http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/obesity/trend/maps/index.htm There are some trends from the CDC. And if you want my opinion it is the increase of starches in the diet. Since about the 1980's consumption of wheat flower, Rice, and HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) have all increased dramtically. Along with less exercise, Marketing not just Fast food but every single kind of food its like every other commercial. And other chemicals used in food.
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Alaska, not near the coast but inland more, closer to the Yukon, It would be perfect no one would try to escape because there is nowhere to escape to. Also the black flies in the summer time would make the place a living hell, and no sun in winter time would make the place a great mind fuck for the inmates.
"give war a chance, E.T. is coming... and he is going to EAT us!"
Would Humans Really taste that good to justfy the travel time?
Would Humans Really taste that good to justfy the travel time?
From the book "How To Be A Canadian"
Canadian Imposter
As a Canadian, you have to be extra vigilant. There are a lot of impostors
out there. If you suspect that someone is falsely trying to pass themselves
off as a Canadian, make the following statement - and then carefully note
their reaction:
"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at
the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to
the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted
everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave
me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields
and a touque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything,
calling me a "shit disturber" and what not. What could I say, except,
"Sorry, EH!"
If the person you are talking to nods sympathetically, they're one of us.
If, however, they stare at you with a blank incomprehension, they are not a
real Canadian. Have them reported to the authorities at once.
The passage cited above contains no fewer than 19 different Canadianisms.
In order:
pogey: EI (Employment insurance). Money provided by the government
for not working.
mickey: A small bottle of booze (13 oz) (A Texas mickey, on the other
hand, is a ridiculously big bottle of booze, which, despite the name,
is still a Canadianism through and through.)
C.C.: Canadian Club, a brand of rye. Not to be confused with "hockey
stick," another kind of Canadian Club.
beer parlour: Like an ice cream parlour, but for Canadians.
skidoo: Self-propelled decapitation unit for teenagers, (Snow-Mobiles)
muskeg: Boggy swampland.
duplex: A single building divided in half with two sets of inhabitants
- each trying to pretend the other doesn't exist while at the same time
managing
to drive each other crazy; metaphor for Canada's french and English.
deke: found in the dictionary as a "skillful misdirection." As a noun,
it is used most often in exclamatory constructions, such as: "Whadda deke!"
Meaning, "My, what an impressive display of physical dexterity employing
misdirection and guile."
chinook: An unseasonably warm wind that comes over the Rockies and onto
the plains, melting snow banks in Calgary but just missing Edmonton,
much to the pleasure of Calgarians.
Mountie: Canadian icon, strong of jaw, red of coat, pure of heart.
Always get their man! (See also Pepper spray, uses of.)
snuck: To have sneaked; to move, past tense, in a sneaky manner;
non-restrictive extended semi-gerundial form of "did sneak." (We think.)
ghost car: An unmarked police car, easily identifiable by its
inconspicuousness.
impaired: A charge of drunk driving. Used both as a noun and as an
adjective
(the alternative adjectival from of "impaired" being "pissed to the gills").
* S.O.L.: Shit outta luck; in an unfortunate predicament.
Stanfields: Men's underwear, especially Grandpa-style, white cotton ones
with a big elastic waistband and a large superfluous flap in the front and
back!
touque: Canada's official National Head Apparel, with about the same
suave sex appeal as a pair of Stanfields
chippy: Behaviour that is inappropriately aggressive; constantly
looking for a reason to find offense; from "chip on one's shoulder."
(See WesternCanada)
shit disturber: (See Quebec) a troublemaker or provocateur.
According to Katherine Barber, editor in Chief of the Canadian Oxford
Dictionary, "shit disturber" is a distinctly Canadian term. (Just remember that Western Canada is chippy and Quebec is a shit disturber, and you will do fine.)
Canadian Imposter
As a Canadian, you have to be extra vigilant. There are a lot of impostors
out there. If you suspect that someone is falsely trying to pass themselves
off as a Canadian, make the following statement - and then carefully note
their reaction:
"Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a mickey of C.C. at
the beer parlour, but my skidoo got stuck in the muskeg on my way back to
the duplex. I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Damn chinook, melted
everything. And then a Mountie snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave
me an impaired. I was S.O.L., sitting there dressed only in my Stanfields
and a touque at the time. And the Mountie, he's all chippy and everything,
calling me a "shit disturber" and what not. What could I say, except,
"Sorry, EH!"
If the person you are talking to nods sympathetically, they're one of us.
