A month ago, I noted that Ted Rall was probably violating PayPal’s rules on selling something he didn’t have in hand. He was soliciting funds for a lawsuit that may or may not have come to fruition. See Talentless Hack Sues Coulter.

Seems that Michelle Malkin might want to elevate this to those who can flood PayPal’s rules committee. Let’s look at PayPal’s Acceptable Use Policy-Pre-Selling Products Policy:

Pre-Selling Products Policy
You may not use PayPal to sell “pre-sale” items. Pre-sale items are items advertised for sale before the seller has control or possession of the items. These generally consist of items that are sold prior to the item’s availability to the general public, or that are sold by the seller with the intention of using the payment to go out and purchase the item being sold.

PayPal does permit pre-sales on a limited basis, as long as the seller guarantees and reasonably expects that the item will be shipped within 20 days from the date of purchase, and that he clearly inform the buyer that the item is a pre-sale item.

Such a policy ensures that buyers can pay for an item and still have the option to use PayPal’s Buyer Complaint process in the event there is a problem with the transaction.

Does soliciting funds before the lawsuit has even been launched constitute “with the intention of using the payment to go out and purchase the item being sold”??? Seems so to me! Now had Ted already paid for the lawsuit and then asked for donations, this paragraph of PayPal’s policy might not have been breached.

I hope Michelle will modify her post TED RALL’S PLEDGE DRIVE accordingly.

To save you all some search time for the old article of mine, I’ll repeat below:

New poll on the left. Vote before the jihad Nick Bergs me.

The fight between Rall and Coulter could be billed as either The Boy Called ‘Sue’ or How To Bitch-Slap A Liberal.

The backstory.

Launching a new counter… Time lapse marking how long brave Ted Rall is too chicken to draw an image of Mohammed:

Will we ever see Rall wearing this hat?

Update: Frank Miller says Batman is not a dhimmi.

h/t Michelle Malkin: BATMAN TAKES ON AL QAEDA and IFOC.

WHY did EATAPETA day have to occur a day after Purim?

Ow! My head!

Go record the critter you ate today at Lair’s and see what he did for lunch today. Also, add your pushpin to the EATAPETA Frappr Map.

Ingrid Newkirk seems to have hacked Meryl’s site.

QUIETLY!!!

On my plate, displayed lovingly on the Altar of PETA-offending Carnivorousity, we have a plate with two kinds of chicken, turkey pastrami, corned beef and a package to be described below. Accompanying the meat are a patriotic bear, my stogie-loving mascot and my St. Rachel of IHOP coffee mug. Above is my Caterpiller helmet. Why the CAT stuff? Because vegans and vegetarians rarely protest terror. Think I’m kidding? Here is PETA’s letter to Yasser Arafat in 2003 on the PETA website.

Well… on with the carnage.

But Meryl and Lair can only sigh in envy. Do they have a kosher pastrami named after them? Well… DO THEY???

Here’s the Technorati tag EATAPETA and PETA and a link to

It’s my eldest’s 18th birthday today. She’s celebrating EATAPETA day in Jerusalem. It’s Dave’s of Israellycool’s 32nd birthday, too. No, I won’t let my daughter wear the above shirt… in public.

UPDATE: Meryl’s back.

My anti-PETA swag store is BACK ONLINE!!!

Under my thumb
The store who once had me down
Under my thumb
The store who once pushed me around

It’s down to me
The difference in the clothes you’ll wear
Down to me, the change has come,
CP’s under my thumb

My anti-PETA swag store is BACK ONLINE!!!

Want to know what’s cooler?

In my response to CP’s Usage police, I finally got CafePress to take the remaining “Alabama - Niggers Is People Too” shirt — the one I’ve been complaining about for over a year — off their domain.

Follow-up to my earlier Does Totalling Your Car Entitle Me To Blog Less Often? Aaron’s Car Wreck Tonight — Part I.

My car was totalled. Liability assigned 100% to the other driver. I get to drive a rental for a couple of weeks until the insurance company coughs up a check.

