12 days including Election day (and not counting today)
I guess I should've tried to apply for an advertising job a year ago... sheesh!
Advertising trade magazines don't talk a great deal about political ads, because they whore themselves out to everyone and anyone equally. They're usually thrown together and produced practically overnight - whatever way the wind happens to be blowing...
According to police, Ashley Todd, 20, said she was robbed at an ATM at the corner of Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street in the Bloomfield area around 9pm Wednesday after leaving a Republican phone bank.
Todd told police that the suspect, described only as a dark-skinned African-American man about 6'4", stole $60 from her and became enraged after seeing a bumper sticker supporting Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain on her car.
Todd, who is from Texas, said the suspect put a knife to her neck and demanded money.
Todd told police that the man became very angry after noticing the McCain sticker on her car and began punching and kicking her.
After repeatedly hitting, kicking and threatening her, Todd told police that the man carved a "B" in her cheek.
Having hauled in a record $208,333 every hour of every day last month -- $150 million in all -- plus a few more unreported millions so far this month, Barack Obama is worried that he might come up short in the political money war with the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket.
Just to relieve himself of that $150 million before the polls open, Obama will have to spend $12.5 million a day.
But he needs some more.
And, according to an e-mail plea to supporters, tonight's the absolute deadline to donate $10 more and receive your special edition Official Obama-Biden car magnet.
I think most reasonable people realized it was highly suspicious. Of course that wouldn't include Matt Drudge and the right wing blogosphere who ran with it and reported it as fact instead of an allegation.
Has anyone ventured into WOT Reborn... again? I tried wading into their waters yesterday, but wow, I won't go there again. Those dudes so self righteous and extremely right wing it makes my stomach turn.
I caught one of them (and ratted them out) posting the picture of the campaign assault victim backwards so the "B" read correctly when virtually every news outlet (including Drudge and Fox News) has it shown correctly as a 'backwards' or upside-down 'B'.
My recommendation is to just lurk and read if you go in there. No use bringing matches into the powderkeg.
after careful consideration of this sales tax increase, (and seeing a poster up at Cub back in August when i bought our state fair tickets) there's no way i'm voting for this thing.
several years ago we created this thing called the minnesota state lottery, which was advertised as having the proceeds benefit our natural and environmental resources. The poster i saw at cub got me thinking. let's see where our lottery proceeds really go:
from the lottery's 2006 annual report:
ticket sales: $449million
gross profit: $121million
portion to environmental fund: $32million
portion to fish and game fund: $10million
portion to natural resources fund: $10million
portion to state general fund: $68million
in other words, the lottery, whose funding i am a frequent contributor to, is providing a lot more subsidizing to the state general fund than what the advertising for it would lead lottery ticket purchasers to believe.
this of course, is perfectly fine. but then don't come back saying we need another sales tax increase to benefit the projects that the lottery proceeds are sold to minensotans as benefiting, when in fact 60% of it doesn't.
The signs are in people's lawns, the commercials are constantly on television, urging Minnesotans to "Vote Yes" for the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment. But "Doesn't the lottery money already pay for the environment?" asked Minneapolis resident Andrew Savoca.
"Absolutely, it goes to support the environment," said Susan Thornton, the state of Minnesota employee who directs the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund.
Thornton and her agency's staff review all of the funding requests that come to the trust fund, to decide which proposals to fund.
"Right now, we have $100 million of proposals for $25 million that are available," said Thornton.
The Minnesota Lottery sends 60 percent of its profits to the general fund. The remaining 40 percent goes to the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. That breaks down to about 7 cents of every dollar spent going for the environment trust fund, according to Thornton.
Savoca said he spends approximately $80 a week on lottery tickets. That means he's sending $5.60 to the environment.
"That's not as much as I thought," said Savoca.
According to Thornton, the $25 million in the trust fund is not the main source of funding for the environment, not by a long shot.
"The trust fund can provide less than one-half of one percent.... It's a small part [of the total budget spending on the outdoors and environment]. It was always meant to supplement the regular budget. It was meant for acceleration, for innovation, for projects of long term benefit," said Thornton.
The trust fund tries to focus its grant efforts on various topics each year.
"So we might be focused on groundwater issues one year, and land acquisition the next," she added.
The majority of state funding for the outdoors and conservation comes from the state's general fund. But proponents of amending the state constitution say that effort is not enough.
"Spending on conservation and environment is at a 30 year low as a percentage of the state budget," said Charlie Poster, Communications Director for Vote Yes Minnesota.
