We've been trying to get little personal website that we did for our vet to start listing somewhat higher with Google for months - it's number one on Yahoo's search for the doc's name, but it's not anywhere in sight on Google, unless you do a search for the url, which is pretty much useless - I mean, if you know the URL, why would you do a search for it?
I've resorted to including the URL in my sig, in hopes that MAYBE Google will bump it up a little. Shameless promotion, I know, but I really want this vet to be able to be found since he opened his own practice.
Am I remembering incorrectly, or didn't Yahoo switch to Overture a while back?
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There are a lot more funny moments in GTA:SA than you would guess. For instance, go into the police station right after getting busted. Don't shoot anyone, don't grab any weaponry in the form of guns - just go through the locker room and walk all the way into the showers, and look all the way around.
Another funny thing we recently discovered was an interesting reaction if your character eats too much - it takes about a half-dozen large meals right in a row to induce.
So why weren't other gays/lesbians who were campaigning for Bush/Cheney outed? And why does campaigning for someone make it OK to bring up their sexual orientation on national television? What did it really add to the debate?
It was a bad move that showed that Kerry has no clue as to how to be statesmanlike and dignified.
Oh, so I guess that makes it OK to bring it up for all the people who weren't aware...
Even my gay mother thought it was tacky and uncalled for (I'm not kidding). There's no reason to bring up the sexual preference of someone who's not even a party in the campaign on national television, in a way that could only barely be called on-topic.
It was a blatant attempt on Kerry's part to turn voters against Bush/Cheney, and it backfired. Kerry wasn't good at keeping his mouth shut when he needed to, and that's a big part of what cost him the election.
It was way shot down - something like 65 percent against.
There was no way it was going to pass - if it had been proposed during the 2002 elections, it would have stood a better chance, but it was seen as an attempt to manipulate the elections by splitting the electoral vote in a state that traditionally votes Republican. I don't think that sat well with either party. No newspapers endorsed it, including the Boulder Daily Camera - and Boulder is a bastion of liberalism.
If you are referring to the debates, I think Bush didn't call out his mistakes because they are personnel mistakes and he didn't want to publicly embarrass someone.
Unlike another candidate, who outed another candidate's daughter in front of millions of people...
Which elector is this? I live in Colorado, and check the newspapers' websites daily, and have not heard of anything like this here. In West Virginia, yes, but not in Colorado. Could you cite a source, please?
At least one conservative radio talk show host was advocating lying to the exit pollsters, because he believes exit polling is wrong. His suggestion was for everyone to tell the exit pollsters that they voted exactly the opposite of the way they truly voted. If this happened enough times, exit polling would be regarded as useless and cease to exist.
LBJ was from Texas, which helped deliver the southern states to Kennedy.
I believe what the grandparent was trying to say was that in order for a Democrat to win, a southerner must be on the ticket. This does not necessarily cause a victory, i.e. if a southern Democrat is on the ticket, the ticket will not necessarily win - it just helps enormously.
This was discussed in detail last night on CNN at about 1 a.m. MST, when the precincts were not really reporting anything new and they were looking for filler.
I especially liked the part in the sample chapter where he says "after all, why would the police ever arrest an innocent person?" What a great attitude!
Reagan survived his assassination attempt because the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction that occurred during his candidacy fell within an air sign. All the others fell within earth signs. Dubya's Jupiter-Saturn conjunction fell within an earth sign.
The more interesting coincidence is this: Harrison (the first president to die under this) died in his first term, Lincoln in his second. The term during which the president has died has alternated every time since then. According to this, Dubya is due to die in his second term - which means that there will be a second term.
The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction moves back into air signs in 2020 and will remain in air signs for a long time.
Actually, I was surprised that the Redskins/Packers game wasn't targeted. Given bin Laden's recent videotape, I thought it was going to be a target for sure.
That would be an interesting suit...Is it that the government has forbidden you to fly, or is it that the airlines, as private entities, have chosen not to allow you to fly based on a governmental recommendation? Private entities have the right to refuse service, IIRC.
I would think, if the no-fly list is a hard and fast rule, that Ted Kennedy would not have been able to board a plane at all, rather than being able to fly after the airlines realized who he was.
I'm not that impressed with the no-fly list anyway - see my earlier comment regarding my mother's experience with airport security.
from TFA: "He's not his own man," Mr. Nader said on Tuesday in a telephone interview from California. "Because he takes the liberals for granted, he's allowing Bush to pull him in his direction. It doesn't show much for his character."
Is it just me or does this sound like Nader thinks Kerry is too conservative?
False registration is going to cause registrations that are legitimate to get thrown out, causing cries of voter disenfranchisement. If that's not encouraging vote fraud by deed, I don't know what is. And it's being done by a group that considers themselves to be champions of everyman. This group pays their employees to collect Democrat and unaffiliated registrations. Do you really think that every Republican registration is being turned in? Voter registration needs to be left out of the hands of these partisan groups - on BOTH sides.
