Pig in a Poke?
May 10, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, Maui Curmudgeon No Comments |
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Birth Mothers Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Makuahine: Mother PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Papamama: Parents HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The crab exposes its teeth.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.’” (Lillian Carter) WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — BioWillie.com WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Always on My Mind PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Peace Research Institute BLOG OF THE WEEK — Willie’s God! (Texas Monthly Feature – May, 2008) May 10th, 2008: U.S. POSTAL SERVICE FOOD DRIVE
Leave a bag of non-perishable items by your mailbox for pickup today on Maui!There’s a small food revolution happening on the mainland that I just don’t think will make it to Maui. New York, Philadelphia and Boston have recently banned the serving of trans fat foods, because trans fat makes people fat, really really fat. And fat people are bad for society. How?
Yes, they take up too much room next to you on the bus, or the movie theater, or, perhaps the worst scenario, crushing you in the airplane seat next to you. But those are comfort issues and not really applicable to society at large.No, fat people cost us money, in at least two ways. The first is health care. Fat people have a host of health problems and if you have fat people on your health care plan, they have boosted the amount you must pay each month for your health service, even if you are healthy and don’t use it. Someone’s got to pay for all those fat visits, their inability to walk, the treatment for their purple ankles, and so forth. It is very difficult to estimate how much they cost non-fat people, but estimates on the internet range from $10 billion to $40 billion each year.
The second way fat people drain the economy is by missing work days. Fat people miss more work days because they call in “sick” than any other segment of the work force except smokers. Some people think this costs the American economy more than $100 billion in lost productivity each year.
So, since these people obviously don’t have self-control, American communities are now forcing them to exercise a little restraint – you want to eat junk food you’re going to have to eat it in the privacy of your own home.
Given what passes in Hawaii for local food (i.e. the picture), and such food’s popularity with the residential population, it is doubtful that anyone would even suggest such a ban, and frankly, I think that’s the right way to go.
What isn’t put into these calculations for money and fat and peoples’ wants is long term results. The fact is, fat people die much sooner than non-fat people, and save the economy an enormous financial burden. Not to mention thinning the genetic pool of unhealthy procreators.
So, have aN extra egg on that fatty beef, and suck it up. To hell wit the mainland.
– Maui Curmudgeon
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 10th
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- 1838: John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
- 1898: Ariel Durant, writer
- 1899: Fred Astaire, dancer/actor
- 1902: David O Selznick, producer
- 1919: Ella Grasso, (Gov-D-Ct)
- 1947: Dave Mason, singer/songwriter
- 1957: Sid Vicious, bassist
- 1960: Bono Vox, rocker
- 1979: Kenan Thompson, actor
- 1503: Columbus “discovers” the Cayman Islands
- 1775: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys capture Fort Ticonderoga NY (American Revolution)
- 1775: The Second Continental Congress begins meetings in Philadelphia
- 1852: The theory of valences is announced by English chemist Sir Edward Frankland
- 1860: The discovery of the element Caesium is announced by German chemists Robert Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchoff in Berlin
- 1869: With the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Point, Utah, the Transcontinential Railroad is completed
- 1924: J Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the FBI
- 1940: Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
- 1960: USS Nautilus completes the first circumnavigation of globe under water
- 1968: Peace talks in the Vietnam War begin in Paris
- 1995: Britain lifts a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn Fein
- 2000: A fire, set deliberately to clear brush from the path of a wildfire, spreads uncontrollably and is driven by high winds into a New Mexico canyon, forcing the evacuation of the 11,000 residents of Los Alamos
- 2003: The New York Times announced that one of its reporters, Jayson Blair, had “committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud.”
- 2005: Germany dedicated a national Holocaust memorial.
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 10th