"In 1999, the state spent $239.4 million in general funds for conservation and environment. This represented 2.18 percent of a total general fund budget of $10.98 billion. By 2009, the state allocated only $174.8 million in general funds for conservation, barely 1 percent of a total general fund budget of $17.4 billion," he said.
Opponents of the proposal have cited the 3/8 percent increase in the state sales tax as a problem as well as a philosophical opposition to the use of the state constitution to direct budget decisions.
If the lottery provides $25 million a year for the environment, the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment would provide $243 million a year to clean water, the outdoors, and parks. An additional $59 million a year would go to arts and culture. Supporters estimate the average Minnesota household would pay less than $60 more a year in sales taxes.
Here is my final prediction. I can't wait until tomorrow night! I'm in Boston visiting my girlfriend right now, we're going to the main Mass Dems election night party tomorrow night. John Kerry will be there so it should be fun.
My family recently returned to Minnesota, the home of our birth, after nearly 13 years of dairy farming outside of Wasilla, Alaska. The straw that broke the camel's back - our Alaska Governor Sarah Palin!
It's a long story how we got to Alaska, but the main message I want you to focus on is not to let Sarah Palin mislead you and our country like she did us and the dairy industry in Alaska!
The State of Alaska owned and operated the only dairy processing plant in South Central Alaska, through a repossession back in the 1980s. The State kept operating the plant because of the traumatic effect it would have been to close it. Closing the plant would not only affect dairy farmers, but grain farmers, the elevators, the equipment and repair shops, and the work force from the farm helpers to the truck drivers, and beyond. So the State kept the dairy processing plant open.
Somehow along the way, the C.E.O. was allowed to reign over control of the plant, and while he did a great job at saving the plant and turning it into a profit making business, the business and its employees became the center of attention over the dairy farmers making a profit. Hence the price paid to dairy farmers remained stagnant and the dairy industry began to crumble. Even a decades-old University dairy closed its doors!
Despite the outcry to the state to take back control of the business, and its original intent to be the infrastructure to the dairy industry, each successive governor continued to lack the foresight to do something about this problem, choosing to create 'boards and commissions and audits and studies' to determine what to do! So, the plant continued to grow,, expanding into water bottling, and orange juice, yogurts and various milk drinks, but due to the growth of the sales, the plant was now processing more Washington State milk across its assembly line than Alaskan milk because it was cheaper to purchase (the plant could buy a lesser value milk - 2% and skim - as Alaskan milk supplied all the higher butterfat product needed, purchased from a milk handler versus farmers).
Then came the increase in Washington milk prices, a law disallowing purchase from milk handlers, and the dramatic increase in fuel costs! The plant all of a sudden needed more Alaskan milk than 'outside' milk, but guess what? It was nearly gone, with only 5 local dairy farms remaining in operation.
So along came Sarah Palin! She just came from being Mayor of Wasilla, and looked good when she challenged the oil & gas board 'big boys'. So, when she began running for Governor she led us all to believe she would 'save the dairy industry' and 'keep Matanuska Maid Creamery (the name of the State owned plant) open'! We all believed her, and worked hard for her, and I even got on the State Creamery Board and offered my assistance in any way I could help her! But guess what....She Lied!
She didn't listen to us after she was elected Governor, when all the dairy farmers told her we wanted to move the creamery back to its roots, into a smaller scale version of what it had become, and to use State funds until it was up and running and then they could sell the monster plant in Anchorage to recapitalize the funds used in the transition. (We even wanted to take over the operations of the plant as a dairy farmer cooperative, to hire a plant manager that would truly serve the dairy industry!) This would have been a 'win-win' situation, but Sarah touted her need to 'save the state money' and closed the plant down, and we were the sacrificial lambs that were slaughtered to show how great she was!
So, with my vote being the only dissenting vote on the board to close the plant, our family sold our cows for $400 per head and leased our farm to a family who wanted to try and last until the new milk plant opened.
We then left the State of Alaska in 2007 and have now made a new life back in Minnesota, land of our roots, and are very happy to have left Alaska.
This would have been fine, but you all know what happened next - Sarah Palin is now the VP candidate of the Republican Party. We just can't seem to be rid of her!
So I tell you all, do not fall into the same trap as we did! And to hear the truth as we know it and have lived it!
Vicki Trytten lives on a beef and dairy farm near Mabel.
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
but IMHO...they all lie...none of them are able to do exactly what they claim they are going to do :barf:
but IMHO...they all lie...none of them are able to do exactly what they claim they are going to do
I don't think of it as much as a lie, but during the campaign you make your proposals. You have to sell them. The best way to sell an idea is to give you ownership of it. "Let's go take your new car for a spin", "Here's what I will do for you". Is it misleading, yes. Is it a lie, not really. They can definitely want to do many things, but because of checks and balances no one can walk in and just do what they want.
