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If you people were ever in a pageant you would know that the girls tape them up. Evidently the judges didn't feel the pageant was about boobs but instead the total package. Tara is real and down to earth. She doesn't have to just say things that people want to here to win pageants--and she has definitly won plenty. Good luck to Tara in the Miss Universe Pageant!!

" The second black women to wear the Miss America crown (Vanessa was first), Erika knew that one of the most important messages she could give, especially to young black women, was sexual abstinence."

This statement is false. The second black women to wear the Miss America crown was Suzette Charles of New Jersey, who was first runner-up to Vanessa Williams. Suzette was elevated to Miss America when Vanessa was dethroned.

To KPS:

Ever heard of a pushup bra? What a dolt!

Alain- Your English is pretty good, keep writting it will help to practice.
Your comment on Miss New Mexico is very accurate! She shows a lot of character, intelligence and depth! She is the type that will wear well over the years. Like fine wood she will increase her depths and will glow rather than shine. A lot of the time physical beauty fades and if there is nothing behind it you are left with a bitter hag. If there is character it starts to shine out like a diamond.

tmw

Heya David!

You've made a good post.

Tara Elizabeth Conner is, for a frenchman, a symbol of the most beautifull american sexy women.

But Miss New-Mexico is more touching, and her smile is more beautifull than Tara Elizabeth Conner's face and body.

I wished I could write more about that topic, but I need to re-learn english, 'cause I've not write it since an eternity...

I won't discuss about black women with you, because I've not really understand your words about them, and my actual girlfriend is a blackwomen.

Well, Niteshift, I think Onawa is deeper into her visions. Like I said, she's three years older, law school bound, etc. Tara just isn't oriented toward political/social issues. Different girl.

Hey, for an Indian woman to say, "I'm going to do this, or that," this is mircaulous!! We encourage Indians to have dreams, and to try to fulfill them. Remember, Onawa came from more of a nowhere than Tara. Onawa is not even from Gallup, New Mexica, but a 'village' outside town.

I commend both young women, with full support. I'm sure when Tara gets a clear professional vision, she'll be a terror on ice, so to speak. I just hope the porn people don't get at her first, like Hollywood, and that infernal "model" industry.

It must be exceedingly difficult and treacherous to be a beautiful woman in the world....

"The Kentucky [girl] doesn't say too much. Perhaps she just really doesn't have that much to say, at least under the circumstances of a published interview. Onawa, on the other hand, is really focused on goals, on purposes, on a vision. Onawa is three years older, but, still, very young. Her articulated intents are very impressive. She will no doubt do what she envisions doing, with or without the perks of a pageant queen."

Well from my point of view, Onawa's words come across as bragging, a 'Stand aside! I'm on my way' type of thing. While Conner's sound more modest and realistic. But then I'm biased, since Ky is my home.

And Phidiux, the comments about Conner's "rack"...pretty rude.

KPS- It must be terrible to live with a mind and spirit so embittered that you do not see beauty! How sad!

tmw

While I'm not a follower of beauty pageants, I must give Miss Conner three cheers since she's almost my neighbor. Russell Springs is about 25 miles from here and Miss Conner attends the community college here in Somerset.

Congratulations and represent us well!!!

Kentucky is well known for its beautiful women and fast horses, you know. Or as a local twist on the saying puts it, its fast women and beautiful horses. : )

Onawa Lacy is not bordering on downright ugly as stated by KPS. Her smile is genuine and there is real kindness in her eyes. I do not know if there is a hidden, political agenda behind this beauty pageant but to me its credibility is lost due to Donald Trump's connection to it. He is a man who disassembles women into sections and body parts, and values them according to how they rate in his mind's fantasy. I would be relieved not to be selected for scrutiny by him.
In the end, Onawa Lacy's beauty and talents will stand with without Trump or KPS' approval. As has been said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." So true but has anyone ever questioned the ability of the beholder to behold?
- Camille

Dear Mr. Yeagley:

A couple of days ago, on this very Blog, a woman called you a hater-of-women, claiming, basicially, that you never have anything good to say about females. But, I stuck up for you, mentioning your positive words about the wife of the Shah of Iran. But, for my goodwill and positive comments, I get you, today, accusing me of hating women.

What is it with you? Do you want to be in the position of "preaching to a choir?" Do you want nothing but positive feedback? Do you want nothing but a Blog full of Pollyannas? Do you want to be surrounded by only "yes-men?"

