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Anti-Obesity Programs
Fatten Government
Investor´s Business Daily, by Betsy McCaughey
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Posted By:Emerson, 3/5/2013 10:17:57 PM
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| On Feb. 26, first lady Michelle Obama walked into the produce section of a Wal-Mart in Springfield, Mo., to announce the three-year anniversary of her Healthy Food Financing Initiative, a program to bring stores selling fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods deemed "food deserts." Making it easier to buy produce will reduce obesity, Mrs. Obama claimed. (Snip) In truth, the federal government is spending recklessly on anti-obesity programs based on sham science. Before the president whines again that shaving 2.4% off the federal budget will harm the neediest,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
TheMom, 3/5/2013 10:35:29 PM (No. 9210440)
Anything to make a buck, eh, Mooch?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TXknitter, 3/5/2013 11:14:22 PM (No. 9210471)
She needs to preach this gospel in her own home. There are several family members in need of it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 3/5/2013 11:38:33 PM (No. 9210490)
$400 million to put grocery stores in food deserts. How does that fit in the sequester ?
Any numbers from Wally World on how much more produce they are selling ?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Dante, 3/5/2013 11:55:39 PM (No. 9210503)
What a shock, another scam to line the pockets of obama donors.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 3/6/2013 3:24:15 AM (No. 9210594)
The beauty of this "fresh veggie" scam for big government Dems is that all the stuff is perishable. Meaning that when the torrent of tax dollars starts flowing, the Dems/mobsters who get it don´t even have to buy anything with it. Just keep the money. Two days later, everthing will have disappeared.
This is why obama NEVER proposes real infrastructure projects. Would have to buy cement. FDR proposed and built the Hoover Dam. You can still see it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
provide, 3/6/2013 6:14:30 AM (No. 9210650)
I want to see them go into the Latin neighborhoods and change the diet from tacos for breakfast to low fat yogurt and trail mix. Not all cultures have an English breakfast.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rabbit, 3/6/2013 7:30:21 AM (No. 9210759)
The real scam is the claim is that obesity is the source of all evils. Numerous studies have shown that those who are too thin die more quickly than those who have a little meat on their bones. The obesity guidelines are set so far off than virtually every high school athlete will fall in the ´obese´ range - except they are clearly specimens of excellent health by saner standards.
We have this weird fetish that citizens should all look like runway models or Hollywood starlets, most of whom are far too thin, many of them, anorexic. Even Marilyn Monroe would be deemed overweight by today´s standards.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
goose, 3/6/2013 7:53:47 AM (No. 9210789)
OMG! According to Google Earth I live in a food desert! Makes me hungry just thinking about it.
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/28/2013 10:54:23 PM
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Gay marriage is an issue of equality that fulfills America’s founding principles, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said during Wednesday’s press briefing. Earnest was responding to a reporter who asked whether President Obama feels his stance on gay marriage has “cleared the way” for others to support it publicly, noting Sen. Portman’s decision to support gay marriage earlier this month after his son announced he was gay.
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Sun-Sentinel [Fort Lauderdale, FL], by Barbara Hijek
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/28/2013 7:46:48 PM
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Ruth C. Amen, a longtime office manager of Gulf to Bay Realty, a Boca Grande business, is now facing embezzlement charges after a surprise birthday party for her boss backfired into a paper trail of fraudulent transactions, according to a news release from the Lee County Sheriff´s Office. The 46-year-old Boca Grande woman was reportedly solely responsible for handling the company´s finances such as billing and payroll. It was Amen´s decision to pay for a surprise birthday bash for one of her bosses -- without permission -- that brought the fraudulent transactions to light.
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Washington Free Beacon [DC], by Staff
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/28/2013 7:39:30 PM
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President Obama is scheduled to headline a Democratic National Committee fundraiser next week at the home of a California private equity executive who also sits on the board of a company that received stimulus funds. The fundraiser will be held at the Atherton, Calif. home of Mark Heising.(Snip)Heising sits on the board at Sion Power, “the Rechargeable Battery Company” that was awarded $5 million in stimulus funds from the Department of Energy for lithium-sulfur battery research. The $5 million grant was awarded in June 2010 and has to date created fewer than 32 jobs at the project location
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Wall Street Journal, by GEOFFREY A. FOWLER
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/27/2013 10:38:11 PM
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Employees beware: Don´t fall prey to a cat named Dr. Zaius. "Check out these kitties! :-)" read emails featuring the photo of a Turkish Angora cat with a purple mohawk, sent to nearly two million cubicle dwellers so far. It includes an attachment or link promising more feline photos. Those who click get a surprise: stern warnings from their tech departments. The Dr. Zaius email is a simulated cyberattack. It is among the ploys companies are using to dupe employees into committing unsafe computing as a way to train them not to be so easily fooled.