 Anything that the president wants to do must first be passed by Congress.
Friends, enemies, fellow cooler members, whoever else reads my crap....
It was a hard fought election.... filled with ups and downs...
but in the end, somebody else won.
Im sorry to say, that I wont be living in that big ass famous house, in Washington DC, for the next few years.... and I wont be fulfilling any of the promises that I made, which I said would come true, if I won.
No cookies for you.
Now we must look forward to the future, and carry on with some other guy in charge.
But I suppose thats okay..... he's more qualified anyways.
I'll see you, when another election pops up for something or other.
Originally I was going to refuse to conceed, and demand a recount... but my campaign management team convinced me that it would have been an unwise decision....
I havent seen the numbers, but they tell me that I lost by quite a large number....
the live shots of chicago, and new york and wherever else they were showing, made it look like New Years Eve.... that and the fact that some of my neighbors were shooting off fireworks, for a couple hours, afterwards....
Well if you would have stayed out of the race, maybe McCain would have won. Look how many votes you took away from him with all your cookie promises! I'm sure there were millions who stayed home thinking they would have a cookie in the morning.
Funny thing. On my way into work, all the McCain yard signs were down. The Obama ones were still up. Can't we start cleaning up America by taking down ALL of the political yard signs, REGARDLESS of affiliation?
I'm just saying, the elections are over, take those yard signs down.
I was behind a van in the drive-thru for lunch today - not only did they have their Obama '08 bumper sticker in the back window, next to it was a Kerry/Edwards '04 sticker. Oh, well - at least it wasn't a yard sign. :barf:
vote for me.
(this message was paid for by me)
Didn't think so. Typical politician.
I mean consumer items.
I guess I should've tried to apply for an advertising job a year ago... sheesh!
Advertising trade magazines don't talk a great deal about political ads, because they whore themselves out to everyone and anyone equally. They're usually thrown together and produced practically overnight - whatever way the wind happens to be blowing...
http://kdka.com/politics/McCain.Campaign.Worker.2.847449.html
According to police, Ashley Todd, 20, said she was robbed at an ATM at the corner of Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street in the Bloomfield area around 9pm Wednesday after leaving a Republican phone bank.
Todd told police that the suspect, described only as a dark-skinned African-American man about 6'4", stole $60 from her and became enraged after seeing a bumper sticker supporting Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain on her car.
Todd, who is from Texas, said the suspect put a knife to her neck and demanded money.
Todd told police that the man became very angry after noticing the McCain sticker on her car and began punching and kicking her.
After repeatedly hitting, kicking and threatening her, Todd told police that the man carved a "B" in her cheek.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/10/obama-money.html
Having hauled in a record $208,333 every hour of every day last month -- $150 million in all -- plus a few more unreported millions so far this month, Barack Obama is worried that he might come up short in the political money war with the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket.
Just to relieve himself of that $150 million before the polls open, Obama will have to spend $12.5 million a day.
But he needs some more.
And, according to an e-mail plea to supporters, tonight's the absolute deadline to donate $10 more and receive your special edition Official Obama-Biden car magnet.
....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9V_aOCga0
I lol'ed
She made the whole thing up.
Sickening.
grrr...why didnt i
I caught one of them (and ratted them out) posting the picture of the campaign assault victim backwards so the "B" read correctly when virtually every news outlet (including Drudge and Fox News) has it shown correctly as a 'backwards' or upside-down 'B'.
My recommendation is to just lurk and read if you go in there. No use bringing matches into the powderkeg.
several years ago we created this thing called the minnesota state lottery, which was advertised as having the proceeds benefit our natural and environmental resources. The poster i saw at cub got me thinking. let's see where our lottery proceeds really go:
from the lottery's 2006 annual report:
ticket sales: $449million
gross profit: $121million
portion to environmental fund: $32million
portion to fish and game fund: $10million
portion to natural resources fund: $10million
portion to state general fund: $68million
in other words, the lottery, whose funding i am a frequent contributor to, is providing a lot more subsidizing to the state general fund than what the advertising for it would lead lottery ticket purchasers to believe.
this of course, is perfectly fine. but then don't come back saying we need another sales tax increase to benefit the projects that the lottery proceeds are sold to minensotans as benefiting, when in fact 60% of it doesn't.
