bad candidates for 2008

Pat Buchanan and Hillary Clinton*
* nuts and bolts

where you should go for fairly good info
http://www.lwv.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
-- no belly-aching about it, this site is good ... dismiss your sexist viewpoint and get read data at lwv

http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm
an old, but current site with "both sides", doesn't claim to be fair and balanced, because when you read, you'll know

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locally there is a strip club bartender who always runs ... by golly he's gonna pull it off one time, but I'll be happy knowing that I voted against him, if by no other means, write in....
personal note: 2000 Presidential election, I wrote in myself, which is a constitutional right -- I didn't win

My town / city has far too many strip clubs in prime districts. I know there is a "need" for them, but in shopping areas and heavy traffic areas, I disagree with them being there ... also, in my city is a Hooters within a "spitting" distance -- next door to strip club. This would be bad, but it's own a main and busy road. I wouldn't want my kids feasting on Long John Silver's, but if they weren, I wouldn't want them exposed to drunk horny jerks from either hooters or the strip club next door.

I would say that they were evil and go on a pedaetal about that, save that I too-frequented them for ages 21-22; 18 months. I could not then write credibly that they are hell-spawn evil and should be smited from the planet. The "dancers" there were happy to get my money for nothing, as they pranced about in undies -- rude, sexist, risque and peverted, granted.

I am quite over my late-teen hormone fix stage. I am ... for all occasion, an old man by most person's standards. In the standard workplace I am like an ME computer ... replacable and, not really worhty of updating or keeping. Male white 30+ has no real purpose in the workplace unless he offers a uniqueness ... otherwise there are others there to replace the guy with culturally-improved persons (Affirmative Action '70s standards) dictate demographics).

Now, if the workplace were, say ... bigot-free, less successful than cigarette bans, then that would be worthless. I know that bigotry still exists, because ignorance is easier, favorable and security, especially when you know no different. It's hard to talk about equality with white persons when they know no one other than white persons or have a very sparse non-white friend base. Friends here could be as broad as invitations to sporatic parties, more important than mere co-workeres, about whom you could care very little.

I find it sinful that there is a "party" lever where you could ignorantly vote Blue or Red, not knowning blank about a candidate. Some states disallow or illegalized the "party" lever. Do you know the underscretary of the second treasurer of your state? How would their party affiliation play ANY part in their job?

I don't look at party, which is rich parties putting forth those who "qualify" and win the primaries. I look at persons, who, ultimately must make decissions. Do I want a person who views themselves as Replubican or Democrat first and person second or just do their job regardless of election and re-election. I vote disband the parties and forget the left, right, mod, conserv. liberal, dem, repub, green, liber, etc.

Would you want a person who acts on reason, intellect and evidence or a party-follower who obeys the orders of a person with an agenda? Disband the mess ... elect a peson, not an agenda ... no REASONABLE person I know agrees to all the party claims is right. I have no parry affiliation, but must claim one for primaries, which is a shame.

Disney / Touchtone mirrors

Smoke and mirrors that is. Too bad Harry Houdini isn't here to demystify the lot.

"We have an all new idea", except if you own the damned "moratorium" movies that we repackage, then resell, then remake, repackage, resell, then put on hold, then repackage, "remaster", resell, then put on moratorium. Do you see a pattern?

What can we put in this hand that you, then don't worry so much what's in the other hand.
Moreover, Disneyworld, hosting Epcot and others has taken a hit by the La Nina storms, which will hit again this year. If you think $1500 for a 4 day vacation for four is high now ... wait 4 months.
My father plays poker 25 weeks of the year. Friends of his have condos and place in FL, and announced that two situations are common now:
.... hurricane insurance is 3 or 4 times the cost now -- without exception
.... hurricane insurance in other areas is unavailable

level & inclined plane fastener ... oh, yes ... the screw

FL: insurance verboten
Lousiana: land developers with gobs of money and no scruples welcome
* more on that later

I used to work for a video store and remember the blantant lies that Touchtone and more often Disney would tout with their movies --- preservation of blah, blah, blah ... money, money, money ... newly cleaned, with new voices because the original soundtrack was altered -- doubt me, check out "Peter Pan", which now has a new Captain Hook voice. Here, I write of the original, not the Return to Neverland movie.

I would like to think that Microsoft started that, but J. P. Morgan did and others, like Disney, followed.

Village of the bored

or at least that is what I am lead to believe. Typically, M. Night Shyamalan has a movie that lasts as long as a viral infection --- days to weeks. I wasn't all that interested, but it's a Truman show with a Waco, TX feel to it, set in good ol' Puritan/Amish setting. I think I'll skip it.

butt of lardness

As I have spent way too many hours at the screen -- this week has shown my growth, as it were. I hope with the next couple of weeks with greater work that I will shed the unwanted potential energy. I got three / five assignments &/or offers for the next couple of weeks. I had to disappoint a teacher, whose charming smile brightens my day, that I was "taken" for a day that she needed me. I was sad also to tell her.

images of a stormtrooper

being blasted off the Millenium Falcon. Tonight Charlie wanted me to march the "mini" version of fixed-position trooper up onto the Falcon to be "blasted off" with the turbo laser turrets. Even funnier to him was the shaking and earthquaking of the trooper, when he pushed the sound effect of a disabled engine, whereupon the trooper shook (paint-shaker style) off the top of the Falcon. He was hard-pressed to change to a new game.

Loaded with McDonald's sundae, he stood on his head and was not inclined to rest at 10 something at night --- imagine that! Lori's soft singing, which he mimicked, put him back into a restful mood.

I watched another episode of "Lost", which was somewhat forward, but like moving the gear from Park to Drive, never touching the gas pedal.