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We eat a lot of pierogie pizza here in Pittsburgh

I am so glad I found this page! (googled "what to eat when you can't chew") I'm on day 4 following dental surgery and really won't be able to chew properly for MONTHS. I'm already getting sick of dairy, have been eating yogurt, homemade pudding, creamy soups, and drinking chocolate silk, also eating ice cream, but like many on here I'm worried about getting enough protein and of course am craving veggies. Keep the ideas coming. Somehow the thought of putting cooked meat, etc. in the blender really makes me sick but maybe I'll get over that.

I would love to talk about sex, but again, the politicians just won't stay out of my sex life! I happen to have a gay son...

dianeb, until you really understand what voting "present" means I don't think you're qualified to comment on it; Obama was there and involved, whereas McCain has been absent more often than present in Washington, too busy hosting his barbecues, I guess.

The trouble is that the two topics are so entwined in the Republican party that quite frankly I'm even more frightened by the American Taliban as represented by Sarah Palin than I am by the Taliban in the middle east. I am one who does not want anyone else's religion in my bedroom, doctor's office, or kids' school. I am even uncomfortable with all this "God bless America!" that we hear in the speeches of all the candidates, as if they're all trying to prove who is the better Christian. I say religion is, and should be, a private business.

John McCain has permanent injuries because he wasn't properly trained as a fighter pilot, putting himself and his whole crew at risk. He wasn't trained because in addition to graduating at the bottom of his class from military school, from which he would have been expelled if not for the intervention of his parents, after joining the navy he chose to spend his time drinking and womanizing when he should have been in training. He then used connections to get assigned to the mission from which he didn't return. Men who knew him back then say they wouldn't want him anywhere near that red button because of his temperament. On top of his temperament there are his age, health, and medications to consider.