Politics - email from Sunil Liyanage.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. ~Plato

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ~Aesop

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these campaign speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno

I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.~Gore Vidal

I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Politics: [Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"] ~Larry Hardiman

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson

Don't vote, it only encourages them. ~Author Unknown

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators and congressmen. ~Will Rogers

Ripe Bananas - email from Kamalini Kanapathyppillai.

 Subject:   Caution while selecting bananas 

   

Selling of forced ripened bananas is so true and becoming a common thing. How do we stop it?

I believe mangoes are also dipped in a chemical to stop getting rotten. Note how tasteless

they were this summer?

 

Caution when selecting bananas

At the rate of $1.99 – $6.99 per KG., death is being sold nowadays in our markets.

My request for everybody is to be vigilant.

Friends, we all love bananas and we eat a lot of them, but the bananas available in the market are forced ripe by dipping in water mixed with Carbide.

The consumption of these bananas is 100% sure to cause Cancer or some other infection in the stomach. Therefore, such type of bananas are to be avoided. 

But, how does one recognize the bananas ripened with the help of Carbide? 
Bananas which are ripened naturally are dark yellow and have small black spots here and there on the bananas and thestalks are black.

Those which are forced ripe with Carbide are lemon yellow and their stalks are green and they are clear yellow without any black spots. 

Now, what is Carbide and how is it harmful?
Carbide is a chemical which if mixed with water, emits heat. 

The heat emitted by a closed tank mixed with Carbide is even more than that emitted by a LPG Cylinder - it can be used for Gas Cutting (which means the calorific value is so high that it can replace LPG gas).

In the same way, when the bunch of bananas are dipped in the water mixed with Carbide, the gas gets absorbed into the bananas and they get ripe.

However, the banana vendors are not that literate and so they do not know the exact proportion of Carbide to be used for a dozen of bananas.

As a result they end up using excess quantity of Carbide which gets absorbed into the bananas and ultimately enters our stomach. 

Due to this excess use of Carbide, Tumours can be formed in our digestive system.

So, next time you purchase bananas, make sure you select the naturally ripened ones. 

Please pass it on to others in your mailing list.

 

 

IQ test - email from Lawrence Ratnam.

LawrenceRatnam@aol.com	22:34 (7 hours ago)
to lawrenceratnam

LAUGH AT BILL GATES AND HIS SCORE OF THREE JUST YET!!
This one is fun!! Think carefully. 
You are going to hate yourself over this. 
It scores automatically, too. 
Take this advice.... think before you answer. 
Click here: How Smart Are You?

Women losing weight in France - email jksw

Click on web-link below:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=yEH4Yum4nN4

Playboy Calendar, 1890 email jksw

Fr
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 9:10 PM
Subject: PLAYBOY CALENDAR.....1890

 
Is Hugh Hefner THAT old?

FROM THE EPOCH OF OUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS         PLAYBOY     MAGAZINE  -------   YEAR 1890  

Nice. There’s  meat in them thar bones!

PLAYBOY CALENDAR... 1890! 
   Notice--not one of them is less than a size 12-14!!!!
   Guess women looked better with meat on them 

World Portrait

100 People ~ A World Portrait

The world population has now reached 07 billion people.

This milestone inspired us to conduct research to update our statistics, and the changes over the past 05 years are remarkable.

In 2006, only 01 person out of 100 would have had a college education-- today that number has jumped to 07 thanks in part to advances in higher education in Asia.

The detailed research and source information can be found here and the statistics provided by Donella Meadows in 1990 that originally inspired our project can be viewed here.

If the World were 100 PEOPLE:

50 would be female
50 would be male

26 would be children
There would be:

74 adults,
08 of whom would be 65 and older

There would be:
60 Asians
15 Africans
14 people from the Americas
11 Europeans

33 Christians
22 Muslims
14 Hindus
07 Buddhists
12 people who practice other religions
12 people who would not be aligned with a religion

12 would speak Chinese
05 would speak Spanish
05 would speak English
03 would speak Arabic
03 would speak Hindi
03 would speak Bengali
03 would speak Portuguese
02 would speak Russian
02 would speak Japanese
62 would speak other languages

83 would be able to read and write;

17 would not.

07 would have a college degree.
22 would own or share a computer.

77 people would have a place to shelter them from the wind and the rain, but

23 would not.

01 would be dying of starvation
15 would be undernourished
21 would be overweight

87 would have access to safe drinking water
13 people would have no clean, safe water to drink

Sources: 2012 - Fritz Erickson, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Ferris State University (Formerly Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay) and John A. Vonk, University of Northern Colorado, 2006; Returning Peace Corps Volunteers of Madison Wisconsin, Unheard Voices: Celebrating Cultures from the Developing World, 1992; Donella H. Meadows,The Global Citizen, May 31, 1990. 

Coconut oil and Alzheimer's disease - email from Sunil Liyanage

We do not see much Alzheimers disease in Sri Lanka. Is Coconut oil the protector? Click on the web-link below:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ZZOR-Qd3QSg