I don't think she's too worried about fraud. If she's found guilty, she still wins. Guilty: goes to jail, receives health care for free. Not guilty/never tried: receives health care for free. It's a win/win for her.

Here's a fun fact for you hard-core American idiots - George Washington wasn't a Naturalized American citizen, neither were the few presidents to follow him! Hmmm.... peculiar, we've come so far, yet we are still no where near where we should be. GET OVER YOURSELVES!!!! Stop making up reasons why you don't like him to cover up the fact that you're all racist and cannot get over the idea that a Black American was voted into office. A black man can be your football hero, but he sure as hell can't run the country - you're all a bunch of hypocritical fools. When you actually benefit from his administration, you'll all be singing a different tune!

My husband and I had that happen to us at a WalMart a few years ago. We went to purchase a swing set that was marked at $150.00 on the outside display. I wrote down the UPC code so I knew I'd be picking up the correct one. When we got to the register it rang up for twice that! When we had the cashier call the manager over, he indignantly told us we were wrong and that there was absolutely no way the store could have made that mistake. My husband escorted him outside with the upc code and matched the one that we were purchasing to the advertised one outside.
We walked out with our $150.00 swing set, and the manager was out there changing the price as we pulled out of the lot.
We also never returned to that WalMart.

I don't know where the hell all of you people are from, but where I grew up if a kid was on the wrong bus the bus driver had to call it back to the school, then BRING THE CHILD BACK TO THE SCHOOL. Where the hell is the responsibility?!? These are just children! Hell, when my son started school last year, his bus driver had a list with everyone's names on it and their stops. She meticulously kept an attendance chart everyday to ensure their safety. These our young children, many of whom don't know where they belong, especially at five years old, that poor child was probably told by some other idiot to get on the bus in the first place! Anyone who is that irresponsible and callous should never be allowed near children, ever.

I hope you have a child with a mental disorder that cannot control himself. Then take him in public. THEN what are you going to do? Stop going places?
Or just have a child, and take him on a plane at 1 year old, go anywhere. Then when he doesn't behave in your perfect little perception of a child, come back and say the same thing.

You're ignorant.

I vaguely recall having BEEN a child once, and I wasn't perfectly behaved in public every single time we went somewhere. You cannot treat children like little adults. They are children. You may be able to sit on a plane for four hours without a problem, but most kids I know need to move, they need stimulation other than what little an airplane can provide.

I have traveled twice with my son. Both times he was better behaved than most of the adults that were on the plane! - not to mention one of those occasions we were stuck in an express jet delayed for 2 1/2 hours. I heard more grown adults b****ing about the delay while he sat quietly and patiently. Even when we got to the airport, we missed our connecting flight, while waiting 4 hours for the NEXT flight, he was STILL better behaved than at least half of the others in the same position as us. - he was 3! (the first time I traveled with him he was barely 2).

Maybe some of the other passengers should seek anger management counseling. Or maybe I should teach my son to act like a total ass like the rest of the traveling population.

Water: ice cold water. Cold water helps boost your metabolism and drinking a lot of it keeps you full; therefore, you don't eat as much food.

How are kids ever going to learn if we, as parents, continue to extract everything that could possibly make them feel bad? Saying "swing batter, batter" was, in my day, a way of getting behind your teammates. Back in those days, we were taught to be respectful and say "good job" if someone struck out.
Children need to learn how to find comraderie in others and learn how to deal with disappointment as a team, not just to have Mommy and Daddy make it all go away. I seem to recall that if my team lost, the whole team lost, not just the final out of the game.
We'll never teach our kids a damned thing at this rate!

Ok, I have a few things things to say...for starters, the color white, contrary to what Vince thinks, stands for the purity of the woman on her wedding day. Not only as in virginity, but in all other aspects (it has also come to symbolize how pure the love is between the woman and man).
Second, let's all remember, Elizabeth Hurley is British, NOT American.
Last, but not least: you people are pathetic to even talk about what someone you don't know, and will never meet is going to wear on her wedding day. How about I find out what you are going to wear on YOUR wedding days and complain about your choices!
Let's remember, opinions are like a-holes, and everybody's got one!

Binge drinking is less of parents persuasion as it is peer pressure. If you take the popular kids in schools it has always been the cool thing to do. It is deemed that way due to the fact that you're not supposed to do it; therefore, teenagers will go and find a way to drink, under the age, to be able to say, "hey, I had a beer over the weekend" as a way to make them popular and cool in the eyes of their peers. The probable cause of the seriousness of their drinking is more likely stemmed from the fact that it is not as taboo to give children alcohol there as it is in the U.S.A.
Children will all rebel against their parents and will push limits to try to be independent and prove they can make their own choices, even if they make bad ones. Teenagers like to, subconsciously (that's the key word here), test their limits, to prove they're adults. What better way to do it than to "act" like an adult? You always see teens smoking, despite the warnings and lengths that adults go to to educate children on those effects, why would alcohol consumption be any different? Both are deemed cool, and if the parents do it in front of their children, the children will then use the, "well YOU do it, so why can't I??" defense against their parents.
In the end it's a lose-lose battle, no matter what you do kids are going to rebell, and the more you fight, the more they'll do it. To the same respect, if you don't fight at all, the more they'll do it. In the end though, it all comes down to how gullible tyhe children are and how badly they want to be a member of the "in" crowd.
I'm sure plenty of you will read this and say I'm wrong, that you were in the "in" crowd and it doesn't apply to you....then you were probably secure with your societal place in school, or were a member of the crowd that didn't think about that, and just did what everyone else did.
Either way, just about everyone reading this had at least 1 full drink before they were Seniors in high school, whether it led to alcholism or just a plain dislike doesn't matter.

Ok people, enough with the sweet potato bashing. Personally I enjoy the classic casserole when made with yams. I could do without cranberry sauce completely though. I've never heard of oysters in stuffing, although it sounds gross.
I actually don't have too many complaints about my holiday feasts.
My family always made the best food. We'd start our feasting with endless appetizers of veggies and chips. Then my Mom-mom would bring out her specially made punch (complete with cherries at the bottom), then we'd move on to the main course: Turkey and ham, green beans (no casserole here), sweet potato (ok yams) casserole, stuffing (from the bird and not), sweet corn, mashed potatoes with homemade gravy, and then cranberry sauce. For desert we'd have our choice of pumpkin pie or apple pie with vanilla ice cream and a plethora of cookies.
Needless to say everyone brought food home, and it was all delicious!