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Voting is great, Im having my ballot mailed to me, it should be here Monday then I have to fax it in! Im a Poli Sci major and therefore it is my duty I suppose, plus I get better grades! Voting is important, just remember to vote for the person who will serve best, not just for change, because I know for a fact that some Texas candidates (ok one) is making promises and remarks that will not be kept, and is just on the ignorant end of politics, ok all of them are except Perry, but whatever, I dunno what is up with Politics today? Now its more of overtaking by the ignorant and incapable just because people are too desperate for change, rather than wait one more term to see who pops up next

OH and btw if your from Distict 3 VOTE DAN DODD! If he wins I get a free 100 in my political science class because thats who I am backing in that election. And trust me I need the grade, plus I believe he is best for the job

I have to admit Perry hasnt come through on his promises........But he is the best candidate for this election. To actually vote any of the other candidates into office would be ludicrous, I mean hello its Kinky Friedman, Paula Dean, and Ben Stein running against him (basically). Seriously, Geez what are politics coming to? Also to those of you worried about the split vote, although it is better that everyone votes, not all votes count. Its hard to go into detail on here I would have to explain it in person. I am a political science major, this is my FAVORITE time of year. I absolutely live for politics and government, I know Im strange but it intrigues me. Also, it isnt always about the party, its about who represents that party, and I do not believe (from watching the gubernatorial debates) that anyone is more prepared than Perry. I like Perry, Ive met him personally and that made an impact on me, therefore I am voting for him, I understand others' points of view also, but really the debates (although Perry was a little ridiculous about rescheduling them, that pissed me off a little) show who the clear winner should be. Perry rescheduled and was prepared, while the others could have used this to their advantage they did not, and were incredibly unprepared.

I did mention that I am from JASPER, TEXAS! Actually that was the only occurance of a fight between different races during my entire time in school K-12 at any given time. We all really didnt give a f*** what color anyone is. Yes race is a given, but skin tone is a gift of genes, while not having 10 fingers is caused by accident or birth defect, but skin color is a beautiful thing. You should read Seventeen Magazine sometime, this months issue is about accepting your flaws and your unique gifts from genes and making them beautiful and unique to yourself. This one very dark girl in there is absolutely GORGEOUS, but she never saw it till recently. Yes I think too much enphasis is put on "your not black enough" or "your not white enough" or "too white" "too dark" etc...But that makes people Beautiful and identifies them as unique no two skin tones can be totally identical and that makes us all unique. One should accept themselves for the color they are and become all they can be and be as beautiful on the inside as on the outside. Uniqueness is key to beauty besided being symmetrical. I cant emphasize this enough, in my school career, although I supposedly from a "racist town" I saw very little racism and more of a blend of cultures and such. Now being a bigger girl in high school, and certainly not the biggest I was, along with the others, discriminated against by all the races (which isnt particularly relevant). But I say this because I want you all to realize they had other things to concern their gossip with than what color someone was. We got over differinitiating skin tone by 5th grade, and focused more on other things about people. Color doesnt matter, its no longer seen as an imperfection while being overweight, or having larger than usualy breasts, or a big nose and so on all are at the top of the list.

See This thread does bother me somewhat. I am bothered by how everyone here took the issue and made it Black vs White, but there are other races out there that are discriminated against daily. They dont get paid as well as white people nor treated as well, and so on and so forth. When Racism is mentioned people automatically go to Black vs. White and do not consider any other races. BTW White people are NOT the only racist race out there. And yes in a discussion like this Im going to describe people by their color. They any race should be proud to be who they are, and accept the beauty in their skin tone. I just know that in highschool I was a "fat" teenage white girl, and I saw more prejudice against myself and other "fat" girls than against any race, except the one time a black guy beat up a white guy over a chicken strip......lol......true story

Martin Luther King was a hypocrite, I have to say that I am one of the probably 10 people in America that is not a fan of him. I think he had a great purpose in society, and American society needed him. That is no contest...BUT he was a hypocrite and cheated on his wife with other women and even wanted to begin using violence (which goes against his teachings you hear about most of the time) as a way of getting his way. Im just not a fan.....please dont hate me....I just wanted to show that he isnt God-like. Which Boo Boo Kitty you didnt make him to be at all. The topic just weighed on my mind that everyone puts him up on a pedestal, when he was VERY human, and VERY imperfect and most people dont get that side of him. I just used Boo Boo Kitty's quote so that it didnt look like I pulled this topic out of thin air! I LOVE YOU GUYS!

