Military no longer allowed to ask-for now. Fourteen state lawmakers want to over-turn the 14th Amendment. Haiti has its own housing bubble. Feds itchin' to wire-tap. The CIA doesn't like one of its own saying bad things about the organization without being vetted first. What's so controversial? Uncle Thomas stalks Anita once again. Poor enough for ya? How about the weather? BP made the grade. End of the world postponed by five more decades? R.I.P. Mr. C.

How's the Chamber of Commerce investigation going?

ATLANTA (AP) — Nearly 17% of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity, according to new research that suggests the nation's weight problem may be having close to twice the impact on medical spending as previously estimated.
One expert acknowledged that past estimates likely underestimated the costs and said the new study — which places obesity-related medical costs at around $168 billion — probably is closer to the truth.

"I think these are the most recent and perhaps statistically sound estimates that have come out to date," said Kenneth Thorpe, a health policy researcher at Emory University who has focused on the cost of health care.

The new research was done by John Cawley of Cornell University and Chad Meyerhoefer of Lehigh University. It was released this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization.

An influential recent study released last year — which has been cited by federal health officials — estimated that obesity-related medical costs have reached $147 billion, or about 9% of total medical costs.

The earlier study also estimated that obesity adds about $1,400 to a person's annual medical bills. The new study suggests the added cost is double that, exceeding $2,800.

http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/fitness/2010...

bolder and bolder! They think nothing of spouting racist comments, call the President every name in the book, illegally arrest journalists trying to do their job, refuse to talk to the press when they're running FOR A PUBLIC OFFICE, have no shame not knowing what the Constitution REALLY says, etc. etc. etc.

Ginni Thomas should probably ask her hubby about that pubic hair on the Coke can. And about that video with Long Dong Silver?

This time against Chevron.

You never know about those Latino Drug Mules, I don't blame Reichsmarschall Angle for calling them on their treachery! Obviously, many of the Mexican kids have orders to observe the Asians and learn to permanently squint their eyes until they can pass for Chinese! That way the Mexicans can avoid the immigrant sweeps that will start immediately after the Tea Party takes America over.

field laborers? When Governor St. Reagan was in the Statehouse of Californa he had no immigration policy.

According to the hagiographers, Reagan single-handedly
broke the back' of the Soviet Union, single-handedly dissolved the Soviet Union, and single-handedly ended the Cold War, thereby saving us all from the Red Scare for forevermore.

Etc, etc, etc, ........

Reagan's administration was responsible for more indictments being handed down to members of his administration than any administration before him. (GW will shatter that record).

...and it should be noted, that many of those individuals indicted, and involved in the scandals of Reagan's day, have today, been brought back into positions to either formulate, or sway US policy once again.

Reagan is not merely noted for his accomplishments, he is elevated far beyond them, and his failures are erased and covered over with outright falsehoods.

Reagan's 'canonization' is unearned, and yet it persists, and the myth grows.

And to be fair, Reagan didn't dream up the Amnesty legislation, his handlers may have set him up to promote it, but it was formulated by others, and instituted by Congress. (many of whom are still handling the present 'spokesman' and many of whom are still sitting in Congress today) and yet while Reagan was signing that bill, wife Nancy had hired two illegal maids from Peru right in the White House!