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Subject: [Homestead] Something New For Fascists To Go On About
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:48:09 -0800
My poor mom died of cancer at age 55. Multiple myeloma is when you have
cancer of the bone marrow all over your body. I was only 15. She
actually said to me one day, as she lay there, "Billy, you've got to
find out what it is we're eating that caused this. It's got to be
something."
This diet may sound familiar to you folks. The morning started
invariably with box cereal, the highest known source of carcinogenic
acrilamide. Lunch was usually peanut butter, maybe the second highest
source. Dinner was an opportunity to eat some really lovely browned
foods, like maybe hamburger steak with a dark veneer of nitrosamines.
Mom kept a deep fryer going under the sink (not on all the time, of
course). We didn't know; that's why her cooking was so good. Two
favorite acccompaniments for dinner were Rice-A-Roni, where the rice and
noodle pieces are thoroughly browned in margarine, and a tiny portion of
some frozen cole crop, bathed liberally in carcinogenic browned margarine.
I'd bet that besides skin cancer and lung cancer, which usually have
other obvious causes, the epidemic of browning is at the heart of most
cancer etiology.
Now, one way to make people like mom pay for the extra health care
dollars they'll be sucking up some day, since we can't put a pork rind
monitor on their chin, would be to have Devil's Advocates whose job is
to snap photos of people eating smoked octopus or such, and then send
the photos to the insurance provider, who can then cancel on their
insurance. Maybe that's a little too severe, so how about just having
reports sent to a central government agency each time you purchase a
doughnut. It could be just like rationing during WWII. Deep frying
rarely occurs at home these days, so that's almost feasible. I can only
dream of the day when everyone's behavior will be controlled exactly as
I demand. :-)
Of course, my fascist demands that everyone become enlightened to the
same extent that I am, and scrupulously avoid all the foods I've
condemned, probably has more to do with my desire to control others,
than it does with any feigned concern for the price of health insurance
or the evils of socialism.
Bill
[Homestead] Something New For Fascists To Go On About,
Bill Jones, 12/02/2004