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WTF!?! So modern America is again attacked by the conservative right for what now?… Cheerleading! Apparently the fact that women can dance and make “grinding moves” reminds (impressionable) men & women of sex. No shit? Cheerleading is now become too sexual and is (in their minds) leading to suggestive sexual behaviors or ultimately corrupting the youth.
(Read: Texas cheerleaders face a bump-and-grind ban).

I say Fuck off! This becomes another line item on the list of things that are bringing down our society and point to the behavior that people (and parents more specifically) would rather find blame in institutions or other people for not being able to raise thier own children in thier own conservative eye. Here’s a suggestion: if you don’t like the cheerleaders Don’t Look at them! or better yet sit your prude ass up in the nose bleeds – they all look like ants from there anyway!

Cheerleading and American Football go together like pizza and beer. It can’t be separated and now Texans want to regulate the dance moves of the cheerleaders… This might be ok for the Green Bay ladies on the field but Dallas is right there below the Raideretts.

I’m reminded of the 50’s when we were all going to hell (well at least the women were) for being “affected” by Elvis Presley’s hip gyrations. There are still instances where dancing is looked at as too sexual such as back in Palo Alto.

There’s Money in Rice!!! I initially thought this was a rumor and after some digging I found the facts. For those not in NYC there’s a small shop in SoHo that just sells flavored rice pudding. There’s not much to it, rice, sugar, milk and vanilla (or other flavors) and for 5+ dollars a small bowl it seems pricy. With the limited clientele and high dollar decor, I’ve always wondered (among others) on how this place stays in business.

Well earlier thihs month, Peter Moceo, the man that opened the Spring St. store Rice to Riches has been indicted for running a $22 million gambling ring. Moceo lives at Trump Tower and was arraigned in Long Island on the charges along with 19 co-defendants (including a concierge at Trump Tower) and “a father who allegedly had his 9-year-old son relay point spreads via cellphone,” – and Moceo’s 69 year-old father.

Suffolk Country D.A. Thomas Spota said it was “one of the largest gambling operations in Suffolk County,” and explained “we’re looking at enterprise corruption, money laundering and income tax violations.” One brilliant thing that Moceo and his cronies devised was “vig-free Fridays,” a day without interest for people placing bets!

Mr. Moceo declares that despite his arrest, the emporium will stay open. After all, pudding sales were averaging $15,000 to $18,000 a week, so it must be a lucrative business. Wow that’s over 400 bowls of rice a day!

Beyond the Pudding, a Mystery [NY Times]
Rice to Riches Conspiracy Theories [Curbed]

Following the death of as many as 60,000 Americans from COX-2 inhibitors (source: British Medical Journal, author Dr. David Graham, FDA drug safety researcher), an FDA advisory panel has now voted to allow the drugs to return to the market with full FDA safety approval. The fact that a single COX-2 drug has reportedly killed more Americans than the entire Vietnam War is apparently not sufficient for the FDA to characterize it as unsafe.

With this decision, a “safety approval” by the FDA has now become meaningless. If the agency can put its stamp of public safety approval on a drug that has killed tens of thousands of Americans and that was removed from the market by its own manufacturer following the revelation of studies showing alarming increases in heart attack risk, then what, pray tell, could possibly be the FDA’s definition of a dangerous drug?

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