even more peanut products are getting recalled.

we have that list at HTTP://WWW.cnn.com/robin under the “important websites” section. meanwhile -- we're digging into what progress investigators are making in finding out what the problem is.

And I'll eat 'em anyway...

Find fast food calorie counters
Secrets restaurants won't tell you

My Next Read

Friend or Frenemy?
A Guide to the Friends You Need and the Ones You Don't
By Andrea Lavinthal, Jessica Rozler
Price:
$14.95
On Sale:
8/5/2008
Formats: Trade PB E-Book


How do you finally break free from a fair-weather bud who flees the scene as soon as a new guy comes around? How do you know which friends make it into your framily? With tips for making and breaking, maintaining and sustaining your friendships, plus stories from real women, Friend or Frenemy? explores how great friends get us through hard times and dishes out advice about dumping the users, losers, and abusers. In this era of instant communication, relationships are not necessarily easier. Friend or Frenemy? also looks at how texting, MySpacing, and other modes of instant communication are oh-so-convenient but sometimes make it harder to make meaningful connections.
With tons of wit and loads of charm, Lavinthal and Rozler are sure to get you thinking about friendship as if for the first time—reminding us why our BFFs are often the most important people in our lives.

And they wanted to make this mandatory??

HPV Vaccine Blamed for Teen's Paralysis

Must-read article before you even consider vaccination against HPV.

I oughta punch 'em right in the kisser.

Chilis and Applebees

Anyone else see this?

i'm outraged i tell you:

"The diet menu could be making us fat? this has elaine's (from seinfeld) yogurt snafu written all over it. A bunch of reporters went out, ordered from the guilt-free section of popular restaurants... then took the stuff to a lab.

YOU WON'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH FAT AND CALORIES the dishes really have. one chicken dish was touted as having six grams of fat. tests showed it actually had 49 grams of fat!"

OK, that's enough.

Vaccine-Autism Question Divides Parents, ScientistsA critical look at the public deception perpetuated by hidden personal agendas.

This entire article is beyond interesting. This is a major argument point between Athena's doctor and myself. When I know more facts and statistics than he does, I feel he should leave me be. My daughter, my choice Doogie. (He looks JUST like Doogie Howser.)

I've been bothered again

I was getting my taxes done and the lady that did it was bothering me so much I couldn't concentrate on the task at hand. Granted, I wasn't in the best mood to begin with, but I'm also pretty sure she was illiterate. She looked through everything at the exact pace of molasses, continuously put EVERYTHING in her computer wrong and I HAD TO CORRECT IT, and licked her fingers with every page turn. Is it me or is that gross?? I was so icked out I had to look away lest I gag in her face. I now have HER SPIT all over my tax documents that I may end up accidentally touching in the exact spot she licked!!!!! She also continuously talked to the other illiterate people in the room about what THEY were working on. Then she tried to charge us $100 more than was quoted. My husband actually ended up taking our stuff and pretty much telling her to stuff it. I can't even begin to tell you how out of character that is for him. I was so proud I could have cried.

I came home and did them for free on TurboTax and got the same results... yeah, you heard me right lady! FOR FREE.

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Big Oil

The CEOs of the five mafia, sorry, five oil companies testified before Congress today. They said their profits are not excessive.
They pointed out that they have a lot of expenses, like paying off congressmen.
- Jay Leno

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Costco - Good for them!

I checked this out on Snopes.com. My mom sent this info to me via e-mail and needless to say, I was quite irked.

Did you ever wonder how much it costs a drug company for the active ingredient in prescription medications? Some people think it must cost a lot, since many drugs sell for more than $2.00 per tablet. We did a search of offshore chemical synthesizers that supply the active ingredients found in drugs approved by the FDA.

A significant percentage of drugs sold in the United States contain active ingredients made in other countries. This is an independent investigation of how much profit drug companies really make.

A few examples:

Celebrex: 100 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $130.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.60
Percent markup: 21,712%

Claritin: 10 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $215.17
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.71
Percent markup: 30,306%

Lipitor: 20 mg
Consumer Price (100 tablets): $272.37
Cost of general active ingredients: $5.80
Percent markup: 4,696%

Paxil: 20 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets): $220.27
Cost of general active ingredients: $7.60
Percent markup: 2,898%

Xanax: 1 mg
Consumer price (100 tablets) : $136.79
Cost of general active ingredients: $0.024
Percent markup: 569,958% (wa wa wee wa!)

On Monday night, Steve Wilson, an investigative reporter for Channel 7 News in Detroit did a story on generic drug price gouging by pharmacies. He found in his investigation, that some of these generic drugs were marked up as much as 3,000% or more. So often, we blame the drug companies for the high cost of drugs, and usually rightfully so. But in this case, the fault clearly lies with the pharmacies themselves.

At the end of the report, one of the anchors asked Mr. Wilson whether or not there were any pharmacies that did not adhere to this practice, and he said that Costco consistently charged little over their cost for the generic drugs.

I would like to mention, that although Costco is a 'membership ' type store, you do NOT have to be a member to buy prescriptions there, as it is a federally regulated substance. You just tell them at the door that you wish to use the pharmacy, and they will let you in.