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Palin had a tanning bed....
i don't think this is relevant
hard to knock to the mainstream media for ignoring the important issues while TPM posts stories about Palin having a tanning bed. After all, there is a reason white people are white, and a lot of it has to do with living in places like alaska....
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Approximately 650,000 people live in Alaska.
The native Inuit population is not "white" but "brown."
Not all "white" people live in Alaska.
Those of you who choose to "tan" do so for a variety of reasons, but "living in Alaska" is the least of them.
The tanning bed is a distraction, granted.
File this under Scandal, Faux.
September 16, 2008 7:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Regarding the amount of sunlight required for a person to be able to synthesize Vitamin D:
"...Because the amount required for proper maintenance of calcium is small (only about 300 to 400 units per day), the exposure of a small area of the body to the sun for a short period is sufficient. It has been estimated that 20 cubic centimeters, or about the area of the skin covering a human infant's face, is sufficient...(Stephen Molnar, 'Human Variation, Races Types and Ethnic Groups,' Prentice-Hall, 1975:230).
September 16, 2008 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
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