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I don't know what it means but a couple of weeks ago on TNT they were showing the Sly Stallone movie "Demolition Man". There is one scene where the police are tracking the bad guy Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes). The police are crowded around a computer screen as they look up the list of parole hearings scheduled for the morning of Phoenix's escape. You can see the computer screen scroll down and stop on the name Phoenix, Simon. I about fell out of my chair when i noticed the name above.....Peterson, Scott. talk about your coincidence. I believe the movie came out in 1994 and takes place some time in the future. maybe the gods were trying to tell us something. Perhaps Peterson will go to jail and be frozen in a block of ice.....lol juddling

and about 1:05 we can hear the sounds of Jeckle2000 head exploding with all his liberal rage that GWB won fair and square. juddling

#1- Kidnapping #2- Grand Theft Auto I love that game......... Grand Theft Auto.....not kidnapping...lol juddling

Hitting the road home from work yesterday i flipped on WBBM-AM to get a traffic report and instead was hit with news of the latest Bin Laden tape. After getting the basic details, i flipped on my XM radio and headed over to one of their conservative staions to hear their take on the situation. After 15 minutes, i didn't really hear anything new....just what was said on the tape...how Bush and Kerry reacted and that officials are trying to determine how authentic it all was. THEN...on a lark....i flipped over the the liberal staion 'Air America' and almost drove off the road laughing at what i was hearing. i didn't catch the host's name but in the first few minutes of listening i heard two of the host's theories floated about the tape. 1. The host claimed the tape was all a hoax by Karl Rove in order to boost Bush's numbers in the remaining few days before the election. 2. If number 1 wasn't true...then Bush had Bin Laden make the tape because, as the host put it, WE ALL KNOW that Bush has had Bin Laden captured for months now. I can handle a radio host with those views but what was laughable was the next 20 minutes of phone calls agreeing with the host (including 3 from the chicago area). OH MY GOD!!!!! i can't believe that there are people out there who believe either of those two theories. Then again..these are the people who said the Bush was going to pull Bin Laden out of his cell right before the election saying we caught him and then work with the Saudi's to drop the gas prices right before the election. HMMMM....election is only a couple days away and this morning I paid $2.04 a gallon for gas (in Indiana no less) and no Bin Laden capture yet. I wonder when all of this is suposed to happen. i guess monday will be an interesting day. Gas prices fall AND Bin Laden is captured!!!! YEAH!!!!! juddling

Then again after being married to Selma for an episode it could always be Troy McClure (you may remember him from such health films as 'Croup-The Silent Killer' and 'This Blood's for you'). God i miss Phil Hartman... juddling

I swear i remember reading somewhere that it was going to be either Patty or Selma (Marge's sisters). Can't remember where i saw that though. juddling

I also caught the last episode of Nip/Tuck and i had two thoughts about it. First...what the hell was Joan Rivers doing on there. i know with her real-life penchance for plastic surgery it alomst seemed natural but her time was a couple minutes in the beginning where she used a few lame jokes from earlier in her career and at the end. Lame stuff despite the build-up. Second comment was on the ending. All too often nowdays tv shows end their season with a 'cliff-hanger' that really isn't a ' cliffhanger'. suppose 3 main characters and 2 no-name characters on a show are caught in an explosion...gee...guess who dies and who doesn't (unles there is a contract dispute or something). The editing on the last show of Nip/Tuck was beautiful as it set up a swerve that I (and a few others) didn't see coming and i will be waiting till the next season starts. Wetting your appetite for the next season is what a season-ending show is supposed to do. juddling

you know....when they drafted Krenzel they said one of his pluses was that he has 'big game' experience. Now that Lovie and the boys are 1-4...i think they are all becoming big games. Krenzel probably isn't the answer but like many have already said...it would be hard to do worse than Quinn. Lovie and Shea sticking with Quinn will be like Jaruon and Shoop sticking with that god-forsaken WR screen that never worked. juddling

Another Southern Illinois graduate here. class of '92. went there for Radio/Television and bounced around Southern Illinois and St. Louis area radio staions for ten years before moving back north to 'civilization'. juddling :fthecubs

Though i do think (or is it hope and pray....) that Borchard will figure it out and be a decent replacement for Maggs next year, if that doesn't work out i would like to see the Sox go for Jeff DaVannon from the Angels. In their outfield he's the odd man out but in stretches when he's played he's done quite well. got pretty good power and can steal some bases or two. i think he would be a well-known player by now if he was a starter. juddling :fthecubs

sounds like a good idea to me....(rubbing chin) now if i could just convince the little woman..... :rolly juddling

I think McCarver can be a complete tool most of the time but here was a good shot he took at Sosa this weekend (and we all can appreciate a good shot at sosa). If you all missed it in Ron Rapoport's column in today's Sun-times... After striking out 4 times in a dispiriting loss to the Mets on Saturday, Sammy Sosa grounded into an inning-ending double-play in the 10th. At which point Tim McCarver told a national audience, "and the Cubs are wondering where's the strikeout when you need it." i laughed my butt off imagining McCarver saying that. Go Sammy....the K-master...lol juddling :fthecubs

might of heard of it under other name....how is it played??? juddling

Obviously you've never seen myself or the crew i play cards with or you wouldn't have suggested that... juddling

yeah...we've played dimestore a few times. also play Jacks or better trips to win and several variations. we also play Up and Down the river, Cowboys, and what we cal the circle game. juddling also 10-40 can be an expensive game for us as well

