Filed by Bil at 5:07 pm under Go Back to Maxico!
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maryam look this fucking car is very expensive even used you’d be better off buying Z4

I would also like to ass a spoiler to this car.

fuck u

you suck. this is not a ford mustang!!!!!! it is a piece of crap taurus

this is what im talking about.keep your ass out!

You and your dad are pieces of shit. Get yourselves together for court.

yo nigga.. how many milage you got on this piece.. i will trade you my xbox 360 for this and my ps2 and my laptop and my iPhone.. you got the 300 i got the 360.. my shit is higher in numbers.. lets make this deal

not manual transmission fuck butts

helo last price for this car i like not bay can you tellmy

hahahahahahah you cannot write that lie!! bumper to bumper warranty!!! hahahahaha thats the biggest joke ive ever heard inmy life! i just turned this car in after 13 months of a lease! they dont cover jack shit! thats false advertising!

I LIKE PIE SO I WANT FREAKING PIE SEATS DAMN U

Good afternoon, I am italian cars sales, wich is best price for us of this car. Your faithful Roberto

Uhm………that would be 420 HP, not 450. Jesus, get the shit right before u advertise……..

Hi, your ad states: Sale Price with $2000 trade or equity Not only is this a dirty trick that gets your ads ranked higher in people’s searches, it is against ****.***’s terms of service. I’m actually glad you’re pulling this crap - not I know you’re an unethical organization, so I know not to buy from you. Thanks. p.s. - I’m reporting your to ****.*** for your violation of their terms of serivce.

Hello! Me the machine with delivery in port Odesa interests. Count please how many will cost with delivery. Thanks!

Hello, I can send you picteres of the motor home just let me know. thank you. Very interested!!

I have a car that is currently not running and is missing the steering wheel. I was wondering if you guys had any deals including these kind of cars.

this car is a piece of shit that leak oil do not buy anything from this dealer trust me you will be hustled. this is not the only place I will be righting things about ********. wanna fuck with me ehh? I notice you hi-five the sales boy before I test drove it, like he had the sale in the bag. Im starting to believe there are no myths about used car dealers. low lifes who couldnt get a better job. let the bashing begin.

would like to see what the best price on this vehicale 70104335T is the stock number would not want towaste your time and mine i sell cars myself so i got a good idea what you paid for it will not pay more then $9500 plus ttl let me no if evan willing to do this dont tell me that you will and if come all they way up there for no reason then going to send nice letter to the owner just want best price or of would be able to do this thank you lots sorry if soud like an ass just dont want to waste each others time thank you again

Where the fuck did you find navigation in this car? I waisted my time because of your false advertisement!!!!!!!!!!!

Filed by Trevor at 11:32 pm under Addiction, Social Issues
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Alcoholism runs like a dirty river through my blood line. My natural father, grandfather, great-aunt, and uncle were all alcoholics, and as far as I know my uncle is the only person who successfully overcame it. I know nothing of my natural father’s current whereabouts, I never met my great-aunt, and while alcoholism wasn’t the direct cause of my grandfather’s death, it eroded the quality of the latter 28 years of his marriage and weakened his body considerably. My grandmother has outlived him by 14 years and counting and is no doubt rueful of the fact that his dependency is almost certainly to blame for robbing her of all of that time she could have had with him.

Hence why my mother has always been justifiably frightened that I would follow the same path and has always been uncomfortable with any reference of mine to drinking. But in this respect, I’m very lucky. Alcohol has never had more than a casual role in my life, and while I’ve certainly had my share of drunk-epic-fail moments, there has never been a threat of dependency. Rather, my predisposition to addiction has manifested itself otherwise — to food.

I am a food addict. I have been overweight quite literally for my entire life, and while I’ve had several successful weight-loss attempts that have lasted for a considerable length of time, I recognize that this is something that I will need to consciously control for the rest of my life. But frankly, given my choice between the two, I would much rather struggle with this than with alcohol dependency. Overcoming the latter requires complete and total abstinence — not to mention a debilitating process of withdrawal — whereas the former requires merely taming the beast. After all, I must eat to live.