I'm going to add this because I think it's important to get out the message, and I don't think that everyone will read to the bottom of the article:
A Colorado nonprofit has set up a hot line for voters who believe they've been unfairly turned away from the polls this election. The nonpartisan http://fairvotecolorado.org/ has assembled a team of six volunteer attorneys in Denver - and others in at least 12 outlying counties - to assist voters starting Monday, when early voting begins. They're reachable toll-free at 888-839-4301.
Colorado, a state which typically votes Republican, is extremely proactive as far as protecting voters rights on both sides. If your state doesn't have this sort of service, find out why!
This is happening in the Denver/Boulder metro area too. There was an article in yesterday's paper about it (damned if I can find it online now, though). The group in question paid its employees something like three bucks for each Democrat or unaffiliated registration they obtained - so the employees were not only tossing Republican registrations, they were filling out false registrations and submitting them, or filing duplicate registrations over a period of several days. The same signature appeared on fifty separate registrations.
Some legitimate Democrat voter's registration is gonna be the baby thrown out with the bathwater, and there's going to be hollers of disenfranchisement.
I personally disagree with voter registration drives being conducted by private parties or by groups sponsored by political parties. It's not hard to register to vote - in Colorado you can register at the same time as you get your drivers license. How could anyone not think that paying people to register voters belonging to a specific political party would cause problems?
If you're asking if you can match pedestrian speeds with a Segway, the answer is yes - it goes at least as fast as a quickly walking pedestrian.
The Segway's speed is controlled by leaning into it or leaning back to slow it down. It doesn't take much of a lean to get it to go, and it's not really jerky - the 'Segway magic' does a pretty good job of keeping the rider from leaning way far and jolting forward or back. You don't set a speed and tell it to go, though - there's nothing like cruise control on it, that would be dangerous in crowds.
If you check Segway's website, they have a list of dealers. If you call in advance, they should allow a test ride. It only takes about five minutes to start feeling comfortable on one. (I test-drove one at a demo last summer)
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We've been trying to get little personal website that we did for our vet to start listing somewhat higher with Google for months - it's number one on Yahoo's search for the doc's name, but it's not anywhere in sight on Google, unless you do a search for the url, which is pretty much useless - I mean, if you know the URL, why would you do a search for it?
I've resorted to including the URL in my sig, in hopes that MAYBE Google will bump it up a little. Shameless promotion, I know, but I really want this vet to be able to be found since he opened his own practice.
The story that you link to is from 2002. IIRC, the switch to Overture happened sometime in the past year or so.
Am I remembering incorrectly, or didn't Yahoo switch to Overture a while back?
There are a lot more funny moments in GTA:SA than you would guess. For instance, go into the police station right after getting busted. Don't shoot anyone, don't grab any weaponry in the form of guns - just go through the locker room and walk all the way into the showers, and look all the way around.
Another funny thing we recently discovered was an interesting reaction if your character eats too much - it takes about a half-dozen large meals right in a row to induce.
Read my earlier comment, troll.
So why weren't other gays/lesbians who were campaigning for Bush/Cheney outed? And why does campaigning for someone make it OK to bring up their sexual orientation on national television? What did it really add to the debate?
It was a bad move that showed that Kerry has no clue as to how to be statesmanlike and dignified.
It's only a neat idea if all the states do it at once, otherwise we end up with California, Texas, and New York running the country.
Oh, so I guess that makes it OK to bring it up for all the people who weren't aware...
Even my gay mother thought it was tacky and uncalled for (I'm not kidding). There's no reason to bring up the sexual preference of someone who's not even a party in the campaign on national television, in a way that could only barely be called on-topic.
It was a blatant attempt on Kerry's part to turn voters against Bush/Cheney, and it backfired. Kerry wasn't good at keeping his mouth shut when he needed to, and that's a big part of what cost him the election.
It was way shot down - something like 65 percent against.
There was no way it was going to pass - if it had been proposed during the 2002 elections, it would have stood a better chance, but it was seen as an attempt to manipulate the elections by splitting the electoral vote in a state that traditionally votes Republican. I don't think that sat well with either party. No newspapers endorsed it, including the Boulder Daily Camera - and Boulder is a bastion of liberalism.
LOL.
If you are referring to the debates, I think Bush didn't call out his mistakes because they are personnel mistakes and he didn't want to publicly embarrass someone.
Unlike another candidate, who outed another candidate's daughter in front of millions of people...
Which elector is this? I live in Colorado, and check the newspapers' websites daily, and have not heard of anything like this here. In West Virginia, yes, but not in Colorado. Could you cite a source, please?
Yeah, well, we know all the hackers are those left-wing commie anarchists, so wouldn't that have helped Kerry?
