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I think that I might have lost some more weight but this is because I have been sick. My size medium pants are kinda baggy and I have to hoist them up periodically. I guess this is the up-side of being sick, eh.

Wow! Margi, you are losing weight like a guy does. Congratulations from Green. You sure you not a man? LOL I am GREEN with envy!!!!

Enterprise, Green feels your pain.

Now I have no scroll bar when LBT is full size but am still missing the last two rows of icons. Why don't you move the advert section to the right hand side? I am sure that this would solve a lot of the problems.

Ousooner, while abstinence is an approach which will work well in theory, particularly if men can also find it within themselves to commit to this, too, something which I find kinda hard to imagine I must admit, this approach will only work with a certain kind of individual. You must remember that the sexual revolution has happened and that is a genie which cannot be easily stuffed back into the bottle. Abstinence may work on the many folk who function within a strongly faith-based church-going environment. This is, however, an argument which will never fly for those individuals who function outside such an environment, and there are many of us. The sexual revolution has taken place and most of these individuals regard sex, that is friendly boyfriend/girlfriend sex without the further commitment of marriage and parenthood, as one of the rights of adulthood. The trouble, too, is that humans are hard-wired to want to have sex and even those young men and women who fully intend to be abstinent can find themselves carried away, end up going too far just one time.... Then a really nice decent young girl finds herself pregnant and she hasn't even finished school.:cry

Oops! It seems that our posts have kind of crossed in the mail. And yes, that was me, Green, who was sounding both closed-minded and undoubtedly strident as well. This is because I always become edgy and nervous when thinking of male legislators having the power to determine the rights or lack of rights that women will have over their own bodies. To have a child is a terribly big commitment on the part of a women, physiologically, psychologically, and financially. As I have previously mentioned, some of the changes in her body are very unpleasant, even for a woman who is anxious to have a child, and some of these changes will have long-term repercussions on her physical health. There are also emotional stressors to contend with and these are created by the fluctuations in hormone levels. These occur throughout the pregnancy and after the birth. Tough to get through when you want the child, and a nightmare when the pregnancy was the result of one bad night...or a couple of minutes. Then there is the financial cost of health care, maternity clothing, etc. The man's participation practically speaking starts and stops at his orgasm. That's it! He can continue going to university. He find a new girlfriend. He decide to stay with his wife, afterall. He can move to a new state. He can do whatever he likes.

To be perfectly correct, Ousooner, and I will say right now that I very much respect you yourself and the peaceable and dignified fashion in which you always express your views, Mark has been asking questions, pointed ones to be sure. He has not been telling other folks how they should manage their lives or what their personal ethical standards should be on this particular question. I still believe that women must have the final word in the abortion debate; they are, afterall, the ones left paying the price.

Well, maybe she is for them if they bring the price of pharmaceuticals down.

Airway: It seems that he will be working in Santiago which is about two hours drive from Mexico City. This is an old colonial city with a population of about a million persons which is up in the mountains but which still gets real hot in the summer. I don't deal well with heat at all. I am more of a winter woman, a real Canuck, I guess. I also don't speak any Spanish except for a few nouns and some modifiers; all verbs are missing! On the other hand, I do find Mexico interesting and maybe I might find a place which offers language classes. It seems that there will be a second group which will be sent down there in the fall. Too bad they want him to go with the first lot! I guess that is because he is a lead hand. Further grief is that I will have to postpone my plastic surgery! This means that I will not have that opportunity to look identical to your first lady until the end of 2007, damn it!:faint: And I hate being mistaken for Pamela Lee A!:paranoid

These are only general observations.

You are describing my husband here and I feel exactly the same way! He also talks during TV and movies. This leads to me snarling and shrieking at him and that ain't pretty. It is one of the few times we fight. Apart from that, the usual array of spelling and grammar mistakes recently mentioned here invariably drive me nuts, too. And people who let their brats continue to scream in public places (such as restaurants) instead of removing them until they quiet down.

What is a Flow-bee?:help:

Yah, from what I have observed the Southern Baptists seem to be the least mellow, and they seem to have the most problems with grammar and spelling.

I had no icon loss with the first two skin versions.

I think SUVs, Hummers, and the like should be illegal for they do far more to crap up the air we breathe and they burn up fossil fuels.

