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		<title>The Underrated Big Pun</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the annals of rap&#8217;s history, figures like KRS-One, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Tupac, BIG, Wayne, Nas, 50 and Jay are prominent and command much clout. Saying &#8220;Tupac sucks&#8221; is tantamount to saying &#8220;I enjoy lighting kittens on fire&#8221;. True heads and minor enthusiasts will recoil in horror hearing such blasphemy. This is the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=375&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the annals of rap&#8217;s history, figures like KRS-One, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Tupac, BIG, Wayne, Nas, 50 and Jay are prominent and command much clout.  Saying &#8220;Tupac sucks&#8221; is tantamount to saying &#8220;I enjoy lighting kittens on fire&#8221;.  True heads and minor enthusiasts will recoil in horror hearing such blasphemy.  This is the same blasphemy I&#8217;ve received in nominating Big Pun as one of the greatest rappers AND lyricists of all time.</p>
<p>Dickriders like to exclaim, &#8220;Big Pun?!  You mean the guy from &#8216;Still Not a Playa&#8217;, that soft shit?  Whatever, he&#8217;s no Pac.&#8221;  While Pac was a better orator regarding his views on social inequalities, Pun mops the floor with Pac lyrically.  Not Pun&#8217;s message, but rather his delivery.  Pun, Twista, BONE and BONE-dickrider&#8217;s Do Or Die are a few rappers who&#8217;ve perfected quick, multisyllabic delivery.</p>
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<p>Pun and Joe go back and forth, alternating verses.  Their voices are similar, but Pun rhymes the verses starting&#8230;</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Ready for war, Joe&#8221;<br />
&#8220;I rub your face off the earth&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Fuck the police&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Fuck peace&#8221;</em></p>
<p>When you hear those lines, that&#8217;s Pun speaking.  For a rapper stereotyped as having money, orgies and little introspection, Pun is surprisingly observant.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;The cannon be the anarchy that humanity&#8217;s dealing&#8221;</em><br />
Excessive violence on the streets in the form of guns (cannon) wreaks havoc.  More importantly, it reveals his Machiavellian nature.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;The street&#8217;s cursed, the first amendment&#8217;s culturally biased, supposed to supply us with rights, tonight I hold my rosary tight as I can, I&#8217;m one man against the world&#8221;</em><br />
Streets are rough.  Especially for minorities (cultural bias).</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Street professors, Terror Squad, ghetto scholars, fill the clips off, inflicts the fear of God when the metal hollers, better acknowledge or get knocked down until I&#8217;m locked and shot down&#8221;</em><br />
Pun had a totalitarian view on the streets.  Impending violence creates fear, which leads to submission.  The line starting &#8220;better acknowledge&#8221; solidifies this point: as long as Pun is breathing, he will exert power over those around him.  Violence is his instrument and also the only way to displace his power.</p>
<p>Bottom line: there are plenty of highly talented rappers lacking critical acclaim.  Pun can compete lyrically at the highest echelons but a lack of mainstream acclaim and early demise stifled his rise.  To score multiculturalist brownie points, praise Big Pun in front of a Puerto Rican and you&#8217;re now part of the family.</p>
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		<title>Advantages and Disadvantages of Being Alpha</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concept of &#8220;alpha&#8221; is a hot topic amongst PUAs and MRAs. The mainstream media grativated to this concept as well. I feel men&#8217;s magazines address alpha topics to simultaneously lower their audience&#8217;s self-esteem, then become the &#8220;fix&#8221; to their issues, retaining subscriptions. On the other hand, women&#8217;s magazines address this topic because alphas are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=363&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The concept of &#8220;alpha&#8221; is a hot topic amongst PUAs and MRAs.  The mainstream media grativated to this concept as well.  I feel men&#8217;s magazines address alpha topics to simultaneously lower their audience&#8217;s self-esteem, then become the &#8220;fix&#8221; to their issues, retaining subscriptions.  On the other hand, women&#8217;s magazines address this topic because alphas are men they&#8217;re hard-wired to find attractive.  The cognizant recognition and glorification of &#8220;being a human alpha male&#8221; has only surfaced in this culture within the past few decades.  Our previous cultural, religious, and economic structure allowed most betas to monopolize one woman for life.  In that system, all but the lowest caste of men could be reproductive successes.  Since the decline in men&#8217;s power over the past few generations, the gap between pussy-haves and pussy-have-nots widened.  Hence, popularity of the terms &#8220;alpha&#8221; and &#8220;beta&#8221; to acknowledge this widening gap.</p>
<p>&#8220;Alpha&#8221; contains its own benefits and seeds of destruction.  Observant bloggers have recognized the traits to attract women typically stand against combined interests of society.  In that vein, I will deconstruct the behavior of some alpha acquiantances.</p>
<p><strong>Salmon</strong><br />
Salmon was a coworker of mine year back.  This pseudonym is appropriate because I would tease him about a pink button-up he&#8217;d wear.  This was one of the few times I found a soft spot and could push his buttons.  His typical response to my teasing was silence or redirecting the conversation onto a topic he liked.  I would exploit this weakness by calling him derogatory terms like &#8220;fag&#8221; and &#8220;homo&#8221;.</p>
<p>He is a fascinating case study because he&#8217;s not a natural.  Guy lost his v-card around 18, a late-bloomer influenced by his family&#8217;s religion.  Bulking up in college and playing an important role on a shitty D3 team proved fertile soil for a young, sexually repressed man.  Quote: &#8220;[I] was called Dirt because of all the dirty skanks I banged&#8221;  When asked about the number of women he&#8217;s slept with, he offered a similar explanation as Tucker Max: &#8220;Do you remember how many beers you&#8217;ve drank?&#8221;  He pegged his number around 80.  He was 30 then.</p>
<p><em>Alpha Advantages</em><br />
The guy kept his cool all the time.  I&#8217;d only heard his voice raise when he was discussing a passion or hobby.  Typically, he was unflappable.  In the manner he carried himself, his self-importance was evident.  His repeated positive interactions with girls in college created an unshakable frame.  An enjoyable, likeable asshole.</p>
<p><em>Alpha Disadvantages</em><br />
Salmon and I constantly played subtle power games.  This struggle manifested itself in non-venomous verbal sparring and attempts to socially dominate each other.  I never took it personal and he never indicated he did, either.  Perhaps we both understood the game never ends until one of us is dead.  The power games arose because we both have dominant personalities.  I had my work cut out, as he was five years older with more experience in life.  He actively maintained social dominance by putting people down and ignoring them.  As a self-described &#8220;big, dumb animal&#8221;, his social skills were par excellence.</p>
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<p><strong>Mr. R</strong><br />
Mr. R was my boss at the same store with Salmon.  Only a year older than Salmon, but infinitely more mature.  Having a family young will do that to a man.  Mr. R maintained appropriate distance from his coworkers, occasionally meeting us for happy hour.  I remember a time at Frog Bear &amp; Wild Boar when he asked for my advice on raising his daughter well.  Our relationship was primarily business, but personal topics surfaced infrequently.</p>
<p>Mr. R came into work one Monday with a large gash on his forehead.  Last weekend, while on a double date, Mr. R and company was held at gunpoint by two muggers, one armed.  Reflexively, instinctually, he lunged at the firearm, but it went off and he was shot in the forehead.  The gun discharged before they could wrestle it from the perpetrator&#8217;s hands.  The two guys ran off.  You&#8217;d think Mr. R would be dead on the street with his brains coloring the sidewalk.  Luckily, the muggers had BB guns, not lethal ordnance.</p>
<p>PM: That&#8217;s awesome.  You didn&#8217;t even flinch and sprang into action.<br />
Mr R: Awesome?  If that was a real gun, I&#8217;d be dead right now.<br />
PM:  Still awesome.</p>
<p><em>Alpha Advantages</em><br />
Clear-headed, focused on the goals of our branch.  This guy never, ever said a bad word or scolded people.  Rather, his disappoint was evident in his facial expressions.  Ironically, I felt worse seeing that face than being yelled at by previous superiors.  It was quiet disapproval, subtle but effective.  He followed a fundamental system of rewarding good behavior through acknowledgement, punishing bad behavior through withdrawal.  Mr. R and I never had power struggles, because he treated me with respect and I respected his authority as my boss.  </p>
<p>He broke the stereotype of stuffy, responsible managers.  This guy was drinking, smoking, drunk driving, and sleeping around like the rest of us.  This was balanced by his devotion to his children and then-fiancee.</p>
<p><em>Alpha Disadvantages</em><br />
I cannot think of one.  He treated all employees well and softened that with teasing.  Cooperative coworkers, like our warehouse manager and part-time staff, respected him.  Rebellious coworkers, like Salmon and I, even marched to his tune.  Strolling in two hours late daily showed he wasn&#8217;t a morning person, but he compensated by staying late most nights.  If Mr. R offered me a job working for him, I&#8217;d accept in a heartbeat.</p>
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<p><strong>The Beast</strong><br />
No, former Ohio Lair-ites, not that &#8220;Beast&#8221;.  Rather, an older gentleman I know.  His alphaness polarizes reactions of those around, to a degree I&#8217;ve never seen before.</p>
<p><em>Alpha Advantages</em><br />
Loud, dominant, physically imposing.  With a notch count surpassing Salmon&#8217;s, he also capitalized on a toned body in his youth to attract women.  He raised his son as a responsible, productive member of society.  A former Regional Manager of a giant supply warehouse, he&#8217;s exercised his power on multiple planes.</p>
<p><em>Alpha Disadvantages</em><br />
His loudness and social dominance lacks tact, which pits many against him.  Socially, they capitulate.  Behind scenes, they talk shit.  His dominance is his greatest strength and weakness.</p>
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<p>If a scale of negative vs positive alpha traits was drawn representing these three, it would look like this&#8230;</p>
<p>Negative traits&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;Positive Traits<br />
&#8230;Beast&#8230;Salmon&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Mr R&#8230;..</p>
