So it used to be 'keep your hands off my body.' Then it's 'I put my body in your hands.' And now it's no abortions for you, because your only means of healthcare doesn't provide for it. So, ironically, conservatives are against a universal healthcare bill because of taxes, freedom, etc., and progressives are against it because of pro-abortion views. Is anyone for this trainwreck, which won't be the coverage our leaders use?

I want to marry her, but I'm a white Christian male 30 years her younger. Seriously - I love Camille and have all her books.

With Fox News (right) and pretty much everything else (left) I wish organizations were open about which party they support. To be honest if the left had done their OPPOSITION JOB during leadup to GW2, we wouldn't have invaded Iraq. But they were party liners for some reason, embroiled into the chearleading squad by ratings. There should always be opposition.

they are so brilliant they kick their own asses over, and over, and over, and over...

The whole 'sudden end of oil' scenario is propaganda to push green alternatives by scaring the shit out of people with doomsday scenarios. (As usual). The truth is that 2009 yielded more natural energy sources in terms of new discoveries than any year since 2000, with massive finds of oil in the US Gulf, and huge natural gas fields in the US shale. This article also falsely says that shale oil gas derivatives are more 'hydrocarbon-heavy' than regular gas derivatives.

If we start running out of gas, the same thing that happened in early 2008 will happen - gas prices will creep higher. People will start self-rationing, which will moderate prices. People will by hybrids, electrics, and (shocker!) actually 'walk' places, instead of driving.

...so now watch the true believers freak out at her (pretty darn) accurate criticisms.

the Marine Corps, he does NOT get to slay a 500-foot tall dragon with a sword, thereby undergoing an electrifying transformation into a uniformed Marine?

disconnected from normal people.

No one outside the media, DC, or Massachussets connects Uncle Teddy with anything but the Chappaquiddick shame, except maybe his rapist nephew, alcoholism, and obesity.

Recasting the healthcare bill as Ted Kennedy's legacy is a stupid move. So, undoubtedly, it'll be done.

Lol.

GM seeds and big corporations are scary and easy to target. But, only 19% of the average family's income goes to food today, vs. 42% in 1970. Less than 2% of the nation's population work in farming. With staples grown en masse through automation, less than 6 million people feed 300 million (plus sizeable exports, the US is the world leader in food exporting).

This is all done through big aggra. But, small-scale produce is gaining in popularity. The problem for small-scale is competition with GMO, because GMO seeds and their tailor-made pesticides and herbicides are RIDICULOUSLY efficient. So is the automated farming. (You see it in flight over the Midwest, all the 'crop circles' of irrigation wheels.) Also, small-scale farming in non-great arable land (like NH, where I am in summer and running small-scale farms) is very tough ro make reliable produce, compared to out West. We had record rain and cold this year, so slime mold, slugs, and drenched soil destroyed almost all my crops. (Except for broccoli and cabbage, for which this weather is perfect.)

I really can't compare the efficiencies of large-scale agri to small-scale. But diversity of seed stock for our future is crucial. I don't think big aggra has evil plans to monopolize seed stocks. Also, there are no real family farms anymore, to speak of. For one, they really on low wage labor (ie, many children, or many Mexicans), due to the labor demands. Two, small-scale farming is, essentially, dangerous. Lots of tractors, haying, pitchforks, etc. It's not romantic, in my view. It's also back-breaking work! There is a reason why only Mexicans and migrants work on small-scale farms - it's because all the Americans who would if they had to are on welfare, or working minimum wage indoors at McDonalds.

So while independent farmers out west are getting squeezed out due to efficiences in market, lack of return on invest, and kids not wanting to hang around in bumfo, Iowa, large corporations are gaining more land for farming. THis has ups and downs. If you want to watch a GREAT documentary about this, check out "KING CORN." It is very even-handed and realistic about this deal!

historians will understand the American mindset just before hungrier, smarter nations take our place.

Some (very few, but some) HIV-pos inmates will use their condition as a weapon against both inmates and guards. There also has to be special protection used with them when giving either medical aid, or in breaking up fights (and protecting both other inmates and guards).

If DOJ calls cigarette smoke exposure and love taps from a rifle butt torture, they're going to get laughed at (even more). The last time they pulled this, public support for the re-awoken Cheney went up.

Hopefully this time he will come up with a defendable, concise, concrete plan BEFORE promoting healthcare reform. It's fine to promote a vision for a presidency, but something like this takes actual details. Like, how will it be paid for.

lookout for the people concealing and trying to get into something. That's why gun-free school zones are nothing but kill zones for the criminally insane. If you want to see how guns work against protected areas, look at the Holocaust Museum would-be massacre (had not there been armed guards) or the Colorado church where the AK-47-armed assailant was taken out by an armed woman before he could kill more than a couple people. Compare those to VA Tech, Columbine, etc., where the authorities show up hours late and everyone's already dead.

Since the Dems plan for health care reform was sunk by Sarah Palin's Facebook, the plan wasn't actually viable anyway.