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Hell yes. Karl Hoinkes is AMAZING!!!! Damn about this season though, but with the new HS opening that weakened the team.

I never watch hockey--but Wirtz is possibly the biggest tool in all of professional sports...

Huh, you learn something every day. And now I think I understand Jackie's comment....

Saw this article on the front page of Yahoo! today--thank goodness the Sox fan they interviewed made sense. USA TODAY Focus of cursed teams turns to Cubs, White Sox By Anna Johnson, The Associated Press So much for the Curse of the Bambino. Could the billy goat be next? Some long-suffering Chicago Cubs (news) fans allowed themselves to wonder after watching the Boston Red Sox (news) sweep the St. Louis Cardinals (news) in four games to win the World Series (news - web sites) for the first time since 1918. "If they can do it, so can we," said Heather Boughey, 28, of Chicago, who rooted for Boston on Tuesday night at a bar near Wrigley Field. But after a disappointing season, not everyone was as optimistic. "Some curses haven't been lifted," read a headline in Wednesday's Chicago Sun-Times over a columnist's story about visiting a darkened, empty Wrigley Field on Tuesday night while the Series played out elsewhere. The Cubs and crosstown rival White Sox have waited longer than any other teams to repeat as World Series champions. The Cubs last won in 1908, and the White Sox haven't won since 1917. Sox fans blame poor play, at least lately. But fans of the Lovable Losers claim their Cubs are cursed. As the story goes, a local tavern owner put a hex on the team in 1945 when he wasn't allowed to bring his pet goat into Wrigley Field for a game. That was the last year the Cubs even made an appearance in the World Series. The team's subsequent postseason struggles have reinforced the idea, like the ground ball that rolled through Leon Durham's legs in 1984 and took the Cubs' hopes to get to the World Series with it. Just last year, with the Cubs five outs from the World Series, fan Steve Bartman reached for a ball hit toward his front-row seat at Wrigley Field, knocking it away from left fielder Moises Alou. The Cubs then gave up eight runs to the Marlins and squandered another lead in Game 7 the next night. That renewed talk of the curse. Some fans believe that could change because of Boston's win. "It lets us know, whether or not you believe in curses, that if they are true, they can be overcome," said Dave Kunicki, who helps run a Cubs fan newsletter, The Heckler. The curse on Boston - which hadn't won a World Series since 1918 when it, incidentally, beat the Cubs - dates back to 1920 when the team sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees (news). Now that that curse is lifted, Dorothy Stott, 76, of Chicago has renewed hope she will see the Cubs win a World Series in her lifetime: "There's always next year." The White Sox have their own tortured history with the World Series. Eight "Black Sox" players were accused of participating in a gambling scheme to throw the 1919 World Series and were banned from baseball for life. White Sox fan George Bova, 43, of Elmhurst, Ill., called curses "goofy" excuses: They're not to blame for the White Sox not being in a World Series since 1959. "There were tangible reasons that our team wasn't good enough as opposed to cursed baseballs or Babe Ruth being traded," said Bova, who runs a White Sox fan Web site. "Unlike a Cubs fan, we have never turned our losing into some sort of lovable attribute." Curse?

Too cute. And that dog is definitely smiling--but who wouldn't be wearing a fine looking hat like that?

Appearantly my ideal crime (or criminal profession) is art and rarities thief. Cool. Crime Quiz

But they've got a nice baseball stadium I've heard....

I'm sure Nuke wouldn't mind that either (nor would I particularly...). Although I am sure (no sarcasm) that Nuke would follow the proper military proto on it. Maybe I would enjoy bin Laden getting some REAL justice a little more than an easy death in a cave...

Cheat, that dog is so cute. I miss my dogs a lot--the perils of apartment living. Definitely first thing I do when I get my own place (or move in somewhere that allows pets) is get a dog...

