this is just TMI for my po po sensitivities.
ICK!

Words truly do fail.

With the epidemic of obesity in the U.S. there just might be a way out of America’s dependence on foreign oil. Homegrown fat.

The Yes Men have got to be green with envy. They only did Vivoleum as a joke.

We have all been powering our vehicles with wasted humans for years.
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this is creepy.

Probably not, but maybe it could free up some of our corn from being earmarked (so to speak) for ethanol instead of food.

Actually no. I would expect that the demand for corn would be increased as people fattened themselves up before going in to deposit their excess weight to be turned into liponol. Corn commodities would go through the roof and there would be less corn to turn directly into ethanol. The Liponol industry and Ethanol industry would be in fierce competition for access to corn but on the flip side the price of the non-petrol fuel would go decrease with competition.

Bah, humbug.

The chance that he actually put adipose tissue in his tank is pretty close to zip.

Fo those who didn’t click through, the suits are really because he had his unlicensed girlfriend doing lipo & messing up patients bodies.

Big Oil hears of this and folks might start disappearing.

Could the vehicles catch a communicable disease? Could it be transmitted?
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Now if we could just harness all the hot air that politicians produce or convert all the manure they shovel at us into good clean energy.

Ethinol.

Countdown to Shrub’s permanent vacation…? ;-)

This opens up all kinds of possibilities

The Trans Fatty Highway

A new Pontiac model – Key Lardo

Or a new Hybrid… Jumbo Air

Yup
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Well at 35 mpg- it would take a hell of a lot of surgery to get to Pasadena.

That photograph — ouch.

Do you measure lard by the pound or by the gallon?
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By the french fry or QP w/cheese. Makes it much easier for the marketing department.

well, America IS the Saudi Arabia of body fat…

Oh lardy lardy ain’t that the trufth.
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Sustainability!

Why not just set up plastic surgery/liposuction clinics right next to the Quickie Marts at gas stations?

Just send the stuff right from fat thighs to “your” gas tank.

Can I power my own car and get svelte at the same time?

I wonder if the smell of burning human fat follows those fat guzzling trucks???

AND we could cut out the middle-man by hooking ourselves up to our cars and shedding fat while we drive. Would require some calibration, but still…

Willie Nelson gets the before and Dr Bitner gets the after.
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There’s a certain Hannibal Lecter quality to all this.

Chuck, Chuck, I’ve got an idea! Eat McBurgers while driving, deposit fat simultaneously, whilst fueling the Hummer. Booyah!

Quicke Mart is that where Dennis Prager goes?
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I think you have to “render” it in order to burn it- so “gallon” seems appropriate….

How many pints of tissue does one get per surgery?

This made my day. This guy’s my hero of the hour. His proposal addresses, modestly shows potential to simultaneously address two intractable social diseases in America: obesity and hydrocarbon dependence.

You’d have to subtract the energy used in the “rendering” in order to get a “net” number…I don’t think this thing is gunna be commercially viable.

Now, if we can just link this to chastity, we’re talking major social progress!

A certain Mr. Pantload should hide quick if this idea “takes off.” I hear there are some good spots at Yellowstone to disappear.

Cornyn says that goopers will refuse to seat Franken in the senate until Coleman says it’s OK and Reid says he won’t seat anyone Blogo sends…

Gonna be a slightly smaller senate- so how many to block cloture?

Ooooo…fuel from teenage hormones. Now that’s abundant and renewable energy!

Officials in Minnesota are pretty darn sure that Coleman and Franken will work out their differences.

Great idea of the gopher supremes to say that both camps had to agree on every ballot. Why didn’t they think of that in Florida?

Yes, yes, YES!!! But without doing the nasty. This is big, bonkers. Very big.

Whew, those hours, FM, is citing aren’t ticking off fast enough…

Iran war hawk John Bolton said that Israel’s recent bombing campaign in Gaza is all the more reason for the United States to bomb Iran now. “So while our focus obviously is on Gaza right now, this could turn out to be a much larger conflict,” he said, adding that “we’re looking at potentially a multi-front war here.”

“You would strike Iran right now?” asked host Alan Colmes. “I would have done it before this,” Bolton responded. Colmes asked whether tensions and war across Middle East would escalate if the U.S. or Israel were to bomb Iran. Bolton said that the many Arab countries would secretly be cheering if Iran were attacked…

Has he ever been right…?

Because they’re not Swedish! *g*

Does this mean that the dems could refuse to seat Cornyn, Imhoff, Corker Mitchell, and SHelby?
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Has he ever been right…?

No.

This has been another case of simple answers…

bonkers 12 hits it.
but the smell? It’s bad enough going by a fast food place and watching the smell come and attach itself to you for that nice greasy layer you need on your clothing.

Franken up by 50. Next up: Some 1,600 absentee ballots wrongly rejected. As to not seating Franken, my guess is that he’ll stand if need be. *g*

Maybe some positive news from Iraq…

The trial of al-Zeidi was to begin Wednesday on charges of assaulting a foreign leader, which his defense team said carried a maximum sentence of 15 years. But a spokesman for Iraq’s Higher Judicial Council, Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar, told The Associated Press it was postponed pending an appellate court ruling on whether the charges should be reduced to simply insulting Bush.[…]

Two of al-Zeidi’s lawyers said they hoped the reduced charges, which carry a maximum sentence of three years, would allow al-Zeidi to be released on bail. No date was set for the appellate court ruling.

“There is a difference between assault and insult; al-Zeidi wanted to express his objection to the occupation. So the case is within the context of an insult and not an intention to kill,” his lawyer Diaa al-Saadi told the AP.

Although, I think he should be released already and reparations paid to him for the torture he’s endured… :-(

Heh. No way!!!