Just Eating Has Become An Issue! There Is Another Salmonella Outbreak In 42 States!

At least 400 people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak across the country. I am always wary of anything canned. These days I only cook fresh foods as much as I possibly can. The less food has been handled by someone else the better off you will be. A processed food may be the culprit this time around.Here's more from WSJ.com:

"An Ohio company recalled its creamy peanut butter after Minnesota health authorities identified the sandwich spread as the likely source of a wave of salmonella infections in the state.

Minnesota investigators found that every one of the 30 people with recent salmonella infections in that state had eaten peanut butter before falling ill, and confirmed in the "overwhelming majority" of those cases that the victims had eaten King Nut brand, according to state Department of Health spokesman Doug Schultz. The Minnesota salmonella strain matches the bacteria that have sickened at least 369 people in 41 other states since early September, although Minnesota authorities haven't connected the peanut butter to the national outbreak.

Minnesota officials, who are working with the federal Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, expect further test results as early as Monday. CDC spokeswoman Lola Russell identified peanut butter as "one of the major hypotheses" for the source of the outbreak."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123172133257172179.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

But looking at this video that focused on the last salmonella outbreak,which wasn't even a year ago,fresh foods can be contaminated also.With the economy being the main focus,what's going to happen to the FDA under the Obama administration?The Food & Drug Administration has been a serious issue for a long time.

How Cool Is This Special Edition Of "Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man" With Obama In It!

Wow,even Spiderman is a fan of Barack Obama. Marvel Comics will feature President Obama in a special edition of their Spiderman series.How cool is this picture,dude? Here's more from BBC:

"The comic, a special bonus story in Marvel's Amazing Spider-Man #583, starts with Spider-Man's alter-ego Peter Parker taking photographs at the inauguration, before spotting two identical Obamas.

Parker decides "the future president's gonna need Spider-Man" and springs into action, using basketball, another passion of Mr Obama's, to determine the real Mr Obama and knocking out the impostor.

Mr Obama thanks him with a fist-bump. Last June, Fox News television presenter E.D. Hill was taken off the air after she accused Mr Obama and his wife Michelle of greeting each other with a "terrorist's fist jab".

Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief, said Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story after the President-Elect said he had collected Spider-Man comics as a child."(END OF EXCERPT) Read the rest here:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4178474/Barack-Obama-appears-in-Spider-Man-comic.html

Nine Gay Senegalese Men Get 8 Years In Jail For "Indecent Conduct & Unnatural Acts"!

Being gay in Senegal has become a serious issue for nine men.They were sentenced to eight years for "indecent conduct & unnatural acts". This has outraged an international gay rights group as it should.Noone should be jailed for having sex if they are consenting adults.Here's more on this incident from BBC:

"Homosexual acts are illegal in Senegal but the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) told the BBC it was "shocked by the ruling".

The judge added three years to a five-year sentence, saying the men were also members of a criminal group.

Most of them belonged to an association set up to fight HIV and Aids.

"This is the first time that the Senegalese legal system has handed down such a harsh sentence against gays," said Issa Diop, one of the men's four defence lawyers.

Mr Diop said he would be appealing against the sentences.

The IGLHRC's Cary Alan Johnson said he was "deeply disturbed" by the case.

"There have been pretty consistent human rights violations… in Senegal," he told the BBC's Network Africa programme from Cape Town in South Africa.

"But the extremity of this sentence [and] the rapidness of the trial all really shocks us in a country which has been moving so positively towards rule of law and a progressive human rights regime." (END OF EXCERPT) Read the entire article here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7817100.stm

In this video,gay men with HIV are interviewed across Africa. They talk about what life is like for them.A very interesting look at gay men from a different culture.And the first guy they talk to is such a little cutie pie with an adorable accent.