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I don't care whether this man has physical urges for the opposite sex or the same sex. Why? Because we are more than just our physical sensations. God made us that way. He elevated us above all other creatures on earth.

What I can't believe is that the Episcopal church is giving their blessing to open sex out of wedlock. This new bishop lives with his lover. He's not just a homosexual. He's a practicing, cohabitating homosexual. Suppose he and his lover break up. In this case I imagine it will be all right for Bishop Robinson to have sex with anyone he wishes. After all, he's not married now, and what he does is okay.

Could a heterosexual bishop who left his family to live with a female lover ever have gotten confirmed? No. This man was given special dispensation because he belongs to a subgroup of society favored by liberals.

People sound paranoid when they say homosexuals are trying to infiltrate and take over their church, but how can you believe anything else when you see standards tossed in the trash can so quickly when homosexuality is a factor?

I remember when you talked about starting Atkins. I'm so proud of you : ).

Good snacks...

Deviled eggs, hardboiled eggs, smoked salmon with cream cheese, cucumber or celery with cream cheese, 4 percent cottage cheese, cheddar cheese on salami, turkey and swiss rollups, cold rotisserie chicken, bacon, pork rinds, heavy cream sweetened with Splenda and a tiny splash of vanilla extract...

I know this doesn't help if you're stuck at an office right now. If I were you I might order more than one salad at a time. Eat as much protein and fat as you need to feel satisfied. I used to have to order 2 deli sandwiches just to have enough legal fillings to fill up on.

After induction, heavy cream, berries and Splenda is our standard after dinner snack. MMMMMMM!

Dana Carpender is one of my heroes. She has a fantastic newsletter you can read at holdthetoast.com.

Well, no. Nobody is saying that people shouldn't be able to sue, or even that they shouldn't be allowed to collect actual, tangible damages and costs, just that vague, ephemeral "pain and suffering" should be limited to a quarter of a million dollars or so.

So your husband or child is paralyzed by gross negligence. How far is that 250,000 pain and suffering going toward your loss? How about if you are left in pain for the rest of your life and you can't do any of the things you used to do, like sex etcetera. 250k cover that pain and suffering? I mean they paid you for the lost wages right? In other countries like Germany people can be jailed for extreme negligence. Not here. They walk away from it. Some doctors need to be sued out of existence.

There is no doubt there are problems and excesses with the legal system but this is not the way to fix it. An educated jury would be a start.

And yes insurance rates escalate during bad periods in the stock market. Even more so this time because a lot of investors didn't know what bonds were. Actuarial tables do not apply to their profits.

No my husband did. The doctor saved some money on the operating staffs training. My husband paid for it.

They are the ones getting rich off of this system.

The doctors and the insurance companies are not hurting either. It is you and me that gets the shaft. The reason the rates are skyrocketing is bad investments on the insurance companies part. They blew it by moving into bad equities in the late 90's. You and I are going to pay for it coming and going.

It's all fun and games until you lose an eye

What are these losers filing lawsuits crying about. They should just suck up a lost eye or a loved one. It might affect the doctors lifestyle!

Did you take any supplements for your yeast overgrowth? I'm dealing with that right now.

For the past couple of years, I've been having to manage my hypoglycemic daughter's blood sugar level....Eating a diet full of refined carbs would give her a glucose spike, followed by a crash, with all sorts of resulting behavior problems (which the idiots at the public school wanted to handle thru Ritalin)

When my 3 year old eats a lot of sugar, she's an emotional wreck. My husband and I were watching her wail in the kitchen one night, and I looked at him and said, "Nope. Sugar doesn't affect kids' behavior. No way."

The first few days when the carbs are leaving my system I crave really strange things that I don't normally eat. Like cherry pie, frosting in the can, and tiramesu (sp?). Has anyone else had that kind of experience??

That happens to me! I can crave something like caramel or candy corn that I wouldn't ever think about eating if I weren't on a diet.

Every single Type II diabetic I know has overeaten their way into developing it.

Well, mewzilla, meet someone whose blood sugar problems started at 28 years old and 112 lbs. I started to get shaky and have panic attacks when I ate high carb meals. Then I had my second child and developed gestational diabetes. Even though it's supposed to go away after childbirth, my blood sugars are borderline now. I was probably already a burgeoning Type II before I got pregnant, even though I had worked my tail off to be at a great weight.

By the way, you think your friends would have an easy time of it if they just ate a "proper" diet and exercised? When I had gestational diabetes, the prescribed diabetic diet sent my blood sugar through the roof. I eventually found that eating one piece of the wrong fruit could send my blood sugar shooting up too high as could a sandwich on whole wheat bread, a casserole with bread crumbs or a sweet and sour sauce.

And there is NO motivation to control your blood sugar like knowing your unborn baby will pay the price if you don't. Diabetes can be hard to control no matter how dedicated you are, and it's especially hard if you listen to the advice of doctors who tell you to get most of your calories from sugar.

This fall could be ugly or this disease could have run its course. I hope it is the latter. We will never know what happened in China. It was no doubt ugly.

Back then cops didn't wear bulletproof vests. Technology meant a good radio and a flashlight. Training meant imitating a senior officer.

These guys would have stopped Columbine immediately not cowered outside in full body armor.

Natural selection got rid of the Eskimos who were prone to heart disease. What you ended up with were a bunch of fat people who thereby kept warm in their arctic climate and were highly resistant to heart disease.

Hee hee. McCool has an extreme dislike for fat people. There must be some relatives he is really ashamed of. I'm sure you can pick out the error in his statement above that reveals his total ignorance on this subject : ).

I'm glad you answered like this, because I agree. I guess where we part ways is that the studies I've seen show that health improves when sugar intake is drastically lowered or temporarily eliminated. And of course nothing can convince someone more than their own personal anecdotal evidence. My experience with eliminating most sugar was that I lost and kept off 32 pounds, my insomnia went away, my depression and panic attacks went away, my chronic sore throat and earache went away, my allergies improved, my heartburn went away and my skin improved.

But I am interesting in soaking up information, so please tell me what was killing off the hunter/gatherers at such a young age besides disease, predators, childbirth and infant mortality. I already know it wasn't heart disease. What was it? What were the physiological ailments caused by periods of ketosis?

Sugar is good for you. Your central nervous system can't operate effectively for long without it.

Please explain how the Eskimos were able to survive (before they adopted a Westernized diet).

Look around next time you are at a restaurant. The thin people leave food on the plate. The fatties go back to the all you can eat salad bar three times, lick their plates clean, pick at the leftovers of the other people at the table, and then complain that they can't lose weight because of their genes.

And the thin people who have left a portion of salad with blue cheese dressing, asparagus and juicy steak on their plate are on Atkins. They may have tried endlessly to satiate themselves at the salad bar in their fat days, but thank goodness now they know better.

Sugar, whether sucrose (glucose+fructose) or corn syrup (sucrose with extra fructose), is an antibacterial preservative. There's nothing harmful about it. Better that you be eating it than the bacteria it controls.

You need to start your own diet with that as the basis! Sugar is good for you!