Try to make the time for #1.....well worth it.....
1/ Bill Moyers sits down with Paul Krugman to talk about inequality and America's drift towards becoming a full scale oligarchy. The discussion centers around the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty "Capital in the 21st Century", and is the usual excellent dialogue between two informed, intelligent people about this bombshell of a book.
Krugman is more relaxed than I have ever seen him, and it's a wonderful 20 minute interview. You may not like their conclusions though......
If you want to know where we are really going without any network media BS, watch this 25 minute segment........
What the 1% Don’t Want You to Know
April 18, 2014
The median pay for the top 100 highest-paid CEOs at America’s publicly traded companies was a handsome $13.9 million in 2013. That’s a 9 percent increase from the previous year, according to a new Equilar pay studyfor The New York Times.
These types of jumps in executive compensation may have more of an effect on our widening income inequality than previously thought. A new book that’s the talk of academia and the media, Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty, a 42-year-old who teaches at the Paris School of Economics, shows that two-thirds of America’s increase in income inequality over the past four decades is the result of steep raises given to the country’s highest earners.
This week, Bill talks with Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, about Piketty’s “magnificent” new book.
“What Piketty’s really done now is he said, ‘Even those of you who talk about the 1 percent, you don’t really get what’s going on.’ He’s telling us that we are on the road not just to a highly unequal society, but to a society of an oligarchy. A society of inherited wealth.”
2/ A classic Colbert, where Stephen auctions off the microwave he stole from Bill O'Reilly's green room when he appeared on "The O'Reilly Factor" in 2007. This clip is from two months ago, before [or did it cause] the blowup between the boys and long before Colbert announced the move to replace Letterman.
Anyway, five minutes of our Stevie on great form, ripping the blowhard into little pieces.......wonderful.....
Here’s the proper way to spend $85,000: on a stolen microwave. Not just any microwave. A microwave that was stolen from Fox News pundit Bill Back in 2007, when Colbert was rapidly becoming a household name, the character comedian appeared on O’Reilly’s show, the O’Reilly Factor. Soon after the appearance it was revealed that Colbert had stolen a microwave from the green room at the show’s studio. The 1.85 KW GE JES16565SJ01 countertop microwave has been collecting dust on the set of the Colbert Report ever since.
Recently, however—perhaps aware of his fans’ diehard devotion—Colbert put the microwave up for auction on eBay. Within 24 hours, the bids skyrocketed from $43 to $85,000 and continued rising until the auction ended on February 22nd.
3/ Following on from the Moyers interview with Paul Krugman, two researchers from Princeton conclude for all practical purposes our government is now oligarchic. Just read the excerpt below, fifth paragraph.
Although not a surprise to regular readers of DDD, it's still a bit of a shock to have your suspicions confirmed that our gumment is a sham, a kabuki play to distract us all ......
Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy
The news: A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the United States isn't a democracy any more. And they've found that in fact, America is basically an oligarchy.
An oligarchy is a system where power is effectively wielded by a small number of individuals defined by their status called oligarchs. Members of the oligarchy are the rich, the well connected and the politically powerful, as well as particularly well placed individuals in institutions like banking and finance or the military.
For their study, Gilens and Page compiled data from roughly 1,800 different policy initiatives in the years between 1981 and 2002. They then compared those policy changes with the expressed opinion of the United State public. Comparing the preferences of the average American at the 50th percentile of income to what those Americans at the 90th percentile preferred, as well as the opinions of major lobbying or business groups, the researchers found out that the government followed the directives set forth by the latter two much more often.
It's beyond alarming. As Gilens and Page write, "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." In other words, their statistics say your opinion literally does not matter.
That might explain why mandatory background checks on gun sales supported by 83% to 91%of Americans aren't in place, or why Congress has taken no action on greenhouse gas emissions even when such legislation is supported by the vast majority of citizens.
