India is planning to weaponize the ghost chili. That’s right, the hottest chili known to man is going to be made into a smoke grenade.
This was covered earlier by both NPR as well as by HuffPo.
Check out this Man vs. Food episode regarding a ghost chili burger. Adam is hurting and it shows.
Want to know why this country needs health reform? This story says it all. Blue Cross/Blue Shield rejected a NEWBORN’S medical claim for a pre-existing condition. Says his father:
“How can he have a pre-existing condition if the baby didn’t exist until now?”
Indeed. The insurance bastards also tried to refuse to add the baby because both parents were not covered by them. The family pays for insurance for their kids, but neither are covered.
The little guy had the surgery and is fine, though the family is likely to be buried in debt. But, hey, BCBS is gonna turn a profit this year. And that’s what matters, right?
Krugman gets to the heart of the Tea Bagger problem.
“(T)oday’s G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan — not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It’s a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans’ economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It’s a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side — Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions — are mainstream. And, as a result, it’s a party that fundamentally doesn’t accept anyone else’s right to govern.
“In the short run, Republican extremism may be good for Democrats, to the extent that it prompts a voter backlash. But in the long run, it’s a very bad thing for America. We need to have two reasonable, rational parties in this country. And right now we don’t.”
Well, at least one Republican thug is sorry for being a cretin. I’m sure his mind is still convinced he’s right, but at least he realizes that throwing money and yelling in the face of a guy with Parkinson’s is uncivil.
I’d be sorry for all the bad press he’s getting but he did bring it upon himself. Hell, he even lied about being in the video.
Compassionate conservatism. Even when they’re sorry it takes a long damn time to get there.
I feel bad for any small town about to be overrun by thousands of lunatics. Too bad Searchlight, NV is the one in the crosshairs.
You know, if I have to get an e-reader gizmo, this looks like the one for me.
I get a kick out of watching Gabriel process new things. That’s why this article had me nodding and smiling the whole way.
We love taking the little guy on trips because it’s like his brain jumps to a whole new level each time. Be it going home to Illinois for Thanksgiving or to San Diego to the zoo or just to the truck show last weekend, each experience gives his brain a big ol’ jolt.
It’s a blast, and I hope to keep on enjoying watching it happen.
One of the hardest things my mom ever did was to invest the time to study for – and pass – her citizenship test. For an immigrant to learn our system of government so completely, and to HAVE to do so to gain the citizenship we all take for granted, is a lot of work. History.com has this citizenship quiz online. I’ve said for years that you shouldn’t be able to vote in this country until you can pass a citizenship test. Here’s a small taste of what you would need to know to do so.
I would imagine we’d have a lot less teabaggers in this nation once they learned how this nation really ran and why.
