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OT: The News Thread

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Heh, just done that political compass thing

Economic Left/Right: -9.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18

Almost off the bloody charts.
 
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I'm still not a 100% on the meaning of:

Economic Left/Right
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian

Can someone explain it to me in layman's terms?
 
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Oh God, from one Englishman to another I apologize. I would never want to insinuate that you were Scottish without it being true. I wouldn't wish that on kb... well okay maybe kb.
 
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Metalleaf said:
I'm still not a 100% on the meaning of:

Economic Left/Right
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian

Can someone explain it to me in layman's terms?
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Left = Give us your pay cheque
Right = Keep your pay cheque
Libertarian = Stay out of our private lives
Authoritarian = Interfere in our private lives

and everything in-between
 
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Yeah I'm familiar with that place, though their closer to Holyhead, my Uncle was the Harbour Master their.
 
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Vest Sweller?? LOL.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2848762/Worlds-fattest-man-50st-Paul-Mason-writing-vest-sweller.html


THE world's fattest man is set to reveal his weight-LOSS tips - as he writes his autobiography.

Fifty-stone Paul Mason, 48, spoke about the book in hospital, which he left last night in an ambulance after life-saving gastric bypass surgery.

The reinforced vehicle rocked from side to side as his bulk was moved on to an extra-strength stretcher.

He was then wheeled through 5ft-wide doors into his specially-adapted bungalow in Ipswich, Suffolk - while being filmed for a Channel 4 documentary.

Paul Mason
Porker ... Paul at 70st

The ex-postie had to drop 20st from his 70st peak last year before he could have the operation, which limits the amount of food going into his stomach.

Now his book, The Journey, will tell how he did it.

A source said: "He's been telling people in the hospital how he's writing this book and it will reveal how he's managed to lose so much weight. He's been in good spirits."

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Paul started writing as he recovered from the £20,000 NHS op at St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, West Sussex, where he stayed for three weeks.

He used to gorge on 20,000 calories a day - EIGHT times what the average man eats.

He got so big that firemen once had to knock down a wall so he could be taken to hospital.

Despite his weight loss he is still thought to be the world's heaviest man.

Previous record holder Manuel Uribe, 43, of Mexico, shed more than half of his 90st bulk to get married.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...Mason-writing-vest-sweller.html#ixzz0fElTA43w
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Insane....I got up to 300 for a while in 08 before I went all health mental....so I grasp how easy it is to be lazy and put on a "significant" amount of weight. But wow...20,000 calories daily

Just to put that into context...a pound of deep fried, batter coated and sauced chicken wings are about 1000-1100 calories. Dude was eating the equivalent of 20 pounds of wings daily. A single chicken breast is 150 calories or so (skinless)...that's 133 chicken breasts in a day

Just insane
 
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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/02/10/right-rebels-foxnews/?

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns a 7 percent stake in News Corp — the parent company of Fox News — making him the largest shareholder outside the family of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Alwaleed has grown close with the Murdoch enterprise, recently endorsing James Murdoch to succeed his father and creating a content-sharing agreement with Fox News for his own media conglomerate, Rotana.

Last weekend, at the right-wing Constitutional Coalition’s annual conference in St. Louis, Joseph Farah, publisher of the far right WorldNetDaily, blasted Fox News for its relationship with Alwaleed. Farah noted correctly that Alwaleed had boasted in the past about forcing Fox News to change its content relating to its coverage of riots in Paris, and warned that such foreign ownership of American media is “really dangerous.” ThinkProgress was at the speech and observed attendees of the conference murmuring and shaking their heads in disapproval:
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The obvious irony here of course is that Newscorp's largest shareholder is Rupert Murdoch...who is also a foreigner, and is also interested in shaping Fox News content to fit his personal politics. But he's not brown, so it's not dangerous.
 
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