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The plane landed safely at San Jose Mineta International Airport, about 50 miles south of San Francisco. The airline says the passenger accused of smoking was turned over to law enforcement. The remaining 32 passengers were placed on other aircraft to continue their trips. Passengers reported smelling smoke, and one said he smelled marijuana. “It looked like that someone needed to smoke a joint on a plane, and he went into the bathroom, smoked his blunt, and set off the fire alarm,” passenger Jonathan Burkes said.

A new report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest has identified the unhealthiest restaurant meals in America.For the center's annual "Xtreme Eating" list, its nutrition experts reviewed menus at 200 restaurant chains in the US to find the meals heaviest in calories, saturated fat, sodium, and sugar.Restaurants that made the list include The Cheesecake Factory, Outback Steakhouse, and Red Lobster.Here's the list, ranked lowest to highest by calories.9. The Cheesecake Factory: Warm Apple Crisp (1,740 calories) Center for Science in the Public InterestThis decadent dessert has whipped cream, caramel sauce, apple crumble, and two scoops of ice...

Rock legend Roger Daltrey has questioned the effectiveness of the NHS claiming it encourages people to lead unhealthy lives because they know they will get free treatment. The Who frontman, who at 69 is still a picture of good health, said offering state-run free healthcare meant people did not bother looking after themselves. He said: “We have this free NHS, which makes us take our health for granted and means we don’t take responsibility for looking after ourselves. “Most illnesses people suffer from are because of their lifestyles.” His comments came just days after Labour peer Lord Warner’s dire warning

The only way a "public plan" can achieve its stated goals is to pay doctors and hospitals less than what private health plans pay for the same services. Doctors and hospitals in Alaska already lose money on Medicare, and make up for their losses on current government programs by charging everyone with private health care coverage more for the same services. Current proposals for a "public plan" would place unsustainable financial pressure on doctors and hospitals. Some of the proposals suggest paying providers rates close to that which Medicare currently uses to underpay health care providers. Others suggest "negotiated" payments,...

Childhood Obesity Report Calls For Government Regulations to Limit Access to ‘Unhealthy’ Restaurant Chains Wednesday, September 02, 2009 By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer (CNSNews.com) - A newly released report by the Institute for Medicine and the National Research Council details strategies for local governments to combat what it calls an epidemic of childhood obesity, including enacting zoning and land-use regulations that would “restrict fast food establishments near school grounds and public playgrounds.” The report, “Local Government Actions to Prevent Childhood Obesity,” was compiled by the Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local Governments, a committee of health care...

Unhealthy ProgramPublished Fri, Jul 24, 2009 HOLLYWOOD — God bless America, and how's everybody? President Obama hosted his fourth primetime press conference in six months Wednesday as he continued to try to rush health care through Congress. The strain is beginning to show. When Susan Boyle got this kind of exposure she cracked like an egg. Pakistan passed a law Tuesday jailing anyone who tells a joke about Pakistan's leader. It's a first. President Obama likes the idea so much he's demanding that Democrats attach it to the health care bill before they leave on their August recess. Italy's prime...

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Senior White House adviser David Axelrod on Sunday suggested the "Tea Party" movement is an "unhealthy" reaction to the tough economic climate facing the country. Axelrod was asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" about the "spreading and very public disaffection" with the president's fiscal policies seen at the "Tea Party" rallies around the country last week. "I think any time you have severe economic conditions there is always an element of disaffection that can mutate into something that's unhealthy," Axelrod said. Axelrod appeared to backtrack when pressed on whether the movement is unhealthy. "Well, this is a...

Axelrod thinks that the Tea Parties are misdirecting their anger. His arguments are so weak that he's got to be making this stuff up - a bit like Biden does. First of all, he is still desperately clinging to the delusional lie that 95% of Americans got tax cuts. 95% of Americans got no such thing! They may be getting a lower standard withholding, but in the long run they're paying more taxes. All Americans are. There's no way that the "richest" 5% of Americans will be able to foot the bill for this huge spending spree that the government...

She added that her husband, the president, is a big fan of scallops and pie.

to antibiotics, is now spreading among homosexual males in San Francisco, Boston, New York and Los Angeles, according to a new report in the Annals of Internal Medicine. "Due to liberal political correctness, which insists on treating aberrant – even deadly – behaviors and lifestyles as a 'civil right,' we as a society don't seem to have learned much from the AIDS pandemic," he said. He called it an "eerie reminder" of the first stories about AIDS. "It is unfathomable that after that plague, disease specialists and the media are now surprised at the correlation of a new infection with...

