Thursday, August 13, 2015

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Rip OIff

You care about separating me as a separate race from everyone else and are incompetent.  How'd you like that to happen to you?  Might as well put you in the same room as a lion.

Wow

So, you Europeans aren't all you're cracked up to be.  You're not nice and succumb to ^America^, whatever you're doing.

SOMEONE ELSE

MAKE FUN OF SOME OTHER ATTRACTIVE PERSON YOU'RE JEALOUS OF

You All Made the World *Beep*

No one likes me cuza * * * Tim Burton and Johnny Depp spreading false feelings about some girl online and convincing them to be mad.

Disclaimer: The stars are like exclamation points, don't represent a curse word.

America's b*

Why did I say that now?  Ah.  I will be disrespected just because people want race to matter again.  I feel I get kicked or left out of everything for being inhibited.

cont.

This happens in the other way, too.

America is b*******.  (Ha ha ha.)

It's so weird, I don't even remember what the other way was.

2 Cellos - Viva la Vida



I don't know what country they are, but notice how everyone listens to them in ways people chose to not listen to me cuz my dad's American like they're and my mom is not European.

Making the Glass 1/2 Empty

Did you ever consider if you make something seem like it's a punishment or bad, then a bad punishment will have taken place and you will never believe you are worth anything.

Irish Names

My last name, from my dad.. is not directly from Normandy.  There's a famous Irish singer named Orla Karron Fallon, whose maiden name I found was French.  Must be cool!

IMDb - The Soapbox

Are you more real English? or Anglo-Saxon?

Anglo-Saxon from what I know 

IMDb - The Soapbox

What part of Germany are your ancestors from?

Southeast, Southwest, Northeast, Northwest

not even in Germany that I know of 

IMDb - The Soapbox

Are you more Southern Irish or more Northern Irish? Dublin area?

I think more of my real Irish is Southern Irish.

 

Under Pressure

Anyway, if I make a slip but not a big booboo, you can't just condemn my whole life, if it's not illegal.  Why would I mean something bad, do I seem possessed?  All that pressure and no fun as a reward for being good, just more pressure.

I feel mad..

..when it's like supposedly I'm not perfect but without even wondering Ellen gets to be considered perfect, when I used to be.  My dad got harsh on me and made my life hard.  I didn't really do anything.

Ellen

Why does Ellen find something about you that isn't that wrong that she dislikes and does something mean about it without ever telling you 1st what it was?

She does do this, right?  I'm not trying to make anything up.

Then, you get very upset and then she does something else?


Some things that have happened to me were pretty bad, tho I hope it was not on purpose by anyone.  Well, also, to note, I don't think like her and I don't belittle myself compared to anyone!


I mean.. Ellen always seems like she thinks there's something wrong with everyone.  She'll look down, change her tone, act a funny way, etc., and it offends them, who they are.  I know a lotta fans are obese, but even if you're not obese you still have problems.  I kinda know what they could be.  I'd still be accepting and "in" on others, for them, and for their feelings.  I like to stand with the underdogs/outcasts, against bullies and meanies etc.

Everyone just wants attention, and I know that's on the agenda.  What is Ellen doing?  Fixing up the world emotionally getting ready for just that but without fun in the process in many ways?  Sometimes, I don't know where I find myself online getting attention so much.  More popular people need to be publicly active online!  Too bad for failed social networking sites.

Pressured

No, I don't desire for people to be with me when I'm naked, who does?  Why do I feel pressured about this?  I don't like that.  It's not important.

Apology

Well, sorry, Ellen, if you wanna keep track of what people've done is up to you.  I don't know how I found myself involved.

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OK OK

So, Bella Thorne is more successful than me in looking good in many important ways.  We both are worthy human beings, tho.  Things she's particularly good at is her fair red hair/highlights.

Her face seems very strong.  She's a beautiful kind of girl with a nice figure.

You know, she really seems to have turned on later in her life.  A lotta people are like that these days.  Why act overly excited while feeling tacky concerning the type of hype there is for Burton, tho?  You need to gain his collective respect, not serve him.

