A lot has happened since my last post, even though it was only a few days ago. The news was coming in at a burnout pace. The media has pretty much decided that the previous question (whose baby is this anyway?) is off-limits. Palin has announced that her daughter is pregnant by a 17 year old hockey player whose MySpace profile says he has no intention of having kids, though apparently this is not the first girl he got pregnant.
Abstinence-only sex education hard at work.
For those of us that are betting, bets are that the baby will either be born a couple of months late, which would set the date of conception off by a wee bit, or would be miscarried sometime in mid-October. Set your sundials.
Now that McCain has declared his VP candidate’s record as completely off-limits, ALL OF IT, not just her family and personal life, I guess we can just accept the history they fabricated for her.
After all, she is running as VP candidate with a guy who was a POW. Her political positions and past record in government should naturally be off-limits.
Now it turns out that McCain has canceled an appearance at a Habitat for Humanity photo-op. It turns out that community organizers are evil, they are big business. Or perhaps it’s their success that makes him look bad, or their connection with Jimmy Carter.
So Hillary has been using this Bobby Kennedy assassination hypothesis as an excuse to stay in the race since March, though she has only used the A word a couple of times. But it turns out that her comment about her husband being in the race until mid-June was a bunch of baloney. Here’s the smoking gun:
OK, so why did she lie? Is there something about high public office, or merely the ambition for high public office, that makes normal people into pathological liars? Or does it mostly attract pathological liars in the first place?
Hillary is going to stay in the race until the last superdelegate is pledged, regardless of the cost to the party and the country. If she won’t pull the plug, it’s time for the superdelegates to do it for her. Stop pussyfooting around, stop with this stupid grandstanding. Commit. KTHXBAI
“In a surprising turn of events, NY Governor Eliot Spitzer has filed a lawsuit against “Kristen”, a prostitute for the Emperor’s Club prostitution ring. Spitzer’s complaint alleges that “Kristen’s” refusal to allow him to sleep with her bareback, while allegedly knowing of his sexual addiction, constituted unfair exploitation of an ADA-protected disability.”
I’m presuming this is fiction, and I’m wishing I’d written it myself.
The Coultergeist is up to her old tricks, but of course. She’s just trying to see how outrageously offensive she can be when mere ideas fail her, which they always do. But some things just go without saying.
It helps that she is completely oblivious to what others might think of what she says. Otherwise she would realize just exactly where her politics and bizarre notions place her—in a special insane assylum reserved for fascists with rapidly advancing brain deterioration, of course.
“We just want Jews to be perfected, as they say,” Coulter said later in the show. “That is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express.”
“Candidly, I had her on not to talk about politics but to talk about her brand strategy,” Deutsch later told AdWeek . “Whether you like her or not, her strategy is to be extreme and that’s a way to make money. But because it’s her, it drifted into politics.”
“I simply asked her a question, something like, ‘If the world was her way, what would it look like?’ And she said something to the effect that everybody would be Christians,” Deutsch told AdWeek. “I was somewhat baffled and asked if that meant there would be no Buddhists or Jews and I think her words were, ‘perfected’ Jews [would be OK].”
How could anyone resist the temptation? Maxim magazine online has taken the opportunity to demonstrate for us just how Anne Coulter herself might be “perfected”, suggesting exactly which upgrades might be an improvement.
Is it any wonder why the world hates us so much? The MPs were flabbergasted that someone with such a rigid hardline position was supposedly taking part in an activity like diplomacy. What rock did GWB find her under?
Actually, I tried to find her qualifications online, but the only thing I could find was something that was supposed to be her current job description, for a cost of $9.98. I can only presume that if her qualifications are not available for public perusal that they have something major to hide.
In fact, I’d guess that she’s just another one of so many clueless Bush hirees from Pat Robertson’s Regent law school. Clueless about the law and the constitution, not at all clueless about trying to turn the country into a fascist theocracy. Egads.
