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of pounds in my life, and each time I lost weight, I gained back more, faster. I am not talking about gouging myself, but eating like a thin person. My body just became resistant, worse since menopause and there is nothing I can do to change it right now. I can live quite easily on 1000 calories a day and not lose a single ounce. I do some minor exercise but tire quickly.

From all the years of dieting I believe my body has gone into starvation mode. A throwback to the days of famine and the body will burn up very few calories.

I am also in the situation where I am without health insurance and am just covering my expenses, so clinics etc are clearly out of the question.

On the other hand, I am accepting me for me. I have people who love me and my size is not an issue with them. People who meet me like me and I am not invisible as some fat people claim they are. People are polite and men still hold doors for me, smiling.

I have stopped the battle for now, taking a break.


As to intolerant DUers. The ones who are intolerant and mean must have their own issues of self and I feel sorry for them and embrace them, hoping that one day they'll wake up and appreciate every human being for being unique and no matter what their shell looks like.

(((((Really Annoyed))))) Please rethink leaving. There are some wonderful DUers still here.

Peace.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/16/...

Kroft: Where is all the money going to come from to do all of these things? And is there a point where just going to the Treasury Department and printing more of it ceases to be an option?

Mr. Obama: Well, look, I think what's interesting about the time that we're in right now is that you actually have a consensus among conservative Republican-leaning economists and liberal left-leaning economists. And the consensus is this: that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we're gonna have to spend money now to stimulate the economy.

And that we shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after. That short term, the most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession.

breed, The Pharoah Hound

little Piper was walking around with Trig and going up and down the stairs with him. My heart was in my throat, afraid that she'd fall down with him. At the end of the room Tawd sat, like the Godfathers' Lieutenant.


The minute she called redoing the inside of the Governor's mansion, work on the infrastructure I knew that this would be another hard on the ears and hard on the mind-to-wrap-around interview.


She blamed Bush for her loss, talked about the 8 years of the Bush Administration being seated(what an odd term), and that people wanted change in the opposite direction and the McCain campaign represented those Bush 8 years in the people's minds. She blathered that they wanted change in a FAR direction.

That conversation on earmarks was a kick! It seems that certain earmarks are fine now if talked about in the light of day

I loved it how she tried to say once again that she was exonerated in Troopergate, and the reporter told her, that she was found to have abused her power in the first report. She really freaked. She started to stumble (more than usual) with her words and made no sense what so ever. No one personally challenged that false claim of hers on the campaign trail.

http://www.prwatch.org/node/2208/print


US Secretary of State Colin Powell was a military PR man in Vietnam. One of his assignments was to help manage the image crisis created by the massacre of civilians by US troops at My Lai. Now, as the Bush government increasingly uses Saddam Hussein's brutality as its primary rationalization for the war, Powell is revising and spinning history by traveling to Halabja, the site of Saddam's gassing of Iraqi Kurds. Powell dedicated a memorial and declared that the world should have acted sooner against Saddam after the 1988 massacre. However, as we point out in our book Weapons of Mass Deception <1>, when the 1988 gassings took place at Halabja Colin Powell was the National Security Advisor for the Reagan/Bush administration and Saddam was the Reagan and then Bush administration's strategic ally. Saddam's chemicals, now called WMDs, came from the US and other western countries. When the US Congress attempted to act against Saddam, Colin Powell and the rest of the Reagan/Bush administration made sure that the Prevention of Genocide Act died in Congress.

(and don't forget that little PR stunt in front of the UN)

DU was established as a site for Democrats and Progressives and the choice of Emanuel, who is not a friend of Progressive ideals is of great concern to many. This is not a petty issue. He has assisted in bringing our party to center right, a placed that used to be held by Moderate Republicans.

There are also valid Constitutional questions posted here as well, and you seem to dismiss those questions in your zealotry as an attack on Obama.

Obama is no longer a candidate. He is our President-Elect and I supported him once he had the nomination, donated to him, and of course voted for him, but I am not a bot and have never been one and will Always Question any politician if I disagree with policy. I think you have to learn to respect others here, and not threaten them as you have on this thread. You are trying to shut down the voice of valid dissent and that sir is downright Anti-American.

Now have some hot tea and get to bed.

 
touch..ie store scanners, and that hurt him.

First, they reported on Scottie's kiss and tell book and he'll be on tomorrow.

Later on in the show, they had on Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson on promoting a new fight cancer public service program that they are behind. After discussing it, Matt Lauer asks them all The Question..Do you feel the media didn't do their job during the run-up and the beginning of the war.

Katie Couric said that the media was remiss and didn't ask the hard questions. She also said that when they reported something that the Pentagon or WH didn't like, they were called and pressure was put on them. If they didn't play ball, they would be denied access.

Needless to say, Gibson and Williams and Lauer tried to play her response down.

I hope video will eventually find its way online.

This is an interview with Randy Glass, an ATF informant who knew that 9/11 was going down and the WTC was mentioned. A Fla. State Sen. contacted Bob Graham's office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ-gj1AsYB0

Random House to back-up Kitty Kelly's book. Scroll down and you'll find them.

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You can of course save the pdf file to your computer.

I wish them better than the fate that her father premeditatedly planned for others. In fact they already have that.

How many people lost their fiance to the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars? Their beloveds coming home in a box? How many marriages never happened because the returning soldiers came home severely injured, have PTSD or even committed suicide? How many just wait and hope that their loved ones who are at war stay safe? Their hearts in their throats every time the phone rings?

Yes, Jenna and Henry, you are already ahead of the game, in your safe, snug, smug, insulated world. Congratulations.

but the Democratic Party's has changed. After Liberal was coined a dirty word by Reagan and pals, the Democratic Party, thanks to Clinton and others, moved to the right, leaving me, the same person, same values but now considered far left? Oy!

BTW BTH! Thank you for this thread!

I love Mario. It was so wonderful having him as my Governor.

In fact, Catholic public officials take an oath to preserve the Constitution that guarantees this freedom. And they do so gladly, not because they love what others do with their freedom, but because they realize that in guaranteeing freedom for all, they guarantee our right to be Catholics: our right to pray, our right to use the sacraments, to refuse birth control devices, to reject abortion, not to divorce and remarry if we believe it to be wrong.

The Catholic public official lives the political truth that most Catholics through most of American history have accepted and insisted on: the truth that to assure our freedom we must allow others the same freedom, even if occasionally it produces conduct by them which we would hold to be sinful. I protect my right to be a Catholic by preserving your right to be a Jew, or a Protestant, or a nonbeliever, or anything else you choose. We know that the price of seeking to force our belief on others is that they might someday force their belief on us.

Thank you for sharing this!