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NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR Chris Christie secretly underwent gastric band surgery in February to try to lose weight at the urging of his family, spokesman Michael Drewniak told The Associated Press today.
The father of four agreed to the surgery, in which a tube was placed around his stomach to restrict the amount of food he can eat, after turning 50 in September.
Christie told The New York Post, which first reported the surgery, that he said he wasn’t motivated by thoughts of running for president.
“I’ve struggled with this issue for 20 years,” he told the newspaper. “For me, this is about turning 50 and looking at my children and wanting to be there for them.”
Christie has never disclosed his weight. But he joked about his size during a February appearance on ‘The Late Show with David Letterman’ pulling out a doughnut and saying his girth was “fair game” for comedians, who had made fun of his size for years.
Christie was soon angered by comments from a former White House physician who said she worried about him dying in office. The governor said Dr. Connie Mariano should “shut up.”
Days later, on 16 February, Christie had the surgery. He said the operation lasted 40 minutes and he was home the same afternoon.
“A week or two ago, I went to a steakhouse and ordered a steak and ate about a third of it and I was full,” he told the Post.
Christie declined to say how much weight he has lost since the surgery. The Republican governor is running for a second term in November, although his name is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate.
“I know it sounds crazy to say that running for president is minor, but in the grand scheme of things, it was looking at Mary Pat and the kids and going, ‘I have to do this for them, even if I don’t give a crap about myself,’” he said.
Gastric band surgery is pitched as a minimally invasive procedure. One version of it is sold under the brand name Lap-Band. Its website says the surgery is appropriate for adults who have failed with more conservative alternatives, such as diet and exercise.
Christie has talked about working with a personal trainer since he first ran for governor four years ago.
The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery says that about 200,000 people in the US have weight loss surgery each year.
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Poor, poor people. Given LSD with no prior knowledge or experience, must have been like a horror movie.
must have been fucking savage!!
The Irish government used to put it in breakfast rolls and red bull from 2004-2008
Apparently they used to hand it out to those attending tribunals, it helped their abstract creative juices to flow
LSD is a safe drug unlike cocaine or heroin. It’s actually safer than alcohol or ciggerettes. There is a bbc YouTube documentary about it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRgb5coMXGk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
You’ve never had a bad trip!
It seems that surprise-LSD is a different beast altogether….
If you want to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes read Tranceformation of America by Cathy O Brien. This is only the tip of the iceberg and will be NOTHING compared to the documents that will never see the light of day or the ones that will be unclassified in the future.
Hallucinogens can be succesfully used to treat depression. They are now finding that Ecstasy, in a controlled setting, is the only successful treatment for US veterans returning to the states from Iraq who are suffering from PTSD brought on by the trauma- to everyone- by war. There was a conference in San Francisco last year on the subject of hallucinogens as psychological treatment. This article is reminiscent of the extreme portrayal of pot in the 1950′s movie called Reefer Madness. God knows the CIA wouldn’t want us all to get our hands on LSD because it can lead to the realisation that authority is a rediculous farce. There is a psychiatrist in Ireland now promoting putting lithium in the drinking water to address depression (that’d be illegal medication without consent) but if that extreme thought is being entertained–maybe acid would be a better additive. Of course I’m joking :-)
I think LSD should me mandatory on your 18th birthday.
The use of MDMA has been well known for a long time in treating PTSD & emotional issues.
EVERYBODY should try a trip, even a half a trip just once.
@ Paul, certain tribes such as the Bwiti tribe in Cameroon use hallucinogens (or in this case as it is deemed sacred, an entheogen) such as Iboga as a rite of passage into adulthood. The experience is supposed to encourage empathy and compassion by inducing a sort of “life review” where the person experiences their life from the point of view of those around them.
There was a show ages ago on BBC called “Tribe” where the film maker went to stay with them and did the Iboga ceremony, it’s worth a look if you can track it down..
to be honest, I’d bet heavily that the flouride in water is the source of a lot of the nation’s depression and subservience!
An irony about MDMA (ecstacy to all y’all), is that it was given/tested on US soldiers in Korea and Vietnam in the name of trying to achieve the perfect soldier…. one without fear and without a need for sleep.
ReeferMadness was complete right-wing propoganda, same as the news coverage of the same topics still remains today!
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds :D
sounds like something out of fringe… was it doctor bishop running the experiments??
Bet Dr Olsens family doesn’t think that!!
Why is it that people are willing to believe this but won’t believe the FBI report that said there were no phone calls from the 911 passengers because It wasn’t technically possible. The only evidence of box cutters come from a call that the FBI say didn’t happen..
Olson’s Story Contradicted by the FBI
The most serious official contradiction of Ted Olson’s story came in 2006 at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called 20th hijacker. The evidence presented to this trial by the FBI included a report on phone calls from all four 9/11 flights. In its report on American Flight 77, the FBI report attributed only one call to Barbara Olson and it was an “unconnected call,” which (of course) lasted “0 seconds.” According to the FBI, therefore, Ted Olson did not receive a single call from his wife using either a cell phone or an onboard phone.
Back on 9/11, the FBI itself had interviewed Olson. A report of that interview indicates that Olson told the FBI agents that his wife had called him twice from Flight 77. 10 And yet the FBI’s report on calls from Flight 77, presented in 2006, indicated that no such calls occurred.
This was an amazing development: The FBI is part of the Department of Justice, and yet its report undermined the well-publicized claim of the DOJ’s former solicitor general that he had received two calls from his wife on 9/11. – globalresearch
Food for thought…
Now it’s lariam….. But what’s more frightening….. It’s prescribed
This has been known for some time hasn’t it?
I’ve been reading about this for the last near five years alone with documentation available then along with details via a dad that sued the USA government over the effects it had on his son.
Crazy stuff that I suspect we only know 5% at most, what the hell they were – are? – doing!
Here’s a good link about CIA experiments in France were 7 people died as a result.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7415082/French-bread-spiked-with-LSD-in-CIA-experiment.html
The Dr. Olsen mentioned was a member of Gottleib’s team who was apparently going to blow the whistle according to Jon Ronson’s ‘The Men Who Stared At Goats’ (which later became an incredibly shit film).
Olsen’s death is also the source of the myth that LSD, Mushrooms and other hallucinogenics make you believe you can fly.
This 1974 “Family Jewels Report” deals mainly with domestic CIA abuses but some of the documents are staggering http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm
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