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Yet another urgent memo from the Dept. of STFU... "Let's be blunt here: the only way to stop them is to destroy the Iranian regime, the mullahs, and that can only be accomplished through war. And by war I don't mean ground troops; I mean massive bombing raids intended to destroy every one of the key targets."
- Rush Limbaugh, dictating U.S. military strategy to the unwashed, tea-bagging masses. Is it just me, or is this knuckle-dragging cretin going to extraordinary lengths to remain even remotely relevant these days? Tags: asshole, drug-addled gasbag, dumb americans, iran, loathsome people, military, right-wing hate radio, rush limbaugh, war
From: Chicago
Mood:  STFU
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In light of the fact that the proposed Senate health care "reform" bill has been reduced to a steaming pile of shit, I guess it's time to give credit where credit is due... Congratulations to the GOP, the insurance & pharmaceutical lobbies, the "Blue Dogs," Joe Lieberman and the right-wing noise machine for successfully pounding the cowering, spineless Democrats into submission. I must admit, you guys played your hand incredibly well. Thanks, too, to Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel and especially Barack Obama - for without your help, things might have gone our way. To the victors go the spoils. Merry Christmas. Tags: dumb americans, health care, spineless democrats
From: Chicago
Mood:  Bruised
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As world leaders convene in Copenhagen for the global climate conference, Former Vice President Al Gore has been making the interview rounds pushing back on " ClimateGate" hysteria on the right and promoting his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis.In a wide-ranging interview with Slate, Gore talks about environmental policy, why the Copenhagen meeting matters, and the hacked climate science emails. The emails, Gore stresses, were "taken wildly out of context" and the uproar surrounding them is "sound and fury signifying nothing." His frustration with the hacked-email fallout is palpable: "The basic facts are incontrovertible. What do they think happens when we put 90 million tons up there every day? Is there some magic wand they can wave on it and presto! - physics is overturned and carbon dioxide doesn't trap heat anymore? And when we see all these things happening on the Earth itself, what in the hell do they think is causing it?" Good questions, Al. America's lunatic right wing: Shitting and pissing in their own food dish, insisting it tastes just fine - and begging for more... Imbeciles. P.S. Gore also appeared on CNN Tuesday night, in a lengthy interview covering similar ground. Watch it here. Tags: al gore, climate change, dumb americans, environment, global warming deniers, global warmng, pollution
From: Chicago
Mood:  Nature Bats Last
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The next time some slope-browed, tea-bagging hayseed warns you about "rationed health care," or that a public option will "force Americans out of their current plans," ask them what the hell this is...  Health insurance giant Aetna has announced plans to jack up consumer insurance prices and push up to 650,000 clients to give up their health coverage next year as it seeks to increase revenues to meet projected profit margins. Over the next year, Aetna expects the move to cut 300,000 and 350,000 members from its national account as well as another 300,000 from smaller group accounts. "The pricing we put in place for 2009 turned out to not really be what we needed to achieve the results and margins that we had historically been delivering," said chairman and CEO Ron Williams, adding, "we view 2010 as a repositioning year, a year that does not fully reflect the earnings potential of our business. Our pricing actions should have a noticeable effect beginning in the first quarter of 2010, with additional financial impact realized during the remaining three quarters of the year." Now make no mistake - Aetna hasn't lost money, the company actually made a profit in 2009, just not at levels that pleased its stockholders. Aetna's decision to cut clients in favor of more expensive premiums is, as one industry analyst told American Medical News, a "pretty candid" admission. It also reflects the major concerns offered by HCR proponents and supporters of a public option for insurance coverage, who insist that the private health insurance industry is too consumed with the bottom line. A government-run plan would operate solely off its members' premiums. According to American Medical News, this is not the first time Aetna has chopped its rolls in an effort to maximize profit-taking. A 2004 Health Affairs article by health economist James C. Robinson, MD, PhD, notes that Aetna totally restructured its business between 2000 and 2003, plunging from 21 million members in 1999 to 13 million in 2003, boosting profits from about 4% to more than 7% in the process. Not surprisingly, Aetna is also a major player in battling past and current health insurance reform efforts, spending more than $2 million on lobbying just this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Damned, dirty apes and the slack-jawed suckers taking the bait... a pox upon your homes and children. Tags: disgrace, dumb americans, health care, loathsome people
From: Chicago
Mood:  Pyew
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Excerpted from a great piece by Johann Hari: Imagine you are about to get on a plane with your family. A huge group of qualified airline mechanics approach you on the tarmac and explain they've studied the engine for many years and they're sure it will crash if you get on board. They show you their previous predictions of plane crashes, which have overwhelmingly been proven right.
