Gracey

I love you, Green!! For the record, I personally am not for socialized medicine. My beloved Tennessee tried a state healthcare system that, of course, failed miserably. The US is entirely too big to be able to handle the fraud associated with a program like this. I do feel, however, that the healthcare system is an absolute mess and I have no idea how we can get it out of the spiral. Why can women not dislike another woman with whom they have NOTHING in common? Sarah Palin no more represents my views as a woman than does Lassie.

That's exactly what I said I was going to tell nosy people at work - that I had a tapeworm!! There's a guy in my dept that's esp nosy so I'm naming my tapeworm, Rob!

MommaMac - giirrrllll, I was just playing!

Two questions: 1. Ever heard of separation of church and state? 2. Can someone please tell me why the stupid damn Republican Representatives voted against their f'n President and party leader? Dubya appointed Secretary Treasurer Paulson and Fed Chairman Bernanke and again, the Republicans voted against. GREAT JOB. Plain asked why Democrats don't like Palin so I responded. She is one of the few people that can make Dubya look smart. (Well she and my cousin who thinks Obama is a muslim.)

To answer your question, Plain: Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist best known for "The Vagina Monologues", wrote the following about Sarah Palin: "Drill, Drill, Drill I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears. I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists. But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war. I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity. Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God." Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not. She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes. Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference. This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth. Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air. Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be. I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression. If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill." I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain. Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life? Eve Ensler September 5, 2008"

I do numbers for a living and always do that! <pinkie> $105.5 mil-lee-ohn dollars

Holy cow - did I count correctly? I counted 109; that's awesome!!! So to notice the trend - surgeons will operate on a Sunday and not a Saturday - I did not know that!

Aww man, don't tell me that! Are you getting in enough protein?

Oh noooooo; I've created a monster!!! :biggrin:

AWESOME! tyvm! :biggrin:

Hello, long ago, I copped to being a proud nerd, tyvm!!! I need an emoticon that flips you off....Ima look now. :cool2: This is as close as I could find. There are 6 bananas having sex but none flipping someone off. Boo!

I'm not Miss Smartie; I've failed trying it more than I have succeeded. Click multiquote on 2 posts and then quote. I think that's what I did!

I love ice cream; I've been addicted for a couple years now. I think I'm going to have to tell myself that it'll cause slippage!!!

punctuation schmunctuation; only bible-thumping, right-wingers use punctuation! ha! wait - i have a grammar thread on LBT and am a centrist liberal; hmm.

GASP - you're saying that something's better than LBT? That's blasphemous. Aww thanks! Oh folks will see my before pics eventually!

LOL!!!!!!! Whew I needed that laugh....

I always wear sweater sets so I can hide the fact that I don't have on a seatbelt. Of 5-6 plane trips, I've only been busted once!

Chiiiiillleeeee, I thought you had really built that website. I was gonna bust on you for agessssss. OK so you're a "no" on posting a new weird thread. How about putting together some thoughts for me on my upcoming surgery during your boredom?!? :cool2:

Woohoo!!! Plane rides are the worst!

OH; how could you?!? Sheesh, when you have these crazy thoughts, PM one of us or start a new crazy thread! Hellooooooo

GO LADIES GO! Y'all don't even wanna know what I've been eating knowing that I get banded in a couple weeks. :cool2:

Whaaaaattttt? :cool2:

And honey, you know Oprah would have it on and would've invested in it!!! :cool2:

Green, that's my kind of telling folks off - through big words and condescension! :cool2: Pleeeease, Kat, for your LBT'ers, please make sure to look down your nose at them as you condescend!

Wouldn't you like like to tell your 16-year old self that you would've ever posted "I can't wait until my bowel prep tomorrow" on a public website? I just now realized that you're in C'ville. I went to HS in Hoptown.