It is not just food industry who has made the connection between
sponsorship of this bogus conference and the antiobesity hysteria
they are promoting! Their own sponsorship page lists all the diet
and pharmaceutical companies that are involved. They may have a few
experts who are truly concerned with junk food, but that whole angle
can also be a front to provide them credibility! One of their main purposes is to keep the public obsessed with weight and keep their cash registers ringing at all cost. Because God knows, things like global warming and the decline of democracy might provide a temporary distraction from our scales.
I would like to add that neither myself, nor my fellow size acceptance advocates are getting paid by anyone, and I have the disasterous financial records to prove it. But I have to say, I am so disgusted by liberals, muckrakers, and progressives giving the diet industry and pharmaceuticals a free ride in all this antifat hysteria, it makes me want to sign up with the food companies to get the other side of the story out. Obviously, fat hatred serves such a function in our society, even do gooders can't be counted on for fairness.
p.s. If this damn conference really cared about childhood obesity, they would tell women to stop dieting. Because some studies have shown dieting, even before pregnancy can increase the risk of a low birthweight child who has a greater risk of both obesity and heart disease later in life. And the sponsors of this conference are the very same who promote diets.
"Weight obsession is a social disease. If we cared more about CO2 than BMI there might still be time."
Don't forget Mikie Fumento who bashes fat people, then tells us second hand smoke, global warming and pesticides aren't so bad. He
has to be on someone's payroll. Something as tacky as him in
bikini briefs had to have been bought and paid for, not even an
attention hound like him would do that for free. Yuck, about as
sexy as a hicky from Karl Rove!
I am so tired of the media (or rather, the hand that hides itself in the glove we know as "the media") working its will on the people. It is a joke that they report the news instead of create it. They report just enough actual news to keep us guessing, when they report a story.
What gets me is this: So often these news sources wear shrouds of things like "conservatism" as if that makes them more next-to-God or something, or like it authorizes them to take on a more PARENTAL role towards the rest of society, like the rest of us are small children, if they cannot just incriminate us entirely, such as turning someone who gives another person a drink of water into a felon, if that person happens to be an unregistered alien from another country, etc.
Okay on this "next-to-God" guise --- so many people can hardly tell when this (so-presumed) "next-to-God" apparatus is lying, or severely twisting the truth with unsubstantiated allegations, and ones that have all been refuted at that. But if one does know, it sheds a different light. Then you know that it is not a matter that just maybe they are not telling the truth.
Anyway as I was starting to say (before I almost "spilled the beans" on something else), on this "next-to-God" guise --- well it is such a total farce. I might not know too much about God or his magnamity, but I think I do know that it is one of the ten commandments is to not "bear false witness against thy neighbor."
Okay sorry but I see straight through that, when they are lying and I happen to know the facts from a small insider's perspective, that if God meant anything by making it one of the ten commandments to not lie about other people, that they are ANYTHING BUT NEXT TO GOD!!!
They can use the word "conservative" on themselves all they want and until they are blue in the face, but as far as this word making them next-to-God, it just ain't true when they are going to make a practice, hobby, or vocation of lying in order to work their own will upon the people and yes even macro-society as a whole.
"Conservative," next-to-God, my foot. I don't know what else to say. But this is a total farce --- the media is a total farce.
Someone once said that anything they ever read in the paper that they also happened to have personal information about, that the paper got it grossly twisted and wrong. Well excuse me but I also notice that on the rare instances I happen to know about something too (that not many others would), it is a predictable pattern that the paper gets it wrong --- severely wrong, and on important matters, and it all boils down to violating the one of the ten commandments to "not bear false witness against thy neighbor," so this idea that they are next-to-God is a total farce.
Do we want the media to "serve" as our dictatorship? Do we want dollar bills to "serve" as our dictatorship? It's up to us. Meanwhile, I'm sure that "the media" will try to get as much mileage out of their lies as possible, until we all catch on. They're treading on thin ice with me. And no, I cannot "worship" a liar, or even appreciate one very much.
Was this ABC/Disney vehicle for unemployed actors really such a secret that you folks with all of your resources actually didn't know anything about it?
In other words, were you truly blindsided by this?
If so, then you know as well as anybody that there is no way to counter the fantasies that you are complaining about, except with your own.
So, you had better get cracking.
The election is just around the corner.
It's show time!
How about a flick about neocon foreign policy architects, Wolfowitz or Perle...or even Mr. Giuliani when he split his command & control on September 11th...or how about a movie about when Iraq became a U.S. client state for the Carter administration in 1979 (and continued to be one through the Reagan & Bush years until 1990)...or how the backroom boys decided that the U.S. would be better off running its own oil-rich client state instead of continuing to allow Saddam al-Tikriti Hussein to do it? Have you got the guts to do this...and the unemployed actors? It sounds like great election-eve entertainment to me!
Only 50% of the U.S. electorate (those of eligible voting age) bothers to vote. The U.S. electorate totals about 75% of the U.S. population, i.e., 225 million of 300 million Americans.
Unfortunate but true: In the eyes of the roughly 25% of the right end of the U.S. electorate who have been electing presidents and congressional majorities in the last few years...truth doesn't matter so much as entertainment and fear.
