Goodbye Iraq
Posted by Michelle Moquin on August 19th, 2010
Funny how we have had our TV working for about 2 months now and I rarely watch it. I think that is a good thing, considering I get so much more done when I don’t fall into couch potato mode. But don’t get me wrong, the two things I love most is watching the news – my huge dose of reality, and watching movies – my huge dose of escape (most of the time:). Oh, and I almost forgot Oprah. It is her last season, so when I have the opportunity, I try and catch a glimpse of her show especially if I find the topic to be interesting or intriguing.
And even in regards to my two faves, and an occasional dose of Oprah, I am still not glued to the tube, or should I say HDTV every day. And for that I am grateful.
It isn’t every day that after I write, I check my blog during the day to see what’s up and who’s peeped in, but I occasionally do, and sometimes more often depending on the topic. But thanks to Zoila who chimed in yesterday, I got the heads up about Iraq. I had yet to turn on the news for the evening, and I may not have if it were not for Zoila’s comment. So Thanks Zoila!
It’s been almost seven and a half years since back in April 2003 when Bush first delivered his speech welcoming the troops home from Iraq, declaring an end to major combat operations. What a joke. Unfortunately the joke was on us, and funny it wasn’t. American Soldiers continued to be killed.
So, as I listened to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, and watched the troops head to Kuwait, believe it or not the first thing I thought about was Olbermann wasn’t going to be throwing his crumpled up piece of paper at the television camera anymore, saying, “That is Countdown for this, the ‘whatever’ day since the declaration of ‘Mission Accomplished’ in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Good night and good luck.” I love that he ended his show daily, signing off with that statement.
But I love it even more that the Iraq war has ended, declared over, and our troops are finally coming home.
Goodbye Iraq.
Last U.S. Combat Brigade Pulls Out Of Iraq
KHABARI CROSSING, Kuwait – As their convoy reached the barbed wire at the border crossing out of Iraq on Wednesday, the soldiers whooped and cheered. Then they scrambled out of their stifling hot armored vehicles, unfurled an American flag and posed for group photos.
For these troops of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, it was a moment of relief fraught with symbolism. Seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion, the last American combat brigade was leaving Iraq, well ahead of President Barack Obama’s Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations there.
In a statement released by email, the president noted that the drawdown has been significant — but isn’t over yet:
Over the last 18 months, over 90,000 U.S. troops have left Iraq. By the end of this month, 50,000 troops will be serving in Iraq. As Iraqi Security Forces take responsibility for securing their country, our troops will move to an advise-and-assist role. And, consistent with our agreement with the Iraqi government, all of our troops will be out of Iraq by the end of next year. Meanwhile, we will continue to build a strong partnership with the Iraqi people with an increased civilian commitment and diplomatic effort.
P.J. Crowley, a spokesman for the State Department, told MSNBC that this is “an historic moment” that marks the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom, but not the end of the U.S. mission in Iraq.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division was officially designated the last combat brigade to leave Iraq under Obama’s plan to end combat operations in Iraq by Aug. 31. Associated Press writer Rebecca Santana joined the troops on their final journey out of the country.
Readers: This is a significant moment and HOPEfully a momentous one too. It is goodbye to Iraq, and a warm welcoming hello to our troops. Thoughts? Blog me.
Guy: When I met with my client, he mentioned to me that a friend of his got the same ticket a week ago, and that the town of San Anselmo was hurting for cash. And evidently on the path to generating cash as you pointed out. Thanks for being persistent in getting in and our very informative comment.
Lila: Ya know I didn’t even think about racism when I wrote my write even though I had visions of otws, not whites, in my mind when I spoke of the “poor” who suffer. And only because when I was at the court house, there were many more otws than whites dealing with their citations. But how did they get there?
I was so focused on the fact that it was the “poor” that suffered that I didnt think about the fact that most of the people standing in line were otws, because it is mostly otws that get pulled over by the police. I am aware of this. Therefore to answer your question: Who do you think gets ripped off the most? Otws. Thanks for adding your two.
Ricardo, Florence, Larry, Veronica: Thanks for adding to the conversation also. I learned so much from all of you.
