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Disability Caucus Open Thread 6/4/16: Physical Disabilities, Exercise and Weight Loss

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 9:19pm

This has always been a tough topic for me, especially the weight loss. I've always been the husky kid with the big belly and my weight was always up and down. In recent years though...well, I'm 255 pounds. Up until a few years ago I managed to keep my weight between 200 and 215 (I'm around 6 feet tall). This probably doesn't help with my physical problems that I've had since I was very young. I gained all the weight in my stomach which probably escalates my back problems.

John Adams and the Two-Party System

Submitted by darkmatter on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 7:34pm

In 1780, seven years before our present Constitution was drafted, John Adams wrote the following in a letter:

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

MSF Kunduz Bombing The Event That Washed Away Any Delusion

Submitted by LaFeminista on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 6:07pm

For those who may have forgotten

NEW YORK, APRIL 29, 2016 -- The United States military today released its investigative report on the attack on the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan on 3 October 2015. The attack killed 42 people, including 14 MSF staff members, and wounded dozens more.

If All Ads Were Like Politics

Submitted by NinoTheMindBender on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 3:06pm

Buy our car. It doesn't break down nearly as often as the other models.

Eat at our restaurant. People don't get food poisoning nearly as often here as that other place.

Our airplanes don't crash nearly as often as the other guy's.

Our bottled water is less contaminated than our competitors.

Sure you get salmonella with our soup, but the other company give you botulism.

Care to add some more?

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