“New research shows it takes one part of the brain to start concentrating and another to be distracted. This discovery could help scientists develop better treatments for attention deficit disorder.
“This ability to willfully focus your attention is physically separate in the brain from distracting things grabbing your attention,” said Earl Miller, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He led the study, published in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.”
So what they are saying is that these students would pay attention if they perceived their lives were in danger. Perhaps if we threaten them with wild bears…?
The bottom part of his graphic had nothing to do with the article, but I guess they thought it was close enough to serve as an illustration. It’s interesting. You could explain away a lot of stereotypes of rednecks and such based on this information.
Give me a break. Nobody would ever have believed the story. It’s too crazy to be a good joke, and certainly too weird to base a movie on. This story makes the strangest of us look oh so so normal. News story, for those who somehow missed it.
I don’t want to look at the whole thing. We’ll ignore all the bizzarro stuff and cut right to a question I’ve thought about before, a question based on an observation I have made numerous times concerning cases of assault, murder, and the intention thereof.
Police said Nowak told them that she only wanted to scare Shipman into talking to her about her relationship and didn’t want to harm her… An officer reported following Nowak and watching her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. Police also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested, authorities said.
WTF? How does a supposedly intelligent person convince herself that she was carrying a deadly weapon for purposes other than violence? Is it some defense mechanism in the brain that convinces them that they weren’t actually plotting out a murder, so if the other person does get killed or injured (as anybody else in the world might have predicted might happen), that they are not to blame?
I remember Amy Fisher saying this same thing. She brought the gun to Joey Buttafuoco’s wife’s house to show it to her, so she would know she meant business. Somehow it went off, but she wasn’t to blame…
Even back then it wasn’t the first time I’d heard that same claim. I still don’t understand how a person can so delude him or herself, while anybody in the world would be able to say, “Bad idea, dude.”
A woman fighting another woman for control of a man – whether he wants her or not – or a man fighting to control a woman.
Discovered a great blog while surfing Linkreferral. It’s called The Monkey’s Cheese, and I have linked to the funniest prank I have seen in a long time. I was laughing so hard…
I work for a company who USES Niteflirt. I am almost sure that they have taken the money and ran. I have not been paid for the last four pay periods and they keep telling me that niteflirt has frozen my acct. info. But they were able to free it up enough that i go back to work after a couple weeks. I don’t understand. I am tryig to work something out with all of my creditors..cause i’m on the verge of losing everything now. How do i find out if NiteFlirt froze my account or not.
First, why is there a question mark after ‘Part I’?
Those of you who read my blog know that I tend to write long posts when I have something to say. But I have only just begun here, and it already looks like it’s going to be covering multiple related topics at length, so what’s probably going to happen is it’s going to get repeated rewrites and edits and end up as multiple posts. Either that, or when I run out of things to say, the question mark will mysteriously vanish.
Now, an intro, a question, a vocabulary word. What is Niteflirt? Silly, if you don’t know, you’d better call me RIGHT NOW! because you’ve been very neglectful. The Principal has been waiting for you in her Office, and you are LATE. You’re gonna catch HELL. I’m gonna whoop your ass. Why, I might even have to make a note on your permanent record!
But seriously. Back to reality. Niteflirt is the billing platform many of us doing phone sex and domination use to receive our pay. It’s not perfect, but compared to all other options that are available, it’s damned fine. Those of us who work that platform are called “Speakers” or “Flirts”.
The original news story can be found here. On a slow news weekend, it was picked up and run by just about every newsroom in the country, and now sits on all their websites. There were errors in the story, and there were also some questionable statements made – that were not questioned by the ‘reporter’.
Now before I start making my comments, I’ll give you the blog entry of another flirt, which will save me rewriting what she wrote as well as I would have liked to:
Words can’t properly express how livid this wee lil Fem Dom is at a recent media report, that tells a sad tale, and incorrectly highlights the company we are affiliated with.
