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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 10, 2005 -> 07:25 AM) I was thinking the samething in regards to the US. I didn't realize that basically all of the rest of the formerly British world basically walked down the same path. Was it the same way in regards to minorities? Did they withhold the right to vote from groups (such as blacks) also? IIRC, and DBAHO might know this better than I, but I think they were more holding back the aboriginal people's voting, since they were the main "people of color."

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 10:56 PM) Mistook her for a coffee table, eh? Sure thing!

QUOTE(Man Of Steel @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 10:30 PM) that has nothing to do with what I said if the kid was like saying no and was forced to do it, then yeah he might have problems if he WASNT then I cant agree with what Jeckle is saying He was raped, whether she used force or not. This woman was placed in a position of trust and power over this boy and she abused both of those. Imagine if your first relationship (sexual or whatever) was based on such a mismatched power dynamic. The reason that this kind of things are illegal is because it takes sex out of the realm of intimacy and makes it about power and control. I don't know how anyone can just walk away from that. Child sexual abuse is child sexual abuse--regardless of how the victim responds to the abuse. Using that logic, if a kid who is molested by his priest but doesn't say no, or doesn't run away does that mean he won't have problems later? No.

One time, my sister was volunteering on an Alzheimer's ward. It was music/quiet time, so there was this lady playing the harp and the lady that my sister was keeping company (a patient) out of no where, leans over to my sister and, without a word, licks her face. I like that story.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 09:09 PM) OK, I'm just agreeing with you, that's all. I always knew you were a smart kid.

QUOTE(Man Of Steel @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 09:39 PM) Why do you say that, hes 13 He can think and make decisions, did the article say he was raped? 13 year olds cannot legally give consent. So, the article didn't have to say it. The law does.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Feb 9, 2005 -> 09:06 PM) Yeah I do agree with you ChiSoxy, I'm just saying they are taking a step in the right direction. Hopefully they'll let women vote soon. Wasn't directed at you at all. Just a general FYI.

It's been less than a 100 years since this country started letting women vote. Same for Canada I believe (iirc New Zealand was the first country to let women vote and that was as "early" as 1906/8/something). We're aren't so progressive as we think. EDIT: Sorry, NZ was first, 1893. Australia was the first to let women vote AND be in parliment/congress in 1902. "In the politics of a democracy there should be no sex. A woman without a vote is an inferior, and thereby liable to be so regarded." Maybanke Anderson, The Sun, 6 July 1912.

On this, the anniversary of your birth, I wish you all the happiness in the world.

5> My Peroja-- Perogat-- My Piraga-- It's My Decision, Heh, Heh! Bwahahaha. I like it.

Again, from the Overheard in NY site: Hobo preacher: You might as well just start wiping your ass with your college diploma, because that's all they're good for anyway. --Union Square No friggin' joke. No friggin' joke. :headshake :banghead

QUOTE(YoungstownIndians @ Feb 8, 2005 -> 06:46 PM) I agree 100% with your predictions. ? is behind the Tigers though... Do you go to the university there in Youngstown?

Hmmmm, sounds familiar.... May 25, 1982

It's Paris and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come!

Someone's going to say it, might as well be me: Cocaine's a hell of a drug.

So I was having kind of a bad hour when over my ipod came the song that Napoleon dances to at the end of the movie. Let's just say INSTANT mood improver. DANCE!

