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I think a big reason why the media and many democrats have turned on the Clintons is because of the behaviour which they have displayed throughout this nomination campaign. Nothing very mystifying there.

Any atheist who announces that he hates god sounds like an agnostic to me.

Thanks, Ingy.

Terri, is your father alive or dead?

It would be downright disasterous, I think, if Obama were to sign on the horribly needy and extremely greedy Hillary Clinton as his running mate. You Americans would not be getting a Obama presidency but a grotesque rerun of the Clinton Show. The problem would be that you would have the one who has revealed herself as the true moral bankrupt holding the reins this time around. Her behaviour over the duration of this running match has revealed her to have no ethical solidity. A finer individual would have ceded the race to the stronger performer rather than risk schisms which may seriously damage the party. Like a whore she has attempted to morph into whatever character will most satisfy the customer. Thus you saw the old girl, a lawyer and a graduate of an Ivy League sorority school, a woman with a personal fortune estimated a 105 million sucking up to the good old boys of the Pennysylvania heartlands. It's difficult to know who is dumber at this point: her for attempting this or them for buying into it. She had the privileged early years, not Obama. Obama was raised by his white, working class grandparents, worked hard, was born smart, won scholarhips. Good for him. As for those who comment that Osama will be going into the presidency without experience, well, this is true. Everyone who goes into the presidency goes into it without experience. It is a learn on the job deal, isn't it? Although I hear that W has a book coming out: The Yewnited States President for Dummies ~ My Life. As for Obama, don't you Americans want to see yourself as a people in your President - someone who is young, caring, hip, hardworking, very smart, neither white nor black but both and goodlooking as a bonus.

Hey, hi to everyone from me. Yep, the weight issue is so complicated. I have got my mate telling me that he prefers me between 140 -150 lbs but now he is telling me that I look beautiful and very elegant. And then yesterday he finally discovered that before I got banded I weighed 200 lbs. This really shocked the poor guy, then he thought about it and said, "you didn't look like you weighed 200." And the truth is that he has always liked fleshy, curvy women, something which I was not! I was built more like a love seat with tiny little legs and arms - the curse of the apple-type gone to seed. As for the individual who made the remark about my weight problem after noting down my BMI, I think I know who she is. If I am right, she is my hospital dietician (well, the one assigned to my case) and she is herself morbidly obese. She was pissed off with me because I wasn't following her diet plan and then I avoided seeing her; I wasn't following her plan out of caprice but because I was too sick to follow it, something which she didn't seem to be able to take into account. That is why I soon began to avoid seeing her. There was no reason for these conversations which were going nowhere. I was tired, ill, throwing up, and didn't want to discuss Carnation Instant Breakfasts - blehhhh - I just wanted to be home and in my bed. Hah! And as for these weights, I haven't been this little since I was in my 20s. That's like 40 years ago. I would have thought I was fat back then....... LOL

I finished my 35 sessions of radiation the week before this one just past and then became so very sick with radiation sickness - I was seriously dehydrated and I couldn't eat but I was vomitting - that they admitted me to hospital and kept me there for a week. Now I am back home and am slowly starting to feel a little better. I am very skinny: my BMI when I was released from hospital was 21.5 but the same person who had noted that also noted the patient was a little overweight! Actually I gained close to 7 lbs in hospital because they were feeding me 24/7 through my feeding tube. And how did I find out all this info? My home care nurse lets me read her file on me. In fact my file is always kept at my house in case I get a substitute nurse. The radiation also destroyed my ability to enjoy the taste of food. Everything tastes like toxic waste should taste. My bucket list consists totally of restaurants I want to visit again and dishes I want to eat. There are days when I obsess on food. This never happened when I was losing weight the band way. Weird! So that is my news and hello to everyone from Green.

I don't do forgiveness, either. I just grow bored and move on. The only exceptions I have made are in the case of my parents: I never did manage to forgive or grow tired enough to move on.

Your maw sounds like she would be much improved if she had a couple of drinks under her belt.

I have heard that the province will often pay for the pannus reduction because this is not just an issue of vanity but also of health. Please look into this before picking up the tab for the operation.

My port was placed directly between the breasts about an inch below the bra line. I could never see it but I could feel it and I got into the habit of playing with it while lying on the couch watching prime time TV. Now that I have cancer and have lost more weight than I had originally planned on losing as a result of this I can see my port. By the way, my patient notes list me as having a BMI of 21.5 and then remark that patient is slightly above healthy weight range!!!! So now I am sick and confused, eh. LOL

I am very very sorry for your loss. For what it is worth, I did not cry while my mother was dying or immediately after she had died. It was a few months down the road when I finally did crash and spent the afternoon in a remote part of the house noisily bawling my eyes out. You may not be crying but make no mistake: you are grieving and you will continue to grieve. Please accept my sympathy.

Omigawd. Forget eat the rich! It's gonna be eat the fat!

