You know, people suck. OK, not all people, just some of them. Especially those who have a need to be known by their title or degree (say, “Doctor” or “MD”). Sorry (okay, not really sorry), but I just am not impressed by somebody because of their job title. I also don’t really give a crap how people dress (I’m not impressed by a suit and tie – I’ve dealt with too many salesmen in my time). I won’t get into specifics, but, suffice it to say, that old adage is true: no good deed goes unpunished.
So, I think we ought to get a lottery pool going here. You know, we all chip in, pick a set of numbers, and if we win, we’re all winners. It shouldn’t be too hard to set up. Money for the tickets can be sent via paypal. The tickets purchased get scanned and posted prior to the drawing, and the winning numbers and payout get posted for all to see. There’s a certain amount of trust between the players and the designated ticket buyer, but I’m pretty sure it would hold up in court if somebody tried to stiff the other people. Plus, I’d like to think we can trust each other. And we’d have to decide what lottery to “invest” in. Here, we have the NYS Lottery, as well as MegaMillions. I know other places have the Powerball.
Oh well, just a thought (can you tell, I’ve got nothing else to say). Have a good Thursday.
Our esteemed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court was in town yesterday.
Is it just me, or is there a wee bit of hypocrisy there?
I think it should be two hours but with breaks to let S&M catch their breath.
Comment by vernon รขโฌโ September 19, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
Sam and Marc are doing an S&M show? Man, I miss all the fun stuff. Will they need to choose a safe word for the breaks?
:spank:
Oh shit, I might have to listen to Lionel today. Kucinich is going to be on!
:banana:
:omg: check this out –
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html
sorry, repost from old thread…
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: ๐ฎ ๐ฎ :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: ๐ฎ ๐ฎ ๐ฎ ๐ฏ ๐ฏ
:yuck: It’s Thursday again
Re: 4 :omg: and raise you :omg: and :omg:
We should get that “Stalker Guy” from Morning Sedition to play the stalker that apparently Marc was referring to (sorry but I just heard about this).
I’m in PJ. I’m sure as helll not making any bread by “working for a living”.
BTW, if anybody ever has a need to convert a Dell Express Service Code number into a Dell Service Tag/Serial number, here’s where:
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/HT/Dell/DellNumb.htm#ConverterWidget
Good morning. :joe: :joe:
Lottery sounds good. Better than the stock market where not only is it a crap shoot but your money helps to sustain capitalists who have greed without conscience.
A construction worker who oversaw renovation of Senator Ted Stevens’s home said his company also paid him to help run fund-raisers for the Alaska Republican, a practice that appears to violate federal campaign finance laws.
Contractor Robert Williams is a key witness in a bribery investigation that stretches from Alaska to Capitol Hill and threatens legal and political headaches for the Senate’s longest-serving Republican. The FBI is investigating whether Stevens received illegal gifts from VECO Corp., the once powerful Alaska oil contractor.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/09/20/witness_says_he_raised_funds_for_stevens/
Poor Ted Stevens. :rofl2:
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My new custom made in Scotland, Phoenix Systems case badges are here! Sweeeet!!
ok i cant find marc and sam video so uh whens it going up………
Democrats fail to prevent Senate condemning MoveOn ad
The Senate voted by a wide margin Thursday to condemn a controversial anti-war advertisement accusing Gen. David Petraeus of betraying the country. Only 24 Democrats, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, voted against the symbolic resolution.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), both of whom also are seeking their party’s presidential nomination, joined Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) in declining to take a position for or against the MoveOn ad. Since last Monday, when the “General Petraus or General Betray Us?” ad ran on a full page of the New York Times, Republicans have launched relentless attacks on MoveOn and any Democrats who refused to outright condemn the ad’s message.
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Democrats_vote_to_condemn_MoveOn_0920.html
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:gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
:gate: :omg: with all their heads
:tommygun: :tommygun: :tommygun: them all
If you look on the Sam Seder blog there is a widget on the upper right hand column that you can click on (it is a pre-show screen shot) to hear the Maron/Seder b’cast from Tuesday. There should be an MP3 later.
There is not supposed to be an official vidcast to be found but there may be a bootleg at some point.
Democraps who voted for the resolution
Baucus
Bayh
Cardin
Carper
Casey
Conrad
Dorgan
Feinstein
Johnson
Klobuchar
Kohl
Landrieu
Leahy
Lieberman
Lincoln
McCaskill
Mikulski
Nelson, Ben
Nelson, Bill
Salazar
Tester
Webb
Retailers may have worst holiday in five years, NRF says
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Amid housing concerns and credit worries, U.S. retailers could be headed for their worst holiday season in five years, according to the National Retail Federation.
Holiday sales are projected to rise 4% to $474.5 billion, which would be the slowest gain since 2002 and would fall below a 10-year average rate of 4.8%, said NRF, the world’s largest retail trade association.
“Retailers are going to take a very cautious approach to the holiday season,” NRF spokesman Scott Krugman told MarketWatch. “Consumers can expect retailers to be very aggressive with their pricing strategy. Retailers are going to pull out all stops to get consumers in early.”
Luxury retailers will likely be the winner this holiday, :barf: :barf: :yuck: NRF said. Budget concerns among lower- to middle-income shoppers may signal trouble for discounters and some department stores, as consumers opt to shop at less expensive locations, according to the NRF. Consulting firm Deloitte & Touche USA on Thursday forecast 4.5% to 5% gain in sales for the November to January period, also less than last year’s 5.1% increase and a “more modest” holiday selling season compared to the past decade.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/retailers-may-have-worst-holiday/story.aspx?guid=%7BDCC364CC%2D8E38%2D4E7F%2D9638%2DF83C486B7363%7D
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Fred, I was calling local State about many issues and Federal Gov. Just talked to Pelosi’s ofc and left a msg she is to return!
