Hillary Clinton is supposed to be withdrawing her bid for President tonight.

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ABOUT FUCKING TIME.

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I think some of the most common mistakes made when running a guild is making friends — in game or real life — officers when they do not have the knowledge to do the job. Then, months later when they aren’t doing their job, you find yourself in a rut of never demoting those officers because of possible hurt feelings. You know that they will probably take it personally — despite being friends — and cause problems for yourself, possibly the guild or even emo quit.

Recently, I created a new World of Warcraft raiding guild. I wanted a fresh start and to raid on terms that myself, friends and those who joined us could live with. I had created the guild with the hope that some friends and longtime guild members of my husband’s good, but dying guild, could remain together and see endgame content.

So upon creating the guild, two members — and current officers of my husband’s guild — pulled their mains and joined my new guild. Lucielis and Remena were a married couple who had always seemed friendly, and appeared helpful, so I thought perhaps they could be officers and help get the ball rolling. After two weeks, I quickly began to realize I had made a mistake for a number of reasons:

• No raiding experience before the expansion came out or after.
• Little to no knowledge of other classes, gear or spec requirements.
• Failure to understand what we needed as a guild for recruitment purposes.

If we are a raiding guild, these are essential for an officer and guild leader to know in order to expand and move forward. They had none of these. Many times I found myself babysitting and hand holding these two on most officer related issues. Their lack of knowledge was primary reasoning for demoting them. However, there were other behaviors that I did not agree with. This mostly revolved around always thinking that throwing money at the guild bank was the answer to everything or increasingly becoming loot obsessed the more we raided… as if there was a sense of entitlement.

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I was rooting around online and I read this… I thought it was worth a giggle:

Dear Mr. Thatcher,

I have been a loyal user of your Always maxi pads for over 20 years, and I appreciate many of their features. Why, without the LeakGuard Core™ or Dri-Weave™ absorbency, I’d probably never go horseback riding or salsa dancing, and I’d certainly steer clear of running up and down the beach in tight, white shorts. But my favorite feature has to be your revolutionary Flexi-Wings. Kudos on being the only company smart enough to realize how crucial it is that maxi pads be aerodynamic. I can’t tell you how safe and secure I feel each month knowing there’s a little F-16 in my pants.

Have you ever had a menstrual period, Mr. Thatcher? Ever suffered from “the curse”? I’m guessing you haven’t. Well, my “time of the month” is starting right now. As I type, I can already feel hormonal forces violently surging through my body. Just a few minutes from now, my body will adjust and I’ll be transformed into what my husband likes to call “an inbred hillbilly with knife skills.” Isn’t the human body amazing?

As brand manager in the feminine-hygiene division, you’ve no doubt seen quite a bit of research on what exactly happens during your customers’ monthly visits from Aunt Flo. Therefore, you must know about the bloating, puffiness, and cramping we endure, and about our intense mood swings, crying jags, and out-of-control behavior. You surely realize it’s a tough time for most women. In fact, only last week, my friend Jennifer fought the violent urge to shove her boyfriend’s testicles into a George Foreman Grill just because he told her he thought Grey’s Anatomy was written by drunken chimps. Crazy! The point is, sir, you of all people must realize that America is just crawling with homicidal maniacs in capri pants. Which brings me to the reason for my letter.

Last month, while in the throes of cramping so painful I wanted to reach inside my body and yank out my uterus, I opened an Always maxi pad, and there, printed on the adhesive backing, were these words: “Have a Happy Period.”

Are you fucking kidding me?

What I mean is, does any part of your tiny middle-manager brain really think happiness—actual smiling, laughing happiness—is possible during a menstrual period? Did anything mentioned above sound the least bit pleasurable? Well, did it, James? FYI, unless you’re some kind of sick S&M freak girl, there will never be anything “happy” about a day in which you have to jack yourself up on Motrin and Kahlúa and lock yourself in your house just so you don’t march down to the local Walgreens armed with a hunting rifle and a sketchy plan to end your life in a blaze of glory. For the love of God, pull your head out, man. If you just have to slap a moronic message on a maxi pad, wouldn’t it make more sense to say something that’s actually pertinent, like “Put Down the Hammer” or “Vehicular Manslaughter Is Wrong”? Or are you just picking on us?

Sir, please inform your accounting department that, effective immediately, there will be an $8 drop in monthly profits, for I have chosen to take my maxi-pad business elsewhere. And though I will certainly miss your Flexi-Wings, I will not for one minute miss your brand of condescending bullshit. And that’s a promise I will keep. Always.

Best,

Wendi Aarons
Austin, TX

Source: http://wendi-aarons.blogspot.com/2007/03/as-seen-on-mcsweeneysnet.html

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So I’m in Mag’s tonight trying to main tank and I was the only warrior tank when we started out.

We had an assload of paladins….

So to get hit w/ salv before the pull during buffing is to be expected. I get it. I click it off. No big deal right?

Oh god no…. some fucktard pally has to keep putting it back on me in the middle of freaking combat.

I’m like, “WTF am I losing aggro?………. WTF?!?! Salv?” So I click it off get my target back. I lose aggro again, but this time I see the combat text scroll by and say I was given salv again.

I lost my damn voice tonight on vent from screaming at the the retarded asshole who kept doing it. It was either the other pally tank who laughed at me and said warriors were crap tanks or the retarded pally healer who kept asking for a hunter buff. That pally tank ended up leaving when they decided to bring in a few more warriors to help with tanking. I guess he couldn’t salv them all, huh?