The trouble with me is that I am not a terribly disciplined person and can rationalize virtually anything I wish to do, no matter how harmful such behavior may be. That, and I am a creature of habit; even if I slip once and head to Wendy’s for dinner while driving home from work, history has shown that such a seemingly innocuous first step easily sets into motion a pattern that stretches for months. Research shows that eating disorders are strongly linked to obsessive-compulsive behavior, and I have borne witness to that in my own experience. For me, food is less about quelling hunger and more about the taste and ritual. And ease. Why spend 20 minutes grilling chicken and steaming broccoli when I can have a double cheeseburger while watching Family Guy on Hulu and not have a sink of dirty dishes to ignore for weeks?

I’ve even experimented with various eating disorders, much in the same way one would sample blood sausage or fermented shark meat while on vacation. And I’ll put the specifics behind the cut, just in case you’d rather pass.
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Filed by Bil at 2:45 pm under Shameless Plugs, The Arts
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This is a plug for a show I’m not even directly involved in…but since I am an active Dream Theatre Company member, and since it’s very possible I won’t be seeing any other holiday-themed shows this month, I thought I’d give it some love.

“Cold” by playwright and DTC Artistic Director Jeremy Menekseoglu is not your typical Christmas play. It’s about lonely people. Plain and simple. It’s not about finding the secret meaning of Christmas. It’s more about using a special time of year as an excuse to deal with your personality disorders. It’s about taking steps away from warmth and safety, and into the unknown or the terrifying. There are no holiday spirits. There are no cute children. There is plenty of eggnog.

It’s an unexpected romantic comedy, and - believe it or not - probably one of the best date plays in town at this time of year, despite the humor being rather dark and biting. It is, by the end of it, remarkably heartwarming…But you don’t have to take my word for it:

Christmas for Rejects: “Cold” at Dream Theatre breaks with tradition

Rhyme Of The Day: Cold is Warm Inside

Also - check it out, this is super-cool: the cast of Dream Theatre was on local radio talking about the show. You can listen at Vocalo.org’s website, where they discuss not only the current production, but also the accepted spellings of the word “theatre.”

Listen to their radio interview on VOCALO 89.5 FM

Check back to this radio station this coming week, as the cast will be back to perform the show in radio-drama format! Old-timey style!

Filed by Trevor at 11:25 pm under Activism, Catholicism, Gay Agenda, Humanism, Love, Sex Ed
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This evening I attended Chicago Opera Vanguard’s second annual AIDS Quilt Songbook, which not only functions as a valuable fundraiser for outreach programs in the city, but is also a fantastic exhibition of local composers and performers. To boot, this year’s concert was held at Center on Halsted, which was an even more appropriate venue and didn’t require schlepping down to Hyde Park again. Bonus.
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Filed by Lance at 7:15 pm under General
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I have to admit, AIDS, AIDS activism, and AIDS awareness are usually under my radar.
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Filed by Bil at 1:25 pm under Damn Hippies, Love, Social Issues
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This World AIDS Day, I called in sick to the office. I don’t have AIDS, I just happen to be under the weather.

While I can’t do much about the syndrome itself, seeing as how I am not a research scientist, I can at least raise awareness and encourage prevention education.

Here’s how I do that:

Please read this article on World Aids Day 2009 from NPR’s news blog, The Two-Way. The article contains a brilliant summation of the current world AIDS situation from UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe.

If you’re too lazy to read the article, I’ll reprint the summation here, with some parts in bold (courtesy of me, because I like them):

On this World AIDS Day we are filled with both hope and concern.

Hope because significant progress has been made towards universal access. New HIV infections have dropped. Fewer children are born with HIV. And more than 4 million people are on treatment.

Concern because 28 years into the epidemic the virus continues to make inroads into new populations; stigma and discrimination continue to undermine efforts to turn back the epidemic. The violation of human rights of people living with HIV, women and girls, men who have sex with men, injecting drug users and sex workers must end.
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