Paranoia on the rise, experts say

If you think they’re out to get you, you’re not alone. [snip]

“In a world full of threat, it may be kind of beneficial for people to be on guard. It’s good to be looking around and see who’s following you and what’s happening,” Combs said. “Not everybody is trying to get you, but some people may be.”

The question is not, “Are you paranoid,” but “Are you paranoid enough?”

Just asking!

Everything ’splains something

Tests find hazardous levels of mercury in tuna sushi in New York

NEW YORK: Recent laboratory tests performed for The New York Times found so much mercury in tuna sushi that a regular diet of even two or three pieces a week at some restaurants could be a health hazard for the average adult, based on guidelines set out by the Environmental Protection Agency. [snip]

Scientists who performed the analysis for The New York Times said they had been “frankly surprised” at the results and had run the tests several times to be sure there was no mistake in the levels of methylmercury, a form of mercury tied to health problems. [snip]

Studies have found high blood mercury levels among people eating a diet rich in seafood. According to a 2007 survey by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the average level of mercury in New Yorkers’ blood is three times as high as the national average. [snip]

Methylmercury is formed from inorganic mercury by the action of anaerobic organisms that live in aquatic systems including lakes, rivers, wetlands, sediments, soils and the open ocean.

Here’s an explanation. About 4 to 5 days after the Big Bang, methylmercury went looking for fish. Success in this endeavor occurred as soon as there were fish but well before the Parable of the Loaves and Fishes.
Historians point to this occurrence as the birth of liberalism via the mercury mind melts. Earth Day, sushi houses, latte clubs, fern bars, and aromatherapy followed immediately keeping the methylmercury at requisite concentrations.

Many experts believe the government’s warnings on mercury in seafood do not go far enough. “The current advice from the FDA is insufficient,” said Dr. Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor of environmental health at the Harvard School of Public Health and head of the Department of Environmental Medicine at the University of Southern Denmark. “In order to maintain reasonably low mercury exposure you have to eat fish low in the food chain, the smaller fish, and they are not saying that.”

Naturally, the barking moonbats tossed in their two slugs.

Some environmental groups have already sounded the alarm. Environmental Defense, the advocacy group, says no one should eat bluefin tuna. [snip]

If they filled the air with the CLU awards (Chartered Life Underwriters), the excitement monitor still flatlines. The divisional Nosebleed Contest rates high on my wanna see shows. Other award programs are available containing more unexpected choices and dark horse winners.

Tonight, from Dirtpoour, India and Raveledburka, Pakistan are the finalists in the International Martinizing Cleanoff. A jbella lot of fun for viewers and contestants alike, the loser gets a round to the head for causing loss of national pride

It’s official: No actors will show up

SAG president Alan Rosenberg has announced that not one of the more than 70 actors nominated for a Golden Globe will attend the Jan. 13 ceremonies because of the WGA’s plans to picket the event.
The Globes have been thrown into turmoil and uncertainty due to the WGA’s refusal to grant a strike waiver to struck Globes producer Dick Clark Prods., which offered to accept the same terms as David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants banner. Instead, the guild has said it will picket the Globes, skedded to air on NBC, which has become a prime target of the WGA’s strike campaign in the past few weeks. [snip]

This strike has improved TV viewing pleasure immensely. Everyone is now free to get some real friends.

Without a smidgen of concern, one can avoid wondering if the reruns sucked as horribly as when they first disgraced the screen. Here, given with professional authority, the show did, does and will until TV’s are forever declared an environmental hazard by Algore.

Maybe Ron Paul is right about our becoming isolationist.

Ambulance service receives emergency call every 8 seconds as Binge Britain welcomes in 2008

(Many photos for illustrative purposes)

Binge-drinking revellers fuelled a chaotic start to 2008 as over-stretched ambulance workers battled to cope with emergency calls flooding in at a peak of one every eight seconds.In the capital alone the London Ambulance Service had to deal with its highest number of emergency calls since the Millennium - the majority related to excess alcohol.

Even the 1962 Horace Greeley HS, Chappaqua beer bashes didn’t reach this level. They were fairly disgraceful on their own, BUT remember, back then , no nanny state, no DUI laws, 18 cut it. All was legal.
I lived one town away, however in that school district; we were not social equals. Therefore, I was deprived of the opportunity to throw up on some bozos $80,000 Persian rug as well as abase myself.

Nickel-dime millionaires bought a big house, joined the GC, put their kids in the school system, drove taxes to heretofore unheard of heights, then went financially t*ts up.

This “partying” in “Merrie Olde” is redolent of the same class of fools.

I know the lack of self-respect is in the schools. Every community has a certain number of incorrigibles; given these stories however, the contagion has infected the general populace more deeply than heretofore thought.

The following collection exhibits the price of an amoral society, one where personal gratification precedes all else. The liberal upbringing so in vogue, i.e. lack of personal responsibility, the cult of victimhood, and protection of individuals from any repercussions for actions undertaken has this ana as a corollary.

If anything, this is an invidious form of fascism, worse than prior known examples, since it is sub rosa.

Risky sex returns syphilis to Europe

LONDON - Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe. [snip]

In 2000, syphilis infection rates were so low that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention embarked on a plan to eliminate the disease. But about 9,800 cases were reported in 2006. [snip]

In Europe, Van de Laar said syphilis’ reappearance was so surprising that many doctors initially had trouble diagnosing it.

