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Except the bible places them in the Middle East - Ok, so how come they look like a middle American white couple? With a tan that took them all year to get (or perhaps spray on?)
Up close do they have blue eyes? Bet they are modern height as well, yet we can dig up bodies from the last two centuries and show the average person has gotten taller and heavier - so how come they look modern? Perhaps the last two hundred years of history are all an anti-religious plot as well.
This woman has zero fat on any part of her body but her ass - which is a large bubble butt.
The stomach is flat, her arms are perfect - and wow, she has perfect legs. It would take a large pair of jeans to put her in, but it would have to be waist free pants, since her waist is small. I'd guess 36-26-40 ?? The anti-fat people are showing they are as insane as the religious right - thats right homo's caused 9/11 - and fat people the health crisis.
What is it with right wing nuts and their homo fixation? And what is it with the white weight nuts - and how terrible it is if anyone likes a body type they don't approve of - weird fixations....and I wish both would just shut up.
Some folks seem to doubt we've tortured or taken children, but I believe 5 kids under 16 were documented as being at Gitmo - the news this week is the judge through out the case of a boy who was 15 when he was brought to Gitmo years ago. If he wasn't a terriost before, what do you think he is now with years of our hospitality?
And I recall, the news when we grabbed a couple of kids in Iraq, thought to be the children of a high level terroist - they were taken to Egypt by US personal to be tortured to punish the parent. This made international news. Perhaps FOX doesn't show you what your government is doing, but what do you think is on the tv's of the rest of the world? The pictures of the kids in Gitmo over and over again, and the missing kids we sent to Egypt.
Snipped from the New York Times:
Lawyers representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, say that there still may be as many as six prisoners who were captured before their 18th birthday and that the military has sought to conceal the precise number of juveniles at the prison camp.
One lawyer said that his client, a Saudi of Chadian descent, was not yet 15 when he was captured and has told him that he was beaten regularly in his early days at Guantánamo, hanged by his wrists for hours at a time and that an interrogator pressed a burning cigarette into his arm.
Most of the letters are let her quit.
So if she hates, I mean hates math - can she quit?
If she hates to read, can she stop? Music is just another subject, that most public schools don't teach anymore - so the only way to get a musical education is to pay for private lessons. And music like a foreign language is so much easier to learn when you are young. The older you get the harder it is to learn, and no you don't catch up to folks who've been doing it all along.
So why does 90% of this board think making your kids take music is so terrible? Do they think it is terrible they force kids to take math and reading? These are all fundamental skills, that make a difference on how their kids learn to think, and interact with the world. Some how Americans have acquired the attitude that music education is a luxury - and as such middle class parents trying to provide it to their kids are some kind of snobs, trying to live their lives through their kids. Same attitude about sports, which alot of public schools don't have anymore either! This is great every time they cut stuff from the schools its ok to look down on it, hey they cut art, but so and so is forcing their kids to take painting lessons, how terrible. But if it was at the school, and all the kids were taking it and the kid hated it, no one would say quit. Only if someone pays for it out of pocket - because then they are some kind of pushy parent.
Think of music lessons as part of her education that should be in the schools, and no you don't get to quit until you earn the right to quit by graduating and paying your own bills. What a bunch of whiny its all my parents fault for trying to give me a leg up in life, that I am such a whiny adult now.
Math is used everyday? Really when was the last time you used algebra? Calculus - trig? Math is taught because it means you haven't cut off a possible career path. Most people will not use more than the most basic math skills, unless they go into a more technical profession - engineer, programmer, accounting, doctor ... oh right all the well paid professions were the kids came from homes were their parents "pushed them"
I work in high tech, and you know what most folks have a music back ground - it makes you better at math, and gives you another creative out let. Reading music and thinking in musical patterns will help in some of your science classes, and math. And it is only in the modern age, that music was not considered essential.
They didn't take music, because mom thought they were going to be a pop star, but because it was good for them to learn. And it is a life time skill that will bring more benefits than a lot of other topics taught at school.