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Monday, October 27, 2008 11:15 AM

Don't go ripping on Alex Jones

He is one of the only TRUE American Heroes remaining, besides GG and a few others.

Alex Jones has been very close to correct lo these past eight years. I remember him back in the late 90s, and how people thought he was whacked.

Today, he is MAINSTREAM, with a remarkable record of having predicted precisely what is happening right NOW in this formerly GREAT nation-- to the point that many question whether he is not really a spokesperson for the NWO people.

The man has a great curiosity and encyclopedic knowledge of the facts and he does not shy from speaking up and questioning the prevailing hegemony. On the other hand, what have YOU done lately? (other than practicing your Nazi high steps, hand salutes and the best blow job techniques?)

Monday, October 27, 2008 11:18 AM
Original article: Saturday night limp?

Me Love Maya

See her in Idiocracy. She is great (in a great movie).

Monday, October 27, 2008 11:24 AM
Original article: Your daily Palin

Sorry, this post is meant for the Broadsheet 3rd Anniversary item

Congrats Broadsheet!

Salon, thanks for setting up the barrel and the fish...

Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:47 AM
Original article: When filth is not enough

Maybe I missed something

not having gone to Berkeley or whatever, but what do the two things have to do with each other?

Being a 'radical Marxist' and being sweet, jokey, and feisty are not mutually exclusive conditions.

Personally, while Obama seems marginally better to me than McSame, personally, despite his leaderly personality, he creeps me out. Mostly it is all the rhetoric about money and who should have it and who should not.

My vote is being cast for Ron Paul. I will scratch his name in in my blood if I have to, because RP is the ONLY one I trust up there.

Government is entirely too vast, and thus DANGEROUS, and RP is the only one talking SANELY. McSame and Obama? Already bought by forces we barely comprehend but which you can bet are inimical to our existence as humans.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:52 AM
Original article: When filth is not enough

Fortunately or not

I do think McSame will squeak this one out.

The proportion of secret Obama haters is too high compared to the proportion of secret McSame haters.

Basically, it is not socially accepted to dislike Obama, so the polls are skewed.

Next time, thank the lib legacy of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS for distorting this situation rather than for keeping an open and honest field so accurate assessments can be made.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 10:53 AM

Good for you

ugly men need love too. God Bless You.

Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:09 AM

Rereading this letter

There are lots of things going on, but I will try to summarize the major ones.

I do not know how attractive you are, but you seem flummoxed around people who YOU consider attractive. So we can presume, you consider attractive men someone who looks comparable or better than you. Yet this may be a problem, as it is for many people, men and women. Talking to someone considerably more attractive is a problem for many people. Now, if you deliberately choose men much less attractive than you, there might be something else going on regarding your esteem.

Also, there is the issue of someone being generally attractive vs being attractive to YOU specifically. It may be chemistry, or some other element of personality that would make YOU want that person but the person may be someone considered just OK by most people.

You need to spend quality time with people of comparable attractiveness to you, being social but not on dates. Spend lots of spare time with them, I recommend meetup.com since it is free and many people seem to gravitate towards it for hanging out with others with out the pressure of dating or pickups.

Once you are more used to being around attractive men without pressure, then you might maintain that mindset around such men even if you KNOW it might lead to a date.

Also, it is not any one specific thing that turns a man off about you or anyone. IT is the preponderance of evidence.

If you are confident, for instance if you like dog walking and you are dog walking and you are talking about your dog and know much about it, it is easier to seem competent.

consider too, it may not be the attractiveness of the other person that is throwing you off, but other things. Just a bare thought to ponder. But are there men you consider attractive but around which you are not nervous? This may lead to an answer.

I have not lived in NY since my early 20s, and even then never in Manhattan, but I would be petrified myself in trying to maneuver the dating scene in the city. For one thing, I was never into one night stands, and I ofter shied away from women because I thought women might have wanted this. I distinctly remember a stunningly beautiful young woman chatting me up in an upper East Side bar one night. She was telling me about her business as a textile designer (whatever THAT was) and how her family lived in Greenwich and that she could scrounge up $25k like that for a cause just by calling around her friends (this was 1991, you do the math). I was, of course, petrified around her and nodded and politely bantered, but I had no clue how to move ahead with this or whether I even wanted it. I knew I wanted her, that was obvious, but I had no way to negotiate this beast of a situation. It was one of many I had when I was younger.

So, you can see, a perfectly decent person can have problems dealing with people who might be considered socially or physically superior.

Maybe hit the halfway point, quit dating UNattractive, generally avoid specifically ATTRTACTIVE, and date guys in the middle. Work from there. You will find your level.

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