Big Al

Albert Hamburg, or “Big Al” if you know him, hails from the great state of Wyoming and is looking for your vote for President in 2008. Always a perennial candidate, Al Hamburg, 76, has to date lost 17 consecutive bids for President and for Governor, US Senate and Congress. He proudly described himself in 2004 as the “Very Independent UNPOPULAR Candidate” — unpopular, he explains, because the special interests and bureaucrats hate him (well, that … and maybe also because of the Nazi helmet he wore in his 2004 campaign photo). “I make more people mad than I make want to vote for me,” he added. A house painter by trade, Hamburg spent nearly twenty years in the Army — serving in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He has run for state office repeatedly — at various times — as a Democrat, an Independent, and as a member of the now-defunct New Alliance Party. Hamburg also made news in the 1980s when he sued a woman for breach of contract involving a car he sold to her. In the lawsuit, he said the woman agreed to have sex with him fifty times in exchange for the car — but that she stopped performing her end of the deal after 33 times. Claiming to be a homeless veteran, Hamburg suddenly popped-up in Nebraska in 2000 — declaring the state as his new residency — and filed as a candidate there for US Senator in the Democratic primary. Hamburg then quickly moved back to Wyoming and has run for office again there several times since then. No website yet since homeless people don’t have readily available access to the internets, yet. I took his bio from Politico1.com

tired.

i was gonna finally write a post about lesser known democratic candidates, but i’m too tired.  you will have to settle for this link. Goes to a video from a local tv station in PA.  Apparently Homestead’s police station is haunted.  Listen to the question the reporter gives at the end.  classic.

son of a bitch.

i sent e-mails to most of my friends saying we should attend this part on saturday (here) and no one expressed interest. so we didn’t go. and what’s worse is that apparently bill murray was there. bill fuckin dr. peter venkman murray was there. and i missed it. so there goes my life long dream of meeting all of the ghostbusters. my next best chance is this saturday when i help a friend move, since her dad is harold ramis’ personal lawyer.

one can only hope.