I am still trying to comprehend why bush who was DEEMED prez was appointed by Judges he put in. ๐ฟ bush and his ๐ฟ adm is teaching children and those older that it is okay to LIE and CHEAT. Gore won in truth WON, …IN TRUTH. So did Kerry. bush LOST! Gore can step in now… he’s been there before.
That is LOGIC. Keep an ๐ฟ Liar bush and his ๐ฟ adm is ILLOGICAL! :knit: A!I!V!
Hi Fred … ๐ , I am just amazed that I was able to guess, by logical deduction, how to make my unreadable and extremely tiny
print last night, to how it was, i.e. normalprint. :omg: ๐ … :doh: ๐ :yippee:
BTW Fred, Finewhore’s land-line is busy for — well I called her ofc around 11 (recording) and then again after 1:00 (even national offices at their correct time — STILL BUSY
…Also I WAS RIGHT…One IMPEACHES A SENATOR — i.e. an elected official….. What twits with NO information are ANSWERING the phones. But I forgot about MOVEON — I also (yesterday) and called about The Jena 6 and ….
:tommygun: :billcat: :fist: :pirate: :parrot: :jason: A!I!V!
I think I am in a Fine Feather of a Mood. :dancers: of :reaper:
druid:
i think it depends on the state law. (re impeachment of a senator)
or maybe it’s a recall i’m thinking of…i do recall conversations about recalling lieberman or impeaching or whatever.
the computer said “no.” not in his state!
I think more and more that government at both the federal and state level in the SBR has become a game involving huge amounts of money that is paid by you and I as taxes.
We elect for the most part preselected elitists to office most of whom did not make the money they are living on but are from the third or forth generation of a family who’s business has become politics, raking in cash from and for their supporters while putting on a dog and pony show for the rest of us we call an election.
Gore knew ahead of time he would lose the 2000 election because it was planned that way that is why he didn’t contest it.
I find it very hard to believe that the rethug methods of election fixing have not been known by the democrats ( and perhaps admired) for a long long time.
The dems ran Kerry in 2004 because he was not very electable, not very dynamic , not much of a leader and easily picked on by the Reich’s noise machine.
The corporate machine needs the middle east oil to keep China at bay until they can milk the last dime from the Amerikan middle class and create a better third world country that can’t afford its debt payments much less universal health insurance. Capitalists have done this over and over again every where they go they leave nothing behind except poverty and desolation ( messes for someone else to clean up)
There is only one way you can fix this before it happens and thats not by an election. :gate: :omg: :jason: :jason: :fist:
Only known recall mechanism for a federally elected official
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=282502
Sheeze louise the price on this stuff keeps going up it must be in high demand
warning*warning*warning*
big heady is promoting the hell out of move-on and has a bunch of people calling in also joining m-o.
he’s also ragging on the senate for wasting taxpayer dollars on the resolution against m-o.
quel surprise!
Fat Heady has been under a lot of pressure as of late to appear to be more left of center. ๐ ๐
Something like 18 states have recall mechanisms for State elected officials .. No federal official is re callable.. They are impeachable but only by the elitist clubs we refer to as the house and senate :reaper: :reaper:
From our experience with recalling a local elected official one should plan on spending about a quarter of a million bucks to recall a state official. ($ 8.95 is a much better deal)
I’ll edit some more… I think that widget I linked/referred to in #17 is not yet fully functional.
Impeachment
Schultz has been touting MoveOn since Betray Us almost daily.
He had Hillary on today (sorry I missed it) and tomorrow has Edwards and I think Bill Clinton.
vernon: you *poofed* just then (self-edited)– sounds dirty , huh?
sorry, roxie, it was just some opinion and I just decided why bother.
:tap: :tap: :tap: *poof
oh yay! rachel’s on!”
thunder chickens!
Roxieseattle, did you get message from my meow earlier? A!I!V!
Mike Finnegan on Colin, some East Bay Grease
I am about ready to start my own Party(always ultimately a Yellow Dog Dem.A!I!V!
(Gosh O’ Gee) Now I have to deal with City Hall and local Dems :fist:
Regarding Feinstein … Out of curiosity, has ANYONE else (First with Cranston then for Feinstein) …. has ANYONE “Beat The Streets Like Me to ELECT HER?” Thus I “feel” personally responsible for what she does to MY STATE! :fist: A!I!V! something HAS TO BE Done besides NOTHING!
:pirate: :dancers: of :reaper: … I wrote political things for other place — but just copied (C&V), put into file and came back here.
I just feel most are just C&Ving) others RHETORIC.
I cried when MMRules posted in the other place ( late last night
๐ ) I saw a few hundred students march for that U.of F. (or Fd.U.) student. YEA! Greg Palast is going to hire him! :yippee: :pirate: A!I!V! okay, I am getting a decent amount of “hits” and that is with me doing nothing on my blog — and people are angry that I have not developed or even worked my FRESHwhatever — (freshface or book ๐ ) …Strategies ….. :dancers:
Sorry about the back editing back stream, roxie.
No more poofs
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
40 :rofl2: โ :rofl2:
Am I a *poof’r*? … I thought a name called about certain people, Some say is cool and use within that society, others say it is an insult.
I’m a poof’r, you’r a poof’r, wouldn’t you like to be a poof’r, too โ
*poof* (not) ๐ *poof* A!I!V!
WARNING-C&P!
KO return
Guess it wasn’t a spleenectomy.
Thank so very much. I always forget to look at KO. :growl: A!I!V!
:tap: and then get gone