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One of the people on Digg commented that the Walmart incident happened because most of the people waiting to get in were ghetto. And Walmart's a ghetto store. "You have low-class people trying to get into a low-class store, things like this happen!" they said. That may be a little pat (and...

Ahh, you didn't say when you were traveling. I will be in Santa Cruz between around Christmas. Unfortunately, no crash space there. But I will be home before New Year's. I will also be on a roadtrip to WashingtonDC in the latter part of January (guess what for? :wink: :D ) No point in offering you c...

Update: the police said that the woman and her baby are fine, no miscarriage. Thank God for small favours... This news story upset me. Not as much as the massacre in Mumbai, but it still hit me pretty hard. It's a shame when people die needlessly; it's an atrocity when the people who kill him don't ...

Why can they not just hire anyone that can do a good job to do the voices, they always have to get a name someone knows... That bothers me, too. Voice acting is a craft in and of itself. The actors/actresses took pains to keep their voices and characterizations in top shape. Many, like Mel Blanc an...

Silverclaw wrote:Another thing we could add is a section on different were-creatures in general. Werewolves definetly deserve their own section, but it would be nice to have a spot to talk about how we think say a werelion, werebear, werewhatever would be like.

Oh!! I'd love that.

Okay, I read a little more on how IdeaBlob works. The current contest started on September 24th and goes through March 31, 2009. The contests are a series of "Sprints" aka quarter-finals. The highest voted proposals go to the next Sprint until they all face off in the Final. The winning pr...

Thanks for the vote, RedEye :D @Baphnedia: If I don't get the $10,000 this month, I'll try again in December and January and see if I can ride through on the momentum to get enough votes. I don't know how many it'll take to win, though. If Ideablob doesn't pan out...I'm back to the old "stash $...

Okay, shameless self-promotion here. I'm trying to get a horse-drawn carriage business going. I tried to go through my county microbusiness foundation but they skunked me. I need to be gainfully employed and drawing a regular paycheck before they'll help me, and I haven't worked since before my canc...

Here are the volunteers and nominees. Remember, this is not a popularity contest. Good. And I'm glad I'm "losing." I don't know who nominated me, but I'm not on here enough to be an effective mod. And truthfully, I don't think I'd do the gig any justice. Thanks for the offer, just the sam...

I just had a big bowl of French vanilla granola with yoghurt and chocolate chips.

Fueled for the day!!

Hmmm... I live "Down Under" and I regularly travel the entire length of Highway 99 (Cooper's Corner at Lorneville to the Blackmount turnoff at Clifden via Wallacetown, Riverton, Orepuki and Tuatapere). Does that count? 8) Route 66 is a famous, old road that diagonally bisects America, goi...

Pretty unexciting. A bowlful of granola with milk. I'm doing a daily meal inversion, with a big, protein-rich, hot breakfast and gradually tapering down. So I picked up some deli meat and cheese, eggs and biscuit mix at the grocery store and I'll be making my own breakfast sandwiches and having that...

I gotta pick ONE?!? :o Oh, okay. I want to roadtrip Route 66. And truth to tell, I'm 50% likely to accomplish that within the next 100 days. See, a couple friends and I are driving out to Washington DC for the Inauguration, and we're considering Route 66 as a back-up travel path in case our first ch...

Looking at the breakdown of his campaign contributions, I don't really see that. According to the FEC about half ($280M) of his financing came from people who donated $200 or less. Meanwhile, the top contributor to his campaign, the University of California, only contributed $909,283. That discrepa...

What we need is a Grant system: every Qualified Presidential Candidate gets $100 million as a Grant for his/her Campaign; and NO fund-raising allowed. I've seen that suggested a few times over here [snippety] (2) "It's my money and I can spend it on whatever darned candidate I choose!". A...

More about the tax plan, and then I have to cut out and go to my credit union... I'm planning on being a small business owner next year. I'm starting up a horse-drawn carriage service. My projected yearly earnings — when it's up and running full speed — is $60,000 a year. My personal pay will be abo...

One thing I'd like to point out about President-elect Obama... Lots of people think he's a far-Left politician. PoliticalCompass.org (don't click on it, the page has been taken down) positioned him as Centrist, leaning towards the Right and Economic Authoritarian. As were most of the candidates on b...

Apologies to the mods if they think this is thread-drifting too much... My personal feeling about health care is that it's basic infrastructure, not a luxury. When everyone is operating up to their highest physical capacity, everyone benefits: this is where "My brother's keeper" — a big Ob...

I fail to see where any of Obama's policies are Socialist. That was a smear-meme that the assholes running McCain's campaign (note that I didn't call McCain himself an asshole) told Fox News to circulate as a talking point. McCain himself went on record saying Obama isn't a Socialist. It's only circ...

His socialist agenda is gonna destroy our already fragile economy! Just in case you didn't notice...the Bush Administration holds controlling shares in our nation's (surviving) banks. We're a socialist nation right now . I just hope the man gets assassinated For future reference: you might want to ...

And guess what's selling by the bucketful this week?! http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/460.html FTA: "In China, ANYTHING made with Chinese-manufactured milk powder before September 14th was PULLED from their store shelves. In the US, this garbage is still being sold! Foods at risk: ANY food man...

Damn 'n a half. I think I have melamine poisoning. Here's the story: The FDA just released a food alert. They found a batch of candy, made in China, tainted with melamine. Yeah, just like the pet food last year. Except it's candy and pre-packaged foods with milk and egg powder in the ingredients. SO...

It's too early to snow here, though we usually do get down to freezing temps by Hallowe'en. Not this year. It's forecasted to be rainy and temps in the low 40s on Friday.

I snow. It's when we get sleet and ice that I start hating.