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I would like to add my thoughts on this "fat" issue. Well, people firstly make excuses for being fat: likely excuse, "i have the fat genes". I would like to outright say people are simply lazy and have no self-control and discipline, that folks have common sense not to exercise, and eat their lots of junk food, and become unhealthy, and fat. For some reason poor people are "fatter" than rich people, and it might have much to do with stresses and amounts of external control influencing their lives, perhaps they are unemployed, not much stability in their jobs etc. But, they actually gain weight, when they are in financial dire straits. The less educated are also likely to be fat and this may be because educated folks have nutritional information that promotes weight loss/gain – Oh well, the educated is also much likely to have better income - so this is just reinforcing the rich people idea. Anyway, it’s a bit tiresome to see the many folks simply wasting their time sitting on a couch, munching on their chips and blaming the gene pool for their unhealthy ways they can control. And the lots in their family look very overweight, in fact Canadian folks are much overweight, eastern Canadians heading the pack. I may sound selfish, and I know that overweight folks suffer from esteem issues, worth etc. but I will never date a fat man. To me it represents lack of responsibility in taking good care of their health, and well being, how can they care for me. I mean if I take the time to exercise regularly and put in hours a day to be in good health and good shape, why can't I select and fantasize of someone who have similar desire to work hard at being fit and healthy and also show for it.

I watched with distress as the story unfold and as of yesterday I stopped watching. It is a sad and tragic situation; it takes its toll, affects you and tries to follow you around. I mean I head off to university paranoid. So I don't watch anymore, I get the updates on the radio while driving. Anyway, you think universities policies might change now to start treating these young ones as adults. And that safety should take precedence over the protecting student's freedom of rights of privacy or where do we cross the line of privacy and invasion of an adult life. I mean the parents of the students are never told about their history because it is personal and kept confidential to protect the student rights, the irony is "because they are adults". But, the students at university are still treated as kids in their parents’ house with dorm parents. I mean we hear of the lengths that are taken not to "kick" that student out of class, and to protect him. Similar to the Montreal massacre the shooter was from some place not practicing western ideologies and seem to rage against the liberties and freedoms that exist in a capitalistic world - in this instance that people can work hard and become rich. I didn't want to draw a parallel but it seems this is exactly why the middleast folks rage agaist the western societies. They become loonies and the good society were are, cite mental health disorders to label "bad" ones with some medical condition.

I have to agree with argus - the problem with these young lads, they seem to have many social problems and no responsibility. On the broader compass, the moral decay of liberal societies really tampers with folk’s self-respect, self-worth and dignity of themselves. Also, the medical sector seems to attach a condition to every symptom. The label sounds like dysfunction and a lifetime of pressure pills to swallow. A mean a usual social problem can be fixed at home with families who care for each other and can support each other. I just got in from classes at university and was watching the news about this horror - I still don't understand how university kids who are suppose to be wiser with some sort of thinking happening could wind up in such tragic state. I am shocked; it is such a cowardly act....

Umm...shall we look at this again then? You said "Al Sharpton has never made any division among people using offensive language" Well with Imus's comments one could say that most of the stuff that is under controversy is largely opinionated. I mean a court system could not find him guilty of degrading "black women". This is simply because it is an over the top, overly exaggerated comment that cannot be taken seriously. The pressure to apologise (which he did) and the public way he did it qualifies his admitting some sort of wrong. The truth is I am not convinced that those of the "hood" or those associated with the black culture will stop calling the women hos based on Imus's punishment.

Women on the whole are still largely demean by males but in has become so embedded into the culture that it is acceptable If you hang around the males, and listen to their conversation - it's a culture within the male system to make off- hand comments demeaning women (e.g. this pussy would not work), referring to a computer drive that won't function - regular stuff, from a regular male. The black rap male has taken the comments to the nth level and made it vulgar and extremely insensitive. Despite the blacks argument that rap is "art" - you can understand how we can supported this sort of music culture. It's simply moving along to the next echelon. I can see it, the insults are usually to keep everyone checked and in their place. A demise for women, of course. I don't usually hear women demeading or alluding to their trickery and insulting their own body parts.