So, you had better stop trying to confuse the 25% of the right end with facts, denials & rebuttals (by so called principals).
You're wasting your breath.
Just ask Ann Richards, John McCain and John Kerry.
Messrs: Clarke, Berger, Ben-Veniste and especially Ms. Albright aren't children and ought to know better how to handle these Rove-like tactics by now. They aren't shrinking violets when they don't want to be...especially when those of these four are out selling books of personal redemption.
A better use of your time: Registering the other 25% of the left end of the U.S. electorate who don't vote, and persuading them that truth does matter more than fantasy. If you spent your time and resources doing that, 75% of the U.S. electorate would be voting this November, 2/3 of them for truth, justice and the American way.
Yes, the Bush camp can still win the 2006 elections. After all, Ken Mehlman remains an ace and Karl Rove remains the ultimate opponent-destroying-propaganda machine. The aim of the game, as usual, is to steal the elections by counterfighting where you're supposed to be the weakest.
Iraq, for example, about which the Dems are considering the pros and cons of a withdrawal, exposing themselves to an intense guerilla from "Turd Blossom". I wish they instead made clear in the minds of the public the most vital thing for the US is to withdraw from the Bush doctrine. First behave well, then act responsively, sane decisions will come naturally. And they propably won't include a withdrawal of all troops anytime soon. The least America must do is to fix the damage Bush's Amerika has done.
For the moment, the "flip flop" specter is hovering above the Democrats, and Karl will very likely have Bush talk as the boss in charge : we've been waging a nasty war that's true, but we nailed most of 'em bastards and we proved bein' tough could prevent new attacks on our soil. You have the power to decide ; to be either with us or with them - not them Dems, but them terrorist thugs.
The actual truth should be exposed : right after 9/11, terrorists were the only bad guys around and the whole world was supporting the US, expecting a responsible answer from a model democracy - but this excuse for an administration managed to damage the image of democracy so badly the US are now considered a rogue state and terrorists heroes. Not only did the US invite terrorists where they weren't (Iraq), they made the World a much less safer place by fueling terror, fanatism and hatred all across the world. The US need a strong administration all right, but should remain a model democracy as well : you have the choice between supporting fascists and fundamentalists on one hand (those ruling the country these days as well as the terrorists, their supposed enemies), and restoring the values that made America respected on the other (all you have to do is to get rid of these madhatters).
______________________________________________________________________________________
Stephane MOT -
http://e-blogules.blogspot.com
It is not just food industry who has made the connection between
sponsorship of this bogus conference and the antiobesity hysteria
they are promoting! Their own sponsorship page lists all the diet
and pharmaceutical companies that are involved. They may have a few
experts who are truly concerned with junk food, but that whole angle
can also be a front to provide them credibility! One of their main purposes is to keep the public obsessed with weight and keep their cash registers ringing at all cost. Because God knows, things like global warming and the decline of democracy might provide a temporary distraction from our scales.
I would like to add that neither myself, nor my fellow size acceptance advocates are getting paid by anyone, and I have the disasterous financial records to prove it. But I have to say, I am so disgusted by liberals, muckrakers, and progressives giving the diet industry and pharmaceuticals a free ride in all this antifat hysteria, it makes me want to sign up with the food companies to get the other side of the story out. Obviously, fat hatred serves such a function in our society, even do gooders can't be counted on for fairness.
p.s. If this damn conference really cared about childhood obesity, they would tell women to stop dieting. Because some studies have shown dieting, even before pregnancy can increase the risk of a low birthweight child who has a greater risk of both obesity and heart disease later in life. And the sponsors of this conference are the very same who promote diets.
"Weight obsession is a social disease. If we cared more about CO2 than BMI there might still be time."
Don't forget Mikie Fumento who bashes fat people, then tells us second hand smoke, global warming and pesticides aren't so bad. He
has to be on someone's payroll. Something as tacky as him in
bikini briefs had to have been bought and paid for, not even an
attention hound like him would do that for free. Yuck, about as
sexy as a hicky from Karl Rove!
I am so tired of the media (or rather, the hand that hides itself in the glove we know as "the media") working its will on the people. It is a joke that they report the news instead of create it. They report just enough actual news to keep us guessing, when they report a story.
What gets me is this: So often these news sources wear shrouds of things like "conservatism" as if that makes them more next-to-God or something, or like it authorizes them to take on a more PARENTAL role towards the rest of society, like the rest of us are small children, if they cannot just incriminate us entirely, such as turning someone who gives another person a drink of water into a felon, if that person happens to be an unregistered alien from another country, etc.
Okay on this "next-to-God" guise --- so many people can hardly tell when this (so-presumed) "next-to-God" apparatus is lying, or severely twisting the truth with unsubstantiated allegations, and ones that have all been refuted at that. But if one does know, it sheds a different light. Then you know that it is not a matter that just maybe they are not telling the truth.
Anyway as I was starting to say (before I almost "spilled the beans" on something else), on this "next-to-God" guise --- well it is such a total farce. I might not know too much about God or his magnamity, but I think I do know that it is one of the ten commandments is to not "bear false witness against thy neighbor."
