As a whole, age and slow driving are connected, with elderly men being by far and away the worst and slowest drivers. It's possible most of the elderly in your area are black, but as far as age-related bad driving goes, it's universal. With the younger folk, it might be related with not wanting to attract police attention, as illegal aliens also tend to drive slowly. (The Kansas City area has a huge population of illegals from Mexico primarily, and you can always tell when you're behind one, because they consistently drive `15-20 mph below the posted speed limit on the highway).
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, If you mean in reference to your ex, that's called 'obsession' dear, and it's a mental ILLNESS, not a 'disability'. Seek counseling before you start stalking her and wind up in prison.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, I guess if you lived on a diet of bologna sandwiches, it could affect the way you smell... Here's a question for YOU: Why do some black people think if a few dabs of cologne is good, bathing in the whole bottle must be great?
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, It's absolutely about flaunting wealth, the same as wearing 97 ugly-ass gold rope chains as thick as a toddler's wrist - at least three of which must have a pendant the size of a bumper sticker, pave'd in diamonds, dangling from them - and driving a black Hummer H2 with every option available while wearing ill-fitting designer 'gangsta' clothes.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, American culture's twitchy squeamishness about any indication of female sexuality has a lot to do with it. It's sort of the same impetus that causes the MPAA to rate a movie like 'Ultraviolet' PG-13, while at the same time giving an NC-17 rating to a movie like '9 1/2 Weeks.' Horrific violence is OK, but don't even hint that women are sexual beings, or else.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, I've dated three 'men' who referred to cheating someone financially or selling them shoddy, overpriced goods as 'Jewing' them. Not a single one of them saw anything wrong with that term. I (very briefly) dated one jackass who insisted my personal distaste for pork was genetic, because 'Hebes aren't able to digest pork.' I spent the fifth grade in central Texas, in a town called Corsicana, which was founded by Italian Jews. Despite this, when all my darling little so-called friends found out I was Jewish, they completely ostracized me, except to dance around me in the school yard chanting 'Jesus killer' during recess. That same year, the Social Studies teacher took it upon herself to explain to the class how the Holocaust is a 'Zionist lie' when SHE found out I was Jewish. On a more general note, Jesse Jackson hates Jews, and keeps accidentally showing it when he thinks no one is listening; and we won't even talk about Sistah Soulja. Plus, don't forget, during the Rodhamovich-Clinton Regime, every Arab terrorist in the known world was welcomed with open arms to the White House, but when Bibi Netanyahu visited, he was publically villified by the Czarina -er- First Lady. Of course the really sick, sad thing is some of the most rabid Anti-Semites I've ever met are self-hating ultra-left-Liberal Jews.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, No. Not sure what else to say... What, did your preacher use that line to justify his neanderthal stance on birth control or something?
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Ummm... Hate to be the one to break this to ya, Chief, but people in this country take the Olympics seriously too. Ridiculously so, along with all other sports. Your personal lack of concern does not equate to a national lack of concern regarding the subject, I assure you.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, What on earth could possibly lead you to believe they think that far in advance, or that logically? The kind of folks who binge drink are not the kind of folks who are capable of understanding the concept of 'consequences.'
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Trying to make you feel guilty for catching him is a very, very, VERY standard response by cads the world over. My guess is it's worked for him, and worked well. Dump him now, as I guarantee you what you are seeing is his normal behaviour pattern, and if you stay with him, you'll just get more of the same, for as long as you're with him.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Absolutely. Evolution has a funny way of fitting creatures to their environment, so a human whose ancestors were nomads in a tropical rain forest is going to have some physiological differences from a human whose ancestors were subsistence farmers in a cool, mountainous forest. One good example is adult lactose intolerance. People whose ancestors hailed from parts of the world where milk and milk products have not traditionally been part of the adult diet (Asia and much of South America and Africa, for instance) tend to have a much higher rate of adult lactose intolerance, because their systems didn't evolve to accomodate continued consumption of milk after weaning, and their bodies stop producing the lactase enzyme which breaks down milk protein.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Better than you are in Washington. Mixed-race couples get more common the further South you go. It becomes an issue of socio-economic class rather than race, the droolings of a few bigoted neanderthals all aside.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, It isn't just Goth KIDS who all look alike, I assure you. It's the whole 'having indy cred while maintaing the emotional security of being just like everyone else I associate with' thing. Or to put it a little more scientifically: 'group identity.' Being 'unique' in large groups is a social activity with a longstanding tradition among humans.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, Because they imagine they're better than you. I worked (briefly) for a very wealthy man in the KC area when I first moved here. He was one of the most miserable, judgemental, spiteful, nasty rat-bastards I have ever known, and firmly believed his money conveyed upon him special dispensation to pass judgement on everyone 'beneath' him.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, A lot of them are not 'greedy,' dear, they're 'running scared.' Especially here in America, although Britain is rapidly getting just as bad, there's no such thing as an accident or an act of God. If your doctor missed something and you wind up getting sicker or dying from it, there are literal squadrons of lawyers who would be more than happy to help you or your next-of-kin rape the doctor for every cent he/she is worth. A good example of this is those running about Vioxx/Bextra-related problems. Somehow it's the pharmaceutical companys' fault that heart problems from long-term use weren't discovered in all the short-term clinical trials, so now we'll sue them and make sure that drug research in the U.S. goes the way of the dinosaur. Your doctors aren't 'greedy,' they are 'covering their asses' by recommending lots and lots of tests, and even procedures which might prove unnecessary, but at least your ambulance chaser lawyer can't accuse them of not providing care.
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Name : Ann L. Lowenstein, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Animist, Age : 37, City : K.C., State : MO Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 
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