YOU MAY HAVE HEARD BY NOW THAT BAGGED UNSWEETENED PUFFED WHEAT AND PUFFED RICE CEREALS MADE BY MALT-O-MEAL and sold under not only the Malt-O-Meal name and stylee, but also under several private store-brand labels (details follow), have been contaminate with salmonella bacteria.

Which, under the right conditions, can only mean that your brekkie can be a rather unpleasant experience. As in making you sick.

In any case, the afflicted products are bagged unsweetened Puffed Rice and Puffed Wheat cereals manufactured by The Malt-O-Meal Company with "best if used by" dates between 8 April 2008 and 18 March 2009, inclusive, sold in 6-oz. and 16-oz. bags under not only the Malt-O-Meal name and stylee, but also under these private label brands:

• Acme
• America's Choice
• Food Club
• Giant
• Hannaford
• Jewel
• Laura Lynn
• Pathmark
• Shaw's
• Shop-Rite
• Tops
• Weis Quality

(The compleat list of afflicted products, and the UPC codes involved, can be found @ www.malt-o-meal.com/recallinfo/ when you have time. If it turns out that you have any such, please return it to your store for full refund.

(And if you can't find any bags of the product in question, please understand that all such specimens have been removed from store shelves as a health and safety precaution.)

In the meantime ... how about some Carnation Instant Breakfast instead?

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NO DOUBT AS FAMILIAR AS THOSE BUMPER STICKERS FOR THE LIKES OF CERTAIN SHOOBIE TRAPS like Wall Drug Store, the Tommy Bartlett Show and Rock City--or are they?--are these ladies' bumper stickers you might find hilarious:

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ANOTHER UNLIKELY BYPRODUCT OF THE UR-RAHOWA IN IRAQ IS THE USE OF FOREIGN GUEST WORKERS from other Muslim countries (Indonesia in particular) tricked into working there under false or misleading pretenses by employment agencies promising employment in Dubai or Bahrain as, say, domestics or construction labourers--only to wind up in the Khurdistani region of Iraq.

Your Correspondent understands where an Indonesian woman who was thus deceived is suing the employment agency she used for fraud and deception, claiming, among other things, that:

• she was tricked into paying thousands for job placements as were not as promised;
• she was paid in Iraqi dinars (and in notes, @ that) when her work was finished; and
• she was asked to pay US$2,500 for the "privilege" to return to Indonesia when she started complaining about working conditions and the ruses she wound up falling for.

Which can likely be expected of such among the American Lower Classes tricked into "resettlement" in Occupied Iraq under the guise of "social betterment."

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AND WHICH BRINGS UP DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL WANNABE BARAK OBAMA'S REMARKS @ THE WEEKEND about working-class Americans somehow have lost touch with both major political parties for their not addressing the real issues facing the working classes, prompting same to consider distractionary issues like gun control, abortion, homosexuality and the ur-RAHOWA when it comes to how to cast their ballot.

Especially such resident in rural, small-town and otherwise low-income and socioeconomically-disadvantaged communities--which, it turns out, have perhaps some of the biggest and most loyal audience numbers for Fox Prolefeed and its perversion of the Fifth Estate on cable and satellite TV systems.

Something which Sen. Obama may want to ponder as a fact.