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I think I would find it a little creepy if she started posting here with a picture of herself as her avatar.

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certainly seems that way...

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I don't know, there's a girl in the UK who's profile pops up on occasion when I go to log in, and she looks so much like my daughter that it really causes me to do a double take every time it pops up. I think I would find it a little creepy if she started posting here with a picture of herself as her avatar.

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The only time I can think of off hand that I've ever been really taken back was when I came to work and two of the girls I worked with came running up to me to talk to me about my earlier visit. I hadn't been by the restaurant that day.... I thought they were being goofy till a few days later "my double" came to eat. I couldn't get a good luck at him so when he went to the buffet I walked from the bakery to stand next to him at the glassed backing wall. He finally raised his head and looked right into the mirror with me looking back at him.

I was around 155 then and he was about 185..minus the weight difference, we looked like twins. We talked for a bit and that was about it.

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oh and icky, i was more referring to cheri reminding you of your sister than suze looking like amanda

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Read on.

Some of the things supposedly said by Ron Paul were pretty bad. I'm not so sure he said them. It doesn't seem to fit his writing or the type of man he seems to be. Many of the people on other forums brought up that he's a Libertarian, he's stated it himself and all went on to say that by definition Libertarians "can't" be racists.

A great many people don't buy it. Ya know, to me he seems like the ONLY politician that actually is doing his job as it was intended. It would be a crying shame if in fact that was all an attempt to discredit/attack and we were to lose out on real change.

On the flip side, even though I think we should get rid of some of the "entitlements" in the government, I'd be pretty sick if I thought there was a racial agenda behind doing so.

To read some of the things he's accomplished for ALL of us over his time in office, I sincerely doubt the accusations are true or that we'll ever do better than someone like him in the foreseeable future. It's four years, how much more fucked up of a direction can one term get us than we already are headed in with the current potential selection.

No I'm not advocating voting for the least harmful...just throwing out random thoughts and facts as I see them.

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Do you really think that one man, even if he should be President, can fix this total fuck-up that has been going on for several terms (by both parties)? If you do then you have waaay more faith than I do.. but then i have no say anyhow, i dont envy voters tho..

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Do you really think that one man, even if he should be President, can fix this total fuck-up that has been going on for several terms (by both parties)? If you do then you have waaay more faith than I do.. but then i have no say anyhow, i dont envy voters tho..

I think he could at least try instead of talking about it. I don't think most of them actually try. Bottom line is, I like his ideas. I believe that the majority of what he talks about is exactly what WILL fix a great deal of what's wrong.

I'm just so tired of all the double talk and the usual party line perps.

Edit: We already know what we get pretty much with each party and anyone that doesn't by now see what usually happens has blinders on IMO. It's time for someone different.

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... and that his written comments about blacks were in the context of "current events and statistical reports of the time."

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that link doesn't really have anything new; i read the article that the person quoted which says -

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... and that his written comments about blacks were in the context of "current events and statistical reports of the time."

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I dont know, I think perhaps at first Obama was trying, his hair sure got a lot greyer fast... lol

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The system corrupts, even Sister Teresa wouldnt have made it thru unscathed.

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and i don't believe libertarians "can't" be racist. they're humans and humans are capable of anything. textbook definitions really have no bearing on the functioning of the human heart and mind.

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He challenged his colleagues to pony up $100 each to mint the medal for her, which they refused, naturally. He then said that it is easy to be generous with other people's money.

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What about the supposed comment about his lady friend? How could someone write "well publicized" articles like that and not think it was going to come back and bite them in the ass? He said he didn't say those things and was saddened by it.There are things about the whole debacle that seem to not add up.

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he has claimed that he wrote those before, and explained it away as irrelevant or as "in context" with current events of the time, as that same article even points out.

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i don't really know what to believe, but i've never read a satisfactory response from him, so... there ya go.

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if only everyone in congress thought of it that way.

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I dont know, I think perhaps at first Obama was trying, his hair sure got a lot greyer fast... lol

I'm not so sure he did try. He caved on Guantanamo and on did a small effort on troops.

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The system corrupts, even Sister Teresa wouldnt have made it thru unscathed.

That's not entirely true..again Ron Paul.. He's pretty much stood his ground over his terms. Here's what he said in the article he linked.

Ron Paul is a doctor in OB/GYN by trade. He is something of a lone wolf in the Congress, earning the nickname "Dr. No" by his fellow Republicans. When the Republicans were looking to build the B-1 bomber, they desperately needed his vote, but despite enormous pressure on him to vote with them, he refused, thinking it to be a waste of money, and another weapon of an imperialist government. He voted against a medal for Mother Teresa, considering such a move to be unconstitutional. He challenged his colleagues to pony up $100 each to mint the medal for her, which they refused, naturally. He then said that it is easy to be generous with other people's money. He is strongly pro-life, and supports repealing federal laws regulating abortion, as he considers it to best be left a state issue.

I find that particular one kinda funny.