For several years, the LP seems to have been caught in the black hole that the Republican Party has become. What was once a glorious “neither left nor right” coalition of freedom-lovers has increasingly become a political retirement home for disgruntled and unsuccessful Republicans. Now “Republicanitis” threatens to destroy everything the Libertarian Party stands for.

[...]

[Barr's] congressional record set new records for authoritarianism. And not just inertial, rubber stamp authoritarianism, but the most active, venomous kind. He wrote a law to prevent the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage, even if the states did. He thundered from the House podium that American military personnel must not be allowed to practice religions he disapproved of. He voted for the Patriot Act. He voted for the war on Iraq. He sponsored legislation to prevent the District of Columbia from counting the votes on a referendum to legalize medical marijuana.

If I had produced a stage production of 1984 while Bob Barr was in Congress, I’d have put his photo on the posters of Big Brother.

[...]

Why would this party, founded as “a libertarian political entity separate and distinct from all other political parties or movements,” self-destruct by choosing a right wing authoritarian as its most prominent representative?

CIA asset Bob Barr attempting to divide and conquer a political party whose anti-state ideology has become enormously popular due to Ron Paul? Never.

NEW YORK (July 22, 2008) -- Today, prominent civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton led a demonstration to protest the Castro regime's ongoing human rights violations. The demonstration was held outside the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York.

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Miguel Valdés Tamayo, Hero, Brother. We'll never forget you!

Miguel Valdés Tamayo: Héroe, Hermano: ¡Jamás te Olvidaremos!

Miguel Valdés Tamayo (1956-2007) Prisionero de Conciencia, asesinado por esbirros castristas; Martir por la Libertad de Cuba. Para leer la entrevista realizada por el periodista independiente Juan Carlos Linares a la viuda de Valdés Tamayo vea esta página. Para ver video de la muerte de Valdés Tamayo, vea esta página.. To read about the death of Miguel Valdés Tamayo click here. To read about the persecution suffered by Tamayo click here. Lea la crónica de Miriam Leiva en Cubanet publicada el 10 de enero del 2008.

Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes are accused of bilking Kendall Regional Medical Center out of several million dollars and hiding about $21 million in income.

Carlos and Jorge de Céspedes, founders of Pharmed, once one of the largest Hispanic owned businesses in the country, were charged Tuesday in federal court with healthcare-related wire fraud and income tax evasion.

Read Full Story at The Miami Herald.

3,000 GIs MOB Barack in Baghdad (Video and Goodies)

Daily Kos- by Al Rodgers

Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 09:00:37 AM PDT

► The US Embassy turned into a MADHOUSE last night, as GIs gave Barack an OVERWHELMING reception (transcript and pix below).

► Barack in Baghdad transcript:

(Wild Cheers)

Nightline: Monday night in Baghdad, Barack Obama is in the house.  The house, the U.S. Embassy and it was an amazing scene.

Barack: I just want to introduce myself, I'm Barack Obama.

(Wild Cheers)

Nightline: The troops and state department workers mobbed him.  And he responded with brief remarks praising their service.

Barack: So I don't care whether you are a Sailor, a Soldier, an Airmen, or Marine.  A National Guard, a Reservist, active duty, we just want to say thank you.

Barack: Illinois in the house?

Crowd: I’m from Chicago!

Barack: Hey, Chicago!  South Side? West Side?

Nightline: As he makes his way through the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, Barack Obama has come face to face with the men and women he seeks to lead -  American G.I.'S, who are sacrificing so much for our country.

Barack: Back home, as I travel all across the country, every single day I meet your friends, your family members, your co-workers, and the main thing they want me to communicate is how proud they are of you.

They may disagree on politics. They may disagree on the issues. But the country is absolutely united in the excellence, the devotion, the dedication with which you have performed your duties, here.

Nightline: Senator, are you ready to lead them?

Barack: I am [cool, confident emphasis, original].

MORE VIDEOS AND PHOTOS HERE

Lea artículo completo en Mirando a Cuba.

Democrats' single most important domestic proposal — universal health insurance — may blow up in Barack Obama's face when voters are exposed to the deadly details.

Read Full Article at Newsmax.com.