<p>A book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Male-Syndrome-Kate-Ludeman/dp/B0015IRO46" target="_blank">Alpha Male Syndrome</a> addresses this spectrum of alpha qualities.  The goal is to increase alpha advantages and minimize alpha disadvantages in the work place.</p>
<p>To reference a <a href="http://honestintrospection.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/pendulums-and-personality-traits/" target="_blank">previous post</a>, with &#8220;alpha&#8221; being the trait, slightly north of 3 is a great range for alpha characteristics in the business world.  Lightly dominant, but not threateningly so.  In the world of women, I recommend an alpha level of 4.  Strong dominance yet lacking oppressive elements found in a totalitarian 5.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some financial advisors recommend buying gold, silver, and other precious metals to suppliment investment portfolios. Charlie and Boris at Single Dude Travel agree. The Chinese government advises their citizens to purchase as a &#8220;hedge against inflation&#8221;. Those who rallied against gold like this bright chap look foolish. Gold was around $1200 per ounce at time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=349&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some financial advisors recommend buying gold, silver, and other precious metals to suppliment investment portfolios.  Charlie and Boris at <a href="http://www.singledudetravel.com" target="_blank">Single Dude Travel</a> agree.  <a href="http://http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/03/26/chinas-central-bank-recommends-gold-for-value-preservation/" target="_blank">The Chinese government advises their citizens to purchase as a &#8220;hedge against inflation&#8221;</a>.  Those who rallied against gold like this <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/financial-adviser/2010/07/12/why-gold-is-the-worst-investment-right-now/" target="_blank">bright chap</a> look foolish.  Gold was around $1200 per ounce at time of publication and currently hovers north of $1700.  Since the &#8217;70s, this metal has become increasingly valuable.  Why?</p>
<p>It has inherent value.  An item having value, just because of what it is, is a commodity.  Livestock, food, precious metals, and drugs are fine examples.  Most economic systems in our recorded history operated under a commodity system.  Tim from Torguud traded seven cattle to Danny of Dariganga for fourty bolts of cloth and twenty bushels of vegetables.  Danny of Dariganga then traded the seven cattle for five hundred gold pieces.  Each item traded has real value.  Cattle for food and armor, bolts for clothes and bandages, precious metals for trade and warfare.</p>
<p>In 1944, representatives from the Allied nations established the International Monetary Fund, linking the exchange rate of their currencies to the dollar.  Thankfully, the dollar was backed by gold.  Scanning a few current websites fingered the US as currently having only two or three percent of the world&#8217;s total gold.  The international standard hinged upon a currency backed by an object of tangible value and considerable dispersion across the world.  This situation has it&#8217;s advantages and drawbacks, but for the United States and allies, it was a dream come true.  Through their economies and investments, the joint dynasties of financial banking and world politics outwardly supported a legitimate economic norm.  That was effective legislation, until&#8230;</p>
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<p>&#8230;the early &#8217;70s, when economic measures taken by Nixon cancelled gold as the backing for our dollar.  Gone was the era of commodity-based currency and in came fiat currency.  Fiat money has no inherent wealth.  The United States dollar, British pound, Turkish lira, and Mexican peso are fiat currency.  Their only inherent value is in their paper, ink, and scarcity but they represent the credit of the nation issuing the note.  If a financial authority/government has 100 ounces of gold and prints 100 currency notes, each note is worth the equivalent of one ounce of gold.  If they have 100 ounces of gold and print 200 currency notes, each note is now worth the equivalent of half an ounce of gold.  Fiat money is an IOU from the governing organization that issued those notes.  In our case, Federal Reserve.  </p>
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<p>Previous to the Nixon legislation in &#8217;71, gold traded at $35 per troy ounce and the value of the dollar against each milligram of gold was around $900.  Immediately prior to and continuing today, the value of the dollar plummeted to $79.  Gold has shot up from $35 per ounce to $1722.  Gold&#8217;s price is not the only indicator of a country&#8217;s wealth, but one of many commodities that fill its coffers.  Gold, one of history&#8217;s favorite commodities, was benched.</p>
<p>The real culprit here is the devaluation of our currency.  All fiat-based currencies are susceptible to manipulation.  Occupy Wallstreet and We Are the 99% are household memes because all but the dumbest understand, possibly subconsciously, we&#8217;re being hoodwinked.  Imaginary &#8220;money&#8221; created from interest is all around us.  Fiat money is only based in other&#8217;s country&#8217;s confidence we can repay our loans.  It&#8217;s obvious we will purposely not repay our loans nor manage our infrastructure properly, so global confidence in the United States is dwindling.  Who wants to trade with the broke guy who owes everyone money and cannot pay them back?  We&#8217;re like Scumbag Steve.  Global investors and other countries are losing confidence in our ability to pay our debt, meaning our fiat money will devalue.</p>
