The Information Nation 5-13-2012
Obama comes out of the closet
Radioactive man? Milford resident pulled over by state police
Obama Says Election Is Going To Be Close, Blames Washington
Paul Begala on Romney: Once a Bully, Always a Bully
GAO: Recoverable Oil in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming ‘About Equal to Entire World’s Proven Oil Reserves’
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Should lawmakers introduce a 20 percent ‘fat tax’? | syracuse.com
A new study shows that health-related food taxes can help reduce obesity levels, but the tax must be at least 20 percent to have a significant impact on population health.According to BMJ, a study at the University of Oxford determined that a 20 percent “fat tax” on sugary drinks, along with subsidies on healthy foods such as fruit and vegetables, can lead to a 3.5 percent decrease in American obesity levels. It can also prevent up to 2,700 heart disease deaths a year.There is an ongoing debate among lawmakers over implementing taxes on unhealthy foods. In 2008, former New York Governor David Paterson proposed a 15 percent “obesity tax” on soft drinks to help close the $15 billion budget gap. In November, voters in Richmond, Calif., will decide whether or not the city becomes the nation’s first municipality to tax soda and other sugary beverages in an effort to fight obesity.According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one-third of U.S. adults and 17 percent of children are obese. Since 2000, the number of state’s with an obesity prevalence over 30 percent has risen from zero to 12 — causing national medical costs associated with obesity to reach $147 billion in 2008. Adult obesity rates are expected to approach 42 percent by 2030.
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Utah High School Fined $15,000 for Selling Soda | Video | TheBlaze.com
A Utah high school is learning the hard way that the government is serious about nudging students away from food it doesn’t want them to consume. Davis High School in the Salt Lake City area is having to fork over a whopping $15,000 in fines to the Feds because it accidentally sold soda through a vending machine during lunch.
Federal law requires the school to turn off its soda machines during the lunch period, which is 47 minutes a day. And Davis High school did turn off the machines in the lunch room. However, the school didn‘t realize that there was another machine in the school bookstore that wasn’t being turned off. And when the food police realized it, the school was hit with a $0.75 fine per student for the duration of the offense.
Now the school is going to have to cut money to fine arts programs to make up the cost.
But here’s where things really get nutty, so to speak. Davis High School Principal Dee Burton said that the law is disingenuous. For example, while students can’t buy soda, they can buy sugar-loaded sports drinks and even Snickers bars because they contain, you guessed it, nuts. In addition, students can buy soda earlier in the day before the machines get turned off and drink it during lunch.
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Fighter Jets In Skies Over Chicago On Friday Morning Before NATO Summit « CBS Chicago
CHICAGO CBS – U.S. fighter jets will be actively flying over Chicago on Friday as part of a security drill in the days before the NATO Summit.The U.S. North American Aerospace Defense NORAD Command Region fighters–including Air Force KC-135 tankers, Air Force F-16s, and a Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopters–will be visible on Friday morning, beginning around 9 a.m..Residents in the Chicago area can expect flights to continue for approximately two hours.“Providing the air defense for special security events like this year’s NATO Summit is a part of our day-to-day mission,” said Lt. Gen. Sid Clarke, Continental U.S. NORAD Region commander said in a statement. “Our interagency partnerships are a key component to the air defense shield for events like this.”During the NATO Summit, Air Force fighter jets will be on alert to enforce the Federal Aviation Administration’s Temporary Flight Restriction TFR zone during the summit. Military jets have been authorized to shoot down any aircraft that violates secure airspace over Chicago.