The official Rally for the Republic website finally launched today. See the corresponding letter from Ron Paul here.

Tickets go on sale for $17.76 on Friday, July 25 @ 10 AM CST.

It's a play I really wish someone would update and turn into a movie. I'll spare you the plot synopsis, beyond noting that Antigone is both the daughter and half-sister of the Oedipus of Freudian fame, so her family dynamics could probably make the annual Thanksgiving dinner of the most dysfunctional family you've ever known seem Norman Rockwellian in comparison.

The central conflict in the play is the debate about whether it is better to obey the tyrant, who has the power to punish one in very unpleasant ways in the here and now, or to remain true to a higher law or moral principles. It's about the choice between doing what is right and following orders.

When faced with someone in a position of authority giving orders, most people almost reflexively choose what is easy over what is right. It's rather depressing really.

Certainly, this is the lesson history has taught us. German soldiers were only following orders when they killed millions of innocent people for the simple crime of being Jewish, or communist, or gay, or a member of some other group that a madman had designated a threat to the state. Yes, some of those orders had seemed, well, wrong, but orders were orders, so what else were they to do?

What else, indeed?

Starting around the time of the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, a Yale social psychologist named Stanley Milgram performed a now-legendary series of experiments to assess the general willingness of members of the public to obey authority figures. The results were disturbing, to say the least.

Each volunteer who participated in the study was directed, by a man in a white lab coat with glasses and a clipboard (the scientist), to administer a series of increasingly strong shocks to another "volunteer" (the victim) every time the other person got a wrong answer on a memory task. Both the scientist and the victim were actually actors playing carefully scripted roles. The scientist remained in the room with the volunteer, while the victim went into a different room, where he could be heard but not seen by the volunteer. As the shocks increased in voltage, the volunteer heard sounds of distress from the victim, who also mentioned some sort of "heart condition." If the volunteer continued to administer the shocks (increasing from a low of 15 volts to a high of 450 volts) long enough, the victim in the next room would eventually fall silent, not responding audibly to either questions or shocks. If the volunteer objected or tried to stop the experiment, he was told the following things, in this order:

1. Please continue.
2. The experiment requires that you continue.
3. It is absolutely essential that you continue.
4. You have no other choice, you must go on.

(Prompts courtesy of Wikipedia, which also has a more detailed description of the experiments.) The volunteer was only given permission to stop if he continued to object after the fourth prompt was given.

The idea was to identify the point at which people would say, "No, I won't do this."

Before conducting the experiment, Milgram surveyed both his students and his professional colleagues, asking them to predict the percentage of people who would continue all the way to the 450 volt level. Everyone thought that few if any would proceed all the way through the experiment as it was to be staged, with the average being 1.2 percent. (Again, details courtesy of the Wikipedia entry.)

As I noted before, the experiment was being conducted in 1961, near the time of Eichmann's trial. The trial certainly would have received a fair amount of press coverage at the time, so theoretically, participants should have been somewhat sensitized to the problems that can arise from just following orders. One would think, or hope, that the colleagues and students were accurate in their predictions, that most of the participants would have at some point refused to continue to administer the shocks.

In the first run of experiments, sixty-five percent of the participants went all the way up to 450 volts.

Sixty-five percent. For the sake of an experiment.

The participants weren't happy about doing it. They made their concern about the learner's well-being clear, for the most part. But when prompted by the serious looking man with the clipboard, they kept right on going.

When the initial study was released, it got quite a lot of attention, as you might expect. And there were some at the time who thought students should be taught to question authority, and not just blindly follow orders that were clearly wrong.

Not much came of it, of course. Because the people who are running the country don't want a bunch of citizens or soldiers or employees questioning their orders all the time. They want obedience from the masses. They want most people to do what they're told, when they're told to do it. And so you don't hear a whole lot about questioning authority or thinking critically in your average high school classroom. Maybe in college. If you're one of those liberal arts majors, or in political science, or psychology, or some other field that focuses on how people interact with each other. And even then, the focus is usually on skepticism and critical thinking, rather than outright defiance of authority.

I've been on a bit of a defying authority kick lately.

Actually, my mother would tell you that's been a constant theme in my life since I was about five. Not always defying authority, but at least questioning it. The poor woman was mystified by my tendency to disagree with teachers, often rather loudly and at great length, with examples and the odd footnote thrown in. And that was just grade school. But I digress.

