Nintendo released the highly anticipated Wii Fit on May 19, 2008. It includes a balance board and a disk with more than 40 games aimed at helping the user get in shape. Not surprisingly, the game is in high demand in the United States where 2/3rds of adults are overweight or obese.
People who have bought the Wii console know that the console itself has been under a shortage since it's release a year and a half ago, so it is probably no surprise that the Wii Fit has been in short supply since being released two weeks ago. What people may not realize is the reason behind the shortages. It's the economy, stupid!
"'Wii Fit' sells for around the same price in Pounds, euros and dollars, meaning that Nintendo gets around 50 percent more per unit by selling in euros or GBP. As a result, they are shipping more to Europe than to the U.S.," he told TechNewsWorld.
This is one of the many reasons I still believe that we are not getting who we need for president.
It is interesting that this came out today, but it has nothing to do with the primary campaign.
Help me in North Carolina
I want to begin by thanking each of you for all of your support and commitment over the last year. It has meant so much to Elizabeth and me. We have been very busy since January working on the causes that got us into the campaign in the first place -- helping to build the One America we all believe in.
You may have heard me talk about one of those programs called College for Everyone -- a scholarship pilot project that Elizabeth and I started a few years ago in Greene County, North Carolina.
The program is based on a simple promise to students: make good grades, work at least 10 hours a week, and stay out of trouble -- and the program will help pay for your first year of college. Since we launched this effort in 2005, the percentage of Greene County high school graduates attending college has increased from 54 percent to 74 percent.
I am going to steal some of what "greatwhitebuffalo" wrote here at Dkos, which got very little attention, and add some current updates.
This is the story of medical marijuana, the law of unintended consequences and the astonishing obtuseness on the part of physicians who in acquiring godlike authority over life and death seem to have lost touch with their own basic humanity.
It's a heck of a story. Got time to make a difference? Read on.
WARNING: No candidate talk allowed. This diary is specifically for the purpose of hanging out, sharing pics of our pooties, woozles, poochies, and other loved beasties, bragging about what we got accomplished today, or just plain old blowing off some steam.
Is it me or has it been one of those bone-crusher days? I haven't heard one bit of really good news all day long, so before Thursday gets too far underway, I'm making news of my own and it's good, dammit!
It might look like this diary is a re-post of something from a year or two back. It's not. This week, indictments were issued in Guam against Jack Abramoff, his old lobbying/legal firm Greenberg, Traurig and Guam Superior Court offficial Anthony Sanchez for nine felony counts.
The ginormous firm – 1,750 lawyers and counting — was indicted Tuesday in connection with alleged lobbying activities by former employee Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to a conspiracy to bribe public officials.
I've opened up DailyKos probably half a dozen times today. There were a couple of diaries that kind of tweaked my interest on the front page. There was a great diary on Bill Foster running for Hastert's seat in IL.
Yet...there as been the usual onslaught of primary diaries, with each sounding much like the others.
But today I'm enjoying a balmy 65 degree day here in Northern CA. I'm dog sitting and the critter gets to keep me company at the office so I get to 'walk' the dog! Gets me away from my desk...and seeking a respite from another primary diary.
I'm gonna__________________ and keep posting diaries of them...until the convention in August.....if you don't____________!
Hell I may keep posting the __________ until the day before the general election if you don't_____________!
So there and take that!!! Neener, neener, neener...to everyone that doesn't agree with me! .
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And you can't make me listen to you either. I don't wanna....pfffffffffffft!
I hope for this to be sort of light and conversational in tone. I'm tired of candidates and I feel like I need some time to let my mind wander. Hence I want to talk about games.
What kind of games do you like?
It's a simple-enough question, but answering it is harder. There are many different kinds, ranging from poker to World of Warcraft and that kind of thing. I'm limiting this to the kind of games you can play when it's brutally cold, or terribly windy, and playing soccer or ultimate frisbee or whatever other outdoor sport would be impractical.
Whether you know it or not. I'm not sure about the etiquette of calling a poster by name in a diary title, but i'm hoping this will be forgiven. We all owe a debt to mcjoan.
Appropriately for Valentine's Day, i have a valentine for mcjoan. Since we seem to have a brief lull in the FISA storm, now seems as good a time as any for a little recognition. How do i love thee? Let me count the ways...
Depressed and angry. Looking at recent diaries, I think a lot of us are.
I watched some independent movie. I read a couple of rant diaries. I read in the other peoples news areas that pet shelters are seeing major upticks of families giving up their pets because they no longer have a home. In the body of the story, it is worse. Starving animals. Animal foster groups evolving into temporary shelters for folks who are trying to find animal friendly apartments.
It is just another tick in the stuff that sucks. Pets are small potatoes compared to troubles in other countries. There are 43 flavors of blood shed and heart ache in Kenya. People are breaking down walls to try to get somewhere where there is food and some safety in the Gaza strip.
I take 2 valium and drift off.