I can say as a white man Imus appeared more into the black culture that most whites. Even I just learnt what is "nappy-headed hos" meant I mean I wanted to put foward these argument: - say a woman is fat, overly big, and lazy - could you not say she is a fat ass - i mean why not - the black women are called by their black mates nappy-head hos - a culture they encouraged, how can they appear "shocked", we all wish to fit into the melting pot, but conveniently remember we were once at some place in history - it's strange that the blacks are never particularly doing well economically and all of a sudden a white man snatch their dreams, and vision of happiness - you think perhaps the black community need to deal with their issues of degrading themselves before they start pointing fingers?

his MSNBC show was cancelled a hard lesson to take and a professional suicide my take that CBS will not falter in this sort of destruction

the issues, the women: - looked like the Toronto Raptors - Nappy Headed Hos’ - i had someone explained what this meant Hos - are whores of the street Nappy Headed - black women who wear their own hair -Tattoos - still taboo Quote from Imus show My take is that somehow it must have felt right to look at the women and speak the mind for the I-man, he apologised (the politically correct thing to do), does it change his opinion - well, it might cost him a job. I mean, what is all the fuss about, all the rap music dominated by blacks, calling the women their names, videos of blacks portrayal of themselves and their women seem to fit the comment. I take it based on the outrage of the comment that we have only advanced artificially where women are concern - to simply become covert in the display of our exact believe, be nice (nice is defined according to current politics) to everyone and say good things. well, the women were just "hot" might have been a better fitting comment I wonder

vimy is a significantly important moment in history. i was reminded just how significant and defining for Canada vimy is when my kid asked to be present at the ceremony, france, yesterday. it must have turned out as she anticipated because she called to say thanks. i am also reminded how times have changed: imagine Germany wants no part of war e.g. as initially - War in Iraq

One year later..... I don't think it is wise to reveal identities in this sort of forum especially if you are a younger person starting up a career or heading into some direction. It is better to be discreet, protect your interest, and only for moments of pleasure be weaken to discuss issues on the board. I only mentioned work because you spend most of your adult life at the workplace and might unlikely converse about topics on politics or religion. It can become tricky if one were to goggle your name and bring up conversations that have no reflection on doing well on a job but your strong opinions matters. I mean Goggle comes around to pick up data on your habits and posts and actually stores it. In general, an observation I think there is too much information, freedoms, and space available for folks to idle on the net, "get into trouble", to easily torment themselves for no reason at all - putting an identity to the torment is really a sentence of a well deserved punishment. I mean you wisely choose to post your thoughts and opinions however candid they were. Also, what did all the folks in the coffee shop hot spots peering into computers all day did before they walked around in fashion with a laptop? Next, the young ones are targeted and given free space to write more nonsense, post pictures of their families private lives I would like to see the internet regulated and folks pay for their space, well, at least the young ones would be dissuaded to post intimate details of what they eat for supper

I think what you wear, how you wear it, how you carry yourself says a lot about you A friend of mine brought me some Arab clothing from Dubai - I find it is very comfortable but it also carries connotations when I enter into a public sphere. I mean we say what we value by our clothing. Women are also pressured to look pretty, and also blame for the way they dare to dress. Men have a standard way to dress e.g. in business they could be wearing that same suit 5 days in a row - you cannot tell a difference. I love a brit accent, and have nothing to do with high prestige The french accent is sexy The spanish accent is vulgar and sexy All other accents are just mac I hate to stereotype accents but you can get fed-up with some of them especially when it becomes difficult like you have to take time out to understand what the heck the person is saying. Sometimes it is not just accents but the folks take and give literal meaning. For example: I work in a sector where I meet a lot of folks, I don't remember them all. The other day I sat down to chat with a fellow, I was actually documenting the visit, he seem to be familiar about me, as though we might have gone though this routine prior, so I questioned him "have you seen me before?" . Yes, of course he did, several times in the hall.

