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Hi Buckeye Congratulations on your surgery! Welcome to the forum, I hope you get alot from the group! And btw, congrats on the win.....I am (hating it) a Spartan! lol....good game. :confused:

I was told that I wouldn't need one, and I didn't wake up with one, so I guess that is a NO! :confused:

Gummie mine were horrible and nasty. They took about a month to go away. It looked like my body went through war. Makes you wonder what they did while you were under, eh?? lol...

Thank you, I appreciate that! I am a student at MSU studying sociology, I hope to make a difference in the world. (Never too late even though I am old. LOL...) I have always never understood hatred and racism. I can't even say I hate a racist, I feel exceptionally sorry that they are so ignorant, most of my family is that way.

Susan I had the SAME exact thing, she would not even listen to me about the band, and then stuck me on Merida. Boy, that stuff is awful...

Josette sweetie, I am sorry you lost your mom. But, after hearing how close you were I have no doubt that she is there every minute of you. She is always with you, and will always be with you as long as you hold her in your heart! :kiss2: Hugs to you! p.s. I know she would be proud of you!

Absolutely, and that is why it may never change enough to get minorities or anyone different ahead. Many fear "The Browining of America" how sick and twisted is that to fear that whites will be a minority and not actually have enough power? Here in Michigan they are trying to pass the MCRI, Michigan Civil Right Intiative. That is scary. It wants to outlaw Affirmative Action, which is NOT about race quotas but equal rights. Anyone just needs to ask California how it worked for them. Whites (and a black man who forgot he was black) were able to convience the California public that race is no longer and issue there. They passed Prop 209 there and I know they are sorry now. But if things like the MCRI keep getting passed we won't have to worry about "The Browning of America". Public assitance such as health care for minorites will be gone, and without healthcare guess what will happen to infant mortality rates and the numbers of minorities??? Hmm...no healthcare=death. MCRI, Prop 209 are just a way that the WHITE elite can head off the "browning" early. How convient and so politcally correct if it is suppoted by voters right??? :confused:

I agree with TOM, cheating on his wife makes him human. I am one to believe that what goes on in your home is your own business not mine. I honestly believe it has no place in politics. I know that many will say it show integrity, honesty, ect. BUT I am sorry men are pigs and many will cheat. Sorry guys! :bored

Anita I would like to apolgize to you, but there is no apology for such ignorance. I am glad that you have not let it become you! I only wish they could see they didn't break you, maybe then they would rethink it all. And yes, Tired Old Man, that identifibility is what helps fule the fire, but I agree if we were all 100% we would find something else to fight over. Martin Luther King had a dream, would he be proud of us today?

A mother of 2 girls. A fulltime student with a double major in Sociology & HumanAging. A BNI Director in Michigan. And a freelance graphic artist....

I think it because they are raised with more of a respect for the beauty of a bigger girl. I think their moms do a great job of teaching them that! Or it could be just a hangover from when the Renissance era. Then if you were overweight it was known you were a noble or had money. Fat then meant you had enough money to eat whatever you wanted!

I would do it again in a New York minute! I am just sorry it took me so damn long to get the courage up!

Absolutely, and they have no chance of getting out of the cycle because of the wage difference and the lack of education they experience themselves. It is a vicious and sad circle they are trapped into. I know few break free, but what about the rest?

OK I have to speak on this one! First of all unfortunately racism in this country is institutional MORE than it is individual. It is sad that there are people that are racist, but it is ever sadder that it is BUILT into our system and MOST of us don't even know it! For example in 1950 before Affirmative Action, African Americans were 3 times more likely to be in poverty and 2 times as likely to be unemployed. In 2000 50 years later and after Affirmative Action, there are STILL 3 times as likely to be in poverty and 3 times as likely to be unemployed. An African American man makes .60 cents to the dollar of a white man doing the SAME job with the SAME experience. What does that tell you? In an school where the children are predominately minority they suffer GREAT institutional racism. They often do not have books, proper seats, too many students in one class, poor equipment or none at all. I could go on and on. How do you think these children are EVER going to get ahead if they are not even getting the basics? If you want to compare schools, please go to www.schoolmatters.com and look it up! Stats never lie. What really hurts minorites is the systematic racism. Yes, it is sad that someone could be so ignorant to judge them on skin color. AND by the way, race as we know it is a social construct. It is based on visual sightings "Oh she looks Hispanic or he looks black" it may not be so, but we use visual markers. And I am sorry to say in America we ARE all almost a mixed race. BUT what hurts minorites are those things that are so woven into our system we do not even see them. In the south many slaves were raped or had affairs with their white slave holders. The Native Americans also became mixed, for alot of them with the white man, many not by choice. We are all a product of some cultures mixing, and it can be proven we all came from the same blood. (No I am not talking evolution I am talking proven genetics)

TO the Yellow Rose of Texas mine went out to Tuesday, it should be there today or Friday! I am very excited to see what she thinks! :clap2:

YEAH~ I finally found you all again! I was feeling so lost! lol...no really. I get my second fill Tuesday and since the .5 ccs did nothing at all for me I am going to fight for more. I am really dissappointed in myself this past month. I lost a few, they came back and have been struggling not to gain. I have been very depressed. The only thing that has kept me away from the Twinkies is the fact that others have noticed the previous few months weight loss. Otherwise I would be face down in comfort food.... :omg:

LOl, thanks Josette! I wish that I had distracted the team, at least then they would have a good excuse. :think

Croth management, now there is a particularly fun deal! Make sure you aren't sagging too low, and not too high....

I learned: -I know check calories on EVERYTHING that goes in my mouth or I think about putting there. -Portion sizes REALLY should be the size of a card (go figure) -Nothing feels better than putting on my fat lady jeans by accident and then realizing the are just too damn big!!! -Most of all I learned that I can do anything I want!

YEAH!! You go girl! Congrats you have been working hard! :clap2:

Hi Teleah I had surgery at Hurley, they are awsome! I was VERY nervous and called once to call it off. But I am sure as almost all of us will tell you it is the BEST thing we ever did. I would do all of it again in a heartbeat! Dr. Wagner is really awsome. He assited Dr. Farhan on my surgery. Don't worry at all, trust me! :grouphug:

I went to the PC and she sent me to a dermatologist. They have biopsied it and I am waiting for results. They are pretty sure it is basal cell carcenomo. BUT they also said it is not life threatening and is treatable!

I agree as well. The problem with ANY politician is that they represent THEIR interests, and not our own. They are all wealthy and no longer connected to the people. They make laws to help make their world better, hardly ever ours.

AMEN! :confused: You said it perfectly!