Zen Lill: Maybe I should’ve started bawling. But I got the feeling he felt he gave me a big enough break that day, and he wasn’t going to budge any more. Boo hoo.
Bob: I liked that one. :)
Lots of love….Peace out…
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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August 19th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
The rumor is big in Iran that the next invasion target of the US is Iran. But I read your blog and I tell my friends that the US President Mr. Obama is different and he would never allow his generals to convince him to invade Iran.
Allah knows that I wish something could be done about our situation here. But the Bush solution of invading a country murdering the leaders and all their family members they could find and then dismantling the entire social structure of the country without a back-up plan was criminal.
If Bush was the president of any other country, he would have been tried for war crimes.
Be honest Michelle. Bush started his war against Iraq because he like to you Americans by accusing Saddam of having weapons of mass destruction.
It was a lie and Bush knew it when he went after Saddam. Whatever else Sadaam may have been guilty of, he was entitled to a trial by his people not a seek and destroy mission launched by the most powerful military in the world
The bully on the block had his way that day. As far as the arab world is concerned his day is coming. He will be tried in some war court if he is caught abroad.
As he said he can run, but he can not hide from his criminal acts.
Akhat
August 19th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
THESE REALLY WORK!!
I checked this out on Snopes and it’s for real!
AMAZING SIMPLE HOME REMEDIES:
7. IF YOU CAN’T FIX IT WITH A HAMMER, YOU’VE GOT AN ELECTRICAL PROBLEM.
August 19th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Hafa adai
Yeah, yeah, there are more important things going on but man can not live by that stuff alone. So.
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John Legend & The Roots will perform live during the competition.
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Miss Universe 2009, Stefania Fernandez, will crown her successor at the conclusion of the two-hour telecast. She has spent her reign traveling all over the world as an advocate for HIV/AIDS education, research and legislation. The woman crowned Miss Universe 2010 will continue to do the same.
Each contestant, representing over 80 countries around the world, will compete in three categories: swimsuit, evening gown and interview, including Miss Guam Universe, Vanessa Torres. Worldwide distribution of the competition has topped over 190 countries in past years.
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yes, we be men
Peter
August 19th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
Did anyone read this back in June?
FBI investigating iPad e-mail leaks
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service\San Francisco Bureau?
Thursday, June 10, 2010
(06-10) 22:30 PDT — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened an investigation into the leak of an estimated 114,000 Apple iPad user e-mail addresses.
Hackers belonging to a group called Goatse obtained the e-mail addresses after uncovering a Web application on AT&T’s Web site that returned an iPad user’s e-mail address when it was sent specially written queries. After writing an automated script to repeatedly query the site, they downloaded the addresses, and then handed them over to Gawker.com.
Now the FBI is trying to figure out whether this was a crime. “The FBI is aware of these possible computer intrusions and has opened an investigation into addressing the potential cyberthreat,” said Lindsay Godwin, an FBI spokeswoman.
The investigation was opened Thursday by the FBI’s Washington Field Office, she said. Godwin did not know if the investigation was opened at the request of Apple or AT&T. AT&T declined to comment, and Apple has not replied to requests for comment.
According to Gawker, Goatse hackers were able to download e-mail addresses belonging to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer. They also gained access to addresses belonging to employees of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and the U.S. military.
The hackers did this by guessing thousands of unique numbers — called ICC-ID (Integrated Circuit Card Identifier) — belonging to iPad users and feeding them into the AT&T Web site.
They wrote a PHP script that flooded AT&T’s Web site with possible ICC-ID numbers and logged responses when the site returned an e-mail address. According to an interview with AT&T Chief Security Officer Ed Amoroso, the script exploited a feature on the Web site designed to auto-fill a login form with an e-mail address in order to speed things up when iPad 3G users went to view their AT&T accounts.
In a blog post Thursday, Goatse said that it did nothing illegal. The group obtained the the e-mail addresses via a public Web interface and then gave them to Gawker, but no one else, and has since destroyed the data, it said.