4/ "Inside Amy Schumer" is a Comedy Central show that comes on just before Jon Stewart, and it's had pretty good reviews for it's intelligent humour. Here she does a parody of "The Newsroom" with Josh Charles [Will Gardner from "A Good Wife" ladies] that is funny, clever and according to this reviewer nails it.....four minutes......
The clip above, posted ahead of this week's episode, is complete with everything that makes Sorkin’s drama both fantastic and terribly cringe-worthy. In just over 4 minutes, Schumer finds a way to showcase “The Newsroom’s” snappy dialogue, over-the-top speeches, high-tension with low stakes drama and complete inability to capture female characters.
“A woman’s life is worth nothing unless she’s making a great man greater,” she tells Josh Charles in the video, taking a clear shot on behalf of viewers who complain about the show’s treatment of female characters. Charles adds a bit of weight to the parody as he was formerly on one of Sorkin’s short-lived shows, “Sports Night.”
"Inside Amy Schumer" airs Tuesdays at 10:30/9:30c on on Comedy Central.
5/ The always insightful Frank Rich, with his commentary on the week's news.....love his last piece!
Photo: Malcolm Clarke/Keystone/Getty Images
Every week, New York Magazine writer-at-large Frank Rich talks with contributor Eric Benson about the biggest stories in politics and culture. This week: the controversy of a new gay-marriage history, the demise of southern Democrats may have been exaggerated, and the viability of an all-female presidential ticket.
On Tuesday, investigative reporter Jo Becker's book on the marriage-equality movement, Forcing the Spring, was published to widespread criticism. Andrew Sullivan denounced it as a "troubling travesty of gay history," writing that the book overlooked the decades-long work of key players on the issue (including Sullivan himself) in order to make outsize heroes of three relative latecomers: the Human Rights Campaign's Chad Griffin and lawyers David Boies and Ted Olson. Dan Savage and writers at Slate, BuzzFeed, and The New Republic, among others, seconded Sullivan's concerns. Are these criticisms — largely registered by those who fought for marriage equality — more than simply infighting among those who didn't get credit?
This is not infighting. While I often disagree with Andrew Sullivan, he is right to call this out as a genuine injustice. For a journalist to write a book that says, in essence, that the struggle for marital equality “had largely languished in obscurity” until 2008 and the battle over Proposition 8 in California is tantamount to saying that the black-civil-rights struggle didn’t get going until President Obama was elected president that same year. Obviously Becker’s intent wasn’t malicious, and the heroes in her book are real heroes. But by minimizing those who fought this issue from its emergence as far back as 1989 is to rob the more recent developments on same-sex marriage of all context, to deny credit to some giants in the fight (starting with the lawyer Evan Wolfson), and, perhaps most depressingly, to minimize the bravery of those who sacrificed a lot to pursue this cause at a time when it and its adherents were ridiculed and ignored, including by much of the Establishment press, Becker’s own employers the Times and Washington Post included. Keep in mind that the Times didn’t even allow the use of the word gay in its news pages until 1987. Even as recently as this month, a major television-news show, ABC’s This Week, allowed Ralph Reed to spew junk science about gay parents without anyone contradicting him on-air
6/ A clever satire of every corporate commercial ever made, from BP, Exxon, Monsanto to Goldman Sachs.......it nails every cliche they use to try to make you feel good about their horrid, greedy evil corporation......two minutes......
Watch this so the next ad you see like this doesn't worm it's way into your brain.....and so you can appreciate the blatant manipulation.
Writer Kendra Eash wrote an amazing bit of satire mocking how the ad industry likes to use vague, inspirational nonsense to capture people's attention. So Dissolve, a stock video distributor, took her words and visualized them in an amazingly vague, faux-inspirational video that tells you absolutely nothing at all. It's kind of hilarious. 2:19 is my favorite moment.
7/ A wonderful essay on climate change from the talented Naomi Klein, and it's how our lives have become disconnected from our surroundings, which makes any action on reducing emissions difficult to focus on. It's an excellent piece, a musing on the challenges of getting the seriousness of the situation out there to the general public.
An intelligent, rational and serious article......
