wtf??????????

what's going on? i eat a LOT of peanuts and peanut products. i didn't have to give any of them up from the last recall because i know the source of my peanuts was not from the contamination site.

NOW PISTACHIO NUTS? i'm addicated and i know many others who are as well. what's happening with our food sources? i'd expect this from some countries BUT NOT OURS. how wrong am i?

truth be told i knew about the peanuts this is the FIRST i'm hearing about pistachios

FDA says to avoid pistachios amid salmonella scare

By GARANCE BURKE

The Associated Press

FRESNO, Calif. -- Federal food safety officials warned Monday that consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination.

Still reeling from the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts, the Food and Drug Administration said central California-based Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., the nation's second-largest pistachio processor, was voluntarily recalling a portion of the roasted nuts it has been shipping since last fall. A Setton spokeswoman said that amounts to more than 2 million pounds of nuts.

"Our advice to consumers is that they avoid eating pistachio products, and that they hold onto those products," said Dr. David Acheson, assistant commissioner for food safety. "The number of products that are going to be recalled over the coming days will grow, simply because these pistachio nuts have then been repackaged into consumer-level containers."......

mcdonalds, subway, a bag of pistachios and breasts

that's now how (they want us to believe) detainees at gitmo are being interrogated.

number one - i wonder to myself. why are they offering subway and micky Ds? aren't most if not all of the 'detainees' muslims who observe strict halal meat laws? shows just how much we DON'T know about 'friendly persuasion' doesn't it?

i believe this is happening. a kinder gentler interrogation. i also am not naive enough to believe for ONE SECOND stricter and harsher methods of interrogation have been put aside.

don't get me wrong. ANY and ALL (including DOMESTIC TERRORISTS LIKE THOSE WHO BOMB ABORTION CLINICS) terrorists deserved to be locked up and punished to THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW. what i also believe in is OUR CONSTITUTION AND THE GENEVA CONVENTION

at any rate, i found this piece of steamin' propaganda most interesting in an effed up sort of way of course

Pistachios at Guantanamo

By Jackson Diehl

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- Via a monitoring camera, I saw a snippet of an interrogation session here one day last week inside one of the high-security complexes where foreign detainees are held. No faces were visible, but I glimpsed the jingling bracelets, open-toed sandals and skirts of two young women, who were seated in soft leather chairs around a table with a man in prison garb. One woman was the interrogator; the other was a translator. The means of persuasion, apart from the evident feminine charm, was a generous bag of pistachios -- a usually unavailable treat.
Yes, I was on a tour organized by the Pentagon; but no, the scene I witnessed was not a staged departure from a norm of pressure and pain. Rather, it was a sign of what five years of experience have taught Guantanamo's interrogators about the most effective means of collecting intelligence from the "enemy combatants" captured in the fight against al-Qaeda. "Most of the productivity we see over time," said a top intelligence official, "comes from the milk of human kindness."...........