Any woman who persists in using abortion as a birth control device has got to be either stupid or crazy. Should stupid/crazy people be having babies in the first place? Is it good for the gene pool? And as for men giving their opinions on the abortion issue, I feel that their opinions are not wanted. Pregnancy changes a woman's body forever; it does not return to its pre-pregnancy state. Muscles are stretched, the pelvic floor drops and the bladder is shifted. Some of the consequences of this are only suffered after menopause. A woman can begin to have trouble with bladder control. She may need an operation to tighten up the pelvic floor. Certainly most women will be left with stretch marks and possibly a caesarian scar. Their breasts will change, too. For the first trimester she will suffer from nausea and during her last she will have to pee every 15 minutes. These are changes which are part of having a baby and when a woman wants to have this baby these are all part and parcel of her pregnancy. For those who absolutely don't want a baby all of this constitutes an on-going horror show. Another reason why men's opinions don't count is that sometimes men don't stick around to look after the damage that their sperm contribution has caused. There are so many, many single parent families, so many missing fathers, and so many dead-beat dads. Single parent families tend to be among the working poor and those on welfare. The lives that those families lead are far less stable and far less dignified. The level of education achieved is usually much lower. Why punish a woman who finds herself pregnant while the man gets off scot-free?

I had an abortion when I was in my early 30s. I have never wanted children and so had been meticulous about birth control. I would have had my tubes tied but no doctor would agree to do the operation. The abortion was a result of birth control failure and I arranged for this as soon as I found out that I was pregnant.

Hey, that is very cool! Congratulations to you, Gaffer.

Well, when I go into advanced and I have LB at full screen size I still have the last two rows of icons at the right hand size chopped off. This has only been a problem since the advert section of LB has been shifted to the left hand side of the page. And yes, I scroll my bar over as far as it will go!:phanvan

Thanks for the info, grrl. I can easily get my regimen changed.

As for the argument that the smoker is a charge on the medical system, well, let us examine this. Both the smoker and the morbidly obese will suffer from an array of medical problems from which your skinny non-smoker will likely be free. Big people and smokers will have a greater liability to suffer from heart disease and strokes. Smokers are subject to cancers and emphysema. Big people are subject to diabetes, problems when having dental work done (due to diabetes), possible blindness (due to diabetes), joint problems, possible amputations (due to diabetes), life in a wheelchair. Both smokers and big folk have problems with blood pressure and they say that ain't good. I am speaking here as an amateur, of course; I am sure that Was a BB can fill you in much better than I can on all the medical facts. Of course smoking is not good for you. Everyone knows that. Even/especially the smoker. I am, however, amazed at the inordinate rage which so many people feel now towards the smoker.

Addiction is addiction, whether it be to alcohol, crack, heroin, nicotine, or whatever........ Addiction is not a question moral failure as much as it is a medical problem with physiological and psychological dimensions. It often seems to me that this business of the smoker has become in the way of a witch hunt over the past 25 years. It is easy to squeal that that nasty smoker who is smoking outside but near the entrance of your building is gonna kill you but scientifically this is not so. Toxins are scrutinized in parts per million and outdoors second-hand smoke is negligible. It is much easier to blame the smoker for polluting your air than to blame those who drive cars, especially those who drive the guzzlers such as SUVs, and it is much easier to blame smokers than to turn off your air conditioner or to hang your laundry outside to dry. Or, for that matter, to skip the disposable diapers. A child will go through approximately 10,000 diapers before he is continent. I live in an area where summer has become a nightmare. Everytime we have a heatwave we suffer from toxic air. Yep, we have smog advisories and these are caused by industrial and vehicular pollution. But it has become easy to villify the smoker. This is a sign of careless thinking, I think.

I am currently on Wellbutrin XL 300mg which I take with my morning coffee.

Oh, yah, I know what you are talking about. I have two smoker friends, both male, both single, and both living below the poverty line who can really reek of stale smoke and some other odor which I choose not to define other than to say that this is what men smell like when undiluted by soap and water! Come to think of it, I have another friend who occasionally smells like that but without the overlay of stale smoke.:phanvan None of these guys live in a houses with ready access to their own personal washers and dryers.:cry They all have to leave home in order to do their laundry!

Speaking of poor hygiene, there was a girl at that school who was known as Armpits Heather.......