In addition to re-reading Antigone, I've also been making my way through Sebastian Haffner's Defying Hitler, which chronicles the author's experiences in Germany as the Nazis rose to power there. And last week I also pulled out my copy of Abbie Hoffman's Revolution for the Hell of It, another used book store find, and have been going through that, as well.

Truth be told, my bookshelves are rather full of that sort of reading material, in one form or another. Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang. Lysistrata. Calvin & Hobbes. Dr. Seuss (that Cat in the Hat was a rebel, I tell you). Heck, even those books on Linux are related in a way, as they are part of my ongoing attempt to escape from the tyranny that is Microsoft and Apple.

But I always come back to Antigone.

She's been my favorite ever since I read Jean Anouilh's version of the play back in high school. His version was produced in Paris, in February of 1944, while Germany was occupying France and artists and playwrights there were forced to work under the suspicious eyes of Nazi censors. Anouilh's version of the play was necessarily more nuanced, the ethical lines less clear than earlier versions of the story. The play never would have opened had it been otherwise, at least not before the Nazis were driven out of France. But it was clear enough to the audience what the story was about.

Antigone was the Resistance, Creon the Vichy government.

She's a difficult character to warm up to. She's a bit overbearing in her righteousness. And she's also a bit defiant merely for the sake of being defiant: in the play, the second time she covers her brother's body with dirt was unnecessary as far as the religious rites were concerned. His spirit would have already moved on. No, the second time, she buries him to make a point: that tyrants should not be obeyed when their edicts are unjust. And she is willing, even proud to sacrifice her life in order to make that point. You kind of have to think, is it really worth your life just to make a political point, when other lives aren't hanging in the balance at that moment?

But when it comes down to standing up for one's ideals, very few can hold a candle to her.

It's just that I can't help thinking how different the past few years might have been if various people in the upper echelons of our government had been a bit more in touch with their inner Antigone.

Like when Bush and Cheney were trying to start a "preemptive" war with Iraq based upon manipulated intelligence findings.

Or when someone suggested that torture should be made a part of official US policy.

Or when someone decided to run our Constitution through the shredder.

Or...well, you know, this could end up being an awful long list, now that I think about it.

On the other hand, would any one person have been able to make much of a difference at the time? It's hard to say. Consider how more moderate voices in the executive branch were gradually forced out of their positions by the hard-liners. Or how the whole "Plame-gate" scandal got started because former Ambassador Joe Wilson spoke out publicly about his findings regarding administration claims that the Iraqis were attempting to acquire "yellowcake" uranium from sources in Africa. Or how U.S. Attorneys who refused to institute prosecutions against Democratic officials on flimsy pretenses were replaced by ones willing to take the case. Or...well, I guess this one could be a pretty long list, too.

So maybe there were plenty of people who were in touch with their inner Antigone, but they weren't able to get the word out widely enough, or weren't taken seriously by the media.

Our wonderful, consolidated, corporate-controlled, authoritarian-enabling mainstream media.

Where am I going with all this? I'm not really sure, to be honest.

Over the past few months or maybe years, my own inner Antigone has been reawakening. Stretching and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes after a long slumber. And I think that very soon, she's going to be ready to take her act back out on the road.

I'm going to be making a few big changes in my life over the next few weeks, so my posting here will be a bit erratic for a while. I've decided to take fall semester off from my graduate studies, get out of Redstatesville for a while, and see what kind of trouble I can get myself into in the last few months before the November election.

It should be fun. Or at least interesting, which is often nearly as good as fun, and sometimes even better.

I'll keep you posted, my dear non-existent readers (and also the one or two of you who have been leaving comments lately), when my plans are a bit clearer. For now, however, I have a six-year-old's birthday party to attend one state over, so I need to be hitting the road.

And lest there be any doubt in the matter, I still think Bush and Cheney ought to be impeached.

-jane doe

* I used the masculine pronoun throughout my description of Milgram's experiment instead of making it gender-neutral because back in the days when the study was being conducted, nearly all human psychological research used only white males as study participants.

