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Regulate, baby, regulate. We are living the disasterous results of an unregulated wall street, where "greed is good"- where the profits are private (theirs) and the loses are public (taxpayers).

If you noticed, then I accomplished what I wanted.

Whew! And not a moment too soon in my opinion.

The extent that you will go to to defend wall street, big business, the insurance industry and big corporations astounds me! Government contracts are complex things. They don't have some government guy who goes to Walmart to buy things. What an incredibly stupid thing to say. The government has a project with specs and contracts bid on this. There are sets of rules for how the contracts are awarded. It usually is the lowest bidder but not always. And I will blame the person who charges that much, because they only do it to the government who they figure just uses taxpayer money. No big deal. Cheney awarded the Iraq contract to his buddies at Halliburton and I'm still waiting for an accounting of the $18 billion unaccounted for. A tad more than a $68 screw.

More religious stuff.:thumbup: You know what I've noticed? It's become increasingly hard for you to defend your positions because they are indefensible. That is why your postings have become increasingly silly, confusing, and just wrong. You said the recent violence from the teaparty was only in my mind. You say you don't stand with the insurance industry but when you want the status quo where they are in the driver's seat, that is exactly what you do. And you have to post some long religious piece to try to make a case against healthcare. BTW, this healthcare victory has energized the democratic base. After Scott (nude centerfold) Brown got elected many thought that was the end of the democratic momentum. But he actually energized the base and now 76% of the democrats are energized to vote in November compared to 75% of the republicans.

First of all, don't kill the messenger. I am never ashamed of anything I post, btw, especially not this. If it hits too close to home, too bad. These people are a well organzied militia. They are not all mentally ill. They possess the same level of anger I see in the tea party with the same target: the government. They meet in camps, compounds and in the woods, but to me they are no different than those who come to anti-Obama rallies wearing their second amendment guns strapped to their hips. And they believe that THEIR interpretation of the bible is correct, just as you do. And they use it to rationalize their behavior. All in the name of God. Just like those who use the bible to support their extremist views.

There has been some poor oversight by the government, especially when it comes to contracts. But when someone in the government pays $68 for a screw, who was it that charged them that much??? THE PRIVATE CORPORATION. That's who and they take advantage of government contracts all the time. I'm all for hiring more government workers to oversee these contracts and where violations are found - these contractors should be black balled for 5 years. Now, as for keeping things as they are: well, that would involve denying coverage for pre-existing conditions, dropping someone when they get sick, having the donut hole for medicare medications, kids coming out of college unable to find a job with healthcare, and the list goes on. But I guess you support that status quo.

Okay, this is the final straw! How much does this man get paid to write what I've been writing for free? Part of an article entitled: "The Rage is not about Health Care" by Frank Rich of the NY Times That a tsunami of anger is gathering today is illogical, given that what the right calls “Obamacare” is less provocative than either the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or Medicare, an epic entitlement that actually did precipitate a government takeover of a sizable chunk of American health care. But the explanation is plain: the health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been. It’s merely a handy excuse. The real source of the over-the-top rage of 2010 is the same kind of national existential reordering that roiled America in 1964. In fact, the current surge of anger — and the accompanying rise in right-wing extremism — predates the entire health care debate. The first signs were the shrieks of “traitor” and “off with his head” at Palin rallies as Obama’s election became more likely in October 2008. Those passions have spiraled ever since — from Gov. Rick Perry’s kowtowing to secessionists at a Tea Party rally in Texas to the gratuitous brandishing of assault weapons at Obama health care rallies last summer to “You lie!” piercing the president’s address to Congress last fall like an ominous shot. If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from. They can’t. Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any bill contemplated by Obama or Congress. The week before the health care vote, The Times reported that births to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in the 12 months ending in July 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority. The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven’t had a single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only three in total since 1935. Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded. If Congressional Republicans want to maintain a politburo-like homogeneity in opposition to the Democrats, that’s their right. If they want to replay the petulant Gingrich government shutdown of 1995 by boycotting hearings and, as John McCain has vowed, refusing to cooperate on any legislation, that’s their right too (and a political gift to the Democrats). But they can’t emulate the 1995 G.O.P. by remaining silent as mass hysteria, some of it encompassing armed militias, runs amok in their own precincts. We know the end of that story. And they can’t pretend that we’re talking about “isolated incidents” or a “fringe” utterly divorced from the G.O.P. A Quinnipiac poll last week found that 74 percent of Tea Party members identify themselves as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents, while only 16 percent are aligned with Democrats. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, some responsible leaders in both parties spoke out to try to put a lid on the resistance and violence. The arch-segregationist Russell of Georgia, concerned about what might happen in his own backyard, declared flatly that the law is “now on the books.” Yet no Republican or conservative leader of stature has taken on Palin, Perry, Boehner or any of the others who have been stoking these fires for a good 17 months now. Last week McCain even endorsed Palin’s “reload” rhetoric. Are these politicians so frightened of offending anyone in the Tea Party-Glenn Beck base that they would rather fall silent than call out its extremist elements and their enablers? Seemingly so, and if G.O.P. leaders of all stripes, from Romney to Mitch McConnell to Olympia Snowe to Lindsey Graham, are afraid of these forces, that’s the strongest possible indicator that the rest of us have reason to fear them too. •