If, however, they stare at you with a blank incomprehension, they are not a
real Canadian. Have them reported to the authorities at once.
The passage cited above contains no fewer than 19 different Canadianisms.
In order:
pogey: EI (Employment insurance). Money provided by the government
for not working.
mickey: A small bottle of booze (13 oz) (A Texas mickey, on the other
hand, is a ridiculously big bottle of booze, which, despite the name,
is still a Canadianism through and through.)
C.C.: Canadian Club, a brand of rye. Not to be confused with "hockey
stick," another kind of Canadian Club.
beer parlour: Like an ice cream parlour, but for Canadians.
skidoo: Self-propelled decapitation unit for teenagers, (Snow-Mobiles)
muskeg: Boggy swampland.
duplex: A single building divided in half with two sets of inhabitants
- each trying to pretend the other doesn't exist while at the same time
managing
to drive each other crazy; metaphor for Canada's french and English.
deke: found in the dictionary as a "skillful misdirection." As a noun,
it is used most often in exclamatory constructions, such as: "Whadda deke!"
Meaning, "My, what an impressive display of physical dexterity employing
misdirection and guile."
chinook: An unseasonably warm wind that comes over the Rockies and onto
the plains, melting snow banks in Calgary but just missing Edmonton,
much to the pleasure of Calgarians.
Mountie: Canadian icon, strong of jaw, red of coat, pure of heart.
Always get their man! (See also Pepper spray, uses of.)
snuck: To have sneaked; to move, past tense, in a sneaky manner;
non-restrictive extended semi-gerundial form of "did sneak." (We think.)
ghost car: An unmarked police car, easily identifiable by its
inconspicuousness.
impaired: A charge of drunk driving. Used both as a noun and as an
adjective
(the alternative adjectival from of "impaired" being "pissed to the gills").
* S.O.L.: Shit outta luck; in an unfortunate predicament.
Stanfields: Men's underwear, especially Grandpa-style, white cotton ones
with a big elastic waistband and a large superfluous flap in the front and
back!
touque: Canada's official National Head Apparel, with about the same
suave sex appeal as a pair of Stanfields
chippy: Behaviour that is inappropriately aggressive; constantly
looking for a reason to find offense; from "chip on one's shoulder."
(See WesternCanada)
shit disturber: (See Quebec) a troublemaker or provocateur.
According to Katherine Barber, editor in Chief of the Canadian Oxford
Dictionary, "shit disturber" is a distinctly Canadian term. (Just remember that Western Canada is chippy and Quebec is a shit disturber, and you will do fine.)
Hitler didn't lie? My knowldge of history is a bit rusty but didn't he tell the Nazi Reichstag that poland had tryed to invade germany, afer the SS took twelve prisoners out of Buchenwald and forced them to take poison, shot them after they had put on Polish uniforms. An SS Officer yelled in Polish into a radio that they had come to invade Germany, and then the SS fled.-=Meshekal=- wrote:
In short: Hitler didn't lie. He told his people straight. Even one of the most evillest men in the history of this world did not lie to his people. That, that was my point.
Yes the U.S. Has been in alot of wars in its short history but most of them have not been a war of aggressionFeloniousMonk wrote:
Yes, the US has been a major aggressor in the past century, moreso than any other nation. We average a war every few years in our short history. Some justified, some not so much.
Aggression being : The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
Besides the current war in Iraq what other wars of aggresion has the U.S. been involved in? bay of pigs, that mexican Pancho Villa thing in 1917. I'm sure there is one or 2 more but most of the wars have been defending countries from invasion, or part of a U.N. or a N.A.T.O mission.
Basically what I'm saying is the U.S. does go to war but being the Worlds only superpower it could be a hell of alot more aggresive. Probably one of the benfits of being one of the few dominating powers in history that is a democracy.
As for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan, I'm pretty sure that combatant, and non-combatant casulaties would of been alot higher if the Allies would of had to invade Japan to end the war.
You do import quite abit of electrcity from my country.-=1stInF.|Slappey wrote:
I think you would see a possible rise in the making of electronics in america if that were to happen. Again, it's not like we don't have the resources to do it, it's just currently cheaper to buy them from japan and china.Badcomp wrote:
There are several U.S. companies that do build electronics for our military hardware, both private and government run companies. On the consumer level though we would feel the pinch.Aegis wrote:
How about a wealth of electronics that we don't make here, say... a bunch of shits that we use in our military systems?