Don't Believe Everything You Know

     

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Why do so many people in the United States continue to eat spinach in such great quantities? It is a good source of vitamin K and iron, we're told, but we get vitamin K and iron from a great many other foods as well. Spinach does not taste particularly good. It has a bitter flavor (in my opinion) when eaten raw and unembellished. For years I have wondered why so many people recommend eating lots and lots of spinach, and swear that it is a miraculous food.

Well, I recently found out why this phenomenon exists. It is because, at least partially, a goodly number of Americans are so childishly naive and incredibly gullible, and have been purposely misinformed.

How?

The answer is here

Of course, as I said, this is just my opinion, and I am sometimes wrong.

(Not often, though)

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I recently found, watched, and enjoyed a half-hour youtube video titled: The Big Bang Theory - How it all started and thought that someone reading this blog, whether familiar or not with The Big Bang Theory TV series might like to view it.

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Would you believe that I baked three pies? Well, they were not prepared from-scratch, nor were they full-size pies, but were those little Banquet frozen ones that are about the size of what are called tarts, although a tart is defined as a small, shallow pie, without a top crust, filled with fruit, custard, or the like. These (pictured below) have a top crust and are filled, one of each, with berries, peaches, and apple slices, so I suppose they should not be called tarts, but little fruit pies.

These little pies cost only 89 cents each and they bake in half and hour at an oven temperature of 400 degrees F. And, to my somewhat aged taste buds, they are absolutely delicious. They probably contain way too many chemical preservatives, pesticide residues, and other myriad toxins... but, "Boy oh boy do they taste good."

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WORD FOR TODAY

gullible
adjective
-  naive and easily deceived or tricked.
-  easily tricked because of being too trusting.
-  not alert to danger or deception.
synonyms
trusting, innocent, naive, unsuspecting, green, simple, silly, foolish, unsophisticated, credulous,

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Jane Leeves
(born 18 April 1961)

 

Jane Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in the 1983 popular British comedy television show The Benny Hill Show.

Leeves moved to the United States, where she performed in small roles until she secured a recurring part in the television sitcom Murphy Brown. In 1986–1988, Leeves garnered her first leading role in the short-lived sitcom Throb and, in 1993, achieved wider fame as Daphne Moon on the television sitcom Frasier for the entire run of the series, from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards during the show's run. She received further recognition for her performances in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Music of the Heart (1999) and The Event (2003). In June 2010, Leeves returned to acting, as Joy on TV Land's sitcom Hot in Cleveland.

James Howard Woods
(born April 18, 1947)

 

James Woods is an American film, stage and television actor. After his first Golden Globe nomination for a breakthrough role in The Onion Field (1979), Woods has starred in Once Upon a Time in America, Oliver Stone films Salvador and Nixon, Ghosts of Mississippi, and in legal series Shark. He has won three Emmy Awards (for tele-movies Promise and My Name Is Bill W., and for the animated series of Hercules). He has been twice nominated for an Academy Award. His voice work has been heard in the animated series Family Guy, The Simpsons, Disney movie Hercules as Hades and the video game Grand Theft Auto.

Melissa Joan Catherine Hart
(born April 18, 1976)

 

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Frederick Allan "Rick" Moranis
(born April 18, 1953)

 

Rick Moranis is a retired Canadian/American actor. Moranis came to prominence around 1980 in the sketch comedy show Second City Television, and later appeared in several Hollywood films including Strange Brew, Ghostbusters, Spaceballs, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (and its sequels), Little Giants, Parenthood, The Flintstones and My Blue Heaven.

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There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.
--Michael Moore