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02/02/2008 21:36 #43152

I am on Crack
Category: politics
Hi,

My name is James and I am an addict.

This addiction has been manageable in the past. More of a perennial nuisance than a full time hunger. But now I can't even recognize myself.

I just found out tomorrow is Superbowl Sunday. My first thought was 'I wonder how this will affect Super Duper Tuesday primary blitz!' followed by 'I wonder if candidate has purchased ad time' and then 'oh man, I should totally go grocery shopping, no one will be there!'

This isn't the first time this has happened. When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated I worried that it might affect news coverage of Barack Obama's last stump speech before Iowa. How uncompassionate can you get?

I am going to have to get off this drug, but November is just... oh shit, it is over half a year away. God damn it.
james - 02/03/08 11:50
I love watching the predictions market. I have been looking at the ones here :::link:::

It is always nice to look at a second market though, so thank you for linking us.
zobar - 02/03/08 10:54
Perhaps Super Sunday is a good time to introduce you to the Iowa Electronic Markets :::link::: - the only American institution where it's legal to bet on politics. I'd read an interesting article that polls are a much less accurate predictor of elections than outright betting. Polls ask who you want to win, whereas gambling asks who you think will win.

When you enter, you get one share of each candidate for $1. At the end of the race, only one of those is going to pay off $1; the others will pay off $0. In the meantime, some candidates are worth more than others. Some candidates are underrated. If you're an Obama man, put your money where your mouth is - cash out your CLIN_NOM at 60.5¢ and buy into OBAM_NOM at 37.4¢.

I'm not participating in it, but my eyes are totally glued to their graphs.
Democratic nomination :::link:::
Republican nomination :::link:::
Presidential Election :::link:::

- Z

02/01/2008 13:48 #43134

Who is the Real Joe Biden
Category: humor?
What do we know of Joe Biden?

Yes, he is one of the longest serving members of the senate. Yes, he has been a presidential candidate a few times. And yes, I want him and Obama to make sweet, sweet white house love together - ties loose, collar button undone.

But who is the real Joe Biden?

In 1987 Joe moved into a neighborhood Willmington known for a stray dog problem. Six months later no dogs could be found, Joe moved again.

In 1992 Joe introduced a piece of legislation that would ban the sale and ownership of silver daggers.

Joe has never attended a late night meeting while there was a full moon.

This points to a profoundly disturbing suspicion.


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Have we let wolfmen infultrate the highest levels of our government?
mrmike - 02/01/08 14:33
He's really Mr Belding, senator
jason - 02/01/08 14:22
I have a nagging compulsion to get creative and paint some handlebars on Biden's face. Just something I do.

01/31/2008 22:23 #43122

Hi
Since bailing out of student teaching I am pleased I didn't go through a week long 'I am a miserable failure let's drink a few years off your life' phase. Rather, I am super glad I did what I did.

So, I have been talking to a career councilor at Buff State. I have been seeing him for a month now, as I was pretty sure I wanted nothing to do with public school education for a while now. Well, I completed a few aptitude and temperament tests two weeks ago and got the rest results back. According to those tests I have an overwhelming aptitude for being an elected official.

So I want to use this moment to announce my candidacy for anything. Anything at all. My platform is as follows.

We will reform X to be superior to the way it was before!

We must end the policy of Y because it increases disparities between working class Americans and demonized institution du jour!

I promise you, in the first 100 days I am in office, I will not shake the hand of any foreigner who does not speak in an outrageous accent. Further more, I will not shake the hand of any member of 80's rock behemoth Foreigner.




fing - 02/01/08 20:18
Don't forget the you did not inhale part!
jason - 02/01/08 13:37
How about a William Burroughs impersonator? You don't have to do any junk or anything, but you have the sense of humor down.
museumchick - 02/01/08 13:09
So does this mean you're not running as a republican?!!!
mrdeadlier - 01/31/08 22:39
You've got my vote!

But on day #101 let's have a Foreigner concert and invite all the Canadians, k?

01/28/2008 10:50 #43059

Response to Tony
Category: religion
Tony, I have a book your daughter needs to read.

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imk2 - 01/28/08 18:44
yes, my child has read that one and i apparently did too, even before i was able to read.
jim - 01/28/08 14:13
:)

01/26/2008 18:34 #43045

State of the Union
Chris Morris is the funniest man alive.

Check out this State of the Union address he spliced together. I peed myself three times watching it.



mrdeadlier - 01/28/08 13:30
terror, burning with hot irons... AWESOME
libertad - 01/27/08 18:20
That is pretty flawless, I love how everyone always claps and cheers, it's just like watching the real thing.
jbeatty - 01/27/08 03:13
That was fucking brilliant!