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Journal Em Emalb's Journal: Viva Las Vegas...n'shit 36

Journal by Em Emalb

two airline tickets to Las Vegas, NV via a stop in Durango, CO from Atlanta, Ga returning from Las Vegas: $874

5 days stay at Treasure Island: $375.00

Two weeks off to visit grandparents then go casino-hopping in Vegas? Priceless. Heh. Who am I kidding. It's gonna be an expensive trip. Can't wait til december rolls around. (Since that's when the trip is gonna happen)

You know what I can't frigging stand? Is when someone comes up to you about whatever it is you are on the phone about and just tries to take over the call. I don't fucking think so, man. Back the fuck off.

You know what else I can't stand? Stupid people. Seriously. You know the ones: Aren't ready at the check-out line...EVER. The kind that put on their fucking brakes when they signal to change lanes....EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO OTHER TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD. It's like these mental fleas are Pavlov-ing themselves into oblivion. Oh, and stop talking on the fucking cell-phone without using hands free. Oh, and the media: Fuck off. Seriously. Every side is so fucking partisan it's pathetic. How about some non-influenced news reporting? How about I just win the fucking powerball* and buy a fucking island. We can all move there and if someone does something stupid we ban them from leaving their hut/house/whatever for like 2 days while they think about the stupidity of their actions....that sounds like a winner.

Does it matter to you that the Governor of Jersey is batting for the home team? Seriously? Do you think his being gay affects his ability to be governer? Or is it more of the media blowing more shit out of proportion? You decide.

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  • answers (Score:2)

    by turg ( 19864 ) *

    You know what else I can't stand? Stupid people. Seriously. You know the ones: Aren't ready at the check-out line...EVER.

    Ever? Circular logic. You decide they're stupid people because they're not ready. Therefore stupid people are never ready. Do you actually follow individuals around and determine that this person is never ready? How long do you have to follow them before you decide they're never ready?

    The kind that put on their fucking brakes when they signal to change lanes....EVEN WHEN THERE IS N

    • Turg, stop being so damned pedantic :)

      signed,

      Management

      PS Have you received the new cover letter for the TPS reports? You need to use the new cover letter when you submit your TPS reports or it will not be accepted. Thanks.
  • Must've missed that one. Sometimes being away from news for a week is a good thing. I get to decide for myself which news is important because I don't have the news networks feeding me 7 minutes of "Bombing in Iraq" and 11 minutes of "Gay Governors. Is the apocolypse nigh?"*

    [*] Clearly time is proportional to importance here.
    • Fun stuff, huh? From what I can see, the big issue is corruption, not the governor's sexual preferences. Apparently he appointed his lover to be the state homeland security commissioner ($110K salary), but the guy could not get a security clearance. He was retained as an advisor for a while (ending in 2002). In July of this year, he decided to pursue a sexual harassment claim against the governor for $50M, which eventually led to the governor admitting the affair. There's a decent summary at CNN [cnn.com]. A co
    • I figured it out when he grabbed my ass at that fundraiser.
  • Did you get up on the wrong side of the bed today?

    if someone does something stupid we ban them from leaving their hut/house/whatever for like 2 days while they think about the stupidity of their actions....that sounds like a winner.

    My Father used a similar method when diciplining me. He would make me sit in one particuliar chair (that also happened to be in a corner) and think about what I had done wrong. *sigh* As a child, I would much rather have been spanked. It was over much quicker.

    You have my vot

    • Heh, my father gave us the choice. The spank or grounded in your room for the day. Us boys (family = 2 boys, 2 girls) always took the spanking, so it was over with and we could go play. Sisters always went with the groundings cause they couldn't take the pain.
      • I have never successfully been grounded. Yeah, I was a pain in the ass, but I always managed to get out of the grounding.

        When it was spanking time, I didn't get a choice. But sometimes I could evade the punishment long enough to either sizzle out their anger and thus get away with the "you're disappointing" speech, or I would run back in my room and start layering. Hell, they used a leather belt with a hard metal buckle and they weren't good aims--It hurt. (I didn't sit still and would run, so I would
    • maybe your sister just wanted time away from their brothers. punishment or reward ?

  • Damn (Score:2)

    by Otter ( 3800 )
    You sure know how to ruin a perfectly good trip to Durango!

    ;-)

  • Cool. My wife and I are hoping to go there in October. Bright lights, free buffet and oh my god the tack.

    • Cool. My wife and I are hoping to go there in October. Bright lights, free buffet and oh my god the tack.

      Free buffet? I live in Vegas, and I'm reasonably sure those are extinct. While some of the less-expensive buffets might still be loss-leaders, I think most of 'em are expected to at least break even (if not turn a profit).

      On the upside, they usually have better grub than they did back in the day. When you're paying more for it, you'd want something better. Instead of a chafing dish full of scra

  • Does it matter to you that the governer of Jersey is batting for the home team?

    No it does not matter to me. It probably wouldn't even matter to me if I lived in NJ.