“We did not contact AT&T directly, but we made sure that someone else tipped them off and waited for them to patch until we gave anything to Gawker. This is as ‘nice guy’ as it gets.”
U.S. law prohibits the unauthorized accessing of computers, but it is unclear whether the script that the Goatse group used violated the law, said Jennifer Granick, civil liberties director with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“The question is, when you do an automated test like this, [are you] getting any type of unauthorized access or not,” she said.
If it turns out the data in question was not misused, it is unlikely that federal prosecutors will press charges, she added.
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I wonder why it was not more widely spread.
LLoyd
August 19th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
When the only Presidents were white men. The office was hallowed, not to be trashed less you be accused of being unamerican.
How that has all changed since a black man became the President. I guess all that time we were being lied to.
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Dear Fellow American,
President Obama is wrong AGAIN!
Last Friday evening at a White House dinner on the third night of Ramadan, President Obama came out enthusiastically in support of building the Islamic supremacist mega-mosque two blocks from Ground Zero.
On this issue, Obama stands with our enemies.
The very idea of a 15-story mega-mosque on that hallowed ground is indecent, offensive, and outrageous.
The Anti-Defamation League stated that this is “not a question of rights, but a question of what is right.”
What is right is this: Ground Zero is a battlefield, and the Ground Zero mosque is an insult to the memory of those killed by Islamic terrorists in the 2001 attacks.
Help us protect and honor the memory of the nearly 3,000 people who perished on 9/11. Let’s keep our promise to “Never Forget.”
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It is truly sick what the Right will say and do to get back into power.
Mike
August 19th, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Ever wonder why we give $35 billion of our tax dollars to oil companies?
Follow the money.
This year alone, Big Oil companies like BP and ExxonMobil gave over $11 million to candidates for Congress and a staggering $8 million to sitting members. In fact, Big Oil has given an average of $34,647 to each U.S. senator.1
And, like clockwork, the Senate voted in favor of those $35 billion in tax breaks and subsidies to Big Oil, even during the world’s most disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They sided with Big Oil, not with the voters. They took the money and ran.2
We’re tired of the greasy, dirty politics of Washington. It’s time to clean up the Senate.
We’ve launched an effort to stop the subsidies. Already more than 65,000 of you have signed our Stop the Big Oil Bailout petition. Now we’re asking you to help clean up by focusing on your own senators.
How much money do your senators take from Big Oil? Click here to find out.
This issue isn’t about party politics. Democrats and Republicans take money from Big Oil. Over her career, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has taken more than $666,000. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) has taken more than $740,000 since he got to the Senate.
This is about the right kind of public policies being hijacked by rich corporations like BP and ExxonMobil.
If we want to stop polluting good policy with dirty money, we need to first stop the Big Oil Bailout. You can help by seeing how much your senators have taken from oil companies and spreading the word.
Take a peek. You may be surprised at how much oil money your Senator takes!
August 19th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
How to Avoid Fights Over Bank Accounts: Yours, Mine, Ours
Jonathan Rich, PhD
Bank accounts are among the most common sources of strife for couples.
Should there be a joint account… multiple individual accounts… and how do you decide the amount that each person contributes and how much discretion each person has over spending?
Even for couples who don’t generally disagree over spending, having just one checking account is often not the best choice because it is difficult to keep track of the balance.
And for couples who tend to disagree over spending — watch out! Having one account just adds fuel to the fire by exposing every bit of spending to both partners.
Solution: Use a joint checking account for truly necessary or shared expenses, such as the mortgage, utility bills, car payments, insurance and basic groceries…
and set up a personal checking account for each partner to use for his/her discretionary spending.
Important: Contributions to the joint account must come first. To do this, have all regular income — paychecks, Social Security benefits, pension payments, etc. — deposited into the joint checking account and only later divert some remaining money into individual checking accounts.
How to use these accounts…
Joint account. Seek middle-ground compromises when the inevitable differences of opinion arise about which expenses are shared expenses.
Example: A couple agrees that most food bills are a shared expense. But the husband enjoys high-end delicacies, while his wife is just as happy with more affordable fare.
This couple might have to agree that certain foods, or a certain percentage of the overall monthly food bill, will be paid for out of the husband’s discretionary account.
Personal accounts.
Maintaining these personal accounts cuts down on squabbles about spending by segregating discretionary purchases from shared expenses and perhaps even keeping them private.
Why this helps: A discretionary purchase — whether it’s football memorabilia or antique dolls — often seems frivolous unless you’re the one doing the spending.
When these purchases are made from an individual rather than a joint account — with the total amount of the account “preagreed” by both partners — it can head off many disputes.
Individual accounts should be funded with whatever is left over after the joint account bills and the family’s investment plans are fully financed for a given period –
monthly works well for most couples. Both individual accounts should be funded with equal amounts to avoid feelings of unfairness.
To maintain harmony, couples need to realize that the funding of both discretionary accounts might have to be reduced or suspended if either partner sustains an unexpected expense or income setback.
KEEPING TABS
When two people spend money out of the same joint account, it is all too easy to bounce a check. For married couples, bounced checks do not just trigger hefty bank fees, they often trigger fights about which partner is to blame.
Accurate record-keeping is key. Spouses need to be vigilant about keeping the checkbook up to date by recording all deposits, checks written and other withdrawals in the checkbook register.
On-line banking can be a big help. Log on to the account at least once a week to make sure that the balance is where it should be and that each purchase has been recorded in the check register.
You will have fewer bounced checks, and there will be less finger-pointing if a check does bounce.
Still, spouses need to warn their partners when they plan to make large withdrawals from joint accounts and when they notice that the balance is dangerously low.
Couples would be wise to hold meetings once a week or once a month to discuss bank accounts and other financial topics. Aim to treat these sessions like business meetings, with no sarcasm or personal attacks allowed.
It is perfectly reasonable to have one partner take full responsibility for the mechanics of paying the bills and balancing the joint account checkbook.
If this is the case, the other partner can take full responsibility for a different chore in order to avoid feelings of unfairness.
Wealth interviewed Jonathan Rich, PhD, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Irvine, California, http://www.psychologicaltesting.com. He is author of The Couple’s Guide to Love & Money (New Harbinger), which he was inspired to write after seeing money become a frequent source of conflict among his clients.
August 19th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
This was posted on a site I browsed. I am white but it moved me.
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I am a 58 year-old white guy who lives just outside of Detroit, a city that today is 95% black with better than 50% unemployment, one third of the land vacant, and a loss in population from 2.4 mllion to less than 700,000.
I believe African Americans use the N word in addressing one another because, just like the terms brother and sister, it is a badge of honor between them.
It recognizes that, though they may not know one another personally they share a long-suffered history that included racism, slavery, discrimination, brutality and murderous hatred.
No one in America has anywhere near the kind of tragic past that African Americans have.
The N word represents a bond between Blacks in America that says: we are here, we have survived, we are together in a common history and we will be here for one another for ever.
Whites cannot use the word in this way because they are not entitled. They will never be a “N” because they have not earned it. And when Blacks use it, it automatically excludes whites from what African Americans share between them.
It is most often a term of friendship and endearment. It is a word whose use belongs exclusively to African Americans. No one else in this country is entitled to use it for any reason.
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I could not have said it better.
Scott
August 19th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
Americans, you came murdered our people in the name of finding some personal safety for yourselves.
You sacrificed your youth to steal our oil.
You destroyed our country’s police force without having a replacement hence criminals ran rampart. They murdered, looted, raped and robbed. You stood by and watched.
You destroyed our hospitals. People died.
You our water departments. People died of thirst.
You destroyed our system of commerce. People had to steal to eat.
You destroyed the entire government. Chaos reigned and the sunni killed the shiite, the shiite killed the sunni and both the sunni and the shiite killed he catholics.
This in a country that before you invasion all parties lived peacefully together. Now their are no catholic arabs left in Iraq. Millions have been either killed or driven our into exile.
What a wonderful thing you great president Bush did for the people of Iraq.
You murdered at will, then you left the country to despots as crooked and depraved as Saddam ever was.
He was a dictator. But he was our dictator to get rid of.
You destroyed our country. Now you leave with a lie that you brought democracy to Iraq.
Interesting, you can not even bring that to your own country. Your republicans have divided you people as they did ours.
Soon your depraved whites with be shooting the rest and unrest will reign.
I could not wish you better.
Get the fuck out and stay out.
A PROUD IRAQ
August 19th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Don’t let the politics of our families stop me from showing you what we could have together.
I want to spend more time with you. Please answer my calls.
August 19th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
So laura used the nigger word. Big deal. I use it with my white friends all the time. So do they.
Guess she thought that the sponsors would be as loyal to her as they are to Rusk.
Sorry baby you are a bitch. And even white bitches don’t rate when compared to a white man. We made this country. You were brought along to keep our beds warm.
Your are chattel bitch. I guess you have learned to keep your mouth as well as you legs closed around niggers, now.
You are one ugly bitch. That is why the sponsors let you go. A man gets more distinguished with age. You bitches just get old.
You had a long run. So why are you bitching. You aren’t a shrink or anything. My sister says your Phd is in physical Ed.
That makes you a fraud bitch. Like my big mouth sister, you bitches always think you know best.
My father used to put his foot up my mothers ass if she got our of line. She knew her place.
What is wrong with the bitches today? Where in the fuck in the US Constitution does our founding FATHERS say bitches get anything?
Just shut the fuck up talking about your constitutional rights Dr. laura. The original Constitution didn’t give you any more rights than it gave the niggers.
Women were for the last time CHATTEL. Pussy we bought by marrying it. See what happens when we were forced to give you the right to vote.
George
August 19th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Tell us how you really feel about women George.
August 19th, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Gelinda, I was going to give you a few instances but I have the feeling that a lot of how Im responded to is just bc of ‘how I am’ I know my own father used to tell me that I was always a ‘womens libber’ : ) hahaha…even as a kid, so I come across quickly as a ‘take no shit’ from anyone type (daddio taught me well, never took any from his bad ass either, much to his chagrin) and so – as nice as I am, men usually call it either out loud before they risk intimidation : ) or I can see the moment of acknowledgement in their eyes.
When someone tells a sexist joke or anything that could be taken as discriminating, I usually first say, wait – what exactly did you mean just then, if they dont get why I said that then I break out my best disappointed face and say, wow I thought you were so much more evolved than that, and then I wait for a response – If there’s no response with any real starting point for a convo (i.e. I decide Im dealing with an ass) I change subjects and/or talking partners, I don’t bother trying to educate die-hard idiots, not my deal, I leave conversion convos to the religious zealots amongst us…they dont seem to have much sucess with it either…
I have straightened out several work situations but you have to be able to give great eye contact, not flinch and state your case without apology and I do like to leave a face saving out for people, just the way I am, so if an apology is offered, I like to make sure they know what part of what they said/did was offensive and ask how they plan to be a better man tomorrow, etc…I finish by saying something to effect of – wow, glad we cleared that up so we don’t have to deal with such a low level issue again.
I once overheard a co-worker, a macho Latino male, who didnt like it when I questioned him no matetr how I worded it – never did that to any of the male salespeople and though I was the top sales dog in the office at the time, he just felt that I should ‘know my place’ hee hee hee…I was just about to walk into my boss’s office when I heard the ass saying I was a demanding bitch who should know my place : ) oh yes I am a bitch, that’s correct, I waited to hear what my male boss would say, my heart sank when he said well you know how she is…and then he said this…and the way she is is exactly why she’s the best, she asks a lot of questions bc she’s always working for her clients, so call her a bitch if you want to but if Jim (or an other male sales guy) asked you the same q’s would you be here complaining? I rounded the corner at that point and asked them to take a walk with me, I lead them both to the 100,000 sq foot warehouse behind our offices and I asked mr macho how many rows of advertising we were housing there, he said 26 rows (thats a lot of junk mail, brochures, etc, believe me), and how many are my clients, 22 rows, ahhh I said so without all that paper to move around youd be working about 10 hours a week, no? He said nothing…I looked at him and said I am a bitch, a bitch who expects her questions to be answered so starting today if you stone wall me one more time Ill ‘demand’ to work with womeone else, just to bring that point on home to my boss I said and you can say thank you for that new MBZ and your kids private school tab anytime…now this biagge is going to go to work and Ill pretend that this never took place, I smiled and turned away – I shouted over my shoulder, and stop looking at my ass and get to work : ) mr macho reluctantly shifted gears and we never had an issue again, I think he, like my father and most sexist men, secretly love it when women won’t stand for their stupid thuggish behavior and yet most women will put up with it and fight over these types of men, go figure…
My advice, let males know by how you are – that you do not suffer fools gladly and be willing to up and walk away, and do this especially if he’s a hot guy, they are so used to women putting up with bad behavior that it will be impactful, trust me on this, it’s been tried and true by yours truly.
