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Sugar kills

Posted on December 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Sugar kills

Don’t believe it? Big Sugar (far more insidious than the left’s favorite whipping post Big Oil) has done its best to hide that simple truth for decades.

At one time the ‘crats of the Agriculture Department went so far as to second the industry’s astounding claim that eating candy could help you lose weight. Even the feds couldn’t stomach that lie for long and it quietly disappeared with the next iteration of the food pyramid.

I struggle to avoid sugar. The stuff is every bit as addictive as tobacco and, for the unfortunate few, alcohol. But I keep being mindful of every cookie or spoonful of ice cream and long ago forswore sugar sodas altogether. Now they no longer even taste good to me.

Because for someone my age (68) the road to obesity and diabetes, probable amputation and definite death much sooner than I’d prefer, is paved with sugar. Fortunately others will soon be getting the message and those with will power can begin their struggle as well. We can’t count on the feds to help. The ‘crats and the pols were bought off by Big Sugar long ago.

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The ladies compartment

Posted on November 11, 2012 | Comments Off on The ladies compartment

In addition to the lurch to Sharia law via Commissar Barry’s Islamist pals in the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt is not a nice place for women in other ways.

Not only do they not provide free contraceptives and legal abortion (single American women who voted for Barry take especial note) but all women can expect to be groped in public.

Hence the ladies compartment on the Cairo subways.

“In general,” writes Israeli blogger Lisa Goldman, “sexual harassment in Egypt is annoying and a bit oppressive, but not nearly as bad as I had expected – and certainly no worse than the harassment I experienced while traveling in India…”

From what I’ve heard over the years from women journalists traveling on the Mexico City subways they could use a ladies compartment there, too. But I don’t think Mexico’s machismo culture is likely to permit any.

If America is supposedly so sexist, as Commissar Barry and Boob Biden (war on women, etc.) and the Left constantly tell us via their media and political propaganda, how come being molested on public transportation isn’t a problem here?

Via Lisa Goldman.

(With the, uh, possible exception of L.A.)

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One-child by choice

Posted on October 18, 2012 | Comments Off on One-child by choice

Spengler’s book on the coming world wide population implosion is scary enough: the death of Europe and China and their languages and, surprisingly, the death of Islam as well, as Muslim women stop having more than one or two children.

It is encouraging that he contends that we, here in the land of the fee, are right at replacement (2.1 children) and therefore have nothing to worry about. Ahem. Turns out, according to this fellow, we haven’t been at replacement for two generations, we have adopted the Chinese one-child policy by choice and we are in the same slow boat to China as Europe.

“If you’re under 40, fertility declines will dictate how you navigate old age. If you’re under 10, fertility declines will influence your entire adult life. If we don’t reverse this trend, economic systems will suffer, international affairs will be reordered, and innovation will slow in every sector—except, of course, for healthcare.”

And last year was the worst yet: “In the last year the number of  ‘first’ births dropped to the lowest level ever recorded in America.”

The educated like to claim that, no fear, the Mexicans and other Central and South Americans will just replace the folks of European ancestry here. In fact, their women are contracting the same “disease” white American women have: more choices, more money, fewer children.

It’s tempting to blame the Democrats and their constant waving of the Planned Parenthood Association’s abortion banner. But most of the babies PPA kills are black. The party of the KKK is making its pointy-hat ancestors very proud. Our overall demographic bust, however, is more complicated than abortion, and far less likely to be reversed.

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Obama’s 2007 speech

Posted on October 2, 2012 | Comments Off on Obama’s 2007 speech

I’m not really inclined to get riled over something Obozo said five years ago, anymore than I get upset when the Democrat media dredges up some tidbit of years past trying to make a Republican candidate look bad: Gov. Perry’s rock episode, for instance, or Gov. Romney’s alleged belligerence to some girl in (wait for it) high school.

But I have to admit it’s very amusing watching Obumbles’ court media (which is most of it, from the alphabet teevee outlets to the big-city dailies) fall all over themselves trying to justify their having swept the 2007 speech lionizing Rev. Wright under the campaign rug. Now that it’s emerged despite their best efforts, they’re trying to sweep it under the White House rug, you might say.

Of course they’re his puppets, who could miss it? But it’s really a pleasure watching them prove it. Instapundit has a nice summary in case you care. Me, I wasn’t going to vote for Barack Hussein Obama, anyhow. Not because he’s a closet-racist, but because he’s a thief, and a liar and an accessory to murder. Things he’s spent the past four years doing. His, uh, presidential record, as it were. I don’t want to see him embarrassed. I want him impeached.

UPDATE:  Roger L. Simon, a onetime civil rights marcher, nails it:

“Indeed, our president is the reverse of what he appears to be, pretending to bring the races together when he profits by driving them apart. In that sense, he is similar to Yasser Arafat, talking one way to the West and another to his Palestinian brothers.”

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Make Congress (and the White House) pee in a cup

Posted on October 1, 2012 | Comments Off on Make Congress (and the White House) pee in a cup

Speaking of American consumption of marijuana and cocaine….

Barney Frank, the loathsome ex-rep from Massachusetts whose face (like Harry Reid’s) is fixed in a scowl suggesting cheap dentures, reminds me of how our permanent political class has exempted itself from most of the laws the rest of us must obey.

Not only do they practice free insider-trading on the legislation they pass, while the likes of Martha Stewart wind up in prison for it, but Barney’s drug dalliance could (and has) sent many of us to jail and subsequently prison. Think of all the young college football players arrested for smoking pot.

Barney does it (well, he admits to doing it once) in baked brownies. How charming. And, of course Barry (thanks to a recent biographer) is now renowned as a pot and cocaine user in high school and college, which has to make you wonder if he’s still tokin’ and snortin’ in the White House.

Barney’s in favor of legalizing marijuana, and that’s probably the only thing he and I agree on. But, meanwhile,  how about we make all of them pee in the cup like so many Americans have to do? I know, I know. They make the laws and they wouldn’t pass that one. They aren’t that honest. But we can hold their feet to the fire.

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Rapido Furioso: Can we impeach AG Holder now?

Posted on October 1, 2012 | Comments Off on Rapido Furioso: Can we impeach AG Holder now?

As a commenter at YouTube said, this Univision trailer alone should spark Obozo’s Watergate. But, of course, the Democrat media (that’s, ah, most of them) doesn’t investigate Democrats. They only do hit pieces on Republicans.

Nixon was impeached for lying about a break-in. Obumbles is complicit to murder. AG Holder lied to Congress and Obozo lied to Univision and everyone else when they claimed that Bush Jr. did it first.

Unfortunately, it’s not true. “Unfortunately,” I say, because only if it was true would the loved ones of all the Mexicans who died in Rapido Furioso get some justice.

UPDATE:  Romney/Ryan want Holder to resign. I’d go for more than that.

MORE:  Indeed, our lawless AG was lawless back in 1970, too.

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The coveted Venezuelen dictator endorsement

Posted on September 30, 2012 | Comments Off on The coveted Venezuelen dictator endorsement

It was bound to come, Hugo’s endorsement of Barack Hussein Obama for re-election. It was a surprise to Reuters, supposedly. But not to me.

After all, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has endorsed him and, in a sort of backhanded way, so has Iran’s dictatorial president, Mamoud the Mad.

Hey, he had the anti-Muslim video-maker arrested. And you just know the Democrat moderators will slip him their Wednesday debate questions in advance. What’s for a dictator not to like?

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