Eggs; Obamacare

Overcast and 95 degrees!  Elaine and I hurried to the CLV pool to cool off.. meanwhile, a young man power washed our house (kind of).


01.  The egg came first.


The Carroll County Times and the Sun Paper had the exact same bunch of pages about food and diet. One article was about storing eggs.  Europeans store their eggs at room temperature; Americans store theirs in refrigeration.


Care must be taken to avoid potentially fatal salmonella, so American egg producers are required by the USDA to thoroughly wash their eggs before going to market.  They are rinsed in hot water, dried and sprayed with a chlorine mist as soon as they are laid.  This procedure is said to protect us from salmonella.  European eggs are treated differently and do not need to be refrigerated later.  Apparently, the European method (whatever that is) protects better against salmonella, and their method will be adopted in the U.S. sometime soon.


02.  *Obamacare .. He's for it.


Tom Zirpoli wrote in  his column today:  "... millions of Americans suffer...because they live in the 24 Republican controlled states that refuse to allow their constituents to sign up for Medicaid.  One has to wonder how some of these politicians can call themselves pro-life while continuing to block millions of their constituents from the health care that they desperately need while offering them no alternative."


I have to break off this blog entry here so that I can go and pick up some  special medication for Elaine.  See ya!