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Jerry West
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posted 06 January 2007 12:17 PM

I came across this article today and thought I would toss it in for fun.

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Peanuts Kill More Americans Than Terrorists
If western governments were really trying win the "war on terror" they wouldn't give terrorists so much credit....
Link to article

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bigcitygal
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posted 06 January 2007 12:51 PM

Ha! Great link, Jerry.

From the article:

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The principle goal of terrorists is to terrify populations and governments into acquiescing to their political demands.

I always suspected peanuts of having ulterior motives.....

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The only way they can achieve this is by generating a substantial amount of fear and making people believe the lie that their life is significantly threatened by potential terrorism, when in reality the swimming pool in their backyard poses more of a danger.

While I'm not going to lose sleep over the 'burbanites with pools, I propose that we wage War On Peanuts!

First item on the agenda: will this war include all nuts? And what about legumes? And don't get me started about those damned root vegetables. And tubers, praise jebus! They've been conspiring underground for years!

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bigcitygal
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posted 06 January 2007 12:59 PM

Tee hee, I just read this in the comments section from the link above:

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Exhume Charles Schultz, he is responsible for "Peanuts"! He should be made to stand trial, along with Snoopy (with that name, he MUST be a spy), Pigpen, Linus, and the ring leader, Charlie Brown ("you are doing a heck of a job, Brownie").
Watch out for almonds, cashews, and especially, hemp seeds. The axis of evil nuts. Turn those evil peanuts into peanut butter.
(And what about those suicide attacks by the pretzel gang, they tried to choke our fearless leader.....)

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Scott Piatkowski
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posted 06 January 2007 01:26 PM

Good grief!

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Michelle
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posted 06 January 2007 01:30 PM

Heh.

And if peanuts are more deadly than terrorists, imagine trans fats!

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Boom Boom
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posted 06 January 2007 01:48 PM

For about a month, the Mars Bar folks have been running a TV commercial showing a candy bar vending machine sliding away from a couple of kids eating peanuts, with the message being "you'll never find peanuts anywhere near a Mars Bar ever again". I thought it was a clever advertisement.

Thread drift: I'm thankful I have no nut allergies that I now of. I eat peanuts four or five times a year, and peanut butter every other day.

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Sharon
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posted 06 January 2007 02:00 PM

I'm eating a few peanuts right now. Over the holidays, we always get the nice selection of mixed nuts that includes cashews, filberts, almonds, Brazils etc. And I'm the one who picks out the peanuts to eat and who ignores the more exotic nuts. Dunno why -- that's just the way it is.

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Boom Boom
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posted 06 January 2007 02:07 PM

I'm the opposite - I pick out the peanuts and save them for after all the other nuts are finished. I absolutely love every nut I've ever tried. I wish brazil nuts were cheaper - we used to get a big bag of shelled brazils at Christmas in the 50s and 60s from Morrow's Nut House on Sparks Street in Ottawa, and roast them in the oven with a little bit of salt and oil. Delicious! Now, here, we just get crappy salted nuts that are mostly peanuts, in plastic bags and jars.

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Jacob Two-Two
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posted 07 January 2007 12:20 AM

I read it wasn't the peanuts that people react to. It's all the crap that's in them. They're grown with such low standards for such high volume that they come out full of toxins. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

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Michelle
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posted 07 January 2007 05:17 AM

Really, Jacob? That surprises me - surely people would be allergic to those same toxins in everything else that is mass-grown and full of pesticides and the like? And yet there have always been deadly peanut allergies.

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Nanuq
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posted 07 January 2007 06:55 AM

Does all this mean that Jimmy Carter is guilty of crimes against humanity?

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unionist
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posted 07 January 2007 07:27 AM

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Originally posted by Nanuq:
Does all this mean that Jimmy Carter is guilty of crimes against humanity?

Given his latest book, I'm waiting for George W. to have Jimmy's farm raided in search of WMD.

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Shazum
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posted 07 January 2007 07:35 AM

And more Canadians are killed in Toronto in 1 year than 5 years in Afghanistan..............CANADA OUT OF TORONTO! We MUST hold Harpo to account for as to why he's allowing us to remain in Toronto!

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jeff house
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posted 07 January 2007 10:26 AM

Here's the difference. Toronto is in our country, and I presume we should not abandon our own country.

We should try hard to reduce the dangers which exist here, but we shouldn't leave.

Afghanistan is not our country, so leaving it is something we will eventually do in any event. The only question is how many bodies we leave behind.

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M. Spector
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posted 07 January 2007 10:33 AM

Why don't we bring the troops home to Toronto, so they could do "peacemaking" here?

How many remember the song: "We're bringing the war back home..."

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jeff house
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posted 07 January 2007 10:38 AM

No thank you Spector, I don't think we need the troops in Toronto doing peacemaking.

We are quite at peace as it is.

"Bring the War Home" was a slogan of SDS in the mid 1960s. Essentially, it meant holding quasi-violent demonstrations and other actions, so that those at home had to confront the fact that there would be no peace as long as the troops were in Vietnam.

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Jerry West
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posted 07 January 2007 03:53 PM

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Shazum:
And more Canadians are killed in Toronto in 1 year than 5 years in Afghanistan....

That is only meaningful if the percentage of Canadians killed in Toronto are greater than the percentage of Canadians killed in Afghanistan.

Are you saying that the Canadian population of Toronto has a higher percentage of their number killed in one year in the city than the percentage of the number of Canadians in Afghanistan have killed there?

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Fidel
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posted 07 January 2007 05:03 PM

I wonder how many Canadians in Canada die at the hands of terrorists every year ?. [gwynne dyer on]I think we could save more Canadian lives with a national workplace safety and unionization campaign, as well as waging war on accidental peanut poisonings, than by enlisting in the paleoconservative war on terror.[/dyer off]

Asbestos drives rise in workplace deaths

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