At least one conservative radio talk show host was advocating lying to the exit pollsters, because he believes exit polling is wrong. His suggestion was for everyone to tell the exit pollsters that they voted exactly the opposite of the way they truly voted. If this happened enough times, exit polling would be regarded as useless and cease to exist.
LBJ was from Texas, which helped deliver the southern states to Kennedy.
I believe what the grandparent was trying to say was that in order for a Democrat to win, a southerner must be on the ticket. This does not necessarily cause a victory, i.e. if a southern Democrat is on the ticket, the ticket will not necessarily win - it just helps enormously.
This was discussed in detail last night on CNN at about 1 a.m. MST, when the precincts were not really reporting anything new and they were looking for filler.
So, in effect, the PATRIOT Act is creating jobs?
I especially liked the part in the sample chapter where he says "after all, why would the police ever arrest an innocent person?" What a great attitude!
Reagan survived his assassination attempt because the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction that occurred during his candidacy fell within an air sign. All the others fell within earth signs. Dubya's Jupiter-Saturn conjunction fell within an earth sign.
The more interesting coincidence is this: Harrison (the first president to die under this) died in his first term, Lincoln in his second. The term during which the president has died has alternated every time since then. According to this, Dubya is due to die in his second term - which means that there will be a second term.
The Jupiter-Saturn conjunction moves back into air signs in 2020 and will remain in air signs for a long time.
Actually, I was surprised that the Redskins/Packers game wasn't targeted. Given bin Laden's recent videotape, I thought it was going to be a target for sure.
That would be an interesting suit...Is it that the government has forbidden you to fly, or is it that the airlines, as private entities, have chosen not to allow you to fly based on a governmental recommendation? Private entities have the right to refuse service, IIRC.
I would think, if the no-fly list is a hard and fast rule, that Ted Kennedy would not have been able to board a plane at all, rather than being able to fly after the airlines realized who he was.
I'm not that impressed with the no-fly list anyway - see my earlier comment regarding my mother's experience with airport security.
from TFA: "He's not his own man," Mr. Nader said on Tuesday in a telephone interview from California. "Because he takes the liberals for granted, he's allowing Bush to pull him in his direction. It doesn't show much for his character."
Is it just me or does this sound like Nader thinks Kerry is too conservative?
ACORN is misbehaving in Minnesota too.
In Colorado
False registration is going to cause registrations that are legitimate to get thrown out, causing cries of voter disenfranchisement. If that's not encouraging vote fraud by deed, I don't know what is. And it's being done by a group that considers themselves to be champions of everyman. This group pays their employees to collect Democrat and unaffiliated registrations. Do you really think that every Republican registration is being turned in? Voter registration needs to be left out of the hands of these partisan groups - on BOTH sides.
I'm going to add this because I think it's important to get out the message, and I don't think that everyone will read to the bottom of the article:
A Colorado nonprofit has set up a hot line for voters who believe they've been unfairly turned away from the polls this election. The nonpartisan http://fairvotecolorado.org/ has assembled a team of six volunteer attorneys in Denver - and others in at least 12 outlying counties - to assist voters starting Monday, when early voting begins. They're reachable toll-free at 888-839-4301.
Colorado, a state which typically votes Republican, is extremely proactive as far as protecting voters rights on both sides. If your state doesn't have this sort of service, find out why!
This is happening in the Denver/Boulder metro area too. There was an article in yesterday's paper about it (damned if I can find it online now, though). The group in question paid its employees something like three bucks for each Democrat or unaffiliated registration they obtained - so the employees were not only tossing Republican registrations, they were filling out false registrations and submitting them, or filing duplicate registrations over a period of several days. The same signature appeared on fifty separate registrations.
Some legitimate Democrat voter's registration is gonna be the baby thrown out with the bathwater, and there's going to be hollers of disenfranchisement.
I personally disagree with voter registration drives being conducted by private parties or by groups sponsored by political parties. It's not hard to register to vote - in Colorado you can register at the same time as you get your drivers license. How could anyone not think that paying people to register voters belonging to a specific political party would cause problems?
If you're asking if you can match pedestrian speeds with a Segway, the answer is yes - it goes at least as fast as a quickly walking pedestrian.
The Segway's speed is controlled by leaning into it or leaning back to slow it down. It doesn't take much of a lean to get it to go, and it's not really jerky - the 'Segway magic' does a pretty good job of keeping the rider from leaning way far and jolting forward or back. You don't set a speed and tell it to go, though - there's nothing like cruise control on it, that would be dangerous in crowds.
If you check Segway's website, they have a list of dealers. If you call in advance, they should allow a test ride. It only takes about five minutes to start feeling comfortable on one. (I test-drove one at a demo last summer)
Considering at least 2% of the Democrat senators are not showing up for votes, I doubt it.