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• Steve Jobs Makes Some Amazing Predictions in This ‘Lost’ Portion of a 1983 Speech

  October 3, 2012 at 5:22pm

  In reply to thegodfather.

  Have you read Malcolm Gladwell’s Book ‘Outliers’? Part of it is luck…luck of being born in the US at the time that would set them up to be graduating college when the computer industry was being born, Lots of data to support this, the richest folks in the world were all born in small clusters of times that the opportunity was good for various industries, Industrial revolution and computer revolution included. The other part is the smarts and motivation to actually do something. Its annoying how guys hammer that tired misunderstood quote over and over. 47% 47% look i can do it too. Its a weak strategy.

• Steve Jobs Makes Some Amazing Predictions in This ‘Lost’ Portion of a 1983 Speech

  October 3, 2012 at 4:51pm

  haha, a lot of jealous folks on theblaze, Ya, he was egotistical, and a bit foolish in some regards (like his choice of cancer treatment) but he certainly changed the world.

  Maybe he wasn’t the first person to think of these ideas, but he did lay a lot of the groundwork that lead to them. He was out there doing…Did you listen to the tape? He was talking in practical terms of how to make it happen, giving practical time lines in years as to when this will happen. Long tern thinking people… that’s the problem with a lot of folks today…cant see past the tip of their noses.

• ‘Obama by the Numbers’: Glenn Beck Reveals What the Economy Looks Like After 4 Years of Obama

  September 26, 2012 at 3:44pm

  In reply to N37BU6.

  @N37BU6

  Could you explain how the increase in deficit is not due to the bush tax cuts?

• ‘Obama by the Numbers’: Glenn Beck Reveals What the Economy Looks Like After 4 Years of Obama

  September 26, 2012 at 3:40pm

  In reply to vancity.

  @N37BU6
  You skipped the part about the peanutbutter sandwich ban…. 1

  that was the best part. Hahaha!!

  The rest is due to inflation and the tax cuts that bush made…Taxes get cut, deficit goes up..who woulda thunk it. der…der..derr

• ‘Obama by the Numbers’: Glenn Beck Reveals What the Economy Looks Like After 4 Years of Obama

  September 26, 2012 at 3:39pm

  This is so incredible laughable! Thanks for making me and my friends day, this should go viral

• ‘We Are Hungry!’: Meet the Students (and Teachers!) Behind the Viral Video Mocking Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Mandates

  September 26, 2012 at 2:05pm

  In reply to UseReasonNotMagic.

  For me, I have complete faith in my ability to make wise and informed decisions. But I don’t have much faith for the average american citizen….This view comes from both personal experience and statistics.

• ‘We Are Hungry!’: Meet the Students (and Teachers!) Behind the Viral Video Mocking Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Mandates

  September 25, 2012 at 1:52pm

  In reply to UseReasonNotMagic.

  It is going to take a lot of changes to get the American population making healthier choices. No one said that enforcing healthier rules for school lunches was going to fix everything.

  Sure, I agree that education on food is needed as well, a combination of both will be needed to affect change. Doesn’t health class teach about these things? Yes it does and has for years, but it doesn’t make much sense to teach how to eat healthily and then serve pizza and chicken nuggets every day for lunch.

  People learn more by being shown how to do things, rather than being talked at. Lets be honest here, where are these kids getting their eating habits from? Their parents.

  Also according to this article, they have unlimited access to vegetables. Athletes can easily get their fill on vegetables. Many high performing athletes are vegetarian, vegetables, nuts and tubers have all the needed nutrients as well.

  So the options are,
  1. Eat the healthful school food
  2. For athletes, eat a larger breakfast or dinner
  3. Bring in your own food.
  4. Don’t eat

  No one is forcing anything, seems completely fair to me.

  If Michelle is so far off base with this one…How would you have done it better? Continue the “Do as I say and not as I do” approach by teaching health and then feeding them unhealthy food?

• Krauthammer Lambastes Obama’s ‘Bumps in the Road’ Comment: ‘If Romney Had Said That…It Would Be a 3-Day Headline’

  September 25, 2012 at 12:15pm

  KRAUTHAMMER is a joke, He is the standard anti Obama guy, When Romney says something stupid, Fox pulls in KRAUTHAMMER to say Obama did something dumber. It really quite ridiculous how this guy is so incredibly negative. A downer all the way through. You think that face got all wrinkly by smiling? Not sure if i have seen one photo of him with a grin.

  Thats who I take my political advice from, old misers that are so angry at the world, they cant even remember what it feels like to have a good time.

  Does anyone take this guy seriously? Oh right, their are tons of people just like this guy that don’t see the problem….Sigh…..

• ‘We Are Hungry!’: Meet the Students (and Teachers!) Behind the Viral Video Mocking Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Mandates

  September 25, 2012 at 11:08am

  In reply to UseReasonNotMagic.

  Continued from above…

  the vast majority of the students aren’t exercising enough to warrant as many calories as the athletes.

  Most people don’t understand that eating fatty foods is parallel to ingesting a drug, they cause the endocannabinoid system in the brain to fire and cause extra dopamine to be released into the brain, making the person feel happy, not unlike when someone smokes a joint. So of course people will be upset, just like if you took someone’s drug of choice away. There are many other ways to get this high, such as exercise for one, positive social interaction is another. Many ways, this is just helping people discover these more sustainable and healthier ways to be happy.

  I am not the dummy Obama supporter that theblaze likes to think we all are, I fully support Obama’s decision on this for valid reasons.

  Sorry for the length of this comment :-)

• ‘We Are Hungry!’: Meet the Students (and Teachers!) Behind the Viral Video Mocking Michelle Obama’s New Lunch Mandates

  September 25, 2012 at 11:06am

  In reply to UseReasonNotMagic.

  Joel,
  Thank you for your respectful response.
  By normal meal, I mean a well balanced meal, one which has all of the nutritional elements needed to sustain a person, and not substantially more or less.

  If you look at scientific studies in diet, the average person, based on average daily physical activity, is about 2000 calories today, but this can range up to 5000 calories per day for athletes, such as runners or football players. It is in the best interest of the schools to feed for the average student, the athletes are separate cases and they can make up those calories at dinner or bring in their lunches. No one is forcing anyone to eat this food. Michelle is just trying to eliminate school food as a driving factor for obesity.

  With this said, the 850 calories at lunch is more than enough for one meal, that is almost half of 2000 daily calories I referenced above.

  I will skip over several of your unrelated “red herring” questions that just muddy the water and have no true relevance to the topic. See this article for more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_fallacies

  Of course these kids are in shape, how effective would the video be if the video was full of obese students? These are obviously the athletes who consume more calories but also exert many more calories in daily exercise. Athletes are a small fraction of the average schools population, I don’t believe that feeding all kids an athlete’s diet is healthy, the va