Say it isn't so!! Not from the party that someone on here said was the more moral party (sex scandals notwithstanding): Records filed with the Federal Election Commission show the RNC picked up the hefty tab at Voyeur West Hollywood, a high-end strip club that has hosted such notables as bad girl Lindsay Lohan and supermodel Heidi Klum.In a review last October, the Los Angeles Times said the bar's "dark, leather-heavy interior is reminiscent of the masked orgy scene" in "Eyes Wide Shut," the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The club features a heavy net suspended above the lounge area where topless performers - dressed in little more than masks and bikini-bottoms - writhe above the heads of clubgoers, the paper reported. "Even more provocative scenes," the paper added, "are played out in an enclosed glass booth area adjacent to the club's dance floor area." The kinky costs come at a time when Steele is already under fire from many within the GOP for his high-flying ways. He recently took some heat for moving the RNC annual meeting from Washington, D.C. to Hawaii. And one recent analysis by Politico.com found that compared with 2005, the last comparable year preceding a midterm election, RNC spending on private jets had doubled, limo trips had tripled, and meal expenses jumped from $306,000 to $599,000. The RNC has still managed to out-raise the Democratic National Committee during most recent months, records show. But the DNC was more than happy to express a little mock outrage yesterday over the the RNC's latest expenditures. "If limos, chartered aircraft and sex clubs are where they think their donors money should be spent - who are we to judge?" jabbed DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse. "But it shouldn't give voters much confidence in Republicans when they say they want to get back in charge of federal spending." :thumbup:

