I noticed that I am no longer 10.00, but 9.00. What does this mean? Why would anybody vote against me? It's Christmas. NEXT SUBJECT: I'm posting a 3 pictures of me so go ahead and vote for your favorite. Thank you. As you were.

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Just wanted to introduce myself to the group and let everyone know that I'm looking forward to contributing to a very cool site!

See you out there soon!

Bliss :)

How psyched am I for Vol. 2? Uh....VERY

Why is emo turning into such a trend? What's the big deal...thick glasses...spiky hair... studded belts...are there actually that many lost kids searching for the next band wagon to jump on so they can feel part of "SOMETHING"....im quite lost... emo has tremendously changed since it's origininated..or so I read..

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YAY. Hellboy is great. That is makin' movies, kids...

It isn't a new thing to say that Internet-based communication lacks the subtlety of emotion and intent that face-face communication has. What I am interested in is this - will it ever change? Will it ever get better? What percentage of communication really does lay in the unspoken facial movements, body language, and the spoken inflection?

Are we simply on the long process of getting used to not relying on those things to get our points across or will we rebel against these new forms of non-face-face communication? Will we ever get used to not seeing someone's eyebrows as they talk or hearing their intonation?

Thoughts to ponder on this memorial day.

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I've been thinking about this and we are a nation that was founded by outcasts from another society who came over to a continent that did not even belong to them, killed the natives, raped their women and then founded a nation "under God." And when we finally did give the Native Americans some of their land back, we had stripped it of all of its natural resources.

However, another side of me says, "Screw it, the indians hadn't even invented the wheel when we conquered them."

I don't know if most of us are stuck in certain moments? I mean something happened and we never really moved away from that point although time and life has moved on.... At the risk of appearing boring I'll tell you about my moment:
At the age of about nineteen my life had been nothing if not colourful. Disfunctional family, in local authority care, various abuses and a dismall lack of self esteem. I moved to a shared house in town, it had been arranged for me by a social worker. It was a fresh start but I had little self belief and felt unloveable. One night I remember looking at the night sky from my bedroom window and seeing loads of shooting stars, it seemed significant, like some kind of watershed. That night I had a dream in which a voice kept saying, "don't worry, Helen is coming." The next day, completely out of the blue a girl knocked on my door. She was my next door neighbour, I had never seen her before. She had forgotten her key and needed to climb over from the garden. Her name was Helen! Without going into the details we had a crazy love affair and both swore we were soul mates. It was like we had been waiting to meet each other. We said we were made for each other and would be together forever. Her early life had been very similar to mine, we understood each other instinctively. It was great until one day she just left without explanation. I could not get her to come back or tell me what had happened. Out of the blue, six months later she knocked on my door again. She was moving to London, she asked me to go with her but I just turned away, I thought she would just hurt me again. I never saw her after that.
Life has moved on a lot since then, I have all the trappings of normal life these days, married, family, career and all the rest of it. Somehow though part of me has remained stuck in this moment, the loose ends and the lack of explanation just left me with unanswered questions.
I would like to know how other people have got stuck in a moment.........I think it happens to a lot of people.

Id just like to give everyone some insight into my self

(1) Im loyal to a fault
(2) Sometimes impulsive
(3) Opinionated
(4) Considerate
(5) Vain
(6) Judgemental
(7) Conniving
(8) Orderly
(9) Motivated
(10) Immature

Thats it for now

I am interested to know if I'm the only one who feels like this?

When I was a kid, I was distinctly aware of getting older. In those days the years and months counted for something. When I was fifteen, of course I knew I was different to a seven year old.

This process seemed to stop at around the age of twenty and the years became a blur. Is there really much difference between being twenty and thirty? Is there that much added maturity? Do you think that much differently? Apart from the physical things of course, obviously they do change.

Now I am forty for the most part I think just the same as I did twenty years ago. I find it hard to believe I am this age. It doesn't seem possible.

Somehow I expected to feel different like between seven and fifteen but I don't. Sure I am aware of the things that have happened over the years but they all melt into one.

What I am starting to worry about now is that I will feel the same when i get to sixty or eighty. Man! An eighty year old who can't accept that he is not still twenty..... now that is scarey!!

I was watchin MTV one day. They think there all big and bad cause they don't censor or that they haven't sold out like those "other channels". BULLSHIT!

I happened to stumble upon an Eminem special a few weeks ago. They were playing all of his music videos. They played "Cleanin' Out My Closet" they bleeped the following words: shit, gun, killed, shot and im pretty sure they bleeped "bullets". Isn't that censorship?

If MTV is uncensored, then why did it bleep those words? If we all of us Americans have Free Speech, then why can't people swear on TV?* Isn't swearing a part of speech? What if swearing is the only way someone can express his/her hatred, anger or pain?

What do YOU think on the subject of censorshop?

I'd finish but its late and I have to wake up tomoro.

*note: I understand that not all channels, censor so heavily, so don't bother pointing it out.

The death of a US soldier in a roadside bombing in Iraq today marked the 400th American death in the country since the initial attacks in March. and that's not counting the dozen or so that died in the two helocopter crashes today. So we're up to 415-ish unnecessary deaths, and that's just Americans. That's not counting the Brits and Italians and other countries involved. And don't forget the Iraqis. Many thanks to the bloodlust of the Bush administration for crushing the families of those killed and wounded. And yet, most of the American public still supports the war. Because, after all, if we don't support the war, we're unpatriotic....what a load of shit. The government used (and is still using) fear as a weapon to keep the American people from resisting. Remember a few months ago when everyone was supposed to go out and buy plastic sheeting and duct tape because a biological or chemical attack was sure to happen soon? How about the terror alert colors? Hot shit Dave! They changed it to Orange! We're all doomed!

I know it's too late to do anything about it now, but we should never have attacked Iraq in the first place. Not because there would be civilian casualties, not because it would be a war over oil, but because saving the people of Iraq is NONE OF OUR GODDAMN BUSINESS. It shouldn't be this country's job to police the world. If our government really wanted to liberate Iraq from their tyrant of a leader, get the UN to be in charge of it. And "liberate" Israel too, that madman Sharon will be the end of them.

-State determines the minimum worth of a credit it will give to each student
-Federal government matches state’s credit up to certain limit
-Credit value for a student may be increased based on achievement
-The student may use this credit at the school of their choice

-Teacher receives a rating every two years minimum based on education, experience, and ability to teach
-Teachers receive a minimum pay based on their rating
-Teachers work at school of choice

-College grants to promising students who pledge to be a teacher for three to five years after graduation

-Neither states nor the federal government will fund schools that accept excess amounts of tuition from students


This basic 9-point system is designed to encourage competition among schools to get talented teachers and set up effective programs. This way thay can receive enough funding to make a nice profit.
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