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YouTube – Jack Cafferty slams Sarah Palin!. Visit Cafferty’s blog entry for a transcript. Spend a couple of minutes reading people’s comments on this entry – thankfully most of them are intelligent comments, but there are a few that are just completely off the wall.

But bear in mind… she may just be working hard to lower expectations before the debate, so that if she just gets through without fucking up, people will say she won.

If you seem to always guess correctly as to how sports games, current events, and other occurrences will turn out, perhaps you need to sign up for Predictify.

I am always a little bit too optimistic or a little bit too pessimistic, so I haven’t made a dime — but my wife has made a little under $15 already, just by predicting the outcome of such questions as “What will Sex and the City: The Movie gross in the box office on its opening weekend?” or “Who will be the Democratic candidate for the 2008 presidential election?”

Want to try your hand at predicting the future? Give it a shot!

I just won $50 cash from BLINGO!!! SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! 😀 It’s been a while since I’ve won anything, but this totally makes up for it! Excellent!

I just got my $5 Amazon gift certificate from Winzy! Most of my prizes have been for points, but this was my first actual prize, and it’s officially in my hands now, or at least, figuratively in my hands, actually in my email. 🙂 Sign up so you can win too!

I just started using Winzy, another search engine where you can win random prizes while you search. Winzy is a lot like Blingo, except with a new twist in that some of the prizes are for points, which represent entries into a sweepstakes drawing each month. It’s kind of nifty, and a little bit more exciting than Blingo because you win more often (although the prizes are usually for points!). I did win a $5 Amazon gift certificate on Winzy last night. It may not match up to the $100 Visa Gift Card (and multiple $10 iTunes gift certificates) I’ve won through Blingo, but it’s still nothing to sneeze at (and I have been using Blingo longer…)! Besides, it’s fun – in addition to instant wins, you can also land on little “games” where you can spin a wheel, play “Lucky 7s,” or eliminate suitcases a la “Deal or No Deal.”

One thing I do have to say for Blingo over Winzy (one of several things) is that with Blingo, you get your prize as soon as you claim it, if your prize is a gift card. Winzy apparently sends out the gift card within a month of your winning it – which is kind of silly if they could just email it. I will post again when I receive this first prize!

In the end, I like Blingo better, but Winzy is still a fun site to check out, and you can still win some nifty prizes.

If you sign up for either Blingo or Winzy, please be sure to be logged in when you search, so that I can win along with you! If you refer your own friends, tell them the same – if they win a prize, you win the same prize, as long as they’re logged in! (It only goes one level down; I don’t win if your friends win.)

Blingo is a site that seems too good to be true — but people really do win. I know, because I won a $100 Visa card, and have both received and spent it. 🙂 I also won a movie ticket, which I used to see Pride and Prejudice, and several iTunes gift cards. It’s basically Google’s search engine, through Blingo’s servers. Or something like that. Just set your default search engine to Blingo instead of Google and you’re all set. I don’t get anything when you sign up, but please be sure to use my link to sign up, and more importantly, be logged in when you search, because if you win something, I win the same thing! Same with the people you refer — if they win something, so do you! (the down-line is only one level; if your referral wins something, I don’t get it too). Again, please be sure to be logged in when you search, and don’t forget to refer people because sometimes that’s a great way to win things. The girl who referred me won the $100 too, because I won it. In fact, the reason I signed up to begin with is that she mentioned having won $250 when somebody she referred won it (lucky girl!)! So it’s pretty neat. 😀