POOR OHIO FAMILY FORCED TO SCRIMP ON FOOD

From NPR. If you're going to write a story like this, maybe you shouldn't print a picture of the starving people. Ridiculous!

A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.

Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver's education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.

Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.

The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it's more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don't buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.

And here's a picture of The Amazing Starving Nunezes. I bullshit you not.

TED KENNEDY: TRAITOR

"Errr ahhh this Soviet jock strap is chaffing mah bahlls."


Traitor. Yeah I said it. After you read this interview with author Paul Kengor over at Frontpage you'll be saying it too.

Seems back in 1983 he reached out to the KGB to help undermine President Reagan. He advised the Soviets to improve their PR work over here so as to make Ronnie look like the bad guy. Sickening stuff.

"The thrust of the letter is that Reagan had to be stopped, meaning his alleged aggressive defense policies, which then ranged from the Pershing IIs to the MX to SDI, and even his re-election bid, needed to be stopped. It was Ronald Reagan who was the hindrance to peace. That view of Reagan is consistent with things that Kennedy said and wrote at the time, including articles in sources like Rolling Stone (March 1984) and in a speeches like his March 24, 1983 remarks on the Senate floor the day after Reagan’s SDI speech, which he lambasted as “misleading Red-Scare tactics and reckless Star Wars schemes.”

Even more sickening in that this letter has been out there for years and the media have not run with it. So I feel it is my duty to help spread it around. I'm good like that.

Read the entire interview.

COUNTRY BOYS AND GIRLS GETTIN' DOWN ON THE "WIFE-FATTENING" FARM

Muslim badonkadonk...

Obesity is so revered among Mauritania's white Moor Arab population that the young girls are sometimes force-fed to obtain a weight the government has described as "life-threatening".

A generation ago, over a third of women in the country were force-fed as children - Mauritania is one of the few African countries where, on average, girls receive more food than boys.

But in rural Mauritania you still see the rotund women that the country is famous for. They walk slowly, dainty hands on the end of dimpled arms, pinching multicoloured swathes of fabric together to keep the biting sand from their faces.

"I make them eat lots of dates, lots and lots of couscous and other fattening food," Fatematou, a voluminous woman in her sixties who runs a kind of "fat farm" in the northern desert town of Atar, told BBC World Service's The World Today programme.

"I make them eat and eat and eat. And then drink lots and lots of water," she explained.

"I make them do this all morning. Then they have a rest. In the afternoon we start again. We do this three times a day - the morning, the afternoon and the evening."

She said the girls could end up weighing between 60 to 100 kilograms, "with lots of layers of fat."

"If a girl refuses we start nicely, saying 'come on, come on' sweetly, until she agrees to eat."

"Of course they cry - they scream," she said.

"We grab them and we force them to eat. If they cry a lot we leave them sometimes for a day or two and then we come back to start again.

Fat farms? They must be growing a lot of ugly down there too.
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