pay tax or die

was cooking dinner last night on my camp stove, spaghetti and sausages for $1.69 at
Grocery Outlet, and 2 cans of stewed tomatoes I got from the senior center
handouts last Tuesday.

only I forgot to stir the spaghetti, and didn't have any stirrer handy because the neighbor's dog keeps carrying away my bamboo utensils. so I tried to make do with a grater, but then I pushed too hard and the whole thing went crashing down.

I had plenty of water handy and easily put out the flame, but the penny stove had fallen in the food itself and the bittering agent added to make the fuel alcohol non-potable ruined it completely. so now I'm out my planned dinner. I've still got food for tonight, thankfully, but without a grasping government I could have salvaged my intended meal.

without government there's always a chance that cheap alcohol will be toxic or otherwise undrinkable.

only with government is that guaranteed.

from my blog at http://jc.unternet.net/blog/government_guarantees_it

adding images

here's how I added the above image to the post, after uploading the png to my blog server: ![CVS Ethyl MSDS](http://jc.unternet.net/blog/cvs_alc_msds.png "CVS Ethyl MSDS"), hat tip to https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet