[Vision2020] Obesity and genetics?

[lfalen]

Thanks for the poem. Service is one of my favorite poets. He wrote Dangerous Dan MaGraw and The Cremation of Sam Magee. He also wrote the preamble to the Alaskan Constitution.
As for views on Liberty I will go with Mill.
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From: Tom Hansen idahotom at hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:42:48 -0700
To: lmccollough at gmail.com,  Vision 2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Obesity and genetics?

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> "Obesity" by Robert Service
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> With belly like a poisoned pup
>      Said I: 'I must give bacon up:
> And also, I profanely fear,
>      I must abandon bread and beer
> That make for portliness they say;
>      Yet of them copiously today
> I ate with an increasingly sense
>           Of grievous corpulence.
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> I like a lot of thinks I like.
>      Too bad that I must go on strike
> Against pork sausages and mash,
>      Spaghetti and fried corn-beef hash.
> I deem he is a lucky soul
>      Who has no need of girth control;
> For in the old of age: 'Il faut
>           Souffrir pour etre bean.'
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> Yet let me not be unconsoled:
>      So many greybeards I behold,
> Distinguished in affairs of state,
>      In culture counted with the Great,
> Have tummies with a shameless bulge,
>      And so I think I'll still indulge
> In eats I like without a qualm,
>           And damn my diaphragm!'
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> Seeya at Farmers' Market, Moscow.
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> Tom Hansen
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> Moscow, idaho
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> "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go to work."
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> - Roy Zimmerman
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