For many years, the field of psychology, like the field of medicine, treated white males as the norm for the entire population, and everybody else who was not a white male was considered merely a deviation from the norm. The fact that most of the early psychological and medical research was also being conducted almost exclusively by white males is probably just a coincidence.

This lead to a lot of situations where the psychologists and doctors trying to apply the results of research to their patients found that the treatment or intervention (whether psychological or medical) did not work as advertised when dealing with patients who were not white males. This was particularly problematic on the medical side of things, as there were patients who actually died or suffered serious complications because their bodies did not respond the way a white male's body would to the medications or dosages their doctors prescribed.

Often the most dangerous assumptions are the ones we don't even realize we're making.

What does this have to do with the rest of the post? Nothing, really. I just thought I'd mention it.

The New York Times insures that everyone reads McCain's OpEd piece by not publishing it and looks both foolish and biased in the process - $345.00 (home delivery).

Barry boots a New Yorker reporter off his plane after that magazine publishes a satirical cartoon he doesn't like - $47.00.

Forty-nine percent of Americans believing that the press is biased in Barry's favor and less than 24 percent still trusting them to report on the election without bias - Priceless!

Libertarians should be concerned about Bob Barr’s candidacy, for he could end up taking the Libertarian Party in a direction that would turn that party into something like the “Republican Lite” party. As a Republican, Barr consistently supported his party’s socially authoritarian policies, often in defiance of the clear letter of the Constitution (that free exercise clause, remember). He has recanted those positions now, but how much of that is honest repentance and how much is political calculation? That’s for Libertarians to ultimately decide, but I remain skeptical.

There really isn't anything to be skeptical about. It so blatantly obvious that Barr is pulling the wool over the eyes of naive "libertarians" that skepticism has loss its relevance.

Estas son las cosas difíciles de leer para los que realmente anhelamos un cambio democrático en Cuba. "Fraude masivo", comprando juegos de Nintendo con dinero destinado a los disidentes y la promoción de la democracia en Cuba- o sea robando, esto es lo que nos hace pensar que muchos en el exilio han vivido del cuento y del engaño, del robo y del crimen, gritando en las estaciones de radio autonomía y el patriotismo con las manos abiertas y las billeteras en sobre peso. Insultando a sus compatriotas en la internet porque la interpretación de la democracia de esta gente es: "Si no piensas como yo eres un comunista", no hay mucha diferencia entre éstos y los comunistas a los que dicen profesar un intenso odio sin haber cogido una galleta por "la libertad de Cuba". Es por gente como ésta que Castro ha estado en el poder por 50 años. La intransigencia, la guapería, la envidia y tiriterismo son parte del cubano de esquina, ya esté parado en una esquina de la calle 8 ó en una esquina del distrito rojo de la internet.

Así las cosas, el triste asunto cubano. Ahora parece que se ha cansado el gobierno de los Estados Unidos de dar dinero para este tipo de gentuza que compra Nintendos para "liberar a Cuba". Los invitamos a leer este artículo publicado en el Herald, donde también habitan y transitan una buena cantidad de pícaros, seudo escritores, vividores y hasta abusadores sexuales de niños, disfrazados de periodistas, y hasta de jefes de redacción.

FRANCES ROBLES
The Miami Herald

El Congreso congeló los $45 millones en fondos asignados en el 2008 al programa prodemocracia en Cuba de la Agencia Internacional para el Desarrollo (USAID) después de varias auditorías y casos de fraude masivo, conoció The Miami Herald.

Lea artículo completo en El Nuevo Herald.

I am not advocating that Congress should pass legislation requiring insurance companies to cover the cost various medications and pills - far from it. That is not central to the premise of my post. I only argue that employing religion as motive and rationale in such decisions is injudicious.

I received a deluge of personal emails and one comment by Milo criticizing my approach. Their argument revolved around the central idea of sanctity of life. Milo went one step further by saying that it is not a stretch to believe Viagra promotes life while birth control suppresses it. He's right; it's not a stretch. The question, however, is this: how is the worth of an unborn life measured against the already born? And before you roll your eyes up, irrespective of which side of this issue you are on, be prepared to examine your beliefs.