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The Vetting – Exclusive – Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White–which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):
Newsweek names Obama ‘The First Gay President’ in shocking cover talking about his support of same-sex marriage | Mail Online
In a gutsy move, Newsweek has released the cover of their next issue, on the cover of which they depict President Obama with a rainbow halo and the title of ‘The First Gay President’.The news-magazine, which hits stands today, is using the shock factor of labeling the straight, married, father-of-two President to draw attention to itself.Tina Brown, who edits the magazine and its sister website The Daily Beast, is known for her love of controversial covers to help boost public interest and sales.After Time magazine went with a cover shot of a young blonde mother breastfeeding her 3-year-old boy, Ms Brown is said to have taken it in stride, saying ‘let the games begin!’The article accompanying the cover was written by the news magazine’s regular blogger, Andrew Sullivan, who is an openly gay self-titled conservative political pundit.’When you step back a little and assess the record of Obama on gay rights, you see, in fact, that this was not an aberration. It was an inevitable culmination of three years of work,’ Mr Sullivan said in a statement about the article.’He had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family,’ he wrote, describing the similarities between Mr Obama and the gay community.
Military suffer shocking abuse by British public according to Lord Ashcroft poll | The Sun |News|Campaigns|Our Boys
THE shocking abuse and discrimination that forces’ heroes suffer on Britain’s streets is revealed by The Sun today.comment on this story 205 commentsRelated Stories Suffering … British troops Top brass plea on troops’ pay FORCES chiefs call on Chancellor to reverse ‘unjust’ cut for war-weary British troops Gong for Harry as he hails Our Boys Two British soldiers killed in Afghanistan £6.5m recovery base for heroesIn the biggest ever independent survey of the UK military, 21 per cent said that while wearing their uniform in public they had INSULTS shouted at them by strangers.And 18 per cent had been REFUSED service in places such as pubs or hotels in the past five years. Others had been SPAT at and more than one in 20 had faced VIOLENCE.A female RAF officer said: “I have people running up and screaming ‘baby killer’ at me.”The shameful findings come after Our Boys and Girls have spent more than ten years fighting on our behalf in Iraq and Afghanistan — with close to 600 troops dying and almost 10,000 being injured.
Radioactive man? Milford resident pulled over by state police – Connecticut Post
Mike Apatow was minding his own business Wednesday, driving to an appointment for work in Washington Depot when a state police car appeared suddenly and signaled for the Milford resident to pull over.Apatow, 42, was entering Interstate 84 in Newtown when the cruiser appeared, and he had no idea what he’d done to merit police attention. It turns out he didn’t do anything.But earlier that day, Apatow, who’d experienced a recent spike in his blood pressure, had a nuclear stress test at Cardiology Associates of Fairfield County in Trumbull. In the test, a small amount of a radioactive material is injected into the veins and used to help track blood flow to the heart.Though the amount of radioactive material used in the test is relatively low — equal to a few X-rays or a diagnostic CT scan — it was enough to set off a radioactivity detector in the state police car. The detectors are used to help identify potential terror threats.”I asked the officer `What seems to be the problem?’ ” Apatow said. “He said `You’ve been flagged as a radioactive car.’ “Apatow’s doctor had given him a document attesting that he’d had a medical procedure involving a small amount of radioactive material that he handed to the officer. A Stratford firefighter, Apatow was more curious than annoyed by the incident.”I had no idea the police even had devices like that,” he said. “I imagined it being like a cartoon — like I’m driving down the street and my car was glowing.”State Police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance confirmed that many of the state police cars have the radioactivity detectors. “It’s part of our homeland security operations here,” Vance said. “It’s just another layer of public safety that we have in this state.”
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House to vote on Trayvon amendment – Washington Times
House Democrats said Tuesday they will offer an amendment to push to overturn stand-your-ground self-defense laws in states like Florida.
The amendment, which would withhold some grants from states that have such laws, will come as part of the House’s debate on the Commerce Department spending bill.
“‘Shoot-first’ laws have already cost too many lives. In Florida alone, deaths due to self-defense have tripled since the law was enacted. Federal money shouldn’t be spent supporting states with laws that endanger their own people,” said Reps. Raul Grijalva of Arizona and Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the two Democrats who are offering the legislation. “This is no different than withholding transportation funds from states that don’t enforce seat-belt laws.”
Florida’s law, which allows residents to use force in response to an attack without first having to retreat, has come under scrutiny after the nationally-polarizing death of teenager Trayvon Martin. George Zimmermann, a neighborhood watch volunteer, has been charged with murder in the case.
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