Then a group of flight attendants, journalists and plumbers tell they have looked at the diagrams and it's perfectly obvious to them the plane is safe and that airplane mechanics – all of them, everywhere – are scamming you. Would you get on the plane? That is our choice at Copenhagen. You can read more of Hari's intelligent, insightful articles on the environment here. Oh, and the next time you run into an "OMG CLIMATE-GATE!" pinhead like this or this, there's plenty of good, real-world information to dismantle their "arguments" both here and here... ...not that you'll ever get anywhere, mind you. These are, after all, flat-earthers we're talking about. They're not only as dumb as a bag of rocks, they plain-old don't give a shit. Tags: climate change, dumb americans, environment, global warming, global warming deniers, pollution
From: Chicago
Mood:  TGIF
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...yet somehow, they always end up revealing themselves as walking, talking wind-up dolls:  Posting under the title " How The Government Rations Health Care," our old friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) reality_hammer writes: "Don't say you weren't warned about this. This is how the government 'keeps costs down'. Always at your expense, of course." To which his dimwitted friends reply: "Why doesn't Barry just come out and say "Fuck you all! I'm in charge now, biatch!" And... "Every good liberal knows that children's lives don't matter as much as adults' lives do. Since they're only half-people it only makes sense that they deserve half-care." To those of you that haven't undergone a full frontal lobotomy, the utter stupidity is obvious: 1) The Florida Department of Children and Families is not controlled by the federal government (much less "Barry" himself). 2) The Florida Department of Children and Families is not a health care provider. It is a social services agency. 3) The Florida Department of Children and Families is operated under the auspices of the governor's office. A Republican governor. Yet somehow, it's all Obama's fault. P.S. You've gotta give ol' Hammer a little credit. At least he hasn't resorted to posting in bold, red typeface like his insane doppelgänger... Yet, anyway. Give it time. Tags: dumb americans, health care, reality_hammer, right-wing hack
From: Chicago
Mood:  Ever-Amused
Now Playing: 'Don't Call Us, We'll Call You' - Sugarloaf
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Hat-tip David Desalvo... Even as millions of people starve the world over, residents in United States are wasting food like never before...  A new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50% since 1974. Some 1,400 calories worth of food is discarded per person each day, which adds up to 150 trillion calories a year, reports Livescience. The study, authored by researchers from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, was recently published in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Researchers conducted a calculation of the difference between the U.S. food supply and what’s actually eaten, which was estimated by using a model of human metabolism and known body weights. According to the findings, about 40 percent of all the food produced in the U.S. is thrown out.The study also found that food waste now accounts for more than one quarter of the total freshwater consumption in the U.S. and more than 300 million barrels of oil per year. To put all of this in context, consider a few equivalencies: • According to the CDC, Americans consume about 2600 calories a day on average. Based on that estimate, 1400 calories is roughly a meal and a half of food wasted every day. • According to the USGS, total freshwater consumption in the U.S, is about 350 million gallons per day. Based on that estimate, the present study indicates that food waste accounts for about 85 million gallons of water a day. That’s the equivalent of daily water use in the states of California and Texas combined. • 300 million barrells of oil is about the equivalent of annual oil consumption in the state of New York, or a country the size of Singapore or Thailand. Previous research indicated that more than 29 million tons of food is wasted in the U.S. each year, or enough to fill the Rose Bowl every three days, with a cost equivalent of more than $100 billion annually. Meanwhile, a recent report by the USDA finds the number of U.S. homes lacking “food security,” i.e., their eating habits were disrupted for lack of money, rose from 4.7 million in 2007 to 6.7 million last year. About 1 billion people worldwide don’t have enough to eat, according to the World Food Program. Tags: dumb americans, food, gluttony, nature bats last, overpopulation, starvation
From: Chicago
Mood:  Bon Appétit
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Spend, die, rinse, repeat... President Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy. Obama is expected to announce his decision on Dec. 1st, followed by meetings on Capitol Hill aimed at winning congressional support amid opposition by some Democrats who are worried about the strain on the U.S. Treasury and whether Afghanistan has become a quagmire, the officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said. Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal could arrive in Washington as early as Sunday to participate in the rollout of the new plan, including testifying before Congress toward the end of next week. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry also are expected to appear before congressional committees. As it now stands, the plan calls for the deployment over a nine-month period beginning in March of three Army brigades from the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum and a Marine brigade from Camp Lejeune. In addition, a 7,000-strong division headquarters would be sent to take command of U.S.-led NATO forces in southern Afghanistan and 4,000 U.S. military trainers would be dispatched to help accelerate an expansion of the Afghan army and police. There are currently 68,000 U.S. troops and 42,000 from other countries in Afghanistan. The U.S. Army's recently revised counterinsurgency manual estimates that an all-out counterinsurgency campaign in a country with Afghanistan's population would require about 600,000 troops. Obama campaigned saying that he'd fund the Iraq and Afghanistan wars from the defense budget, but Mullen has said that the Afghan war — which some administration officials privately concede could cost $700 billion to $1 trillion over 10 years — might require a supplemental funding bill next year. Some senior Democrats have suggested that the administration may need to raise taxes in order to pay for the additional troops. Full article here.Tags: afghanistan, barack obama, dead u.s. troops, dumb americans, military stupidity, taxpayer money, war on terror
From: Chicago
Mood: Ugh
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Seems our old friend reality_hammer is none too happy with the USPSTF and their hotly-debated opinion that most women under 50 don't need yearly mammograms: "The left is frantically trying to downplay this ill-advised "advice" recently given out by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (which is a prototype for what kind of panels that would govern all manner of health care procedures in the various bills being considered by Democrats in Congress).