The signs are in people's lawns, the commercials are constantly on television, urging Minnesotans to "Vote Yes" for the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment. But "Doesn't the lottery money already pay for the environment?" asked Minneapolis resident Andrew Savoca.
"Absolutely, it goes to support the environment," said Susan Thornton, the state of Minnesota employee who directs the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund.
Thornton and her agency's staff review all of the funding requests that come to the trust fund, to decide which proposals to fund.
"Right now, we have $100 million of proposals for $25 million that are available," said Thornton.
The Minnesota Lottery sends 60 percent of its profits to the general fund. The remaining 40 percent goes to the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund. That breaks down to about 7 cents of every dollar spent going for the environment trust fund, according to Thornton.
Savoca said he spends approximately $80 a week on lottery tickets. That means he's sending $5.60 to the environment.
"That's not as much as I thought," said Savoca.
According to Thornton, the $25 million in the trust fund is not the main source of funding for the environment, not by a long shot.
"The trust fund can provide less than one-half of one percent.... It's a small part [of the total budget spending on the outdoors and environment]. It was always meant to supplement the regular budget. It was meant for acceleration, for innovation, for projects of long term benefit," said Thornton.
The trust fund tries to focus its grant efforts on various topics each year.
"So we might be focused on groundwater issues one year, and land acquisition the next," she added.
The majority of state funding for the outdoors and conservation comes from the state's general fund. But proponents of amending the state constitution say that effort is not enough.
"Spending on conservation and environment is at a 30 year low as a percentage of the state budget," said Charlie Poster, Communications Director for Vote Yes Minnesota.
"In 1999, the state spent $239.4 million in general funds for conservation and environment. This represented 2.18 percent of a total general fund budget of $10.98 billion. By 2009, the state allocated only $174.8 million in general funds for conservation, barely 1 percent of a total general fund budget of $17.4 billion," he said.
Opponents of the proposal have cited the 3/8 percent increase in the state sales tax as a problem as well as a philosophical opposition to the use of the state constitution to direct budget decisions.
If the lottery provides $25 million a year for the environment, the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment would provide $243 million a year to clean water, the outdoors, and parks. An additional $59 million a year would go to arts and culture. Supporters estimate the average Minnesota household would pay less than $60 more a year in sales taxes.
chug it "Maverick"
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=211973
My final prediction.
This is a best case for the Dems.
400+, woooo
http://www.gallup.com/poll/111703/Final-Presidential-Estimate-Obama-55-McCain-44.aspx
By Vicki Trytten
My family recently returned to Minnesota, the home of our birth, after nearly 13 years of dairy farming outside of Wasilla, Alaska. The straw that broke the camel's back - our Alaska Governor Sarah Palin!
It's a long story how we got to Alaska, but the main message I want you to focus on is not to let Sarah Palin mislead you and our country like she did us and the dairy industry in Alaska!
The State of Alaska owned and operated the only dairy processing plant in South Central Alaska, through a repossession back in the 1980s. The State kept operating the plant because of the traumatic effect it would have been to close it. Closing the plant would not only affect dairy farmers, but grain farmers, the elevators, the equipment and repair shops, and the work force from the farm helpers to the truck drivers, and beyond. So the State kept the dairy processing plant open.
Somehow along the way, the C.E.O. was allowed to reign over control of the plant, and while he did a great job at saving the plant and turning it into a profit making business, the business and its employees became the center of attention over the dairy farmers making a profit. Hence the price paid to dairy farmers remained stagnant and the dairy industry began to crumble. Even a decades-old University dairy closed its doors!
Despite the outcry to the state to take back control of the business, and its original intent to be the infrastructure to the dairy industry, each successive governor continued to lack the foresight to do something about this problem, choosing to create 'boards and commissions and audits and studies' to determine what to do! So, the plant continued to grow,, expanding into water bottling, and orange juice, yogurts and various milk drinks, but due to the growth of the sales, the plant was now processing more Washington State milk across its assembly line than Alaskan milk because it was cheaper to purchase (the plant could buy a lesser value milk - 2% and skim - as Alaskan milk supplied all the higher butterfat product needed, purchased from a milk handler versus farmers).
Then came the increase in Washington milk prices, a law disallowing purchase from milk handlers, and the dramatic increase in fuel costs! The plant all of a sudden needed more Alaskan milk than 'outside' milk, but guess what? It was nearly gone, with only 5 local dairy farms remaining in operation.
