RE: That milk scandal in China

looking at http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqy6DXyFAsi_vp-zzuAYeD-sH-UQ
It seems that many problems have been unearthed in China as it has become more of a behemoth in our will economy. I’m not really sure if this is a function of having so many products in the world marketplace that statistically problems will be seen in more quantity or because of the China system of manufacturing and putting out products.

I certainly will be more reluctant to purchase any type of food item that has been made in China. Currently, as I live in the United States I don’t believe that will be a problem. I have yet to see food products made in China.

However, having been in other countries where I have had the opportunity to shop for groceries, I definitely have seen products made in China which are sold in grocery stores. Actually, I have purchased peanut butter that was made in China. Honestly, I really like that peanut butter that I had purchased many times.

Having had purchased and ate a food product that was made in China, it’s sort of a gets me to feel a little uneasy about what was in the food I purchased. I am assuming that in most cases the food will be okay but I have to admit to myself that the controls for producing and selling food in China will not be as stringent as those put in place inside the United States.

Furthermore, it has been continuously shown in TV shows I’ve watched that the Chinese business culture has a strong bent towards doing things in a corrupt way. I guess what I am trying to say is that many people accept bribes to get around the system. The system apparently allows for many instances of cheating. Too many people accept that bribes will happen on a continuous basis so they just look at it as acceptable. As they come to accept it, they soon take part in order to get ahead. It starts to become an “everyone for himself” kind of thing. Eventually, rules and specific protocols for doing things don’t mean too much.

 

Dogtown Show Did Not Live up to What I Expected

By the way, while I am here… I wanted to mention something about that Dogtown show. I did catch some of them… the reason I say I caught only some of it is because after watching the first part, I did not want to watch anymore.

I do respect their obvious desire for helping these dogs. This action is obviously very laudable. I am sure that most of those dogs will be successfully rehabilitated hopefully for possible adoption. I realize that it will take a lot of work to successfully complete this rehabilitation for those dogs.

However, I was really turned off by the show. It had too much of a “feel-good” feel to it. At first I really could not put my finger on the reason for why I felt that way. Eventually I think I found the reason. The way the show was produced turned me off. They always had that “feel-good music” especially during the beginning. They never once had no music. Near the middle of of the show, they did change the music feeling a little bit but I guess not enough for me.

It’s amazing how music can really affect a TV show. Let’s talk about the show, Dog Whisperer. I believe this show to be produced very well. The videography and music goes together as it should. Dogtown simply doesn’t even compete with the production value of the Dog Whisperer. Hopefully Dogtown will improve as time goes on. Otherwise, I’m guessing that this show will not last.

The main thing I think holds a lot of value for this show is publicity for pit bulls. If Dogtown is successful at rehabilitating these pit bulls, hopefully viewers will see that the pit bulls should not be to blame. The owners of the pit bull’s are the ones that should hold all the blame for any problems the dogs cause. Not everyone should be allowed to have a pitbull. I also think the same about other big and powerful dogs….even small dogs. Many people just don’t know how to effectively be the leader of a dog. Too many people humanize them as being their babies or children when they definitely are not.

 

Do These Cellulite Creams Really Work?

A few days ago I got onto the subject about cellulite for some reason or another. I really cannot remember exactly why we were talking about it especially when I don’t have it myself. Of course, I really don’t want it either. Some people have it worse than others but usually those people that have it, also have extra fat that they need to get rid of. I am guessing that there is a correlation between having extra fat on the legs and having cellulite.

After doing a little search on cellulite because… doing searches on anything on the Internet is what I love to do… anyway, I happened to see tons ofcellulite removal websites similar to that one. Also, it seems there are a ton of products saying that they can remove cellulite or at least make it look better. I guess I question whether these things work or not.

Anyway, I realize there’s tons of products out there that don’t work. I am guessing you really just have to try it if you believe there is some potential for working. Also, lately I have tended to believe more in various products that are put together with natural substances as opposed to synthetic ones. I really do believe that some diseases can be cured by various plants that you can find in various parts of the earth. It’s too bad that much of our medical professionals have been indoctrinated to treat symptoms and diseases through only traditional medicines. Yes, I think we really do have good medical care here but I think there exists at least some potential in natural methods for healing.

With all that said, I’m not really sure cellulite can be treated.