"But the truth is already out there: this is just a thinly disguised rationing plan [...] Ironically, the increasing wait-times of past years have been used by the left as a justification for government takeover! o_O Now, as a guy married to a 40-something woman myself, I still believe that annual mammograms are a good idea for all women in her age group (and HHS Secretary Sebelius agrees, by the way), but it seems to me that Hammer's little tirade here has a few holes in it, politically speaking: 1) The USPSTF is an independent panel of private-sector medical experts. It has no authority to "plan" - much less legislate - anything. At all. 2) The Obama administration itself has nothing whatsoever to do with the conclusions and/or recommendations set forth by the USPTF, and no obligation to abide by said recommendations. At all. 3) The USPTF ("the protoype for governing panels," in Hammer's words) was first convened in 1984 under the not-so-socialist eye of his personal idol, Ronald "Ketchup is a Vegetable" Reagan. 4) The mammogram study in question was originally commissioned in 2007. Under George W. Bush. Sidenote: If Hammer has read even one page of the "various bills" he mentions above, I am Lawrence of Arabia. :) Give this guy (and even more so his wild-eyed doppelganger) the chance, and they will take any item on the newswire and try to blame it on Obama. Just wait 'til the next earthquake, school shooting, industrial accident or football injury and you'll see... Wasn't it just about a year ago that the wingnuts were ranting about how liberals "blame everything bad on Bush"? Hm. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to more vital matters, like the president bowing to Akihito. Outrageous, I tell you! Tags: dumb americans, health care, lying liars, reality_hammer, right-wing hack, women
From: Chicago
Mood: Amused
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Just another Al Gore-style scare tactic, I'm sure:  The world's oceans, which normally gobble up carbon dioxide, are getting stuffed to the gills, according to the most thorough study to date of human-made carbon in the seas. Between 2000 and 2007, as emissions of carbon dioxide skyrocketed, the amount of human-made carbon absorbed by the oceans fell from 27 to 24 percent. In terms of ocean processes, "that's a pretty large drop, and the trend is pretty clear: The ocean can't keep up with [human-made carbon]," said study leader Samar Khatiwala, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. ( Read the rest... )Tags: climate change, dumb americans, global warming, oceans, science
From: Chicago
Mood: Shit
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Texas is no longer the shittiest state in the union...  On Nov. 1st, a law in Oklahoma will go into effect that will collect personal details about every single abortion performed in the state and post them on a public website. Implementing the measure will " cost $281,285 the first year and $256,285 each subsequent year." Here are the first eight questions that women will have to reveal: 1. Date of abortion
2. County in which abortion performed
3. Age of mother
4. Marital status of mother (married, divorced, separated, widowed, or never married)
5. Race of mother
6. Years of education of mother (specify highest year completed)
7. State or foreign country of residence of mother
8. Total number of previous pregnancies of the mother
• Live Births
• Miscarriages
• Induced Abortions Although the questionnaire does not ask for name, address, or “any information specifically identifying the patient,” as Feminists for Choice points out, these eight questions could easily be used to identify a woman in a small community. “They’re really just trying to frighten women out of having abortions,” Keri Parks, director of external affairs at Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma, said. The Center for Reproductive Rights is challenging the law, arguing that “it violates the Oklahoma Constitution because it ‘covers more than one subject’ — a challenge that previously worked to strike down an abortion ultrasound law.” Tags: abortion, dumb americans, loathsome people, rednecks, right-wing lunatics, women
From: Chicago
Mood: Pyew
Now Playing: 'Having My Baby' - Paul Anka
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No surprise here...  The Supreme Court's newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, made her presence felt as the court began its new term Monday, the AP reports: The Supreme Court began its new term Monday by indicating a willingness to limit how long a suspect's request for a lawyer should remain valid, and new Justice Sonia Sotomayor wasted little time in letting her voice be heard by questioning the lawyers. Just how vocal was Sotomayor? According to McClatchy, she managed to ask more questions in an hour than Clarence Thomas has asked "over the course of several years."The Washington Post also commented on Sotomayor's confident performance in its review of Monday's session: Sotomayor displayed no reticence on the first day of her first term on the court; in the two cases on the docket, she asked as many questions and made as many comments as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. Does Unca Clarence really ask so few questions that Sotomayor could beat his total in an hour, you may wonder. Indeed, he does. As the AP reported in February 2008, Thomas had gone two years and 144 cases without speaking up during oral arguments. "It is a period of unbroken silence that contrasts with the rest of the court's unceasing inquiries," the AP wrote at the time. Translation: Clarence Thomas is a lazy, languid dimwit who doesn't belong anywhere near the SCOTUS bench. That being said, I'll wait here until one of you wingnut mallwalkers either A) gets up enough spunk to defend him for being "quiet & thoughtful," or B) rears up on your hind paws and accuses me of being a racist. *twiddles thumbs* Tags: dumb americans, justice, right-wing hack, scotus