TheKansasCityChannel.com. news station interview with Ms. Huge included a video lead- in shot of the Nite Flirt landing page, in spite of the fact she was working for a company that is using Keen’s stellar reputation to possibly cheat hard werkin’ phone actresses! (more…)
The company that supposedly ripped off this woman and others was not Niteflirt. It was a company that was using Niteflirt’s platform to run its business. It’s too easy (in my opinion – many flirts feel it should not even be possible) to start a company to do this, and there are no safeguards whatever for the workers. But nevertheless, there are some legitimate companies that run their phone sex businesses this way, though only a few pay their girls well.
What is “well”? Flirts working on Niteflirt pay a .20 a minute connection fee plus 30% for the use of the platform. They can set their own prices. So someone charging $1.64 a minute will receive up to $1 of that, depending on whether they choose to buy pay-per-click featuring (advertising) on the site.
Of course, a company that runs its business using Niteflirt has expenses. There may not be a lot of different expenses, as there would be if you were buying a phone dispatch system, 800 numbers, office space, etc., but they are still significant. Besides payroll for the workers, there are featuring and other advertising costs, and then you have to make enough money yourself to make the whole thing worthwhile. Advertising can be a big expense if you are actually going to get enough calls so the girls earn enough money to make it worth staying in your employ.
So what usually happens is someone looking for easy money will start one of these companies and hire naive women as independent contractors. They will usually pay .27 to .40 a minute of call time, so the women are dependent on their employer doing enough marketing to send them enough calls to pay their bills.
Unfortunately, one of the marketing strategies is to charge the customer rock bottom prices in order to get more calls, rating points/feedback, and return customers, then raise the prices later. By the time the owner realizes that this strategy is not reliable – rating points don’t bring in new customers and regualars are notoriously unreliable, not to mention the fact that customers who call low-priced girls often move on when the price is raised – the company is in the red and ready to miss paychecks.
Now here’s where the “scam artist” personality aspect of the fly-by-night make-money-fast business operator comes in. They know they are not going to be held accountable for scamming their workers, as the workers are not employees in the eyes of the law. It is an easy step to start making excuses as to why the paycheck is late or does not show up this week. Small excuses seamlessly move up to bigger excuses. The fact that the owner hired naive and unquestioning workers is now working to his or her advantage in a major way. Not only are these workers more likely to accept the excuses for late or non-payment, but they have not been learning about how the industry works or how independent operators all around them are running successful businesses without companies like these.
Trusting, gullible, yes. I’ve heard of situations where a company that paid really well stopped giving paychecks, and over a period of weeks ended up owing their top earners thousands of dollars. But work for 3 months for a company that has never given you a paycheck at all? That’s neither trusting nor gullible, it’s just plain not credible. Supposedly there were lots of these workers in exactly the same situation…Nope. This in itself is fishy.
Even if she told them that they were going to be receiving the money that the little recording announces at the end of each call (“$_.__ has been credited to your account”), it is not possible that these inexperienced workers would have been suddenly earning as much as top earners on Niteflirt do.
I admit it. When I got started, I did work for a company that used Niteflirt as a payment processor. They flew the coop the day before we started getting notifications from our banks that a paycheck had bounced. So even before we got those notices, we knew something very strange was happening, and we had already stopped working. Since the next paycheck had not been paid, they ended up owing about 3 weeks’ pay to all of us.
We knew something fishy was going on, we were able to communicate with each other, and we had already stopped working.
She is saying she worked for 3 months and never received any pay. All of them knew that none of them were being paid, but they kept working.
Sorry. Next!
So, for review, reinforcement, and application of learning: when you see the following call buttons on a girl’s website, she’s a Niteflirt girl, and she’s probably an independent operator who gets to keep most of the money she earns.
The bottom part of his graphic had nothing to do with the article, but I guess they thought it was close enough to serve as an illustration. It’s interesting. You could explain away a lot of stereotypes of rednecks and such based on this information.
