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EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT STRETCHING IS WRONG

This is a pretty interesting (and probably important) article on the proper way to stretch one's body.  It does, indeed, differ from what we have been taught.  (HT: Hot Air)

UPDATE -  11/3/08 - Speaking of exercise, did you see this video and related article about 81 year old marathon runner, Joy Johnson?  What an inspiration and challenge she is!

REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH PRACTICALLY DEMONSTRATED

From a letter to the editor at the Chicago Tribune:

On my way to lunch recently, I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read "Vote Obama; I need   the money." I laughed. In a restaurant my server had on an "Obama 08" tie. Again I laughed. Just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came, I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Barack-Obama-redistribution-of-wealth concept. He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need—the homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.

  I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided  he could use the money more. The homeless guy was grateful. At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment, I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more. I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.        —A. Hart, Forest Park    (HT: Townhall)

COLLEGE NEWSPAPERS ENDORSE OBAMA 63 TO 1

Jonah Goldberg notes: College newspapers endorse Obama 63 to 1.  He is no doubt right to comment (cough):
        I'm sure it's because all these kids are such fierce and fresh thinkers.

THOMAS SOWELL - OBAMAS' EGO THAT OF AN UNTESTED COLLEGE SOPHOMORE

Update 11/2/08 - I'm not sure what to make of this, but could it be that Obama has a Narcissistic Pesonality Disorder?  (See also this article).  Is it too farfetched?...  I'm not sure it is. 

** I was tempted simply to update a  previous post on Obama's arrogance, but I have decided that Thomas Sowell's more recent article deserves a post all its own.  Sowell pulls no punches.   It's a       must read and all the more so when juxtaposed against Drudge's recent link to an Obama heading, "I will change the world."  Sowell says:

Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be achieved by not achieving anything else.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise— whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team— is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama’s trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges— very bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in the real world. . . 

PROPOSITION 8: CALIFORNIA VOTES ON MARRIAGE

8 Is Not Hate

  Maggie Gallagher does a masterful job explaining in a condensed form why "marriage" should be defined exclusively as  the union of a man and a woman.  Gallagher explains the same point more comprehensively here.  Californians need to vote "yes" on Proposition 8 -  "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California."

For more, see Protect marriage.com