Anywho, it was a PUG and it had epic fail written all over it. After two hours with our thumbs up our asses waiting and the raid leaders trying to decide if the groups were organized correctly, we wiped at 99% after the new MT got no heals and Mags ended up going to me.

Fun. Fun.

Oh well. Just expands my list of people NOT to do raids with.

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1. Hillary & China

We don’t need another Clinton in the White House. Her husband did enough damage during his two terms. She runs ads on TV about how we should not have our factories go overseas to China, but fails to acknowledge that her dear old husband had a significant hand in opening the flood gates. This is the woman who sang the praises of how it would benefit the U.S. Now she and her campaign run this ad over Indiana TV channels:

/sarcasm on

Thank you China Trade Agreement!

/sarcasm off

2. Hillary & NAFTA

Hillary Clinton supports NAFTA. She won vote in Ohio, playing at the heart strings of voters, who there, have suffered long term effects that NAFTA has caused by professing her disdain for NAFTA. Strange since helped champion this waste of a trade agreement as First Lady on behalf of her husband and has touted it one of the Clinton administrations biggest achievements. Shame on Hillary for doing this. Shame on voters for having a short term memory.

3. That’s a Man, Baby!

While I don’t consider myself a feminist, I do recognize and appreciate the progress that has been made on behalf of women by the feminist movement. Hillary Clinton is NOT the embodiment of that movement. She says women’s issues of the past still need to be fought today. What world is she living in? Just because we haven’t had a woman POTUS does not mean that we are not progressive as a nation. She makes a mockery of our femininity as women with her fake tears of “sympathy” and destroys the basic tenets of the feminist movement by acting trying to act like a man wearing a skirt. She will never win voters of either sex. Male candidates have more respect for what this movement has brought to women and bring more humanity to the table when it comes to women’s issues.

Now, as a daughter of a Vietnam vet, I dismiss Jane Fonda’s opinion on much of anything (and most other celebs for that matter). However, I felt she nailed this right on the head:

Jane Fonda says that Hillary is a “ventriloquist for the patriarchy with a skirt and a vagina. It may be that a feminist, progressive man would do better in the White House.”

4. Money Grubbing Lying Whore

She talks about bringing change to Washington. Hillary Clinton is no different than any other greedy son of a bitch in Washington. From Whitewater to election campaign fund fraud, she claims no roll and passes the buck. She whores herself out to the highest bidder and has no integrity.

Just an example. All I’m saying.

5. Socialism Anyone?

I don’t like her socialist tendencies. She says, and I quote:

“I prefer a ‘we’re all in it together’ society,” she said. “I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none.”

How very Karl Marx of her. He basically said the same thing in Critique of the Gotha Programme

Before this is divided among the individuals, there has to be deducted again, from it: First, the general costs of administration not belonging to production. This part will, from the outset, be very considerably restricted in comparison with present-day society, and it diminishes in proportion as the new society develops. Second, that which is intended for the common satisfaction of needs, such as schools, health services, etc. From the outset, this part grows considerably in comparison with present-day society, and it grows in proportion as the new society develops. Third, funds for those unable to work, etc., in short, for what is included under so-called official poor relief today.

and…

What we have to deal with here is a communist society, not as it has developed on its own foundations, but, on the contrary, just as it emerges from capitalist society; which is thus in every respect, economically, morally, and intellectually, still stamped with the birthmarks of the old society from whose womb it emerges. Accordingly, the individual producer receives back from society — after the deductions have been made — exactly what he gives to it. What he has given to it is his individual quantum of labor. For example, the social working day consists of the sum of the individual hours of work; the individual labor time of the individual producer is the part of the social working day contributed by him, his share in it. He receives a certificate from society that he has furnished such-and-such an amount of labor (after deducting his labor for the common funds); and with this certificate, he draws from the social stock of means of consumption as much as the same amount of labor cost. The same amount of labor which he has given to society in one form, he receives back in another.

She reeks of it. She wants big government and wants us to put all our faith into big government to take care of us. Socialism, as well meaning in its initial Utopian ideal, is bound to be and has been abused by less than well meaning people of power. Too much governmental power will ultimately lead to tyranny so long as men and women are still fallible and susceptible to the temptations and evils that accompany power.

Thomas Jefferson said it best:

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

A wise man. The follies of history seem lost on most people today. Perhaps if this were not so, there would be less support for this woman.

This women is no moderate — as she would like voters to believe. She is through and through a fanatic liberal and socialist in many of her ideals.

6. Hillary and the War in Iraq

I have very mixed emotions when it comes to the war in Iraq. It has affected myself and my family personally and I do both agree and disagree with point by point issues associated with the war. While that is something to discuss another time, this about Hillary regarding the war in Iraq.

Hillary Clinton never read the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that all Senators had access to before the crucial green light to go to war. Only a handful of Senators read the NIE outside of the Intelligence Committee — six of which voted against the resolution. Whether for or against the vote, I can have a certain level of respect for someone who took the time to consider WHAT they were voting for before voting. Ron Paul — as crazy and kooky as most like to make him out to be — was a man who at least READ the NIE and stood by his decision, voting against the resolution. Hillary, who was on board at day one, flip-flopped later and ran when things started going south. She acts faultless in her decision and claims to have a solution for all. Hillary wants to blame Bush for our involvement in Iraq. Yet, I say the there is enough blame to spread around — and I fault more those people who chose NOT to read the 92-page report and blindly put our men [and women] into harms way without a hesitant thought. …Just like Kerry when he said he read the Cliff Notes version of the NIE (aka the summary).

If she wasn’t bothered enough to have consideration for the lives of men [and women], how can we trust her with anything else?

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