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Because the Social Security and SSI benefits Your Correspondent gets (remember, he's so emotionally disabled that he can't work) can only go so far, he'd appreciate it greatly (as would this blog) if you'd be kind enough to make a donation (not tax-deductible, sadly) to the (fully-secure and encrypted, know) Virtual Tip Jar:
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As 2008 dawns upon the world, so does The Exaggerator.
And there can be no doubt about it, folks: The Exaggerator will certainly be a quantum leap over the daily phosdex (my former blog) as will be in the process of winding down about the time. So, those of you as were fond of the latter will, I hope, be equally fond of The Exaggerator once it gets to full strength.
I hope, too, that the more limited online-shopping selection will be an improvement, especially when it comes to download speed and times.
For one, The Exaggerator will not be the kind to stoop to overdone "feel-good" saccharine exercises such as conservative Zealots and True Believers want presented in the news, and then solely to distract the attention of Joe Sixpack from The Big Picture.
For another, The Exaggerator will not kowtow to the latest cheap and cheerful entertainment fads overdone as news fodder; Hannah Montana and High School Musical easily come to mind here. Such are likely all the more to get hackneyed as time wears on, not to mention the prospect of such being perverted to, again, distract the attention of Joe Sixpack from The Big Picture.
Nor will The Exaggerator be the sort as will play the doublethink game solely for the sake of "patriotism" and "patriot love." Such clearly serves as nothing but cheap and disingenuous stupidity which could only serve dangerous ends, especially under the current state of paranoia America has been reduced to since the Unfortunate Events of 9/11/2001 ... not to mention the likelihood that said doublethink could be used solely to place the collective above the self in service to a dangerous agenda.
And One Thing More: The Exaggerator will not accept any criticism as suggests that "cretins, morons, idiots, paupers and mental defectives" are somehow behind much of the blogosphere, nor will it accept suggestions that such are "spreading schizophrenic germs" to the point of "misleading Americans away from her antient and pecuilar soverignty and soverign identity," let alone "the Greater Conservative Agenda***as will reclaim America and lead her to a New Golden Age of Industry, Self-Reliance, Personal Responsibility, Thrift based on Cash Economy and a Wholesome and Simple Home Life."
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Somehow, folks, weblogs can cost a pretty penny just to maintain.
Not to mention where Your Correspondent, who himself is on disability benefit for the most part (and, hence, cannot expect to find honest work, notwithstanding any calls you, dear reader, may have suggesting that I "make wise use of my hands for once"), could use some extra income.
Explaining, no doubt, why I have the Virtual Tip Jar and the online-shopping section off to the side of the page. I trust the selection of the latter agrees with you, and would especially welcome the patronage of such cybermallrats who would be willing to make their patronage a regular habit--especially if they make this blog a habit.
Killing two birds with one stone, so to speak?
Besides, disability benefit can only go so far, and what's more, it's unlikely that Your Correspondent will soon be coming into money.
Hence, explaining all the more the importance of your online-shopping patronage.
The same could be said of your tips, so to speak--and also your looking into signing up with some of the affiliate programmes I already happen to be affiliate with.
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In closing, might I suggest where the GOP's membership--and across the board, @ that--consider reading none other than Main Street by Minnesota-born novellist Sinclair Lewis, if only for the sake of reflecting on the complacency and closed-mindedness of their model of America and Americanism:
Videlicet, the small-town/rural Arcadia which seems to be a favourite Ideel of the conservative camp and its droogs when it comes to where America ought look for salvation and redemption.
Also worth reading among the GOP's ranks, primarily for the sake of Historical Lesson and Warning: None other than "On the Personality Cult and Its Consequences," a/k/a Khruschev's Secret Speech, as delivered in closed session before the 20th Communist Party Congress of the Soviet Union on 25 February 1956.
Need I say more?
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Well, I hope this agrees with you. Your comments are welcome.
Just take a glance to the left-handed side of this page, reader.
You will kindly note where Your Correspondent, in getting this blog ready in its own way, has just added the following:
An online shopping section, with much fewer e-tailers than previously (and, in the process, translating--hopefully--into a faster download when you visit this weblog);
A section dedicated to e-tailing affiliate programmes, for those of you who (subject to the Terms of Service of your website or blog host) would like to make money off your website or blog by honest and legitimate means (and by signing up therefrom, Your Correspondent can get a cut of any sales you make in the process); and
Subscription information for this blog's RSS feed, which you can do in a convenient "one-stop" venue. (You can also sign up to receive the RSS feed by e-mail in your Inbox every day.)
