Forgiveness has nothing to do with whether they deserve it or not, or because of a god or whatever. Forgiveness is done to make your spirit live in a loving place inside you. In other words it is for you to have more joy. Carrying hatred, feeling it, letting eat you from the inside out is terribly hard on you.

It really does help make life much better.

Agreed.

We choose to let ourselves act or even think ignorant thoughts (hatred). We can just as easily choose not to even think that way.

My issue is the ignorance that leads to the hatred or acts of discrimination that come from the hatred. People don't even realize sometimes they are being ignorant and hateful because they are taught through family friends society religion, etc... that their form of discrimination is "right".

That is the dangerous kind of hatred.

Amen to that.

Actually though they want to treat them worse than animals.

That is because 60 percent of the population is still white and can't understand racial profiling because it doesn't happen to them.

People really need to get a clue that being white in a white controlled, white majority, etc... makes them pretty clueless about being another race or even being able to properly judge other races of people.

CDC: Many Teen Moms Didn't Believe They Could Get Pregnant
Pregnancy

By MIKE STOBBE 01/19/12 03:40 PM ET AP


ATLANTA -- A new government study suggests a lot of teenage girls are clueless about their chances of getting pregnant.

In a survey of thousands of teenage mothers who had unintended pregnancies, about a third who didn't use birth control said the reason was they didn't believe they could pregnant.

Why they thought that isn't clear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey didn't ask teens to explain.

But other researchers have talked to teen moms who believed they couldn't get pregnant the first time they had sex, didn't think they could get pregnant at that time of the month or thought they were sterile.

"This report underscores how much misperception, ambivalence and magical thinking put teens at risk for unintended pregnancy," said Bill Albert, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

Other studies have asked teens about their contraception use and beliefs about pregnancy. But the CDC report released Thursday is the first to focus on teens who didn't want to get pregnant but did.

The researchers interviewed nearly 5,000 teenage girls in 19 states who gave birth after unplanned pregnancies in 2004 through 2008. The survey was done through mailed questionnaires with telephone follow-up.

About half of the girls in the survey said they were not using any birth control when they got pregnant. That's higher than surveys of teens in general, which have found that fewer than 20 percent said they didn't use contraception the last time they had sex.

"I think what surprised us was the extent to which they were not using contraception," said Lorrie Gavin, a CDC senior scientist who co-authored the report.

Some of the teen moms were asked what kind of birth control they used: Nearly 20 percent said they used the pill or a birth control patch. Another 24 percent said they used condoms.

CDC officials said they do not believe that the pill, condoms and other forms of birth control were faulty. Instead, they think the teens failed to use it correctly or consistently.

Only 13 percent of those not using contraception said they didn't because they had trouble getting it.

Another finding: Nearly a quarter of the teen moms who did not use contraception said they didn't because their partner did not want them to. That suggests that sex education must include not only information about anatomy and birth control, but also about how to deal with situations in which a girl feels pressured to do something she doesn't want to, Albert said.

The findings are sobering, he added. But it's important to remember that the overall teen birth rate has been falling for some time, and recently hit its lowest mark in about 70 years.

Albert said it would be a mistake to come away from the report saying, "They can't figure this out?" "Most of them are figuring it out," he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/19/cdc-many-teen-moms-didnt-_n_1217977.html?icid=maing-grid7|main5|dl4|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D129021

That seems to be the reason for a lot of social ills.

Most drug addicts did not believe it was going to happen to them either.

But how do you make people stop thinking that it only happens to others?

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Sex has nothing to do with love so all the posts that implied he would stop thinking of other women would not be accurate.

I am not sure that I have ever been able to tell when a man was in love. I believe they are taught to keep their emotions hidden so it should be hard to tell.

I would guess that if they think of your needs without you having to tell them possibly?

Wanting to spend time with you outside of just sex?

Trying to be a good man because your opinion of them matters?

Hell the fact that Ron Paul came in second tells you the validity of the votes or voters....lol

Not that I am complaining. Ron Paul needs to stay in the race no matter what party he runs for so he can split the votes.

Honestly...NOT

Wishful thinking for sure.

Obama is a shoe in. The Republican are all out of their damn minds. Romney is a younger version of Bush.

Hey do Mormons believe in the burning bush story?

Since Obama is the sitting president there was a low turn out on the votes so that means absolutely nothing.

Considering that happiness is a gift we give ourselves by how we approach life daily, our thoughts of ourselves and others and how we project outwards everyday and really cannot be given to us by others. I would say that we are either happy or we are not.

