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Michael Moore: Democrats’ Health Care Bill Is A Gift To Insurance Companies
From Prison Planet, Michael Moore says that the Democrats’ health care bill is a scam:
In a speech broadcast on Canadian television Tuesday, Michael Moore savaged the Democrats’ healthcare bill, calling it a gift to the health insurance industry, which he argues will make $70 billion more as a result of mandated health insurance.
“The health insurance companies are going to make an extra $70 billion dollars as a result of Americans being forced to buy their health insurance,” Moore quipped. “What company wouldn’t love this bill?”
Obama’s Approval Rating Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time
AFP reports that Obama’s leadership no longer is favored by the majority of Americans:
President Barack Obama’s job approval rating has dipped below 50 percent nationally for the first time, as Americans worry about the war in Afghanistan, a new poll released Wednesday found.
The Quinnipiac University poll showed 48 percent of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling his job as president, compared to 42 percent who disapprove. The president also scored low marks from Americans on his handling of the situation in Afghanistan, with just 38 percent saying they approved of his approach.
Did All Life Originate From A Proton-Powered Rock?
New Scientist writes on the possible origin of life on Earth:
The most counter-intuitive trait of life could be one of the best clues to its origin. At one time everyone assumed that cells got their energy using straightforward chemical reactions. However, Nobel Prize-winning biologist Peter Mitchell argued, correctly, that life is powered not by the kind of chemistry that goes on in a test tube but by a kind of electricity; the energy from food is used to pump positively charged hydrogen ions, or protons, creating an electrochemical gradient.
Proton power drives not only cell respiration, but photosynthesis too: energy from the sun is converted into a proton gradient in essentially the same way as the energy of food. This suggests that proton power is no late innovation but evolved early in…
AFA List Of Anti-Christmas Stores To Boycott
It may seem a little early, but now is the time of season to get irate over Christmas. The conservative Christian American Family Association has compiled their color-coded “Naughty or Nice” list of retailers to boycott for being on the wrong side of the “War on Christmas.”
The website explains that “AFA reviewed up to four areas to determine if a company was Christmas-friendly.” A boycott of the P.C., Christmas-censoring Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic stores is being called for; why, why does Old Navy hate Jesus so much?
Japan Creates Legal Waist Limit
Are you too fat for Japan? The Global Post writes on the nation’s new national waist limits: 33.5 inches for men and 35.4 inches for women.
In the world’s slimmest industrialized nation, those whose bellies expand beyond the legal limit may be subject to therapy and exercise classes (no jail time as of now).
The goal of the new regulations is to head off metabolic syndrome, or “metabo,” a combination of health risks, including stomach flab, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, that can lead to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Companies are offering discounted gym memberships and developing diet plans for workers, and citizens are buying new metabo-fighting products, such as a $1,400 machine called the Joba that imitates a bucking bronco.
The New (Gringo) Face Of Day Labor
The Las Vegas Sun has an article of the recent trend of U.S. citizens’ joining the ranks of immigrants who stand in store parking lots, hoping to be picked up for work:
It sounds like a George Lopez joke: “Times are so bad that I saw an Anglo day laborer standing outside Home Depot the other day.”
Except it’s true…In the latest sign of the Las Vegas Valley’s economic free fall, U.S. citizens are starting to show up in the early mornings outside home improvement stores and plant nurseries across the Las Vegas Valley, jostling with illegal immigrants for a shot at a few hours of work.
McDonald’s In Guantanamo Bay
Did you know there’s a McDonald’s In Guantanamo Bay? It’s true. They’re currently hiring for the position of assistant manager. Notice how the listing avoids referring to Guantanamo by name, instead calling it “the United States Naval base in Cuba.” Apparently, no special security clearance is need for the job, just a desire to “Enjoy the perks.”
Get Raped, Lose Your Health Insurance
CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks to a woman who was dropped by her health insurance company after suffering an attack in which she was drugged and raped. It’s because she now needs therapy and antiretroviral medicine (as a precaution to prevent any possible HIV infection), and insurance companies don’t like paying for those.
Top Obama Advisors Want More Troops In Afghanistan
The New York Times reports on the march to perpetual war in Afghanistan occurring within the Obama administration:
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan.
Officials said that while Admiral Mullen and Mrs. Clinton were generally in sync with Mr. Gates in supporting an option of about 30,000 troops, there were variations in their positions and they were not working in lock step.
Glenn Beck Loses Lawsuit Against Glenn-Beck-Rape Website
Glenn Beck has lost his legal claim against the creator of the website www.glennbeckrapedandmurferedayounggirlin1990.com. Using the sort of twisted logic typically deployed by the television host himself, the site was created by one Isaac Eiland-Hall based on the possibility that Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, as Beck has never denied taking part in such an attack.
Two months ago, Beck’s lawyers filed a claim that the website was created in bad faith and broke trademark rules. However, the World Intellectual Property Organization ruled in Eiland-Hall’s favor.
Obama’s Victory Decimated Republican Male Testosterone Levels
How much are politics tied to one’s personal sense of manliness? For liberals, not so much. For conservatives, very much so, especially in the case of one Barack Obama, who acts as an agent of chemical castration.
Wired Science has the results of a study in which the 2008 election-night testosterone levels of male Obama- and McCain-supporters were measured.
The group-wide testosterone levels of Democratic men were not affected by Obama’s victory, remaining stable throughout the night. However, for Republican males, election night 2008 was a hormonal roller coaster, and Obama’s success resulted in a plummeting of conservative male testosterone. What a bunch of weirdos.
FBI Memos Flagged The Green Party As A Terrorist Group
Gawker has a copy of an internal FBI memo, a couple years old, created in response to the threat of animal-rights terrorism in Georgia.
Interestingly the Green Party is identified as a possible terrorist threat to be watched.
Amelia Earhardt Shills For Lucky Strike
In honor of the forthcoming biopic “Amelia,” the Sociological Images blog unearthed this 1928 ad in which Amelia Earhardt reveals that Lucky Strikes fueled her journey around the world.
