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Mark Steyn: America must learn from our laziest woman
The Telegraph (U.K.) ^
| 02/24/04
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 02/23/2004 3:26:35 PM PST by Pokey78
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To: jolie560
I can't remember the source, but I seem to remember reading a study that showed as your socio-economic status decreased, your likelyhood of being significantly overweight increased.
As for these two women, I think it's more weird how much the daughter looks like her mom; it's like looking at her much younger twin.
To: Timesink; Pokey78
Oh my WORD! Gone are the days, apparently, when people actually felt a sense of SHAME for stealing from others, instead of wanting their picture in the paper. Steyn does the right thing, holding these women up to ridicule. Thanks for the ping, Pokey78!
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posted on
02/23/2004 4:09:26 PM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(If you want to dance with the one who brought you, you probably should quit insulting your date.)
To: Timesink
Sponge Boob and Sponge Boobette?
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
02/23/2004 4:14:09 PM PST
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: Pokey78
to the progressive mind, there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet fully acknowledged.
Spot-on.
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posted on
02/23/2004 4:16:05 PM PST
by
July 4th
(George W. Bush, Avenger of the Bones)
To: Pokey78
there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet fully acknowledged.Bingo! What a perfect description of the antiwar protesters' mind set.
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posted on
02/23/2004 4:23:03 PM PST
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: Pokey78
BTTT
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posted on
02/23/2004 4:28:03 PM PST
by
Gritty
("to Progressives there are no enemies, just friends with unacknowledged grievances -Mark Steyn)
To: Timesink
Great googlymoogly.
To: jolie560
It's always amazed me how many career welfare people are 'fat'.
And it's always amazed me that when the hand-wringing starts about the "epidemic" of obesity 8 out of 10 times they show lower middle class white males (truck driver, assistant manager at TireMart, the key-grinder at ACE hardware), when 8 out of 10 times the real examples can be found in public assistance minority females.
Ah yes, America! The only place on earth where the poor are fat.
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posted on
02/23/2004 4:45:15 PM PST
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: Hawkeye's Girl
I can't remember the source, but I seem to remember reading a study that showed as your socio-economic status decreased, your likelyhood of being significantly overweight increased.I remember reading something like that too. It said that the higher you go (or wish to appear to be) in socio-economic status (a.k.a. social ladder) the slimmer your figure.
Yet oddly enough, at the very top while women are quite slim (skinny?) men tend to be just a little bit heavier then when they were at the next-to-the-very-top rung of the social ladder.
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posted on
02/23/2004 4:51:29 PM PST
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: Pokey78
Amen.
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posted on
02/23/2004 5:04:00 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: scholar; Bullish; linear; yoda swings
Ping
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posted on
02/23/2004 5:08:51 PM PST
by
knighthawk
(Live today, there is no time to lose, because when tomorrow comes it's all just yesterday's blues)
To: Pokey78
The welfare state, like public schooling, is essential to increasing the power of the State over mere humans.
So far, it's working wonderfully well!
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posted on
02/23/2004 5:21:35 PM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: Pokey78
Teachers are uncomfortable with the notion of an "opposing side" one must strive to "beat" - just as, in the war on terror, many grown-ups are uncomfortable with the notion of "the enemy": to the progressive mind, there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet fully acknowledged.Although I'm a Steyn man, in this case, he's wrong. (And he's echoing Lee Harris, and should be man enough to admit it.) Socialists today are uncomfortable opposing the enemies of the West, because THEY are enemies of the West. Thus, they see the 911 attackers not as their enemies, because they consider them to be allies.
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posted on
02/23/2004 5:28:54 PM PST
by
mrustow
To: Timesink
Now that is scary! How can anyone be proud of never having held a job? What's up with the lame excuses? What a positively frightening mindset! (BTW, if I looked like that, I would break all the mirrors in my house and never ever pose for a photograph! Yikes!)
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posted on
02/23/2004 5:37:04 PM PST
by
Joan912
(Ice hockey is an addiction...)
To: Pokey78
BTTT
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posted on
02/23/2004 5:38:18 PM PST
by
hattend
To: Pokey78
He makes a great point that is overlooked about the welfare state: it allows bright, intelligent and decent people to make absolutely nothing of themselves and in a sense making nothing of yourself is like dying.
Excellent point.
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posted on
02/23/2004 5:39:32 PM PST
by
Schattie
(-censored-)
To: mhking
the Sun bestowed the title of "Britain's Laziest Woman" on Susan Moore of Burythorpe, North Yorkshire. Moore has not done a day's work since dropping out of college in 1988. Despite receiving "Jobseeker's Allowance" for 16 years, she does not seek jobs, and never has. I'm not sure if this is 'just damm' worthy, but I though I would let you know about it.
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posted on
02/23/2004 6:01:31 PM PST
by
RKB-AFG
To: Timesink
The mother looks like she's been taking tips on coy, retiring glances. From Helen Thomas.
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posted on
02/23/2004 6:06:45 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I shall defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: Timesink
RE:
Mother and Daughter pic
Well, it doesn't appear that either is missing any meals...
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posted on
02/23/2004 6:08:24 PM PST
by
okie01
(www.ArmorforCongress.com...because Congress isn't for the morally halt and the mentally lame.)
To: LonePalm
Those two fat slobs could get gainful employment as...
1. Star Jones' dietician
2. Professional Wrestlers
3. plugs to patch holes in the side of oil tankers.
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posted on
02/23/2004 6:27:32 PM PST
by
Benrand
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