I still keep an open mind about meeting someone special everyday anywhere.

If I do not find someone to share life with, it will be fine, I enjoy my life anyway. It would be nice however to share those sunsets and laughter with someone special.

Thank goodness we don't have to worry about the Republicans winning 2012 anyway. There isn't a viable candidate on the rolls to challenge Obama.

Nope. Prevent my mind from going to these places because our thoughts become our realities.

The worse that I do is wish wisdom on people.

I wish he could do more of this. It is too bad that he is as restricted as he is.

This president could have done a lot of good for this country if he would have had free hand to do so.

Socialist Party Derides Rick Perry 'Fairy Tale' Of Obama As Socialist


First Posted: 1/10/12 10:37 AM ET Updated: 1/10/12 10:43 AM ET


The Socialist Party USA is more than a little skeptical of Texas Gov. Rick Perry's claim Sunday that President Barack Obama belongs in their ranks.

"The notion that Barack Obama is a socialist ranks among the greatest fairy tales in American society -- right up there with the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and the idea that if you work hard enough your children will live a better life than you," Socialist Party spokeswoman Lynn Lomibao said in an email. "Socialists know what Obama is: another corporate funded politician placed in the White House to protect the wealth and status of the 1 percent."

Perry made his claim during the Sunday morning Republican presidential debate, when asked if he considered Obama opposed to the "founding ideals" of the United States.

"I make a very proud statement and a fact that we have a president that's a socialist." Perry said. "I don’t think our founding fathers wanted America to be a socialist country. So I disagree with that premise that somehow or another that President Obama reflects our founding fathers."

Perry went on to say that states could do a better job delivering education, health care and environmental regulation than the federal government. Obama's signature policy accomplishment in his first term is a sweeping federal health care reform law that will in 2014 require uninsured Americans to buy health coverage from private insurance companies.

The Socialist Party, which The New York Times reported last year has 1,000 members, doesn't see much socialism coming from the Obama administration.

"When Americans needed a solution to mass unemployment, Obama gave away billions in cash to bail out the banks," Lomibao wrote. "When Americans needed a single-payer healthcare system, Obama promoted a pro-health insurance healthcare 'reform' package that forced millions into junk healthcare plans subsidized by public funds. And when American workers asked for the right to join a union without employer harassment through the Employee Free Choice Act, Obama showed who he really answers to by betraying the promises he made to working people during his campaign."

The Socialist Party's presidential ticket consists of perennial candidate Stewart Alexander and former Marine Alex Mendoza.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/socialist-party-obama-perry_n_1196414.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Barack Obama Wins New Hampshire 2012 Democratic Primary
New Hampshire Democratic Primary

AP/The Huffington Post Posted: 1/10/12 09:21 PM ET

President Barack Obama has won New Hampshire's Democratic primary.

Far fewer voters participated in the Democratic primary than the competitive GOP primary, which was also being held on Tuesday.

Obama won New Hampshire in the 2008 general election, but he lost the Democratic primary four years ago. Hillary Clinton's narrow defeat of Obama, a dramatic upset coming after Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses, led to a protracted race for the Democratic nomination.

Mitt Romney was projected the winner of the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday, with Ron Paul expected to finish in second place.

There were 13 other candidates on the Democratic ballot Tuesday. The sample ballot below shows the Democratic candidates listed, via the New Hampshire Secretary of State website:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/democratic-primary-new-hampshire-obama-2012_n_1197986.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Of course you are believing your own nonsense now though.

If the concept of right and wrong is absolute as it is in religions based on smoke and mirrors to boot. If you share the belief, you are right, if not, you are wrong, there can be no respect for the wrong. They may believe or fool themselves into believing that they show respect but their belief of the wrongness of others is a disrespect within itself. So naturally it will be projected outward. The religious, speaking of the major religions that are so prevelant that they do not even see their own advantages, are one of the most disrespectful and self absorbed people you will meet. Look on these boards. They cannot help but spout off constantly about their own "rightness" and others ignorance from failure to "see". They feel superior and all knowing thanks to their delusions of grandeur. It is very disrespectful to say the least.

That is sure human of you.

Again it is sad all the way around. Sad she had to do it and sad for his family.

i have discovered usually the ones who give out their number that soon are the fast moving type. They want to get right down to business, whatever their business might be.

I usually ignore them. They need to at least write a little something first.

How very boring if they were always what you expect.