Let's start with how health insurance reform will expand and strengthen coverage: This year, children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied health insurance coverage. Once the new health insurance exchanges begin in the coming years, pre-existing condition discrimination will become a thing of the past for everyone. This year, health care plans will allow young people to remain on their parents' insurance policy up until their 26th birthday. This year, insurance companies will be banned from dropping people from coverage when they get sick, and they will be banned from implementing lifetime caps on coverage. This year, restrictive annual limits on coverage will be banned for certain plans. Under health insurance reform, Americans will be ensured access to the care they need. This year, adults who are uninsured because of pre-existing conditions will have access to affordable insurance through a temporary subsidized high-risk pool. In the next fiscal year, the bill increases funding for community health centers, so they can treat nearly double the number of patients over the next five years. This year, we'll also establish an independent commission to advise on how best to build the health care workforce and increase the number of nurses, doctors and other professionals to meet our country's needs. Going forward, we will provide $1.5 billion in funding to support the next generation of doctors, nurses and other primary care practitioners -- on top of a $500 million investment from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Health insurance reform will also curb some of the worst insurance industry practices and strengthen consumer protections: This year, this bill creates a new, independent appeals process that ensures consumers in new private plans have access to an effective process to appeal decisions made by their insurer. This year, discrimination based on salary will be outlawed. New group health plans will be prohibited from establishing any eligibility rules for health care coverage that discriminate in favor of higher-wage employees. Beginning this fiscal year, this bill provides funding to states to help establish offices of health insurance consumer assistance in order to help individuals in the process of filing complaints or appeals against insurance companies. Starting January 1, 2011, insurers in the individual and small group market will be required to spend 80 percent of their premium dollars on medical services. Insurers in the large group market will be required to spend 85 percent of their premium dollars on medical services. Any insurers who don't meet those thresholds will be required to provide rebates to their policyholders. Starting in 2011, this bill helps states require insurance companies to submit justification for requested premium increases. Any company with excessive or unjustified premium increases may not be able to participate in the new health insurance exchanges. Reform immediately begins to lower health care costs for American families and small businesses: This year, small businesses that choose to offer coverage will begin to receive tax credits of up to 35 percent of premiums to help make employee coverage more affordable. This year, new private plans will be required to provide free preventive care: no co-payments and no deductibles for preventive services. And beginning January 1, 2011, Medicare will do the same. This year, this bill will provide help for early retirees by creating a temporary re-insurance program to help offset the costs of expensive premiums for employers and retirees age 55-64. This year, this bill starts to close the Medicare Part D 'donut hole' by providing a $250 rebate to Medicare beneficiaries who hit the gap in prescription drug coverage. And beginning in 2011, the bill institutes a 50% discount on prescription drugs in the 'donut hole.' Once these great and popular benefits start to take place and people see how they were lied to by the republicans, I can't wait for the republicans to ask them to vote for them so they can repeal it all.

More republican hypocrisy. Now keep in mind that bush made 170 recess appointments: President Obama's decision to bypass the vacationing Senate and directly appoint 15 nominees has produced some expected cries of outrage from Republicans. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pronounced himself "very disappointed" with the move, charging that it showed "once again" that the Obama administration has "little respect for the time honored constitutional roles and procedures of Congress." The president's team had "forced their will on the American people," McCain fumed in a written statement. Were these the words of a principled opponent of presidential recess appointments, or of a politician in a tough primary jumping at an opportunity to bash President Obama? Well, here's how McCain reacted in 2005 when President Bush was considering a recess appointment for John Bolton, the controversial nominee to be United Nations ambassador: "I would support it. It's the president's prerogative." Indeed, just a few years earlier, McCain had succeeded in a one-man crusade to persuade President Bush to install a favored nominee using a recess appointment. Here's how UPI described it in 2002: Arizona GOP Sen. John McCain prevailed in his fight with the White House to have Ellen Weintraub, a former Capitol Hill attorney, named to a Democratic seat on the Federal Election Commission as a recess appointment. McCain must now be overjoyed that her colleagues have elected her chairman of the commission for the coming year. In her new role, Weintraub, the wife of Wisconsin Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold's legislative director, will have a lot to say about how the regulations governing the McCain-Feingold campaign legislation will be written an implemented. Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell also joined in the protests of Obama's recess appointments on Saturday, calling them "stunning" and "yet another episode of choosing a partisan path despite bipartisan opposition." But back in 2005, under President Bush, McConnell spoke what is probably far closer to the truth. When asked by a Fox News host if a recess appointment of Bolton would make the atmosphere in the Senate more poisonous, McConnell replied "no" and pointed out, "typically senators who are not of the party of the president don't like recess appointments." GOP = Grand Old Phoneys. And honestly, mccain is the biggest sorest loser I have ever seen. Get over it, mccain, as Pres. Obama told you- the campaigning is over.

Exactly. And it's always against the government when it's the government that gives them the right to bear arms and assemble. Try that in a dictatorship. But these people are so disturbed and angry and I see much of this mentality in the tea party movement.

