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I heard yesterday about PETA asking the ice cream folks Ben and Jerry’s to replace the cow’s milk that they use with human breast milk. When I first heard it, I didn’t want to believe it. It sounded so absurd that I figured there was no way anyone would ever consider asking anyone something like that.

I did a google search and saw that it was very true. I also found it on PETA’s website.

My initial reaction was pure astonishment. Then I thought about all the other things going on in the world right now and figured that it’s not too far outside the realm of possibility these days.

With the stock market PLUNGING 777 points yesterday (which is more points than the day planes flew into buildings and left everyone frozen across the country), a bumbling hockey mom from Alaska running for Vice President of this country, and NASA finding snow on Mars, I figured anything is possible.

But then I looked at it from a more objective point of view.

After watching a video on how humans depend so much and completely abuse animals in the name of entertainment, food, clothes, and so on, I took a different stance on the issue.

It really doesn’t make much sense for humans to continue to drink milk after we are grown. No other mammal continues to drink milk their entire life. The mother stops producing milk after a certain time. That’s about the time humans should stop drinking milk.

Why are cows the animal to torture when it comes to getting milk? In the video, it was stated that the normal life expectancy for a cow is 20 years. However, the cows that are used for milking are kept on their feet and milked constantly for their entire life. These unfortunate cows live about 4 years until they die from exhaustion. That meat is then used in fast food restaurants. YUM!!!

I decided last night that I agree with PETA. If humans want their ice cream and their disgusting milk that most people’s stomachs can’t digest, the milk should come from humans!

The letter to Ben and Jerry’s stated that the Swiss company gets 75% of their milk from human breast milk. That would be an AMAZING start for companies in the US to make an effort to get anywhere near that point.

But what about the possible diseases that can be spread from breast milk?
Those cows aren’t the healthiest during their 4 years but no one gets deadly ill from their milk.

Well, HIV can be passed through breast milk. We don’t want to get HIV from milk do we???
It can also be passed in BLOOD and humans transfuse that into other humans all the time. I’m sure a way already exists to test milk for viruses and diseases.

I’m sure no one can imagine getting all milk from human breasts. But if you asked someone back in the 1930s and 1940s if they thought smoking would ever be banned from the workplace or a restaurant, they would deny that would ever be a possibility. And look where we are today.

One small step today of having Ben and Jerry’s get 5% of their milk from human breasts could one day save millions of cows from torture and premature death!

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As a kid who thought he was an adult but still acted like a kid most of the time, my friends and I did a lot of dumb stuff in college. Some of it was dumb as in nobody should be doing this. But some of it was dumb like something a 7 year old would do and think it rocks.

One thing we used to do whenever the situation presented itself was have elevator races.

I’ll first explain what I mean by elevator race…

It starts when two or more people (usually who know each other) are waiting for an elevator. One person presses the button to call the elevator. The elevator approaches that floor. Coincidentally, some random person is on the other elevator and is coming to that same floor. Both doors open at approximately the same time. The two people who were waiting on the elevator make eye contact and immediately run inside separate elevators and press the button to the same floor. The first one to make it to that floor jumps out of the elevator and yells out that they made it in hopes of doing so before the other person.

I was reminded about this childish practice when I was leaving my apartment building last week.

I was getting off the elevator at the first floor and some 7 year old kid came running in yelling ELEVATOR RACE!!! I looked in the other elevator and his mom was in it smiling. It gave me fond memories of a more carefree time in my life. Then I was repulsed at the thought of being 18 or so doing the same things that a 7 year old does.

In the end, the warm glow of the fond memories won and I basked in it until I got to work where a dark storm cloud followed me for the rest of the day.

Have yourself an elevator race today! It’s quite a rush and takes away from the monotony of riding an elevator.

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Did you ever realize how when kids get older, they start being able to hide some of the the bad things they do from their parents?

