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gube is having gastric bypass next tuesday

I am having Gastric Bypass next Tuesday. I am so excited.... I have been trying to get this surgery for 2 years and bam I just found out that next Tuesday is the day. I have done a lot of research on this procedure and I think I know what I'm in for.......I was just wondering if anyone in blogland has had this surgery. I would like to know if any of you have any suggestions as to help me in my recovery..............I have done a lot of reading but sometimes the best advice comes from some one that has walked this path..

thanks........gube

The right wing killing machine is broke

Years ago when I was a young 24 year old I used to listen to Rush everyday in my work truck. I found Rush both informative and very entertaining. He was funny and he would cover all types of social issues, all with his unique spin. My question Is what in the heck happened to that Rush. Today when I listen to Rush or any other right wing blow-hoe it's like I'm listening to the end of the world, one even predicted the end of western civilization. I am so proud that The Majority of Americans did not fall for the right wing killing Machines rhetoric  and constant dooms day predictions.
I also find it rather comical when anyone on the Fox News channel whines about the liberal media. They bitch and complain about the same thing that they do. Fair and balanced my jazz. They whine and complain about MSNBC and their liberal coverage but they expect a free pass for their ultra conservative ideological views.. The right wing killing machine is dividing this country by taking things out of context and spreading half truths.
There was a time that I could turn on any of these personalities and hear something different from each one, not any more. Today they all sound the same. Its like they all agree that today this is what we are going to pound into the ground, and pound they do. The shows are being ran just like McCain's campaign....All they do is attack Obama and try and scare us about WHAT Obama is going to do before he has even taken the oath. What they need to do is not try and divide America but try and reunite the Republican party...Because until the Republican party gets its act together the Dems will continue to thrive, They report stuff that no other news programs report.....why....because its just rhetoric not actual news......The results of the presidential election proves that. The American people are to smart to believe that Hannity or Rush has all the answers...they don't...  If they did then why don't they run for office?? Instead they choose to spew their sour grapes.
  Hopefully things will calm down and I can once again enjoy a truly informative and entertaining program soon

NBC/WSJ poll: Obama holds significant lead

Its all over....Brake out the champagne....Obama wins...The fat lady is singing.......

NEW YORK — With just a day left until Election Day, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama holds a statistically significant advantage over Republican Sen. John McCain in the race for the White House, according to the final NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll before the election.

Obama leads McCain by eight points nationally among likely voters, 51 to 43 percent, which is down three points from his 53-to-42 lead in the poll nearly two weeks ago.

To put Obama’s eight-point edge into perspective, the final NBC/WSJ survey before the 2004 presidential election had President Bush with a slim one-point lead over John Kerry, 48 to 47 percent.

Bush went on to win that election, 51 to 48 percent.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

Back in the U.S., and back in trouble

Illegal criminal aliens who are repeat offenders deserve to be arrested and held in prison for a long time...Below are just a few of the thousands of illegal criminals that raping our daughters, Burglarizing our homes and selling drugs to our kids and killing American citizens in drunk driving accidents.............

By James Walsh.. Federal officials have sent Jose Trinidad Sanchez-Azpeitia packing to his native Mexico three times since 2003. Yet the illegal immigrant keeps coming back and getting into trouble, including convictions for drug possession, damage to property and fleeing a police officer.

He has lots of company. In the past month in Minneapolis, federal officials indicted eight men in a growing effort to slow the revolving door of illegal immigrants who return to commit other crimes. They included:

•William Contreras-Lozano, twice deported and with a drug conviction.

• Angel Espinosa-Lozano, deported three times, convicted for selling cocaine.

• Fausto Cesar Alvarado-Sagastume, returned five times to his native Guatemala, convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl.

• Napoleon Borjas-Arias, deported four times to Honduras since 1992, convicted of drug possession and burglary.

• Miguel Campos-Cardoso, arrested Sept. 4 on suspicion of possessing drugs and driving while intoxicated. Police discovered he's been deported before.

All were indicted for unlawful reentry after deportation, a felony. Officials hope that lengthy prison sentences will keep the offenders from coming back when they're deported after their release.

"We have a much more aggressive criminal alien program than we've ever had," said Scott Benneke, director of Detention and Removal Operations for the Minnesota office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

http://www.startribune.com/...

