I am quite capable of thinking for myself that's why I am a conservative not a liberal socialist. I am intelligent enough to express myself without having to cut and paste from the New York Times and/or moveon.org I can read the facts and make a decision based on them all by myself, I don't need some socialist rag to tell me what my opinion should be. I have studied history unlike the liberal socialists who seem to be more content to repeat the mistakes of the past than learn from them.

Linddy:

Don't try to apply logic to liberals it's like trying to teach pigs to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pigs The only one a liberal makes sense to is another liberal. Since they can't dazzle us with their brillance they try to baffle us with their BS.

"Fascist" "Capitalist Pig" pages right out of the Socialist Doctrine. I continually have to remind you that the "Fascists" were liberals to begin with, they were for changing the old order. Calling General Patraeus a trator, wow at least he salutes our flag unlike a well known Liberal Socialist presidential candidate.

MM you need to learn Farsi so you can communicate with your new masters while you spend what is left of a short miserable life that can be ended at their whim groveling at their feet.

I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat lettuce

linddy your comments are great, right on target and direct to the point. Perhaps the liberal socialists would like a little cheese to go with their whine

Thanks for posting the truth. The Green Nazis never let truth get in the way of their agenda.

More left wing liberal socialist crap. When the liberal socialists see that they are going to loose they pull out all the stops and turn loose with the mud slinging. What a pitiful, pathetic bunch of loosers. Ann Colter is right if the Democrats had any brains they would be Republicans.

we have a weapon that can hit an area the size of a football field and kill everything in it, it's called a 2,000 lb bomb, or a cruise missle.

I just did a google on "teapot dome scandal" got a ton of hits. Even one link comparing it to ENRON.

Don't you ever get tired of cutting and pasting this bull ****

What ever happened to doing your own research. Try doing a google on "teapot dome" I bet you get a bunch of hits. Perhaps you should spend more time on your homework and less time on the fourms your grades might improve.

Love This Doctor's Advice!

Q: I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life; is this true?

A: Your heart is only good for so many beats, and that's it... don't waste them on exercise. Everything wears out eventually. Speeding up your heart will not make you live longer; that's like saying you can extend the life of your car by driving it faster. Want to live longer? Take a nap.

Q: Should I cut down on meat and eat more fruits and vegetables?

A: You must grasp logistical efficiencies. What does a cow eat? Hay and corn. And what are these? Vegetables. So a steak is nothing more than an efficient mechanism of delivering vegetables to your system. Need grain? Eat chicken. Beef is also a good source of field grass (green leafy vegetable).
And a pork chop can give you 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vegetable products.

Q: Should I reduce my alcohol intake?

A: No, not at all. Wine is made from fruit. Brandy is distilled wine, that means they take the water out of the fruity bit so you get even more of the goodness that way.
Beer is also made out of grain. Bottoms up!

Q: How can I calculate my body/fat ratio?

A: Well, if you have a body and you have fat, your ratio is 1:1.If you have two bodies, your ratio is 2:1, etc.

Q: What are some of the advantages of participating in a regular exercise program?

A: Can't think of a single one, sorry. My philosophy is: No Pain...Good!

Q: Aren't fried foods bad for you?

A: YOU'RE NOT LISTENING!!! Foods are fried these days in vegetable oil. In fact, they're permeated in it. How could getting more vegetables be bad for you?

Q: Will sit-ups help prevent me from getting soft around the middle?

A: Definitely not! When you exercise a muscle, it gets bigger.You should only be doing sit-ups if you want a bigger stomach.

Q: Is chocolate bad for me?

A: Are you crazy? HELLO: Cocoa beans! Another vegetable!!!
It's the best feel-good food around!

Q: Is swimming good for your figure?

A: If swimming is good for your figure, explain whales to me.

Q: Is getting in-shape important for my lifestyle?

A: Hey! 'Round' is a shape!

Well, I hope this has cleared up any misconceptions you may have had about food and diets.

And remember:

"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - Chardonnay in one hand -
chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, What a Ride!"

AND.....

For those of you who watch what you eat, here's the final word on nutrition and health. It's a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.

1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans.

CONCLUSION:
Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

If you eat all the right foods, get plenty of rest, exercise regularly and avoid alcohol you might not live any longer but it will sure as hell seem like it.

Being healthy means dying as slowly as possible.

A very long but interesting read but not something the liberal socialists want to hear. They constantly need a cause and Tibet and Darfur are great ones for them they want us or China or someone to end the carnage there. These are the same people who didn't give a big rat's patoot that Sadam murdered people by the hundreds of thousands. They already suffer from selective amnesia, I guee they can also suffer from selective concern.

Tobias that's a noble thought but please do not try to confuse congress with logic They know what is best for all of us, trust them

Obama has said that he carefully picked his friends and associates in college and afterwards to include many from the radical left. If his association and picking the Rev Wright left any doubt in your mind, check it out, it's in his book.

As far as the Rev Wright is concerned one does not have to be white to be a biggot and fan the fires of racism.

Many of you are too young to remember the riots of the 60 Detroit, Watts, and Washington D.C. to list a few. Perhaps you should do some research on them, it was a very ugly time for all of America.

I was stationed at Ft Meyer, VA, that is right next to the Pentagon and Arlington Cemetary, when Dr King was assasinated and I saw first hand the aftermath of the riot in Washington D.C. I saw people looting and burning block after block of our nation's capitol.

Anyone who fans the flames or racial hatred white or black is just wrong. Anyone who chooses a spiritual advisor and friends who constantly fans those flames should not be elected to the highest office in the nation.

