
As promised in yesterday’s post… here are some thoughts for the day. No - don’t mix ‘em up… it’s not a new college drinking fad (at least, not that I’m aware of). Just a couple of things I felt like passing on to those of you who happen to read what I write here. So, here we go…
MILK: Just in case any of you shop at Wal-Mart (unlike me), you might want to reconsider buying their milk after reading this. It came to me as a warning via spam e-mail.
Mitzi Lyons and her husband Kyle live in Gainesville, TX. Their daughter, Marissa, has been experiencing menstrual problems (bleeding every day) for three years and, within the last year, she started producing milk (lactating). They have performed every test, put her on birth control and, in January, were scheduled to undergo a hysterectomy.
Nevertheless, Mitzi’s dad started researching his granddaughter’s condition on the internet found out about recombinant bovine somatotropin (RBST) in milk. RBST is a hormone injected into cows to produce more milk. Wal-Mart Great Value milk contains RBST and is the brand that the Lyons family has used for years. Three months ago, they pulled Marissa off Great Value milk and she quit bleeding and lactating.
Her doctors in Houston are going to write a medical journal discovery about her case, because the FDA says that RBST is safe. Mitzi asked me to please share this with everyone in the hope that it may save someone the pain and suffering that Marissa has endured. I have pulled my family from Wal-Mart Great Value milk and bought Borden instead. Borden has a label on their milk that states that RBST is not used on their cows.
Now, personally, I don’t buy anything from Wal-Mart unless it’s absolutely unavoidable. But, also, I don’t drink milk either. However, the validity of the above story is still questionable in my brain. Here’s what Snopes.com has to say about it. They don’t poo-poo it outright, but… well, you make your own call. Wal-Mart is evil. But I can’t say that Borden is any better! Here’s hoping that Marissa is all better now, and enjoying the free lifetime supply of Borden milk her family should’ve gotten for the free publicity. (What are the chances, right?)
URINE: Like a lot of folks in this state, I have a job. I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to get that paycheck, I am required to pass a random urine test with which I have no problem. What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test. Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check because I have to pass one to earn it for them?
Please understand, I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sitting on their ass, doing drugs, while I work.
Can you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a public assistance check? I hope you all will share this… something has to change in this country, and soon!
Unlike the milk, I wholeheartedly agree with the urine thoughts! (Never did claim that I was a wholesome kind of guy, now did I?) The idea that some crack-head is kicked back, watching COPS on television, all afforded him/her by the government check they pick up every month, just (pardon the expression in this context) pisses me off! I think every welfare recipient should have to pass a piss test every month before they can pick up their check! I’d bet it would sure thin out the welfare rolls in some areas… and, it would also make the black market price for a cup of clean piss absolutely skyrocket!
Have a wonderful week… and, just to be on the safe side, have a bottle of wine. It’s still good for ya!
“My illness is due to my doctor’s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.” - W.C. Fields
“I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.” - Rodney Dangerfield

Sorry… couldn’t resist… 