Mass. Senator attacks the Fluffernutter. Why the hell are they so concerned about a sandwich?
Hey now, Fluffernutter is a serious issue. These politicans need to make sure that parents who can't control their kids' eating habits have all the help they can get, because this is obviously the best thing they could be doing with their time in office.
As a side, I've never heard of this stuff. It doesn't look that tasty from the picture. Is it?
"I'm going to fight to the death for Fluff," Reinstein said.
That's a little dramatic. He wants to keep a sandwich made out of about 60% sugar from being offered as the main meal for children who buy their own lunches more than once per week. Is Fluff really going to go down without their daily school sales? Like nobody buys the stuff outside of the school cafeteria.
Seeking to assess the effect of third-party prayer on patient outcomes, investigators found no evidence for divine intervention. They did, however, detect a possible proof for the power of negative thinking.
The three-year Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP), published in the April 4 American Heart Journal, was the largest-ever attempt to apply scientific methods to measure the influence of prayer on the well-being of another. It examined 1,800 patients undergoing heart-bypass surgery. On the eve of the operations, church groups began two weeks of praying for one set of patients. Each recipient had a praying contingent of about 70, none of whom knew the patient personally. The study found no differences in survival or complication rates compared with those who did not receive prayers. The only statistically significant blip appeared in a subgroup of patients who were prayed for and knew it. They experienced a higher rate of postsurgical heart arrhythmias (59 versus 52 percent of unaware subjects).
The research team--a psychologist, clergy and doctors from six institutions, including Harvard Medical School and the Mayo Clinic--speculated that nerves might have been to blame. "We know that high levels of adrenaline from the anxiety response can make fibrillation worse," said Charles Bethea, a physician at Integris Baptist Heart Hospital, a study site in Oklahoma City, in an April press conference. "The patient might think, 'Am I so sick that they have to call in the prayer team?'" Dean Marek, chief chaplain at the Mayo Clinic, saw the problem as a possible flaw in the study design: "The sense of community was not there. You could call it impersonal prayer rather than intercessory prayer."
Stopping short of suggesting that the healing power of prayers by friends and family might reside in the personal connections rather than in the prayers, the authors stated that they have no plans for a follow-up study. This one, sponsored largely by the John Templeton Foundation, cost $2.4 million.
The late comedian Alan King used to tell this story: His lawyer asked him if he had ever drawn up a will. Alan said "No". The lawyer, in shock and horror, said, "If you died without a will, you would die intestate!" Alan looked up the word and found that it means "to die without a will". "In other words, if I die without a will, then I'll die without a will. This legal pearl cost me $500!"
Actually, it apparently has a slightly negative effect for people who know they are being prayed for. Maybe because they think the end is near? So, if someone you don't like is in the hospital, pray for their health, and make sure they know it.
The mind is very powerful, and it can affect your physical body. People who have panic attacks are physically fine, but mentally, their not. Things like fear, courage, and confidence can really affect the outcome of pretty much anything you do.
Hot dog champ nips record by downing 53 3/4
NEW YORK (AP) A 72-kg wonder from Japan set a new hot dog-eating record by chowing down 53 and three-fourths frankfurters in 12 minutes to win the annual Independence Day hot dog eating contest on Coney Island.
The feat earned Takeru Kobayashi, 27, his sixth straight title in the event, held at the original Nathan's Famous hot dog stand on Brooklyn's seashore.
Kobayashi broke his own record of 53 1/2 hot dogs, set at the same contest in 2004.
His strongest competition was Joey Chestnut, a 99-kg engineering student from San Jose, Calif., who set an American record by eating 50 hot dogs at a qualifying tournament in Las Vegas.
When the clock expired, Chestnut had come up short by just 1 3/4 Nathan's franks.
...I don't get how it takes 12 minutes to eat 53 frankfurters. Surely a frankfurter doesn't take that long to eat. and you could probably cram 2 in your mouth at once.
If I was a drunken Jackie Chan I would have started a fucking riot! They'd have to drag me out of there kicking and screaming, not to mention call out like a few hundred riot cops.
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Good thing he didn't buy a Dell as well...
What? Find me one, just one, single story about a macintosh exploding, or a computer running Unix exploding?
Erm...Aside from that model of Powerbook with the dodgy batteries which exploded...
In other comments, how'd this guy get the nickname of "chick"?
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Come to think of it I haven't had a bad one either.
Hey now, Fluffernutter is a serious issue. These politicans need to make sure that parents who can't control their kids' eating habits have all the help they can get, because this is obviously the best thing they could be doing with their time in office.
As a side, I've never heard of this stuff. It doesn't look that tasty from the picture. Is it?
That's a little dramatic. He wants to keep a sandwich made out of about 60% sugar from being offered as the main meal for children who buy their own lunches more than once per week. Is Fluff really going to go down without their daily school sales? Like nobody buys the stuff outside of the school cafeteria.
I like how there's a typo in the word "serious."
Hot dog champ nips record by downing 53 3/4
That's some impressive dog-gluttony there.
Damn those people and their fast metabolisms!