I know that to me, I am not attracted to black men at all. I believe there are some very handsome, beautiful black men in the world, but Im not physically attracted to them. Im not necessarily attracted to very white guys either. I usually go for the darker skin type, or the white-boy jock type (one that plays golf would be perfect lol). The whole world is not going to marry someone just to dissolve the race issue. Its who you are attracted to. Marrying someone to dissolve the race issue is no different than marrying someone to keep the same race. Color of skin really shouldnt come into play when picking a partner. I consider many different things when I choose to date someone. I look at their physical appearance not so much color of skin, but hair, nose, eyes, teeth, physique so forth. It just so happens that most black men are built the same. Same goes for asians, they do not peak my interest at all, there are a whole collage of different things I look for in a partner, not just color, but one should not marry another just to "fix" a problem, because there will be more problems, and more problems. God made us all different and unique for a reason, why should we change that if we dont want to. It isnt our duty to society to fix the color of people's skin. Not to mention the fact that there will still be different skin tones, everyone in the world will not be the same skin tone (nor in a group of 10 people). That will cause racism once again. Plus the rarity (like me) when one culture's feature do an extreme overtake of the others, and that person looks more white or black or asian or hispanic, whatever. My mother looks VERY hispanic (dark hair, skin, eyes) and my dad is darker complected with dark hair and eyes (as for the rest of my family that I know), YET I have Blond (light) hair, Hazel eyes (usually green), and VERY fair skin as well as a different body type than ANYONE in my family. Basically the Jewish part of my heritage reared its head, but since Im mixed up with God only knows what I somehow inherited an odd mix that does not go with the rest of my family. I look different than everyone at reunions on either side. Its as if I dont fit in, like I am a strange onlooker, but Im full blood with them. Yet Im very white, Blond and everything....So the color of skin definately would not be consistant

I just know that I drink TONS AND TONS of coffee every single day just so I can eat atleast 2 meals a day (since I sleep through the first one). I dont each much, and the coffee actually tends to fill me up a little rather than make me hungry. I had a cup of coffee this morning and didnt want anything else so I dont understand how it promotes hunger, but I suppose it could since it could be a false sense of fullness. Anyways I just really wanted to know the dangers because there was another thread on this and no one answered my question. If I dont drink it, then I am really screwed up and cant eat anything for the rest of the day, which is worse in my opinion.

What is wrong with Caffeine? Why cant a lot of you guys drink it? I drink like atleast 5-7 cups a day! I have too so that my food will go down. PLEASE ANSWER!

I totally bought that too! But I ate like 3 bites, ended up puking my guts up! So no more, lol, I guess it was a sign from God, but OMG it was good!

Well, Im from Jasper, Texas (maybe youve heard of it lol) and yes everyone sees colors, and yes many times stereotypes do apply to certain people. But I believe u should get to know someone to see who they are. Most people in Jasper, Contrary to popular belief are not racist nor do we have a KKK, or any other racist groups (I used to like Tyra until today, she pissed me OFF! She needs to check her facts before she puts something like that on national television). I meet people, and get to know them before I decide anything about them. The race card is used too much by ALL races and I think people are people and anything that did happen however many years ago happened, its over...get over it. Im jsut tired of being called a racist because Im from Jasper, I experience prejudice every day when ppl find out where Im from or because I am white. We just need to understand that people are people (once again) and we cant change anything in the past, nor are we going to make everyone love everyone, but we can try to accept people for who they are, no matter what beliefs they hold. For God's sake one of my best friends in college a an ULTRA LIBERAL! and Im a Conservative Enterpriser and we still get along great! Anyways, just wanted to comment...