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This Space for Rent
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Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/27/2013 7:48:53 PM
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n a story produced jointly with NPR, ProPublica.org, that new tax-exempt investigative-journalism outfit, puts forward what sounds like a smart proposal for improving the efficiency of the federal government: Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes--and for free. You´d open up a pre-filled return, see what the government thinks you owe, make any needed changes and be done. The miserable annual IRS shuffle, gone. (Snip)So why hasn´t it become a reality? For two reasons, as it turns out. There is a plausible public-spirited argument against it and a venal interest group working to thwart it.
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Why President Obama’s
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PJ Media, by Barry Rubin
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/19/2013 1:33:41 PM
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To put it plainly, the press briefing intending to indicate how President Barack Obama thinks about Israel on the eve of his trip here was a combination of fantasy and insult. It is likely that the Obama administration made such statements for show — to persuade the Arabic-speaking world that the United States is striving for peace, is not acting like a puppet (or should one say “ally”?) of Israel, and is using its influence to change Israeli policy even as it does nothing of the sort. As proof that Obama isn’t going to do anything,
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PJ Media, by Andrew Klavan
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/19/2013 1:20:09 PM
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When Benedict XVI was pope, the New York Times ran a scurrilous, distortion-infested campaign intended to link the former Joseph Ratzinger with the awful abuse scandals that have so harmed the Catholic Church. These pieces were manifestly dishonest and substance-free when you read them through. But the Times editors know most people don’t read the articles — they read the headlines and the first paragraph. So this morning, the pseudo-journalists at the Times began their campaign of lies against the new pope, Francis, under the damning (and damnable) headline: “Starting a Papacy, Amid Echoes of a ‘Dirty War’”:
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Obama meets with CEOs to
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Los Angeles Times, by Ken Dilanian and Jessica Guynn
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/14/2013 10:25:33 AM
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WASHINGTON — President Obama met with more than a dozen corporate chief executives to seek their support for stalled cyber-security legislation amid increasing evidence that government agencies, businesses and individuals are vulnerable to computer network break-ins. The closed-door session Wednesday at the White House came a day after the nation´s top intelligence officials warned in a Senate hearing that cyber attacks and digital spying have eclipsed terrorism as the top threat to national security. They said the chance of a major attack is remote in the near term,(Snip) As if on cue, authorities reported numerous new cyber attacks Wednesday,
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PJ Media, by Bob Owens
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/12/2013 1:57:27 PM
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The key prosecution witness in the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman has allegedly been caught in a significant lie: Trayvon Martin’s girlfriend, the state’s most important witness in the George Zimmerman murder case, was caught in a lie, it was revealed Tuesday. It was not the first piece of misinformation tied to her, but it was the most damaging to date and left prosecutors in a very awkward position. They had to publicly acknowledge that their star witness had lied under oath
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Reuters, by Stephen Keleher
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/10/2013 8:38:06 PM
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DUNLAP, California - The California wildlife sanctuary where an African lion attacked and killed a worker last week reopened on Sunday, allowing the public to view all the remaining wild cats, including the lion´s mate. Project Survival´s Cat Haven resumed regular operations, including guided tours, with the consent of the family of Dianna Hanson, founder Dale Anderson said at a news conference. (Snip) A 4-year-old male lion named Cous Cous escaped from his feeding pen, apparently by pushing open an improperly secured gate, and pounced on Hanson, fracturing her neck and killing her instantly, Fresno County Coroner David Hadden said.
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Karzai Inflames U.S. Tensions
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Wall Street Journal, by DION NISSENBAUM And YAROSLAV TROFIMOV
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/10/2013 8:15:33 PM
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KABUL—America´s fraught ties with Afghanistan suffered a jarring blow Sunday, when Afghan President Hamid Karzai said during a visit by the new U.S. defense secretary that the Taliban was killing Afghan civilians "in service to America." The remarks, in a televised speech hours before Mr. Karzai´s meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, capped a series of confrontations between the Afghan president and the U.S. over his demands to assert Afghan sovereignty and curtail American military operations. Mr. Karzai met Mr. Hagel a day after suspected Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 18 people
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Posted By: Emerson- 3/7/2013 1:21:49 PM
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In December 2010, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) conducted the longest talking filibuster in 27 years, speaking for 8.5 hours in opposition to President Obama’s tax deal with Republicans — a speech Sanders later turned into a book. On Wednesday into Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) busted the “Filibernie” record (Snip) as he demanded answers from the Obama administration on policy regarding domestic drone strikes. “I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights
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President Obama´s biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as "the best-looking attorney general," but in introducing an observation from the system of beauty into a forum that was about the system of power.What´s that, you say? Irin Carmon does a great job in Salon in laying out the bounds of propriety for when it´s appropriate to talk about a woman´s looks as a general matter. But I´ve long felt we lack a solid theoretical underpinning for easily discussing these issues, and why precisely it is that
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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima
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Posted By: Ribicon- 4/7/2013 2:43:40 PM
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”
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Hillary Clinton Would Not
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/6/2013 5:22:36 AM
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Vanishing workforce
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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/6/2013 11:28:59 PM
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/7/2013 8:08:09 AM
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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