Washington Dog Phones 911 for Fallen Owner RICHLAND, Wash. - Faith the service dog phoned 911 when her owner fell out of her wheelchair and barked urgently into the receiver until a dispatcher sent help. Then the 4-year-old Rottweiler unlocked the front door so the responding police officer could come in. "I sensed there was a problem on the other end of the 911 call," said dispatcher Jenny Buchanan, who answered the call from Faith. "The dog was too persistent in barking directly into the phone receiver," Buchanan said at Benton County's Southeast Communications Center. "I knew she was trying to tell me something." Faith is trained to summon help by pushing a speed-dial button on the phone with her nose after taking the receiver off the hook, said her owner Leana Beasley, 45, who suffers grand mal seizures. Guided by experts at the Assistance Dog Club of Puget Sound, Beasley helped train Faith herself. "She's a real trooper," Beasley said Thursday. The day of the fall, Faith "had been acting very clingy, wanting to be touching me all day long," Beasley said. The dog, whose sensitive nose can detect changes in Beasley's body chemistry, is trained to alert her owner to impending seizures before they happen. But that wasn't what was happening on Sept. 7, and Faith apparently wasn't sure how to communicate the problem. During Beasley's subsequent three-week hospital stay, doctors determined her liver was not properly processing her medication for the seizures. "So my whole system was not working right," she said. Faith "was just very concerned," Beasley recalled. "She wouldn't let me out of her sight. She wanted to be touchy-feely." After her adult son left for the graveyard shift, Beasley tried to go to sleep. But Faith kept jumping up on the bed, which is off limits. "It's kind of hard to sleep when you've got an 80-pound dog running around in circles on your bed," she said. So Beasley got up and checked to make sure all the doors were locked and that there was no one outside. She made another attempt at sleep, but Faith would have none of it. "Within five minutes she was doing the same thing all over again." So Beasley got up again and decided to make some hot chocolate. The last thing she remembers is reaching for the tea kettle. "I didn't feel anything," she said. "I just went unconscious." After the call from Faith, Buchanan dispatched Richland police Cpl. Scott Morrell. He arrived to see Faith and her predecessor, now-retired service dog Bronson, peering at him from Beasley's front window. Morrell knocked, and then realized the door was unlocked. "Faith had already opened the door for him," Beasley said. The dog has been trained to recognize police officers, firefighters and medical personnel as "special friends with cookies." Inside, Morrell found Beasley on the kitchen floor — unconscious after striking her head in the fall and suffering a seizure — and called for medical assistance. Faith watched intently while a paramedic tended Beasley and at one point tried to tell him that another seizure was imminent. He didn't recognize the signal, but minutes later, "Boom, I went into another seizure," Beasley said. She woke up in the hospital several days later. Faith joined her after her transfer to the Veterans Administration hospital in Walla Walla. Authorities learned about Faith's intervention when Beasley stopped by to thank Buchanan and Morrell after her release from the hospital. A Benton County Emergency Services news conference Thursday put Faith and her owner in the limelight. Good Dog!

I am reminded of that part in Eminem's video about bin Laden.... I doubt this is real.

ur sooooooooooo totally rong!

And you both have atrocious grammar!

I have a couple places that I would love to visit still: The Middle East (if it ever calms down...) especially Jerusalem Peru and Mexico's old ruins Northern Italy (I would loooooove to rent a bike and just ride around the country) India Australia and New Zealand (Western Aus. this time and the South Island of NZ) Vancover Alaska, maybe Nuke and I should take a joint vacay....

Standing up and voting for what you think is right is NOT a wasted vote. People might tell you that, but they're just trying to coerce you to be like them. Voting is the ultimate expression of what you believe--so do it for yourself.

Hey Minny, If you don't like either candidate don't vote for them. I'm sure there is at least one independent party candidate you would agree with and respect. Despite all of the bad rap around it, if you don't feel a major party vote for what you do feel and believe in.

So, I thought that I would throw this out there as I really would like to travel again, and I'm curious about other people's travel goals... What is your dream vacay? Where would you go? Whom would you go with? What would you do?

I agree this will not be a popular video for a lot of people. But I definitely liked it a lot. I can't remember where, but I have heard rap called Black American's CNN (I did a project on the language of hip hop and one hip hop scholar called it that)--interesting that it's swinging back to the more political. Very cool. I forwarded that website to all my friends...

I was young last time (18) and did not support Bush. Nor did most of my friends. I wouldn't make sweepign generalizations like that..... And that video, holy moly. Wow, amazing. I've always liked Eminem, but now certainly more than ever.

Meh, why look at pictures when you've had the real thing. *rowr*

Wait a minute, I can get *porn* on the *internet*? Um, I gotta go, I have to, uhhhhhhh, brush my teeth.

So true. Ineptitude, it is our gift, it is our curse. Ha!

Meh, I say treat it like a Monarchy, chosen by a higher power to boss around the little people, and then in a bloodless coup it's all gone and you are suddenly exiled to WSI.

Of course it is most obvious that the Catholic Church flaunts its wealth with the cathedrals and the huge compounds in the dioceses. But if you go into a wealthy Suberban church you will find the exact same idea. Million plus dollar church buildings where more money seems to be spent edifying the building than on outreach or charity. Absolutely insane. On the other hand I was in NYC last weekend with a few friends who are doing volunteer corps (Jesuit--aka catholic and Lutheran) who were living on an $85/$100 a month stipend (rent and food was provided) while serving in their community. Unfortunately, I think that kind of joy and Christian duty (living simply) has most assuredly gone awry. I'm not necessarily saying Jesus was an ascethetic (sp), becasue I don't think he was, but I DO think that living simply doesn't fall into accord with what ANY mainstream denomination are doing. And why should only pastors be lambasted for driving $60,000 cars? I am reminded of a quotation from Keeping the Faith: Catholics want their priests to be the kind of Catholics they don't have the devotion to be. I think that pretty much generalizes... All Christians are called to live in a way similar to Jesus, not just those of the cloth...

What?