I do other things, but then I gain weight. For God's Sake Im in a sorority! LOL! I just always worry about what I eat, especially since Alcohol has so many calories! So Im just trying to lose weight as best I can, but I do get upset (extremely) whenever I dont lose or if I gain

I dunno why I do it. I lie in bed at night and think of what Ive eaten and am like, I coulda done less...lol...The problem is I drive people nuts around me! Im like, I cant eat it, it has too many cals, my friend as sweet as he is, brought me a cookie today and I promised to eat it, I never did, he came back a few hours later, found it, made me eat it for the calories! I ALMOST choked on it. I just didnt want it, too many calories for me! But now Im glad I ate it, just at the time I was like UGH! Eating is such a chore! Cant I just drink coffee alllllllllllll day!? I dunno, I dont see differences in my body, people here, although they barely know me, notice differences from my old pics on Myspace and such, and I just dont see it at all, and am afraid I never will. Although I did get a great confidence boost this weekend at my sorority party, I totally made out with a guy and he was the instigator and more than once! It was awesome, Ive never EVER had a guy do that and be so sweet. No I dont want to date him, and frankly dont care if I ever see him again, just it was a great confidence boost

I understand that, therefore Im not too offended when men are not attracted to me. I understand that I am not necessarily attractive to most of the guys that Im attracted to. I mean 2 have worked at Abercrombie and Fitch and one was a model for a year. I dunno why? Its the way Im programmed to be. I want a hot guy, but they want a hot chick so Ill be hot one day hopefully SOON, but one day...Damn why cant we all be thin already? I wanna wake-up skinny! Crazy huh? Since it cant happen guess Ill just have to go to sleep and count tomorrow as a another day contributing to the weight loss

Someone PLEASE tell me why no caffeine?

why cant we have caffeine? I drink a ton of coffee a day due to the fact that its low calorie and open up my band so that I can eat. Without it I couldnt eat, so I dunno. Never heard of not being able to have caffeine

Does anyone become completely and utterly obsessed with weightloss. Somedays I feel like a failure and beat myself up inside, then others I pat myself on the back but tell myself to do better tomorrow. I just wanted to know if anyone else was as obsessed as I am, I just guess I want to wake up skinny and the world will be fine, but I know that is terribly impossible. I dunno just wanted to pose this question

I know this is so hypocritical, I just posted a blog about this a few weeks ago on MySpace about this. Its so weird how Im not in any way attracted to overweight guys. A little pudginess doesnt bother me, but for some reason a bigger guy just doesnt turn me on, I dont see them as desirable, I dunno why? Its just how Im made up I guess. I have only dated guys that could work (or do work) for Abercrombie and Fitch and thats really weird to me. My recent just got a job there! The strange thing is I dont EXPECT normal size guys to be attracted to me, so I do make it a point to show that Im losing weight, even tho they really probably dont even give a rip?! I know, sounds strange

see thats what I think to, I know you cant put a timeline on relationships, but the fact is we wont be in the same place forever, and I guess I think relationships=marriage in the long run just because of my last one. We thought we had to get married because we were together for so long and I suppose I really believed that. Its a small town life thing, Im really trying to adjust to the city and stuff, I just get freaked out by relationships. If some guy hits on me I dunno if its a dare that his friends made or himself made for a good laugh (not this guy, guys in general). BTW Im rushing next week wish me luck, I decided to try to meet new ppl also, so I am going to rush! Im excited. But Im pissed because Lane Bryant has those skinny models, and all their clothes are too big for me! Pisses me off! Neways, I also was going to say that Im afraid of getting attached to people easily, I just dont want another fiasco like the last relationship. Im scared I will like him so much that when and if we broke up that I would be too attached and have to go through the same exact heartache all over again. :'(

See Im not looking for LOVE, just fun and compassion I am young and probably transferring after next year. This is my 2nd year of college and its great, not a whole lot of work, more reading than anything which doesnt take me long. I end up spending much of my time helping my first year counter parts with their classes since they have classes im a Wiz at so I have plenty of time for everything! Ive just been so scarred by relationships in the past that I am scared. I just want to casually date someone, not necessarily for the long run or anything like that, just want to have fun and be normal and not the chick that never has a bf! I dont really care what others think, I just hate them trying to fix me up with every guy in the world lol

everyone loves a good debate!

