[Vision2020] Correction: Yay! Sali Defeated! Was: Unofficial daho Election Results

[Scott Dredge]

Hi all,

For what it's worth (and I'm guessing not much), Dale rather 'cordially' pointed out to me that his blog is not 'self proclaimed', but actually is in fact Idaho's #1 Most Influential Political Blog as called out by another blog.  For the record, the exact post I was referring to was:

http://right-mind.us/blogs/blog_0/archive/2007/09/24/54812.aspx

where Dale writes 'This little blog in the middle of nowheresville is the #1 political blog in Idaho!' which I apparently mistook (or completely lied about as I often do according to Dale) as a self-proclamation.

Also, for the record, I pretty much limit my lying to cases where I'm either sparing someone's feelings or royally screwing over my closest friends with some not-very-well-thought-through prank that typically results in mayhem (and in one case a nasty divorce) along with some severe backlashes boomeranging back to me.  On that note, very early in my working career -when I was still very young and unjaded - I felt that my supervisor was acting in a very unprofessional manner toward one the vendors we were working with.  After one particularly ugly conference call where he demoralized the whole development team of this vendor by asking 'Is your piece-of-shit chip working yet?', I asked him after the call if he had any tact whatsoever.  His response was 'No.  When I worked for Sony I blew a million dollar deal because the British customer I was working with had no sense of humor.'

The moral of the story is that sometimes you should refrain from stirring the pot.  To that end, my apologies to Dale.  I should have known that a complete and utter annihilation of the conservative movement in American politics which included kicking hard right Republican Bill Sali from out of his house seat from one of the reddest of the red states would leave Dale in a semi-foul mood.

Cheers...

-Scott

From: scooterd408 at hotmail.com
To: deco at moscow.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:45:31 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Yay! Sali Defeated!	Was:	UnofficialIdaho	Election	Results








Like hard core right wing talk radio - that's what makes it entertaining.

-Scott

From: deco at moscow.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:48:24 -0800
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Yay! Sali Defeated! Was:	UnofficialIdaho	Election	Results










Courtney's blogs occupy the fringe of 
Crackpotland.
 
W.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: 
  Saundra 
  Lund 
  To: 'Scott Dredge' 
  Cc: 'viz' 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:41 
  AM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Yay! Sali 
  Defeated! Was: UnofficialIdaho Election Results
  

  
  Hi 
  Scott,
   
  Nice to see you 
  again!
   
  I understand your 
  confusing and think I can help.  Just remember to keep your critical 
  thinking skills sharp when consulting Internet resources, particularly blogs 
  that steal from other sources and take things out of context.  Clearly, 
  that blogger is counting on people not looking deep enough to figure out that 
  his self-proclaimed “Idaho’s #1 Influential Blog” is nothing of the sort, as 
  Minick’s victory over Sali will show.
   
   
  
  Saundra 
  Lund
  Moscow, 
  ID
   
  The 
  only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do 
  nothing.
  ~ 
  Edmund Burke
   
  ***** 
  Original material contained herein is Copyright 2008 through life plus 70 
  years, Saundra Lund.  Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce outside 
  the Vision 2020 forum without the express written permission of the 
  author.*****
   
  
  
  From: 
  vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On 
  Behalf Of Scott Dredge
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:17 
  AM
To: chasuk at gmail.com; thansen at moscow.com
Cc: 
  viz
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Yay! Sali Defeated! Was: Unofficial 
  Idaho Election Results
   
  The latest from 
  the Idaho Statesman has Walt Minnick leading 173,865 votes (51 percent) to 
  Sali's 170,219 (49 percent), with 953 of 956 precincts reporting.  The 
  race hasn't been officially called yet but things are looking good for 
  Minnick.  This is very puzzling to me since Dale's self proclaimed 
  'Idaho's #1 Influential Blog' routinely sings the praises of Bill Sali.  
  Maybe without the blog, Sali would have lost in a 
  landslide.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/eyepiece/story/560094.html

-Scott

> 
  Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:06:49 -0800
> From: chasuk at gmail.com
> 
  To: thansen at moscow.com
> CC: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: 
  [Vision2020] Yay! Sali Defeated! Was: Unofficial Idaho Election 
  Results
> 
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 06:47, Tom Hansen 
  <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> 
> > With statewide 948 of 
  956 precincts reporting
> > Last updated 11/05/2008 7:25 AM
> 
  
> Yay! Sali defeated!


  
  


  
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