Michigan Militia Group Preparing for Antichrist, Web Site Says FOXNews.com The Michigan-based Christian militia group raided by the FBI over the weekend is preparing for battle with the Antichrist, according to a Web site purportedly run by the group. Mar. 28: Michigan State Police guard a home in Clayton after the FBI raided the home of a suspected militia leader. The Michigan-based Christian militia group raided by the FBI over the weekend is preparing for battle with the Antichrist, according to a Web site purportedly run by the group. "Jesus wanted us to be ready to defend ourselves using the sword and stay alive using equipment," Hutaree.com reads. "The only thing on earth to save the testimony and those who follow it, are the members of the testimony, til the return of Christ in the clouds. We, the Hutaree, are prepared to defend all those who belong to Christ and save those who aren't. We will still spread the word, and fight to keep it, up to the time of the great coming." Two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that members of the group had planned multiple attacks on police officers or other law enforcement personnel as way to express their hatred for the government. Charges against members of the militia group are expected to be unsealed later Monday when some of the suspects appear in court. The "Doctrine of the Hutaree," which is based on faith, according to the Web site, states that Christians should "stand firm in Christ and believe in him until our uttermost end. The testimony must by no means pass away and we must spread the word believing in Christ's words, even during the end times." A two-minute video on the Web site depicts several camouflaged, armed men firing high-powered rifles as they move throughout open wilderness. At one point, three men can be seen firing weapons from behind a parked vehicle. Several other videos of the militia's training activities, including one that has been viewed more than 21,000 times, can be found on its you tube channel Michael Lackomar, a spokesman for the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia, told the Associated Press that one of his team leaders got a frantic phone call Saturday evening from members of Hutaree, which the Web site says means "Christian soldier." The callers said their property in southeast Michigan was being raided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Lackomar said. "They said they were under attack by the ATF and wanted a place to hide," Lackomar said. "My team leader said, 'No thanks."' FBI spokeswoman Sandra Berchtold earlier confirmed that the FBI had been working in two southeast Michigan counties near the Ohio state line, but she declined to indicate whether the raids were connected to Hutaree. A message sent to the militia group by FoxNews.com seeking comment was not immediately returned early Monday. According to the militia's ranking system, members of the group can hold titles such as senior gunner, gold rifleman, "zulif" and "arkon." "Respect the officer above you and obey your commander with dignity," the Web site reads. "Each man holds his place in flesh and spirit, heaven and earth." The Web site also includes links to Hutaree forums, a photograph of a patch for the Colonial Christian Republic and a red banner promoting a training session for April 24. "Preparing for the end time battles to keep the testimony of Jesus Christ alive," the Web site reads. " … Being Hutaree is to stay the Testimony of Christ alive, and follow a motto, John 15:13, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.'" Hutaree was named in a list of 512 so-called active "patriot" groups in the U.S. last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center in its spring intelligence report on extremist organizations. Of those groups, 127 were militias, including Hutaree. The remaining groups, according to SPLC, engage in "groundless conspiracy theorizing" or advocate anti-government doctrines. Here it is. Another right-wing extremist group using the bible to promote and defend its violent ways against the government and law enforcement.

From Maureen Dowd's column entitled: Benedict Must Go American bishops have gotten politically militant in recent years, opposing the health care bill because its language on abortion wasn't vehement enough, and punishing Catholic politicians who favor abortion rights and stem cell research. They should spend as much time guarding the kids already under their care as they do championing the rights of those who aren't yet born. This is so true. Talk about having your priorities out of order. Yeah, make sure you deny communion to someone who supports the current law about abortion while covering up for molesting priests and moving them to another parish to molest again.

And exactly what is it that those who already have insurance have to abide by?

They're not interested in the truth. Ground zero for them is their hatred of Pres. Obama and they take it from there, taking up phoney causes as if that makes them legitimate. Their agenda is to get more republicans elected so as to move this country backward to the failed and disasterous policies of bush and their sainted reagan. Tax cuts for the rich, starve the beast (cut social safety nets) and war at any cost.

As LeighaMason said, Pres. Obama said "go for it", which I am so glad he said. It's about time he started to put the obstructionist republicans in their place (which is the irrelevant minority party). I like the new "fire in the belly" Pres. Obama that he showed in the last few weeks leading up to the healthcare victory :smilielol5:. The republican AG's are just using their lawsuits for their own political gain and wasting taxpayers money in the process. My AG is one of them and the letters to the editor today were scathing in their condemnation of his doing so. So, on this issue, it looks like the people back the president.