Though these days it mainly affects urban gay men, experts worry that the disease could also rebound in the general population if stronger efforts to fight it are not taken soon. [snip]

Chairs Thrown During Parents’ Fight at School Christmas Program

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — An apparent ongoing dispute between three parents erupted into a physical fight at an elementary school’s Christmas program Tuesday night. [snip]

Thrown Object Knocks Out Santa

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A man dressed as Santa Claus was knocked unconscious by a thrown object that hit his face while he was riding on the back of a truck decorated as a sleigh.

Kevin Smith says he never saw what hit him Saturday. Whatever it was, it broke his nose and gave him a concussion and two black eyes. [snip]

Bus driver solicits sex; students aboard

DETROIT - A 30-year-old bus driver transporting Detroit Public Schools special needs students was arrested Wednesday after allegedly pulling his bus alongside an undercover officer, propositioning her for sex from his window, and promising to return after he dropped the children off at school. [snip]

Nick Mulling Post-Spears Pregnancy Show

NEW YORK (AP) - Nickelodeon is considering a special for its young audience about sex and love following the news that 16-year-old “Zoey 101″ star Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant.

The television network has made no announcement about the future of “Zoey 101,” its popular program aimed primarily at youngsters aged 9-14. Filming for the show’s fourth and final season has finished, and episodes are scheduled to begin airing in February. [snip]

One television critic, David Hinckley of the New York Daily News, wrote Thursday that to end “this sordid moment” with a lesson, Nickelodeon should pull the plug on “Zoey 101.” [snip]

The detritus of this social and parental mentoring is the abasement of civilization. This contaminant moves through the world community with the celerity of smallpox, precipitating society’s collapse.

A vaccine is available, but intensely hated by the left.

Just One Government School Success Story Among Many - Mos Def

“Artist/Activist”? Maybe in the same way that Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis helps you to dance The Charleston.

Mr. Def: “George Washington and all them dudes was terrorists as far as the queen was concerned”.

Mr. Def: “..the Catholic Church’s stance about child molestation is a form of terrorism in and of itself”.

Mr. Def, asked whether Bin Laden had anything to do with the attacks on The World Trade Center replied “absolutely not” and continued that “highly educated people in all areas of science have spoken on the fishiness around the whole 911 theory”.

I know. It’s old news, but worth getting ticked about at least one more time. The only fishiness in this episode is the gray opacity of this idiot’s eyes, and the rhetorical stink emanating from his mouth. What can you say about a sub-culture that can produce a drooling moron like this, stick a ball cap on his head and PAY HIM to be stupid on television? I wonder if he’s a liberal?

If I need to find some good neoconservative (if you’ll excuse the term, which I normally hate) discourse, you really need to look no further than the work of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. If you can get past the language and crudity, it really is a breath of fresh air when it comes to common sense. For those who missed tonight’s episode, which was part 2 of 2, it tells the story of how Family Guy showed Mohammed in an episode despite terrorist threats and the exploits of some of South Park’s characters trying to get the episode on or off the air, depending on the character.

The brilliant part of the episode was that Comedy Central actually refused to show an image of Mohammad standing around holding a football helmet. Yet a couple of minutes later they were fine with showing Jesus crapping on George W. Bush (depicted on the terrorists’ “revenge” video). The juxtaposition is astounding. Why would Comedy Central refuse to show Mohammad? One would think the obvious reason would be because it would be offensive to some Muslims. So why show Jesus in that way? Do they believe Christians would not be offended by that? Of course not. So what I really would like to know is the reasoning Comedy Central had behind their decision. Do they think it’s more appropriate to show Jesus doing a reprehensible act than Mohammad doing nothing? Or are they just assuming Christians are more well adjusted and will not hold massive riots? That’s an honest question. Hopefully they’ll release some sort of statement to explain their decision if they haven’t already.

Michelle Malkin posted fairly thoroughly on this topic last week if you’d like to read more.

UPDATE: More from Michelle Malkin. Also, courtesy of docweasel, you can see the episodes of South Park in question here.

Tech Central trashes the American people in this hit piece that had me on the floor laughing. Apparently, red staters are as abrasive and nasty as the blue staters (you could never tell from reading me):

The stupidity of the average American is a force not to be underestimated. It shapes our politics, molds our preferences, and controls our destiny. Our stupidity pours forth from our art and pop culture, poisoning the minds of foreigners not inured to its presence. It oozes from our newspapers, distorting everything in its path. Any argument that begins with the premise”Americans are stupid” is already halfway right.

To a degree, this rings true for so many Americans, not just liberals. Think of this when you see John Kerry on Meet the Press this Sunday blathering over his loss - 48% of voters pulled the lever for this political moron!!! Will he attack the President or Karl Rove? HT: The Trojan Horse (formerly known as Augon Kniese).

They say Hollywood is a Bunch of anti-Christian Bigots. Newsmax sums up left coast values to a tee:

“Last month the Golden Globes completely shut out “The Passion,” denying it even a single nomination. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the Golden Globes, instead gave nominations to “Vera Drake” (about a kindly abortionist), “Kinsey” (about the discredited sex researcher), and “The Sea Inside” (about a paraplegic’s campaign to be euthanized).”

Mel Gibson should have known better. Only directors that show Jesus making out with John the Baptist get noticed in Hollywood.