Vocal sculptor Jason Singh. ‘The migration patterns of many species have evolved so eggs hatch precisely when food sources are most abundant.' Photograph: Andy Fallon/National Trust/Rex
This is a story about bad timing.
One of the most disturbing ways that climate change is already playing out is through what ecologists call "mismatch" or "mistiming." This is the process whereby warming causes animals to fall out of step with a critical food source, particularly at breeding times, when a failure to find enough food can lead to rapid population losses.
The migration patterns of many songbird species, for instance, have evolved over millennia so that eggs hatch precisely when food sources such as caterpillars are at their most abundant, providing parents with ample nourishment for their hungry young. But because spring now often arrives early, the caterpillars are hatching earlier too, which means that in some areas they are less plentiful when the chicks hatch, with a number of possible long-term impacts on survival.
Similarly, in West Greenland, caribou are arriving at their calving grounds only to find themselves out of sync with the forage plants they have relied on for thousands of years, now growing earlier thanks to rising temperatures. That is leaving female caribou with less energy for lactation, reproduction and feeding their young, a mismatch that has been linked to sharp decreases in calf births and survival rates.
Scientists are studying cases of climate-related mistiming among dozens of species, from Arctic terns to pied flycatchers. But there is one important species they are missing – us. Homo sapiens. We too are suffering from a terrible case of climate-related mistiming, albeit in a cultural-historical, rather than a biological, sense. Our problem is that the climate crisis hatched in our laps at a moment in history when political and social conditions were uniquely hostile to a problem of this nature and magnitude – that moment being the tail end of the go-go 80s, the blast-off point for the crusade to spread deregulated capitalism around the world. Climate change is a collective problem demanding collective action the likes of which humanity has never actually accomplished. Yet it entered mainstream consciousness in the midst of an ideological war being waged on the very idea of the collective sphere.
8/ Sometimes it's the simple things that can make a big difference to your health, and this excellent story in the Times identifies one of the really bad items in your diet that's easy to correct, unless you eat a lot of processed or junk food in which case it isn't so easy. Eat less salt.......
And the real eye opener in this story is that with regulation and government standards for salt content in food, we can bring salt levels down. They just did it in Britain, and heart disease and strokes are both down over 40% over a 10 year period.
Will this happen here? No chance......I can here it now from the crazy right wingers - "the gumment and Michelle Obama telling me what I can eat.....Bundy!"
IF you have high blood pressure, you’re in good company.Hypertension afflicts 67 million Americans, including nearly two-thirds of people over age 60. But it isn’t an inevitable part of the aging process. It’s better to think of it as chronic sodium intoxication. And, as an important new study from Britain shows, there’s a way to prevent the problem — and to save many, many lives.
A lifetime of consuming too much sodium (mostly in the form of sodium chloride, or table salt) raises blood pressure, and high blood pressure kills and disables people by triggering strokes and heart attacks. In the United States, according to best estimates, excess sodium is killing between 40,000 and 90,000 people and running up to $20 billion in medical costs a year.
Americans on average take in about 3,300 milligrams of sodium per day, but experts recommend less than 2,300 milligrams — and less than 1,500 milligrams for people over age 50, black people, or those who already have hypertension, diabetes or kidney disease, which adds up to a majority of American adults. Either target is far below where most Americans are now.
The reason that nearly everyone eats way too much sodium is that our food is loaded with it, and often where we don’t taste or expect it. Of course ham and canned soup are full of salt, but so are many foods that are surprising: A blueberry muffin can have more than double the salt of a serving of potato chips. Even healthy-sounding food can pack heavy sodium loads. Two slices of whole wheat bread can have nearly 400 milligrams of sodium, as can two tablespoons of fat-free salad dressing. Eight ounces of V8 vegetable juice contains well over 500 milligrams. Many restaurant entrees have far more sodium than is recommended for an entire day. Applebee’s lemon shrimp fettuccine, at 5,100 milligrams, has more than twice as much.
