Recent content by dmccarty

Yep, I agree. They say that HFCS is process differently by our bodies. One of the things I have heard/read is that HFCS does not satisfy your hunger so you keep eating. Europe uses HFCS but their fructose content is something like 9-35% vs the US 55ish%. When I was in school there might be...

Yes, the sugar cane industry has been protected from overseas competition which has kept sugar prices high. Now, some would argue high sugar prices are a good thing to lower sugar consumption. Some European countries are limiting sugar in products and taxing it is my understanding. I don't...

We have noticed that when we have traveled to other countries, we loose weight, or worse case, don't gain weight even though we eat more food when traveling. We certainly go to more restaurants when traveling than when at home. On the second trip to Ireland we would eat chips, aka potato...

Funny that you mentioned this about Ireland. Our first trip to Ireland was by boat. After arriving at our final port before flying home, we took the boat's owner to dinner. He wanted a Gin and Tonic but he was afraid the tonic would have high fructose corn syrup(HFCS). We had a long...

The NASA P3 is back again doing more interesting patterns. I really think they are looking at the river water levels.

We have only spent a great deal of time in Ireland and the Netherlands with a week or so in Scotland which was on a boat visiting smaller port towns with only a short time in Glasgow. One of the expressions, and law, they have in some/many European countries is "anti-social behavior." It...

Regarding the stock market. Over the years, I have noticed that the market seems to settle into a range from X to X+Y. The market will move up or down with some big change, for some reason, but it settles into a range where it just bounces around. So for example, back in Feb and Mar, the...

John D. MacArthur was a South Florida billionaire. I read an article about him in the early 1980's that mentioned his office which I eventually drove by one day by happenstance. It was an old, small house along a sorta major road. The house was likely built in the 1920's or 1930's. Across...

Seems like a "normal" year so far. The dog picks up quite a few ticks all year round and he ran into a nest of seed ticks yesterday..... :( Was out earlier this week repairing the driveway from the 10-12 inches of rain we had last weekend. The mosquitoes were vicious. A couple of weeks...

You are talking about the dog and not the wife? :unsure: 😁:ROFLMAO::D Speaking of booty scratches, our dog is the same. He likes to have is butt rubbed and will dance in place if you get the right spot. He will have lift one leg after the other and kinda dance in one spot. Really funny to...

The EU has ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorization System) that we now have to do, well will have to do, but it keeps getting pushed out into the future. Now it is for some time in 2026 the last I read. Supposedly, this was because the US had a requirement to check people entering...

We have spent more time walking around Dublin than any US city. Only got a bit nervous in one area near the Guinness Store House, not because of people directly, but just the trash, graffiti, barbed wire, razor wire, etc. It was a nicer, newer area but it was off. We did have an issue with a...

It will be interesting if you notice the changes that have been happening Dublin, and the rest of Ireland, over the last few years. There is much that is happening in Ireland and Northern Ireland that is not getting covered in the usual media outlets, and if covered, not telling the whole...

This one just showed up hugging the coastline and avoiding bad weather to the west. A Ukrainian An-12 that took off from Titusville, FLA, aka Cape Canaveral, and is heading to Portsmouth, NH. It's last flight was Leipzig to Turin. No record of how it got to Titusville but supposedly, it is...

Saw this today. A NASA P3. The P3 used to be, and still is, though being replaced, a submarine hunter. Given the rain we had from Chantal, my guess is that the plane is looking at flood waters? But one would think it would flying more over the rivers. It is flying low too at 3,200-3,000...