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Bragg Linden Account Cancelled Today --- It is a Good Day!

Bored to death with SL and it's ramblings, I cancelled my account today for something new to do.

Dear Marc Woebegone,

Your Second Life account has been successfully canceled. You will not be
billed further membership fees for access to Second Life; however Premium
Members will be responsible for Land Use Fees, based on peak usage, until
your account is expired. (Full details on land use fees can be found at:
http://secondlife.com/whatis/landpricing.php) You'll be able to access
Second Life on this account until the actual expiration date of your paid
account: 2008-07-19.

After expiration, we'll put your account into hibernation for 60 days.
We'll hold on to all of your in-world stuff for awhile, so if you
reactivate within 30 days, everything will be pretty much where you left
it. We'll keep your inventory and avatar a bit longer, so if you return
within 60 days you'll still be you!  If you want to reactivate your
account during the 60 day period, you can do so at any time just by
visiting https://secondlife.com/account.  However, there will a
reactivation charge based on your original account type.

Thanks - we hope to see you back in Second Life,

Linden Lab and the Second Life Team
http://www.secondlife.com

Linden Research, Inc.
945 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
USA

P.S. If you have received this email in error, please contact us at
https://secondlife.com/support. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Hillary Clinton or ....... for President?

Though off-topic, this is certainly timely. I rarely comment on politics, and so my comment here is short. Regardless of who I may favor as nominee for President, and no, it won't ever be Phil Rosedale, I'm astonished, in shock and awe about the news coming out about Hillary Clinton and her campaign, because in part, I've now been personally "touched" by their tactics.

Yesterday's news announced her campaign owes some $8.7million dollars to unpaid providers of services, etc., to her campaign and they are near out of money. As most know, I reside in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and in that little borough, some of my clients own an office building. They were contacted by the Clinton campaign to "rent" the first floor, which was to begin about a week ago, and terminate on April 23, 2008, immediately after the primary.

The campaign coordinators had acquired information about the rental from a real estate agent, to whom a commission would have to be paid if they leased the property. The rental rate was to be $1,500.00 per month. Accidentally, two of the campgain's representatives bumped into one of the owners out front of the building in the rain, and at first mistakenly took her to be the "cleaning lady".... in any event, one of them suggested that since it was her building, if they dealt directly with her, they'd not have to pay the real estate commission, a paltry $225.00.

When later they were confronted with this position, one member claimed it was never said, essentially accusing the partner of making it up. During the final inquiry of terms for the lease, the representative inisted that since the property was empty, the owner should lease it for $1,500.00 for six weeks, instead of for one month, which was refused. At that point the negotiations ended.

So what to make of this silly little circumstance? Does this country really want or need a president that can't account for why it bargains unethically, why it nickel and dimes its possible constitutency, and that runs a campaign in the deep negative?