BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Stringsinger
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 02:52 PM

Occupy!

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 10:58 AM

2012? Give me a break! I'm still working on a resolution I made in 1982.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 31 Dec 11 - 09:49 AM

BillD, you'd like St Peter's brewery, (Suffolk, UK) Their strong dark porter is excellent, and many of their other flavourful ales are wonderful. But I doubt if people would keep them for later, they'd guzzle them down straight away!

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Dec 11 - 07:42 PM

Them beers.... I actually have some in cans & bottles that is over 25 years old with beer still in them. I have a can or two of Theakston Old Peculier, a JR Ewing can, and a Billy Beer and a six-pack of 4077th M*A*S*H beer. I would NOT drink those...but some may well have E-Bay value now.

But I have two bottles of Thomas Hardy's Ale that I would drink! One is a 1986 and one is 1993. They were touted to be good for 25 years, and one has just made it. The last one I had was about 15 years ago. It is dark and 'chewey' and strong. ( see this page) It is a real dilemma as to whether to drink them or sell them. E-bay has a 2007 offered for $29.95!

New Year's resolution? DO something with both the full bottles and the empties.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 11 - 06:44 PM

I think that all of you should seriously consider my Resolution, which is the same every year:

I will do all things in moderation -- even moderation.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: kendall
Date: 30 Dec 11 - 07:28 AM

I know I can keep this one...never smoke another cigarette. 15 years last December 16th.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 29 Dec 11 - 08:37 PM

"What wooden thing you stand on in the bathroom??????"

The floor, gal, the floor! Course, it's a guy thing, the stand in the bathroom. Well, mostly, anyway.

I knew this gal who could--well, perhaps I should leave that for another time.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Ed T
Date: 29 Dec 11 - 06:22 PM

I resolve not to pick up any more truckers pee bottles by the side of the road.

I collected quite a few last year for Shane McBride (aka Sean MacBride). But, he never called by to pick them up. He musta found a new andgamier mix to cut the taste of his Blind River brand 'shine.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Dec 11 - 05:47 PM

What wooden thing you stand on in the bathroom??????

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bobert
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 07:24 PM

Well, hell, Bill... Put them bottles on ebay... They'll sell and you'll have a fist full of dollars to go out and buy some other useless stuff to collect...

Or you could just send that ca$h to yer ol' buddy, Bobert...

I been rackin' my brainerator on what to give up but, frankly, I like all by vices too much... Maybe I'll give up starting dumb threads here in the Mudpit... Yeah, that's what I'll do... Heck, if I make it a week that will be like beating the national average by 2 days...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 07:15 PM

Can you say "skunked?"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 05:51 PM

"Anyone interested in beer bottles from around the world...some 30 years old?"

Is the beer still in them?

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: skarpi
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 04:40 PM

do everything that I want to do before the world ends 21.12.2012....

there you go ....

kv Skarpi .

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 04:34 PM

"What you gonna do with all them bottles, Bill???

If I can't find a serious beer bottle collector close to me, it's easy to just add them to the recycling over a period of months.

Anyone interested in beer bottles from around the world...some 30 years old?

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 03:48 PM

Good luck Mike. I truly hope it catches on. It could... not likely... but it could if people get pissed off enough. Otherwise, we are just gonna be in a cycle of war... rich against poor. Of course, even under the "new system" proposed, it might still be the same cycle of war but on a different level.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: GUEST,999
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 03:06 PM

From: Michael Moore
Date: 28 December 2011 11:49
Subject: In 2012, I'm Only Backing Candidates Who Pledge to Get Money OUT of Politics -- Like Dan Kildee from Flint ...a letter from Michael Moore


In 2012, I'm Only Backing Candidates Who Pledge to Get Money OUT of Politics -- Like Dan Kildee from Flint ...a letter from Michael Moore

Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

Friends,

I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year -- walk three miles a day, use an eco-friendly laundry detergent, write fewer anonymous letters to Wolf Blitzer -- but I want to declare, right here, that one of my top priorities in 2012 will be to spearhead a drive to remove ALL money from our electoral process, period. Nothing -- and I mean NOTHING -- we want to accomplish, from creating jobs to protecting the environment to preventing wars, will happen as long as those who hold the purse strings are the ones who own our Congress.

This destruction of our democracy can only be stopped if the majority of us make it clear that we will ONLY vote for those candidates who sign a pledge to make it their TOP legislative priority to push for a constitutional amendment prohibiting any person or entity from donating ANY money to a candidate's campaign (and that includes a millionaire candidate buying his own election). Plus, they must pledge to back a law banning elected officials from working as lobbyists after they leave office.

The majority of Americans already support strong campaign finance reform and lobbying bans. So what are we waiting for? Now is the time to act!

Here is the wording to the constitutional amendment we need:

Section 1. All elections for President and members of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate shall be publicly financed. No political contributions shall be permitted to any federal candidate, from any other source, including the candidate. No political expenditures shall be permitted in support of any federal candidate, or in opposition to any federal candidate, from any other source, including the candidate. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to abridge the freedom of the press.

Section 2. The Congress shall, by statute, provide limitations on the amounts and timing of the expenditures of such public funds and provide criminal penalties for any violation of this section.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) has already introduced a "Plan for Washington Reform" that, among other great things, creates a lifetime ban on any member of Congress becoming a lobbyist.

