Archive for August 24th, 2005

The Nun’s Story

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glasscastle - August 24, 2005 @ 8:50 pm · Wacky News

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan has withdrawn an anti-AIDS
campaign ad featuring a smiling nun holding a condom after it sparked
an outcry from Roman Catholics, local media said on Wednesday.

The poster, which shows the nun holding the condom with both hands and
saying "Although I don’t need one, even I know," had been removed
from all condom machines in Taipei hospitals, subway stations and elsewhere.

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As a nun, I can’t agree with their way of expressing things," a church
spokeswoman said Wednesday. "This is a serious insult."

Nuns take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and the Vatican considers
all forms of contraception a sin.

Local media said the plan had been to use someone with a "positive
image" to promote the use of condoms to prevent AIDS.

There are about 300,000 Catholics on the island of 23 million people.

story from Reuters

The South Rises Again

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glasscastle - August 24, 2005 @ 8:37 am · Blogging

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WASHINGTON — Obesity rates have risen in nearly every state but Oregon, according to an advocacy group that called on the government and the private sector to get more involved in the battle against expanding waistlines.

The advocacy group, Trust for America’s Health, said data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the percentage of obese adults for 2002-04 stood at 22.7 percent nationally. The percentage for the previous cycle, 2001-03, was 22 percent.
The state exhibiting the largest increase in obesity was Alabama, by 1.5 percentage points to 27.7 percent. Oregon’s rate held steady at 21 percent.

The report said the states with the highest percentage of obese adults are Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Tennessee.

The states with the lowest percentage of obese adults are Colorado, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, and Montana.

The good news – our home state, Mass, is among the leanest. The bad news – to celebrate, the Dowbrigade bought two pounds of bacon (hey, they were on sale, buy one and get one free). At least we get an excuse to drag out our all-time referral leading photo of the Fat Guys…..

from the Boston Globe