So... Michelle Obama is a birther? Or is she just a gaffe-machine like her husband and Joe Biden?
Source: The Lonely Conservative
Who cares if it was a slip of the tongue or an honest gaffe? Either way, it's another Obama Fail!
Michelle Obama has chosen to dedicate herself to fighting childhood obesity:
First lady Michelle Obama has chosen what she hopes will be her legacy for the nation: the "Let's Move" campaign to curb childhood obesity. No one can argue with her target. About two-thirds of American adults, and about a third of American children, are overweight or obese.
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
BMI calculations are far from perfect. The Center for Consumer Freedom called BMI "bogus" back in 2005:
Actor Brad Pitt, who stars in the action-comedy Mr. And Mrs. Smith opening Friday, is many things. Rich. Talented. Attractive. And overweight.
The same government standard responsible for telling us that 65 percent of Americans are "overweight" or "obese" classifies this hunk as a chunk. Pitt, who plays an assassin-for-hire in his new flick, has been gunned down by the Body Mass Index (BMI), a measurement that separates us into government-approved and officially fat categories by taking into consideration only our height and weight. A BMI of 25 or more makes you overweight, and a BMI of 30 or more makes you obese. At a reported six feet tall and just over 200 pounds, Pitt's BMI is a pleasantly plump 28.
Pitt, of course, is not alone. Take his Ocean's 12 co-stars, Matt Damon and George Clooney. They're also "overweight."
And from the big screen to the big game: Superstar NBA player Shaquille O'Neal is considered "obese," while basketball's LeBron James, baseball great Alex Rodriguez, and U.S. swimmer Gary Hall Jr. are all officially "overweight."
Source: The Center For Consumer Freedom
Hmm... That's pretty ridiculous... It gets worse...
BMI: A Dated and Deeply Flawed Statistical Tool
BMI-believers point to statistics that indicate Americans have been getting fatter in recent years... After all, isn't an obesity epidemic sweeping across America?
To answer that question, we need to understand the history of BMI. The concept of BMI was developed by a Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet in the mid-19th century. The method for calculating BMI has remained unchanged for over 150 years and by now its flaws are well-known to the scientific community. Wikipedia has an entire section about BMI's "Limitations and Shortcomings":
Some argue that the error in the BMI is significant and so pervasive that it is not generally useful in evaluation of health.[14][15] University of Chicago political science professor Eric Oliver says BMI is a convenient but inaccurate measure of weight, forced onto the populace, and should be revised.[16]
The medical establishment has generally acknowledged some shortcomings of BMI.[17] Because the BMI is dependent only upon weight and height, it makes simplistic assumptions about distribution of muscle and bone mass, and thus may overestimate adiposity on those with more lean body mass (e.g. athletes) while underestimating adiposity on those with less lean body mass (e.g. the elderly).
A 2005 study in America showed that overweight people actually had a lower death rate than normal weight people as defined by BMI.[18]
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A further limitation relates to loss of height through aging. In this situation, BMI will increase without any corresponding increase in weight.
Source: Wikipedia
Geez... But what about all of the studies that show how childhood and adult obesity numbers have skyrocketed in recent years? Well, get a load of THIS:
The scale, which is used universally in clinical trials assessing the health risks of weight, has remained largely intact since the 19th century. The categories were revised downwards in 1998, sending many “normal” people into the overweight class with a single keystroke.Bingo! That's all you need to know about the obesity myth. With all of BMI's flaws, how can anyone believe the statistics that say we need Michelle Obama and big labor to save the nation's children from the horrors of obesity? Can we just chalk this up to another case of questionable scientific claims being used to prop up Obama's radical agenda?
Source: Times Online
Sludge...The produce used on the Food Network's Jan. 3 Iron Chef of America two-hour special White House show was billed as being from the White House garden. But the show did not disclose that "stunt double vegetables" were used and not produce from the First Family's garden.Here's where the story goes from gaffe to worse:
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Viewers were not explicitly told that the vegetables in "Kitchen Stadium" were not the ones they had seen the chefs harvest. Various participants in the show misled viewers with references to "using radishes from the White House garden" and other similar mentions. Except for the honey, no food on the show came from the White House.
Source: AOL Politics Daily
Mrs. Obama's East Wing told me the vegetables picked at the White House garden that day in October were donated to a local food kitchen, so nothing went to waste. The week between the harvest the cook-off was due to "scheduling/technical" reasons.Nothing to see here. It was all a scheduling snafu and nothing went to waste. Move along...
Source: AOL Politics Daily
When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the soils of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. It turns out that a previous Presidential gardening team had used sewage sludge for fertilizer.Here are the questions that won't be answered:
This is a fairly common practice with one huge problem. Sewage sludge tends to be laced with anything that people pour down the drain and often contains heavy metals. Not surprisingly, the National Park Service tested the dirt beneath Michelle's garden and found the plot has highly elevated levels of lead averaging 93 parts per million. That's below the 400 ppm that the Environmental Protection Agency says is a threat to human health. But I'd wager that Sasha, Malia and Barack won't be getting arugula or tomatoes from this garden any time soon.
Source: Daily Finance
Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was removed.
[Source: Examiner.com]
After being presented with the visitor logs, investigators say, Solomont explained that he met with Norris to discuss Corporation business but did not discuss the Walpin matter. When pressed, Solomont said he might have made an offhand comment, or a mention in passing, about the Walpin affair, but that he and Norris did not have a discussion about it.
[Source: Examiner.com]
Imagine how popular she would be if she used a teleprompter!The day after the election, Barack Obama was viewed more favorably by Americans than his wife, Michelle.Not any more.
A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken over the past week shows a surge in positive views of the first lady even as her husband's ratings have eroded. Michelle Obama is now viewed more favorably than the president, and her standing is nearly 50% higher than Vice President Biden.
Source: USA Today
Either way, this further proves that Americans aren't racist for opposing Obama's failed policies...
When Obama spoke to Congress about health care reform on Sept. 9, he attempted to put a human face on his push for a provision barring insurance companies from dropping patients with pre-existing medical conditions.
While not citing the person's name, the president said: "One man from Illinois lost his coverage in the middle of chemotherapy because his insurer found that he hadn't reported gallstones that he didn't even know about. They delayed his treatment, and he died because of it."
It's just not true, which I pointed out in my Chicago Sun-Times column. I confirmed with the White House that the man Obama was referring to was Otto Raddatz, from a Chicago suburb. His insurance company did indeed yank his coverage in April 2005. But after a fight led by his sister, Peggy, an attorney and the Illinois attorney general, Raddatz got his coverage reinstated in a few weeks and never missed any needed treatments. And he did not die until Jan. 6, 2009.
Source: KansasCity.com
When first lady Michelle Obama hugged Queen Elizabeth, it was reminiscent of the classic American masterpiece “Tommy Boy” when Chris Farley, embracing his new stepbrother, said, “Brothers don’t shake hands, brothers gotta hug!”
Though it was perfectly acceptable and quite frankly touching when this act of love occurred in the movie, it’s not supposed to happen with the queen.
Queens don’t hug! It is considered a breach of royal protocol.