When you were in elementary school and you did something bad, the teacher told your parents. Even in elementary school your parents found out somehow. But as you grow up, you are able to do bad things and actually get away with it.

I was thinking about this today and how it becomes possible to get away with doing slightly bad things and the people that MADE YOU don’t find out about it.

First I thought that maybe you get older and smarter and you figure out how to do certain things without authority figures finding out. But I don’t think that helps too much because my parents really only found out about the really big stuff. But the little stuff like riding my bike around the neighborhood with a friend on trash day and kicking trashcans over, they never found out about that.

I would think that I’d be more lax about cleaning up my tracks when, if they found out, I’d have very little to lose. When I told my dad I kicked over trashcans as a youth, he laughed with me.

I think the catalyst to kids being able to get away with stuff is money. When you’re young, your parents haven’t started giving you allowance. So you can’t really get yourself out of any trouble if once it appears. Once you start getting allowance and you decide you want to steal candy from the store, if you get caught, you can offer to pay for it and they may let you go.

Once you’re in high school and you have a car and a part-time job, you can get a speeding ticket, go to the police station, and pay them yourself without your parents ever knowing… at least until it’s time for them to pay insurance again.

I wonder if parents didn’t let their kids have jobs in high school and didn’t give them allowances, would kids act better? Also, would it increase or decrease the lust for money that the majority of this country has today?

I think it would increase the desire for money because the longer you wait to have something, the more you want it once you get it!

If you’re constantly seeing people on the television with money and enjoying their lives while you’re living a boring life in high school, don’t you think that you’d want more and more money once you get it? People are like that now but I think it would be much worse if that were the case.

In summation, I do declare that the love of money is not only the root of evil. It is also what thrusts children into a world where people get away with quite a few of the bad things they do. Money steals your child’s innocence.

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Here’s my follow-up to my post from Friday. I’m posting 6 pictures from my portfolio to please your visual senses. Click the pictures for awesome effects.

What have you accomplished this past lovely weekend???

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I had the television on while I was eating a few nights ago. After I was done eating, I kicked my foot up onto the table, laid back, and watched whatever worthless spectacle was on.

Seems innocent enough.

But for a split second, I was able to see myself as someone walking into my apartment would have. The sight freaked me out.

At first, it seemed all well and good to sit around and watch television after a long day of “working” and finishing a decent meal. But when I had my out-of-body experience, it was a completely different story.

I saw myself as some lazy lump that had nothing else going on with his life that sitting on a broken couch to watch television was a viable option for the rest of my night.

How many of you do this?

Does that seem like a complete waste of time to anyone else? To watch weird people on television play a role that you in some way covet. You want to be the guy that is a superhero and wears a mask. You want to be the lady who has a ton of money and a ton of shoes and nothing to do with her day. But instead of using your powerful, breathtakingly bulky brain to even attempt to figure out a way to liberate yourself from a boring desk job that you hate, you come home and watch TV until you’re too tired to think for yourself.

Everyone is good at something. Everyone has something in their life that they need to accomplish but for some reason never get around to finishing. I hope that the supersmart readers of my blog will change that.

Try this insane idea. Take 30 minutes each day this weekend (Friday after work, Saturday, and Sunday) and use this time to do that thing that you’ve really wanted to get around to doing but haven’t done.

If you think about it, 30 minutes is a drop in the bucket when you relate it to how much time there is in a day. Then consider how small 90 minutes is when you compare it with how many minutes you have in an entire weekend!

If you don’t read this on Friday, that’s not an excuse not to take 30 minutes sometime during the rest of this weekend and get something accomplished.

Here is what I will be doing. I will go through the thousands of pictures that I have taken and put on my computer. Once I do that, I will put all of my best shots into a couple of folders. Then I will finally put together some type of portfolio of my best pictures. For accountability, I will post a few of them to this blog Sunday night or Monday morning.

Post what you are going to accomplish with your weekend in the comments.

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