Did you read my other post where I revealed that the teabagger blogger who encouraged the bricks through the windows sits at home and collects his government disability checks. Didn't someone on here post that we should look into those who get disability checks as a way of saving money? I suggested that we start with john mccain who receives disability and then move on to this guy. BTW, this guy's name is: Mike Vanderbeogh, 57.

The following is such a lovely gesture and thing for Pres. Obama to do and shows how he is certainly not elitist or arrogant - quite the opposite - a down to earth and caring guy. WASHINGTON — One evening in April 2008, three low-level staff members from the Obama presidential campaign — a baggage handler, a videographer and an advance man — gathered in the windowless basement of a Pennsylvania hotel for an improvised Passover Seder. The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. Pete Souza/White House Susan Sher, who is now Michelle Obama's chief of staff, at the White House Seder last year. The day had been long, the hour was late, and the young men had not been home in months. So they had cadged some matzo and Manischewitz wine, hoping to create some semblance of the holiday. Suddenly they heard a familiar voice. “Hey, is this the Seder?” Barack Obama asked, entering the room. So begins the story of the Obama Seder, now one of the newest, most intimate and least likely of White House traditions. When Passover begins at sunset on Monday evening, Mr. Obama and about 20 others will gather for a ritual that neither the rabbinic sages nor the founding fathers would recognize. In the Old Family Dining Room, under sparkling chandeliers and portraits of former first ladies, the mostly Jewish and African-American guests will recite prayers and retell the biblical story of slavery and liberation, ending with the traditional declaration “Next year in Jerusalem.” (Never mind the current chill in the administration’s relationship with Israel.) Top aides like David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett will attend, but so will assistants like 24-year-old Herbie Ziskend. White House chefs will prepare Jewish participants’ family recipes, even rendering chicken fat — better known as schmaltz — for just the right matzo ball flavor. If last year is any guide, Malia and Sasha Obama will take on the duties of Jewish children, asking four questions about the night’s purpose — along with a few of their own — and scrambling to find matzo hidden in the gleaming antique furniture. That event was the first presidential Seder, and also probably “the first time in history that gefilte fish had been placed on White House dishware,” said Eric Lesser, the former baggage handler, who organizes each year’s ritual. As in many Jewish households, the Obama Seder seems to take on new meaning each year, depending on what is happening in the world and in participants’ lives (for this group, the former is often the same as the latter). The first one took place at the bleakest point of the campaign, the long prelude to the Pennsylvania primary, which was dominated by a furor over Mr. Obama’s former pastor. “We were in the desert, so to speak,” remembered Arun Chaudhary, then and now Mr. Obama’s videographer, who grew up attending Seders with his half-Jewish, half-Indian family. No one led the proceedings; everyone took turns reading aloud. Mr. Obama had brought Reggie Love, his personal aide, Ms. Jarrett and Eric Whitaker, another close friend, all African-American. Jennifer Psaki, the traveling press secretary, and Samantha Tubman, a press assistant, filtered in. Neither had ever been to a Seder, but they knew the Exodus story, Ms. Psaki from Catholic school and Ms. Tubman from childhood Sundays at black churches. They peppered the outnumbered Jews at the table with questions, which the young men sometimes struggled to answer. “We’re not exactly crack Hebrew scholars,” said Mr. Lesser, now an assistant to Mr. Axelrod. Participants remember the evening as a rare moment of calm, an escape from the din of airplanes and rallies. As the tale of the Israelites unfolded, the campaign team half-jokingly identified with their plight — one day, they too would be free. At the close of the Seder, Mr. Obama added his own ending — “Next year in the White House!” Indeed, the group, with a few additions, has now made the Seder an Executive Mansion tradition. (No one considered inviting prominent rabbis or other Jewish leaders; it is a private event.) But maintaining the original humble feel has been easier said than done. Ms. Tubman and Desirée Rogers, then the White House social secretary, tried to plan an informal meal last year, with little or even no wait staff required. White House ushers reacted with what seemed like polite horror. The president and the first lady simply do not serve themselves, they explained. The two sides negotiated a compromise: the gefilte fish would be preplated, the brisket passed family-style. Then came what is now remembered as the Macaroon Security Standoff. At 6:30, with the Seder about to start, Neil Cohen, the husband of Michelle Obama’s friend and adviser Susan Sher, was stuck at the gate bearing flourless Cookies he had brought from Chicago. They were Kosher for Passover, but not kosher with the Secret Service, which does not allow food into the building. Offering to help, the president walked to the North Portico and peered out the door, startling tourists. He volunteered to go all the way to the gates, but advisers stopped him, fearing that would cause a ruckus. Everyone seemed momentarily befuddled. Could the commander in chief not summon a plate of cookies to his table? Finally, Mr. Love ran outside to clear them. Mr. Obama began the Seder by invoking the universality of the holiday’s themes of struggle and liberation. Malia and Sasha quickly found the hidden matzo and tucked it away again, so cleverly that Mr. Ziskend, the former advance man, needed 45 minutes to locate it. At the Seder’s close, the group opened a door and sang to the prophet Elijah. In preparation for this year’s gathering, Mr. Lesser and others have again been collecting recipes from the guests, including matzo ball instructions from Patricia Winter, the mother of Melissa Winter, Mrs. Obama’s deputy chief of staff. “We like soft (not hard) matzo balls,” Mrs. Winter warned in a note to the White House chefs, instructing them to buy mix but doctor it. Use three eggs, not two, she told them; substitute schmaltz for vegetable oil, and refrigerate them for a day before serving (but not in the soup). The Seder originated with Jewish staff members on the campaign trail who could not go home, but now some Celebrate at the White House by choice. Participants say their ties are practically familial now anyway. “Some of the most challenging experiences of our life we’ve shared together,” Ms. Jarrett said. No one yet knows exactly what themes will emerge this year. Maybe “taking care of people who can’t take care of themselves and health care reform,” suggested Ms. Sher, now Mrs. Obama’s chief of staff. The evening might also reflect a group that has settled into the White House and a staff more familiar with the new custom. Last week, Ms. Sher was leaving the East Wing when a guard stopped her. “Hey, are you bringing macaroons again this year?” he asked. And what humble people the Obamas are. They were going to serve the food themselves and he was going to go to the gate to approve a guest having trouble getting in with food. This is not done by someone who is "elitist or arrogant".

