- "Toaster Oven."
- "Clock/Radio."
- "L-Shaped Sectional."
- "Set of 2 End Tables - $35 OBO (Riverview)"
- "Tape Dispenser"
- "Foam Can Insulator with Image of Sailboat."
- "Vanilla Little Tree Air Freshner."
- "Sconces."
- "Jenga."
- "Partially Used 9-Volt Battery."
2.16.2012
Lesser Known Lana Del Rey Songs.
2.14.2012
Grant Miller Media Presents: An Interview with Presidential Candidate Kelcey Wilson.
Longtime Grant Miller Media reader, Kelcey Wilson is making his second presidential bid this year. The candidate fielded questions from Grant Miller Media's editorial board recently as part of the site's ongoing series profiling third-party candidates. Here's a transcription of 10 questions with Mr. Wilson's answers:
1. How will you get more people working?
Wilson: See question six.
2. How will you protect Americans and our allies?
Wilson: See questions six, seven and eight.
3. How can a third-party candidate win a national election?
Wilson: By getting the most votes. Duh.
4. What do you bring to the political debate that President Obama and his likely Republican challenger do not?
Wilson: Many things perhaps foremost being my innovative focus. My objective is not primarily to represent a liberal, conservative/reactionary or even moderate approach toward governing, but to create a government in which each individual citizen's voice has an equal opportunity to be heard and supported (or not) by every other individual citizen directly. In order to achieve this, the Wilson Administration will create a national Free Marketplace of Ideas (FMI), an Internet-based public information dissemination and analysis system that will allow people to view and listen in on everything that is going on inside government that is not classified or private. As government activities stream on live audio/video, unfiltered by commercial media, all verified citizens (one human, one account - no non-human entities like businesses or unions) will be able to comment and share this public domain information in FMI forums. As an official site for public debate between constituents and their public servants, and having a system for rating comments, the FMI will be a source of solutions and quantifiable information about constituents' democratic wishes. The entire project will start on day one when I begin to broadcast my entire presidency, except what needs to be classified for national security, on streaming video. When the FMI is completed, we will have the infrastructure we need to build a truly democratic republic.
5. Cite two examples where your leadership changed the direction of a particular organization.
Wilson: In all of my leadership roles, I have not changed the direction but merely improved the business systems, productivity and quality of the products - though often greatly. Leading the U.S. government will be the first time I change the direction of an organization.
6. What will be your first action in office?
Wilson: The first policy-related Wilson Administration action will be to declare a national emergency in order to start to put a halt to the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere that is acidifying the oceans and destroying crucial planetary life systems and causing the greatest mass extinction in over 65 million years. My plan of attack will be 1) to sign an emergency order to free the electric grid so people and businesses will be able to bypass the local energy monopolies and sell clean energy directly into the grid, creating a free market for American innovators to provide clean energy solutions; and 2) to create an emergency subsidy to provide low-cost, U.S.-made solar panels to home and business owners. While this emergency program will have substantial upfront costs, it will cost far less in four years than even one year of foreign war and will pay for itrself in cash in a relatively short period of time as people pay the government back at the same rates they would have paid for fossil fuel energy. By relying on U.S. solar power companies, this will be a massive, long-term jobs program as it will take years to get solar power generation to the necessary level. This also will increase national security because there will be no reason left to support regimes that do not share our values or maintain military forces in places where it inflames local populations. Moreover, this kind of approach creates a distributed energy generation infrastructure, which, like the Internet, is extremely stable and difficult for enemies to effectively disrupt. There will no longer be widespread brown or blackouts. (Incidentally, electric lines can also be used for communication, which means our electric grid can be used as a backup or additional Internet).
7. How would you use America's influence to limit nuclear proliferation?
Wilson: While the U.S. has done a lot to prevent poliferation, particularly through reduction agreements with the Russian Federation and control of fissle materials, it has also made matters worse by its aggressive invasion of a foreign country that was no imminent threat to anyone. I understand the best means of protecting America from nuclear threats in the long run is to act with justice in the world and to stop making enemies of people who would otherwise be friends. In the medium run, the program described in answer six will also be very helpful. As Germany is in the process of proving, solar power will eliminate the need for nuclear power, which will make control of fissile material infinitely more manageable since nations will not have the cover of a nuclear energy program to produce dual-use nuclear materials and technologies. Finally, for the shorter term, I'm going to give a boilerplate but true answer. Nuclear proliferation is an international problem and any increase in or failure to reduce the volume of nuclear weaponry in the world would be a grave failure of the international community. But as a great power, America has a key role. For the foreseeable future, preventing proliferation among states will be a practical weighing of costs and benefits of various tactics (from diplomatic, to clandestine, to military) that cannot be determined in advance and the Wilson Administration will take no options off the table to protect the United States. It should be understood, however, that there is an enormous distinction between proliferation to additional states and non-state entities. While few Americans want to see Iran get nukes, the worry for rational observers is not that Iran will use them aggressively, it is that Iran will give them to terrorist organizations who will use them. This is relatively unlikely because Iran would be just as likely to be targeted as America, but the cost of such an event would be unacceptable, so every effort should be made to prevent it without sacrificing the values that once made America the light of the world. Above all, there's one thing Americans need to understand if they really care about national security: The best intelligence comes from friends. When we become a country people want to protect, we will be safe.
8. Describe a time when you've made a decision that was unpopular among your peers but that you believed was right.
Wilson: As a manager and business owner, I have made many unpopular yet correct decisions but nothing that stands out as worthy of patting myself on the back for. I have also made many unpopular and incorrect decisions, but it is from the bad decisions that I learned the most. If I hadn't made many bad decisions and could not admit to having done so, I would not consider myself qualified to be president.
