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I’ve developed a new game called the Groupon Game or if this was 1994: Deal Ordeal.
A group of participants buys each other really awful/boring/stupid sounding Groupons (like the ones above). If you get a Groupon from someone else than they HAVE to do it and take a photo of themselves doing it (as evidence).
Each person tries to find a better/more terrible Groupon.
Important notes:
It doesn’t matter where the Groupon comes from. If you have a Groupon to Knoxville, Tennessee…. better catch that plane (and then that bus).
Which rich person wants to subsidize this for me?
Who’s in?!
Remember: there IS NO WINNING.
excerpt:
“So Samoans, who currently live 20 miles east of the dateline, will go to sleep on Thursday night, skip Friday, and wake up on Saturday morning on the Asian side of the imaginary line. “
- On September 7, 2000, Paul was alone in his opposition to a bill exempting the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum from limits established during the previous year’s budget. The bill ultimately became law.
- On March 10, 1998, he was one of two House members to vote against a motion to suspend the rules and pass the Birth Defects Prevention Act, which promoted better data collection and sharing on the topic. The bill ultimately became law.
- On November 4, 1997, he was one of two members to vote against a motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill that would “require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States.” The bill ultimately became law.
- On October 27, 2000, he was one of two votes against the Assistance for International Malaria Control Act. The bill, which was sponsored by former Sen. Jesse Helms, eventually became law.
- On February 1, 2000, Paul was one of two no votes on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the Child Abuse Prevention and Enforcement Act, which provided more state grant funding for criminal justice and child welfare agencies to collect and share data on child abuse. The bill ultimately became law.
- On December 15, 2009, Paul was the only member to vote against a motion to suspend the rules and pass the “First Responder Anti-Terrorism Training Resources Act” which loosened restrictions on the type of financial help the Department of Homeland Security could get for the purpose of terrorism preparedness and prevention. The bill ultimately became law.
- Paul was one of only three House members to vote against a conference report creating a commission to investigate the 9/11 attacks. One of the other two to vote against the measure (which became law) is former Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.), the current Secretary of Transportation.
- On October 17, 2001, Paul was the lone no vote on a motion to suspend the rules and pass the Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001, which dramatically heightened rules and enforcement on funds that went to terrorist or terrorist-connected organizations. The bill wouldn’t become law but portions of it were put into the PATRIOT Act.
- On November 8, 1999, Paul was the lone nay vote on a motion to suspend the rules and pass an amendment to fund the Office of Government Ethics.
- On July 1, 2010, he was one of four members who voted against a motion to suspend the rules and pass an amendment that prohibited “any person from performing lobbying activities on behalf of a client which is determined by the Secretary of State to be a State sponsor of terrorism.”
5 Favorite from 2011 - MUSIC
I listen to music mostly when I’m driving or reading. So here are some of my favorite albums released in 2011 that I listen to when doing those things.
click on the album name to listen to a song from the album.
Civilian - Wye Oak
It’s a video game soundtrack, it’s moody and a 1947 period piece, and it has some great actual songs in it.
Undun - The Roots
Their best album since Phrenology. A single story line told in the jazziest Roots album to date.
w h o k i l l - tUnE-yArDs
It’s either really annoying noise or great music. It’s like cilantro.
Ali & Toumani - Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate
