This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance.
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Landscaping, washing the dog, Hi Infidelity Concert at Walter Payton’s Roundhouse
A federal judge has said the State of Illinois must pay over a half-million dollars in legal fees to the video-game industry for fighting the "Safe Games Illinois Act" intended to keep minors away from violent or explicit video games.
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If a 19 year-old college student can get a fake ID to drink, why couldn't a bad person get one, too? And no matter how sophisticated the security embedded into the ID, wouldn't a well-financed terrorist be able to falsify that, too? The answer to both questions is obviously 'yes'.
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"The buck stops . . . where?
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi criticizing the lack of congressional oversight concerning Iraq war contracts:
'Why this huge contract has not been and is not now being adequately audited is beyond me. The potential for waste and profiteering under such a contract is substantial.'
Then again, what do you expect from --
Wait. Those were the words 40 years ago of Rep. Donald Rumsfeld (R-Ill.) criticizing the lack of congressional oversight concerning Vietnam war contracts.
The company he was talking about would later become a unit of Halliburton.
Our government has shortcomings.
Lack of continuity is not one of them.
Probably not as effective, but definitely funnier than the ones hung on the walls of offices...
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I got the idea from Fr. Roderick of the Daily Breakfast podcast to take 12 pictures of a day in your life once a month. See what I go through durring the Life of Brian on my 12 on 12 - photoset on Flickr for July 12th 2006.
"Every time a Republican attacks our freedoms a terrorist gets his wings."
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