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... even the people; fattest state in the Union according to this study,
The Fattest Cities
Anybody want to venture a guess why?
But the more important question is that as we nationalize the healthcare system, should states like Texas be charged more than lean states to offset the extra cost of taking care of their fat asses?
Corpulent Christi and El Fatso. :haha:
2 pound steak, deep fried cheese-bacon-chili fries and 64 ounces of beer for $14.99?Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
Seriously, ever been to Texas? Lots of cheap, tasty food... and a climate that's way too hot to exercise in.
No. If you fucking asshats want to force me to pay for the health-care costs of everyone else, under the guise of health care being a basic human right or whatthefuckever, you don't get to exclude the folks you don't like. Otherwise, I get to exclude the folks I don't like, and not pay for anyone but myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
Hugeston....AusTON...:DQuote:
Originally Posted by GGT
That sounds fucking amazing. And all the texans ive met (3) have been awesome folks too. Really friendly and i love that accent. I might just move there...Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenCain
Interesting. Looking at the fat cities vs skinny cities is like looking at the Rep vs Dem county-by-county electoral maps. Very few exceptions. It would appear that Republicans are fat!
fat-cats
Pork barrels are fattening :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ']['ear
GalVASTon...GalvasTON :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Crowheart
Agreed with Cain. This is yet another issue of everyone being forced to share costs that are partially the results of other people's bad choices.Quote:
Originally Posted by Being
And Heavens forbid we ever look after one another
If you want to have 3-8% of your income go to buying wheelchairs and tummy tucks for fat people, by all means have a blast!
I am, thank you. Those fat people have had some portion of their income going into keeping me alive, educating me and in general making my life as enjoyable as it is. I'm not entirely convinced I'm the one being shafted here, even if Ching-Ping China-man has more flotillas than I do!
If my neighbor with three kids in a one bedroom apartment asked me for help, I would be happy to. And if I didn't pay large portions of my income so that strangers could get help, I could afford to.
Uhm, let's see. San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and El Paso counties all voted for Obama. So did Baltimore city (and county), Memphis, Kansas City, and Birmingham. In fact only 2 of the top 10 fattest counties voted for McCain in 2008.Quote:
Originally Posted by ']['ear
Seriously, get a clue.
edit: I just looked at the House voting. El Paso (Texas 16), San Antonio (Texas 20), Dallas (Texas 30), Houston (Texas 18, 29, AND 9), Corpus Christi (Texas 27), Baltimore (Maryland 2/3/7), Memphis (Tennessee 9), Kansas City (Missouri 5), and Birmingham (Alabama 7 but not 6, which is suburban Birmingham) ALL voted for Democrats in the 2008 Congress. So that leaves you with a grand total of one city in the top 10 that voted for a republican - namely Charleston.
Really? You'd hand it out if only the gubment didn't bleed you?
I would. There's a huge difference between voluntarily giving to charity and giving up half your shit because men with guns are making you. For one, I don't resent charitable gifts, but I do resent being forced to hand over my shit at threat of gunpoint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
I do love the smell of false dichotomies in the morning
Oh, and what's false about it?
Or is that just your knee-jerk socialist response to arguments against taxation?
Ecological fallacy. Look it up. :noob:Quote:
Originally Posted by ']['ear
What do you think the odds are Tear will?Quote:
Seriously, get a clue.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/...hier-than.html
Who knew, the relationship (at least in terms of health) is actually the opposite. Hopefully certain people here will avoid making ecological fallacies in the future. A famous one is that support for the KKK and segregationism was strongest in areas with the largest black population. Needless to say, this relationship was not based on blacks supporting the KKK and segregation.