Nodaddy.com Racy Ad Pulled After Super Bowl Airing 28 minutes ago Add to My Yahoo! Television - AP By SETH SUTEL, AP Business Writer NEW YORK - A racy ad for a vendor of Web site names was pulled at the last minute from a second showing during the Super Bowl telecast on Sunday after NFL executives objected that the spot made light of Janet Jackson (news)'s "wardrobe malfunction" incident in last year's halftime show. The ad for GoDaddy.com Inc. featured a buxom woman appearing before a "broadcast censorship" hearing making her case that she wanted to appear in a commercial, when suddenly she suffers a malfunction of her own as a strap breaks on her already skimpy top. One of the elderly committee members reaches for an oxygen mask, while a woman suggests that the woman put on a turtleneck. The logo of the fake news channel was "G-Spin," and the hearings were supposedly being held in Salem, Mass., the town made famous by witch trials. Although the spot was initially approved by Fox executives prior to airing, a decision was made during broadcast not to air the spot a second time later in the game. Brian McCarthy, a spokesman for the NFL, said that the NFL's chief operating officer, Roger Godell, expressed his "disappointment" to Fox executives after seeing the first airing of the ad. McCarthy said the NFL had not reviewed the ad prior to its airing, and was not aware that it had been scheduled to be repeated later in the game. "We questioned why a spot of that nature was in the game," McCarthy said, noting its "inappropriateness" and the fact that it referred to last year's incident. Jon Nesvig, the president of advertising sales for Fox Broadcasting Co., a division of News Corp., said in a statement that when the commercial ran in the first half, "it became obvious to us that its content was very much out of step with the tenor set by the other ads and programming broadcast by Fox on Super Bowl Sunday, so Fox made the decision to drop its repeat airing." A spokesman for Fox declined to elaborate beyond the statement. Fox had already rejected a second ad from GoDaddy.com prior to the broadcast. McCarthy said that the NFL had several conversations with Fox in the weeks leading up to the game in order to "make sure that the overall presentation of Super Bowl Sunday would be suitable for a mass audience. ... That's why we questioned this particular content." The NFL was determined not to have a repeat of last year's complaints over the Janet Jackson halftime incident, in which her breast was exposed after singer Justin Timberlake (news) ripped off a piece of her costume. Warren Adelman, chief operating officer of GoDaddy.com, said the company was "very disappointed" that the ad was pulled, and received no advance warning from Fox. The Scottsdale, Ariz.-based company is still in discussions with Fox about what kind of restitution would be made, he said. "The irony is that a parody of censorship was itself censored," Adelman said.

Link Loophole may let driver with 6 DUIs get license By Angela Rozas Tribune staff reporter Published February 8, 2005 A Sugar Grove woman with six DUI convictions would be eligible for a new Illinois driver's license in 10 years, despite a recent state law barring drivers with four convictions from applying for licenses, state officials say. That's because three convictions were in Wisconsin, where she had a driver's license, said Nathan Maddox, assistant general counsel for the Illinois secretary of state's office. But the congressman who in 1998 drafted the tougher driving-under-the-influence restrictions for repeat offenders said the state is misinterpreting the law's intent, and that the woman should be banned for life from applying for a new license. Jane Mueller, 41, was sentenced to 9 1/2 years in prison last month by a Kane County judge after she crashed her vehicle in June. Her daughter, who was 11 at the time, was permanently disabled in the accident. It was Mueller's third conviction for DUI in Illinois--the first two were in 1988. The three in Wisconsin occurred between 1997 and 2001. Under the department's interpretation of the law, which went into effect in 1999, only the convictions with an Illinois driver's license count toward the lifetime ban. Mueller could be eligible to apply for a new license in 2015, said Beth Kaufman, spokeswoman for the department. But Rep. Tim Johnson (R-Ill.), who was a state representative in 1998 and drafted the four strikes DUI law, said the state's interpretation is "absurd." "That's parsing the law to the Nth degree when you say that. That's silly," Johnson said Monday. "The bottom line is that if John Doe or Jane Doe driver goes out on the road, and gets four convictions, wherever they are, we're going to revoke their license for life." Johnson said if the state is interpreting the law to mean that only convictions on Illinois licenses are applicable, then state lawmakers or the governor should return to the books and draft a new law closing that loophole. "An individual who had X number of violations, wherever they may be, should not be able to drive. Period," he said. "Where the violations were is irrelevant to the underlying meaning of the law." Mueller had a valid driver's license in Wisconsin before applying for a new license in Illinois, having served out a 2-year revocation for her third conviction there, Kaufman said. Wisconsin, like many other states, allows drivers to apply for new licenses as long as terms of their revocation were met and despite a number of DUI convictions. Illinois used Mueller's valid Wisconsin license to determine she was legally able to get a new license here, Kaufman said. Department attorneys determined that Illinois cannot regulate drivers from other states, and that's why the Wisconsin convictions do not apply, she said. There is no current mechanism or database for checking how many DUI convictions drivers have in other states, Kaufman said. States only have access to the Problem Driver Point System, which details a current suspension or revocation, not how many convictions a driver has received. A new database is expected to start this fall for commercial driver's licenses, which will enable every state to check the drivers' backgrounds, but such a system has not been approved for non-commercial drivers. Even advocates of the database have said the technology would be extremely costly. "Certainly if there was a national database that contained your actual driving record, we would encourage legislation that would allow us to look at that and determine if you're eligible for a license in Illinois," Maddox said. "But it just doesn't exist right now." There is a way the Wisconsin infractions could count against Mueller. If she applies for a new license, she has to go through an administrative hearing, and the state could use the Wisconsin convictions against her overall driving record and refuse her a license, Maddox said.

