So let me get this straight. You whine about AA for helping people with less opportunity than us (networking happens to be the #1 reason for people getting good jobs) but you don't care that our military has a 400 billion dollar budget? I just want to make sure I understand where you are coming from.

Take away just giving money to people they need to reform the welfare program, i have already stated this many times.. NO i am glad the money is going toward our NATIONAL SECURITY

I don't have the same opportunities as a lot of people.. my parents don't buy me things like cars and clothes... they don't have connections, i didn't qualify for financial aid, i didn't get any scholarships... but I work for things and make my own opportunities. Just like the people in the school I listed above... they don't let their situations keep them down. They work for what they want.

And I don't have a problem with the money we spend on our military each year. I want them to be protected as best they can.. I don't want a lot of casualties. I want them to find way to counter act a nuclear attack... I want them to be able to efficiently complete missions in a timely manner. So no.. I don't have a problem with it.

I do believe that more funding needs to be put into schooling to counter the differences in education, but I believe AA is past it's time and needs to end.

-Ali

Bullshit. My family was middle class and I qualified for financial aid.

And if you combine the military budget of Russia, China AND the "axis of evil" it only equals 130 Billion dollars. Even if we cut our military budget in half we would be fine to defend ourselves. What you want to support militarily is imperialism.

Welfare is not the problem. But feel free to keep whining.

Ahhh, you'll have to excuse me. The idea of "ghetto" mannerisms never occured to me, I always associate the word ghetto with places in poor economic condition instead of people and their actions.

I'm not trying to be annoyingly critical, but something still doesn't add up in your description of the school. Does it have a webpage?

good for you... do you want a sticker? I tried every which way to qualify.. nothing worked... I don't qualify for financial aid, even if your middle class family did.

onlyoneplanet: unfortuanately their webpage is extremely small with little information but here's the address. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7337/

In my part of town especially "ghetto" is used to describe people and places. Run down places with little funding, places where many fights occur, places in which the environment feels unsafe... people who are involved with gangs, who frequently are involved in fights, etc etc... the list goes on. I know it's a horrible comparison, but the movie Save the Last Dance... the guy is involved in gang related activities and comes from a low income family in the inner city, yet is intelligent and works to get somewhere in life. Yes I know it's amovie but situations like this do exist.

In college environments especially, I believe race and gender should be omitted from the deciding factors.. there should be no insight into the race or sex of the person applyin, therefore ensuring fair inclusion into the University.

-Ali

This coming from someone who compares the love between two humans to the love between a human and animals and peas and what have you. You sure are smart!

How degrading can you get?

I'm not the one comparing it... just wait... go ahead an legalize gay marriage. You'll have people wanting to marry their pets or boats and what not... they'll justify that it's true love. They'll question why it's different than two men or two women getting married. Society will rationalize it and eventually accept it and the world will fall deeper into the hole we've been digging.

I'm degrading? How so? Because I describe a group of people? I'm not basing it solely off race... you have plenty of Slim Shady wannabes as well.. and let's not forget the white trash of America who just wants to sit back and get wasted. I am not biased to any race. I'm biased against people's way of living. Raising kids to be druggies and theives and alcoholics and lazy bastards is what I'm against. Crawl out of the hole.. strive for something! I may not be too poor now, but I've been there... I've scraped for pennies, payed rent way late, eaten nothing but crackers or ramen noodles once a day if I was lucky. I've been in debt and I pulled myself out. I made sacrifices and worked my a** off. I still don't have much money and I still depend on my paychecks to get by. I wish I had more money, but I want to earn it myself.

Go ahead... make assumptions about me. I'm not some rich little white girl whose mommy and daddy pay for everything. I'm working everyday to get somewhere in life instead of depending on handouts and free money. Like I said before, I don't even qulaify for financial aid, and I'm still making it ok.

-Ali

Okay, people wouldn't be wanting to marry boats or pets, maybe one or two very strange individuals, but they're shit-outta-luck because animals and boats can't sign the legal documents necessary for confirming a marriage.

As for siblings marrying, I don't think there would be any kind of movement in such a case, be realistic here--there just simply AREN'T that many wackos out there who would want to marry their brother or sister, whereas 4-5% of the American population is homosexual or bisexual (these statistics don't include all the people who're in the closet or QQ either).

If the peas and boats were consenting adults.. why not. Fortunately that isn't possible... so let's not degrade people by comparing their love with the love of inanimate objects.