Comments for Drinking Liberally of Salt Lake City http://drinkingliberallyslc.org Promoting democracy in Utah one pint at a time. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:48:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on A shot in the dark by marshall http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/06/19/a-shot-in-the-dark/#comment-125 marshall Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:55:24 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/?p=360#comment-125 I have a 30-06 and go shooting regularly. When I am asked why I don't support Republicans I always say "we are all going to need our guns with them in power", sort of the same take as Misty. I have a 30-06 and go shooting regularly. When I am asked why I don’t support Republicans I always say “we are all going to need our guns with them in power”, sort of the same take as Misty.

]]> Comment on Embarrassing Utah by Jeremiah http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/06/11/embarrassing-utah/#comment-124 Jeremiah Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:17:52 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/?p=357#comment-124 We don't need some anonymous asshole to embarrass us - most of our most embarrassing assholes are very public about it. Also, I'm pretty sure we don't have to expect four more years of worse. Go Obama! We don’t need some anonymous asshole to embarrass us - most of our most embarrassing assholes are very public about it. Also, I’m pretty sure we don’t have to expect four more years of worse. Go Obama!

]]> Comment on with CREDO Mobile. by hollynew http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/03/16/with-credo-mobile/#comment-123 hollynew Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:14:41 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/03/16/with-credo-mobile/#comment-123 i was wondering if anyone knows how long its takes to get a phone from credo mobile. i made my order six days ago and i got one e-mail that said my phone would be here in 3-5 days still 6 days later no phone no e-mails can anyone tell me why???? i was wondering if anyone knows how long its takes to get a phone from credo mobile. i made my order six days ago and i got one e-mail that said my phone would be here in 3-5 days still 6 days later no phone no e-mails can anyone tell me why????

]]> Comment on with CREDO Mobile. by Jeremiah http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/03/16/with-credo-mobile/#comment-122 Jeremiah Sat, 24 May 2008 15:22:57 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/03/16/with-credo-mobile/#comment-122 That's interesting, coreperformance. I thought CREDO had been around a while, just with a different name. A few months ago I was considering buying a phone through Democracy For America Wireless, which I believe is just CREDO with some of the profit going to DFA. It almost seems worth the hassle (to me, anyway) just to know that my phone provider won't cave to government phone-tap requests. That’s interesting, coreperformance. I thought CREDO had been around a while, just with a different name. A few months ago I was considering buying a phone through Democracy For America Wireless, which I believe is just CREDO with some of the profit going to DFA. It almost seems worth the hassle (to me, anyway) just to know that my phone provider won’t cave to government phone-tap requests.

]]> Comment on with CREDO Mobile. by coreperformance http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/03/16/with-credo-mobile/#comment-121 coreperformance Thu, 22 May 2008 20:44:12 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/03/16/with-credo-mobile/#comment-121 I was in the process of switching to Credo Mobile. My experience with customer service over the last two days has made me change my mind - I am back with my original carrier. Everyone is very polite, but I get the impression they have little training, and little software support. They do not have an integrated way to look at my account. I called to tell them to cancel, and after that, they transferred my number over to their system. i had to have it transferred back. This was after I ordered service, and they didn't even ask me what my old number was. And after they called back to say "Who was your service provider again?" Amateur outfit. I am all for good causes. But it gives good causes a bad name if they use them to get customers they are unable to serve. I was in the process of switching to Credo Mobile. My experience with customer service over the last two days has made me change my mind - I am back with my original carrier.

Everyone is very polite, but I get the impression they have little training, and little software support. They do not have an integrated way to look at my account. I called to tell them to cancel, and after that, they transferred my number over to their system. i had to have it transferred back.

This was after I ordered service, and they didn’t even ask me what my old number was. And after they called back to say “Who was your service provider again?”

Amateur outfit. I am all for good causes. But it gives good causes a bad name if they use them to get customers they are unable to serve.

]]> Comment on Our congressmen don’t support our troops, Why?” by Sterkworks http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/04/05/our-congressmen-dont-support-out-troops-why/#comment-120 Sterkworks Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:45:27 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/04/05/our-congressmen-dont-support-out-troops-why/#comment-120 Thanks for the links. This drives me crazy and I can't understand for the life of me why we can send them to get killed, but not take care of them when they get back. And what about McCain? Geez. Thanks for the links. This drives me crazy and I can’t understand for the life of me why we can send them to get killed, but not take care of them when they get back. And what about McCain? Geez.

