Fat facts

The myth of an ‘obesity tsunami’ - spiked
Everyone knows The Truth about obesity: we’re getting fatter each year. Our growing girth is termed everything from the ‘pandemic of the twenty-first century’ to an ‘obesity tsunami’. But the evidence is now flooding in from both America and England that obesity is the epidemic that never was.

Two studies produced by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) completely undermine the claims of an obesity epidemic.

Suicided

The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
As news of the deaths emerged the following day, the camp quickly went into lockdown. The authorities ordered nearly all the reporters at Guantánamo to leave and those en route to turn back. The commander at Guantánamo, Rear Admiral Harry Harris, then declared the deaths “suicides.” In an unusual move, he also used the announcement to attack the dead men. “I believe this was not an act of desperation,” he said, “but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.”

Reporters accepted the official account, and even lawyers for the prisoners appeared to believe that they had killed themselves. Only the prisoners’ families in Saudi Arabia and Yemen rejected the notion.
Read the full, disturbing story.

Just the job!

Could be worse. At least it's not The Proclaimers

The J-Walk Blog: Solar Bibles In Haiti
As international aid agencies rush food, water and medicine to Haiti's earthquake victims, a US faith-based group is sending Bibles to Haitians in their hour of need. Not just any Bible. These are solar-powered audible Bibles that can broadcast the holy scriptures in Haitian Creole to 300 people at a time. Called the "Proclaimer," the audio Bible delivers "digital quality" and is designed for "poor and illiterate people", the Faith Comes By Hearing group said.

The Green argument

Eco-Insanity Dvorak Uncensored
Gordon Fleming and Shelly Cobb are your typical green California couple. Gordon recycles, reuses, and bikes to work. Shelly raises chickens in their backyard and worries if her sushi is local. They might live in eco-harmony – except Fleming claims Cobb is in a high priestess phase and Cobb counters that Fleming’s hot showers are too long. According to an unrepentant Fleming, “I like to see the water pouring down.”

The New York Times recently reported that they are not alone. Therapists say they are seeing a rise in bickering between couples and family members over how much they should adjust their lives to accommodate environmental issues. Apparently, it is driving some couples eco-insane.

They have Jesus in their sights

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers.

The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

Branded? 'IRAQ' is burned into his future

Forget it – Blair will never be branded a war criminal - Nick Cohen

Too late, matey, he has been already. What you mean is that he won't be officially branded a war criminal. That's a shame but, in the end, so what? His entire future will be overshadowed by the Iraq debacle, just as your's will be too. And everyone else who chooses to continue to defend it.

Even the likes of Geras and Aaronowitch have amended their position but you sail on, into eventual oblivion, I suspect, like Mark Steyn and all the other pathetic armchair warriors.

A Greek Returning Gifts

Norman G. Finkelstein - Thanks, but no thanks
Theodoros Pangalos, a 70-year-old Member of the Greek Parliament, received three bottles of wine as a holiday gift, with best wishes from Israel’s Ambassador, Ali Giachia. (Wikipedia lists him as Ali Yihiye.) In a Trojan horse reversal, Pangalos returned this gift and thanked the Ambassador with the following letter:
Brilliant. Would you see aletter like this from a British MP?

Wire people so stoopid?

Idiots at School Go on Lockdown Over Child’s Science Project that has “Wires” Dvorak Uncensored
Students were evacuated from Millennial Tech Magnet Middle School in the Chollas View neighborhood Friday afternoon after an 11-year-old student brought a personal science project that he had been making at home to school, authorities said.

Maurice Luque, spokesman for the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, said the student had been making the device in his home garage. A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school about 11:40 a.m. Friday and was concerned that it might be harmful, and San Diego police were notified.
The school majors in technology and a teacher panicked when he or she saw...wires! Oh, no. It must be a bomb! 

It took three hours(!) plus robotic investigation and x-rays to satisfy themselves it was a harmless homework project.

Fuck me. How gormlessly paranoid can you get?