So here is the copy of the pledge we expect those running for office to sign this year:

"I, (name of candidate), promise to make it one of my TOP priorities to introduce and vote for a constitutional amendment that bans all financial contributions to all candidates running for office. I will support legislation that publicly funds all elections and legislation that bans lawmakers from working as lobbyists after they leave office. If I do not do this, I promise not to run for re-election."

One of the first candidates running for Congress to sign the pledge removing money from politics this year is in my hometown Congressional district of Flint, Michigan! His name is Dan Kildee. He not only wants the money out of the electoral process, he wants corporations declared as NOT people. Dan is already refusing to take any corporate PAC money or any money connected to Wall Street or the banks.

And how have the people in Michigan responded to a candidate like this? The early polls show Dan in the lead -- because the voters are sick and tired of the way it's been for so long.

But, until Dan (and others like him) get elected so they can overturn the rule of the 1%, none of this will change. And under the current system -- irony alert -- they can't get elected without money. Wouldn't it be great if this were the last election I'd have to write a sentence like that?

Will you help me show how powerful the public's support is for cleaning up Congress by backing the only person running for Congress from Flint who is on our side? This is not just some symbolic cause. I believe Dan will get elected -- especially if he has our grassroots support.

Please take a minute to click here and donate $10, $25 or more to Dan's campaign. He's pro-peace, pro-choice, and ahead in the polls. He will fight to tax the rich and the corporations like General Electric and Bank of America who pay no taxes at all. I have known this man since he was 18 -- when he first won a seat on the Flint School Board. He comes from the working class and he has been a local public servant his entire life.

I'm asking you to do this also as a personal favor to my hometown which is still suffering from crushing unemployment. More people per capita live in poverty in Flint than any other city (100,000+ population) in America. They have no money to donate to a fighter like Dan. That's why I'm asking you to help in their stead.

Many of you have been writing to ask me what "practical" things you can do to be part of the movement sweeping the country. Well, here's your chance to do something tangible, even if it's just kicking in five bucks. Send Dan Kildee to Congress!

And insist that those running for Congress in YOUR district sign the pledge and commit to removing money from politics. We have to start somewhere -- and I guess Flint, Michigan, is as good a place as any to begin! Please join me in doing so.

Yours,

Michael Moore
[e-mail]
@MMFlint
MichaelMoore.com

P.S. The New York Times this week had a story about how nearly half of all members of Congress are millionaires -- and many of them got that way after getting elected to Congress. This is a disgrace. Congress's wealth has gone up 15% in 7 years while the average American's has gone down. Congress is bought and paid for by the 1%. Instead of the rich having just 1% of the influence in Congress, they have 100% of the say. This has to stop now. Let's elect 435 Dan Kildees this coming year!

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 01:46 PM

There are so many I just can't decide.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 12:26 PM

LOL Brian, that's cheating! My awful sister says I must make a Resolution to lose weight, cheeky thing. She loves using the word 'obese' about me, and I'm not that fat, honestly. I ought to start a book I've had in my head for years. Also, want to learn music (to read and play it) And take more exercise (ha ha, that's bound to be a failure!)

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Brian May
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 04:48 AM

I kept my 2008 resolution.

Not many people can boast that.

What was it . . . ? NEVER to make another New Year's Resolution

No guilt, no pain . . . Simples

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 04:42 AM

To be available to make New Years Resolutions for 2013.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Acorn4
Date: 28 Dec 11 - 04:38 AM

To practice.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: freda underhill
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 10:48 PM

I've been chucking things out - feels good. Unused glasses (the wine sort - still have lots left) gave away sheets, that wooden thing that you stand on in the bathroom - gone. And the books - so many of them - off to the second hand bookshop in a while.

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 08:54 PM

What you gonna do with all them bottles, Bill???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bill D
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 08:44 PM

Me? Already started.... throwing out **stuff** I know I'll never use. !15 years of accumulating 'interesting' pieces of wood becomes a self-perpetuating excuse for imaginative storage tricks: but there are limits.

(yes, in the rest of the house also... my beer bottle collection will be photographed, then disposed of. 1000 bottles take up space.)

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 08:36 PM

Cigarettes, Amos???

Man, they taste like cat poo!!! Here's my idea for ya'... If ya feel like cig then just walk down to yer corner CannibusMart and get you a doobie... Smoke it... At least you'll get somethin' worth while outta it...

Me??? Okay, I'll see what I can give up for a day 'er two before going back to it...

BTW, Amos... I think it'd be easier to write that novel with a little weed in yer head...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Amos
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 08:21 PM

Now Bobert, ya gotta ante up if you want anyone to respeck you as dealer. Come on!!

Me, I quit smoking again. I had fallen off the wagon, I am sorry to say, on account of all the terribler duress of my poor life. Actually my life is just fine, but I am coming up on reTAHRment in six months or so and I am all nervous about making that worthwhile once I don't have the excuse of a reglar job to cover up for me.

ANyway, having gone up to four or six smokes a day, I walked off of them the day after Xmas and am golden again, so far.

I will also launch my first novel this year and finish at least one other book.

A

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 07:26 PM

Are you nuts, gn-ze???

I ain't givin' up squat...

I was just curious about other folks...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 06:58 PM

Well what? At least you could start off with sommat, no? Ya given up the ganja?






Hahahahahahaaaaaa!

Subject: BS: 2012 New Years Resolution...
From: Bobert
Date: 27 Dec 11 - 06:57 PM

Well???