From: Chicago
Mood: Amused
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You just can't make make this shit up...  The wingnuts who attended last Saturday’s Tea Party rally in Washington have found yet another reason to kick and scream: Apparently, they're unhappy with the level of government-subsidized service provided by the DC subway system. Yes, really. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) has called for a government investigation (presumably to be funded by taxpayers) into whether the public subway system "adequately prepared" for this weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services. Brady released a letter he sent to Washington’s Metro system complaining that the taxpayer-funded subway system was unable to properly transport protesters to the rally to protest government spending and expansion. “These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,” Brady wrote. “These participants, whose tax dollars were used to create and maintain this public transit system, were frustrated and disappointed that our nation’s capital did not make a great effort to simply provide a basic level of transit for them.” A spokesman for Brady says that “there weren’t enough cars and there weren’t enough trains.” Brady tweeted as much from the Saturday march: “METRO did not prepare for Tea Party March! More stories. People couldn’t get on, missed start of march. I will demand answers from Metro.” Included in Brady's hissy fit was the allegation that "overcrowding forced an 80-year-old woman and elderly veterans in wheelchairs to pay for cabs," concluding that "it appears that Metro added no additional capacity to its regular weekend schedule.” So let me get this straight: A pack of 70,000 slack-jawed pinheads - led by Glenn Beck (who didn't even show up) - swarm Washington to protest “socialism,” then turn around and bellyache that the (already underfunded) Metro isn’t providing them enough government service... I thought tea-baggers were all about self-sufficiency and personal responsibility... so why on Earth should little old ladies and disabled veterans be looked after by The State? Tags: communism, dumb americans, glenn beck, rednecks, republican hypocrisy, republican implosion, right-wing lunatics, tea bagging
From: Chicago
Mood:  Please Secede
Now Playing: 'Crash' - The Primitives
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The GOP could have strategically selected just about anyone from their ranks of rising stars to deliver the Republican rebuttal to the president's health care address tonight... So, which young, energetic voice of conservatism do they choose? Thune? Pawlenty? Daniels? Huntsman?  Nope. Tonight's Anointed One was Rep. Charles Boustany, a no-name birther from Louisiana who's been sued at least three times for medical malpractice (other sources claim as many as eight), and who, in 1994, paid two con men almost twenty grand to procure the British title of “Lord” in a scam only the most stupid among us would fall for. Never mind the fact that Boustany's speech itself was awash in distortions and outright lies (including the outrageous claim than Obama's plan will cut $500 billion in Medicare benefits - a whopper specifically crafted by the GOP to scare the shit out of the nation's senior citizens). Coincidentally, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics reports that Lord Boustany has been riding in the pocket of health insurance and pharmaceutical lobby to the tune of $1,256,056 (20% of his fundraising total) since first being elected in 2004. Imagine that. Tags: dumb americans, health care, lying liars, republican implosion
From: Chicago
Mood:  Ceaselessly Amazed
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I just finished reading the full text of the president's address to our nation's schoolchildren, scheduled for tomorrow...  Funny, I can't find a word about the Prophet Muhammad, universal health care, gay marriage, abortion on demand, banning guns, forced euthanasia, Bill Ayers, the war on Christmas, government re-education camps or Karl Marx... Guess I'll just sit here and hold my breath until someone from the right wing shows me the " indoctrination" part. Fuckin' imbeciles. Tags: barack obama, children, communism, dumb americans, education, loathsome people, lying liars, media hacks, republican scum, republican smear, right-wing hate radio, right-wing lunatics, swiftboat
From: Chicago
Mood:  Turning Blue
Now Playing: 'A Fool Such As I' - Slim Whitman
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The wholesale slaughter of the gray wolf is now back in full swing, thanks to Obama's decision to continue Bush's irresponsible environmental policies... 