Now is what we're talking about? Really? Then why are you posting pictures of one violent episode that happened under a previous president? Oh,yeah, I know to show that the left is involved in violence, blah, blah, blah. Well, if you can reach into the past to try to make your point, I can do it to make mine, and I did.

Pres. Obama had nothing to do with that deal. That was Harry Reid. Those in the house didn't like it - THAT'S why it was taken out. Remember that it had already passed the senate. But the senate knew it would be taken out by the house, it was and that's the end of it. And as it should be.

I just heard some head honcho teabagger "king" today say that they don't like mccain. He called mccain a liberal and RINO. He also said he doesn't want the republican party taking over the tea party, he wants the tea party taking over the republican party. Be my guest, is what I say.

I am 15 months out from my banding and the left shoulder pain that I had right after surgery resolved after a couple of weeks but I still get left shoulder pain from time to time. It has been very painful the last couple of days. I saw my PCP about it awhile ago and had an x-ray. It didn't show anything. I am convinced it is band related. Did any of you who had your band removed have left shoulder pain that went away after the band was removed?

Great advice from JaxNole. You need to get ahead of this situation and take charge of it. Don't let your in-laws define this issue. You do it. And to JaxNole's advice I would add: Tell them that you have gone over your food choices with your doctor and nutritionist and you know what foods you can eat, what you can't and yes, you are allowed what would be considered by some to be "bad" foods once in awhile in moderation, and that while you appreciate their "concern" there is no need to monitor what you eat since you have yourself and professionals doing that. Good luck.

To taunt the enemy to attack your countrymen (soldiers) is reprehensible and almost treasonous. But if you think it's okay, well that is your choice.