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<p>So why are people buying gold, silver, and other precious commodities?  Their value is in themselves, while inflation could one day make the dollar as worthless as the paper its printed on.  Go big or go home.  Buy a bar.  400 ounces X $1,700 per ounce = $680,000.  Wear that mu&#8217;fugga around your neck a la Flava Flav.  The important criteria is to only accept the physical gold or silver.  I would not take the chance on an institution to honor our agreement of holding my investment should a default occur.  Sure, it says backed by the FDIC, but come hell or high water, Big Brother is getting his share.  Find an institution that isn&#8217;t a puppet for the government or financial powerhouses.  Avoid the US Gold Reserve&#8217;s list.  A private depository or home safe would work.</p>
<p>Check out <a href="http://www.gold.org/investment/statistics/gold_price_chart/" target="_blank">here</a> and see how gold is becoming more valuable in every currency.  Playing devil&#8217;s advocate raises the question of a gold crash.  Going in at $1,700/ounce is substantially risker than those who bought in a decade ago at $300 an ounce, but hindsight is 20/20.  Which leads to&#8230;</p>
<p>TL;DR<br />
Best case scenario: gold will continue to be a better investment than the dollar.  If the Nixon Shock of &#8217;71 is reversed, outsourced production jobs return and gold becomes the US-based or international-based standard, economic prosperity won&#8217;t be far behind but gold will still be a better option for years, if not decades or longer.</p>
<p>Worst case scenario: gold continues to be a better investment as the dollar loses more strength. Our debt climbs as we sink deeper.  More jobs outsourced, inflation or default as debt rises, social, economic dystopia.  Manufacturing moves overseas but they still need gold for electronics, jewelry, chemistry, and hospital equipment.  Rich investors love it as a hedge against inflation.  The shit sells itself.</p>
<p>I use the comparison &#8220;gold versus the dollar&#8221; loosely purposely.  By &#8220;the dollar&#8221;, I&#8217;m talking about securities.  Unless you have the up-and-up on which companies are poised to prosper, it&#8217;s a risky proposition in this national and global downturn.  Many personal friends and family lost thousands of savings in the past few years.</p>
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		<title>Misuse of Feminism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peacemaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two-part video exposing this culture&#8217;s emasculation of men and how it enabled the twisted beast that has become feminism. Great editing makes this highly digestable. Another where a girl addresses how feminism shifted from a good cause to its current perversion. It&#8217;s pleasing to see more people uncover their eyes from the mainstream media&#8217;s wool [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=337&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Two-part video exposing this culture&#8217;s emasculation of men and how it enabled the twisted beast that has become feminism.  Great editing makes this highly digestable.</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://honestintrospection.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/337/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/y5OdQGbVNa4/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://honestintrospection.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/337/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/ZPHYPHf0PfE/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p>Another where a girl addresses how feminism shifted from a good cause to its current perversion.</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://honestintrospection.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/337/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/A8lkYsbENeQ/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p>It&#8217;s pleasing to see more people uncover their eyes from the mainstream media&#8217;s wool blanket of deception and half-truths.</p>
<p>The first pair of videos is especially important because it acknowledges how this current shitstew of gender wars, inequal legislation and outdated chivalry was enabled by men of past and current generations.  If you see yourself in the shoes of any men in these videos, remember this code&#8230;</p>
<p>If self-respect &gt; vagina,<br />
     then vagina<br />
If self-respect &lt; vagina,<br />
     then fapping and/or emasculation</p>
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		<title>Feminist Propaganda re Russel Brand Katy Perry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peacemaker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[6-month old article, couldn&#8217;t resist This retarded article is an attempt to assuage the butthurt ego&#8217;s of many strident feminists around the country. It attempts to explain how Katy Perry convinced the wild Lothario Russell Brand to settle down, sell his sports car, delete the numbers of sexy trollops in his phone, and do what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=332&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1291921/Katy-Perry-tamed-Russell-Brand-making-wait-sex.html">6-month old article, couldn&#8217;t resist</a></p>
<p>This retarded article is an attempt to assuage the butthurt ego&#8217;s of many strident feminists around the country.  It attempts to explain how Katy Perry convinced the wild Lothario Russell Brand to settle down, sell his sports car, delete the numbers of sexy trollops in his phone, and do what a responsible man should do.</p>