Question

Why is Ellen DeGeneres [technically] "unforgiving?"  Like, if she catches you off, she thinks you are bad.  I think I have a problem cuz I'm in an experiment, and my dad's wrath has gone crazy.  That's pathetic.  I don't really think like a normal person like I used to.  I try and fail.  It's like forgetting how you used to be and only getting worse but much worse and out of tune with what you need.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Attention for Good Reasons

What happened to all the good people who deserve their kind of attention?  You're just gonna burst out later saying I'm not the one, that good people are really bad, too.  You should be nice to people to start with rather than become upset and say it was all a mismatch.

Bad?

Why does everyone think I'm bad?  I just have private thoughts and others find out.  They aren't bad.  I just think others are bad.

I tried to sleep more so I wouldn't do any more damage, like weird things coming up.

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Topic: Disagreements

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Edit: No offense, just a technicality.

cont.

Not to make fun of anyone for being dark.  I just noticed it happened, that part as an impersonal statement or not sarcastic.

Race

Someone led me to discovering this..

I know French people, which includes Ellen DeGeneres, perk up when a minority position race is brought up, like blacks.  They are such a spoiled country.  If anything in the "South" makes it, it's them!  Think, why is Canada "dark?"  Like Latinos.

Upset?

My explanation was thorough and to the point.

Disagreements

I guess they happen.  Maybe, people aren't all they're cracked up to be cuz it's old school for most.

Edit: No offense, just a technicality.

Innocent

Oh, and nothing wrong was done.

Record-Keeping

Do you like people who keep a record about if you've done something wrong?  I has spoken!

Only someone pathetic would have to do that.

Wow, tho, I'm always considered wrong.  Not really.

It's not a win-win question for anyone.

Why does Ellen do that?  Of course, she's not really easily considered perfect.  She just likes to be the scorekeeper and has a thing about always being right or being wrong one or more times, not just one time I am upset about something weird.  You know, when I started watching, she was actually rather troubling.

I am not gonna wait for someone to get more used to knowing what's wrong to beat me and be considered better than me in life.  You'll always find a problem, somehow, it seems.

Also, what she considers wrong..is wrong!  Because if she does something illegal and hurtful a lot I can get mad and curse a lot.  I did stop, not sure why, maybe cuz it just seemed stupid.  No one told me to stop, but when I did they got mean.  They were "hiding" a punishment.  Everyone just keeps getting meaner and meaner.  1st, you did something wrong to me, and no it's not okay.  Then, you ruin my life for our disagreement.  I didn't suggest anything like that for you, so how could someone win like that, huh?  I may not always do what I should, but so what?  That's because I was confused or didn't know.  My life is just dragging along and no one cares.  I discovered if I were a dancer, I may be suicidal at my limited options in life.  They just said I am bad again because I cursed, but I already explained why it was okay!  If it has to do with how long, I guess you wanted an excuse to be mean to me whenever you want.

Anyway, you all had a support system.  You would never wind up this crazy and alone!

I'm still interested and haven't said something.  I guess some people, tho hurt more easily, are still right.  You can't hurt people just because you don't wanna admit to being wrong.

What, now, for me?  Plotting against my life in suggestive and elaborate ways?

If someone didn't really say what to do, then they didn't say it!  I had that as a problem.  I simply felt/relayed they were already unclear and didn't have it together.  This misunderstanding is not my fault.

I guess I got more upset when wronged.

Hey, is Ellen threatening someone to go on her show cuza me?  Ellen doesn't have to say they are wrong..  I mean, really, she can just be nice and say they are perfect and be interesting in not a mean way if she can to sensitive people.  There's no "I have to be mean" because someone took offense.

Did you know Ellen already outed me cuz I thought someone said to call them the N word?  They also dig back to when I was a kid.  She doesn't seem to do things like that cuz otherwise I would not watch the show so I don't get in trouble.

You know, I'm considered perfectly behaved.  I just had little mishaps, hardly anything, just a few times to remember but not literally just bad.  I am not here for someone to ruin it.  I already said I don't think I'm bad because of Ellen.  You keep acting like I am.  What is it that matters that happened specifically?  Oh, you don't talk to me, literally, like so I can recognize it from a person to hold it up to.

I could go on and on..

If someone is already a good person, Ellen can't say they aren't, with so many people believing the opposite.

You know, you shouldn't have a hard time with Ellen.  She's already on your side cuz she thinks I'm bad.

How do you feel about money?

