19 Jul 2005 @ 8:46 AM 

You won’t believe this. On the other hand, maybe you will. Clinton speaks before Hispanic civil rights conference.

Speaking to the nations’ largest Hispanic civil rights organization, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., received a standing ovation Monday when she vowed her support for legislation that would allow illegal immigrant high school students to attend college. [emphasis mine]

If they want to go to college here, let them come in legally. Supporting legislation like this only encourages more illegal immigration, and we as a nation cannot withstand much more of this. Mexican Enclaves are popping up everywhere, including here in Memphis. And they are not joining in the “melting pot” that is America. They are keeping their Mexican heritage intact and refusing to assimilate. They demand that we speak to them in their language, because they refuse to learn ours.
This is getting out of control and it has to stop somewhere. Senator Clinton and her ilk are a contributing factor in the destruction of the American culture and way of life. And they know it, and are active and willing participants in the process.
Stop them. Stop them now. Oppose any effort to extend any help or assistance to illegals. That is the only way to chase them back over the border.

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Last Edit: 19 Jul 2005 @ 08 46 AM

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 19 Jul 2005 @ 8:30 AM 

I think I’m in pretty good health for a sedentary 44 year old. I donate blood regularly, so I know my last blood pressure. When it was taken last week, it was 110 over 70, my last cholesterol check was 102. I’m 6′3″ and I weigh 215. But according to the CDC’s BMI Mass Index I am overweight. I would have to drop another 16 pounds to get to “normal.”
Which brings us to this story: The Government’s Fat-Fear Farce.

You’re probably fat, too. The average woman is 5 foot 3 inches tall. By the time she hits 141 pounds, the government says she is officially “overweight.” At 170, she’s “obese.” The average man of 5 feet, 10 inches hits “overweight” at 174 pounds. By 209 pounds, he’s “obese.” Something is wrong here. When people like Cruise, world-class athletes and a fit president are being told by the government that they need to lose weight, perhaps there’s something wrong with our metric.

It is interesting about the politics of the study itself:

But last April, a study commissioned by the National Institutes of Health urged by critics of the obesity hysteria confirmed what less hysterical health researchers had suspected all along. The 400,000 figure was wrong. And not by a little bit. The actual figure is closer to 100,000. And guess what? According to recent research, people who are slightly “overweight” are actually healthier than those who are normal weight. When you factor in the number of lives saved by being modestly overweight, the number of people who die due to obesity drops to around 25,000.
The CDC has been reluctant to embrace the new study’s figure. That might have something to do with the fact that the CDC’s director, Julie Gerberding, was co-author of the 400,000 study. In fact, a subsequent internal investigation revealed that the CDC may have actually known that the original study was flawed! It seems the study was published over objections from peer-reviewers due to internal politics. In other words, because the boss wrote the study.

Just one more case of bad science, activist researchers who make the facts fit what they think is right, instead of admitting they were wrong and adjusting themselves to fit the facts.
Sheesh.

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Last Edit: 19 Jul 2005 @ 08 30 AM

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 19 Jul 2005 @ 8:22 AM 

And finally, a fun puzzle. There are two errors in this picture from McDonald’s. Can you spot them? Click on the picture for a larger view.

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Last Edit: 19 Jul 2005 @ 08 22 AM

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