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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Personal Trainers

(Fox News) - Fat killers and robbers are getting free personal trainers is some British jails — thanks to the taxpayers. The Sun reports prison officials say obese inmates suffer what they call "social exclusion" because they're too fat to exercise with other inmates.

So, at a cost of about $800,000 — personal trainers are now working with prisoners at 25 of Britain's toughest jails.

One outraged Parliament member summed it up by saying — "Why are these people getting personal trainers? If they want to lose weight, give them vegetables instead of pies."

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