Blvd of Discrimination

As I was driving down Tehachapi Blvd and Red Apple road I passed sign after sign telling me to vote to take away my fellow American citizens right to marry...The yes on 8 signs are plentiful from k-mart to the end of red apple.At least 50 signs. We are treated to large ply wood yes on 8 signs at each intersection. As I drove past each sign I have to tell you that I really felt sadden and sorry for the people that support prop 8. Promoting discrimination and feeling Morally right in doing so is very confusing to me. I do believe that all men are created equal and the tittle to prop 8 reads '' Eliminates Right of Same Sex Couples to Marry''.........Taking away the rights of other American Citizens because you don't agree with them is wrong. Prop 8 is the most expensive proposition ever. People and groups from something like 36 countries have funded one side or the other of prop 8. .......The polls are close and the results could go either way......I will be voting No on 8 because I feel it is the right thing to do......This whole mess reminds me of something a wise man once said....''Forgive then for they not know what they do''

No on 8

Praying for Election Day miracles

Do you believe prayer will help McCain/Palin win the white house???
Is Obama really Satan ???
Will McCain lead all these religious folks to the promise land ???
Do these religious folks scare you as much as they scare me ???"
Is GOD a fundamentalist Conservative republican ???These people believe so !
WWJD ???

Religious Americans turn to a higher power on the candidates' behalf

AP news They're fasting on the steps of the Florida Capitol, hoping God will hear their pleas to put an abortion opponent in the White House.

Prayer warriors will staff the get-out-the-vote command center Tuesday at Ebenezer A.M.E. Church in Fort Washington, Md. A rabbi is distributing a prayer to be said in the voting booth. Prayer circles are seeking courage and protection for Barack Obama and his family.

The faithful are busy as Nov. 4 nears.

While politicians are making their final pitch to voters, religious Americans from across the political spectrum are appealing to a higher power on the candidates' behalf.

"We have just days to pray that someone who upholds the sanctity of life and marriage between one man and one woman will win," said Pam Olsen, co-pastor with her husband of the International House of Prayer in Tallahassee, Fla.

Olsen, who personally supports Republican John McCain, is organizing a marathon of prayer, fasting and Bible reading at the Capitol starting Saturday until the state's polls close.

"The outcome is up to God," she said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...

I Would Make A Bad President,' Obama Says In Huge Campaign Blunder

Man what a idiot...........

TALLAHASSEE, FL—In a campaign gaffe that could potentially jeopardize Sen. Barack Obama's White House bid, the Democratic presidential nominee told nearly 8,000 supporters Tuesday that, if elected, he would be a terrible president.

The blunder, captured by all major media outlets and broadcast live on CNN, occurred when the typically polished Obama fielded a question about his health care policy. Obama answered by saying he would give small business owners a tax credit to help them provide health care for their employees, and then added, "Now, I'm not completely certain that my plan would work because, overall, I think I would make a bad president."

According to sources, before those on hand could fully process what Obama had said, the Illinois senator continued to stumble, claiming that, were he to win the general election, he'd have absolutely no idea what to do.

"My youth and inexperience would definitely make me an awful president," said Obama, whose seven-minute misstep was further exacerbated when he called himself "no expert" on the economy. "To be perfectly honest, I'd be worried about putting me in charge of the most powerful military in the world because I'm not any good when it comes to making important decisions. Also, I'm not sure how much I care about keeping this great nation of ours safe."

"I'm an elitist, I hate Israel, and I want to lose the war in Iraq," Obama concluded, and then, seemingly unaware of the magnitude of his blunder, smiled, gave a thumbs-up to the stunned crowd, and urged his supporters to get out and vote on Nov. 4.

Immediately following the speech, Obama campaign officials released a written statement alleging that their candidate's comments had been taken out of context. In addition, Obama's top adviser David Axelrod claimed that the senator was quoting former president Abraham Lincoln when he said, "I am not the guy to head the executive branch of the United States government. Trust me. I'm really not."

Beltway observers agreed that the gaffe could come back to haunt Obama on Election Day.

"This might very well be the sound bite voters have in their heads when they step inside that booth on Tuesday," ABC political analyst George Stephanopoulos said. "It's just not the message you want to send to voters when you are up in the polls. Saying that you would make a bad president, especially when your entire campaign has been built around the idea that you would make a good president, doesn't play well with independent and undecided voters."

