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I really believe it is more a marketing gimmick. Knowing that the hardcore Bushies would not be your market and your market would cheer. Think of a bar outside Cominsky with a No Cub Fans sign up. Are they stupid for turning away more than half the baseball fans in Chicago? Or acting like their best customers? I disagree with the business strategy on several points. Number one, taking people into the wilderness and teaching them that Leave No Trace camping and other use in the wilderness, can be comfortable, and ultimately more rewarding, and helps everyone. Not teaching, or at least attempting to teach those that oppose you or who are indifferent, hurts the cause in the long run. Number 2, it does paint the "environmental wackos" out there even further. As a moderate Democrat, I'm embarrassed by some of this stuff. Up until the day of the election, I was very much undecided. One of my biggest dislikes of Bush was the environment.

I was thnking he may want to go back in time to when that haircut looked cool Mr. Peabody, set the wayback machine to, to, to, never!

Hey Wino, does this describe any of your relationships? Or is it just us breeders that have to deal with this??

IMHO, after they send Michael Jackson to prison, lock up any parent who was stupid enough to allow their young children unsupervised visits with Jackson. Maybe not as punishment, but is it safe for somone that stupid to be walking around?? Seriously, if you were making a list of celebrities to not allow private visits with, Jackson has got to be on your Top 10 list, unless you have a daughter

the b**** I kid because I care™

Read how a staunch conservative GOOPer Evil titled this thread and tell me again that Bushies would like staying in a eco-friendly, low impact resort. The drill and pump oil through the ANWR crowd, isn't staying here. They may have eliminated a small percentage of their potential guests, perhaps someone like you, but I agree with Jim, they didn't eliminate much of their market. Every business should have a target market in mind with their marketing. Just like cruises do not spend much time marketing to 19 year olds, or Moet & Chandon taking out ads in college newspapers, this company knows their primary market are those individuals who hold our environment in high esteem and willing to pay for the privilege. For the most part, they do not vote Republican. COuld you imagine Rush reading their eco-friendly ads? I believe he calls them environmental wackos.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 09:38 AM) :headshake :puke

Great work project

Nice to see someone betting their pocket books on their beliefs. I laugh down here as we promote Eco-Tourism and shuttle people around in Hummers, drive across the beaches, stay in hotels that wash your sheets daily (who does that at home?). The hook for that resort is the environement, seems like good business practice to not crap in your mess kit.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 05:12 AM) Not that specifically. Generally speaking, both sides bend and twist the rules in every which way they can to their advantage. In this case, it was GOP. Next time, it will be the Dems, maybe. It all depends when and where the next opportunity comes along. They are all as crooked as a dog's hind leg. They both use the same play book, that's for certain. What I think is genius, is the GOP has invented a couple new plays. Mid decade redistricting, media bias, activist judges, etc. are all new plays. Of course the DEMs are trying to find a way to run the same play. But these are pretty solid. I thought the DEMs opening up the Lincoln bedroom for fund raising was a slick maneuver. The GOP counter was equally effective. It would be a fun game to watch if our society wasn't dependent on these myopic ass clowns.

QUOTE(Goldmember @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 09:58 PM) "Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder." i cannot imagine him saying that, and im trying hard to too... Why turn down the lights?

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 08:18 PM) It pisses me off no other when people post fake names. Especially when looking for pr0n. I know of a couple sites that have started flooding bugmenot with bogus log ins hoping to piss off enough users and cause people to actually log in with real addresses. They are also sites that like to sell their user list.

QUOTE(knightni @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 11:53 PM) Separated at birth?

QUOTE(knightni @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 11:53 PM) Separated at birth? Really LMFAO

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 05:55 PM) Kip is in Canada, it takes them a month or two to catch up This is wat they miss by not having Fox News

QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 05:39 PM) That only makes it more of a challenge. Too much? LMA oops, make that LOL But thank you for being the only one here that thinks of me in that special way

I think D12 with their Sox tattoos are way more fans then some dude wearing a cap . . . you know, just saying . . .

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 03:55 PM) Pot. Kettle. Black. Not. Going. Back

One day the zoo-keeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books: the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species. Surprised, he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books?" "Well," said the orangutan, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother."

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Ruminations for March 9, 2005 -=++=- The reason I enjoy The Home Shopping Network so much is that they never interupt their shows with commercials. (Fanny Bright) -=++=- I think I may finally be winning my 3-year-old message board thread about how I'm not always stubborn and obsessive-compulsive. (Michael Cunningham)

QUOTE(winodj @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 03:39 PM) Tex: The GOP could not have done it in California after the 2000 Census, because the Democrats control the California Legislature. There is talk of Democrats doing tit for tat redistricting in other states that they now control to "level the playing field" so to speak and negate the gerrymandered effect of the Texas redistricting in the 2004 Congressional elections. Personally, I think its a s***ty idea to do it either way. The last thing I want as a private citizen is to have to figure out who my congressman is every two years. My mistake. It was Colorado and Pennsylvania

I figure if I cannot cover it while wearing a business suit, I'm not getting one. That's why I have an "exit only" tattoo on my butt. English and Spanish. Just in case I pass out.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 11:16 AM) Where the heck am I going to get specific figures for where a businesses break even point is? I have no idea who would fail, or how many would fail. Do you? I think you just answered #5 with the question you asked before that. Is it worth keeping 2 people working at $4 an hour or one at $7.25 or $6.15 (depending on which plan you like) You just kinda answered that except on a biggest scale with the 1 @80k vs 4 @20k. As for the full time job part. I do believe if a person is going to work a 40 hour job, they deserve to earn a living wage. If someone wants to make less, there is nothing that makes them HAVE to work 40 hours in a week. If you are looking at a 2nd income job, it would fall under that part time category, as I can't see someone working 80 hours in a week. I think you just argued for the Dem plan of $7.00+ The minimum wage would be some where around $7.40 to have it be a livable wage. Sorry I wasn't clear on 2nd income, I was thinking 2nd income as in the spouse not staying home with the kids. Sadly, down here working two full time jobs is a reality for many people. The call centers here are filled with bi-lingual employees who work evenings and weekends in addition to their M-F 8-5 jobs.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 03:15 PM) And there in lies the problem. People don't care about $11 billion worth of fraud that cost 10,000's of people their jobs, and endless people their retirement money, stock market losses etc, yet Martha Stewart is big news. I don't get it. We would rather laugh at Martha going to jail than cry over people losing their pensions. Also, people who are interested in those financial crimes, are also more likely (I'm guessing) to want more in depth coverage and are probably getting that in the WSJ, Money Line, and other narrow cast publications and shows. Another factor, looking at Tyco, and I know them from their electronic manufacturing acquisitions that they destroyed, is a very complex web. It cannot be explained and understood in 90 seconds. Martha can. But, I agree with you, our news priorities are whacked. Wouldn't liberal reporters want to show fat cat corporate types screwing the common man out of his pension? I guess even their bias cannot get them to report corporate fraud (can we get light green, for only slightly sarcastic)