I understand how it feels to be sort-a subjected especially when you only have good intentions, basically a good person and believe you are being compromise This example is not about security, but mostly my daughter and I travel, and we are always subjected to questions every time, to the point of getting use to it--and having a consent release letter ready. The airport folks always want to know whether father is aware the kid is travelling. Hey, I ain't kidnapping my own kid - a bit fed-up But also I think the folks have a trained eye, have a job, and we have to allow them to do just that Terror on planes is real, and all the other security checking is because of real concern for safety, for you, for others and taking back the skies from "bad people"

they called them "people of the rainbow" discrimination, racism, separation of people and culture will exist no matter what name you call the bunch that don't look or fit into THE popular ideology the rainbow seem to be pulled out of dreamland, perhaps we are inspired with pots of gold at the end of the rainbow for the minorities to find it is typical of politics to change the names of negative connotations as soon as everyone learn of the boundaries in which to operate

Only in America one can dream the American dream, the melting pot creates an ideal sense of belonging and a patriotic American. We would like to think (rephrasing, we would like to promote) that culture and race do not intersect, is color blind and perpetuate no inequalities. Here is the starting point folks, anyone can make -- case in point, look are the examples at the top of the discussion. In Canada we encourage multiculturalism and separate people along invisible racial and cultural divides, even have a multicultural law laid out for this. I mean, where are we integrating folks if we allow them settle into various communities and practice culture, and law from elsewhere? Result, a visible minority born in Canada is still not Canadian. In fact, there are studies out to show that non-whites born in Canada seem to be earning less, than the newly arrived immigrants. Immigrant businesses are still small business, franchises, that serve communities and generally not mainstream, they have not been able to do well in accumulation of wealth

Here is why marriage is failing: 1) Loose morals, popular culture and free sex Folks that do not have respect for themselves therefore cannot produce off-springs with independent thoughts. Here is what I mean. We have created a sleep around culture: that if a girl is a virgin at 21 it is a major problem, if you are "not with someone currently" you are not normal, having no sex means you are deviant. On the other hand rampant sex such as Anna Nicole and various boyfriends/girlfriends, have you slept with her/him yet? a norm, examples to follow. People are pressured to live up to obscure standards that their fathers hath slept with 20 women and their mothers slept hath with 20 men. The offspring can notice that the parents are not sure that they are compatible, so it is ok that parents continue with other usual casual affairs – a popular culture And lets not forget, it is a couple hood time, trying to live together first before couple take the serious step of marriage. I mean hello why are you going to buy a cow if you get to milk it everyday. Well the government wants a share in the milk so they endorsed the widely practice common-law...who needs marriage anymore However, several long-term relationships can take you way ahead of the game and quite frankly you still get to say “I am single" - popular culture 2) Lose morals - standards It is priceless, the fine character we can build for ourselves. However, I think that there is a certain private abuse of our freedoms and liberties, that somehow people are interpreting liberties we should cherish, grow and make it bloom for us, and shine in our own greatness by indulging in war, gloom, hate, defeatist. That indeed we have suspended the fine people we can become by letting in a person we long to be only as our guest. We are simply not grounded in our traditional "roots". 3) I thought you are mostly referring to gay marriages, good one, sure shoots down traditional marriage 4) Trust of religion is a thing of the past. I mean marriages were supposed to be made in heaven and endorsed by the church. Even the church is low profiled nowadays. If there are two things that cannot be entrusted in the church, it is the claims of that of the learnt men (they still don't let women high in the churches), who are well-informed and speak of courage, and can show you magnificent results, but now they also glow with platitudes of infidelities and the fools we are to be devoted. Look, now we are finding out horror stories of little boys, little girls, with their trusted clergy and rumors that were hidden within the walls of the church system are for real. But, since it is a family board here, there must be some hope for the church, weddings and all and our belief that good churches were not built by bad men. 5) Expectation of marriage has changed. Traditional marriage women had duties. Nowadays it is expected that men share in the duties, far fetch still ... women still continue with 90% of those duties and they just don't like it and so on… Traditional marriage is failing because there is the problem of expanding freedoms and letting popular culture rule. Nowadays, we like acquiring things, money, education, # people we slept with and progress lots that way. However the way we go about the progress does not jive with good progressive morals. Well we have not only rejected “Victorian age” but replaced it with sexual revolution---woot – meaning popular culture, free lifestyles, sexual freedoms, free love for all. Marriage is a Victorian thing, you mentioned “tradition”. The problem is institution such as marriage, family, church, law is that it cannot operate in isolation like we cannot enforce a marriage on others while we are infected with popular culture. I think perhaps why the government allowed such a legitimacy as “common law” to lesser the moral conflicts, but as it turns out, it is a problem to content with, one of moral decay. And yes, I believe in traditional marriage - man & woman, and also believe that sex belongs in marriage

sounds like you are up to lots of juvenile mischief - I imagine you are liable for what you pay to publish. I meant thats just not the way to wipe out a man

a friend and mentor of mine died accidentally about 5 years ago and they published a much younger picture even I didn't recognise the chap - but it was a favorite picture and has much more than special meaning for the grieving families, you'd be surprise how difficult it is to find that one picture when you really need it.