I don't have much of it.  Is being a film actress a moral choice in lieu of money?

White Rules

You're used to living by the rules where you're white and only whites can win, whereas otherwise would be different.

Slowing

I need to be in the process of pursuing a rewarding career.  I dunno, I need money to eat out when I go to Disney until early December.  I wonder if I should have done/do the film acting or modeling class and bring my food to Disney instead of buying it.

Why..

Why would you be nice to late Generation X just to say you did it and then be done our lives mean nothing?

Strolling Backstage.com

I guess I should grab a role when it comes because it's hard to stay fit and getting a role right away will bank better.

However, I have no money right now and might not have much until my Disney pass runs out in early December.  It's so distressing.

Not on the Bad Side

So, you act like you don't get enough attention from famous people.  You while away entertained by how white your mom is and how strong your dad is.  You're patient.  You didn't need to talk to me.  You still get it slowly while the world waits in the end.  You're not on anyone new's bad side.  You have all your other friends just waiting, too.  You're all in this together.  At any moment, you could break out, like Lily Rose Sweet Melody Depp.  Or Bella Thorne.

Talking to Folks

I don't mind talking to outcasts, but in real life I can hold my demeanor.

Agitated

Who made my life agitated just to say, "I did it?"

Chickens

People who follow bad people to be popular and make it a point of showing off in their life.  I didn't name any of them.

I see

I can see them saying "oh no" about people my age having opportunities presented to them.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Routine

I can't always stop and think, I know.

My Dad

People like to treat him like a baby.  He can certainly react like one.

New Videos of Me Singing



New Twitter Bio

Fort Lauderdalian
christinabarrett.com
Born on May 20, 1986

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New Video of Me Talking

New Photo of Me

New Audio of Me Singing

It's a little interesting and different.

UN-qualified

Whoever said Ellen was qualified to tell my family what to do is a loser!  Because someone just said I don't deserve my dad.  My dad is not qualified to order me about, and I'm also almost 30.  In fact, no one is qualified to tell me what to do.

A Taste of Others's Own Medicine

It doesn't seem some people accept when they are not the popular one at the moment.

Interesting Competitive Edge

I am looking up national talent shows.  I imagined Bella Thorne looking at it like she was better off but other famous people that they're worse off themselves than the contestants.  That's very interesting.  Unfortunately, I think it's because Ellen is punishing me (not for a valid reason in my opinion) by uplifting Bella over me in relation to what I am to her now.  Maybe, only some attractive people can make it in Hollywood because of this, and they are held above me rather than beside me, as tho they should be in my business to begin with.

Being Cooler

I don't mind at all if someone wants to do something cool cuza me, like instead, but where is it a secret?  I mean, it's not something I've taken responsibility for cuz the truth was held over me.  It seems sneaky, but I don't care.  It's just funny that people hold out on me.  If I was known to die or something, people would heave a sigh of relief and start opening up, partying, and living life.. just cuz the deed they believe had been done.  Heaven knows if I were in jail for illegal activity for life.

Even before..

..people were at me when I got kicked out of my major supposedly for being too shy.  I didn't even flunk out.  Maybe, I should have in some of the classes.

Fine

I was better off before all the bad rumors about me started and I started staying home all the time.

Well, I don't take that.

I always grew up considered the most well-behaved person, and now with the new way of life people pick at things I do or did that aren't technically that bad.

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Re: What did you want to be when you grew up?

doctor > artist > teacher > writer > singer & dancer > movie actress

I want to be a Hollywood celebrity and anchor a show I co-host.

The show will be for things like
•Europeans - to ask their opinion on things in life
•other races - to ask how they feel about race
•talented kids - singers, dancers, actors, etc.
•adults with hobbies
•actors from movies
•other celebrities

Maybe, I want to be an actress myself, 1st. I am 29 years old. I also want to sing and dance. I can do this show on and off to fit around my schedule, but I can't seem to afford it now. 

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I didn't do anything that bad.  I just used some store cards, was unable to do well in college cuz my high school did not prepare me, etc.

Lily Rose Sweet Melody Depp, Annabella Avery Thorne (Bella Thorne)

..I used to be considered good, but now I have everyone at me for no reason.

cont.

I mean, like whatever the formula was for me applies to them, instead, cuz it's unfair, I don't like it, and they won't stop.