"Also, swing states like Ohio and Florida have historically leaned toward the nominee who thinks he'd be a good president, rather than the nominee who thinks he'd 'probably just screw everything up worse,'" Stephanopoulos added.

An analysis of historical documents supports Stephanopoulos' claim, and confirms that the past 55 winning presidential candidates—with the exception of a dying Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1944—all strongly maintained they would be good or great presidents throughout their campaigns, and never hinted otherwise.

"I think Sen. Obama may have opened up a slight window for John McCain here," New York Times reporter David Sanger said during Wednesday's taping of Charlie Rose. "If the McCain camp can find some way to exploit this miscue, it could have the potential to be a real game-changer."

However, a CNN poll taken moments after Obama's speech revealed that the candidate's misstep may have simply gotten lost amid the 24-hour news cycle. Though most citizens said they would prefer a candidate who thinks he'd be a good president, 23 percent said they would still vote for someone who thinks he would make an okay president. Furthermore, 35 percent of citizens said they would vote for a nominee who promised to be a serviceable, or even a so-so, president.

Forty-two percent of citizens polled said that, at this point, a "just plain bad" president would also be good enough.

"I am more certain than ever that I will vote for Obama," Windham, NH resident James Kilner said. "This is the first time I have really connected with a candidate, mainly because I think I would make a pretty bad president, too."

As of press time, the McCain camp has yet to respond to the potentially damaging blunder. However, many feel this is exactly what the Arizona senator needed following a mistake he made earlier in the week when he said that "a vote for McCain is a vote for mass genocide."

Police arrest Mich. man for car wash vacuum sex

AP NEWS Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a car wash.

The Saginaw News reports the 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was arrested Thursday in Saginaw County's Thomas Township, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.

Police Sgt. Gary Breidinger says a resident called to report suspicious activity at the car wash about 6:45 a.m. An officer approached on foot and caught the man in the act.

The suspect, whose name wasn't immediately released, is being held in the Saginaw County Jail.

Obama's Plumber Calls Joe Out

lol.............

CHICAGO - Flush that, "Joe the Plumber"!

Barack Obama's own toilet and sink repairman came to his client's defense yesterday - saying newly famous plumber Joe Wurzelbacher needs a reality check.

Troy Dunn, 44, a licensed journeyman working for Boersma Plumbing in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood, where Obama lives, told The Post that Wurzelbacher was bad news for the profession.

"That Joe the Plumber isn't even a licensed plumber," said the Democrat, union member and strong Obama supporter.

"He's taking our work. [John] McCain talks about the middle class, and then he brings up this guy as his champion. The middle class is being hurt by people exactly like him," said Dunn, who lives in the Chicago suburb of Oak Forest and has an 8-year-old daughter.

"The biggest problem for this industry is that people like him turn up, unlicensed and working illegally, and they take work away from people who are working aboveboard."

Dunn said he began working on Obama's house - and its six bathrooms - four years ago and has returned roughly every six months to do such tasks as fix leaky faucets and, in one case, investigate a "bad smell."

"I've never met him, but I've met his wife," he said.

"She's a real nice lady . . . I'm not a big fan of going there right now, though, because of the Secret Service . . . It's kind of a pain."

In Florida yesterday, McCain defended Wurzelbacher, saying the Ohio man had been "smeared."

Dunn said, "McCain made Joe the Plumber look like a joke. I think he was using Joe the Plumber, the poor guy. He probably won't get any work anymore now that everybody knows he doesn't have a license."

http://www.nypost.com/seven...

Next Prez Could Keep, Break Court's Balance

This is one of the main reasons that I am voting for Obama.................

(Newser)The next president will be able to either preserve the Supreme Court’s current ideological balance, or set it on a new conservative path, the Wall Street Journal reports. The youngest of the court’s liberals is 69, while the oldest of the conservatives is only 72. Hence, John McCain could deliver the most conservative court in decades, while Barack Obama would be likely to maintain the status quo.

What kinds of nominees are the candidates likely to appoint?

McCain has typically been uninterested in judicial politics, and will probably rely on the same Republican legal establishment as President Bush. Judges from this group would probably emphasize the original intent of the Constitution’s framers.
Obama, a constitutional scholar, disagrees with the notion of “original intent,” and would appoint justices interested in applying modern context and expanding rights