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Jul 25, 2008 11:39 AM
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Anyone know why the entire Iraqi Olympic team is banned from competing?
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Jul 24, 2008 11:17 PM
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Larry Whitmore...hilarious!!!!
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Jul 22, 2008 10:42 AM
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Typical B.S. New Jersey politics and one of the many reasons not to vote Democrat in this state:
Lautenberg drops request for Springsteen tickets
"It was supposed to be a nice bonus for people who paid $1,500 to attend a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) -- a ticket to the Bruce Springsteen concert next Sunday at Giants Stadium.
But the Lautenberg campaign canceled its order for 40 tickets today after it came under review by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, which is promoting the concert, and drew fire from Republicans.
"On the basis of the Sports Authority's recent statements, and despite the fact that the Sports Authority agreed to sell us a block of tickets to Sunday's Bruce Springsteen concert, the Lautenberg for Senate campaign is rescinding its order for tickets to the upcoming concert," Julie Roginsky, a campaign spokeswoman, said today.
"The campaign is also asking the Sports Authority to re-examine its practice of reserving tickets, in order to ensure that its tickets are available to all New Jersey residents, not just to VIPs," Roginsky added.
John Samerjan, a spokesman for the authority, said it will review how many tickets it reserves for VIPs and special customers.
"There will be a clear-cut policy that the authority has for these events that it promotes going forward so there will be no questions," Samerjan said. But he said the practice of setting aside some seats for favored customers is widespread and long-standing.
"Every building in America -- every stadium, every Broadway theater -- has house seats. It's for VIPs, it's for people you do business with, it's for promotional purposes," Samerjan said. "That's been true since time immemorial."
Samerjan said because the Sports Authority is directly promoting the Springsteen concert, it had "more than the normal amount of tickets available." He said the authority agreed to sell a block of 40 tickets to Lautenberg's campaign for $108 each, "which is the going rate -- $98 plus a $10 service charge." He described them as "good seats" on the lower level but not the best in the house.
The tickets had not yet been delivered when, late last week, "we started reviewing the request with the Lautenberg campaign," Samerjan said. "They took the action they did today, which we think was proper."
The ticket agreement was first reported by Charles Stile, a columnist for The Record of Bergen County, on Sunday. This morning, Republican State Chairman Tom Wilson denounced it as "an old-fashioned quid pro quo."
Roginsky said the Springsteen tickets were going to be a free bonus to contributors who had already paid $1,500 to the senator's, also on Sunday, which will still be held. Samerjan said part of the authority's concern was whether the Lautenberg campaign was going to re-sell the tickets at a huge markup.
"It's a moot point now," he said.
Former Congressman Dick Zimmer, Lautenberg's Republican opponent, had some fun issuing a statement that wove together the titles of some of the Boss's biggest hits.
"Outed by the Bergen Record for trying to raise funds by marking up Springsteen tickets over 1000%, Lautenberg has apparently been Blinded By the Light and canceled his fundraiser. His fat-cat contributors will have to be Dancing In the Dark with Sad Eyes as they recall the Glory Days of free tickets and backroom deals," Zimmer said. "As for me ... No Surrender."
Now that last paragraph is funny. But Blinded by the Light was a Manfred Mann song.
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Edited by bartman911 at 07/22/2008 7:42 AM PDT
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Edited by bartman911 at 07/22/2008 7:42 AM PDT
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Jul 21, 2008 4:30 PM
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August 29th cannot come fast enough!!!
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Jul 19, 2008 5:00 PM
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Fascinating story CBunny, thank you for the insight into your formative years.
Yes, humans and other critters can be conditioned. Dogs too. Their behavior can be reinforced either negatively or positively, and subsequent behavior is modified.
Not always in the way intended....
Just curious if you ever served in the military, or just know about the conditioning that is used there?
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Jul 19, 2008 4:54 PM
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> CBunny,
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> I'm good on the hairdryer but power tools with Blades
> scare me...lol
Ditto, have a problem with power tools also. I was fascinated with them and got my hands slapped over them also.
Girl, your'e funny. LMAO.
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Jul 18, 2008 9:35 PM
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> Ya reckon??? The govt wants to keep a certain level
> of fear up? No doubt at all about that. It's called
> fear-mongering, and it is the primary method of
> controlling cattle and humans.
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> I agree with your post, but for the sake of argument,
> I would say that brainwashing leads to excess
> control, rather than the reverse. 
Jet,
I got brainwashed to Question Authority. Somebody screwed up. 
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Jul 18, 2008 9:33 PM
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Every time I see my husband start up the chainsaw I start worrying what do I have to wear to the funeral??
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Jul 18, 2008 9:32 PM
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CBunny,
I'm good on the hairdryer but power tools with Blades scare me...lol
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Jul 18, 2008 9:09 PM
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I agree with you. I worry about the pilots that are afraid to say they need more fuel than required also.
I have been in planes that circled JFK@ NYC for nearly 45 minutes.
The airlines only want 10 minutes more fuel than required. I think there will be a problem.
These near misses are for a reason. Some of these flights are anxious to land.
I have a relative that works for a major airline. He has been telling me since the Springtime, not to fly, unless necessary. He said to wait until the Fall or better yet, wait until next year. Now I know he was talking about. It was the failed inspections and that the planes fuel tanks to be replaced.
Also, I was one of those corporate dorks, that worked through lunch and slept with my laptop. Still, they gave my department the boot and sent our jobs to India.
Yes, corporations are brainwashing their employees. Unions, too.
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Jul 18, 2008 5:22 PM
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Re: Cbunny...Fear Mongering
Many people are so afraid
of losing their jobs that they will
put up with any kind
of treatment from their boss.
Many people do not take vacation time
because they do not want to lose their job.
As far as the airlines I would say
I am more afraid of the intimidated pilots
that take off with below standard airplanes.
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Jul 18, 2008 11:16 AM
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Fear leads to brainwashing.
That is why the military has boot camp. Through fear of the brigg, and extra exercise, (drop down and gimme twenty). The soldiers change the attitudes. The 5 mile runs while singing, (chanting), also is a form of brain washing.
For example, I was the child that always was trying to stick on a fork in the electric socket and the wall. The shock didn't bother me, but my parents was always nearby and they would slap my hand and take away the fork.
I am now afraid of wall sockets. Not for the shock, but in the back of my mind, my parents are about to slap my hands. I'm a grown woman flinching while plugging in my hair dryer.
They brainwashed me into being afraid of electricity. Like some children are afraid of spiders. It wasn't because of the spider, the parents brainwashed their child.
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Jul 17, 2008 3:17 PM
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Ya reckon??? The govt wants to keep a certain level of fear up? No doubt at all about that. It's called fear-mongering, and it is the primary method of controlling cattle and humans.
I agree with your post, but for the sake of argument, I would say that brainwashing leads to excess control, rather than the reverse.
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