(Hat-tip Chris in Paris)What a disappointment and waste of years of recovery efforts by the federal government. After being on the endangered species list for years (and with wolf populations slowly coming back), it's all gone, quicker than you can say "special interest." At least Obama can wrap up those critical rancher votes which he covets so much, eh? Melanie Stein, a Sierra Club spokeswoman, said that the wolf populations "are just on the cusp of recovery and that we are almost there." But she says the hunts represent "a step backward and away from recovery" of the wolf populations.
Defenders of Wildlife, one of several groups urging the court to stop the hunt, detailed the ecological role of the wolves on its web site.
"In what is known as the cascade effect, wolves are exerting influence over a multitude of species within the park's ecosystem. Elk, wary of the reintroduced top predator, have altered their grazing behavior... With less grazing pressure from elk, streambed vegetation such as willow and aspen is regenerating after decades of overbrowsing. As the trees are restored, they create better habitat for native birds and fish, beaver and other species..." More good reading on the topic — from a former Montana hunting guide, no less — right here. Tags: animals, barack obama, disgrace, dumb americans, endangered species, environment, greed, hunting, wildlife, wolves
From: Chicago
Mood: Pyew
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I see that our friends over in Wingnutistan have their tits in a knot over this, howling about how it's going to make us "less safe"...  So I'll tell you what: The next time you hear one of these fuck-knuckles pissing and moaning about Obama and Holder " undermining the CIA," grab them by the back of their sun-baked neck and shove their face in this. Then — just for good measure — rub their nose in this. What part of the following passage could possibly be unclear to these idiots? "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture" (defined as "any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted").Tags: cia, crime, dumb americans, guantanamo, justice, right-wing lunatics, torture, war on terror
From: Chicago
Mood: Stupid Apes
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Or this happens...  A federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday found the toxic substance in every fish tested at nearly 300 streams across the country, a finding that underscores how widespread mercury contamination has become. The study by the U.S. Geological Survey is the most comprehensive look to date at mercury in the nation's streams. From 1998 to 2005, scientists collected and tested more than a thousand fish from 291 streams nationwide. While all fish had traces of mercury contamination, a quarter had levels exceeding what the Environmental Protection Agency says is "safe for people eating average amounts of fish." Ingestion of mercury compounds can cause severe renal and gastrointestinal toxicity, neurological damage and death. For fetuses, infants and children, the primary health effects of mercury are on neurological development, impacting learning, memory, attention, language and other vital functions. The main source of mercury to most of the streams tested, according to the researchers? Emissions from coal-fired power plants, i.e., the mercury released from smokestacks rains down into waterways, where nature converts it into methylmercury — a form that allows the toxin to wind its way up the food chain into fish (and, ultimately, humans who eat fish). "Clean coal": The gift that keeps on giving... mercury poisoning.Click here to learn more about mercury in your family's food supply. Tags: coal, coal mining, dumb americans, ecological disaster, epa, food, marine life, pollution, toxic waste
From: Chicago
Mood: Damned, Dirty Apes
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Sure, a couple ingredients clean your hair, but the rest are a veritable toxic dump on your head (and in the environment)...  There are two types of ingredients in shampoo. One type cleans your hair. The other type strokes your emotions. I'm holding a bottle of Pantene Pro V, one of the world's most popular shampoos. Of the 22 ingredients in this bottle of shampoo, three clean hair. The rest are in the bottle not for the hair, but for the psychology of the person using the shampoo. At least two-thirds of this bottle, by volume, was put there just to make me feel good. The world spends around $230 billion on beauty products every year. Of this figure, $40 billion go to shampoo purchases. North Americans blow almost $11 billion on shampoo and conditioner each year. So most soap manufacturers aren't willing to rely on a product that merely works. The bigger job is convincing the consumer that their soap is adding value to the consumer's life. So shampoo bottles include an extra concoctions aimed at convincing the man or woman in the shower that the soap is more "luxurious" or "effective." Because beautiful hair doesn't just happen... ( Lather, rinse... )Tags: dumb americans, environment, greed, pollution, toxic waste
From: Chicago
Mood: WTF?
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Contemplative
*boggle*
Ugh
Idiots
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