The value of cars in LA is slightly higher than Blue Book because of the weather, no salt on the roads, etc..

The car looked salvagable from the outside but the adjuster said that when my car hit the curb, the cast iron frame was twisted.

You will NOT get me into a little car with my kids. The last accident I was in, 14 years ago, was in a 1978 Chevy Caprice when I was broadsided by a tow truck towing a Mercedes that didn’t stop at a 4-way stop. The frame on that police-style car absorbed most of the impact and we walked away sore but alive.

I’ll be saying a blessing tomorrow morning in synagogue for surviving a dangerous situation.

Thanks to all who wished me well over the week.

Twin nieces born this morning.

I was so excited about the new carnivore swag. Well… CafePress just nixed it.

CafePress has no problems allowing images like the “Niggers Is People” obscenity here use CafePress real estate.

My nemesis, CafePress, removed it.

No explanation. Just a form letter straight out of a modern version of Kafka’s The Trial that goes something like this:

Dear CafePress Merchant,
You just did something that re-curdled our tofu.

In retaliation, we’re deleting products of yours and not even bothering to tell you which, so you have to waste time hunting for the items and THEN guessing why we censored you. Ha ha ha.

Of course, we typically allow other more egregious violations of our own rules slip through… when we agree with the politics. But you can’t prove that. Ha ha ha.

Love,
CafePress

Hey, just to confirm that I’m not lying, let’s Search CafePress for PETA.

There are HUNDREDS of designs making fun of PETA on CafePress. Here are a few:
- http://www.cafepress.com/incubus2012
- http://www.cafepress.com/bassfish/48898
- http://www.cafepress.com/petapropaganda
- http://www.cafepress.com/petareality
- http://www.cafepress.com/fpeta.9108254
- http://www.cafepress.com/tricebodyshop.14318279
- http://www.cafepress.com/epou.13719910
- http://www.cafepress.com/ovalstickers.27269506

Now let’s look at the trademarks that slipped through:
- http://www.cafepress.com/overtheedge/536142 - Burger King
- http://www.cafepress.com/overtheedge/493717 - McDonalds
- http://www.cafepress.com/clcfsh - Coke
- http://www.cafepress.com/WA_coke - Coke

Those swooshes, arches and buns are in clear violations of CafePress’ Copyright, Trademark and Intellectual Property Guidelines. Would Coke’s, McDonalds’ and Burger King’s IP attorneys be curious enough to audit CafePress’s porous (like Arizona border porous) trademark violation methodologies and selective politically-biased enforcement.

So buy my swag while CafePress still lets you. There’s a sale between now and March 14 (see the banner at the top).

After you visit holiday founder Meryl’s and Lair’s coverage of the March 15 International Eat An Animal For PETA Day carnage, here’s something to consider that’s worse than censorship, mayo and pastrami!

Sacrilege!

But now I’m thinking of a new image to offend EVERYONE: PETArds telling Mohammed that his Halal meat is murder:

Click to enlarge.

remaindered: A book that remains with a publisher after sales have fallen off, usually sold at a reduced price.

LGF reports:

Drudge is quoting a Nielsen Bookscan report that Markos “Screw Them” Moulitsas Zuniga, the “progressive” thought leader whose web site gets a reported half million visits per day, has sold a whopping 253 copies of his book Crashing the Gate.

Recall from my old post:

TOOKIE’S BOOKS [Rich Lowry ]


A point I hadn’t seen, made here:

The portrayal of Williams as some pied piper of peace for the gang community also holds very little water. A quick review of Book Scan shows the Tookie series of books have hardly been blockbusters. His top seller, “Gangs and Violence” has sold 330 books. Another book “Gangs and Wanting to Belong” sold exactly two copies. — National Review’s The Corner

Steve H over at Hog On Ice often makes the point that blogs are not the quickest path to the bestseller list. Well, by raising his sales by 50% Kos might be able to catch Nobel Prize nominee, Tookie Williams. (Note to self: “Self, wonder aloud what Daily Kos, Mike Farrell, Bianca Jagger and the pro-Tookie crowd did for Clarence Ray.”)