]]> Comment on KRCL Spirited Conversation by C.CZECH http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2006/07/05/krcl-spirited-conversation/#comment-119 C.CZECH Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:18:15 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/?p=89#comment-119 I am an INDEPENDENT film maker . I am working on a documentary about KRCL. I would love to have a dialog with anyone regarding the changes to KRCL. please feel free to email me directly at krcl.film @yahoo.com. Thanks. Chris Czech I am an INDEPENDENT film maker . I am working on a documentary about KRCL. I would love to have a dialog with anyone regarding the changes to KRCL. please feel free to email me directly at krcl.film @yahoo.com. Thanks. Chris Czech

]]> Comment on I support the super delegate system by Saintless http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/02/28/i-support-the-super-delegate-system/#comment-118 Saintless Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:57:45 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/02/28/i-support-the-super-delegate-system/#comment-118 I don't see how anyone would argue that a bunch of Washington insiders should have a far greater say over the Democratic nominee than the voters. The very idea goes against basic principles of Democracy. I don’t see how anyone would argue that a bunch of Washington insiders should have a far greater say over the Democratic nominee than the voters. The very idea goes against basic principles of Democracy.

]]> Comment on I support the super delegate system by luckydingo http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/02/28/i-support-the-super-delegate-system/#comment-117 luckydingo Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:10:50 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/02/28/i-support-the-super-delegate-system/#comment-117 Backscratching is only "bad" if your team isn't doing the scratching. It is the very foundation of all political systems worldwide since the dawn of humanity. It is the point of politics, and to assume the Democratic party should be void of the engine which drives the system is pointless. Rather, they have opted to install a plan to test the persuasive abilities of their presidential candidates by making them have to appeal not only to general voters but also to super delegates. Who wants to elect a leader that can't convince people to do things? Money talks. Power talks. Friends talk. We need to have a President who has all of these in their court in order to be successful. Otherwise they have no leverage and they are like Jimmy Carter who had a bad full of idealism but couldn't even convince his own Democratic Congress to do what he wanted-- so guess what? Nothing happened for four years. Idealism is great, but show me the money! Backscratching is only “bad” if your team isn’t doing the scratching. It is the very foundation of all political systems
worldwide since the dawn of humanity. It is the point of politics, and to assume the Democratic party should be void of
the engine which drives the system is pointless. Rather, they have opted to install a plan to test the persuasive abilities
of their presidential candidates by making them have to appeal not only to general voters but also to super delegates.
Who wants to elect a leader that can’t convince people to do things? Money talks. Power talks. Friends talk. We need to have
a President who has all of these in their court in order to be successful. Otherwise they have no leverage and they are like
Jimmy Carter who had a bad full of idealism but couldn’t even convince his own Democratic Congress to do what he wanted–
so guess what? Nothing happened for four years. Idealism is great, but show me the money!

]]> Comment on I support the super delegate system by hculligan http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/02/28/i-support-the-super-delegate-system/#comment-116 hculligan Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:55:18 +0000 http://drinkingliberallyslc.org/2008/02/28/i-support-the-super-delegate-system/#comment-116 Interesting take, Lucky Dingo. However, it is this exact "persuasion" for votes that bothers me the most about the super delegates. I just read (will have to find the reference - unless anyone else has it??) about the financial contributions made by the presidential hopefuls to some super delegate campaigns from their election runs several years ago. Is the return favor expected now? This lobbying, if you will, for select votes is happening now. This worries me the most. It is this practice of I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine that is one of the biggest problems with congress now. Should it really begin before the candidate is even elected into office? Interesting take, Lucky Dingo. However, it is this exact “persuasion” for votes that bothers me the most about the super delegates. I just read (will have to find the reference - unless anyone else has it??) about the financial contributions made by the presidential hopefuls to some super delegate campaigns from their election runs several years ago. Is the return favor expected now?

This lobbying, if you will, for select votes is happening now. This worries me the most. It is this practice of I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine that is one of the biggest problems with congress now. Should it really begin before the candidate is even elected into office?

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