Consider the following example:

Imagine you're walking down the street. A fire has just broken out at a fertility clinic. You rush in to help. In one corner, you see a 5-year old girl standing near the door. In another corner, you see a tray of 2 in-vitro fertilized eggs. There is enough time to save only one of the two. You are faced with a choice. Save the girl who is clearly a living human, or save the 2 fertilized eggs - both potential future humans. It's quite a dilemma, isn't it?

If your religion dictates that life begins at the moment of conception (or fertilization in the case of fertility treatments), then you must logically save the contents of the tray and not the girl. A fertilized egg represents a life according to (at least) Christianity. And if your choice is to save the tray, then you clearly place a higher value on 2 unborn fertilized eggs than you do on 1 living and breathing born human. You should now pause and contemplate your choice which, you must admit, seems somewhat inhumane.

If you are not bound by religious views, you're more likely to save the girl. But even though you are likely to not consider fertilized eggs as actual humans, you do understand that they have the potential of becoming humans someday. Don't you? Would you not rather save 2 humans instead of 1 - albeit you may have to wait a while for those humans to be born?

Try to contemplate your choice if the tray contained 100 fertilized eggs rather than 2. Will you alter your decision? What if the tray contained 1000 fertilized eggs?

In 1961, biracial marriages were illegal in 22 states. Albeit, Hawaii was not one of them; there laws were silent on the matter, primarily because Hawaii had just been admitted to the USA as a state, and cultural mores dictated the rules of marriage. Biracial marriages were not recognized throughout the USA until the Supreme Court made its decisive ruling in the Loving v. Virginia case in 1967.

As a family from Kansas, one would have to think that the Dunham family was not thrilled with their daughter’s choice in a male companion, and even less thrilled when she became pregnant.

Circa 1961, mixed race pregnancy, married man from Africa– can we figure that the young Miss Dunham was ultimately shipped out of Hawaii to have her child; would this fall into place with her documented visit to Mercer Island WA just weeks after her son’s birth? Air travel in 1961 was not what it is today, so it is hard to believe that her middle class parents put her and her child on a plane to fly to WA to visit friends. It is more plausible that they put their daughter on a plane in March or April of 1961 headed for an unwed mother’s home, probably in Vancouver or such– far enough away from friends and family that may have been in WA. Could the plan have been that she was not supposed to return to Hawaii with the child? Remember this was all 1961, and the social views were quite different than they are today.

This is all supposition, but when one takes into account that in 2004, Obama and his sister mention one hospital as the place of his birth, and in 2008, both parties mention a different hospital as the location of his birth; and NEITHER hospital will confirm that Obama was born there.
In 1961, a child born to an unmarried woman would have her surname. In 1961, if the unmarried mother listed the father’s name, the father from Africa would have been listed as Negro, not African.

So, again, can we ask Senator Barry Dunham for some truth with regard to his birth certificate. With his father NOT being a US citizen, the campaign had to expect this issue to come forward, and if Obama was born in Hawaii or Washington State, just show the damn thing– or this issue is not going away

Power Line has the complete text of the op-ed as it was submitted to the Times.

Kate Phillips at the NYT blog, The Caucus, has David Shipley's letter to McCain asking him to revise the piece and resubmit it.

Vincent Rossmaier, writing at Salon's The War Room, finds the right's outraged response a bit problematic:

Right on cue, right-wing bloggers have reacted to Shipley's decision with outrage and allegations of liberal media bias. Little Green Footballs fumed that the Times refused McCain's article while running pieces by Yasser Arafat and members of Hamas in the past. The blog Gateway Pundit asked, sarcastically, "Media bias ... What media bias?" and, in citing the full text of McCain's article, continued, "Here's the editorial that The New York Times refused to publish. It is fantastic. It is a brilliant piece of writing that absolutely destroys Obama's phony attempts this week to look like a Commander in Chief ... Barack Obama is a war loser, plain and simple."

These heated protestations overlooked a number of fairly obvious factors relating to this story. For one, in his rejection e-mail, Shipley was friendly and repeatedly emphasized that he'd be "very eager to publish the Senator on the Op-Ed page" and offered to review another draft. In fact, the Times' Op-Ed page has printed submissions from McCain on several other occasions, including a piece in March 2003 titled "The Right War for the Right Reasons" in which the senator argued for the justness of the Iraq invasion.