Okay sorry but I see straight through that, when they are lying and I happen to know the facts from a small insider's perspective, that if God meant anything by making it one of the ten commandments to not lie about other people, that they are ANYTHING BUT NEXT TO GOD!!!
They can use the word "conservative" on themselves all they want and until they are blue in the face, but as far as this word making them next-to-God, it just ain't true when they are going to make a practice, hobby, or vocation of lying in order to work their own will upon the people and yes even macro-society as a whole.
"Conservative," next-to-God, my foot. I don't know what else to say. But this is a total farce --- the media is a total farce.
Someone once said that anything they ever read in the paper that they also happened to have personal information about, that the paper got it grossly twisted and wrong. Well excuse me but I also notice that on the rare instances I happen to know about something too (that not many others would), it is a predictable pattern that the paper gets it wrong --- severely wrong, and on important matters, and it all boils down to violating the one of the ten commandments to "not bear false witness against thy neighbor," so this idea that they are next-to-God is a total farce.
Do we want the media to "serve" as our dictatorship? Do we want dollar bills to "serve" as our dictatorship? It's up to us. Meanwhile, I'm sure that "the media" will try to get as much mileage out of their lies as possible, until we all catch on. They're treading on thin ice with me. And no, I cannot "worship" a liar, or even appreciate one very much.
Was this ABC/Disney vehicle for unemployed actors really such a secret that you folks with all of your resources actually didn't know anything about it?
In other words, were you truly blindsided by this?
If so, then you know as well as anybody that there is no way to counter the fantasies that you are complaining about, except with your own.
So, you had better get cracking.
The election is just around the corner.
It's show time!
How about a flick about neocon foreign policy architects, Wolfowitz or Perle...or even Mr. Giuliani when he split his command & control on September 11th...or how about a movie about when Iraq became a U.S. client state for the Carter administration in 1979 (and continued to be one through the Reagan & Bush years until 1990)...or how the backroom boys decided that the U.S. would be better off running its own oil-rich client state instead of continuing to allow Saddam al-Tikriti Hussein to do it? Have you got the guts to do this...and the unemployed actors? It sounds like great election-eve entertainment to me!
Only 50% of the U.S. electorate (those of eligible voting age) bothers to vote. The U.S. electorate totals about 75% of the U.S. population, i.e., 225 million of 300 million Americans.
Unfortunate but true: In the eyes of the roughly 25% of the right end of the U.S. electorate who have been electing presidents and congressional majorities in the last few years...truth doesn't matter so much as entertainment and fear.
So, you had better stop trying to confuse the 25% of the right end with facts, denials & rebuttals (by so called principals).
You're wasting your breath.
Just ask Ann Richards, John McCain and John Kerry.
Messrs: Clarke, Berger, Ben-Veniste and especially Ms. Albright aren't children and ought to know better how to handle these Rove-like tactics by now. They aren't shrinking violets when they don't want to be...especially when those of these four are out selling books of personal redemption.
A better use of your time: Registering the other 25% of the left end of the U.S. electorate who don't vote, and persuading them that truth does matter more than fantasy. If you spent your time and resources doing that, 75% of the U.S. electorate would be voting this November, 2/3 of them for truth, justice and the American way.
Go for it!
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www.oklahomajackcountdown.blogspot.com
Yes, the Bush camp can still win the 2006 elections. After all, Ken Mehlman remains an ace and Karl Rove remains the ultimate opponent-destroying-propaganda machine. The aim of the game, as usual, is to steal the elections by counterfighting where you're supposed to be the weakest.
Iraq, for example, about which the Dems are considering the pros and cons of a withdrawal, exposing themselves to an intense guerilla from "Turd Blossom". I wish they instead made clear in the minds of the public the most vital thing for the US is to withdraw from the Bush doctrine. First behave well, then act responsively, sane decisions will come naturally. And they propably won't include a withdrawal of all troops anytime soon. The least America must do is to fix the damage Bush's Amerika has done.
For the moment, the "flip flop" specter is hovering above the Democrats, and Karl will very likely have Bush talk as the boss in charge : we've been waging a nasty war that's true, but we nailed most of 'em bastards and we proved bein' tough could prevent new attacks on our soil. You have the power to decide ; to be either with us or with them - not them Dems, but them terrorist thugs.
The actual truth should be exposed : right after 9/11, terrorists were the only bad guys around and the whole world was supporting the US, expecting a responsible answer from a model democracy - but this excuse for an administration managed to damage the image of democracy so badly the US are now considered a rogue state and terrorists heroes. Not only did the US invite terrorists where they weren't (Iraq), they made the World a much less safer place by fueling terror, fanatism and hatred all across the world. The US need a strong administration all right, but should remain a model democracy as well : you have the choice between supporting fascists and fundamentalists on one hand (those ruling the country these days as well as the terrorists, their supposed enemies), and restoring the values that made America respected on the other (all you have to do is to get rid of these madhatters).
______________________________________________________________________________________
Stephane MOT -
http://e-blogules.blogspot.com
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