So along came Sarah Palin! She just came from being Mayor of Wasilla, and looked good when she challenged the oil & gas board 'big boys'. So, when she began running for Governor she led us all to believe she would 'save the dairy industry' and 'keep Matanuska Maid Creamery (the name of the State owned plant) open'! We all believed her, and worked hard for her, and I even got on the State Creamery Board and offered my assistance in any way I could help her! But guess what....She Lied!
She didn't listen to us after she was elected Governor, when all the dairy farmers told her we wanted to move the creamery back to its roots, into a smaller scale version of what it had become, and to use State funds until it was up and running and then they could sell the monster plant in Anchorage to recapitalize the funds used in the transition. (We even wanted to take over the operations of the plant as a dairy farmer cooperative, to hire a plant manager that would truly serve the dairy industry!) This would have been a 'win-win' situation, but Sarah touted her need to 'save the state money' and closed the plant down, and we were the sacrificial lambs that were slaughtered to show how great she was!
So, with my vote being the only dissenting vote on the board to close the plant, our family sold our cows for $400 per head and leased our farm to a family who wanted to try and last until the new milk plant opened.
We then left the State of Alaska in 2007 and have now made a new life back in Minnesota, land of our roots, and are very happy to have left Alaska.
This would have been fine, but you all know what happened next - Sarah Palin is now the VP candidate of the Republican Party. We just can't seem to be rid of her!
So I tell you all, do not fall into the same trap as we did! And to hear the truth as we know it and have lived it!
Vicki Trytten lives on a beef and dairy farm near Mabel.
http://www.fillmorecountyjournal.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=21132&SectionID=35&SubSectionID=122&S=1
I know Vickit's Husband. My mom told me to read this...I haven't yet...going to read it here vs. the link my mom sent me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svhq4C9HhUg
goes back to this appointment...
So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.
but IMHO...they all lie...none of them are able to do exactly what they claim they are going to do :barf:
I'm glad today has finally come.
thanks for posting ares and kitch
have a great time!
pictures!
Full Election Results
Obama: Electoral: 3 Popular: 181,838 (46%) McCain: Electoral: 8 Popular: 206,470 (53%)
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1,053,749 42.25%
DFL AL FRANKEN 1,037,701 41.60%
Independence DEAN BARKLEY 381,127 15.28%
MN Secretary of State - Statewide office elections
"Lutefisk Barbie" looks like she's getting another term:
Independence BOB ANDERSON 35,178 10.08%
Republican MICHELE BACHMANN 163,201 46.77%
DFL EL TINKLENBERG 150,177 43.04%
MN Secretary of State Election Results menu
4121 of 4130 Precincts Reporting...
(R) NORM COLEMAN 42% - 1,210,247 Votes
(D) AL FRANKEN 41.96% - 1,209,124 Votes
(I) DEAN BARKLEY 15.16% - 436,819 Votes
-- Coleman is ahead by only 1,123 votes -- out of 2.88 million!
(MN State Election Law requires a recount for less than 1/2% margin)
I don't think of it as much as a lie, but during the campaign you make your proposals. You have to sell them. The best way to sell an idea is to give you ownership of it. "Let's go take your new car for a spin", "Here's what I will do for you". Is it misleading, yes. Is it a lie, not really. They can definitely want to do many things, but because of checks and balances no one can walk in and just do what they want.
 Anything that the president wants to do must first be passed by Congress.
Franken - 1209189 41.96%
Coleman - 1210368 42.00%
Obama - 62,532,271 52%
McCain - 55,454,540 46%
With 7 states switching parties -
From Red to Blue:
NV, CO, NM, IA, OH, VA, FL
From Blue to Red :
amazing
the Coleman Franken was why I stayed out so late
It was a hard fought election.... filled with ups and downs...
but in the end, somebody else won.
Im sorry to say, that I wont be living in that big ass famous house, in Washington DC, for the next few years.... and I wont be fulfilling any of the promises that I made, which I said would come true, if I won.
No cookies for you.
Now we must look forward to the future, and carry on with some other guy in charge.
But I suppose thats okay..... he's more qualified anyways.
I'll see you, when another election pops up for something or other.
I havent seen the numbers, but they tell me that I lost by quite a large number....
his speech afterward was really good too....
the live shots of chicago, and new york and wherever else they were showing, made it look like New Years Eve.... that and the fact that some of my neighbors were shooting off fireworks, for a couple hours, afterwards....
MN Secty of State - Presidential Results
I seriously didnt vote for myself...
even though, I ran a strong campaign - I knew I didnt stand a chance in hell...
this time.
I almost always write myself in, for everything on the back, though...
I hate voting for somebody, who runs un-opposed....
I'm just saying, the elections are over, take those yard signs down.