Yes, we all know Republicans heal themselves. :bulb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Loki
Really? It's an argument against taxation? Soldiers have guns? Jesus weptQuote:
Originally Posted by CitizenCain
:bulb: :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
It was a joke ffs. Most of the fat cities are southern, non-coastal cities in red states, while most of the skinny cities are coastal in blue states. As we all know, urban areas always vote much more liberally than rural ones, so a list of cities is unlikely to contain many that are actually conservative. And, I can testify that the south is much fatter than other parts of the country, and that the middle is much fatter than the coasts. An entertaining anecdote: The Christmas card of a hometown friend after moving from Seattle back to southern Illinois: "When we were in Seattle, we were the fattest people we know. Now in Illinois we are the skinniest people we know."
@Loki: interesting, but not about fat. That's about smoking. It's also self-reported, which cannot be controlled for. Self-reported studies are notoriously fickle: it is often used as a big criticism of Consumer Reports. While they research a lot of products, post hoc product performance is based mostly on a) filed consumer complaints and b) CR subscriber surveys. Both are very suspect scientifically, which is why I only take seriously things tested in their labs. But, for example, do conservatives and liberals self-report not only health status but behavior differently?
PS Did you really link to a blog? :haha:
The fact that coastal cities are less fat and more Democratic doesn't mean that Democrats are less fat...
Genius, the blog has the link to the study in question. :rolleyes: And we have no reason to think that Republicans are significantly more deceitful in self-reporting their health status than Democrats.
1) I wasn't trying to spam some partisan point, just make a joke. Just because you always jockey for "points" Doesn't mean that everybody else does.
2) I wouldn't hazard a guess as to which party is fatter. Reps are more southern, Dems are more poor. Both demographics tend towards more fat, so I wouldn't guess one way or the other.
3) You linked to the blog, not the study. Given that the link was in the blog, why didn't YOU link to it?
But you can see how he might reasonably include you in that group, given that you're the only person around here (and probably the entire world) who's lied about being a member of a death squad to score points in an online debate.Quote:
Originally Posted by ']['ear
For the love of God
Yeah, yeah, whatever. I'm not trying to start that whole thing up again, but he doesn't get to go around saying "I don't do crazy shit to score points in a debate" after claiming to be a Latin American guerrilla, to score points in a debate.
Maybe that was his units motto "Do whatever it takes". Sounds like something macho and fighty.
Nah, Nicaragua's a Spanish speaking country... so probably something like:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawnie
Lo que sea necesario hacer golpe y matar a los comunistas
Why do you insist on trolling, Cain? Go away. You're just like Young Mage, only a little older. Clearly you want attention. Go get it someplace else. I count at least 4 places where you've trolled me today. Cut it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by CitizenCain
It's not trolling to bring up relevant history, which, by the way, you keep making relevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by ']['ear
Seriously, you cut out this delusion of yours that you don't say any nutty thing you can think of to score points in an argument, and I won't have an opening to bring up all the nutty things you've said in the past to score points in an argument.
Guys. Can we not start this again?
Otherwise I'll just close the thread.
Texas! Everything is big in Texas? They have big football teams, big ranches, big egos. When I think of Texas I think of airport hubs that I'm forced into. Dallas or Houston. That makes me think of big dumb guys playing with a pigskin, in big huge stadiums, with cheerleaders with big boobs.
Years ago I saw a Cadillac with longhorns on the dash, the driver wore a big Stetson hat, the horn was loud and went Buy OOOO Gah. We laughed. Most of the movies from my childhood revolved around the big state of Texas, and Texan attitudes. But my dad liked westerns. Clint Eastwood might be a Malibu man, but I still think of him as a Texan. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
I think the movies were filmed in Arizona, but whatever.
Texas show down, Texas two step, Texas toast, Texas Tea (black tea = oil). We even have steak cuts named Texas Cowboy Sirloin.
I didn't start shit Dread, so don't you go acting like I did. I was interacting with Loki, and Cain saw fit to troll in this thread and about 4 others yesterday. I did nothing to precipitate that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dreadnaught
What are you, a frackin' Chrisitian? You and your radical egalitarian commie love-fest beliefs :down: .Quote:
Originally Posted by Nessus
Can you point me to the part of the Bible where Jesus says, "don't look after your fellow man, but have the government do it instead"?Quote:
Originally Posted by EyeKhan