*Light Bulb*

I came up with a new idea.  If something for me is unfair, that means whoever is in the wrong in this gets things unfair for them because they said it was the good idea for someone else and it wasn't an accident.

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Re: Asian men are the nicest ones in the world.

Asians are an interesting race. They are good at being Asian.

I don't know why Asians would be so ardent about their race and jealous of whites the next. 

Monday, August 10, 2015

Wiz
Backstage

The Irish

I decided not to look at the Irish as weird but just another place for people to live with some assets over things like the English, tho mixing babies makes no sense unless the parents both are ardently or from blood English.  Also, you need to have a good couple to make good babies.
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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Good News

I was able to sit for about 48 minutes and do weight lifting with Body Beast - Beach Body.  I get bored with most workouts or sore, but this was great.  I can adjust my weights to proper size.  I feel pumped up.  I went down to 10 minute a day before with regular exercise and then to like 2 minutes from a book at a time/per day sometimes.  It doesn't replace my aerobic exercise of jogging at least 1/2 hour a day, so I need both + 2 dieting plans - using NutriBulletRX for fruits and veggies to extract vitamins and Try Food Lovers.  It tells you to increase metabolism by eating every 2-3 hours and having a variety of foods via the 3 meals a day + the snacking exists in between every 2-3 hours til an hour before bed or something like that.  There are 3 kinds of foods, slow carbs (like veggies and I think at least some beans,) fast carbs (like fruits and breads,) and proteins.  There are also fats, which I think includes nuts.

All you need for Body Beast is a weight lifting bench, which is easy to manipulate, and weights that you can lift about 10 times in a row.  I have a set of 2, 3, 5, and 8.  This time was mostly 2 and 3.  There are other optional equipment I think.

So, adding the help of NurtiBullet and balancing my diet with Try Food Lovers, I can still eat the foods I love on the side or if that means main meal partly.  A good meal is a good thing.

Saturday, August 8, 2015

A Change of Heart

Isn't Ellen great?  I think she knows something about what she's doing.  She brings back that 1980s feel.  I was talking about her but not attacking.  We should appreciate all she does and represents.

Friday, August 7, 2015

Ellen

Why did Ellen say in a commercial, "He's fine?"  She thinks she's the "big shot" who punishes younger people, but if she did she's got it wrong.  I notice she thinks she just made a statement as to who she is.  I think she's full of "empty promises."  I don't see it in it in her personality complications.  Seems fabricated to be a witch.  That's just a neutral statement to something that is already topic and belief in certain opinion.

No sarcasm intended to Ellen.  Just the 411.  She literally punishes people and it has different aspects.

New Audios of Me Playing Piano and Singing



Rank of White Ethnicities, Then?

Swedish/Finnish
Norwegian
Dutch
Danish

and then the rest

hard to think about the rest

I'm not white!

If Middle Easterners are colored, I can't seem to focus and say I'm white.  I am not sure what it's like to be all technically white.  I don't even know if it's better.  They are secretive and shy.  Good ole Ellen DeGeneres can help with this!

I wonder what the hierarchy is..

Middle Eastern
White
Latino
Asian
Black

And you thought there were only 3 races, "White, Black, and Asian."  You know other ethnicities have migrated like the Latinos in history.

A reason Asian is above Black is because Blacks have Afro hair.  I'm even straightening mine out, now.  I've seen Middle Eastern girls, and they have wavy/cury hair like their dads.  Apparently, it gets straight later on.

I think Jewish is Middle Eastern.  Too bad all you people who think Hitler had any idea that was based in anything that made sense or whatever.  I don't fear Hitler and the devil.  I fear a God.

When I watch..

..Bella Thorne in Shake It Up, I feel I'm a loser just cuz I'm not being displayed in a TV show like this one.

Just Being Stupid

There exists no reason that I should have my relationships taken and ruined.

Why

did Johnny Depp and Tim Burton lure me in with no reward?  Something happened, and everyone famous seemed to know and made the world boring and bad.

The Good Old Days

Maybe, some people made themselves underdogs before.

I liked when people were nice when it was about me.  It was about the big, big world.  Anything was possible.  We had new relationships.  We were still young.  Now, we're going to die, people who were once young in our lives.

We didn't have a good childhood, but we still fixed it, made it thru.

