LeftLeftLeft's Comments (34)

“What do I want to hear Obama say?

"I am recommending that the legislature overturn/repeal the federal DOMA. I will be submitting legislation to get the process started next week."”

“I didn't say that there was not a partner whose electricity and attention was not creating and guiding all along the way . . . not that a solo isn't possible. But orgasm is always a bit more fun when shared with sometone you love, and admire, and who can turn you on and keep you there without so much as a touch! Don't knock it until you have tried it.”

“Since 90% of sex is in the brain, orgasm can even be achieved without any contact at all. Been there . . . done that . . .”

“At 50 I had my entire colon and rectum removed and a j-pouch constructed for severe u/c. (Both my parents had colon cancer) At 51 the peripheral neuropathy caused by flagyl began to progress, even though I would never take flagyl again. I then developed Crohn's, then spasms at the anastamosis, and fissures, which leave me partially incontinent. Episcleritis soon followed. Now, at 57, life is a challenge, I have had to give up work, kayaking, backpacking and mountaineering and I live in chronic pain. I use daily probiotics (VSL#3) and take methycobalamine B12, EFA's, lysine and glutamine, and my diet is restricted to low residue foods, meaning whole grains, raw vegetables and fruits with skins and seeds are out, as the irritation they cause can bring mind-numbing pain.

I have been offered no hope for the neuropathies, save more drugs, the side effects of which are prohibitive. I use mindfulness pain management, yoga breathing, and try to keep myself as active as possible. My body has actually performed remarkbly well considering what it has been through. While I am always happy to hear of people who were able to control or even arrest autoimmune damage . . . I rarely find anything written to help those of us for whom none of the "miracle cures" have any effect. Seems medicine has focused on how to reconstruct the outer body to achieve aesthetics, but we still can not prevent scar tissue from strangling our insides. I am not impressed .”

“This issue will never die . . . because just like George W. Bush, Sarah Palin believes that she is totally above the law.”

“The Lt.Governor (now new AK Gov) calls her resignation as "selfless act?"

Do you agree? In my dictionary it resembles more a SELFISH act. . . . of a streessed, erratic woman.”

“Ms. Pointguard Palin . . . what a pathetic analogy! Seems Sarah has dropped the ball and stepped out of bounds. . . .”

“The hypocrisy IS the difference! This "do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do" politics plays with the civil rights of a group of people who have been targeted as the very reason that straight marriages are failing . . . and it has got to stop somewhere.

I might suggest it is with individuals like this who apply their moral principles as they see fit . . .”

“What can you do for a person who has already lost their colon to colitis (both parents had colon cancer) and grows scar tissue like it is a cash crop? Most articles like this DO NOT address those of us who have been physiologically altered to the point that our bodies no longer function like complete bodies. I did all I could to keep healthy, with a good high fiber diet, exercise, and moderation in all things . . . and I got sick anyway. And now I am bombarded regularly with the notion that I not only caused my illness, but remain ill because I am out of balance. Of course I am . . . half of my digestive system is gone or not functioning normally!

Your article should be prefaced, "Health Principles for the Healthy," because it does not seem to be geared for those of us who see more specalitsts than we see our primary care provider . . .”

“Thank you, Frank. I understand why you continue to feel this way, and why feel you have to contiue to apologize . . . as it IS ten times harder to take something back after it has been said, and often people won't listen. In college I wrote every single paper and thesis I could on the abortion issue: Ethics, Constitutional History, American History, etc. And I wrote from every point of view, as that was the only way I knew of to gain a fuller understanding of all the issues involved in this practice.

The conclusion I came to was so very close to yours and President Obama's . . . late term abortions should be neither necessary nor legal, readily available birth control and education about birth control will go further to prevent abortions than will preaching and rallying, and while I wish there were never a need or want for the services of a doctor who will perform an abortion, we must not make criminals of our physicians by making all abortions illegal. It is not a perfect choice, but that choice must be there.

And murder is never a valid choice when it comes to enforcing our beliefs . . . ever!”

“When I do a closet cleaning, I strip it bare to begin with. Then I play the "what do I really want hanging in my closet" game . . . as if I am just moving into my home for the first time. This way the entirety of the closet gets cleaned (the corners, the floor, the ceiling, etc.) and I am less likely to allow myself to overstuff the hanging clothes or the drawer units.

Oops . . . I see my closet is overdue for a good cleaning . . . gotta go!”

“All my life I heard "I like your mind" and all my life I longed to hear "hot body."

Well, after a year of training for an athletic event in my 40's, I got the body. Then I realized the attention to the body wasn't all that great. Now I feel for the woman who never gets cherished for her intellect because her body is a show stopper.

Well . . . now the body is gone. Glad I got to keep the mind . . .”

“Calling Erin Brockovich . . . we have a major class action suit for you to investigate . . . . looks like multiples of all the huge cases you have ever done!”