If only I could afford tickets for this.

QUOTE(MartePartay @ Feb 8, 2005 -> 12:00 PM) all wierd news stories originate from either germany or florida Or, apparently, Wales.

QUOTE(AnthraxFan93 @ Feb 7, 2005 -> 08:26 AM) You mean to tell me that he didn't like being treated like an endanger servant? What you mean the Great KW.. actually did this? NOOOOO Never .. Mags, came out with the truth again, you people don't like it.. its that simple. The people that are ripping on mags reminds of some other fans on the other side of town that turned on their "superstar". Lets not become like them, time to blame the real problem in this mess.. KW. I'm confused. Do you mean indentured servant? Or was Maggs somehow endangered by playing for the Sox--well, maybe. Maybe, KW orchestrated that whole collision with Willie to avoid paying him a lot of money for the next season. Hmmmmmmmmm.

Oh, I thought this was going to be about their wine, chocolate, overall cuisine, beautiful pastoral countrysides, amazing southern beaches. Dang.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Feb 8, 2005 -> 01:22 AM) Victory Auto Wreckers is the greatest commercial ever... Talk about timeless. That and the Eagleman commercials. Ohhhh, look at those loooow rates. Those commercials haven't changed for at least AT LEAST 10 years.

Almost 300,000 now. Death toll in Asian tsunami disaster tops 295,000 JAKARTA (AFP) - The number of people believed killed in December's tsunami disaster topped 295,000, six weeks after the catastrophe, as Indonesia again increased its number of dead. Indonesia was hardest-hit by the December 26 quake and tsunamis, with a total of 242,347 people listed as dead or missing, the health ministry said in its latest figures. The ministry said the number of people confirmed dead had risen to 114,573 while the number of people missing and almost certainly dead remained at 127,774. Thailand's toll remained at 5,393 confirmed dead. A further 3,071 people were listed as missing, more than 1,000 of them foreigners. The toll in Sri Lanka, which was second hardest hit by the catastrophe, stood at 30,957, according to the Centre for National Operations. The number of people listed as missing was 5,637, but many were expected to be among those never formally identified, hurriedly buried and included in the confirmed death toll. In neighbouring India, the official death toll was 10,749 with 5,640 still reported missing and feared dead. The government was soon expected to draw up final casualty figures in which the missing were declared dead. Myanmar has said 61 people were killed in the tsunamis. At least 82 people were killed and another 26 were missing in the Maldives. Sixty-eight people were dead in Malaysia, most of them in Penang, according to police, while Bangladesh reported two deaths. On the east coast of Africa, 298 people were declared dead in Somalia, 10 in Tanzania and one in Kenya. Relief workers have said they believe the figure for Somali fatalities to be exaggerated. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, making it the largest quake worldwide in four decades. Death toll Indonesia: 242,347 Sri Lanka: 30,957 India: 16,389 Thailand: 5,393 Maldives: 82 Malaysia: 68 Myanmar: 61 Bangladesh: 2 Somalia: 298 Tanzania: 10 Kenya: 1 Total: 295,608 The figures include 127,774 listed as missing in Indonesia and 5,640 in India. In addition, 3,071 people are listed as missing in Thailand and 5,637 in Sri Lanka but not included in the toll because of possible double counting.

I freely admit I have too much time on my hands. Photographs of Jesus. Did Jesus wear long hair? No, Jesus had short hair.