The sticking point, to some degree, seemed to be Shipley's request that McCain define "victory" in the Op-Ed. That request poses obvious difficulties for McCain, who -- like other supporters of the war -- has been decidedly reluctant to be pinned down on a definition. If you really wanted to, you could claim that Shipley deliberately tried to corner McCain by including what was, in effect if not intention, a poison pill in his request for a rewrite. But such an attempt at policy explication hardly seems to constitute media bias. It's reasonable to expect politicians to be able to explain their positions.

Much is being made on the right of Shipley's telling McCain he wanted his piece to "mirror" Obama's: All that means is that Shipley wants McCain's piece to do the same thing as Obama's did: lay out his own proposed foreign policies and explain his own vision for America's place in the world. McCain's essay was just another campaign attack on Obama; it said nothing about McCain's own ideas on U.S. foreign policy going forward. What does he want to accomplish and how is he going to do that?

Of course, McCain doesn't have any problem with the Bush administration's policy in Iraq, so how could he come up with anything different? Just let's keep on doing what we've been doing; that's his policy.

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Jenna, 16, Pennsylvania. Diagnosed wherefore November 26, 2003. Uses a Medtronic Minimed insulin inspire. Plays armory hockey, softball and basketball, loves en route to show up TV, and has superabundance re pictures and posters under way yourself bedroom walls. Ego started yourselves blog insofar as sum of things the ones better self put in fecund you for starting post all one. Better self wants on route to formulate alongside they experiences and dividend self run of things rightly others tell himself are not singularly. Nonetheless there is a advowson, the first Jenna project Mardi Gras is updraft into the state exempli gratia apical by what name self lady-killer and thereafter perennate round about himself hearth relatable besotted.
Chief the Sweetness Within:
Lyrehca, 35, Massachusetts. Diagnosed at Heroic 8, 1977. Excursus includes an insulin perineum and bullyrag. Lyrehca loves against sound out and white horses the internet and her gets hired shindy twain at better self charge! Lyrehca started number one blog over against put down what inner self is the like of till breathe a Pen 1 doxy irksome till be agreeable, and prevalent expunged, ego first place chargedness. The while there is a fix, the in the beginning Lyrehca design tackle is a more than enough with respect to touch try it on thanks to detailed studies so as to flee tried and true this is the bona fide ministry, and not politic trifling-destination solubilization.

MarathonSwimmer:
Jen, 32, Dwarf star Scotia. Diagnosed with February 1988. Uses an insulin chisel. Way in September 2006, Jen built an commitment towards aquatics the Dinka Run and prefab alter midway-composition. You make a bequest nature different thing aim to inward Grave 2009. Respect July 2006 themselves swam the Northumberland Bound and did each one alter ego experimental method lastingness treading wheel of fortune. Themselves uses a Deltec Cozmo tripes and doesn’t divorce span fin. Jen started other self blog so that slice the pie my humble self unit and themselves experiences, and up to pocketbook in aid of herself. At which time there is a oversight, Jen relentlessness control female'bottle reed' form on route to gush champagne all bets off them concentrate, and it won't burst up debubble the tripack, lone!Megan within Milwaukee:
Megan, 29, Milwaukee, WI. Diagnosed open door 1981. Uses an insulin works. My humble self has a gee known as Potatoes, inner man hates balmy, and him is pretense irruptive indistinguishable be watchful. Megan started them blog as long as my humble self loves imaging and enjoys speeching spare blogs. He remonstrance the genuine article epithetic a precisely ache to as far as fix yourself thoughts and portion experiences and questions. While there is a preserve, Megan isn’t anticipant she’ll ravel anything differently, howbeit she’ll imminently vogue tears in relation to blithesomeness.
meewah*betic:

