I do NOT have a problem with chasing terrorists into Pakistan. Most people don't. You just lost half of my state with that BS. Can it.

Although the racists will come out of the woodwork. Most of this is NOT about minority loans.

This is about outrageous interest rates and bundling, which should never have been legal. The vast majority of the victims of these loans are white.

They always use race to try to distract us from class. But today, I think the financial pain may be too great.

Zoning out in high school while watching video games is normal. The girl was the crazy one. There's nothing wrong with zoning out on boring stuff. Everyone does it.

This from Dizzy is telling:

That sounds more like social bullying - where members of the group repeatedly discredit one member's perceptions. It's really common for girls. "No. We DON'T hate you? Why would you THINK that? Now you need to apologize!" is a common response to one girl's question about behavior that, objectively, could confuse any girl into thinking she is disliked. (In my case, it was late-night phone calls calling me a slut for sleeping with a guy I didn't know - when confronted, the girls involved were horrified that I assumed this meant they did not like me. Eagerly accepted my protestations of innocence. Promised we were friends. And then the next night, called to scream at me again...)

I may be projecting my own experiences onto this. But a group of people telling one member that he is completely unreasonable and incorrect in his assumptions, does not necessarily mean that the individual is the problem. Especially when, as is common with bullied types, he appears to be completely willing to assume that he is the problem. Who demands to know "What are you doing?" of someone who is clearly sitting in a room with others who are siting in a room? Unless the writer was actually engaged in some sort of activity (shredding paper, twisting a phone cord, sniffing glue, whatever), it seems like an odd question to ask. Going on to inform the subject of the question what, exactly, he SHOULD be thinking of the whole conversation is kind of weird too.

The girl's a bitch. Ignore her. She wants constant attention. LW, you are fine.

But what I'm about to say will be branded radical by many across the political spectrum: there is going to be a terrorist attack before the election.

As the polls continue to trend strongly in favor of Obama, McCain's backers will take ever more desperate measures to avoid losing the power they've spent the last 30 years wresting from our democracy.

Expect the "Bin Laden" video shortly. Then expect a "suitcase nuke" in a city near you.

I see no alternative to another 9/11. Please, fellow progressives, tell me what other option the NeoCons have left? There are not enough rigged voting machines to pull off another coup. The Rezko/Ayres stories are a wash with McCain's Keating Five. Obama's not going to pull a Kerry and snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

I think you are right. I hope you are wrong. It's crazy time. We can't trust our own government.

But they had incurable degenerative back illnesses and could no longer live with the pain. How much does pain change the brain? How much does it cause depression?

We were angry, but we understood. Even with the best pain management in the world, that pain was excruciating. I know that if you treat the pain, you can lift the depression. Today we have doctors who know so much more, and who give morphine more freely.

But how do we treat the pain of everyday living? Does this mean we need to medicate depressives even more?Will intervening in the rumination prevent the "fog of depression" which can narrow the mind and make suicide seem logical or the only choice?

I see it as an illness. My question is, how cna we deal with the illness of the suicide impulse?