Which implied foreign policy (impacting her personally) was a good reason for a person not actually living in the states to vote. Whatever, I'm not asking you to agree with me, I just think you need to see the point I'm trying to make here.

I have said this elsewhere, I don't think the she is unaffected by it, I just think that just because you are impacted by foreign policy doesn't mean you should have to vote - otherwise you had better give the rest of the world the vote because we are ALL affected by USA foreign policy. Similarly things here in NZ are…

But you said that as someone impacted by foreign policy, she should vote. I'M impacted by US foreign policy and I don't get a vote.

You don't know which way she was going to vote! She could've voted FOR doing away with basic civil rights for everyone/more military strength/blowing up foreign people, maybe for some dumb-ass reasons to do with abortion or gay marriage. Not all ex-pats would be for Obama you know. So she also has the power to…

There's a fine line between this and imposing your will and what you think is best for the people in a country you no longer live in.

By that logic all of us in the free world should get a vote on who runs your massively influential country, and we don't. The best we can get is a shot at picking the politicians who kiss your asses the least! If you think that ex-pat Americans best represent the interests of everyone in the world, you are very sadly…

I agree with the author here - my sister and her partner live in Australia, and though her partner goes to the effort of having an absentee vote (which is his right and good on him) my sister feels it is not right to enforce her political will in a country she doesn't live in any more, because she personally doesn't…

Hahaha the punch-line was obscured on the main comments page. Made for impeccable comedic timing.

Shit a tiny brick. Is that what you poor bastards have to go through?! In my country it's a matter of going to the local Family Planning (like Planned Parenthood), having your blood pressure taken, being weighed and measured, giving your family history, then poof, $3 later there's pills. They are looking at increasing…

Anyone with AWebsiteWithCapitalization(.com) needs to be wilfully ignored.

Faaaaark, we still have John Key, so don't fly home just yet...

Oh, I know for a fact that "obese" can refer to a wide range of people, including those I would never expect it to - my Wii Fit told my roommate she was obese and I would've never picked it. But I'm nowhere near it (again, BMI scale, can't put too much emphasis on that) and I still feel like society tells me I'm a fat…

Nevertheless, Weight Watchers is owned by Heinz and operates for profit, not for the altruistic means of helping people with their food issues. No comments on it's effectiveness, I think the author was just trying to say that WW is also part of the weight-loss industry, and it is an extremely profitable industry to be…

I can see what you're trying to say here, there are people carrying a little extra weight (I'm one, but not even overweight on the admittedly bullshit BMI scale) and then there are morbidly obese people. When we rave on and on about the obesity epidemic and how unhealthy it is to carry extra weight, people like me who…

Instead of buying pink crap I am going to grow out my leg hair for breast cancer awareness, because it is all meaningless anyway.

Last year I saw a show on TV that talks about where peoples food comes from, and it had an episode regarding pork, and it touched on the issue of sow/farrowing crates. The presenter of the show actually asked a member of the pork board "I'm a parent, you're a parent, doesn anything about this strike you as cruel?" as…

I'm not a parent but I can see how the fears of parents are preyed upon for profit. I can see it particularly in ads for antibacterial soap, where after using the product, children are wrapped in a safe, disease-free antibacterial bubble. This fear is exploited in the car seat industry, in ads for life insurance, or…

But probs not in the next four years! That shit is stoopid.

seconded. Bleurgh.

I too am in a long term relationship - but I find that my feelings for a person colour how attractive I find them. It's not as if I don't notice other men, but my man IS the most attractive person to me because I love him. I have been told he is a good looking guy by other ladies - but what matters to me is how much…