Toot Toot Tookie Goodbye

UPDATE: See what Steve wrote concerning the above and his book, Eat What You Want and Die Like A Man. Better, buy the book and eat well. Remember that next week, March 15, is Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day.

Hall of Fame Headlines for the San Francisco Sultan of Steroids?

Massive California Bonds Creates Lobbying Frenzy

vs.

Boomer: Bonds shouldn’t pass the Babe

[Wells] said Bonds’ added muscle and increased head size cast suspicion on the San Francisco outfielder. Wells said he heard a comic on a radio show Wednesday morning joke about Bonds’ hat size.

“He goes, ‘They use his helmet as a Jacuzzi.’ I about died when I heard that,” Wells said, “You just don’t like to accuse somebody of doing it, but you look at him and you can’t help but think. I mean, he’s getting bigger and bigger.”

So, will he get into baseball’s Hall of Fame? Look at the 1991 and 2004 photos, below:

Vote in the poll on the left.

He was a Hall of Fame candidate before enhancements.

My solution? If a player is caught juicing, ban him from the HOF ballots for a decade. Let the hype pass before evaluating.

The fine print between the ME and the exclamation point (!) are the letters at.

Four different EATAPETA designs, two for next week’s holiday and two that can be worn year round.

I’m trying to coordinate a local carnivorous carnival here in LA to celebrate. Leave a comment if you’re interested.

Lair reminds me that International Eat An Animal For PETA Day is coming up on March 15th. Watch Meryl Yourish for details. See also Meryl’s entire EATAPETA category.

Those of you with digital cameras… photograph your delectible carnage. Better with something proving you’ve eaten it on March 15. Photos of you walking into a fast food joint, BBQing, sitting with a bucket of KFC, stuff like that. I’ll aggregate your celebratory links.

I’m going to get in the spirit with bringing back earlier holiday graphics.

I’m also trying to coordinate the Los Angeles event (see Lair’s database).

Some lyrics to sing at your carnivorous party:

• The Arrogant Worms: Carrot Juice Is Murder
  Listen up brothers and sisters come hear my desperate tale
  I speak of our friends of nature trapped in the dirt like a jail
  Vegetables live in oppression, served on our tables each night
  This killing of veggies is madness, I say we take up the fight
  Salads are only for murderers, coleslaw’s a fascist regime
  Don’t think that they don’t have feelings, just cause a radish can’t scream

  Chorus:
  I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
  Watching their skins being peeled (having their insides revealed)
  Grated and steamed with no mercy (burning off calories)
  How do you think that feels (bet it hurts really bad)
  Carrot juice constitutes murder (and that’s a real crime)
  Greenhouses prisons for slaves (let my vegetables go)
  It’s time to stop all this gardening (it’s dirty as hell)
  Let’s call a spade a spade (is a spade is a spade is a spade)

  I saw a man eating celery, so I beat him black and blue
  If he ever touches a sprout again, I’ll bite him clean in two
  I’m a political prisoner, trapped in a windowless cage
  Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips by killing five men in a rage
  I told the judge when he sentenced me, “This is my finest hour,
  I’d kill those farmers again just to save one more cauliflower”

  Chorus

  How low as people do we dare to stoop,
  Making young broccolis bleed in the soup?
  Untie your beans, uncage your tomatoes
  Let potted plants free, don’t mash that potato!
  Oh spare the spud! Eat a cow instead!

  I’ve heard the screams of the vegetables (scream, scream, scream)
  Watching their skins being peeled (fates in the stir-fry are sealed)
  Grated and steamed with no mercy (you fat gourmet slob)
  How do you think that feels? (leave them out in the field)
  Carrot juice constitutes murder (V8’s genocide)
  Greenhouses prisons for slaves (yes, your composts are graves)
  It’s time to stop all this gardening (take up macrame)
  Let’s call a spade a spade
  (is a spade, is a spade, is a spade, is a spade……)

  Power to the peas! Give peas a chance!
  all we are saying, is give peas a chance

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