I’ve been running into this new bit of bullshit on eBay lately. I’ll try searching for one of those cool phones that aren’t out in the States yet, like the Nokia 6600.

it seems like half of the results on ebay are these bullshit auctions. They look like they are selling the phone you want. they have its picture and all its specs…

…but, at the bottom or maybe even hidden in some huge block of text, though, it says something like:

you are not bidding on the actual phone, but on a piece of information that will tell you how to get this phone really cheap. once you win I will send you a URL

I’ve seen them sell for up to $300, and it seems that the better that disclosure is hidden the higher they go.

quote from a story about last night’s debate:

“Nobody stood out. Nobody faltered. This was a good night for Democrats,” Donna Brazile, a strategist who helped run Al Gore’s 2000 campaign, told the Associated Press news agency.

I think thats the problem with the democrats, in general.

Sorry pives, you had your chance to post this, but i can’t wait to do it any longer.

pives sent me this hillarious website which has used Senator Rick Santorum’s last name as a new medical term. Its apparently gaining acceptance slowly. Check it out.

I suppose we might have some credibility when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, considering we have the most experience and all*. But how the hell is the U.S. of A. gunna come out and challenge the science behind a W.H.O. report about obeisity? I mean, come on, we are pretty much the fattest country.

It sounds to me like the U.S. wouldn’t want to get in the way of Micky-D making a buck. After all, capitalism is healthy. Hell, its even more healthy than being healthy.

I’m not one of these “down with capitalism” types (although it may often seem that way, because I question it all the time) but its going too far to slander perfectly reasonable findings in the name of protecting the market.

I’m also not saying that the US should adopt all the recommendations of the report, but to question its scientific validity without providing any scientific counter evidence is just blatantly ignorant.

Geez, the recommendations of the report (from that article anyway) seem like pretty reasonable things for a capitalist republic** to do. But for this new administration, the market (as they see fit) comes before everything else.

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* tounge in cheek for those who don’t know me
** hats off to pives for making this distinction for us previously.

Wow, she didn’t even get a name in the headline.

I’m kind of sad that she dropped out. Now I can’t have fantasies of all the other candidates mysteriously dropping out, leaving just her.

I think the problem with this election is that for so many people and/or the news its just about beating the bad guy. First it was “Who can beat Bush” then it was either “Who can beat Dean” or “Who can beat Clarke” depending on your preference.

Its never been about whose the best person for the job. That ‘democrat woman’ was pretty high on my list, though.

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I’m not from wall street, but doesn’t this seem odd to you that after beating “the street’s” predictions for earnings, that their stock would go down?

makes no sense.

maybe thats what stocks do in the after hours so they can shoot up the next day?

mmmm iPod.

some kid with a new ipod was complaining to my professor about how he failed a class and wanted to make it up before he moved to tokyo. i wanted to beat him up and take his ipod, doing myself, my professor and the entire university a favor.

So my friend recently voted in DC, for nobody.

I have to say, i admire that. i always find myself choosing the best of the worse.

Not only did she crash the voting machine (this post covers my two main interests!) but the guy behind her apparntly voted for no-one, because he spoke up saying so, when the comotion at the voting station started. wow, no good candidates leads to crashing voting machine leads to disclosure of a citizens selection.

bye the way, I’m totaly behind you on DC’s plight of taxation without rep. You need to get those license plates back, because thats how I found out about it when i was younger. I haven’t seen them to much lately.

her post

Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill recently said that Bush “was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people.”

I try to keep that in mind* when I wonder why he does the things he does, publically threatening S. Korea over bootlegging copyrighted material from this country’s “dynamic” entertainment industry.

yeah, last time I checked, the only dynamic things about our entertainment industry are the lengths they are willing to go to to fuck everyone involved in the industry except themselves.

I think every country will be on a Bush List soon. I can’t wait to see where they all fall.

Hi all,

In case you noticed that Truthout headlines were no longer being posted on the news headlines side strip. My regex was parsing out urls wit doc_03 and when the new year turned, they switched to doc_04.

things should be normal now.

Wow, those scientists are really something. I’m glad that they spent time and money figuring this one out.

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