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  • Reply to: "Won't Back Down" Film Pushes ALEC Parent Trigger Proposal   11 years 11 months ago
    You need a fact check. The Northeast has lower violent crime rates than the sunshine belt. Here's just one source. http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/
  • Reply to: FTC: "One Trick for a Tiny Belly" Ads are a Scam   11 years 11 months ago

    disconcerted? AdBlock disables the functionality of many websites, doesn't block ads on a lot of websites, and it doesn't seem to kill user tracking as it claims. I suppose it's a nice notion, but there is no way to block all ads everywhere... and the more ads they do block, the more functionality it disables on websites you want to use. Ad blockers can only give their "best guess" as to what is an ad and what is not.

    In anycase I came across this article after typing in "this one trick ads" into google. Maybe all these other ads spawned from the concept of this acai berry scam. It is sad to see so many ads using the same ploy... because it means it must work... which means our society is full of idiots.

    They usually go like "Try this one old trick that insurance companies hate! Lower your insurance rates by 80%!"

    Several components to this retarded type of advert.
    1. There is a "trick" out there that you don't know of.. in other words "quick and easy"
    2. This trick is "old" making it tried and true... somehow inspires confidence I guess?
    3. "XXX" Company/Profession hates this "trick"... playing on people's desire to "stick it to the man"
    4. Lower your rates by 80%... somehow people always fall for the most unbelievable scams... so naturally a more ridiculous number will work better than a believable one...

    Sad to see that most of society is this stupid

  • Reply to: CMD Special Report: ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking   11 years 11 months ago
    Tom, Thank you for flagging this. We regret to have made this error. The piece has been updated and noted at the bottom. Best, Sara
  • Reply to: CMD Special Report: ALEC's (Corporate) Love Affair with Fracking   11 years 11 months ago
    Two weeks before ALEC's summer 2011 meeting, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal announced that the state would be paying Cheniere Energy $6.5 billion to build a shale gas liquefacxtion facility at Cheniere's Sabine Pass terminal in Cameron Parish, located in southwest Louisiana, right on the Gulf Coast shoreline. Oh really? The state is going to pay Cheniere $6.5 billion... How about Cheniere is going to invest $6.5 billion in the state...
  • Reply to: Resources for Investigating ALEC/NRA Gun Bills   11 years 11 months ago
    Just to say Whats up and leave one good thought: The only limits we have are the limits we believe. Raquel

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