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SYDNEY (AFP) – People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.

A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher Tuan Nguyen.

The issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were six percent weaker, Nguyen said.

There was “practically no difference” between the bones of meat-eaters and ovolactovegetarians, who excluded meat and seafood but ate eggs and dairy products, he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090702/hl_afp/healthfooddietaustraliavietnam

Bernie Madoff was sentanced to 150 years in prison today. Read the full story Does that seem a little excessive to anyone else? Sure stealing 65 billion is a little excessive also but it’s not like he killed anyone. I’m just curious as to what you all think. Was it a justified sentance or not?

I’m just curious if you guys that voted for Obama are actually “HAPPY” with him. Now that the excuse of “well he’s better than the other guy” can’t be used… are you actually happy with him and what he is doing or is not doing? In essence of full disclosure, I wrote in Kuccinich (because he was the only one with enough balls to stand up and ask for bush to be impeached) but would have voted for Obama if oregon was a swing state)

I dont want to start a war, but wouldn’t mind some good discussions from both sides.

IN MY OPINION here’s what i see and obviously the bad sticks out more than the good:

Signed a bill to protect a bunch of land

Closed(ing) Guantanamo. Granted, I seriously question if there are other places that are just like it run by us

setup timeline to “withdraw” from iraq (there will still be a ton of troops left) and is switching focus onto afghanistizzo and my guess would soon be Iran / N. Korea (which probably IS needed)

Did not support gay marriage.

spent a fuck ton of money to bail out banks and auto industries, both of which i think should have been left to fail. To me it looks like at least one of the auto people got a bunch of money in the bailout, then got bought out almost immediately by a foreign company.

Supported FISA. Not fucking cool.

eased some restrictions on cuba - but didn’t open up travel or trade for everyone

preached about transparency but didn’t come through with it

Alright so last night the Buck drafted Brandon Jennings. The first kid from the US to skip college and go play pro in Europe instead of going to college or the NBA. When I first found out that the Bucks got him I was at least excited I had heard of this dude and at least it wasn’t Tyler Hall Hansbourogh. Then I read a little about him this morning. Apparently he averaged a stellar 5.5 points and 2.3 assists for some team in Italy. Are you kidding me? With the 10th pick in the draft they took a kid that averaged 5 points a game? I understand he’s young and will have a lot of time to grow but come on now. Put this along side of the Jefferson trade in which they got members of the all AARP team in return, I’m not sure what to think of the team or their love for shitty players.

I know this is a day late, but I wanted to make sure Andy’s 29th birthday was acknowledged because it is the start of his final year as a young man, before he turns into this:

Marriage, house, constant rapings by Sparr. This is what happens after all of this. Enjoy your care free days as a twenty something no good bum while you can Andy.

Happy Birthday Buddy!!!! Hope you had a great day!

This was on ABCnews.com today. It’s about a guy in San Luis Obispo County. Poor bastard.

Nonsense

What a week! Not a bit of relaxing between setting everything up and drinking our faces off but what a fun time… oh yeah, and a beautiful wedding. It couldn’t have gone much smoother. I haven’t looked through all my pictures that i took with Bobs camera, but i did come across a few nice ones. Andy, if you’d like a full resolution copy of any or all of what i took, I can figure out a way to get them to you. I have a lot more informal ones i havent taken off my little camera

Thank you to Andy and Keren and everyone else that made the last week what it was.

Sam, Bethy’s mom (if i remember right) asked to see the pictures of johanna. You can send her this link

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Saw this and thought it was a pretty good one

What an interesting poll one of you put on. I initially voted “no”. I’m very torn on the subject. If Favre wants to play, why not with whoever? The Packers didn’t want him back. True, it appears to be geared at revenge, which sucks, but the Packers wouldn’t let him play with whoever he wanted after they didn’t want him in the first place.
Jeez, he still was the best Packer player ever. Maybe they should just wait until 5 years after his real retirement and retire his number as he goes into the hall of fame?
As much as I loathe thinking of him in a Vikings jersey it sure would make a really interesting story to follow. It would be REALLY crazy to see his career come to an end due to injury caused at Lambeau by a Packer! That I guess I wouldn’t feel too bad about. Any thoughts?

So I went to the doctor last night to get a physical and to get the results of my blood work and xrays on my back. Blood work came back all normal (I know suprising right?), except for a little bit of high cholestoral I’m all good.

What struck me as odd was the way the chose to describe the issue with my lower back. Apparently the disc between my L5 and S1 vertebra is “completely obliterated”. Yes, that’s the way it was described to me. What makes is interesting is the doctor didn’t seem to be concerned about it really at all. I will have to get an MRI to see if it’s causing any nerve issues but for the most part it was talked about like it was normal. Now I’m definately not a doctor but I do know that the discs in your back do serve a purpose. Throwing around words like “obliterated” would tend to make me think that it’s a kind of serious issue, that seems to not be the case. Either way I’m hoping to avoid surgery and just be able to go the physical therapy route.

Erdy, our race is still on. How does it feel to know you’re going to lose to a gimp?

I’ve been eating this shit for years. I actually eat it WAY more than ranch dressing. I guess everyone wants to be like me.

Watch this with sound (though don’t watch at work probably). Tell me you didn’t laugh your ass off.

EDIT:

I suck at the internet.

http://www.noob.us/miscellaneous/worst-job-in-the-world-nsfw/

Check out the Budweiser rebate at your grocery stores. (most likely taped to cases) Buy one 12 pack or larger and at least a 12lb bag of Kingsford and get $20 of free fresh meat or seafood. They also had a $3 instant coupon on the Kingsford so an 18lb bag was $5. I got 4 tenderloin steaks and some chicken quarters mutha freeee!