WHOGARA

What you are referring to are called "ear marks" John McCain is totally against them and will try to eliminate them if he is elected. One thing the country desperately needs in for the President to have line item veto authority so that pork barrel projects can be deleted from spending bills without vetoing the whole bill.

I see that MM's cut and past still works too bad he can't express his own idea in his own words instead of boring everybody with his drivel form moveon.org or some other liberal socialist website. However, soon the semester will be over and he will get his grade in Political Science and then move on like the rest of the cut and paste artists that have preceeded him.

A few months ago we had a discussion here about CFLs. I said the environmentalists had better address the hazards of the murcury. All the kool aid drinking green kooks got all over my case saying that the advantages of them outweighed the hazard. Well take a look at what I cut and pasted from MSNBC and THINK AGAIN!

By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
updated 5:10 p.m. MT, Wed., March. 19, 2008

Compact fluorescent light bulbs, long touted by environmentalists as a more efficient and longer-lasting alternative to the incandescent bulbs that have lighted homes for more than a century, are running into resistance from waste industry officials and some environmental scientists, who warn that the bulbs’ poisonous innards pose a bigger threat to health and the environment than previously thought.
Fluorescents — the squiggly, coiled bulbs that generate light by heating gases in a glass tube — are generally considered to use more than 50 percent less energy and to last several times longer than incandescent bulbs. When fluorescent bulbs first hit store shelves several years ago, consumers complained about the loud noise they made, their harsh light, their bluish color, their clunky shape and the long time it took for them to warm up.

Since then, the bulbs — known as CFLs — have been revamped, and strict government guidelines have alleviated most of those problems. But while the bulbs are extremely energy-efficient, one problem hasn’t gone away: All CFLs contain mercury, a neurotoxin that can cause kidney and brain damage.
The amount is tiny — about 5 milligrams, or barely enough to cover the tip of a pen — but that is enough to contaminate 6,000 gallons of water beyond safe drinking levels, Stanford University environmental safety researchers found. Even the latest lamps promoted as “low-mercury” can contaminate more than 1,000 gallons of water beyond safe levels.
There is no disputing that overall, fluorescent bulbs save energy and reduce pollution in general. An average incandescent bulb lasts about 800 to 1,500 hours; a spiral fluorescent bulb can last as long as 10,000 hours. In just more than a year — since the beginning of 2007 — 9 million fluorescent bulbs have been purchased in California, preventing the release of 1.5 billion pounds of carbon dioxide compared with traditional bulbs, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“Using them actually reduces overall emissions to the environment, even though they contain minuscule amounts of mercury in themselves,” said Mark Kohorst, senior manager for environment, health and safety for the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.

Public, agencies ill-informed of risks.

As long as the mercury is contained in the bulb, CFLs are perfectly safe. But eventually, any bulbs — even CFLs — break or burn out, and most consumers simply throw them out in the trash, said Ellen Silbergeld, a professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins University and editor of the journal Environmental Research.

Break a bulb? Five steps for cleanup

That was the wrong answer, according to the EPA. It offers a detailed, 11-step procedure you should follow: Air out the room for a quarter of an hour. Wear gloves. Double-bag the refuse. Use duct tape to lift the residue from a carpet. Don’t use a vacuum cleaner, as that will only spread the problem. The next time you vacuum the area, immediately dispose of the vacuum bag.
In general, however, the EPA endorses the use of fluorescent bulbs, citing their energy savings. Silbergeld said that could send mixed signals to confused consumers.

“It’s kind of ironic that on the one hand, the agency is saying, ‘Don’t worry, it’s a very small amount of mercury.’ Then they have a whole page of [instructions] how to handle the situation if you break one,” she said.

Limited options for safe recycling

The disposal problem doesn’t end there. Ideally, broken bulbs and their remains should be recycled at a facility approved to handle fluorescent lamps, but such facilities are not common.
California is one of only seven states — Minnesota, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin are the others — that ban disposing of fluorescent bulbs as general waste. And yet, qualified recycling facilities are limited to about one per county. In other states, collection of CFLs is conducted only at certain times of the year — twice annually in the District of Columbia, for example, and only once a year in most of Georgia. In fact, qualified places to recycle CFLs are so few that the largest recycler of of fluorescent bulbs in America is Ikea, the furniture chain. I think there’s going to be hundreds of millions of [CFLs] in landfills all over the country,” said Leonard Worth, head of Fluorecycle Inc. of Ingleside, Ill., a certified facility. Once in a landfill, bulbs are likely to shatter even if they’re packaged properly, said the Solid Waste Association of North America. From there, mercury can leach into soil and groundwater and its vapors can spread through the air, potentially exposing workers to toxic levels of the poison.
Industry working on safer bulbs Kohorst, of the electrical manufacturers group, acknowledged that disposal was a complex problem. But he said fluorescent bulbs were so energy-efficient that it was worth the time and money needed to make them completely safe.

“These are a great product, and they’re going to continue solving our energy problems, and gradually we’re going to find a solution to their disposal, as well,” Kohorst said.
In the meantime, manufacturers of incandescent bulbs are not going down without a fight.

General Electric Corp., the world’s largest maker of traditional bulbs, said that by 2010, it hoped to have on the market a new high-efficiency incandescent bulb that will be four times as efficient as today’s 125-year-old technology. It said that such bulbs would closely rival fluorescent bulbs for efficiency, with no mercury.

He was Leah but lets not tell the liberals that I would hate to wreck a good conspiracy theory for them.