Someone has destabilized my family life and support system.  I don't have friends and don't have family, all cuza the world going crazy because of Johnny Depp and Tim Burton with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a favorite movie they took a lot of credit in.

Some of you are still young and have what you want.  Yet, it seems bleak.

I am very nice, but one thing gone wrong, with me, no friends.

What happened to social media?  The internet and computers.

What did we want, happiness, peace, order, excitement?  Instead, we are suffering and miserable?  Looking forward to that which will not happen.  A sense of joy and knowing.

Problem

Ellen thinks I have a problem.  She is mean to me.

Who cares about how spoiled that girl is from The Brady Bunch, little Cindy?  If she, as a public icon, is never old enough to have kids but people born much later are, then we're talking about a serious problem.

Just let life go on.

Well, I just got my female thing for the 1st time in 4 months.

I have been relaxing etc.

What if we abused people who were all Caucasian, instead, too?

This is just ridiculous.  Ellen is already a bit old and still trying to yap everyone off in her attitude.

I bet Ellen's mom feels sorry for her.  Baby Boomers are spoiled.  My Gramma is more suggestive to me now or vicious sometimes in her messages.

Baby Boomers like kids born in the late 1990s.  No one cares about me cuza my age, born in 1986.  I'm always too old and from a *beep* generation.

I think Ellen acts like I want to feel perverted.  I am a mature adult, tho.  What do you want, for me to hate my parents?

Why does Ellen act like I'm the one with a problem?  I already said I don't have a problem just cuz I was born in 1986.

Ellen wants to take my relationships, too, and leave me in the dust.

I always feel bad in a certain spot, too.  Once I used the word m*********** as a post against her hurting me or doing something bad.  Why do you all act like I'm like everyone else, not that good for Ellen when before I was?  How stupid!

Ellen hurts people to teach them a lesson.  Why is she so popular?  I don't need a lesson.  I need people to be nice to me, or else things won't go right.

Now, I have a right to speak the truth and get my life back.  I said Ellen is vicious, but I didn't say anything "wrong."  Let me know if I did via a message online.

Why do people act cool and I find them secretly punishing me later for no reason?

I don't mean anything against Ellen, but she's involved in this experiment on me and has had a negative impact.  I don't see anyone else being tested like this.

They're on a yoyo of what I did in the past, judging me as a biracial.  They don't do anything like this for anyone else.

I don't want to say anything against Ellen, but she's already onto me and denies it sometimes.

Why is she so dramatic like that?  She seriously has a problem.  I'm not on the bad side.

This is crazy!  You'll be sorry later  you didn't take the signs and instead went about to getting your life's due by punishing an innocent person like me for no reason other than to hurt me.

I should not be talking about Ellen like this, but she is intent that my life can't go as it should but others's have improvements.  Maybe, I should let bygones be bygones, why I wasn't as mad as I could be.  Can't I dish the 411 to other people?  Sorry, it seems I am too dumb to say it right.  I don't like how I feel I attacked Ellen cuz I didn't.  I don't know if she does this stuff, but I mean she says she does.  I hope I can figure out better things so as not to be like this, the way this post looks.  I am posting it cuz it's significant, to get down the facts and prevent bad things from happening.  It's what happened to my thoughts.  Again, sorry.. let me know what I should do via talking to me online or some other ways that are okay.  Thanks!

Thursday, August 6, 2015

Something Sick

Ellen had my dad act like he had kids with someone I like to avoid me and not to be interested in me, like Ellen says it's wrong.  This is just "mindless."  I can't have my whole life be constricted by Ellen.  I already said she was hurting me with noises in my room.  So what if I cursed about it on my blog?  It's my blog, and it's not even her website.  She can't go around manipulating my life and getting people to think I'm bad eventually.

I figured something out, but..

..it isn't a nice subject.  I don't have personal problems with Bella Thorne.  Ellen used to follow me online, but she started being mean and told people to be mean to me with cameras and microphones in my room..  I finally lost it and cursed about it.  After I'd done it awhile is when Ellen threatened my life's peace.  Now, she likes Bella, but she keeps others from making me feel good.

It's about Bella Thorne.  I like her, but I don't think anyone likes how she is convinced she is better in sick ways.