 

Dogtown, Friday (Tomorrow) at 9pm Central Time

For anyone that happens to be interested in pit bulls, there will be a show tomorrow night… Friday night which is named “Dogtown”. It will be appearing on the National Geographic Channel. Apparently, they are going to be letting viewers watch the recouping of the pit bulls that were found at the Michael Vick estate. There seems to be many of these pit bulls from what I saw on the advertisement.

by going to the Dogtown website, I found that this will actually be a series. I’m assuming that it will be a series showing how the dogs will be rehabilitated to eventually be adopted by dog lovers.

This program I think will be especially important for those people that think all pit bulls are bad… especially pit bulls that have been mistreated in the past. Most people’s first response to a problematic pitbull is to put it down. If you have ever watched The Dog Whisperer you will know that red zone case dogs don’t have to be put to sleep. They can be saved if professionals are involved… or someone that helps knows what they’re doing.

Appropriately enough, this program will be placed right after one of my favorite shows, Dog Whisperer. I wonder if Cesar Milan had anything to do with this show coming about. Maybe he will help out at some point with these dogs to rehabilitate them. I am sure he will be also interested in how the show helps viewers see and believe that pit bulls can be very good pets. Maybe they will understand that it is the previous and/or current owners (whatever the case may be) that should be disciplined because they will have been the ones that have likely allowed or encouraged the pit bulls ugly character to be developed.

 

Iraq Needing Equipment to Stop Suicide Bombers

This article located here talks about the occurrences of suicide bombers within Iraq and the police’s ability to prevent these things from occurring. Apparently, equipment exists that would help them find out whether an automobile was transporting a bomb.

I have definite mixed emotions about the Iraqis asking for this equipment. Surely, they definitely probably need this equipment if it works but I definitely don’t think the United States should supply it. Yes, we were part of the problem being over there in the first place but from what I hear we are not responsible for security over there directly. Iraqis now responsible for that.

It seems to me that Iraqi police could afford to purchase this equipment… at least I would think they would. They currently are producing a decent amount of oil currently. They recently made a deal with China that amounts to a few billion dollars transaction for oil in Iraq. It’s possible that his deal was made by some companies within Iraq but even if it was, there should be some kind of fee that’s paid to the government to pay for security needs like this. Iraq will have to fend for itself eventually so why not do all they can right now.

The time is now for the United States to start using money for themselves instead of every other place around the world. We certainly are not in a position right now to fund this and that in every other country. We not only have a high debt amount, but our economy has not been doing well either. Besides, every year we have a huge deficit in the federal government. And, every year we continue to pay taxes which obviously seems to go to waste in increasing amounts.

 

Pit Bulls in the Media

My irritation starts to increase whenever I see an article about pit bulls causing some sort of problem. Although I cannot confirm my guess, I believe that pit bulls get singled out very easily as being news when something bad happens. You really don’t hear about other dogs attacking because other breeds have not been popularized as being aggressive animals.

I believe part of the problem with media getting on the bandwagon every time to publicize pit bulls doing something wrong has come from the responsible owners that have mistreated pitbull dogs in some way. This treatment can include purposely fighting them with other dogs, not controlling the dogs sufficiently, not bringing up the dogs properly as a pack leader should, etc… and so on. A series of stories gets a lot of publicity and then the whole breed gets easily blamed. It’s too bad that everyone has seemed to get on the bandwagon.

It’s nice to see very good articles that are fair when talking about pitbullslike this one

I believe this article to be fair on both sides… that has acknowledged in both the bad and good in this breed. It’s also good to have various websites like this pit bull dogs website. We definitely need information to be provided that can offer a definite good side of this breed of pitbull’s because I think they always get an exaggerated bad rap that many people seem to get obsessed about… which they add fuel to later to make it even worse.

 

Saving Money On A EV Project Car

Undoubtedly, one of the ways you possibly could save money after the initial expense at least, would be to drive an electric car instead of a gas car. It does not take long to search on Google to find how other people have already converted their cars to electric. On the other hand, it’s always nice to have something to do on the side to fill out some time every now and then.

You might be surprised to know that some people probably in your home city actually own an electric car that gets unbelievable gas mileage like you would never think. You also might be surprised to know that gasoline engines are very inefficient. So, not only is gasoline expense of but the engines it goes into does not efficiently produce the power to propel your car either. I just now saw a website that lists various project cars for sale which I have found one of them to be one I will be considering for an electric car.