Are you implying that righties are enemies of the earth? Well the righties are convinced that we are lying about the weather. It seems as though the righties, who are concern with economics, building the economy and, a better place where we can see riches with least divergent, is pressured to take some notice of the earth. However, the way I see it, the righties are taking notice of the politics of feebly lefties opinions, simply, just to keep the lefties all together and in touch with the ignorance of a reality check community

Everyone in the Hollywood seem inspired, in awe by Al Gore, how come all of a sudden we seem to recognise a true champion of the earth - I mean we are being green here - pardon the pun Is everyone in Holywood lefties now? well I still love George Clooney and Jon Stewart even with their liberal leanings

Well, I mostly read the papers, I have very long days, so didn't have much time for TV, wasn't until recently I took an active interest in TV

I didn't realise how much we are being influence by the TV folks, and it not just the regular commands: - don't touch that dial - stick around - we will be right back - don't go anywhere I mean if everyone were to organised their activities according to their wishes, there would be no TV viewing audience now, would it? This is a reason the TV manipulators are giving an explanation why you should not leave the security of your living room. Its freaky, the other night a friend invited me to hang-out at their gym 30km from my house, I am a fitness fanatic, so I am majorly tempted - checked in the weather channel - they advised don't go anywhere if it is not necessary, call for snow, black ice on the road, stay indoor etc. I am gullible, this time of course, I followed their advise. The TV don't shit you -- its a freaking conspiracy for you to stay indoors and continue watching their TV because you probably don't have much to do... anyway so I watched TV. No kidding now The synopsis of the news, TV watching: - Here is a death, it is bad - Here is us, we bring you the news, unfolded right before your eyes - Here feel good about yourself, get some shampoo - Here have something to eat - Here take it easy - Here look good - Here, a solution, get a dog - Here blab, garb - Here stay tuned, we have more of this I mean in the 1/2 hour newscast, only about 9 minutes was news, taking me from gruesome sadness and death in Iraq, implanting the same visual images over and over (CNN), to my favorite cover girl lipstick for me to look good, to my favorite topping on my pizza, to ironic joking about the weather, to sports on the latest fad of pole dancing exercise, and a final breather of relaxing dog show. The imagery is so corrupted, confusing and distorted, with no logic, is chaotic that one cannot analyse the news rationally without staying tune, and being persuaded by the TV opinion

CONSERVATIVE Your PERSONAL issues Score is 40%. Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 80%. i use to be more social - whats happening

weddings are public display of wanting the big Cinderella fantasies come true. mostly women wanting to publicly attach themselves to a male and not necessarily attach to a marriage. half of the marriages end in divorce - the strange thing is that folks can live in couple-hood for ages, 6 years or more and suddenly decides to get married, 1 year later or 6 months, sad -- the marriage ends -- it took a marriage to find that they are incompatible. on the spur of the moment i of course got married at a registrar's office, so i never experience this important wedding ritual. i never met my now ex mother, brother, sister in-laws to this day but can also say perhaps when a marriage comes to an end, it has nothing to do with screaming mothers in law - they are suppose to be an additional form of entertainment.

Harper is into Valentine rituals? i mean governments don't usually send love to the people anonymously I don't buy this sort of love, however the same is not true for Quebec, they received quite some love in shades of green today

Well, we do have clear and written laws. For example if a person or group (e.g. religious falls under Creed) make a prima facie case of "discrimination" under a grounds in the Human Rights Code the onus shifts to someone else (employer, government) to present evidence why they cannot accommodate a person. It is tricky because usually it necessitates duty to accommodate with sufficient diligence. Language in not listed in the Human Rights Code - so it is interesting that you point it out as a starting point for discrimination. Say if a majority of jobs require fluency in English, in Toronto majority of the people speak some other language, and they don't get hired. We are astonish that an engineer is driving a taxi, and blame the system for not utilizing talented resources. I mean I won't would head off to Quebec in a culture of French language and expect to head up some company. I don't speak the language. Should I be accommodated? I do pretty good to head up companies that need English-speaking folks, so now I think someone owes me my "right" to operate in the same capacity elsewhere.