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Due to some complications from a hernia surgery when he was a 3 month old baby, my fiancee can't have kids. I have a 3 1/2 year old son from a previous relationship and he wants a sister badly! lol. So (among other options) we are considering an adoption. How does the adoption process work? What kinds of things do adoption agencies consider when talking to prospective parents? Did you have any negative experiences with the process? Any advice? Thanx in advance for the input :)

1)People with multiple facial piercings or tattoos.

2)People who own rottweilers, pitts or dobermans.

3)Low income families.

4)The very rich.

5)Third world countries.

6)Your country's police force.

7)Religion (in general)

Just for curiosity's sake.

Ok, apparently the father of the victim is now suing Greyhound over the issue. What do you guys think of this? Justified? In my opinion, in this case, suing the bus line would be detrimental to justice. My heart goes out to the family, but I don't see how Greyhound, let alone anyone else, could have predicted that one stranger would totally snap, muder and behead another stranger. Yes it happened on the bus, but can you really hold them accountable for someone elses actions? Opinions?!

I know Schneiders was on the recall list. Does that count their hotdogs too? Or just the deli meats? Anybody?

I think at the very least they should be sterilized. There is no treatment or "cure" for being a pedophile and the damage they do to their victims lasts a lifetime. Not only that, but some abused children turn into abusers themselves. Not to mention that sterilization would greatly decrease their ability to commit the crime again. In your opinion is it ethical to sterilize a pedophile or rapist?

I have always wondered why marijuana isn't legal. I mean, come on. Prohibition doesn't work. We know that for a fact. Actually, it does the exact opposite of what it is intended to do. I mean, I'm not trying to say everyone should go out and smoke weed, but there has to be a better solution than just making it illegal, because clearly, that doesn't work! Please read my blog, and tell me what you think... (if the link does work, its in my yahoo! 360 profile)

http://ca.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-mBDnPYUieqprsOnM...

And please, I'm looking for mature responses. I don't mind a debate, you don't have to agree, but please refrain from being a douche.

I think anyone convicted of a heinous crime against a child should be automatically executed. These people are detrimental to society and there is no cure for them. Telling a paedophile not to be attracted to young boys is like telling a homosexual man not to be attracted to men. Yes, there is the potential to execute someone falsely convicted, but I'm willing to take that chance over letting a child rapist go free (which, lets face it, after a couple months in jail, most child rapists are let free because there is no justice in the Canadian "justice" system). As well, the damage these people do to the child lasts a life time and in many cases, abused children grow up to be abusers themselves. Why not eliminate these bastards before they create more like them? What do you think?

Sorry if this is a little long. OK, my fiancee has a big family (2 sisters and 3 brothers) and one of my fiancee's brothers, his brothers wife and one of his sisters are treating my fiancee like complete ****. My fiancee was living with his brother and brothers wife. He got arrested for an unpaid traffic ticket (which he couldn't pay because his ex was a fat lazy ***** that didn't work and he had to support her completely while she gained an extra 150 lbs - my finacee lost what she put on). As soon as my fiancee got out of jail (I bailed him out and picked him up, drove him home), his brother FLIPPED out, told him he was a crackhead (because he's lost a lot of weight. he is NOT a crackhead!) and kicked him out of his house while his wife gleefully told his ex he was in jail. Because he had no where to live, he had to quit his job and move cities with me (we were living 3 hours apart until then). There is nowhere to live in my town (booming economy - to many jobs, no housing) so we had to move again to where the rest of his family is living. The economy and crime rate here SUCKS (we now live in the most dangerous city in Canada.) Since coming here, all we've done is put our selves in so much debt, we can't possibly get out of the grave we've dug for ourselves by living here. We were supposed to be married by now, and that looks like it won't happen for at least another year. Meanwhile, the rest of his family all lives with his mom. There are 5 working adults and one 12yr old child under her roof. I'm not currently working (for a variety of legit reasons - mostly there arent enough jobs and lack of quality daycare), so its my fiancee supporting me and my son. His sister gives him **** because he has a hard time paying the bills (as far as I know, she doesn't pay rent or help their mom with bills). She tells him that he owes everybody money and that he's hurting their mom by "fighting" with his brother that kicked him out. He doesn't even talk to his brother, so I'm not sure how its fighting. Meanwhile his brother goes around telling everyone (including my fiancees ex) what a "terrible" person he is. He told everyone that I am only using my fiancee for his money (what money? and he says this at Christmas just after I bailed him out of jail and supported him for a month after they kicked him out). Yes, he owes a couple people money, but not everybody like his sister tells him, and despite whatever she thinks, we have tried to figure out ways to pay back his little sister and our parents (the only people we owe money to) but when you can't afford to pay your bills, how are you supposed to pay others back? His sister also implies that he is a crackhead (again, because he has lost a lot of weight). To me, it seems like most of his problems with his family started shortly after we started going out, so I'm really starting to wonder now if they have something against me (I know his brother does, although I have no idea why). In the mean time, my parents know what kind of trouble we are in. They also know that if we lived out there, we wouldn't be having such big financial problems, because the economy is booming and we've both got really good jobs lined up there. They have helped us get a house (their wedding present to us). So now his sister is even madder at him because us moving back to where my fiancee was originally living would somehow really hurt their mom even more (his mom has never said anything to this affect to us). I try to stay out of everything and keep my mouth shut, because I don't really want to further alienate myself from his family, although I'm not really sure what I did wrong in the first place. And honestly, my fiancee does not pull the same stupid **** and go trash talk his brother, brothers wife and sister. He doesn't really say anything about it at all to anyone, so I really don't understand where all this hate over some really pretty petty little things is coming from. I know my fiancee has made a few mistakes (nothing big, he's not a criminal, he's not into drugs or alcohol - all he had was an unpaid traffic ticket!), but none of those mistakes had any effects on his brother, his brothers wife and his sister, but holy crap do they condemn him for absolutely everything. And I've had it with the crackhead comments. They never started calling him that until I showed up, so I'm pretty sure they think I'm a crackhead and probably the one to get him into it (I am a skinny person too afterall). It makes me so sick and furious. I just don't understand what their problem is.

Now we really don't know what to do for our wedding. We wanted to elope, so we could avoid the family drama, but that would really hurt my parents a lot (especially after helping us out with the house). I also think that its "our day", so why invite his family members that consider us crackheads? Or should we just suck it up, be the bigger person here and invite his family members that tell everyone I'm just using my fiancee, keeps in contact with my fiancees ex so they can share all the dirt on us with her and insists that we're a bunch of drug addicts? My fiancee doesn't really know what we should do about it either, thats why I ask. Sorry this was so long and THANK YOU in advance!

My fiancee and I are moving to a new city 8 hours away. I've heard you can give your dog gravol to help with car sickness, is this true? If so, how much do I give a dog thats about 65 lbs and what kind? Childrens or adults? No, she does not get motion sickness, so the drug they made for pets that suffer from motion sickness (Cerean? - I think thats what its called) would not help in this case. She gets really stressed out in the car and its something we've been working on for awhile (going on short trips to the park, etc), but progress is very slow and we have to take her up there to get approved for the place we will be moving into tomorrow! We also have to return the same day, so she's going to be in the car for approximately 16 hrs. Obviously not feeding her is not an option since we will be gone all day. And we will be making regular stops for her to stretch her legs and go to the bathroom, etc. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.