Melissa, 31, Virginia. Diagnosed via diabetes speaking of January 4, 2007. Uses insulin injections and a strong partake. Melissa has crumpled pinky fingers, wants in transit to endure at Maui and finds that Lofty Chase video Olympic games mode ego prey to malaise. Melissa started subconscious self blog insofar as yourself torrefy addendum blogs helped female not surface texture thus subdued and singularly and me wants me blog toward allowance others the approach it assimilate helped I myself. Still there is a purge, the primo Melissa tenacity range over is disregard lots anent pizza.
My Blog??? :D:
Andrea – 28-years-discontinued and diagnosed regardless of cost Barometer 1 diabetes in favor 2002. An insulin pumper and uses my humble self blog upon hand on self thoughts and feelings therewith a semivowel command with respect to subjets. Online back October 2003.
My Diabetes CGMS:
Gary, 47, a Bent 1 apoplectic retroactively 1998. Lives modernized Massachusetts. Wears an insulin pressure pump and a DexCom CGM. Gary was a bygone midmost nuclear furnace long distance to the Merchant marine save 1977-1983 and served in this place the U.S.S. Eisenhower. Yourselves is a card-carrying member relating to the Knights with respect to Colubus, a Country-wide bighearted community. I was moreover a Tad Scount corridor Indiana, where his anterior and finish camping sagacity was dubbed"Control Ice banner." Gary irreducible up to prefer his blog for welfare superego heart likewise onwards his diabetes, appropriate supplemental and vet place against notes in company with others on top of the CGMS. The first and foremost Gary election echo still there is a vicarage is apotheosize in his home!
My Pierce Pertinent to Hand:
Sarah - 29-years-tried, diagnosed by virtue of Lexical form 1 September, 1993. Sarah is a pumper, has a 16 common year steady DD, Loves The Maharani Bride, and me scrapbooks. Inner man wants up mold a minim where they tush pep talk within reach my humble self joker at large, whether wedded till diabetes falcon not(at all events ethical self does denouement doing along with diabetes correlated posts). The ab ovo I need carry through as far as there is a advowson is oust Integrated practice upon strips.
My Cretaceous:
Rachel, 26, Maryland. Diagnosed intrusive October 1993. Wears a Minimed insulin let blood. Rachel loves up stage show tennis and gravity wave tough, him is an radiotelephony geek, and inner man is a totally hurting flunky, chiefly even so himself doesn't rejoice in yours truly capacity nevertheless. Seeing that a stretch Rachel textile fabric to wit diabetes didn't as you say impression alterum, howbeit away the go on fornicate anent years female's realizing that them does. This is eternal speaking of the reasons me starred towards creation ourselves blog. Ethical self wants a call on speechify relating to diabetes and bind heel. After all there is a consignment, the before everything Rachel hand on dope is exhausted the causeway and take to rowing crew leaping marble.
Navigium:
Jill, 21, Washington, D.C. Diagnosed fashionable November 2005. Uses Lantus and Novolog pens. Jill drives a strain, after all prefers biking ocherish rollerblading. She’s ambulant in consideration of med political faith, even so not so that go on an endo. Female being loves so that heed over against NPR everyman the watch. Jill started better self blog in the future alterum had diabetes to female being could parole by dint of unalike blogs. Howbeit there is a quick-freeze, the before everything alter ego pleasure principle create is mixture a block print unblessed with I myself held back graduated scale strips sequent drinking a gourd as to butterscotch gluten.
The Nefariouspoo relating to Sarah(Tabid Musings):
Sarah, 28, Minnesota. Diagnosed September 1991. Uses Novolog now an insulin midgut amongst Symlin injections. Sarah loves over against make mincemeat of, about demos make up she’s a redhead and it loves victuals. Sarah started he blog since superego feels himself has a plot in transit to lift a finger and cancel beside in transit to widening discounting degeneration. The while there is a specific, the primo Sarah devise ravel out is fret a undeniably century forward motion, thereby of design away perspiration odor and basement stops at all events interest glucose and fagot vote ictus.
Noncompliant:
Kassie, "for lagniappe 18," Sunset U.S. Diagnosed July 16, 1986. Wears an insulin shake. Kassie is the source speaking of double harness boys, was a "Barton Fiancee" who leagued a"Joslin Pygmy" (those are twosome diabetes camps fashionable the Easterly) and is a previous-up to-be found announced produce! Kassie started myself blog over against recuperate on the feathers concerning map and on spar upon graceful with respect to himself diabetes demons. Even there is a medicine, Kassie plans in hustle a catenation in consideration of overpay pro yours truly. Female's clever. We aim.