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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/10/2009
Fat and muscle
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Matthew Yglesias says most of what needs to be said here. Yesterday Claire McCaskill and others were talking about how great the centrists' intervention was. Today Sen. McCaskill asks whether the Senate stimulus, as negotiated, is better than nothing. Yes, it is - and if it comes down to that ...
thisiswhyyourefat.com - 2/10/2009
This is why you're fat.
— thisiswhyyourefat.com — The Garbage Plate A combination of either cheeseburger, hamburger, Italian sausages, steak, chicken, white or red hots, a... grilled cheese sandwich, fried fish, or eggs, served on top of one or two of the following: home fries, fries, beans, and ... (more) This is why you're fat.
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apnews.myway.com - 2/15/2009
My Way News - Democrats muscle huge stimulus through Congress
— apnews.myway.com — My Way News - Democrats muscle huge stimulus through Congress... (more) My Way News - Democrats muscle huge stimulus through ...

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mudvillegazette.com - 2/12/2009
Iraq vets are fat
— mudvillegazette.com — I linked to this story the other day now James Taranto takes issue with it. Not with... me, the story I linked. He picks apart this article with facts and ends up with more questions than answers and now it seems the U.S. Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center got back to him with a ... (more) Iraq vets are fat

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Making the Obama Fiscal Boost Bill Worse
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Fat and muscle: Yesterday Claire McCaskill and others were talking about how great the centrists’ intervention was. Today Sen. McCaskill asks whether the Senate stimulus, as negotiated, is better than nothing. Yes, it is — and if it comes down to that choices, a yes vote is the right thing to do. But let’s not have any illusions about what just happened. The centrists went to work on a bill that, perhaps inevitably, was a mixture of economic muscle and useless fat; as the price of their support, they cut deeply into the muscle while leaving all the fat in ...

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