I saw this on InstaPundit yesterday and have been meaning to write about it. At the Atlantic, Garance Franke-Ruta notes Gallup polls that indicate most Americans think around a quarter of our population is gay. The mean is 24.6%, up from 21.7% just eight years ago. An astonishing 35% believe that more than one-quarter of all people are homosexuals.
One could still argue that all these people should reduce their salt intake to prevent hypertension, except for the fact that four of these studies — involving Type 1 diabetics, Type 2 diabetics, healthy Europeans and patients with chronic heart failure — reported that the people eating salt at the lower limit of normal were more likely to have heart disease than those eating smack in the middle of the normal range. Effectively what the 1972 paper would have predicted. Proponents of the eat-less-salt campaign tend to deal with this contradictory evidence by implying that anyone raising it is a shill for the food industry and doesn’t care about saving lives. An N.I.H. administrator told me back in 1998 that to publicly question the science on salt was to play into the hands of the industry. “As long as there are things in the media that say the salt controversy continues,” he said, “they win.”
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My suggestion: find something useful to do with your life besides legislate the size of sugary soft drinks. Just sayin’
After the expedition returned the photographs were used to make maps and charts of the area, then placed in archives in Denmark where they lay forgotten for decades. Then, in recent years, international researchers trying to find information on the history of the Greenland glaciers stumbled across them. Taken together the pictures show clearly that glaciers in the region were melting even faster in the 1930s than they are today, according to Professor Jason Box, who works at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State uni(t).
In April, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found that the National Rifle Association was viewed favorably by 68% of Americans, and unfavorably by 32%. Unlike most polls, the Reuters poll apparently did not allow “unsure” or “undecided” as a choice. In each of the demographics which the poll provided–Republicans, Democrats, independents, whites, and blacks–the NRA was viewed favorably by at least 55%.
Boulderites take note, the world outside the 24 square miles is different indeed.
Looks like even New Yorkers are getting fed up with Mayor Bloomberg.
It would be nice to think that these are but the opening skirmishes in a democratic revolt against a health department that is the least democratic, least accountable department in the entire city government. Certainly if the reaction to the latest episode is any indication, the people of New York are growing tired of it. Even the New York Times is against the proposed limits on sugary drinks. At some point there is going to be a new mayor, and there will be less backing in City Hall for zealots like Thomas Farley, the Commissioner of Mental Hygiene.
When one stops to think about it, “commissioner of mental hygiene” — the full title of the department Mr. Farley heads is the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene — is one of the most bizarre of all the titles in the city, though apt enough. This fight isn’t about “health.” It’s about the mayor’s neuroses and his desire to take them out on everyone else in the city. The mayor was quoted in the Post as referring to “poor people who understand less about nutrition and that sort of thing.” After a while his condescension just gets to be off-putting.
The elite taking care of the helpless minions. Time for a revolt. Speaking of obesity, it’s a favority topic of The Daily Camera editorial page editor Erika Stutzman. Judging from the list below, I’m surprised she actually writes on other topics. May 23rd, 2012: They like to move it, move it: Erie school sets good example for movementMay 18th, 2012: Comparing apples to oranges: Why ‘pizza’ food fight is a worthy oneApril 4th, 2012: Obesity and smokingMarch 22nd, 2012: Leanest state gets fatter January 12th, 2012: An epidemic searching for a cure: No easy solutions for obesityJune 22nd, 2011: Preventive medicineJune 12th, 2011: Kids: Get outJune 8th, 2011: Perception and nutrition educationMarch 20th, 2011: Unhealthy kids, unhealthy futureMarch 3rd, 2011: Costly discriminationFebruary 6th, 2011: Coming to terms with the obesity epidemicJanuary 1st, 2011: Resolutions and benefitsDecember 29th, 2010: Some fruit for thoughtAugust 22nd, 2010: Taking the lead: State is in a good position to improve nation’s healthFebruary 12th, 2010: Another worthy advocate for children: Obama follows in Bush`s footsteps in an admirable wayJuly 30th & August 15th, 2009: The cost of all that foodJuly 20th 2008, updated 8/14/2009!: Stutzman: Eating ourselves sick
Glenn Reynolds: “Turns out public-sector union members who make considerably more than the average taxpayer don’t engender as much public sympathy as they’d hoped.” Imagine.
for the word ASSHOLE.
Judge Moriarty told KHOU 11 News that he intended to make an example of Tran by placing her in jail. “If you let one run loose, what are you going to do with the rest of them? Let them go, too?” Moriarty told the station.
Anger over Christine Lagarde’s tax-free salary
It was called her “Let them eat cake” moment. Now Greece will be saying: “Make her pay tax”. The IMF chief Christine Lagarde was accused of hypocrisy yesterday after it emerged that she pays no income tax – just days after blaming the Greeks for causing their financial peril by dodging their own bills.
Imagine
Escape From New York? High-Taxing Empire State Loses 3.4 Million Residents in 10 YearsIt isn’t hard to do.
Why was Shakilo Afridi abandoned by the United States after leading us to Usama bin Laden?
“The blame has been placed on my brother because of America. We are facing a tough time and they should now support us. We should get justice and protection,” he told Fox News. “Me, my brother, my family don’t have any protection here. When I leave from this place, I don’t know what might happen to me. I don’t know in which guise someone might come for us. I am afraid of the government agencies, the Taliban and terrorists.”
Are we so perfect we’ll never need an inside source again?
I had a recent visitor who found this blog with the following search…
boulderisstupid blogspot asshole engineer blogger
Interestingly, the blog ranks #1 for that particular search although the reason has to do with a copied misspelling in a NASA/Chris Kraft global warming post. If the shoe fits….
Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher: It is time to cut off all aid to Pakistan and to demand the release of Dr. Afridi. Ya think? Who will be our man (or woman) on the inside next time we need one? It’s about time, kudo’s to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
You mentioned him before on your blog. He continues a great trend of engineers running for elective office. They have to do better than the lawyers have done.
We’re talking Tea Party candidate Thomas Massie victory tonight’s GOP primary for Kentucky’s 4th district.
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The passage of the federal Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act earlier this spring will allow entrepreneurs to solicit investments from ordinary people in exchange for a slice of the payout should the company happen to strike it big.
Color me both enthusiastic and slightly skeptical.
“By definition, a lot of people who invest money will lose money. That kind of goes with the territory,” Case said. “People have the option to lose money if they go to Las Vegas, and people seem to think that’s OK.”
The problem is just as Boulder seems to believe everything works differently (and of course better) inside the 24 square miles, many investors will have unrealistic expectation for their personal success rate with this type of investment.
Inquring minds want to know. Of course with the amateur hour Facebook IPO, he may need to start supporting the stock price himself!