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<p>The article states Perry used a &#8220;make him wait&#8221; strategy before they slept together.  This strategy allowed her to &#8220;tame&#8221; Brand.  Per Merriam-Webster, tame = domesticate = tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet for farm purposes.  As the physically weaker sex, women compensated their lack of strength with seduction, misdirection, and loaded language.  Feminists have perfected that innate quality, applying it to scenarios to color the interaction in our minds.</p>
<p>Perry tames Brand = Perry dominates Brand<br />
Perry tames Brand = Perry domesticates Brand<br />
Perry tames Brand = Perry subdues Brand</p>
<p>Allow me to shed light on when a man is willing to wait for sex.</p>
<p>1.  He has so much ass currently, his desires are sated and doesn&#8217;t have hunger for sex, therefore doesn&#8217;t chase nor mind delayed gratification (ironically, this leads to an even greater cornucopia of cooch)<br />
2.  He is currently looking for a long-term relationship<br />
3.  Beta chump</p>
<p>What&#8217;s silly about their viewpoint is labelling the situation as &#8220;she domesticated him&#8221;.  More likely, he was willing to settle down with an appropriate girl.  His decision to end their marriage after her refusal to settle down and start a family validates this argument.  Was he tamed?  No, he was willing to settle down.</p>
<p>Why was he willing to wait?  He either had girls on the side or he was willing to invest sexual celibacy in their budding romance.  The persona of Perry as this domineering, strong woman is a tool for older women with no capital in the dating market to lead young, attractive women astray with terrible advice, hence allowing a greater supply for their own romantic needs.  It&#8217;s like when experts of a profession give poor advice to the new guy.  Sabotage.</p>
<p>From my own personal experience, I&#8217;ve only waited for sex for reasons #2 and 3(teenage years).  During those periods of life when I&#8217;m bored playing the field, having a committed partner is preferential.  Men like us CAN settle down&#8230;but only when we choose.</p>
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		<title>Game From a Rapper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one-third of G-Unit, Lloyd Banks was typically overshadowed by 50&#8242;s bolstering. As a solo artist, he&#8217;s crafting his own style. The following clip is from Funk Master Flex&#8217;s radio show where Bank&#8217;s flowed over some random beat. Definately top ten freestyles. Game from Lloyd Banks &#8220;Shorty don&#8217;t want me, she wants what I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=321&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As one-third of G-Unit, Lloyd Banks was typically overshadowed by 50&#8242;s bolstering.  As a solo artist, he&#8217;s crafting his own style.  The following clip is from Funk Master Flex&#8217;s radio show where Bank&#8217;s flowed over some random beat.  Definately top ten freestyles.</p>
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<p><strong>Game from Lloyd Banks</strong><br />
<em>&#8220;Shorty don&#8217;t want me, she wants what I can give her, ten bedrooms, swimming pool and a river, she could have all three if I was a weak nigga, but unfortunately, for you, I&#8217;m blue&#8221;</em><br />
Definately not a simp.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m slingin&#8217;, hard dick, all you can get, my phone&#8217;s ringing, which mean you ain&#8217;t the only chick&#8221;</em><br />
Pre-selection.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t string &#8216;em, along that&#8217;s when shit goes wrong, clap(fuck) her all night long, she be skitzo-gone, you know me in the mind, not the physical form&#8221;</em><br />
False promises are deadly for maintaining a sexual relationship at arm&#8217;s distance.  Also, he&#8217;s commenting on fan&#8217;s obsession with their perception of him, not who he is in real life.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;I got&#8217;s to mingle, fuck havin&#8217; handcuffs on[...]I ain&#8217;t stack up all these chips to have it withdrawn, get the chick, get the pussy, get the math(money), I&#8217;m gone&#8221;</em><br />
Divorce is the financial equivalent of being a prison bitch.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Makes no sense to commit to what I knew would pass, I like my girls like my cars: new and fast&#8221;</em><br />
Nothing makes a man feel more alive than new conquests.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Banks ain&#8217;t a cuffer(cuddler), I clap(fuck) her and forget her, let her find somebody that&#8217;ll treat her better, M.O.B.(money over bitches) forever&#8221;</em><br />
Like the old man in &#8220;Successful&#8221; by Drake, &#8220;go for the money, not the honey(women)&#8221;</p>
<p>This dude gets the game.  He understands most women look at him with dollar signs circling their iris.  Guaranteed he flushes condoms down the toilet.  He is self-interested and brutally honest.  Having millions will do that to a person.</p>
<p>In an unrelated freestlye from early 2000s, he commented, &#8220;I fuck my bitch with a condom and a birth control patch&#8221;.  That&#8217;s the life of a male millionaire: carefully monitoring your seed to avoid financial obligations.  This reminds me of the 90s, when basketball coaches were specifically instructing their players to only use their own condoms and flush them immediately, because groupies would gather condoms from trashcans and inseminate themselves.  It&#8217;s like Big said, &#8220;mo&#8217; money, mo&#8217; problems&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Let her find somebody that&#8217;ll treat her better&#8221;.  It&#8217;s funny that I tell women, &#8220;if you don&#8217;t like how I treat you, find someone else&#8221;, yet oddly, they never leave.  The ability to walk away is a man&#8217;s greatest trump card.</p>