Mischa, bawling isn’t part of my usual repetoire of dealing, it just happened that day, my kid has only seen me cry full on twice, that was one of em’ – I do usually tear up when something in a movie/tv show touches me and that blows her away, not sure why. I keep my real bawling moments private, just a privacy thing for me…cops dont make me cry but parting with a lot of money might. I was on the freeway a few weeks ago with a friend, he wasnt wearing his seatbelt and I was looking over talking and I noticed a cop in the next lane, I said try to to discreetly pull on your seatbelt I think this cop on your left is checking you out, he tried it and just as he clicked it, the cop hit his light, 1 ticket and $180 later…he called to find out how to contest it and ran into the same situation, all I can say is ‘revenue stream’
caio caio, Zen Lill
August 19th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Is it true that right about now your ex is sucking big black d**k?
And loving it!
This white girl wants to know if she is keeping her legs closed, though?
Juli
August 19th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Welcome back George.
Who cares who your EX is banging George. We love you right here. I’m sorry but Zen Lill is right. I love a man who doesn’t take shit off some smart mouth bitch.
You, George, are a REAL man. If the Zen Lills of the world are lucky enough to run into someone like you. They will wet their pants with glee.
Take me George
Lacy
August 20th, 2010 at 9:21 am
This stuff needs to be out.
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Bad news for bad diet pills
How do you define “effective” when it comes to dieting?
If it’s shaving off a few pounds and calling it a year, then you must be a Food and Drug Administration bureaucrat.
An FDA panel wisely rejected the diet drug Qnexa–but not because it’s ineffective. The panel was largely concerned about the drug’s potential for side effects, including the risk of birth defects, suicide, depression, memory loss, bone problems, kidney stones, and more.
But beyond that, Qnexa met and even exceeded the ludicrously low FDA targets for effectiveness–and may even be more “effective” than any of the diet drugs currently on the market.
And here’s how they define “effective” these days: The FDA says a drug needs to help a patient lose 5 percent of his or her body weight over the course of a full year.
So if you’re 250 pounds, an “effective” diet pill would help you lose about a pound a month. Qnexa did a little better than that–but only barely. Patients in the trials lost between 6 and 10 percent of their body weight, so the person in that 250-pound example could make it all the way down to between 225 and 235 pounds.
Lighter, sure–but not a whole lot healthier.
And even that little bit of weight-loss help came with a big catch: The people in the study who lost the weight also had to stick to a diet and exercise program.
They haven’t made a pill yet that can cancel out Krispy Kreme donuts.
But you don’t need to wait for that magic pill to come along–because you can easily lose that 5 percent in month or so–not a year–on your own… and that’s only the beginning.
No matter how overweight or obese you are, simple lifestyle changes like getting rid of carbs will bring your body back to order, with no need to tolerate any drug side effects.
Just look at Drew Carey. The comic and “Price Is Right” host recently lost 80 pounds–and got rid of any sign of his type 2 diabetes–with a low-carb diet. He says he doesn’t even take diabetes meds anymore.
You can find pictures of him online–he looks like a completely different person.
And if he can do it after decades of being so famously overweight, so can you.
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I did it without diet pills. I lost 49 pounds. I went from being 5’0 152lbs to 103. It has stayed that way for 31months now.
No diet pills
Felicia