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Illogical Genetic Theory
If genes contribute more to obesity than diet, why does the author also say that the poorest Americans are the fattest? And where is the evidence that the poor in American consume less calories than the better-off? Does poverty or associated factors somehow cause the genes to go awry in a matter of a single generation? And why are the poor in ...
Posted to Green Room by Waschbaer on July 11, 2008
Farewell to a Racist
Jessie Helms reprsented the best of the Dixie Crats the former democrats who bolted from the democrat party when the Civil Rights Act wsa passed.The repub party in the South wsa built on race bating. You hope that a new generation might bring change but people aproach me all the time and say how they are determined ot beat that N-----. How ...
Posted to Fighting Words by deafman3 on July 8, 2008
News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional
I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008