Sign the First 1000 pledge!

[Caleb]

I hope they aren't deleting everyone Sandy has been entering.  She would have been doing it from her IP address, using her own email (perhaps) ... but she was entering legitimate signers.

There appears to be a separate issue not concerning deletions:  some people who have signed up have never appeared on the list at all.

[Russell Kanning]

"...there is nothing concealed that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known"
"For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light."

I am just speeding up the process.

[FTL_Ian]

I know for sure they aren't catching the individuals who signed and plan to move in 2009.  Many of this pledge's signers are fraudulent any way you slice it.

[citizen_142002]

Ian, I've been meaning to call in about F1K anyway. Maybe this will generate some signers. I hope so.

Caleb, I've wondered about the IP address thing too. I hope that all the people that Sandy has been entering have made it on. If not, we may have already passed 1000 valid signatures anyway, just speculating there.
Now would be a good time to go to the pledge and check to see if there are entries you know should be there. If any help is needed by anyone doing fact checking or last minute error correction, I will help however I can.

[Russell Kanning]

If someone gives me an email, it becomes my property and I'll do with it as I wish.

Like print it in the newspaper?

* error waits impatiently for the next issue of the Keene Free Press to find out all the latest stock tips and deals on cheap Viagra

In the next issue we will cover that amazing Nigerian bank account opportunity.

[Caleb]

"For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God."

[Caleb]

In the next issue we will cover that amazing Nigerian bank account opportunity.

Hey!  That's my opportunity!   

[citizen_142002]

Nice quote Caleb.

Of course it is a bit irrelevant to those of us who are Atheists, but still poetic.

[Caleb]

Glad you liked it Nick!  A quote from our Lord on the eve of his supposed birth. 

[citizen_142002]

Well really it's the eve of the day the Catholic church set as his birth, which clearly it isn't and it's really just a coopting of pagan holidays in an effort to aid conversions.

But hey, one day is as good as any other. It's a nice time of year no matter how you look at it. Important for christians, pagans, jews, and capitalists.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Pledgebank should be made to prove the signups are illigitimate or replace them.  Then they should make their site tamperproof or fold up their tent.  I'll never sign another online pledge.

[Caleb]

Possibly chosen to link to a pagan Roman festival.  We don't know, exactly, why this date was selected, but it's entirely possible that it was selected to coincide with the Jewish festival of the rededication of the temple, since Christian themes have emphasized that Christ was the fulfillment of the temple types in the OT.

[error]

Pledgebank should be made to prove the signups are illigitimate or replace them.  Then they should make their site tamperproof or fold up their tent.  I'll never sign another online pledge.

It's the Internet. You can't make ANYTHING tamperproof.

[Rocketman]

Thanks for the update, Varrin.  I trust that you and others will get to the bottom of this mess and make sure all valid signatures are counted.

Ian and Russell, I hope there are no hard feelings.  I was annoyed with each of you, for reasons I believe were legitimate, and I felt compelled to say the things I said.  I make more than my share of bad choices, and when people call me on my mistakes, I hope I'm grateful... none of us is perfect, and we can all become better people and better activists...

[FTL_Ian]

No biggie.  It will make for interesting radio.