As people get older, you see, there ears tend to attenuate higher frequencies….

I’d sell my vote for a vote that actually counted…

doriangrey on November 14, 2007 at 10:06 PM

I’m with him.

But, I’m also one of those sad saps that holds voting as a sacred duty (even when I know I’m not going to win).

I voted for Bush twice while living in New York.

I voted against the smoking ban in NYC on the principal that it’s not the government’s job to tell private businesses whether or not they can have smoking on the premises (even though I benefited immensely from it’s passage as I could go to comedy clubs without being half dead from the smoke inhalation the next day).

Heck, I even voted for McClintock over Arnold in the recall vote out here in California (even though I was pretty darn sure he wouldn’t win) because I wanted to vote for the person I actually believed in as opposed to just the person I felt could win it.

As for the iPhone, I recently purchased one, and you should know that it is extremely cool. However, if you want it specifically for email/work functionality, you’re better of with a blackberry as the iPhone doesn’t instantly alert you to new emails (you can set it up to check for new email every 15 minutes automatically or you can manually check whenever you want, but it doesn’t do it immediately like the blackberry does).

On the other hand, when I had been given bad directions to a restaurant two days ago and was lost, I simply pulled up the browser and Googled the restaurant……not having quite the instant email capabilities is far outweighed by never being lost again!

AP and others: you think you have it bad. I’m a conservative Republican. In California. In Maxine Water’s district.

baldilocks on November 15, 2007 at 12:19 AM

Cough*baldilocks for congress*cough….

If you do an honest assessment of the power of a single vote, it’s really not worth that much… even over a lifetime. If someone offers you an iPhone, I say go for it.

frankj on November 14, 2007 at 9:25 PM

A British politician, Michael Portillo lost an election by one vote. Your vote has the potential to decide a really close election.

But 66 percent said they’d forfeit their vote for a free ride to NYU.

Best. Bargain. Ever.

Set asides and earmarks are for buying votes.

Option #1: 5000 acres, lifetime tax exemption, 10,000,000 bucks, lifetime tax exemption. Then I’d have to ask for 5 of every type of firearm in the military and 10,000 rounds for each (useful for two reasons: 1. the gov’t is going to go broke buying voters and things will decend into every family for themselves or 2. to support the next revolution when tyranny ensues from a now completely unchecked government.)

Option #2… I’ll sell my vote for a penny if the entire federal government resigns and term limits are established for all elected officials.

BadBrad on November 15, 2007 at 6:44 AM

And the award for clarity of reason and logic goes to….

BadBrad on November 15, 2007

Unrevokable tax exemption for myself, my spouse, and any resultant offspring. Forever.

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. At a minimum I’d demand cash in an amount to cover whatever tax hikes are coming my way.

But it would take a lot to compensate for the smug satisfaction I get walking into my polling place in my bluest suburb of my blue city and walking over to the sole Republican voting machine. Yeah, suckers, gaze upon that most evil being in your midst… the one from whom you thought you were safe in your little liberal enclave.

BWAAA HAAA HAAA HAAA!!!

I’m a conservative in a state that the Democrats will win by 15 points. My vote is worth less than the paper the ballot’s printed on. For an iPhone I’d sell you my vote and a pint of blood. For the vote alone? How ’bout a case of Newcastle?

I live in Northern CA… same situation.

A new RV for me.

Just like carbon credits..right? :)

Pam on November 14, 2007 at 9:18 PM

Oh no, if I wanted it to be like Algore I would set up a problem of “global vote shortage” and set up a foundation for global vote shortage which would come up with the idea of “vote credits.” There would then be a “global vote credits” company that buys and sells these credits which I would own large amounts of stock in.

That way I make money off my fabricated problem, run the propaganda committee for that problem, and make money off of everyone I sucker in.

Once I do a hyperbolic, pretty much fabricated documentary on the problem and win an Oscar for “best documentary,” I hope to win the Nobel Peace Prize and donate half of the money to the very same foundation that I invented at the start of this imaginary epidemic; The one I’m still the chairman of.

(If you can’t tell, I really think Al Gore is a slick, slimy, integrity-free b*&^*^$.)

Hilarious: Over at LGF: Indian N*pple Song.

Weebork on November 15, 2007 at 12:56 AM

Holy schmoly. I was laughing so hard I was crying. Absolutely hilarious. Thanks!

WasatchMan on November 14, 2007 at 9:25 PM

Yeah but she would have you vote conservative which you prolly would anyway. Good thinking.

- The Cat

Right now, I really need a new laptop. So. . . $1600 will get you a vote for whichever socialist/commie troll the dems foist upon us next November. Heck, I’ll even throw in a vote for the dem challengers for senate and house free of charge.