*The First Annual Great SDWC Charity Auction*
I’ve had an item in my little repertoire for a while now, but as it has yet to be noticed, it’s just not …funny. I had originally picked this trinket up as a present for a special someone. But alas, they don’t love me any more. *sniff*
So, I’d better do something with the darned thing.
Anyway, as far as I’m concerned if something is not funny, it’s not worth doing. Life is too short. So, I’m going to give someone else the opportunity to make use of it as they will. Whether it is for purposes of mirth or evil. 
The auction is open to ALL COMERS. Republican or Democrat. Regardless of affiliation, persuasion, etcetera, it doesn’t matter who you are, as long as you have the cold hard cash. (or an appropriate pay pal account)
I was originally going to have 1/2 of it go to my fledgling campaign, but what the heck. I’m feeling generous today. 100% will go to charity.
1/2 of the winning bid will go to Childrens Care Hospital & School in Sioux Falls. They provide wonderful services to my daughter who suffers from Apraxia of Speech, as well as many other children with disabilities and physical impairments.
The other 1/2? This will be donated to Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education at SDSU in Brookings, which has been maligned as of late as a potential Marxist indoctrination camp.
What is this wonderful and handy item that you’ll be bidding on for sake of these two charities? What item might find itself irresistable to both Republican faithful, and Democrats alike?
Not much – just a name. And what a name it is. It has seen the rounds since I bought it. It was pointed over at SD Watch for a while. Then the Young Communists. Then after a long stint pointed over to Hildebrand Tewes.com, it found itself pointing to The ARC (The Arc is the world’s largest community based organization of and for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.).
And as of today, it points to one of the websites that the sale is going to benefit, the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education.
So what are you bidding on?
In this Auction
*http://www.sibbyonline.com*
is up for sale by owner
Yes, Sibbyonline.com is on the auction block to benefit these two organizations.
If you have the winning bid, 1/2 will be donated to Childrens Care Hospital & School in a joint donation from the winning bidder, and myself. Unless it gets up there, and I’ll feel guilty about attaching my name to it.
The other half? Sorry – you don’t get credit. That donation will be made to the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education solely in the name of Mr. Steve Sibson of Mitchell.
Please help us get the donation amount up there so we can send a most generous donation to both organizations.
SERIOUS BIDS ONLY ($25 minimum).
Please leave your bid under the comments with a valid e-mail. If you’d rather remain anonymous, e-mail me directly at dakotawarcollege@yahoo.com. It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you want to buy it for – after the transfer is made – it’s your call.
The bidding begins now, and will end on at noon on April Fools Day. So if you ‘re interested – GET BIDDING! It will all go to a good cause, and will all be for the benefit of the children.
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Comments
Sibby! Y’all bettur bid on this website afore Phlemming the communist puts it towards a secular humanist cause!
PP:
I am glad you chose NOT to ask for money for this. But I still think you are running into some dangerous legal waters.
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (also known as Truth in Domain Names Act), a United States federal law enacted in 1999, is part of A bill to amend the provisions of title 17, United States Code, and the Communications Act of 1934, relating to copyright licensing and carriage of broadcast signals by satellite (S. 1948). It makes people who register domain names that are either trademarks or individual’s names with the sole intent of selling the rights of the domain name to the trademark holder or individual for a profit liable to civil action. It was sponsored by Senator Trent Lott on November 17, 1999, and enacted on November 29 of the same year. The ACPA is codified at 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d).
In order for a trademark owner to bring a claim under the ACPA, the owner must establish
the trademark owner’s mark is distinctive or famous;
the domain name owner acted in bad faith to profit from the mark; and
the domain name and the trademark are either identical or confusingly similar (or dilutive for famous trademarks).
One of the limitations of the Act is the impact on settling disputes: where two parties have a dispute over a domain name, and the domain name owner has a lesser interest in the domain and is willing to settle the dispute, if the domain name owner offers to exchange the domain name for compensation (such as the cost of reprinting letterhead, business cards, and other expenses), that offer can constitute “acting in bad faith to profit from the mark”. This makes domain name disputes harder to resolve.
The act consists of several amendments to the Trademark Act of 1946 to provide protection from Cybersquatters to trademark holders, a section providing similar protections for individuals’ names, an amendment to the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470a(a)(1)(A)), protecting the names of historical site. It also includes a savings clause stating that it does not take away from individuals’ rights to free speech, and some amendments to the United States Code removing hyphens from several instances of the word trademark. Most of the act applies retroactively to all domain names, however the damages made possible by the act only apply to domain names registered after it was enacted.
It’s for the kids, TG. Who cares what it is?
I’d probably send it to the Sibbotolah.
Harry – that’s phenomenal.
Right now the bid is $125 each.
Right now, for their half, we’re almost at the point of paying for a cordless communicator switch for non-verbal children at CCHS ($150). That means a lot to me, as my daughter and i just got home from another Speech Therapy session there.
And for the Fishback Center for Early Childhood Education at SDSU, their $125 would buy nearly 18 copies of Karl Marx’s Communist manifesto (children’s edition).
….Or they can spend it on educational toys. (There won’t be any strings attached).
Pat, I’ll donate $50 for the cause.
Todd
SD http://www.southdakotawatch.net
So there you go. The Dems made your nut…early… High 5 Todd.!Whatever else happens is due to the beneficence of the Republican party. And God bless you, each and every one.
Who will save the website name for Steve?
He’s really upset about this, and had to invoke an article by World Net Dially (Ring Ring!)
http://sibbyonline.blogs.com/sibbyonline/2008/03/obama-wright-co.html
…in a fit of anger, Brookings resident and bloggger Pat Powers will use the fame created by this web site to raise money for the cause of Marxist indoctrination of children in his hometown of Brookings.
You are using the famousness of bloggger Steve Sibson with an extra G in blogger standing for “Goodest”. Quit stealing his famousness because it makes him make no sense whatsoever. Stop making Steve not making sense!
Sible Simon met a pieman, going to the polls,
I think I’ll run, but not as one,
Of you commie, marxist moles.
Against my better judgment, but you asked for it
Sible Simon went a-fishing for to gain support,
With whacked out rants, he had no chance,
And took it in the shorts.
I know I shouldn’t, but it is just too easy.
Sible Simon kept at home, his kindergarten kids
They ate cupcakes and jelly beans
And watched the rising bids.
Perhaps we can start a separate fund to help relieve Sibby of his dreadful case of rectal-cranial inversion!
Sibby simple
met a pimple
on his his Repub bum.
So Sibby, in his ever simple way
insists
that we’re the ones who’re dumb.
(…not as good anooner
by a long shot, but a contribution
in kind, nonetheless.)
You will raise at least $50 more dollars from me, because I will give that regardless, if as Harry C. agrees to ultimately give the site to the Sibbman, to whom it righteously belongs.
(Call it a tangent, quid pro quo kind of bid.)
the word vindictive comes to mind
(Hey – serious bids only. It’s all legit, and for a good cause. -pp)