[iraise50]

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I don't see any neo-cons involved in this. Do you?

That was the point of the thread.

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I'm a conservative, just not an idiot.

(They're in both parties, I think we can both agree)

My wife is a teacher. We had her two-year old niece with us throughout the summer. My wife taught all summer long, so guess who made lunch? No Little Debbies and coca-cola at our house either. I didn't just play poker and have her watch Barney either, we played in the park, went swimming, lots of tag and many insanely loud days at Chuckie Cheese. Ok I liked taking her there. Shhh, I pretend to not like it. Point is I wasn't doing anything I won't do as a parent to my own kids, or that mothers and fathers around the world aren't doing now. In my first response I tried showing alternative reasons to blaming the problem on women having the new-fangled idea to go to work (I hear they're going to wear pants now, too). Now, I'll be blunt. That's a stupid idea. STUPID.

"Women work -> less time to cook
less time to cook -> pre-prepared meals
pre-prepared meals = more fattening
more fattening -> fatter"

I don't know how to do multiple quotes, so...you can figure out where I'm quoting in the above thread form the second post of the OP.

Are you serious? My grandfather grew up in WWII and yeah, grandmother cooked a lot of meals, but he cooked several too. My mother was a single mother. She worked full time, attended college full time and had three children. I ate, damned good food, too. We didn't just get twinkies and and bonbons and maple syrup to wash it down with. Seriously, I find the whole notion idiotic. For the record, mmbt0ne, I don't tihnk you're an idiot, I think that article is and you need to be more critical in your thinking, becasue the article is so incredibly misguided it makes me wonder if our government didn't pay a $25,000 subsidy for its completion.