Don't you know? Life is a bitch, and then you die.

But, then, you are actually a very critical/negative person, yourself. It is just that your targets are most-often different than my targets.

My complaint about today's so-called "beauty contests" is that they are all hokey. They don't choose the most physically-beautiful contestant as the winner, but, instead, they are all play-acting to present themselves not as they really are, but, instead, as the perfect little Liberals and lovers of all good, as in approved by the Left, things.

As for my comments, today, related to your current Blog, do you feel that I said anything that was false or incorrect? Do you feel that I did not give an accurate description of the situation(s)?

KPS

KPS, we don't fault you for your criticism, though it is obviously very out of place, as your comments usually are.

You have a right to your aesthetics, and this is not to be disputed.

But this is not about aesthetics, so much as an attempt to encourage young people to foster their higher asperations. If that sounds a bit religious to you, and offensive, then that's why you react the way you do, here anyway, on this particular blog.

You have willfully developed conscious aversions to that which is precious to many. This makes of a painful perspective. It makes me sincerely wonder at why you post here.

Like I said, there are views you hold which have challenged me, personally, and which I take seriously. I'm just putting your over-all approach in perspective here.

KPS- It could also be the gown! Perfection is about impossible on Earth, so try to see the good for a change! As for Miss Lacy, you sure are incapable of seeing her beauty! Tough on you.

tmw

Now, I'm sorry for you, KPS. You're a woman hater, too? Have you no encouraging thing to say to anyone, about anything?

Dear Mr. Yeagley:

Oh well, here goes.

As for Tara Elizabeth Conner, she has a beautiful face, but it appears that she has a very poor boob job. Natural breasts don't make near-90 degree angles from the chest-wall. Although it is has been a long time since I was up-to-date on beauty contests, I was under the impression that those with boob jobs were not allowed.

As for Onawa Lynn Lacy, she is bordering on downright ugly. Hard to imagine she is the best looking woman in New Mexico. Her mouth nearly covers her entire face. The little girl she is holding in the photo is actually much more attractive.

But, then, what do I know?

KPS

Dear Mr. Yeagley:

Limiting this comment to America, so-called "beauty contests" became a "charade" many decades ago. It is hard for me to understand any mature adult being interested in them. The hypocrisy underlying them is so extreme, I cannot imagine how anyone could be an observer without near-complete feelings of disgust.

But, to-each-his-own, I suppose.

KPS

KPS, I'm sorry you're such an bitter man. I think it rests in your tortured experience of religion, or else your tortured experience trying to reject it all. You see things through a very dark glass.

I'm quoting the girls. None of those are my words, by the way.

KPS: "rather than ethnic/race quota exercises with Leftist overtones."

Well, can't argue with you on that, not totally anyway! But then, your anti-religious mode would not be offended by rank hedonism, right? You'd rather they dispense with any sort of value-oriented use of beauty?

What is there to say about Miss kentuk.

uhmm? Nice rack.

Dear Mr. Yeagley:

You state: "... I am also very passionate, ambitious, driven, determined, and ready to get to work as Miss USA 2006 as a representative and advocate for breast and ovarian cancer research, education, and legislation."

1. You do not think these replies/statements are ad-libbed, do you?
2. Is it not a Leftist version of "I can be more 'Goody Two-Shoes' than you can be"?
3. Are there no male diseases?

You add: "... hardships and different experiences have made me a very humbled yet strong individual."

1. "Yes, that's why I am in a 'beauty contest.' Can't you see the humility pouring out through every pore of my body?"

But, then, I am old, and, believe it or not, I can remember when beauty contests were actually that, rather than ethnic/race quota exercises with Leftist overtones.

KPS

Dr. Y.-O.T. but I just read about Carrie Dann and her fight with the U.S. government! That is outragous, no wonder thes country is going to pot when it still doesn't honor treaties it has written! Can't stay but I am furious, I'd say the government owes that family big time, I wouldn't mind my tax money going to recompense them for this egregious behavior!

tmw

Good morning, Dr. Y.- A lovely face to look at , you are right! Experiences tend to make one more vocal, especially when the person speaking couples it with true compassion and caring. Miss Lacy has not had a bland vanilla life, she has struggled to reach where she is, thus she seeks to point out the trail to others. The people who I want to listen to are the ones who have become overcomers. Miss Lacy has many things ahead of her and I would not be surprised to be seeing and hearing her name in the future. May she continue to blaze trails through new territory!

tmw