> I use lecithin because with all the "mad cow" furor going on, I can no
> longer obtain brains to eat.  The folks at whole foods do not seem to
> realize that "Mad Cow" comes from animals which have been fed raw meat
> scraps.   But the meat sold at Whole Foods are fed a strictly
> vegetarian diet, so the danger of "Mad Cow" is not existent.
>
> Alobar
 
Was your last line being sarcastic or what? I thought I understood all this and could make sense of it, but your last couple of sentences did lose me a bit..... So I thought I would ask for clarification.

What did you used to eat the brains to obtain? Are you saying that soy lecithin replaces that for you now?  What is your purpose in consuming it?

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        I probably should have explained myself more in depth, but I was in a hurry.

        Back when I was a kid (7th grade) my IQ tested at 114.  A relative told me that I would have a hard time in college "unless I somehow got smarter".

        One day, when I went with my mother to the butcher, I saw pig brains in the display case.   I liked them because I was into monster movies.  I liked being a gross kid and eating brains seemed right up my alley!  But I also figured that if I ate brains, I might get smarter.   So I asked my mother to buy me some brains.

        She had no clue how to prepare brain, so she did not want to buy me any.   The butcher overheard my mother and told her how to cook brain.   She bought one small brain.   She figured I would not want to eat it.   But she was wrong.   I loved brains!    So I got brains 2 or 3 times a month from then until I left home to go to college.

        When I was a junior in highschool, my IQ got tested again.   My IQ was over 140.

nebris

        When looking at the photos on the site below, keep in mind that the people photographed are working poor, meaning they have jobs.   They are not homeless.   They work for a living.   Makes me wonder how the bosses and owners of the place these women are employed live.

        The US is supposed to be the wealthiest nation on earth.  But the upper 1% control 90% of that wealth and the poor are very very poor.

        Seems to me it is time to bring back public executions to level the playing field.

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By Nina Berman and Brenda Ann Kenneally,
AlterNet. Posted November 4, 2008.

Brenda Ann Kenneally captures the female working poor and culture of incarceration in Troy, N.Y., where the presidential race has little resonance.
 
http://www.alternet.org/story/105469/the_america_we_never_seem_to_talk_about_(photo_essay)/?page=entire

Neil Gaiman

       I imagine many people here know Neil Gaiman from the brilliant comix series Sandman (and many others), or his novels Neverwhere (also a Brit TV series), Stardust (also a movie), American Gods, or Anansi Boys, or his short story collections. There is also the film Mirrormask (see it!) However, he also writes for children and that wondrous demographic known as Young Adults, with Coraline (soon to be a movie)...

...and his latest, The Graveyard Book, which I just finished and really loved. It is a wonderful riff on myths, monsters and fairy tales (with a little Lovecraft tossed in) and I highly recommend it, even if Halloween is just over. Indeed, it can stand right next to Roger Zelazny's masterpiece A Night in the Lonesome October, as far as I am concerned (some people leave the Xmas lights up all year, but it is always Halloween in my heart). Try your local library...

~ Shade

JACKSON, Miss. -- Habitat for Humanity had a mission to build hundreds of homes during a spring blitz to help people pushed into poverty after Hurricane Katrina.

Many of the dozens of completed houses in Texas, Louisiana and Alabama are occupied or will soon be dedicated. But in Mississippi, only six of the 30 homes are filled.

Chris Monforton with Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast said potential homeowners are having a hard time meeting the program's requirement. They must save about $3,500 in an escrow account for a year's worth of taxes and insurance

Since Katrina, insurance rates along the Gulf Coast have increased about 33 percent in some areas, depending on how close a property is to the water.

Forwarded by:

Les Evenchick

Biden's lobbyist chief of staff

"After leaving the Clinton administration in its waning months, newly tapped Vice Presidential chief of staff Ron Klain lobbied for an asbestos industry bailout package, an airline merger, mortgage regulations to help Fannie Mae and a drug-maker under congressional scrutiny for withholding life-saving drugs from dying patients, among other clients.

"Klain's career as a lobbyist, during which clients paid nearly $700,000 for lobbying in which he participated, ended when he left his partnership at the law firm O'Melveny & Myers in 2005.

"That makes him eligible to be the top aide to Vice President-elect Joe Biden under the rules outlined by President-elect Barack Obama, who decreed early in his campaign that lobbyists can work in his administration - just not in areas related to their lobbying within two years of that lobbying."

Full story at:
http://fe32.story.media.ac4.yahoo.com/news/us/story/politico/20081114/pl_politico/15632