I felt pretty smug about that until I saw the map of states that allow cousins to marry and found out California is one of them.
2.) That study that forecasts 42% of Americans will be obese by 2030? The data they collected is from telephone interviews. And since they know that people are likely to underestimate their weight to a stranger on the phone? They just bounce the findings up by a 10% margin. Wow - there is some real hard statistical data we should use as an excuse to increase health care premiums...
3.) I am really mad that all the news outlets are letting Mitt off the hook calling his high school vigilante actitivties against a fellow student "bullying." Mitt committed assault and battery pure and simple and he should have been expelled and criminally charged.
4.) Did you hear what the GOP is up to now? House Republicans proposed major cuts to the Defense budget as part of the debt-ceiling fiasco from last summer. They didn't want the cuts, but they proposed the military reductions as a way to create an incentive for themselves to reach a bipartisan debt-reduction deal. But now they don't want to live with the deal.
Which leads to this new proposal. To offset the Pentagon cuts Republicans proposed but no longer support, the House GOP voted to find all of the savings by taking from programs that benefit struggling workers and families. Per Rachel Maddow "Today's measure is nothing short of brutal, slashing food stamps, nearly eliminating job-training programs, eliminating health care subsidies, slashing the child tax credit, and taking school meals from 200,000 low-income children."
Can't wait to see how they pin this one on the President, the big bunch of liars.
5.)
Thank you Mr. President for finally saying it, getting it out there and helping to set the stage for the future. It won't happen soon enough, but it will happen.
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The question of cousin marriage is always an interesting one. There have been some pretty famous cases of first cousins marrying -- Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma, for example -- and no one blinked an eye. We always associate cousin marriage with cognitively challenged hillbillies or inbred royalty, but in some cultures it's pretty common.
I also wonder just how anyone would ever know if cousins married because you don't get asked about consanguinity when you apply for a marriage license. What's the point of making it illegal for first cousins to marry if no one knows they're doing it?
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