On Jul 16, 5:40 pm, wrote:
Two funny things with regard to the Dem convention in Denver...

Homeless people are being given museum and movie tickets, among other
schemes, to get them the heck outta downtown for the convention,


So how many tickets do you get if you promise to stay away? What
happens
if you change your mind *after* you get the tickets? Are you allowed
to sell
them if you don't come back?

and

Obama's choice to move his speech to the stadium will apparently
quadruple the "carbon footprint" of the entire convention over his
giving it at the convention center, and that only takes into account the
facility load, not the additional load of getting all of the extra folks
to the stadium. Supposedly, the speech alone will also have
approximately 4 times the carbon footprint of the GOP convention, as
well. Hmmm...I guess he might be leaning toward Al "Green Like Me"
Gore...well, if the convention folks can arrange to land all the Goron
Gulfstreams, including Gore's, and find a place to park all the stretch
Hummers to cart all of them to rented mansions and hotel floors...


It's nice to see the outer fringe take such an interest in carbon
footprints
(I always keep a pan of coal dust next to the front door, and step in
it
before heading out in the morning).