Well according to an ABC news story Hershey's has begun transitioning products to more cost effective Vegetable Oil in its 'frankenchocolate' instead of using cocoa butter as required by FDA labeling for a product labeled chocolate. Some of you may recall I have already covered that they were trying to get the labeling guidelines changed so they could change the ingredients without telling anyone.
This is not for your health.
This is not to lower the price for you.
Over at The Consumerist they are running a story about the Grocery Shrink Ray hitting food stuffs in the UK. They have already been running nearly daily stories about the shrink ray and what it means to consumers but this one story has an apologist for the industry that just stroked the wrong nerve in me. His name is Alex Beckett and here is what he said that bothered me.
I was minding my own business surfing the web tonight and came across an article that pissed me off so bad... It was about how our schools suck. Having a daughter who will be in first grade next year and who has attended pre-k and kindergarten at the very same school I gave it a whirl. I have to tell you that after reading this pile of crap I wouldn't line my birdcage with it. So since I like to dispute bullshit here goes.
Ok, lets face it the sinking ship that is our economy is going down faster than an intern at the White House during the Clinton administration. One of the ways that the creators of consumer products is coping with this is by shrinking your product sizes quietly, without fanfare and charging you the same price. If you weren't aware of this practice take a look at The Consumerist and their section on the shrinking sizes of the products you use.
It's not very often nowadays that I outright sound the bullshit alarm so maybe this will have more umph!
Over at Mouseprint they usually have a great deal of 'good' consumer information. However on this one I think they are being led by three blind mice.
We bought our first home a few years back. Unfortunately it seems that our neighbor choose badly whom to finance a vehicle purchase through and used DriveTime. Why do I say this, keep reading...
I would like to encourage Mr. Perdue to please sign the bill HB89. As a concealed weapons permit holder I feel that my rights as a responsible adult are curtailed since I cannot carry into my workplace and cannot leave my weapon in my car.
That means from when I leave my home for work until I return home in the evening I am not able to protect my self should it be needed because of policies put in place by my employer that provide NO protections from a determined person who wishes to forcibly carry a gun into the workplace.
A recent blog post over on tuxmachines has me a bit torqued. Oddly enough it follows a similar thread in the PCLinuxOS forums. It has to do with the fact that the PCLinuxOS ISO is still dated 2007.
My headline sounds a bit intense doesn't it? A little 1984'ish? Not possible in America? WRONG.
We all know that if you child is truant too often they will throw the parents in jail. Personally I dont think thats all that great of an idea but they need to protect the money that schools get for your kid attending so this is one way they do it.
One school district here in Georgia is thinking of taking their athlete drug testing a step further, making testing of all students who drive on campus mandatory.
If there are two things I cant stand its arrogance about ones self and being rude. SmartSource, you say you are there to help people but you have the most un friendly pile of shit activex control in the world. What kind of an asshole does it take to build a goddamn control to print coupons for cents off, then hyper secure it to make sure some dumbass doesn't print more than two .50cent off coupons for their $9 package of Huggies and not build it in a manner thats forthcoming as to why its not going to work!