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		<title>My Ex-Friend The Mangina</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months back, I heard about an old friend getting married. His wedding was in one week so chances of an invite were slim. However, being the tactless guy I am, I directly asked my friend if I could attend. &#8220;Sure. Someone backed out so we have an extra spot&#8221; was his response. There&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=315&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A few months back, I heard about an old friend getting married.  His wedding was in one week so chances of an invite were slim.  However, being the tactless guy I am, I directly asked my friend if I could attend.  &#8220;Sure. Someone backed out so we have an extra spot&#8221; was his response.  There&#8217;s nothing I love more than a booze-fueled wedding party filled with romance-drunk women.  My ball hair was shorn in anticipation.<br />
<P><br />
Day before the wedding, a mutual friend texted me, &#8220;Mangina said you can&#8217;t come&#8221;.  I fired back, &#8220;Hah right&#8221;, to which he replied, &#8220;No joke&#8221;.  I called Mangina&#8217;s phone and it went to voice mail.  I informed Friend and asked for an update.</p>
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<p>Friend called Mangina and Mangina confirmed I was now uninvited.  Reason: his fiancee did not have enough seats nor was I on the RSVP so food would be limited.  Mangina had previously explained this to me but I told him I would eat before we got there, so it wasn&#8217;t a problem.  As for seating, it&#8217;s a non-issue after dinner.  I&#8217;d known the guy since high school and hopefully, this will be his only marriage.  What really chapped my ass was that the wedding dinner WAS A BUFFET!  There&#8217;s food to go around, so saying there wasn&#8217;t enough food was a copout.<br />
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To summarize, Mangina gave me his word I could attend, then rescinded his invitation and avoided my phone calls.  Bitch shit.  Had he answered my call and told me that himself, it would have been excusable.  My invitation was on short-notice but to avoid informing me was cowardly.</p>
<p>The true problem here is Mangina&#8217;s mismanagement of his relationship.  If he will break his word catering to his wife&#8217;s silly demands, he&#8217;s already booked a one-way ticket to financial ass-raping in divorce court.  Acquiescing to your woman&#8217;s flimsy demands is like blasting her cooch with a space heater: dry in fifteen seconds.  Women want a challenge, not a doormat.</p>
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<p>Further evidence of why betas are on the lowest rung: they value the desires of women in their lives over their own.  Shameful.</p>
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		<title>The Revolution Must Be Bloody</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy Wallstreet and &#8220;We are the 99%&#8221; camps are misguided. They hope complaining and awareness will level the playing field, shortening the gap between haves and have-nots. They&#8217;re fools. Does a farmer stop sheering his sheep when they bleat? There are over five hundred lawmakers responsible for this country&#8217;s current legislation. They only care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=309&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Occupy Wallstreet and &#8220;We are the 99%&#8221; camps are misguided.  They hope complaining and awareness will level the playing field, shortening the gap between haves and have-nots.  They&#8217;re fools.  Does a farmer stop sheering his sheep when they bleat?<br />
<P><br />
There are over five hundred lawmakers responsible for this country&#8217;s current legislation.  They only care about John Q. Public as far as it betters their re-election chances.  Let&#8217;s stop kidding ourselves into thinking they represent our best interests.  They&#8217;re human, and as humans, they&#8217;re primarily self-interested.  Think I&#8217;m paranoid?  Isn&#8217;t it curious that shortly before re-election, Obama is now talking about bringing manufacturing back to this country?  Since our outsourced manufacturing is a major contributing factor to America&#8217;s economic decline, he could have attacked this issue years ago.  However, now that elections are looming, he&#8217;s stoking the fires by addressing issues affecting Americans.  If he is reelected, not a damn thing will be done.  Just more vague promises of &#8220;change&#8221;.<br />
<P><br />
Even if sheeple opened their eyes and quit voting or furthering the electoral process, they&#8217;d still be trapped by the infrastructure in place.  Let&#8217;s say every American realized how poorly managed this country is and quit voting.  Let&#8217;s say Congress was empty because no one was voted in.  It wouldn&#8217;t change the infrastructure of this country.<br />
<P><br />
When I say &#8220;infrastructure&#8221;, I mean how easily big corporations have dominated our lives.  We purchase groceries from Giant Eagle, not a local farmer&#8217;s market.  We sure as hell don&#8217;t grow our crops anymore.  We go to Circle K or Kwik-Mart for our rations and gasoline, not a local proprietor.  We get our hair cut at BestCuts, not local barbershops.  We purchase clothing from Wal-Mart, not the tailor down the street.  We purchase books from Barnes and Noble, not the cluttered hole-in-the-wall.  Props to those who do keep their shopping local, however.  Reducing the gap between haves and have-nots means reducing many of the comforts we take for granted.  Currently, living in American is like being in a mediocre relationship: not good enough to stay, but not bad enough to leave.</p>