    Seriously?

    Seriously.

    Do you think his being gay affects his ability to governer?

    No I don't think that it effects his ability to be governor at all. What I do think is that the scandal that he created for himself would effect his integrity in the position. In other words, if he really did force that guy into a relationship with him

    • I don't know how this is playing out in the rest of the country, but here in New Jersey I think most people realize the fact that he is gay not the reason he is resigning.

      First of all McGreevey has been plagued with corruption scandals since nearly the day he took office, so there is a long history there for him. The only reason he resigned now is that reportedly this Cipel guy who he (again supposedly) had an affair with, mind you McGreevey is married with kids, was about to file sexual haraasment charge

  • 5 days stay at Treasure Island: $375.00

    Wait, is that per day? OR for all 5 days?

    Per day, I can understand. FOr all 5 days...WTF?~!?!
  • As I've heard it so far, he is more than just gay. He had an extramarital affair (so what's new these days) AND he put his foreign lover into a cushy government job he was not qualified for. That last was an abuse of power - and what really should be causing the outrage.

    The ultimate irony? Someone driving down the road with a bumper sticker that says something like "Stop jabbering on that cell phone or I'll come stick it up your a**", while jabbering away on a cell phone. Oh, wait. I guess that's just
    • As I've heard it so far, he is more than just gay. He had an extramarital affair (so what's new these days) AND he put his foreign lover into a cushy government job he was not qualified for. That last was an abuse of power - and what really should be causing the outrage.

      Exactly. If anything, I think he's trying to use the gay aspect as a shield, so that anyone attacking him for this looks homophobic. Had the lover in question been female, I'm sure coverage would have been very different: he'd have nothing

  • Does it matter to you that the Governor of Jersey is batting for the home team? Seriously? Do you think his being gay affects his ability to be governer?

    Assuming that I had been in a position to vote for him, I never would've done so even before we knew what we know now. That he's on the wrong team isn't good, but there were plenty of other reasons not to like the punk.

    What's more disturbing is that for the office of state homeland-security director, he passed over a former FBI director [newsmax.com] willing to do

  • I'm going there Sept 21st-23rd. Like seafood? If you do I hope your planning on the Rio buffet.
  • NJ's Guv resigned because he had appointed the man who he allegedly had the affair with, Golan Cipel, to a state government post, a job he had no qualifications or other credentials for holding (it was a six-figure high-level security administrator post), not to mention a foreigner (he's Israeli). It's been reasoned that Cipel had blackmailed McGreevey into getting the job, as well as several other (non-govt) jobs he got with McGreevey's help (all of which he performed poorly at). The guy claims he's stra
    • I've been to Vegas about 25 times now. I have a lil system for gambling:

      1) only gamble what you can "afford" to lose.

      2) walk away if you have a bad vibe, don't like the dealer, or they bring in the "Asian Closer"*

      3) never play a completely crowded table.

      4) expect to lose.

      5) tip generously if the dealer is doing you right. Don't be a cheap bastard.

      6) never "impulse play". Never play the first table you see, make a lap first. Do not walk around and drop a $25 chip on 13 on the roulette wheel. YOU W

  • Flights (Score:2)

    by turg ( 19864 ) *
    That seems really expensive for flights, or is that for two seats?
    • it's two seats. And, to be honest, it's one helluva deal.

      I've flown back home to visit my grandparents probably 10 times now.

      This is the cheapest I've ever flown to see them, plus I tacked on a trip to vegas in there.

      The wife and I are going. Not bad for about $400 a piece (minus tax)....normally it costs $1600 to go, depending upon the time of year, of course.
      • ATL to LAS?

        Do you have special requirements?

        Orbitz.com -- higest price on first page of search results is US $262. Includes many non-stop flights

        Travelocity.com -- many flights under US $350, starting at $290.

        Expedia.com -- first page of search results ranges from US $261 to $299, includes many non-stop flights.

        Same results when I changed the dates to December.
  • The kind that put on their fucking brakes when they signal to change lanes....EVEN WHEN THERE IS NO OTHER TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD.

    I'll sometimes break to change lanes, but only when there isn't a spot in front of me to move into. I always prefer to hit the excellerator and show everyone else on the road I got a v8.

    Oh, and the media: Fuck off. Seriously. Every side is so fucking partisan it's pathetic.

    Is it partisan if I hate both parties?

    How about I just win the fucking powerball* and buy a fucking
  • Viva Las Vegas by Dead Kennedys

    Twilight City gonna set my soul/It's gonna set my soul on fire
    Got a whole lot of money that's ready to burn/So get those stakes up high

    There's a thousand pretty women waiting out there
    They're all waiting, they'll never make air
    And I'm just the devil with a lung to spare, so

    Viva Las Vegas/Viva Las Vegas/Viva Las Vegas

    How I wish that there were more/Than the 24 hours in the day
    Even if I ran out of speed, boy/I wouldn't sleep a minute of the way

    Oh that blackjack

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