Keep watching this space for the opening of The Exaggerator--which, I trust, will be to your liking. Towards that end, may I suggest bookmarking this page in your web browser, so you can count on it to be among your regular favourites.
And tell your friends about The Exaggerator, come to think of it.
This space will serve, Deo volente, as the venue for my entirely new blog to be known under name and stylee of The Exaggerator--as in the "National Exaggerator" per A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, if you still remember that Scooby-Doo prequel series from around 1990.
The Exaggerator will try its hardest to become the acme of bombastically awful weblogs across the Information Stuporbahn. In other words, not exactly the worst weblog out there ... but trying its best to be. And will by an emphasis upon what could best be described as a cross between illogically schizophrenic ideas and some of the more bombastic rants in a blog form approaching that European editorial genre known as feuilleton--or close to it, for that matter.
More correctly, a hybrid of the European feuilleton and the American newspaper column, with my own personal approach to whatever may be crossing my mind. And even though the end result, or its byproducts, may be rather awful to read in the end, I hope the end result will be agreeable by you.
The Exaggerator, like the daily phosdex before it (and to which The Exaggerator continues), will be master to no one but the mind of Your Correspondent.
It will not kowtow to any political paymasters, conservative nor liberal. (And anyone thinking of such an idea might do better to make a donation to reduce the National Debt with any payola you may try to foist on me.)
Instead, The Exaggerator will have its own mind, expressing its own take on the world, one which opposes jingoism, nativism, xenophobia and even "patriotic" hate, bigotry and prejudice in any and all forms and guises. Even if the language can, @ times, tend to the bombastic (and the hope here being one of getting you to look up many of the words so used, discover deeper meanings beyond the aseptically sterile, and @ once narrow-minded, such as Fox Noise and suchlike of their ilk wants you and me to accept as Holy Writ, and not to question the same lest Serious Consequences ensue for the Antient and Pecuilar Soverignty and Soverign Identity of the United States as a byproduct).
The Exaggerator would rather prefer "ownlife" (Newspeak for individualism, eccentricity, deviation from the accepted line) over "goodthoughtful" (Newspeak, too--here, for orthodox by second nature, one willing to accept the prevailing line as Divine Writ without question or reservation), especially when the latter is expected to be reinforced by deliberate ignorance and stupidity (as epitomised by doublethink) for the sake of a warped and deluded patriotism, not to mention the perversion of patriotic symbols in furtherance of the same.
Your Correspondent, having had much in the way of experience as comes from abuse, cruelty and psychiatric maltreatment and misguided judgements, is perhaps rather qualified to serve the role. Especially when it happens that blogging serves as a form of therapeusis from all the abuse, cruelty and maltreatment, one which depended all too heavily upon medications and fear rather than compassion and dignity (and excusing the same as one with "cost-efficency," "delivering taxpayer value," etc., as if hoping that such overzealous and yet unscrupulous exercises in cost-efficency will translate into consistent "dividends" in rebate form, hoping such will be blown quickly @ the local Wally World).
As well, The Exaggerator has to make some money as well--especially when you consider where Your Correspondent is on disability benefit, by and large, and is trying to supplement same by honest means considering where he's otherwise unable to work under the meaning captured standard.
The fact of which places him @ clear and present risk and danger of exploitation by elements weird, unwholesome and unscrupulous claiming to offer all manner of "systems" on how one could consistently make big big money online--in some cases, unfortunately, tending to the dishonest and otherwise exploitative.
Hence, Your Correspondent is planning to offer online shopping here @ The Exaggerator to not only help pay the bills and supplement Your Correspondent's disability benefits, but also help make your time on this blog worthwhile. Howbeit with fewer e-tailers than previously @ the daily phosdex; the better to allow for faster downloads on even cable modems. Expect such to come on stream within measurable distance.
For the time being, take note of the virtual "tip jar," so to speak, along the side of this blog. In addition to the commissions from online shopping, I'd also appreciate your donations (sorry, Charlie--they're not tax-deductible), regardless of amount.
All in all, The Exaggerator hopes not to be just another weblog.
In other words, just trying to be the worst weblog online.
I hope this Prospectus gives you some idea of what can be expected here in The Exaggerator, and if you have any comments or suggestions to offer, just use the "contact me" link.
