begin to understand the limited causes of the past which control the present, and in this strenuous understanding there comes a freedom from the cause of ignorance. True self-reliance, not the self-reliance for the purpose of mere aggressive expression of the self, can come about only through understanding the process of craving, with its limiting values, fears, and hopes; then self-reliance has great significance, for through one´s own strenuous awareness there is a wholeness, a completeness."

-Krishnamurti-

Taking place over the next few days you can watch live now on A lot of details are laid out and Mike has offered $5m to any tech expert who can disprove Mike's packet capture data which Mike says proves foreign interference in the 2020 election. Make sure to tune in and share the live stream to friends, family & colleagues. Mike has promised some big news at 7pm central time (90 mins from now)

Also please watch this short documentary to understand much of what happened with the "fortification" of the election

Also, mods - if you're reading this and someone or some people are reporting this blog in an attempt to get it taken down -i ask you to do the right thing and support freedom of speech. We can not live in a world where free discussion is suppressed

This blog is about a race of hairdressers from another dimension who came to Earth thousands of years ago and taught our ancestors long since forgotten techniques of personal grooming. Intelligent comments are welcome, but nay sayers will be treated with an inadequate response.



This is from the sarcophagus of the great Mayan sovereign Pacal. He was renowned for his natty haircuts, and this relief depicts him sitting in a remarkably modern looking barber’s chair.

Then.....
DRINK BOOZE FROM A MELON
Turn basic produce into a hilarious drink dispenser.

MATERIALS
Medium seedless watermelon
Large spoon
Drill
Knife
Ball valve faucet with a handle
Rubber O-ring that fits the faucet
PVC-to-faucet adapter
Poison of your choosing

STEP 1 Using a knife, cut off just enough of the bottom of your melon so that it sits flat.
STEP 2 Pick the side of the melon that you want to be the front, then cut a hole in the top, toward the rear. Save the piece you’ve cut out, as you’ll use it later.
STEP 3 Scoop out the fruit with a large spoon.
STEP 4 Drill a hole in the melon’s front, near the bottom. Using a knife, widen it so it’s big enough for the faucet to fit inside.
STEP 5 Gently screw the faucet into the hole. (It helps to stick your free hand inside the melon and guide the faucet into place from the inside.)
STEP 6 Slide the O-ring onto the back of the faucet inside the melon, then install the adapter. Test for leaks.
STEP 7 Load it up with the poison of your choosing, put the cut-out top back in place, and get your pour on.