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<p>Most people are so stuck inside their comfort zones that major change is more disruptive than a slow spiral into obsolesence.  People would rather suck the teet until it ran dry than put in effort to find a new cow.  Even if backstabbing lawmakers were ousted from office, it wouldn&#8217;t level the playing field.  What would achieve results is&#8230;<br />
<P><br />
&#8230;bloody revolution (see disclaimer).  The five-hundred plus lawmakers in Washington would quickly whistle a different tune as tens of thousands angrily, violently marched upon Washington.  The Occupy Wallstreet gang is a bunch of pussies unwilling to get dirt under their fingernails.  Examine history and you will see the most effective method for removing corrupt politicians is violent revolution.  Once politicians stop fearing their constituents, it&#8217;s checkmate.<br />
<P><br />
The French Revolution was the inspiration for the American Revolution.  Why have so many countries from history rebelled against their oppressive tyrants while this country&#8217;s inhabitants merely chew grass like the stupid cows we are?  Hundreds of years ago, people sewed their own clothes, grew their own crops and were more independent.  If the King died, who cared?  The blacksmith traded with the farmer and the jeweler and each were dependent upon each other, not the infrastructure that big businesses established.  This country hasn&#8217;t seen a revolution in centuries because life has become too comfortable and we&#8217;ve staked our comfort in this infrastructure.  It&#8217;s not bad enough to risk life and limb for change.<br />
<P><br />
Do I love America?  Yes, it&#8217;s my culture and I&#8217;m proud of it.  At least, proud of what being an American used to mean.  I love football, barbeques, movies, industriousness, hamburgers and competition.  This country is full of young men like myself willing to work hard to secure a comfortable lifestyle, but when that energy is suppressed, it finds release in different avenues.<br />
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DISCLAIMER:  America has this weird love/hate relationship with violence.  Guns and death are glorified in movies yet a man grabbing a woman&#8217;s wrist is condemned as &#8220;abusive&#8221;.  I am not issuing a call for violent overthrow of our government but merely examining what past cultures have done against similar oppressive regimes.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I harangued corporate sponsorship of multiculturalism for the reduced employment opportunities available to white men in mostly white areas. I feel that multiculturalism is for some, but not most, and having it shoved down our throats is ridiculous. Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood, I was rarely exposed to other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=307&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a previous post, I harangued corporate sponsorship of multiculturalism for the reduced employment opportunities available to white men in mostly white areas.  I feel that multiculturalism is for some, but not most, and having it shoved down our throats is ridiculous.<br />
<P><br />
Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood, I was rarely exposed to other races.  Even back then, skin color didn&#8217;t matter to me.  I befriended two Indian cousins but thought they were &#8220;black&#8221; because at age six, who knows?  Later, a wave of Croatian immigrants crashed into our high school.  Plenty made fun of them.  The guys looked more rugged and masculine than whites, so whites would quietly tease their Neanderthal features.  We never shared a class so the opportunity for friendship never appeared.  They stayed in their circle and that&#8217;s fine.  Their girls had wicked figures, though.  Hourglass.  What do they put in their water?<br />
<P><br />
College was culture shock.  I soon fell in love with bubble tea, Moy&#8217;s on High, pitas, gyros, sushi, German sausagehausen, and some of their women, too.  Loatians hired Loatians, blacks hired blacks, Greeks hired Greeks.  Friendships formed frequently.  With people interacting toward a common goal, like partying or school projects, it felt natural.  One Russian I dated either confided in me or lacked political correctness when she told me she didn&#8217;t like black people.  Either way, she wasn&#8217;t rude to <a href="http://www.realmademen.com" target="_blank">Assanova</a> when we all went out.  She was polite but didn&#8217;t engage in conversation.  With her background, multiculturalism wasn&#8217;t for her.  Whenever I&#8217;m in town, Assanova and I roll with an Indian cat.  Multiculturalism is for me.  Since an early age, I&#8217;ve been fascinated by theology of other cultures.  Foreign women have an irreplacable allure compared to women of my nationality.  My last commitment was to a hispanic girl.  Multiculturalism is not for everyone, however.<br />
<P><br />
History is rife with examples of two different ethnicities in close proximity engaging in warfare.  Collaborative efforts are common, also, but I&#8217;d wager the majority of strife came from international warfare, not intranational.  The majority of a nationality enjoy their culture and do not want to dabble in others.  You might see a shopper pick up some tacos but not at a club on Cicero.<br />
<P><br />
Chicago has a good recipe for handling its multiculturalism.  Whites would say &#8220;it&#8217;s a very segregated city&#8221; with an ominous undertone.  I say its different cultures working and contributing to their communities.  At public events like the Taste, music fests or street faires, willing participants can step outside their comfort zone and enjoy the different flavors.  Maybe a falafel and a lover for the night?<br />