“I thought this was going to be about ARTISTS . . . you know, brushes, canvas. . . .

Never mind. . . . .”

“I have been saying for some time now . . . I want a front row seat to the Last Judgement. I imagine there will be a lot of "christians" wondering why God has become so angry with them.

Sarah and her "army" don't fool me or any of the intelligent folks I know, real Christians included. Too bad they have to take everyone down with them in their ugly hate . . .”

“I am tired of people telling artists, like myself, to get a real job, and that what we produce is not really needed. I have been saved from the effects of an 80% decline in sales in 2008 over 2007 only because I do have another, albeit small, income. But believe it or not, my lack of sales affects the businesses I support when I have to buy more supplies. My primary artist materials store has reduced staff, and if this continues, I am afraid I will no longer have the option to support a local business with my paint and canvas purchases. How about the community and gallery shows which make a commission off of sales . . . will they be able to continue to provide a means for artists like myself to hang our art for the public to see, enjoy, and perhaps buy? And then there is the fact than an artist who no longer sells any of their work is now considered have nothing more than an expensive hobby. The loss is in more than mere dollars, it can become a loss of visibility of culture and creativity.”

“The POINT is . . . civil unions, on a state by state basis, are so UNEQUAL that it makes the "civil union" argument moot! A married heterosexual couple from Massachusetts can move to Texas . . . Kansas. . . . Georgia . . . Florida. . . . Nebraska . . . . Minnesota . . . Virgina . . . Arizona . . . .

AND STILL BE MARRIED WITH RIGHTS.

Heterosexual marriage has reciprocity in all 50 states for a heterosexual couple. A gay couple married in Massachusetts is not considered legally married when they move to most every other state. And even at home in Cambridge or Moores Corners, that gay couple is still not privy to the Federal protections of marriage! (A married heterosexual couple can file for FMLA protection in any state -- a gay couple can not.)

A married heterosexual couple enjoys Federal rights that a gay or lesbian couple can not even secure through costly legal paperwork or litigation.

Rick Warren represents the new "respectable" (???) face of discrimination. Are we going to allow the Church to become the new discriminatory and dictatorial regime?”

“Do a quickie performance review for the last quarter and FIRE HER!”

“And just when was it that white men had to work to gain the trust and sympathy of the majority in our country's history? Seems that your argument forgets that nearly every other segment of society has had to "prove" themselves worthy to the almighty patriarchal white man. . . . or did I just dream up the African-American battle for freedom, suffrage and civil rights, and women's long, tedious road to suffrage?”

“"The real prop 8 should have been to restructure the entire legal concept of marriage which is really a violation of church and state separation to begin with."

I am afraid that Prop 8 was an attempt to make sure the LGBT population would not have ANY means left to validate their living family relationships as long as the evangelical christian church still has a breath left in its pews. Should gays get the right to legally secure their relationships, I expect that the church will seek new ways to continue the discrimination and demonization of gays with respect to the "other" ills of society. Prop 8 was never meant to be anything but another blockade to the recognition that gays and lesbians are entitled to the same protections of the law as everyone else . . . albeit thinly disguised as a "protecting traditional marriage."

And isn't it possible that denying gays the same rights of relationships as others in the name of "protecting traditional marriage and family" which, according the all statistics, are in a state of decline, is just a lame attempt to "bail out" marriage at the expense of a segment of the population who have absolutely no impact on current marriage and divorce statistics?”

“I sent in my absentee ballot a week or so ago. . . and was able to check online to make sure that it was received. However, I have heard that Washington State may have some delays in counting absentee ballots due to the volume. . . again! We went for over a month not knowing who our governor was the last time around. . . . in the closest gubernatorial race in US history!

I agree it is time for more uniformity across the nation, both in how we ballot and in how we register, and in how we verify our voting rolls.”

“Arianna . . . will you marry me?”

“My partner and I are looking forward to the new, fresh, real first family. All this talk of family values and we finally get to see some . . . first hand! I see a real benefit for those segments of society that have seen their family life fractured through the economic and social fall-out of the failed Bush Administration's policies.

And we will also welcome back complete sentences, correct pronunciations and English as it was meant to be spoken. There is nothing wrong with intelligent, educated discourse which doesn't "talk down" to the level of every perceived audience. It is time that we should be able to look up to our leaders, instead of just crossing our fingers in every crisis, or worse, just tolerating them.

Obama-Biden '08”

“You have described the base that placed and kept Bush in office. "Nice white Christian people" have been kidnapped, brainwashed and turned against God in the falsely focused fear of recrimination from God for killing babies and allowing gays to exist.”

“(Stands and applauds)

Someone who was there, who even STARTED this, finally speaking the truth . . . . LOUDLY.

(Sighs of relief and appreciation. . . . )

Thank you, Mr. Schaeffer . . .”