Doctors warn people with high blood pressure to go on a low-salt diet, but that’s virtually impossible in today’s world, because nearly 80 percent of the sodium that Americans eat comes in packaged and restaurant food (whether it’s a bagel, a sandwich or a steak dinner). You can’t take it out. And nearly everyone, not just people with hypertension puzzling over food labels, should be taking in less sodium. The only way to prevent millions of Americans from developing high blood pressure is for companies and restaurants to stop loading up their food with sodium.
9/ More Jumpy the Dog
Jumpy and a Parkour athlete team up for some athletic feats....three minutes of 1/ thinking about your knees and 2/ that dog's family would have to have four young lads in it to keep him busy....
What the hell is Parkour? From Wiki......
Parkour (French pronunciation: [paʁˈkuʁ]) is a holistic training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training.[4][5][6]
10/ The rancher Cliven Bundy has been all over the news with his craziness, and the armed militia that have taken up his cause which seems to be not wanting to pay his taxes. His main supporter in the media is Sean Hannity, and Jon Stewart took him to task on Monday's show. Hannity fired back at Stewart, which was a big mistake because Jon Stewart is MUCH smarter than Hannity - here he answers Hannity's criticisms and completely, totally evicerates the idiot. Two segments, four and six minutes of pleasure watching a professional at work......
Note this is the night before Bundy made his 'Negro" remarks.........
Jon Stewart took on Sean Hannity Monday night for his Bundy ranch coverage, Hannity shot back last night calling Stewart a “hack” who appears to be “obsessed” with him, and Stewart responded tonight to Hannity’s “word turds.”
Stewart took on Hannity’s “proportionality” argument and said he’s a hypocrite on that issue. He conceded a point Hannity made about Stewart inviting fatwa supporter Cat Stevens to his Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, but turned the tables on him, played a rant by Hannity friend Ted Nugent, and said, “I’m just not sure you’re the best guy to make the guilt-by-musician association point.”
Stewart explained he’s only “obsessed” with Hannity “in the same way I am obsessed with anti-biotic super bugs” or Arby’s. Stewart cried, “My God, you’re the Arby’s of news!”
11/ The Koch Brothers are taking aim at solar, which is beginning to become cost effective in power generation. But how are they dealing with this green initiative? Not well - they are trying to ban net metering, where the solar panels electricity feeds back into the grid.....in other words now their coal power plants have some competition, they are trying to club it to death. Just what the planet needs......
Good story from the Los Angeles Times.......
WASHINGTON — The political attack ad that ran recently in Arizona had some familiar hallmarks of the genre, including a greedy villain who hogged sweets for himself and made children cry.
But the bad guy, in this case, wasn't a fat-cat lobbyist or someone's political opponent.
He was a solar-energy consumer.
Solar, once almost universally regarded as a virtuous, if perhaps over-hyped, energy alternative, has now grown big enough to have enemies.
The Koch brothers, anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and some of the nation's largest power companies have backed efforts in recent months to roll back state policies that favor green energy. The conservative luminaries have pushed campaigns in Kansas, North Carolina and Arizona, with the battle rapidly spreading to other states.
Alarmed environmentalists and their allies in the solar industry have fought back, battling the other side to a draw so far. Both sides say the fight is growing more intense as new states, including Ohio, South Carolina and Washington, enter the fray.
At the nub of the dispute are two policies found in dozens of states. One requires utilities to get a certain share of power from renewable sources. The other, known as net metering, guarantees homeowners or businesses with solar panels on their roofs the right to sell any excess electricity back into the power grid at attractive rates.
Net metering forms the linchpin of the solar-energy business model. Without it, firms say, solar power would be prohibitively expensive.
12/ [Post "Negro" comments]
One of the funniest, the absolute LOL Colbert's for a while. In this seven minute segment he goes briefly through the Cliven Bundy saga, has some choice words for Hannity, then sings "The Ballad Of Cliven Bundy"......
