Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Things Besides a Shame That $4300 Will Buy You

New York’s governor, Eliot Spitzer is likely to resign. (Update, he has). At the very least the accusations that he spent $4300 for an hour with a prostitute in a swanky D.C. hotel will ruin his political career and cripple his administration in NY. Plus, you know, his marriage might suffer. (YA THINK?!)

We here at Ransom Note Typography would like take a moment to point out just what His Honor, the Governor could have bought himself for $4300.

1. A very tricked out Mac Pro (4GB of RAM + 2 extra 1TB hard drives and a high speed wireless card. 2TB will store a metric booty-load of “imagery” if you get my meaning)


2. A *really* nice GE Monogram refrigerator


3. More Beanie Babies than a person should legally be able to purchase


4. 62 teal green 2GB iPod Shuffles


5. 8600 packages of M&Ms from Pete our local porn dealer. Pete would probably throw in some free pr0n, I bet.


6. 430 .Mac accounts for all his “friends” so they can “sync” [wink, wink]


7. A ginourmous flat panel TV


8. Round trip airfare to Nevada, a stay in a nice hotel with a nice buffet and room service where his activities and proclivities would be perfectly legal


9. Feed a child for a year or so in some in some impoverished country


10. A used Maserati BiTurbo. Heck. Just start perusing ebay motors and go nuts


11. Some combination of the above. Say, a nice MacBook (spring for the Black one and be one of the cool kids!), one teal green iPod Shuffle, a three pound bag of M&Ms from Costco and a road trip to Vegas in his new-to-him BiTurbo. Forget about the fridge and TV, though, they won’t fit in the Maserati. Sacrifices, you know.

Though personally, you know me. If I had $4300 to spend scurrilously I’d be all over the Beanie Babies.

1. Pay off a pillow top mattress…

   Y’know, wherein one lays with one’s husband night after night for FREE.  Say YES to free, unadulterated sex!

   geez…

   Posted by OMSH  on  03/13/08  at  07:36 AM

2. Apparently, the Republicans have a case of, “Anything you can do we can do better” going on.  It seems the RNCC’s former treasurer, Chris Ward, faked every audit from 2003-2006 (not an easy thing to do) and my have taken or miss used hundreds of thousands of dollars. 
   http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/nrcc_audit_aide_may_have_stole.php

   I’m still shaking my head over Spitzer, what a stupid thing to do.  I liked the guy and was bummed that he wasn’t in this years presidential race.

   Posted by Michael  on  03/13/08  at  05:36 PM

3. I was SERIOUSLY going to add a new king-sized memory foam mattress to your list of things you can buy for $4300. Only ours didn’t cost nearly that much (from Overstock.com) and after sleeping on it for about a month now, I don’t even know how we slept on the other springy mattress we had.

   Posted by Anitra  on  03/17/08  at  06:27 PM

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