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Re: No deal for Doles on diet plan

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:44:56 -0400

All right. It never occurred to me people would think two former senators would be paid only in Hearty Vegetable Beef Soup. Changed the wording.

— RTB

Re: No deal for Doles on diet plan

ishley — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:34:41 -0400

Sorry, RTB, I agree with jblue. The sentence can reasonably be read as stating that the Doles are getting the NutriSystem "on the house." After re-reading, I see that you're technically correct because the Doles are "doing" this on the house. However, the ambiguity is unnecessary.

Re: No deal for Doles on diet plan

ryanteaguebeckwith — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:39:58 -0400

Why hire a proofreader when my readers will do it for free? :)

Seriously, the sentence is correct. They're plugging NutriSystem for free, i.e. "on the house."

— RTB

Re: No deal for Doles on diet plan

jblues1969 — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:37:59 -0400

"But a representative of NutriSystem said the Doles are doing this one on the house."

You mean "NOT doing this on the house."

Fire a reporter and hire a proofreader instead.

Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

davet — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:25:49 -0400

I didn't know that Elizabeth was still with us! So glad to see that she's still among the living, I surely am.

Re: Did Dole pick Democratic diet plan?

Gosh — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:34:32 -0400

Miller is not only a good American brand, but made in NC. Eden, NC from which hope springs eternal. Thank you for drinking a beer that employs North Carolinians.

As for Heinz, that's still a Republican company as her husband was, but I suggest Texas Pete from Winston Salem.

See? Getting along doesn't hurt one bit. Same mission, different paths.

Re: Did Dole pick Democratic diet plan?

CitizenOpinionated — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:26:58 -0400

I agree Gosh

I personally have stopped drinking Budweiser products based on their selling out to the European company - but now I have to drink Miller Lite - which has less taste in my opinion...what is a guy to do.

Although I still boycott Heinz products in general because of my disdain for John Kerry, thus his wife's company is guilty by association - but unfortunately there not a comparable product to Heinz 57 that I have found...again what are we to do...

Re: Did Dole pick Democratic diet plan?

Gosh — Mon, 04 May 2009 12:18:01 -0400

This is funny, but only in light of the bigger picture.

Yes, even Republicans have to consort with Democrats if they want good, healthy things, just like I have to pay Exxon to get to rally against Exxon.

I wish I could say it all works out in the end, but it doesn't.

I can't buy medicine, see a Doctor, buy gas or have any kind of private insurance without funding a political imperative I abhor. If I want to start a business and join the Chamber... suddenly I'm funding ads against my own success. If I like my guns and join the NRA, I'm default against the Humane Society to boot.

The deck may be stacked, but the people are now winning because we have more cards to play.

Good luck to former Senator Dole on her new Democratic diet. May she also lose the useless, ugly 180 pounds North Carolina lost last election by sending her back to Kansas.

Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

CharlesEB — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:25:30 -0400

Is it safe to be on the nutrisystem diet and viagra?

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Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

ryanteaguebeckwith — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:43:58 -0400

My mistake. Fixed.

— RTB

Re: E. Dole remembers Jack Kemp

littleboyblue — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:40:05 -0400

I don't think Jack Kemp was ever a senator:

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000086

KEMP, Jack French, a Representative from New York; born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif., July 13, 1935; B.A., Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., 1957; United States Army Reserve, 1958-1962 (active duty, 1958); professional football player, 1957-1970; special assistant to the Governor of California, 1967; staff, Republican National Committee, 1969; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-second and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1989); was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred First Congress in 1988, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States; United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1989-1993; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1996; died on May 2, 2009, in Bethesda, Md.