True repentance is when you've decided to change your evil ways of your own accord. The one thing in common with all of these scandals is that they were found out. So, what you've actually got here is "apology" and "repentance" under duress, which is essentially guaranteed to be insincere and meaningless. The only thing any of them are sorry about is that they didn't get away with it.

Don't kid yourself, Christians, if there's a God, it won't be fooled as easily as you all seem to be.

I think I'm going to have to go with "Appalachian Trail". In fact, I hope that euphemism enters the general vocabulary.

Despite considerable efforts spent in that direction, it is not possible to effectively treat transexuality with any known form of therapy short of gender reassignment surgery. So, to the various people who think transexuals should just go to a shrink, just grow up, etc., etc., such things have not only not been shown to work, they have been demonstrated at great length to not work at all.

So why don't we all use those women as stand-ins to psychoanalyze women?

We don't.

? Sure they did. Honestly can't imagine how you missed it. Brooke Shields? Post-partum depression? Ring any bells? Do you even read this website? ...You really don't, do you?

when did a stripper pole become a "symbol of modern young womanhood..."

...and not just a symbol of strippers?

-- Leeandra Nolting

When Target and Wal-Mart started selling them at bulk rates in their home furnishings sections.

Are you sexually attracted to every single female you see?...

Yes, of course, and those who deny the attraction are simply fooling themselves.

- Amerigo

This made me laugh. No, Amerigo, I actually, honestly like my women attractive, and if none such are available to me, I sleep alone.

Yes, I have some level of attraction to about 90% of women I meet as do most men.

- Jiggs11

The former may be true, but the latter strikes me as nonsensical. Men who find virtually all women attractive are lucky, really, because they'll find plenty of mates which most guys wouldn't touch. Given the experiences of the less attractive women I know, I suspect you're more of a rarity than you realize.

And who makes most of the cars that get that kind of mileage? The Japanese and Koreans.

-- essmeier

...In their U.S. factories. ;)

How Many Anti-Government Handout Types ...

Took advantage of this government handout?

-- thorin01

I would guess almost exclusively. One, they were most likely to own a gas-guzzling clunker, two, they tend to believe in taking advantage of government largesse whereever possible as they only dislike other people taking advantage of their tax dollars, rather than having a strictly principled stand on the matter.

by the way all of you fatties claiming that the BMI is giving you a bad rap: You are full of it and I am calling bullshit. To have enough muscle to distort the BMI you have to be at or nearly at the level of a competitive body builder.

I'll put my picture where my mouth is. According to the BMI, I am overweight, and not just a little, either. Here's what I look like:

http://pyrian.livejournal.com/86487.html

So, are you calling me a fatty or calling me a professional body builder?

...the fact that MOST PEOPLE should lose weight and that their failure to do so is going to create problems for them and for everybody else who pays, directly and indirectly, their medical bills.

Interestingly, this is largely not justifiable by the studies to date. First off, most (90%+) people who manage to lose weight gain it all back and then some. Second, that process itself is extremely bad for you; as a risk factor for heart disease, yo-yo dieting absolutely dwarfs simply being heavy.

It's actually very difficult to medically justify advising any but the most grossly obese individuals to lose weight.

Ref: What You Can Change, and What You Can't, "A Waist is a Terrible Thing to Mind"

...what I said was that most people, especially most women who complain about it ... are an unhealthy weight and are in denial about it.

I've long been a vocal complainer about BMI, and I don't fit any of those characteristics. I think you're just making that up wholesale out of your own bias.

Second, that process itself is extremely bad for you; as a risk factor for heart disease, yo-yo dieting absolutely dwarfs simply being heavy.

This it totally false and the suspicion that it might be true has been thoroughly refuted in many studies.

I haven't heard of any of these studies you're referring to. Instead, I see, for instance, this:

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/study_links_yo-yo_dieting_to_poor_post-menopause_heart_health

"So, even if a woman in our study was now thin, getting there by yo-yo dieting was shown to have a negative affect on the blood flow to her heart," says Duvernoy, who is director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the VA/Ann Arbor Healthcare System and an assistant professor of internal medicine/cardiology at the U-M Medical School."

Even attaining a "healthy" weight doesn't save you from long-term ill effects of yo-yo dieting.

The problem is not that the weight is lost the problem is that it is gained back.

It's true that the ~90% re-gain rate for dieting is problematic. So problematic, in fact, that a mere 10% success rate coupled with the proven dangers of yo-yo'ing makes it simply a bad recommendation for people in the mildly overweight range.

...they also have trouble kicking drug addictions, alcohol addictions, nicotine addictions...

These things have much higher success rates in maintaining abstention, presumably because complete abstention is possible, unlike food consumption. It's very difficult for an alcoholic to return to moderate consumption; successful former alcoholics are frequently teetotalers.