the Christian Science church next store had a plumbing truck in its drive way. If the minister had to call a plumber to fix a clogged drain, how you going to listen to him when he says you can read your angina away?

Unless the only reason you eat healthily and exercise is pure vanity, you are totally inconsistent. Eating right and exercising does not ensure you will never get sick. It increases your chances of not getting sick, and improves your quality of life. Similarly, inhaling second-hand smoke increases your chances of getting cancer (though it does not ensure you will get cancer) and can make quality of life worse.

I would think you'd be too busy spraying asbestos insulation into the kid's stroller for winter (if breathing asbestos fibers ensured getting asbestiosis, everyone would have it!) and pouring radium into the bottles because it's cool how it makes the milk all glowy to post.

Well...Dingell did in fact say, "Well, we don’t, first of all, I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel." When asked to clarify, he still doesn't say he is against Hezbollah and only condemns Hezbollah for its use of violence. Full quote below.

Which apparently means he isn't against Hezbollah's goals and any actions it takes that aren't "violent." Which, basically, means Dingell is retarded for trying to make this distinction. Hezbollah has engaged in horrific violence in the past (before the most recent Lebanon skirmish) so Dingell should flat out say he is against the terrorist organization. That he didn't out and out condemn this violent organization is just splitting hairs. He needs to retire.



DINGELL: First of all, our problem is that we must be a fair and honest broker and a friend to all parties. The resolution didn’t make us that. We have to have the trust of both of the people of Israel and the people of the Arab countries around it, in order to help resolve the problem. If we don’t, the possibilities of regional war, calamitous situation with regard to israel which has 5 million people amidst a billion and a half Arabs are a real potential for calamity. Having said at that, what we have to do is to see to it that finally we begin to address the problems that exist to abate the difficulties that are preventing a– a honest solution to the problem and a negotiated end. It takes– it takes a lot of work to get the trust that it takes to do this. The resolution did not instill that kind of trust and the end result would be quite frankly, the real solution to the problems that exist in the middle east would probably have been and probably will be put off.

ANCHOR: Overall majority of your colleagues didn’t see it that way and some would suggest that if– even though there are obviously a lot of issues with Lebanon and with Palestinian cause wrapped up in this, that this largely boils down to israel against Hezbollah and Hezbollah is a group that the United States has deemed a terrorist organization, that there’s only one side for the Americans to come down on in this fight.

DINGELL: No, I happen to be — I happen to be against violence, I think the United States has to bring resolution to this matter. Now, I condemn Hezbollah as does everybody else, for the violence,

DINGELL: First of all, our problem is that we must be a fair and honest broker and a friend to all parties. The resolution didn’t make us that. We have to have the trust of both of the people of Israel and the people of the Arab countries around it, in order to help resolve the problem. If we don’t, the possibilities of regional war, calamitous situation with regard to israel which has 5 million people amidst a billion and a half Arabs are a real potential for calamity. Having said at that, what we have to do is to see to it that finally we begin to address the problems that exist to abate the difficulties that are preventing a– a honest solution to the problem and a negotiated end. It takes– it takes a lot of work to get the trust that it takes to do this. The resolution did not instill that kind of trust and the end result would be quite frankly, the real solution to the problems that exist in the middle east would probably have been and probably will be put off.

ANCHOR: Overall majority of your colleagues didn’t see it that way and some would suggest that if– even though there are obviously a lot of issues with Lebanon and with Palestinian cause wrapped up in this, that this largely boils down to israel against Hezbollah and Hezbollah is a group that the United States has deemed a terrorist organization, that there’s only one side for the Americans to come down on in this fight.

DINGELL: Well, we don’t, first of all, I don’t take sides for or against Hezbollah or for or against Israel.

ANCHOR: You’re not against Hezbollah?

DINGELL: No, I happen to be — I happen to be against violence, I think the United States has to bring resolution to this matter. Now, I condemn Hezbollah as does everybody else, for the violence, but I think if we’ve got to talk to them and if we don’t — if we don’t get ourselves in a position where we can talk to both sides and bring both sides together, the killing and the blood let is going to continue.

I strap my kids to the luggage rack with bungy chords and mainline 15.5% alcohol zinfandel out of a box on the passenger seat (California zin, hi Ty!), while, in homage to my friends from the British Empire, I drive on the left side of the road.

Let's see your pansy'd ass Doctor Daddy beat that.

eta: and I am a JD!!

Vanity and stress release.

The devil's in the details. My problem with these studies is they all fail to tell people how very little being around second hand smoke, or drinking four cocktails a night, raises their risk. The people who put out these studies want them to be read, so they say "Second Hand Smoking Causes Cancer!"... and in the fine print, you read, "in one out of 3,000,000 people, 79% of whom have a mutation at gene CDK9."

A person who just reads headnotes (most of the press) takes the ball and runs with it. Then some idiot on a city planning board holds it up at a metting and says "We must ban smoke everywhere!"

And so misiniformation spreads further...

Exactly. If you read all that, it's apparent that Hanson was either full of shit or had an intern find a quote for him.

Translation: Dingell hates America and Israel. but not in bad way.

Ty, what does Quiggan say?

Does anyone make zin in Washington? I know they make a zin knockoff called primitivo in Italy. They make a zin in South Dakota, but with grapes from Lodi.

so you've had personal experience with terrorism, and you're involved at the Supreme Court? I'm ready to guess: Are you Jose Pidilla?

He says you should stop paying illiterates to translate Victor Davis Hanson's columns for you.

By "personal experience," you mean seeing lots of security guards at a school, right?

This will only be true when the terrorist start taking out a least twenty planes a year.

There are a couple. I know Sineann out of Oregon makes a zin that is nice, PacNW terroir, although it probably loses something in the translation from the classic attributes. Columbia Winery had a small release of a 2003 Zin last year (the winemaker there, david Lake, likes to play around with varietals that are not necessarily WA staples). Not great. His 03 barbera was good. He also makes a very nice Sangiovese. Had some of the 04 of that last night.

which tribe are your people from? oh. you're not Jewish? I'm afraid you wouldn't understand then.