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QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 14, 2008 -> 11:28 AM) Biased conclusion based on opinion. You say that as if it were a bad thing. Viva La Filibuster!!

QUOTE (Brian @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 11:55 PM) We have a new receptionist at work who is really hot. She is not there on weekends but I am sometimes and saw her desk and she has a picture of her and her husband framed. Let's just say that there is hope for all of us. He is the exact opposite of what I thought her husband would look like. Ah, you saw his picture. . . but did you see his bank statement??

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QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 14, 2008 -> 09:31 AM) I find it more interesting that the organizers didn't send them on their way. That can't be good PR. No, they finally did, once the media coverage of the booth started. Alpha and KickA** talked about it on another thread. Oh, well, right-leaning souvinir hunters can still satisfy themselves with those "Hottest VP from the Coldest State" convention buttons. Those aren't at all sexist by the way, because. . . . well. . . uhm, just because.

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QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 14, 2008 -> 08:58 AM) Yeah, that's pretty bad. The Aunt Jemima connection to pancakes and waffles doesn't help either. In truth, I'm not particularly bent out of shape over it. It just strikes me as a bad attempt at cleverness that in truth is entirely a racial stereotype cheap shot. Waffling/flip-flopping has not been a particularly vocal charge against Obama the way it has against McCain this time around or Kerry 4 years ago. That being the case, the ONLY legitimate reason behind the parody is to go for the Aunt Jemimah joke. At least these guys know the LCD of their target audience.

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QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Sep 14, 2008 -> 08:48 AM) I'd like to see the picture. Sounds pretty bad, but racism can be in the eye of the beholder. Remember when Time (or was it Newsweek?) "darkened" OJ's mug shot for its cover? There ya go:

Not obscure so much as hypocritical and (hopefully) irrelevant. It was the Values Voter Summit, a Family Research Council-sponsored affair. At least a lot of "values voters" are out and out racists, which is more respectable than the closet racism that permeates much of the rest of society.

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OK, after a 4-month relapse into bad habits helped me put back 8 of the 16 pounds I'd lost, I'm back for another try. I'm trying not to beat myself up too bad, and to rationalize the gain as being only a couple of pound a month, but the bottom line is it was the wrong direction again and it sure wasn't helping me get closer to my target. RexH rightly warned me about the unavoidable yoyo issue with extreme diets, and I know that full well from experience. I've been OK with that for a couple of years because if I was only a little heavier than i wanted to be i could do the New Year resolution thing, drop the spare tire in a couple of months and then ease up and gradually put a few pounds back on to repeat the cycle over the next year. That wasn't ideal maybe but it worked for a while, and my losses and gains were never so rapid I thought there was any real health issue. The problem is that each time aroudn for the last couple of years, I've gained everything back plus a few new pounds for good measure. That's obviously a trend i don't want to see continue. That said, the diet du jour my wife started us on last Monday is not too extreme in limiting intake -- eat until you almost feel full but not quite, which I guess is the golden rule for a lot of lifestyle-change diets. It's also not extreme in terms of limiting dietary diversity, although it is rather odd in how it sequences what you eat and when. The idea is to not let your body get used to metabolizing the same thing all the time, because eventually that can compromise your losses I reckon. The best aspect of the current diet is that it does have cheat days built in and it doesn't guilt you out over them. The worst aspect, for me, is that beer and booze are completely out unless you are on a cheat day. Probably a bad commentary on me, but I like to be able to have a drink in the evening too much to be able to do this for any length of time. At the same time, I absolutely know the biggest source of the "empty calories" that put my weight back on this summer was beer and sugary rum drinks (occupational hazard of life in the subtropics). I loathe light beer, so that's not an option. Ideally, I can find the time to get back to better exercise (I was doing really well at the beginning of the year, and then got too busy with work to keep up that schedule), "cost out" the luxury calories of the drinks, and put in the time on the stationary to burn those off. Sticking with it, of course, is always the issue. So. . . the plan is to stay with the new death march diet until I'm somewhere close to where I want to be goal-weight wise, then REALLY try to stay healthy but not extreme, and increase the exercise amount as a persona; "sin tax" to counter the additional calories when I add back the beer and boat drinks. I started in earnest last Monday, and the first diet cycle ends this Friday. 11 days of following restrictions to the letter, and then some a couple days of reasonable cheating for sanity's sake. I'll post my results Friday, but I'm hoping I can start back in with a splash and lose the better part of what I'd added back over the summer. Sure wiishing I still had my 20-year-old metabolism.

QUOTE (Rex Hudler @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 11:37 PM) I don't want to come across like I am an expert, but be careful with the brutal diets. Those are the exact things that cause the yo yo because you will lose weight but them gain it back when you stop. The best thing to do is find foods to eat that you can put into your daily routine forever. Cheating is good, one or two meals a week. That should always be there. But try and develop habits you can live with long term so you don't keep bouncing up and down. Good luck and join me back in the member's thread. Also, the BL Show starts this week, so maybe that can help give you a little motivation. Point taken on the death march diets. And from where i'm sitting, RH, you ARE the resident expert on doing this for real. I can't say enough how impressive your dedication has been. My hope is that I can death march myself down to close to my goal weight (which i probably set a little too low, honestly), and then figure out the healthy lifestyle diet that will allow me to maintain. I did mean to put that last post in the members thread, but goofed and put it here instead. Probably just as well, since I probably had to get voted back onto the island before posting there.

Ha, those were a lot sharper than I remembered them.