Dude I know, I had no clue stingrays were that aggressive. I just moved to the beach and for my enviromental science course (which has field work) I had to take a safety quiz on stingrays, alligators, snakes, and other things. I had no clue, I was soooooo incredibly shocked I was like when am I going to have to worry about them, your apparantly supposed to shuffle your feet back and forth constantly in the ocean. I was sooooooooo shocked I wanted to cry when I found out like 2 days ago I wanted to cry. He was young, his wife is young, and his kids are young. But he did die doing what he loved, so I suppose its not a total loss, but I hope his children will not be bitter toward him for it as well as I hope that they do not hold a fear of animals or the ocean

Ok so Im in college now and have lots of new friends. Life doesnt get much better, except I do need to eat more, but I think its directly linked to sub conscious stress because I could actually eat today after a nap and just being a hermit for the day. Anyways the reason why I am posting this is I am kind of starting to interest myself with a new guy, the problem is since my last relationship I am scared half-to-death of any kind of relationship whatsoever, especially with men. We talked about it today and decided you know just to play it as it comes, neither one of us is actively seeking a relationship, but HES PERFECT! It scares me to death that he is so perfect. The perfect gentleman, good looks, athletic, and wants to be around me alllllll the time and I love it. He told me the other night that of all the ppl hes met, Im his favorite. We can talk about anything, even if we disagree about the approach of the subject, its still like no prob. Im afraid that he might be a "chubby chaser" or something like that. Ive NEVER had a guy go out of his way JUST for me. He doesnt pull me away from other friends that he may not like, but instead spends time with me and then I spend time with my other friends. The thought of any relationship scares me. I figured I would be single for the rest of my life (no marriage or dating or anything) Not necessarily because of my weight, but because I dont know that I can trust guys after the last relationship. Yes I know it was high school, but it was also 4 years. Ive been single for a year and a half now and I want to have a guy to be boyfriendish, but not controlling and rude and critical and so far every guy ive met is except for him! Its crazy I know, I dont even want to talk about marriage now at all, thats not my point, I dont wanna get into that discussion for many more years, but just dating and having someone to support you would be nice and a little affection (without overstepping boundaries is nice too). I just am so paranoid of men with bigger girlfriends because everyone I see (at this age) is controlled by the guy they date. Its like we are big, so we dont deserve love, just control because we apparently cant control ourselves (not my opinion, but thats how "chubby chasers" percieve it) He never criticizes my surgery or says anything about it except make sure I get food I can eat. I didnt plan on this being so long, but my thoughts kept flowing. *BTW, it doesnt help matters that he is from Spain and has a totally cute accent like Wilmer Valderama from That 70s Show) Im liking him, but we both have had screwed up relationships in the past. Anyway, thats wat I was thinking about tonight

I love attention, I did theatre alllllll through high school and now in college, I was a public speaker for 4-H as well as president for the local and county level. I spoke up how I felt at all times, but not in a pushy way, just assertive, I listen to others and transform the idea, but people dont really take in my ideas, or a skinny person says it and automatically its the best thing ever. I think it has to do with, if I cant take care and control myself how can I control others? Thats the subconscious thot of others Im sure. If you are on my myspace friends list you should read my blog "Just some thots"

hey guys, sorry I shoulda deleted this thread when it died a long time ago...TURNS OUT I wasnt counting my calories right, now Im doing great and losing weight WITHOUT INTENTIONAL EXERCISE. When I say without intentional exercise I mean I only do what I have to do, walk to class, to my car, shopping, stuff that you just do and dont call it exercise but you are still burning calories. Its working out great, but I gotta get a lil stricter Ive kinda gone nuts lately with cravings (its a woman thing) but its all better now. g2g gotta goto class in the morning