Stephen Colbert last night lamented the fact that he hadn’t professed his love for Cliven Bundy, like his fellow conservative pundits had for weeks before, and decided to make up for it by singing a country ballad about the brave rancher standing up for his land rights. It went great, until he got interrupted by Bundy’s controversial comments about slavery.
“Unfortunately, nothing rhymes with ‘negro,’” he muttered.
But the lack of rhyme scheme didn’t stop Colbert from supporting him: “Bundy just wants what is best for everyone. And for some people, that is slavery.”
He also praised Sean Hannity for continuing to support Bundy, and bringing him into the national consciousness: “Thanks to your non-stop supportive coverage of Bundy, now whenever people think of folks who have insight into ‘the negro,’ they’ll think of Sean Hannity. I mean, these two go together like Ku and Klux.”
13/ Guy video of the week - professional mountain biking! Ahooooooogah!
Two testoserone filled minutes...
The GoPro video of Gulevich’s ride is from the Red Bull Rampage in Virgin, Utah — an exclusive, invite-only mountain bike competition so dangerous it was cancelled for several years — so it’s prrrrrobably not anything you’d encounter in your morning commute.
Plus, Gulevich is a professional mountain biker, so don’t feel guilty if you’re not as daring on two wheels.
14/ Paul Krugman is the often the lone voice of reason and sanity in this world of economic stupidity - here he writes about the excellently run country of Sweden, or at least it was till they went with the austerity sadomonetarists....
Three years ago Sweden was widely regarded as a role model in how to deal with a global crisis. The nation’s exports were hit hard by slumping world trade but snapped back; its well-regulated banks rode out the financial storm; its strong social insurance programs supported consumer demand; and unlike much of Europe, it still had its own currency, giving it much-needed flexibility. By mid-2010 output was surging, and unemployment was falling fast. Sweden,declared The Washington Post, was “the rock star of the recovery.”
Then the sadomonetarists moved in.
The story so far: In 2010 Sweden’s economy was doing much better than those of most other advanced countries. But unemploymentwas still high, and inflation was low. Nonetheless, the Riksbank — Sweden’s equivalent of the Federal Reserve — decided to start raising interest rates.
There was some dissent within the Riksbank over this decision. Lars Svensson, a deputy governor at the time — and a former Princeton colleague of mine — vociferously opposed the rate hikes. Mr. Svensson, one of the world’s leading experts on Japanese-style deflationary traps, warned that raising interest rates in a still-depressed economy put Sweden at risk of a similar outcome. But he found himself isolated, and left the Riksbank in 2013.
Sure enough, Swedish unemployment stopped falling soon after the rate hikes began. Deflation took a little longer, but it eventually arrived. The rock star of the recovery has turned itself into Japan.
So why did the Riksbank make such a terrible mistake? That’s a hard question to answer, because officials changed their story over time. At first the bank’s governor declared that it was all about heading off inflation: “If the interest rate isn’t raised now, we’ll run the risk of too much inflation further ahead ... Our most important task is to ensure that we meet our inflation target of 2 percent.” But as inflation slid toward zero, falling ever further below that supposedly crucial target, the Riksbank offered a new rationale: tight money was about curbing a housing bubble, to avert financial instability. That is, as the situation changed, officials invented new rationales for an unchanging policy.
In short, this was a classic case of sadomonetarism in action.
I’m using that term (coined by William Keegan of The Observer) advisedly, not just to be colorful. At least as I define it, sadomonetarism is an attitude, common among monetary officials and commentators, that involves a visceral dislike for low interest rates and easy money, even when unemployment is high and inflation is low. You find many sadomonetarists at international organizations; in the United States they tend to dwell on Wall Street or in right-leaning economics departments. They don’t, I’m happy to say, exert much influence at the Federal Reserve — but they do constantly harass the Fed, demanding that it stop its efforts to boost employment.
15/ This dumb video has just passed 80 million hits, and it's amusing satire, so here it is again.....
The Chainsmokers with "Let Me Take A Selfie".....if you want to totally bemuse your grandkids just mention to them you really liked this video, or use the phrase "that's so Ratchet".....
