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Should you tell your gfriend that you don't find her as attractive as that hot model ? Should you tell her you dread having to have sex with her? Should you tell her you've had a twenty year relationship with 2D images that she can't quite measure up to in three years of a shared life. .Should you tell her when you are with her you're actually thinking of tht certain airbrushed other.?
Yes you should - otherwise you're lying to her .She thought she was having a relationship with a man, instead she's having relationship with a person who wishes he were a paper doll so he could stay in his 2 d world forever..
Turn off your computer for 3 months - and get a therapist, while you live apart from your gfriend.Attend Sex addicts Anonymous meetings a few times a week. (You may never be able to go near a computer again )Then make a decision-
but don't hold up her life while you do so.
Hagel voted with Bush on 96% of the issues first term , 92% second term.Obama promised change ,but changing his positions on the Palestinians, the Cuban embargo, unconditional talks with Cuba & Iran were not the change I hoped for. Neither was promising ten years of unconditional aid to Isreal. I certainly wasn't looking for changing the Dem Party to the Republican Party, The parties only differ by centimeters as it is.
Here's to a strong third party showing should Obama swing any more right. Nader or McKInney will get my vote!
Yes i'm waiting to go camping on a bike and by pedaling on all those millions of miles of smooth concrete that my taxes paid for, but I've been prohibited from using.. Our day has come ! Imagine two bikes together harnessed to a pop up tent with the kids inside and no exhaust in our face.
I intended Kucinich, Edwards, , finally Obama. but then I got sidetracked by the ugliness of Obama's campaign.Obama started it by praising Reagan , the Repug"party of ideas" and then went on to hope to emulate Bush Sr.Somehow Bill Clintons incredibly economic successful presidency appeared not to have crossed his horizon.Yet he SAID he was a Democrat.
Then Michelle said she didn't think she could campaign for H.C, and week after week relatively mild campaign banter was distorted into vile racist hyperbole intended to paint the Clintons as the worst racists since David Duke. Slowly Hilary came into focus.She kept being pushed down and yet getting up again- I started to pay attention.This was a woman with grit and fight, both qualities needed for taking on the Repugs and dismantling their legacy.
All at once I realized she wasn't as far behind as the Obamaists would have me believe.In the meantime I watched people I consider Progressive turn into overt misogynists on par with the worst of talk radio. Believe it or not ,Obamaists turned me into a Clintonista.
After watching him flip flop on Cuba, Iran, Isreal , his pastor, his church, and now FISA i'm considering going third party. If he makes some kind amazing ethical showdown between now and Nov. I'll reconsider.But there's absolutely nothing that he's ever done that would give me hope for such a position from him.
Joan writes-"I also, despite mixed feelings, ultimately reject the notion that an African-American has some special duty to deal with the poverty and alienation that is the legacy of slavery and racism. "
I'll tell you why an African American candidate has a special duty to to deal with poverty and the legacy of racism.BECAUSE HE'S GETTING MORE THAN 90% OF THEIR VOTE-THAT"S WHY!
The same reason many white people are threatening to stop giving B.O money, and consider voting for a third party candidate - because he's campaigned as the candidate of hope but is letting us off in the town of hopelessness..
He didn't offer the African American voters anything AND called blacks angry about the injustice of America crazy and living in the past with distorted views.
If thats not talking white -I don't know what is.And yet the Black community is so desperate in these days of increasing resegregation and economic hardship ,they will settle for a symbol, instead of real commitment to improve their lives.Looks like with FISA we've all been had...He'll soon be monitering any crazy old uncles who might decide to uncover his masquerade.
The Nader/ Gonzales platform
Adopt single payer national health insurance
Cut the huge, bloated, wasteful military budget
No to nuclear power, solar energy first
Aggressive crackdown on corporate crimeand corporate welfare
Open up the Presidential debates
Adopt a carbon pollution tax
Reverse U.S. policy in the Middle East
Impeach Bush/Cheney
Repeal the Taft-Hartley anti-union law
Adopt a Wall Street securities speculation tax
Put an end to ballot access obstructionism
Work to end corporate personhood
Why would I vote for FISA, a halfassed medical insurance gift to the Insurance companies, a much larger military budget, the Death Penalty, continued embargo on Cuba, billions to Isreal without conditions, support marijuana laws, which are imprisoning millions , support less regulated nuclear power plants, give billions in subsidies to inefficient corn ethanol while preventing importation of 8 times more efficient sugarcane ethanol thru high tariffs, as well as trashing presidential public funding, if I don't believe in them? These are things Obama supports. Wouldn't that make me a hypocrite?
Interesting that Obama wants child rapist killed ,but when it comes to the men responsible for thousands of children's death ( as well as countless adults) he's willing to provide retroactive immunity.
This is the essene of "talking white"....Complete hypocrisy!