My 10 year old daughter is a huge sleep talker. She pretty much narrates her dreams for us to hear in the next room. Some friends of mine that were dormmates in college. . . one of them was a world-class sleepwalker. It was sort of funny and nobody thought much of it until one day my non-somnambulist friend woke up to find the sleepwalker cutting huge holes in the non-walkers bedsheets with a big sharp pair of scissors and the guy in bed! The guy who had been sleeping yelled "What the hell are you doing?!" and woke the other guy out of his daze. He blinked and looked around, then looked at the scissors in his hands and at the sheets he was cutting to ribbons, and at the look on his roommates face, and then just said, "I'm not doing anything. Just go back to sleep." :lolhitting I'm glad my dormmate just masturbated a lot.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 03:40 PM) hickies suck I think you have the cause and effect backwards there, son.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 03:28 PM) Ok, whatever. Your thoughts here are a joke. Seriously. None of you know what I think of Sarah Palin, yet you want to label me. I think it's ridiculous that all I see from the left is this "gotcha" crap - and yes, you see it from the blowhards like Hannity, etc. but I think they are just as ridiculous. That's all you want to do is tear down and mock everything. Have a day. Carry on, because it's what makes everything so great about this election. Not. What the heck, why don't you tell us what you think of Governor Palin then so nobody has to guess. The fact that adding this unknown but seemingly unqualified person to the GOP ticket has much of the nation so unquestioning and revved up for McCainCo. confirms many of my worst fears about the critical thinking skills of many of my fellow Americans. The fact that honest, earnest examination and reporting of her record in elected office to contrast against the McCainCo version of her record is chalked up entirely as "Gotcha politics" is similarly disheartening. I don't really assume you are much of a Governor Palin fan. But she set the tone for the last 8 weeks of the campaign with the Lipstick-Pitbull acceptance speech, and for the most part ObamaCo has been less gloves-off than they could have been since then. I agree with everybody that it would be a critical mistake for ObamaCo to allow this election become about Governor Palin. But I think all current press inquiries into her past public record are entirely legitimate. reasonable and necessary in order to determine if the real Sarah Palin even remotely resembles the newly-minted mythological Sarah Palin the country has gone gaga over.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 03:17 PM) What do you expect to happen when one candidate selects someone who nobody knows diddly squat about? Like the McCain Campaign, maybe he expects Governor Palin to be treated with deference, because anything else is obviously just blatant sexism.

:uhoh Yeah, DJ has grown on me as well, mostly because he seems like such a decent guy. Hawk and Stone will probably be great, but I wish they had made this move at the end of the season rather than now. Knowing he's out will probably make the rest of the year bittersweet for DJ, especially if we make/do anything in the playoffs.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Sep 13, 2008 -> 12:06 PM) You are of course assuming that SHE started the practice of charging for them. I suppose that when you call for an ambulance after an accident, that it comes out for free, right? Doesn't charge you for the trip, or services rendered? I'm not assuming that at all. I'm suggesting as a mayor of a town of 5,000 people, when this story made news in the Wasilla paper in her 5th year as mayor, and quoted the Palin-appointed police chief as saying the town will continue to knowingly and willingly victimize rape victims a second time rather that absorb the paltry $5,000 to $14,000 a year it would have cost the city, Palin would have stepped up and changed the policy if she gave a rat's ass about victims of sexual assault or any other womens' issue. You disagree apparently. I'm genuinely surprised. Also, to equate an ambulance bill for a trip to the ER after an accident with charging a woman who has just been raped an traumatized for her medical examination is beyond missing the point. I would like my society to make it easier for a woman to feel she can come out and report crimes of sexual abuse. I'm pretty sure billing them for the exam and lab work is not a way to make that happen.

QUOTE (Rex Hudler @ Sep 8, 2008 -> 11:55 PM) Lately I feel like when I am talking there is an echo. Everybody quit on me, I think..... You are doing totally awesome, Rex! That is just fantastic and you should be proud of your hard work and determination. I, on the other hand, have completely sucked a$$ since the beginning of May. I started seeing smaller and smaller losses each week despite really staying good with the diet. I know that's normal but it still depressed me so I started cheating a little here and there. Then I started cheating a little more. And then summer kicked in and I went on a 3 month long Tiki tropical cocktail kick – mai tais, rum runners, painkillers, rum barrels, and every other juice and sugar-laded, rum-filled libation imaginable. On the plus side, I can now make the best authentic mai tai in Florida (none of that syrupy-sweet grenadine and juice crap that most bars call a mai tai), and I have amassed a nice collection of Caribbean rums including a 15-year Demerara that is now my all time favorite sipper. On the down side, my liver is now filing to enter the witness protection program, and I've gained back 8 stinking pounds. As fat as I was feeling, I swore I put the whole damn thing back on and then some, but I swore off the scale because i didn't want to know how much I was gaining back. So, here I am, back at it and really wanting not to become a huge lardass again. My wife and I started a new, brutal death-march of a diet on Monday and I have been 100% good with it so far. A tall order, since it allows NO BEER or BOOZE for 11 days straight before you can have a little bit of a couple of cheat days before resetting the calendar and doing it again. Next Friday can't come fast enough. Unless you ask my liver, that is. I'm totally embarrassed to have put on half of the weight I had lost. And I know the whole yo yo thing is not what I want to do the whole rest of my life (it sure was downhill after 30). But, here I am, giving it another go. Totally looking forward to the cottage cheese and fruit salad I have lined up for lunch too, baby!