A fun, funny, and superfastmoving parody of youth culture......but don't overthink it, just enjoy it - it's goofy.....and has hundreds of selfies, including a couple from the Hoff.....
16/ Have a look at this two minute video of the Icelandic Prime Minister explain how his country dealt with the collapse of their banking system.....you want to see what a leader does? He acts like this.......
We don't have one politician, not one who has ever told the truth like this guy.......
Todays video - what do retired guys do to keep busy? Some French lads do this....one minute.....
Todays retired guy joke
Dear Dr. Phil.
When I retired, I could hardly wait to spend time enjoying my favorite pastime - fishing.
I bought my own little fishing boat and tried to get my wife, Anna Mae, to join me, but she just never liked fishing.
Finally, one day down at the Bait & Tackle Shop, I got to talking to Sam the shop owner, who it turned out, loves fishing as much as I do. We quickly became fishing buddies.
As I said, Anna Mae doesn't care about fishing. She not only refuses to join us, but she always complains that I spend too much time out on the water.
A few weeks ago Sam and I had the best fishing trip ever. Not only did I catch the most beautiful fish you've ever seen, only a few minutes later Sam must have caught its twin brother!
So I took a picture of Sam holding up the two nice fish that we caught and showed the picture to Anna Mae, hoping that maybe she'd get interested.
Instead she says she doesn't want me to go fishing at all anymore! And she wants me to sell the boat! I think she just doesn't like to see me enjoying myself.
What would you do? Tell the wife to forget it and continue my hobby, or quit fishing and sell the boat as she insists?
I bought my own little fishing boat and tried to get my wife, Anna Mae, to join me, but she just never liked fishing.
Finally, one day down at the Bait & Tackle Shop, I got to talking to Sam the shop owner, who it turned out, loves fishing as much as I do. We quickly became fishing buddies.
As I said, Anna Mae doesn't care about fishing. She not only refuses to join us, but she always complains that I spend too much time out on the water.
A few weeks ago Sam and I had the best fishing trip ever. Not only did I catch the most beautiful fish you've ever seen, only a few minutes later Sam must have caught its twin brother!
So I took a picture of Sam holding up the two nice fish that we caught and showed the picture to Anna Mae, hoping that maybe she'd get interested.
Instead she says she doesn't want me to go fishing at all anymore! And she wants me to sell the boat! I think she just doesn't like to see me enjoying myself.
What would you do? Tell the wife to forget it and continue my hobby, or quit fishing and sell the boat as she insists?
Thanks,
BobP.S. Enclosed is a picture of Sam with the two fish we caught.
Dear Ron,Get rid of that narrow-minded wife.
Those are two nice fish .
Todays old Hollywood Squares jokes
Q. Paul, what is a good reason for pounding meat?A. Paul Lynde: Loneliness!(The audience laughed so long and so hard it took up almost 15 minutes of the show!)Q. Do female frogs croak?A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years...A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?A.. Rose Marie: No wait until morning.Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.Q. What are 'Do It,' 'I Can Help,' and 'I Can't Get Enough'?A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?A.. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?A. Rose Marie: Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?A.. Marty Allen: Only after lights out.Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?A. Charley Weaver: His feet.Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh
Todays groaner......
HELLMANN'S MAYONNAISE
Most people don't know that back in
1912, Hellmann's Mayonnaise was
manufactured in England. In fact,
manufactured in England. In fact,
the Titanic was carrying 12,000
jars of the condiment scheduled
for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico,
which was to be the next port of call
for the great ship after its stop in
New York. This would have been
the largest single shipment of
mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico
... But as we know, the great ship
did not make it to New York. The
ship hit an iceberg and sank. The
people of Mexico, who were crazy
about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate
at the loss. Their anguish was so
great, that they declared a National
Day of Mourning.
The National Day of Mourning occurs
each year on May 5 and is known,
of course, as -Sinko De Mayo.
of course, as -Sinko De Mayo.
******
WHAT??? You expected something educational from me?
