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"... just don’t lump in with the RINo’s if you win."

Weiner's lifetime ACU rating was around 5%, so even if Turner earns only a 50% rating in Congress, it's a victory. If he votes at the 90% conservative level, his constituents may replace him at re-election time. They object to things like same-sex marriage, abandoning Israel and constructing Project51 at Ground Zero -- they do not object to liberalism generally.

I typed in "carlo gambino" and got "the delicious."

He would have loved that.

You see, liberals feel no shame about violations of the Constitution because, as they will repeatedly remind you, the document is “old and outdated” and doesn’t apply to our modern era. They just don’t see what the “big deal” is. It’s just like their take on God or on the sanctity of holy matrimony. They consider all these to be nothing more than quaint, outmoded notions from a faraway, ignorant time.

"Evidently her pro-abortness makes her fit enough in the eyes of our king."

The fact that she holds that opinion as a Roman Catholic should give pause to most people.

But returning to the question of her weight, if I may, one would think that she would do everything possible to reduce it. Her father died of complications of hypertension and diabetes and, as a physician, she would know that her excess body fat puts her at risk for both of those conditions.

"... normal for her age..."

It probably is normal for her age, at least in the US -- but is it healthy? As an example, hypertension is normal in 80-year-olds, but it's not a healthful condition. I agree with you that the best thing for her to do is discuss her weight publicly. It could encourage others with similar problems.

"She has a high stress job and probably little energy left to jog 5 miles a day."

It is a high-stress job. That said, the average physician has a BMI well below the national average. Go to their conventions and conferences and look at them. They're lean, almost all of them. As for "jogging 5 miles per day," most of them would advise against it and in favor of walking, swimming, bicyling and other low-impact aerobics.

I don't know Dr. Benjamin's medical history, so I can't judge whether gluttony or laziness would account for her portly appearance. It may be beyond her control.

You still can. NOM can use donations right now to continue the fight to defend Prop 8, DOMA, etc.

As I'm sure you recall, the first time this issue came up on the ballot, Californians voted by almost 2/3 to keep marriage between a man and a woman. Just a few years later, the margin of victory is now much narrower. I'm guessing it won't take much to eventually tip the clueless California electorate to the side of depravity.

"Because the wholesale cost of crude is only a tiny fraction of the entire expense that goes into gasoline production."
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On the contrary --

According to the Energy Information Administration, which provides official energy statistics from the U.S. government, approximately 19% of the cost of gas is attributed to federal and state taxes. The remaining cost of a gallon of gas is accounted for by gasoline distribution and marketing, which accounts for 9% of the cost filling your tank, refining the oil, which accounts for 19%, and cost of crude oil, which accounts for 53% (using 2005 data).

These figures are averages, of course, and will vary somewhat from state to state.

"And in so doing you screw up your credit rating."

Correction -- 100,000,000 Americans "screw up" their credit ratings. If that actually happened and nobody extended any further credit to them, the economy would crash and everybody would lose. It might be very interesting to see what would happen if that many people had that much discipline, organization and audacity.

"...definitely too many girls who spend money on things that don’t matter..."

LOL! If we do away with all those spendthrift females, we will also do away with most of our retail sector. Not much danger of that, since our advertising industry won't allow it. They let everybody know exactly what to buy and everybody buys it.

"...only without a youthful populace."

Take heart -- millions of illegal aliens are reproducing at a prodigious rate. In two generations, they will own us and Spanish will become the official language. The likes of Obama will never get into office again -- he will way too far to the right to suit our new masters.

"Since members of Congress are exempt from the provisions of the bill..."

They won't be the only ones. A two-tier system will develop, just as it has elsewhere, eg. Britain. So the high-end campaign contributors and supporters will continue to have the same access. And guess what? When the vast majority of Americans find they have inadequate access to health care, Obama and company will have already supplied them with a demon to blame. Whether it's "corporate greed," or "8 years of Republican mischief," or any of the other bugaboos the left is so fond of shifting the blame to, the majority will believe them and the mass media will help them to believe it.

"The party, which has grown more conservative in recent years..."

Conservative? Sure could have fooled me.

"I’m tired of dealing with deceivers."

What you said.

"Human Events doesn't either any more."

Ditto.

Just a matter of time before "conservative" commentary by Gergen and Will start appearing in HE's pages.

Like you, I see right through Steele. In the thread’s article, he talks as though the GOP has a good record on immigration and border security. Bush showed that he wouldn’t tolerate a properly regulated border or properly enforced immigration and labor law. Steele is no different. A vote for either major party is a vote for open borders, across-the-board amnesty and North American Union.

I hope things work out that way. It's how it should work out but in California, nothing surprises me anymore. If Sacramento brazenly defied the new constitutional amendment and dared prop 8 backers to sue them in federal court, I wouldn't be shocked.

Seems more likely that Simpson will be isolated from the other convicts to protect them, not him.

And it won't surprise me if he's released in 9 years, violates parole with one or more felonies and gets reincarcerated.

Well, if I were dumb enough to go down there, I’d probably take some flagyl and imodium with me also — among other rx drugs.

If 8 passes, it won’t matter. The opposition will just judge-shop and have it overturned. Arnold and Jerry are in full accord with the homosexual agenda, so there won’t be an appeal. This is exactly what happened when definition of marriage passed by 2/3 majority a few years back.