You know, Ellen thinks I have to put up with this.

You know, my Twitter is starting to suck.  I wonder what will happen.  I'm not a bad person.  I don't need to be fondled by certain people with a superiority complex who are younger than me etc.  It seems anyone my age and older gave up on social media to avert me.  They're playing a losing battle.

Let me know if I need to fix anything offensive I said.

How would you feel..

How would you feel if people tried to convince you you deserve to feel hurt? and put you down.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Ellen was wrong.

Entourage wasn't in fact the biggest thing this summer.  It was Jurassic Park.

I know.

Kids at school messed up with how I give 1st impressions.  They probably attacked me out of sanity.

I moved out of Florida, and I couldn't be in a good group of people.  They all seemed to fall.  Too bad.  I guess they had to be "too good" for me.

If your life is important to you..

..you will not dwell on Belle

She does deserve attention, but in the big scheme of things, you don't need to wake the sleeping dragon.  You don't need to wake her up just to get rid of me.  She is having fun in what she does and is already one of the most popular people in the world.  What is the nature of what more one in that position could need or want?  Nothing wrong with being hyped about someone other than oneself.  It's just that's not all that's happening.  I just feel with her I become infamous.  She seems to be able to show off being a good person, and I was very good, too, but now it's not the same.  May I ask why it's pointedly all for her rather than like with me looking to another or others? or for a larger group of people than "just the 2 of us?"  Anyway, whatever is happening in this group or chain of events.. why is it about dissing me at all?

Literal

I'm not just being social.

Bella?

Why is everything I earned for her?

Stealing My Rep?

Why are people suggesting because of something I said that they for some reason noticed, which was true and proved them wrong.. people are acting like everything is about Bella Thorne being better than me?

Bella Thorne?

Why suddenly are people treating me like I'm bad?  I wanted to be happy I had a Norwegian or Norse last name, but people are k***ing me for it to be for Bella Thorne.  Everything in my life I achieved has to be given to her.  By Ellen or otherwise for Ellen.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

My Idea? Whose Idea?

I wanted to host a talk show where I have
•people from Europe, to interview and talk to, about some topic maybe that they get to chose
•little children to sing and dance
•sometimes actors from good movies
•adults with special hobbies, etc.

I could co-host with others and I don't care if I like them.  I'm an anchor and in charge!

More About the War

over the Nordic countries.

I saw another ad with the Italian ladies going off screen while talking, which suggests for no reason that it means I'm stuck with a race with an inferiority complex.  They ended this one saying about banking on Germany as a hard thing to break to someone.  It's just for Bella Thorne, tho, to rub in people don't want me to be free to like and flourish in my interest in the Nordic countries.

Who would care if anyone and their brother were racially encouraged in right ways?  But why pick on someone?  How childish!

Who do you love?

Everyone!

You know, a lotta middle aged people love people who aren't streamlined beauty, per se.

I know the answer!

You think some teenager is worth more than me.

My Troubles

I should have focused more on just music in high school if I wanted to go to a conservatory or ^music college^.  However, I knew sorta a lotta music in the end via piano and my tastes..  I kind wanted to sing, but I have the "admitted" situation that Johnny Depp sang Sweeney Todd as an actor and since I could not afford voice on top of piano and ballet, which are related to enjoying performing.. I found Johnny Depp does not support people who sing who weren't in private voice since some point as a kid.

Monday, August 3, 2015

Prayer

It makes me happy when people are nice to other people.

Being Scared

No one should be scared if they talk to me.

#1's

If you don't think you're a #1 for your generation, why would you tell a kid they are a #1 to you?  Are you capable of communicating with someone who is considered a #1 if you say you aren't "as good??"

Arguing

Why do people argue me when they know the answer and that they are wrong?

Race

I don't see all whites as equal.  You know how black people feel clean?  Well, I feel clean.  The funny thing is I'm white and have a little Southern European, 0.4%.  I think Britney is about 1% but not sure.

Human Species

.."All men are created equal."  Who's really American?  Is being American a dead end?  Americans always respond calm, cool, collected, and informed.

Facebook

Why does it matter so much who our ancestors were thousands of years ago? That doesn't come in handy when it comes to things like your parents being mushy. I'm not much of a mushy person. I am closer to my relatives in the Stone Age than the ones I have now.