Call to put whites back in charge of 'unhealthy' Aborigines By Mark Chipperfield in Sydney (Filed: 22/06/2006) A senior minister yesterday recommended installing white administrators in some of Australia's more troubled Aboriginal communities, re-igniting argument about a problem that has divided the country for decades. Tony Abbott, the health minister, said the 500,000-strong indigenous population was falling so far behind the mainstream community that only a return to the "paternalistic" government policies of the 1950s would save them. "Paternalism based on competence rather than race is unavoidable if these places are to be well run," he said. Mr Abbott's speech...

WASHINGTON – Millions of Hispanics come to America looking for jobs and educations, but remaining here seems to be bad for their health. The longer Hispanics are here, the more likely they are to become obese, to develop diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. And Hispanics born here have even higher rates of those illnesses, a new government report shows. The analysis of immigrants' health by the federal Centers for Disease Control comes on the heels of a report calling for more educational programs for Hispanics, who are expected to increase to nearly one-fourth of the country's population in...

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Military_Antrax.html Thursday, December 1, 2005 · Last updated 10:01 a.m. PT _Anthrax shots may be required in military_ By PETE YOST ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER * WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration asked a federal appeals court Thursday to reinstate mandatory anthrax inoculations for many military personnel, while a lawyer for soldiers who refused the shots said anti-anthrax vaccine was never intended for the purpose the Pentagon is using it. * The government is appealing a decision by U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who suspended anthrax vaccinations after he found fault in the Food and Drug Administration's process for...

SINKING David Frum Survey USA poll today indicates that 44% of self-described conservatives have a "favorable" impression of Harriet Miers as opposed to only 12% who have an "unfavorable" impression. (45% don't have an opinion.) Good news for the White House? Not exactly. Two weeks ago, CNN/Gallup's poll showed 58% of self-identified conservatives describing the Miers nomination as "excellent" or "good." (29% thought it "fair" or "poor.") The CNN/Gallup poll already showed Miers 20 points less popular among conservatives than John Roberts had been. The CNN and Survey USA polls are not exactly comparable of course. But taken together, the...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: With the President and Mrs. Bush (and the dogs) spending a much-deserved quiet weekend, a terrible earthquake struck South Asia. The President issued the following statement: WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The people of the United States offer our deepest sympathies for the loss of life and destruction caused by the earthquake that struck outside of Islamabad. Our initial deployments of assistance are underway, and we stand ready to provide additional assistance as needed. My thoughts and prayers are with those affected by this horrible tragedy. QUOTE OF THE DAY: Excerpts from the Presidential Radio...

Today the President met with company representatives of vaccine manufacturers to talk about increasing the saupply of Bird Flu vaccine doses, he later met with Prime Minister Gyurcsány of Hungary in the Oval Office. They spoke about trade measures and easing the Visa restrictions between out two nations. The President then Celebratesd Hispanic Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House where he spoke for 18 minutes

Yesterday President George W. Bush and and his wife Laura visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. Yesterday Laura Bush met with a group of Afghan teachers who are training at the University of Nebraska in Omaha on an educational exchange sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the U.S.-Afghan Women's Council Yesterday The Justice Department said that it is expanding its investigation into whether a naturalized U.S. citizen from the Philippines stole classified documents while he worked in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney Today the President made remarks...

President Bush met with Secretary Rumsfeld, Generals Pace and Petraeus to discuss progress in Iraq. President and Laura Bush visited wounded troops at Walter Reed Medical Center. The White House announced that the president will travel to Latin America in November for the Summit of the Americas and meetings with the presidents of Argentina, Brazil and Panama. The president had [a no doubt working] lunch with Condi Rice and Karen Hughes at the White House. UK's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will meet President Bush when they travel to the United States for their first joint official tour, a...

This morning, President Bush held a Rose Garden Press Conference , his first since May 31, addressing the issues of his nomination of Harriet Miers for Supreme Court Associate Justice, as well as the continued clean up following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the improvement of the Iraqi army.Welcome to Sanity Island and your Daily Dose!

The President spent part of the weekend at Camp David but was back in Washington on Sunday morning to attend the 52nd Annual Red Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral. The Red Mass, a historical tradition within the Catholic Church, is held on the Sunday before the opening session of the Supreme Court. Today at just after 8.00am in the Oval Office the President President Nominated Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice Later the President met with Dr. Lawrence Gonzi, Prime Minister of Malta in the Oval Office John Roberts investiture as the 17th Chief Justice of the United States took...