Posted on 02/09/2015 11:09:59 AM PST by mbarker12474
o.O
There is another obvious solution to the caller’s point...
If there is too much salt in the ocean, it should be taxed. Will help with the deficit.
If the ocean’s salt is starting to deplete, it should be subsidized. A bit more Monetary Easing will go a long way to paying for this.
If you think this is going to break the budget, then, to make up for the above... we should also tax de-salinized water, and subsidize too salty water.
No new legislation would be required to do the above, since the EPA rules on the waters of the earth.
I don’t routinely use table salt, which is iodized to prevent iodine deficiency. If we used only sea salt, would that lead to more goiter and stuff?
Okay. Good. Missed this.
It sure sounded like a gag, but nobody ever explicitly said so while I was listening.
Now if this was on NPR....
“There is so much assault in the Dead Sea”
Hope the battery component isn’t growing as well.
We use pink Himalayan salt, have done so since the 1990s. Just seems to taste better and is convenient to grind as desired in those grinder bottles that contain the salt chunks. That having been said, I just looked up an article on it by some doctor (I take what doctors say with a grain of salt). Says there are many trace minerals in it, including radium, uranium, polonium and thallium. I wouldn't worry, as those are extremely tiny traces if present at all, and naturally occur in many foods we eat (like bananas) in larger amounts.
As for sea salt, they recently closed down some very old sea salt ponds here in the SF Bay Area. They were huge, on the shore for miles, and there used to be giant mountains of salt in the dry ponds that one could see as you drove by them on the highway. There is plenty of salt in the ocean!
It was a joke call. In honor of Brian Williams, Rush clearly invited callers to call in with made up stories.
A much more pressing problem is the perverse and widespread use of baby oil. Doesn’t anyone realize how many babies they have to squeeze to get one bottle of oil?
Oh, the humanity! It must be outlawed for the children.
My father said one of his sisters had to do that for a brief time around WWII, and I think she just turned 90 a couple of weeks ago.
Disclaimer: Check with your MD...
ha! this must be satire... btw, i use sea salt and kosher salt... i am not rich...
No. Natural sea salts are rich in iodine, so it doesn't need to be artificially added in. Commercial refined salt is stripped of all it's minerals, chemically cleaned and bleached. The iodine that is added is synthetic. An anti-caking chemical is also added that can build up in your organs causing problems. Stay away from refined table salt.
Just think: the Great Lakes are said to contain 20% of the world's fresh water.
All us Creepy-Ass-Crackers, use white pepper!
http://www.mccormick.com/Spices-and-Flavors/Herbs-and-Spices/Spices/White-Pepper-Ground
All my Pants-Down-Homies use, black salt!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Namak
I use an exotic salt blended using kidney residue harvested from Spotted Owls and caged “Coffee Civets.”
Just doing my part to save the ocean.
Wouldn’t this be racist against Himalayan Yetis?
Bourdain at “The French Laundry” was offered 200M year old sea salt from one of the Dakotas, iirc.
Those salt ponds in the Bay Area are why I avoid sea salt.
The ponds concentrate the salt as well as every pollutant in the bay. Probably why they closed them down.
This thread made me thirsty.
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