BethFromVA

These assholes really don't get it, do they? This was FAR from right-wing! There were MANY democrats at our protest! This is a CITIZEN protest, not a right/left one! Otherwise what they're saying is that the RIGHT are the ones paying taxes, while the LEFT are the mooches sponging off the system. Which we know isn't exactly true.

I can only hope to get to that point. That stuff still sounds good to me; I still have to use self control. :sneaky:

The thing that worries me for Mike is, since he follows his dad like a puppy, will he also be collateral damage once they get home and Ron goes back to his old way of living? Will Mike be able to break free of daddy, or will he follow him back up the scales? I hope it's the former and not the latter, but until he sees his dad the way the rest of us do, I'm afraid his dad will lead him down the path of failure.

That may have held him back in the past, but let's hope his family's success will propel him forward. His feelings are not uncommon. How many of us, upon seeing somebody we know or care about after major weight loss, didn't feel a tinge of jealousy/upset/self-assessment? I know I have. And this kid's only 17, so even moreso. I HOPE Mike can help the kid once he goes home, because I belive Ron will continue to be the slovenly bum he's shown himself to be all through the show and go back to being 400+ pounds.

That makes EXCELLENT sense. He will be the first one to gain it all back once home. I'll bet the farm on that. The guy's not really serious about this, yet he wants to dictate who "doesn't deserve" to be there.

I was AT the DC Tea Party today, and I can assure those on the left that many of their compatriots were there. They made SURE people and the news knew that they were democrats who were disgusted with all the spending insanity. By the way, so much for non-leftist reporting, eh? :sneaky: She can't even PRETEND to hide her disdain. What a cow. CNN Reporter at Chicago Tea Party: It's "Anti-CNN Since This is Highly Promoted By the Right-Wing, Conservative Network Fox" - mediabistro.com: TVNewser

Once it hits 51%, we're f*cked. All these losers will make sure to vote in other losers who will guarantee them somebody else's money. Already happening. Anybody drink? Smoke? Use a cell or house phone? Rental car? Hotel? Power? Gasoline? Sing it, sister! They ALL need to go, whether they have a D or an R behind their names!! :thumbup:

Because before the Bama's watch, it was "only" 32 percent. And yes, I was pissed as hell then too.

The great thing is that the show provided her with physical therapy care, and at the end of the show she said she has continued to lose weight. So overall, I think it worked out for the best for her.

Yeah, I agreed when I read your post saying that yesterday. I certainly don't know much about our inner workings, but when I had my gall bladder attack some years back and was throwing up so badly, I am sure it went to bile, and it wasn't brown. She's been quiet all day. I hope it means she got some help. She worries me.

And this is different from your normal responses how...?

Yeah, I just saw your post to her over there. I'm worried because I don't believe bile goes brown. That tells me it's something else (though obviously I'm not a doctor).

IT DOES! And lookie at you! WTG! Thanks, Babygrl. :thumbup: Oh, and Tap and Donna!

I gave no statistics. There WAS, however, a PBS expose on the problem with CPS investigating certain children over and over, and in many cases removing them only to return them again to the abusive parent (or parent where a significant other was the abuser) and the child(ren) died. Beaten to death. You can Google PBS and find it yourself.

Your posts are nothing but denials of facts we prove up, especially if it flies in the face of your agenda. It would be silly if it wasn't so pathetic and sad. And if you are having a private conversation with somebody, I would assume it is in PM.

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Susan, that is FANTASTIC!!! That's got to feel so good! I'm SO happy for you!

BJean, that doesn't even make sense. They gave him the power to do it. They condoned it. They voted to give him the ability to do it. Now, you can try to rewrite history all you want in order to feed your insatiable need to blame Bush only, but 2/3 of the Congress said, "Yes, we give you the authority, the power, and the ability to bomb Iraq." You can deny it all you want, but it just makes you look silly.

Shock and awe, technically known as rapid dominance, is a military doctrine based on the use of overwhelming power, dominant battlefield awareness, dominant maneuvers, and spectacular displays of force to paralyze an adversary's perception of the battlefield and destroy its will to fight. The doctrine was written by Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade and is a product of the National Defense University of the United States in 1996.

You could, but you would be dishonest. BJean, I have watched you give the left pass after pass after pass and point fingers solely at the right. As for me, I blame ALL of them. I may have my beliefs, but the people in office now for the most part don't carry those same beliefs. In other words, my "representatives" don't exactly represent me or my stance. I choose a particular belief, but I do NOT support all those who carry the "proper label." However, you do. And though we have been on a pretty good path lately, I have to say that discussing anything with you is getting to be particularly painful because you twist and turn the topic when you are confronted with facts that mess with your agenda. I'm not saying it's bad to stick to a belief, but it makes it difficult to have respect for someone's viewpoint when the topic changes constantly because the facts you are presented with don't conform to what you believe. And then you start getting snitty and personal again.

I didn't realize Max was only 17.

In the cases I've heard and read about where children died, it was after multiple investigations AND proof of abuse -- removing the child and then returning it to the home. That's way different. Not even apples and oranges; more like apples and automobiles.

BJean, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not, war is what keeps free people free. It's sad but true. And without Congress' participation, their vote, their permission, deeply rooted in the Constitution, we would not have had the ability to go into Iraq. I know you simply want to label Bush as a rogue who went in there himself, but it just didn't happen that way. And you know it.

Omg, me too. I almost had a PV -- projectile vomit!

And get the medical help she needed. And it sounds like she's doing well being away, getting PT and losing.