Perhaps David noticed that Obama, like other candidates, put forth a healthcare proposal and spent a lot of time discussing it during the Primary campaign?

Obama's plan wasn't single-payer then either. Hillary Clinton and John Edwards didn't have single-payer plans. Nobody (except probably Dennis Kucinich) ran on single payer. How many votes did Kucinich end up with?

David has to get over the fact that Obama was elected President. Not David Sirota.

"Do you think Pelosi would tell the truth if threatened with a little waterboarding?."

No. Nancy Pelosi would tell whatever she thought the waterboarder wanted her to say.

That's how torture works. It doesn't get "The Truth" it gets what the interrogator wants to hear. It gets whatever makes the torture stop.

In the case of what Nancy Pelosi knew about George Bush Jr's torture program, since the only person who knows "The Truth" is Nancy Pelosi, torture will just make her say whatever her interrogator wants to hear.

Which is why torture is worthless, unless you want to make people say certain things by force, whether or not they are true.

And a lot of these hostile posts about her are more than a little weird.

Lotta free-floating aggression around here looking for a target.

You are the Goddess.

Your Wit is Wisdom.

And you realize that everything became different, as did I, once we became parents.

It's true, it's real, and, it is somewhat pathetic.

But, you, Heather, make it funny.

May your children be many, well nourished, and shallowly successful.

Blessed Be.

And train it.

Puppies depend on you. They need your time on a regular basis. They need to be taken out and walked. You can't leave a puppy for a weekend with a bowl of food and a clean litter box and expect good results.

Puppies need mothering.

Puppies also can (and should be) trained. Just like kids. Go to a dog training class, and learn some of the basics with your puppy. Basics like using praise rather than punishment to condition behavior. Like getting ahead of bad behavior so you can control it (teaching a dog to bark on cue, so you can also teach him to stop barking).

There is a whole lot more. Kids aren't puppies, of course. They're a lot more work, more responsibility, and more fun.

But puppies are good practice. Raise a puppy into a happy, well-behaved dog, and you're a good candidate to raise successful children.

An ugly interview. O'Herir's false equivalence of the Palestian/Israeli body count was obscene. No one should be able to call themselves a journalist after uttering such a rotted lie. The fact that Palestinians are being killed at a 100-1 ratio, and that Corrie's body was displaced by a man killed by an Israeli Defense Force sniper because he went outside for a cigarette is all one has to know.

The ugly anti-semitism displayed in many of these letters. The list of Jewish Media executives raised my hackles, but the numbers, and high position of many of them does provide some information about our current media climate. The nasty speculation about the ethnicity of politicians, including Arlen Spector, was only ugly.

The raw hatred of Jews spewed by certain posters is frightening, and completely counterproductive. If the choice was mine, we would supply the Palestinians with defensive weapons against tanks, planes and bulldozers, and prevent Israeli Air Force bombing raids against Israel's neighbors. I'm one to be counted among the supporters of Israel. Yet I found the references to "yids" and far worse sickening. Not the least because such ignorant hatred will become fodder for the extremists on the Israeli side. Every one of you screamers against Jews is linked in a dozen places by now, and your vicious racism is the cement being used to harden attitudes against peace and respect between the peoples of the Middle East.

And on the other side, the denial of the humanity of the long-suffering Palestinian people. People who are trying to rebuild their destroyed houses right now using clay bricks because the Likud in Israel denies them steel and concrete. Who drink brackish water. Who live under constant threat of deadly attack, not just worry about the occasional crude rocket (however brutal and stupid and pointless those worthless rocket attacks are).

Palestinians who were denied the right to flee as their land was attacked by a world-class army. Who live under constant supersonic overflights, creating nighttime sonic booms to panic women and children who know all too well the destructive force of 155mm artillery. Who never know whether the power will stay on, or if there will be cooking oil or kerosene available.

For years and years and years.

Under such conditions, I would lose my humanity. That the Palestinians continue to persevere and still entertain any thoughts of peace and justice is a miraculous testament to their humanity.

That is the only beauty in this situation. That, and the courage of people like Rachel Corrie, who still believed that by standing in front of a bulldozer with a bullhorn and an orange vest, she could re-connect to the humanity of the oppressors and prevent some of the destruction, and stop some of the hate.

Someone who still dared to believe in the beauty of hope, so strongly that she died for it.

Speaking as a Player/Moderator on Runscape, I have to advise all and sundry that trying to take advantage of Runescape Gold's offer will certainly result in your account being stolen.

That's why they want you to be a paid member.

Don't be stupid, please.

On Topic, Tyson is a fascinating, if somewhat repugnant character.

I'd like to think of him as a victim, but he personally scares the living shit out of me.

YMMV.