I'll second that. One of the many, many nice things about being an adult is that you now have the ability to communicate like one.

We all do lose weight differently, that is for sure. The thing to remember is that this is not a race. A slower weight loss is often the healthiest weight loss as the body has ample time to adjust. Congratulations from Green.

Congratulations, kiddo, from Green.

I really enjoyed reading this post. Thanks, WestCoast.

Oh, when it comes to being on medication in order to control my problems with depression I am a lifer. I simply do very, very poorly without meds to control this problem. Right now I am on Welbutrin, Selexa, and Topomax. Topomax serves as a mood stabilizer. None of these meds are in the anti-psychotic class and I have had no troubles with losing weight while on them. And yep, I do like to shop. lol I just don't do it to excess and I do like bargain hunting. I think that the confusion as to whether I am a straight depressive or bi-polar may have been related to the nature of my destructive urges when I am depressed. I suffer from anger issues whenever I am in a state of depression. I become moody and bad tempered. When my meds are working I am really quite pleasant to be around....

Animal rape is generally speaking a matter of establishing social dominance and does not come out of a twisted desire to hurt and humiliate. Most animals do not kill for the sport of it. They will kill in order to eat or in order to protect themselves from predators. Humans are also animals, members of the mammalian class, but are arguably the most complex of all animals. There are many societies which are far more secular (the Scandanavian countries are notable examples) than Americans are, and there are societies which are much more devout. It certainly cannot be said that a Lord of the Flies situation flourishes in any of those very secular Scandanavian countries. Many of the Islamic countries are very devout but one cannot call these societies successful by most of our western criteria. Indeed, some of those countries do sound considerably closer to a Lord of the Flies scenario, don't you think?

Most of my family are depressives and I am one, too. I ran into weight gain issues when I was under the care of a shrink who decided that I was bi-polar. This is when I was placed on drugs which fall into the class of anti-psychotics. These drugs will cause a grrl to gain weight and they are often prescribed for folks who suffer from anxiety. My slim husband was placed on one of these drugs because of his anxiety issues. He ended up gaining a lot of weight which he quickly shed once he stopped taking his meds. I also have a friend who was blessed with one of those little skinny gymnast-type bodies. She gained 60 lbs in one year after being placed on an anti-psychotic drug for reason of her anxiety problems.

Child rape and serial murder are bad because they have a negative impact on the well-being of the tribe. Most people, I believe, understand this on a basic level. Thus the majority of us do not need our civil laws nor threats from a diety in order to keep us in line. Civil laws and dieties which threaten Hellfire are there in order to exert a measure of control over those of us who are psychologically damaged and are thus unable to behave in a manner which protects the well-being of the tribe. Atheists are as interested in matters of right and wrong as theists. Philosophers are folks who have made it their business to study ethical questions.

No species can survive if the individuals who make up the species do not behave a fashion which furthers the health of the group. This is as true of wolf packs as it is true of human beings. We have hardwired in us an altruistic sense of the collectivity or group because this is as necessary for our survival as the simpler ego-based needs are for our own personal survival. And as for anyone who feels he needs the Big Hall Monitor in the Sky to prevent himself from committing anti-social acts, well, I would be inclined to suspect that this individual has some pretty big personal problems.

Yep, we have two pink flamingoes in the backyard, too. We also put up a wall made of used doors on the side of our yard that abuts our psycho neighbour. He was asking for it. Haha. And we have a "found object" sculpture in the back yard. This side of the house is where we express our lunatic selves and the front is where we try to blend. lol

Reproduction is a lop-sided business. The male contributes a little sperm and the female is tied up for the next x - depending on the species - number of months in hosting the foetus until it is ready to be expelled and take its chances in the world. This is a very expensive proposition for any female mammal for she must obtain extra calories and protein in order carry the pregnancy to term and then while she is nourishing, protecting, and training the infant animal. She must do this while remaining as safe as any male from predators. Some of us would call this biology unfair. I am one of those people. I like sex as much as the next individual and certainly I took precautions with birth control whenever I indulged. When I found that I was pregnant an abortion was a no-brainer for me even though the man who contributed his mite was anxious that I have the child, as was, indeed, my own mother. I had an abortion as soon as I could arrange it (which was 7 weeks into the pregnancy) and still have no regrets 25 years later. Every woman must have the freedom to make this decision for herself for it is she who must carry the true burden of the pregnancy, she and not some other interested party. Pregnancy is a wonderful thing when those who want children can have them, a nightmare when motherhood is not desired, and the flipside, infertility, a tragedy when those who desire children find themselves unable to have them.

I am another apple. Even when I was a fatty I had the legs of a racehorse, and now that I am skinny I still have a thick waist. I have inherited this unfortunate, kind of boyish figure type from my mum. And like her, I started gaining once I hit my very early menopause (I was 41 and she was 39). She used to say of her body that she looked like a spider with a giant egg-sac. I did, too.