I Cook, Therefore I Am

Take time to enjoy Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Couch and ponder the many benefits of cooking.

Cutler and his colleagues also surveyed cooking patterns across several cultures and found that obesity rates are inversely correlated with the amount of time spent on food preparation. The more time a nation devotes to food preparation at home, the lower its rate of obesity. In fact, the amount of time spent cooking predicts obesity rates more reliably than female participation in the labor force or income. Other research supports the idea that cooking is a better predictor of a healthful diet than social class: a 1992 study in The Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that poor women who routinely cooked were more likely to eat a more healthful diet than well-to-do women who did not.

And then go whip up a nice meal.

(Tonight I’m making pesto rotelle with portobello mushroom.)

The Messiah (Uncut)

Remember: “Single Payer” in English means socialized medicine.

The White House response is beyond lame. Anyone with kindergarten-level critical thinking skills can see she’s tilting at strawmen, obfuscating, and outright lying. Just in case, though, here is The One with no edits.

Transcript courtesy Breitbart TV:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care program. I see no reason why the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent of its Gross National Product on health care cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody. And that’s what Jim is talking about when he says everybody in, nobody out. A single payer health care plan, a universal health care plan. And that’s what I’d like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House.”

Bring on the ridicule, Barry.

The Natives Are Restless

Check out the three videos at Hot Air which illustrate why Obamacare is in trouble.

More hostility, please.

I just checked my misrepresentative’s web site and not only does she not seem to have any public meetings scheduled, but “health care” doesn’t make it onto her “hot topics” list. Oh, but the switch to digital TV does.

Swine Flu Epidemic Predicted

HEW Secretary announces:

There is evidence there will be a major flu epidemic this coming fall. The indication is that we will see a return of the 1918 flu virus that is the most virulent form of the flu. In 1918 a half million Americans died. The projections are that this virus will kill one million Americans…

Before you panic, check the year.

Who’s a climate scientist?

Depends on which side you’re on.

Since I’d never heard of the prominent Professor Macintosh, I decided to look him up on the internet.  I was surprised to find that he’s not a computer modeler at all!  He’s a lawyer! And his position at ANU is Associate Director of the Centre for Climate Law and Policy.  He does have a diploma in environmental studies on top of his 1998 bachelor of commerce and law degree, but he won a prize for environmental law, so that’s probably what he concentrated on while earning his diploma in 2001.
That’s what it takes to be described as a prominent climate scientist if you’re on the alarmist side.  While rummaging around on the internet, I also found the transcript of an April 15 story broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.   The story starts by interviewing two climate skeptics, Professor Bob Carter, a geologist, and Professor Stewart Franks, an environmental engineer.  They told a parliamentary commission that the scientific evidence doesn’t support alarmism.  But then the reporter, Sabra Lane, was quick to point out that Carter and Franks aren’t climate scientists or even reputable scientists at all.

As Iain Murray reminds us, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is actually a railroad engineer.

Right

This letter to the editor on the Patriot Post nails it:

“Is health care a right? I propose that one person’s rights may not create a burden for another person. We have the right to free speech, but we may not force someone else to listen. We have the right to worship as we choose, but we may not compel another person to attend church with us. We have the right to keep and bear arms, but if our neighbor chooses not to, we may not require that he carry a firearm. A right to health care cannot exist because it requires that someone else provide it. Another person may not infringe on my Liberty by requiring that I provide for his needs. That was called Slavery, and has long been abolished in America.”

Behold the Power

of the Pentatonic Scale.

Coming Soon!

Courtesy of Obamacare: Pain med rationing.

The Government’s drug rationing watchdog says “therapeutic” injections of steroids, such as cortisone, which are used to reduce inflammation, should no longer be offered to patients suffering from persistent lower back pain when the cause is not known.

Gosh, isn’t government-run health care wonderful?

I knew it.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/34348_The_True_Nirth_Certifikit_At_Last

We’re In The Best of Hands

Did Timmy “Tax Cheat” Geithner say this with a straight face?

“When we have recovery established, led by the private sector, then we have to bring these deficits down very dramatically,” he told ABC’s “This Week” in an interview broadcast Sunday. “And that’s going to require some very hard choices. And we’re going to have to do that in a way that does not add unfairly to the burdens that the average American already faces.”

Are you getting the impression that this administration is just, you know, making this up as it goes along?

Sounds like the easiest mission ever

Operation Embarrass Your Congressman.

Then and Now

Then:

Now.

No wonder artists find Him so inspiring.

It’s Official

A photo like this could have been taken and used by an agency that wanted to make a president look bad. But it wasn’t. It’s an official White House photo. Do they really think this makes Him look good?

Update:

Zo decides to have fun with it.