Small cars are obviously the best to purchase for conversion. The smaller trucks like a Chevy S10 or old Ford Ranger truck would be a good possibility also because of the truck bed. The truck bed offers a great place for all the batteries that you’ll have to mount onto the automobile. It’s interesting that the batteries that you will use will be lead batteries and not some special type of batteries.

Unfortunately, some of the electrical parts can be somewhat cost prohibitive so I will still have to think about if I will go through with this project or not. ever since the gas has been going up fairly quickly, I have had an urge to find more efficient transportation. Anyway, as I said, I found electrical vehicles to be a very good option which I wish were available years ago by automakers. I personally believe that the electricity should be the way to go since motors are so efficient.

Here..Tesla Motors is electric vehicle I would really like to have but not at that cost.

 

The Chinese Olympics Saga That Does Not Stop Especially When the Truth Is Not Always Told

Simply amazing, and the power of the Internet. I did hear this story over the TV first but it’s amazing how it came about. Apparently, bloggers uncovered the truth even before most people knew about it. Take a look at this blog http://strydehax.blogspot.com/2008/08/hack-olympics.html
I guess this blogging person was not the first one to discover the discrepancies between Chinese Olympic gymnasts passports and other age revealing information found on the Internet. Specifically, I’m talking about the gymnast named “He Kexin” but I believe that possibly to others will eventually be seen to have the same age problem.

Chinese officials apparently do what they can to game the system, and this does not only include snatching young children from preschool to have shown ability in a particular sport to be developed into Olympic athletes. Falsifying documents apparently has been added to the arsenal of gaming the system.

Don’t think it was just some guy or girl from the United States who happens to be a blogger and also doing investigative research. You can also see that other Chinese bloggers were doing the same thing at least one week ago before all this blew up. Just because Chinese officials to things underhandedly often times, does not mean all the Chinese people are not honest. This definitely can be shown by bloggers like this one to have done their part to reveal the truth.

You will see that I have given you two links. The first link is a Babel translation because most of the people reading this blog will not be able to read Chinese.

First link: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wretch.cc%2Fblog%2Fbillypan101%2F11740056&lp=zh_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

The second link is the original URL written in Chinese.
Second link: http://www.wretch.cc/blog/billypan101/11740056

First of all, it’s amazing how well the translation can be read even if it’s not perfect. Therefore, it’s easy to see that documentation definitely shows at least this one gymnast as being too young to compete in the Olympics.

 

Someone Told Me that their Financial Stress has Caused Impotence

This definitely is a new one on me. Financial stress could cause impotence? I really never have heard this before but I guess it could be possible. On the other hand, I’m not really sure how one could really know if that would be the cause in the first place. From what I understand, there are many reasons that impotence could have developed.

Doing a little search engine discovery I found something rather interesting that I did not know. I did not know that bicycling can cause impotence as I found on that site I linked to. of all the various causes, I did not see any that referred to having stress through finance or money being the cause of erectile dysfunction. I’m not really convinced yet that this could be the cause.

Incidentally, I did watch recently on TV that some doctors actually think that fresh garlic can actually help treat erectile dysfunction for sex at least temporarily (I saw some interesting treatment here male impotence site also). Apparently you have to eat a lot. Another food and heard actually helps is watermelon. I guess something in the Rhine actually helps the free flow of blood in the body. I believe it might also help the heart.

Well….everything you read on the net is not necessarily true is it.

Anyway, I don’t think I believe that financial stress can cause it.

 

Re: China Olympics Ceremony Pre-Recording Video

It did not take long apparentlyChinese officials to find almost every place on the Internet where this practice ceremony video was placed. That website that I talked about before in a previous post had two places which included Youtube and another one. At the time of posting, Youtube had already taken down the video. A day or two later I checked to see the other source for the video to find out that they also had to take down their video.

I’m certainly not surprised that the other video was also taken off-line. It seems that the Chinese had good reason to remove them as much as possible from the Internet. I had a chance to take a glance at some of the ceremony. They definitely put tons of money into the opening ceremony for the Olympics in Beijing. I believe I heard they put in around a few hundred million dollars.