Well...after playing poker every couple of weekends with EvilMonkey and a few others....i think we've finally reached he point where we need some new games to play so i'm appealing to the board for suggestions. We just play a friendly nickel,dime,quarter game and use wild cards every once in a while. We play games like Black Mariah, Roll Your Own, Stinky, and a few others but like i said...after so long and probably using every possible combination with wild cards we are looking for new games. So Evilmonkey and i are appealing to the board for examples and/or rules to games we might not have played before. I'm sure there are some different games out there so let's hear about them... juddling :fthecubs :sosasucks

You can never go wrong with a bag of pizza-flavored Combos. with my long drive to work....a bag barely lasts a couple of days. juddling

Tex...i am seriously saying that the school board adopted a rule and a punishment that many school boards across the country have adopted. In a perfect world i'd love to have some mental health professionals on the school board but i doubt they would want to give up their time for the pay of a school board member. We do have a couple of people including the school superintendant who have degrees in education and kid psychology....so to a point i have to trust these people to make this decision. Besides....suppose a professional saw two kids in virtually the same situation...one white and one black. suppose after the interviews and testing (which by the way in this case the district wants the boy tested....grandmother refuses) he concludes the white kid isn't a danger and is let back into school while the black kid has underlying issues (hmm..say a family life where older siblings encourage use of guns to solve problems) and needs to be held out longer. I would bet my house and my two dogs that racism would be screamed to high heaven and even MORE lawsuits brought about. Again.....zero-tolerance works because it's clear and simple. you bring a weapon you're gone. (unless you can find a liberal judge i guess) juddling

Texsox...let me ask a simple question. Even without the zero-tolerence policy, the kid brought a gun(pellet or no pellet..a gun nonetheless) to school to do harm to other students. Are you seriously saying that he shouldn't be removed from the school??? At worst...he sits out a year then the following school year he is eligible for the district's alternative school. juddling

This story appeared in the Chicago Tribune back on August 22nd but i've waited till my anger went away before i posted about this. Last year at my daughters school in Sauk Village, a 4th grade boy was caught with a 9mm pellet gun in his bookbag and said he was planning on using it to take care of two boys who had been "messing" with him. (The boy also admitted he had been given the stolen gun by an older brother). The school district has a no tolerance policy so it's one strike and you are out. It's in the handbook the the parents of students sign at the beginning of the year and monthly notes sent home reminding people of this policy. The school district, following it's clear policy, suspended the boy for two years. So far so good.....but the boys grandmother, Sheila Howard, apparently can't understand why the school district did what they did and quickly got a lawyer and got her case into the courts. Howards lawsuit contends that school officials should have used discretion in punishing the boy and expulsion should be reserved for pupils bringing potentially lethal weapons to school. Howard also says that the district's superintendent, Dr. Ryan, gave her the alternatives of private schooling or home schooling and that neither are "realistic". On the 26th of last month, Cook County judge David Donnersberger ordered that the school district PAY for a tutor and test the kid to see if he should be allowed back into school. WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL IS THIS f***IN' WORLD COMING TO???!!!!!!! (**a little background...my mom has worked in the school's front office since I went there in the 70's so i've heard all of this plus some stuff not reported in the paper.) Let's look at the facts..... 1. The kid admitted having the gun 2. The kid admitted he was planning on using the gun 3. The zero-tolerance policy is clearly spelled out in the handbook that every parent/guardian has to sign (Which Ms. Howard DID sign!) **Thanks mom** I would like to know what Ms. Howard thinks would have happened if her "good" boy would have succeeded in shooting the offending kids. (Here i must admit my ignorance...i'm not sure how powerfull a 9mm pellet gun is but i think it would still take an eye out) Do you think these kids would have gone after the kid or his grandmother??? NO!!! The school district would be at fault. I've written all the local papers about this but not sure what if anything will get printed. Some other questions i'd like to know is what kind of guardian is Ms. Howard when she's got one grandchild giving another one a "stolen" pellet gun and encourging him to use it to solve his problems. As it seems to be par for the course....the story has the usual quote from Grandma---"He's a good boy" "The no-tolerance policy is bad." Gee lady....i bet you didn't have that opinion about the policy before he broke it. now that one of your precious boys got caught it's the school's fault. I am damn glad that kid is not in my daughters school...it seems to me his siblings are already pushing him down a dangerous path and i don't want him around my little girl. **one last side note..i didn't want this to get too political but the judge that ruled in this case is a Democratic judge who ruled against my school district once before when a kid brought two box cutters to school and then kicked out. Guess what the judge did that time??!!!!** Thanks for the venting time. juddling

So, the Swift Boat Vet didn't really get the contract, a company he worked for did, right? Isn't that headline a bit misleading?

In the B-movie "They Live" Roddy Piper walked into a bank with a gun and announced "I'm here to do two things.....kick ass and chew bubble gum....and i'm all out of bubble gum!" i use that quote often. juddling

I've had Percival on my fantasy team for the last couple of years...and i've closely watched his slow decline. I think it was early May he announced that this was going to be his last year. he admitted he couldn't pitch like he used to. I highly hope the Sox have more options for a closer in '05 than trying to talk a guy out of retirement. juddling

holy cow!!!!! he pitched out of a jam. i knew that virgin sacrifice was gonna work...lol juddling

for the love of god...will someone please tell the sox pitchers there is never a reason to walk the lead-off man in an inning on 4 straight #$*$% pitches!!!! aaaauuugggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! juddling :banghead :banghead