Letters to the Editor
rupert_c
Published Letters: 1221 Editor's Choice: 12
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Brain Cookers
[Read the article: Life will kill you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have been calling cellphones brain cookers for years now and I am pretty sure that it is a factor in the increasing stupidity of people. Not only does it heat up the brain, but by pumping energy into the brain it also modifies the brain's function, and like most things that do that, they are addictive to a great number of users. I have often seen people with a cellphone in each hand working both of them. People will hold, play and fidget with their phones in rapt anticipation of recieving the next call. How many hours per week use does a land line phone get versus a cellphone? People talk on cell phones while doing just about everything, such as driving, walking, shopping, dining, and even using the toilet. This is addictive behavior.
Cell phones are like crack.
Assume that half of the population was brain damaged by crack. Assume that non users have to take up the slack and put up with the craziness. That's how I feel about cellphone users. I hardly ever have to deal with people who are brain damaged by crack. Cell junkies are another matter - they are everywhere and they, unlike crackheads, are fairly obnoxious about their habit. Crackheads do seem to be a bit more alert and on the ball - I guess they have to be.
The few times I have had to use a cellphone results in headaches and a great deal of warmth in the head. I don't get why people don't notice that. At least most crackheads know that they are screwing themselves up.
Cellphones are a drug.
There was a television program in the sixties called "The Prisoner" which detailed mind control oprations done on a secret agent who had retired. When he was sleeping, a lamp over his head would lower, pulsate and hum while they were trying to break him. When they turned the power all the way up, there was concern that their might be "tissue damage" - that is, to the brain. People have known about the adverse effects and potential abuses of microwave radiation for a long time. Our Moscow embassy was specially sheilded because people were getting sick from all the microwaves aimed at it during the cold war.
Now people actually pay, and pay a lot, for the privlege of cooking themselves whenever they want.
Sticking your head in a microwave oven would be cheaper and quicker.
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You forgot about High Fructose Corn Sweetners
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Remember "New Coke"? After what seemed to be a marketing debacle they agreed to bring back the old Coke and I was delighted. I bought the old Coke as soon as it came out and after my first sip I realized that this was NOT the old Coke at all but some horrible mistake. I looked at the ingredients and saw "high fructose corn sweetner/and or sugar". It tasted bad. Try a spoonful of sugar and then try a spoonful of corn sweetner. They are not the same thing.
Well, there was no alternative as EVERYBODY had switched to the "cheaper" corn sweetners.
America got fatter, and so did I.
Then one day I was watching PBS and saw the science show "standard deviants" and they had a section on sugars. It revealed that sugar is viewed and used by the body as fuel and a source of energy. It also revealed that fructose isn't. The body has to convert the fructose into fat before it can be stored and later used for fuel and that is done by the liver.
How do you fatten cattle? Feed them corn instead of grass.
How do you fatten America? Feed the corn sweetners instead of sugar.
You do not get the rush of energy from fructose that you get from sugar so you simple consume more off it, because your body is telling you that it is sweet and good, but it never delivers that rush of energy that you get with real sugar.
Super Big Gulps anyone? A six ounce Coca Cola used to give you all the refreshemnt and energy that you needed. Keep in mind that the brain runs on sugar, not fructose.
This is great for business since you just buy more of the product to try to get the energy which it doesn't deliver.
Then business can sell you diet pills, weight loss programs, medical interventions and exersize programs.
Corn sweetner has been very good for business.
And remember, if you are fat, it is your own fault.
Priceless.
Whole Foods switched to cane sugar after I pointed out this to them. I am pretty sure I wasn't the only one. Now it they would only put some caffiene into their cola drink . . .
Nobody better say anything bad about caffiene. Some things are sacred.
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Smews
[Read the article: The liberal news media]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]These are not journalists, they are heavily made up news readers.
Paris Hilton or Britney Spears could do just as well and be far more entetaining. Most people prefer get their real news from the Daily Show now anyway because a comedian is far more creidible than a tv "journalist".
News is what the corporations and their lapdog government officials say it is.
Anyone got any IBM Selectric font balls?
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What aspartame is good for!
[Read the article: Life will kill you]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]When I have an ant problem in the house, i just leave a little for them to take back to their nests. Within a week the ants are not looking too good and in two weeks they are not coming back.
The best part is that you don't have to buy it. Just go to where they serve coffee and they have lots of packets of it for free.
One packet is all you need, I used one in the spring and there still are no ants in the house.