<P><br />
As a daily commuter along the bus and rail system, I&#8217;d made a variety of commute friends in various nationalities.  Multiculturalism is not for everyone, however.  Certain drivers were cold to me but warm to their own people.  That&#8217;s fine.<br />
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Friends have confided confessions like &#8220;She doesn&#8217;t like white people&#8221; or &#8220;I can&#8217;t stand Mexicans&#8221; and that&#8217;s fine, too.  As long as civility and respect is maintained, the races will be fine.  This multiculturalism shoved down our throats in billboards, TV and movies is ridiculous, though.  In that stinker &#8220;Thor&#8221; a few years back, one of the Norse gods was portrayed by a black guy?  Huh?!  That&#8217;s as dumb as Bradley Cooper playing Shaka Zulu.  This summer, Denzel Washington in &#8220;The Life of Che Guevara&#8221;!  Come on, now.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not posted the past week because my focus has been on becoming employed. It&#8217;s a soul-sucking process, especially considering my qualifications. Like many of my generation, overqualification leads to unemployment. Some feel my generation is soft, unwilling to dirty our pretty clothes for a career in manual labor. This presumes manual labor is &#8220;below [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=honestintrospection.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25669833&amp;post=304&amp;subd=honestintrospection&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve not posted the past week because my focus has been on becoming employed.  It&#8217;s a soul-sucking process, especially considering my qualifications.  Like many of my generation, overqualification leads to unemployment.  Some feel my generation is soft, unwilling to dirty our pretty clothes for a career in manual labor.  This presumes manual labor is &#8220;below us&#8221;.  Instead, what if hiring incentives are stacked against us?<br />
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According to <a href="http://www.city-data.com" target="_blank">City Data</a>, my zip code is approximately 90% white.  This doesn&#8217;t compare to my local gas station.  Of the five workers I&#8217;ve seen there, only one is white.  If 90% of my county&#8217;s residents are white but only 20% of the workers at this gas station are white, how is this equal representation of the races?  It&#8217;s the result of skewed employment opportunities for special interest groups.<br />
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I&#8217;m not some Neo Nazi who believes all non-whites should eagerly bear oppression from whites.  Nor am I some bleeding heart liberal who believes in multiculturalism at the expense of my kin.  I am, however, an observant man who&#8217;s noticed resources being forcibly transferred from one demographic to others.  Resources are caught in the same zero-sum power struggle as the West&#8217;s current gender wars.  It feels like white men are experiencing less opportunity growth than females or minorities.<br />
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This idea has been presented in conversations by others and read from websites but now its effects are touching me.  Over the holidays, two relatives echoed my frustrations.  Both relatives are professional women who&#8217;ve been responsible for hiring and firing within prestigious corporate giants.  When it comes to filling quotas for tax breaks, EOE, and affirmative action, white men are below women and minorities on the eligibility totem pole.  This nation&#8217;s previous economic and polical backbone edge out former felons and convicted drug abusers in Human Resources.<br />
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I&#8217;m saving my thoughts on multiculturalism for a future post but need to insert this: since &#8220;equality&#8221; is the proclaimed goal of many liberal agendas, realize that employment opportunities for all races are fine provided percentages are in line with population diversity.  If my zip code is 90% white, then nine out of ten workers should be white.  On the other hand, if my zip code is 90% Chinese, then nine out of ten workers should be Chinese.<br />
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The proprietorships and local businesses hire mostly their own while the corporate giants diversify their employees.  My white town is bordered by a black town to the west and a Mexican village to the east.  Whites don&#8217;t go to the hispanic town and work in their family stores.  Mexicans hire their own people, as they should.  They keep their money in their community.  Whites don&#8217;t go to the black city and work in their family stores.  Blacks hire their own people, as they should.  They keep their money in their communities.  Wal-Mart, Sunoco, McDonalds, Taco Bell, and a few others hire inversely to population demographics in this city and it weakens the employment opportunities of actual residents.<br />
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How does this affect my unemployment frustrations?  It means less opportunities for me, a white male.  The purpose of this blog isn&#8217;t to vent and spread my dirty laundry across the interwebz but rather to examine facets of life and offer suggestions.  Starting Friday, my home-based business will be up and running.  It will provide meager sustenance until I find work.  It should barely cover living expenses my first month, but as someone who&#8217;s abhorred the corporate lifestyle for years, it might not be too bad.</p>
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