9. Under what circumstances would you be willing to use the United State's military might?
Wilson: I cannot begin to outline the circumstances in which I would be willing to put the U.S. military into action as possible circumstances are infinite and unpredictable. I am not a pacifist and will not rule out the use of the military in legal and moral ways that enhance U.S. security without sacrificing the American values such as civil rights and civilian self-governance. I can specify that I am not opposed to using the military for peacekeeping, but will not use the military as police in any country including the United States. I completely reject the Bush Doctrine (see, in particular, The National Strategy for Homeland Security [White House, 2007, page 3]) and will accordingly decommission the Northern Command.
10. What are your top three reasons for seeking elected office?
Wilson: One, I want to help make America the first truly democratic large republic with universal suffrage in history. Two, I want to release the chokehold big energy has on our economy and lungs. Three, nobody else is offering the solutions I offer and I'm convinced they're the best solutions around so far. If somebody better qualified with equal or better solutions - and the courage to follow through - turns up, I will be more than happy to put my efforts behind him or her. Running for prez is no fun, so please let me know if somebody fits that description.
For more information, visit the Wilson campaign Website.
1.03.2012
Santorum on Backdoor Immigration.
I'm not sure how many of you are into caucuses, but I sure am. That's why I took a moment to research each candidate recently. I was particularly interested to see where they stood on immigration and amnesty for illegal immigrants - sometimes called "backdoor immigration."
I began my research by Googling candidate Rick Santorum and backdoor immigration.
You'll never believe what I found! With Santorum in the mix, today's caucus could turn really messy.
Evidently, Santorum is totally against backdoor immigration and believes high unemployment is a byproduct of mixing foreign laborers with American workers. Santorum shows this issue is simply bubbling beneath the surface, waiting for someone to pull out the facts and show it for what it is - disgusting.
Santorum has made me really reconsider the need for something to block backdoor action along the border - if you know what I mean. I'm happy to see Santorum is all over it. Santorum has it covered.
I don't know who you're supporting for president, but I'm fairly certain President Obama won't want to mix it up with Santorum anytime soon.
1.02.2012
Late-Surging Kim Jong-un Looks to Rally Voters Ahead of Iowa Caucuses.
Kim Jong-un started the new year riding the wave of a strong finish in the last major poll before Tuesday's Iowa caucuses and looked to rally his supporters in a series of events on Sunday.
There were few surprises in Saturday's Des Moines Register poll - front runners Mitt Romney and Ron Paul finished 1-2 as they had in other polls during the week. But the Register poll showed Jong-un, who just weeks ago was nearly unknown outside the highest levels of the North Korean regime, pulling ahead of rivals Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry.
Jong-un's rise is the latest in a campaign-long series of votes testing crazed world-leaders against Romney, who is favored by establishment Republicans and has finished at or near the top in most polls since announcing his candidacy last summer.
Jong-un said he knew his turn would come.
"People have asked me 'When are you going to get your surge, you're not going anywhere'" the North Korean supreme leader and son of the late Kim Jong-Il said Sunday at a diner in rural Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. "I said my surge is going to come on January 3rd after the people of Iowa submit to my powerful army and nuclear weapons. Death to America."
While Jong-un is benefiting from the buzz of poll results, other candidates are taking notice and have sharpened their criticism of him in recent days.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry was the front-runner last summer, but was eclipsed following a series of debate fumbles. Perry took a moment on Sunday to detail the differences between the young North Korean leader and himself.
"There are a lot of differences between myself and Kim Jong-un, as Michele (Bachmann) pointed out he's young and untested. He inherited his position - he didn't work for it. I'm going to let him explain to the American people why they should just give him the job because of who his father was. That's not being fiscally conservative. He's just another out-of-touch Pyongyang insider and career despot."
Jong-un has not disclosed what will happen if he loses Tuesday's caucuses but insiders speculate he may endorse Bachmann.
1.01.2012
The 2011 Drysdale Award Winners.
Blogger of the Year
Andy Rooney (Grant Miller Media).
Least Influential Political Blog
Most Micro Microblog
Blog with the Most Obtuse Language and Longest Posts
Blog with the Worst Spelling and Grammar
Blog with the Most Inaccuracies
Least Updated Blog
Blogger Who Shares Waaaaay to Much Information
Fashion Blog with the Most Ass Shots
Worst Commenter
Blog with the Most Swearing
The Drysdale Peace Prize
Congratulations to all the winners and nominees. A lavish, five-star awards ceremony and gala hosted by legendary Hollywood funnyman Morey Amsterdam is scheduled for the very near future in lovely Tampa, Florida.
12.31.2011
Nancy Grace's Top Missing People of 2011.
1. Beth Howze.
2. Jerry Bavaro.
3. Tessa Klawansky.
4. Naomi Bollinger.
5. Philip Ha.
6. Dawn Hancock.
7. Linda Keefe.
8. Jeff Tassinari.
9. Mary Brandin
10. Pamela Montz
12.20.2011
Nominees for the 2011 Drysdale Awards.
Blogger of the Year
Andy Rooney (Grant Miller Media)
Steam Me Up Kid (Steam Me Up Kid)
Least Influential Political Blog
Most Micro Microblog
@grantrmiller (Twitter)
Blog with the Most Obtuse Language & Longest Posts
Blog with the Worst Spelling and Grammar
Blog with the Most Inaccuracies
Least Updated Blog
Blogger Who Shares Waaaaay too Much Information, Know What I Mean?
Fashion Blog with the Most Ass Shots
Worst Commenter
Blog with the Most Swearing
The Drysdale Award Peace Prize
Congratulations to all the nominees. Voting concludes at 12:01 a.m. EST Sunday, January 1. Good luck to all. A lavish, formal ceremony will be held shortly thereafter. Details to be announced soon.
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