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i'm the only guy in the house with four women so a urinal wouldn't make alot of sense to me. though it would stop the nagging about the toliet seat being up..

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i still think this guy had to know that Jenna was in his class and to make fun of a person's parent in front of them (no matter what his job is) is classless and stupid. Regardless of the politics of the owner....Jenna should recieve an apology from the owner and the teacher. Of course...if it was a Democratic Prez....the Dems would be calling for the teacher's job and head on a platter.

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a friend of mine just sent me this....didn't hear of it before.... April 20, 2006 -- "AMERICAN Idol" loser Bo Bice's 15 minutes of fame are way, way over - especially at O'Brien's pub on West 46th Street. That's where witnesses say the half-in-the-bag Southern rocker took a cheap and ineffective swing at strapping ex-New York Giants football star Glenn Parker Sunday night. The bizarre tangle, in which the long-haired weakling inexplicably risked getting his block knocked off by the strapping former offensive lineman, began when the gentlemanly, star-struck Parker casually approached Bice to chit-chat. "Glenn had noticed Bo and simply asked him if he was really Bo Bice - and Bo just stared at him and said, 'No, I'm not. My name is Kevin.' It was weird," our witnesssaid. "Glenn went away, but he started feeling like he might have imposed on the guy. So he went back to him to apologize for causing any discomfort." Parker, 39 - who at 6-foot-5 and 300 pounds has crushed many an opponent during his 13 years in the NFL with the Giants, Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs - and everybody else in the popular watering hole couldn't believe what happened next. "Bo just went at him with his fists - maybe he thought he was Simon Cowell or something, but he tried to hit him," our observer reports. "Glenn grabbed his arms to block the punches, but Bice broke loose and managed to graze Glenn under the chin. It was crazy because Glenn could have wiped the floor with him." Parker signaled a bartender and together they threw the "Idol" also-ran out and told him to scram. "He was a real pain in the ass," one worker said. Joey Lee, an agent for Bice, who lost out to Carrie Underwood in the smash-hit show's fourth season, didn't get back to us. Bice was once busted for felony cocaine possession in Alabama, but had the charge dismissed after completing a "drug diversion program." Bice, who once broke his foot while performing in concert in Manchester, N.H., had a huge Top 10 hit last year with "Inside Your Heaven." He's lucky he doesn't have two heavenly shiners after his latest shenanigans. be careful.....maybe..just maybe...Bo knows karate!!

QUOTE(jackie hayes @ Apr 26, 2006 -> 12:57 AM) Except the story says nothing even close to that. He mocked the prez, not Jenna. He didn't even know she was in the class. When you start seeing sentences that aren't there, time to seek help. If Jenna can't bear to hear any criticism of daddy, I know I wouldn't mind if she locked herself up in a room so the men of the world don't have to look at that anymore... i'm not sure about this but doesn't the Bush girls have a Secret Service detail??? Maybe the big lumbering guys in the suits with the earpieces in the back of the class should have given the teacher a clue. Besides....is it normal to be handed politcal tapes after a spin class??? Besides...who goes to the gym to hear political talk from their instructors?

my first thought is that Pickler should go home especially considering she had two bad weeks in a row...but she may be saved by the fact that there were 4 bad performances.

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RIAA sues family that doesn't own a PC The RIAA has filed a file-sharing suit against a family in Rockmart, GA. The family doesn't own a computer. Good to see a real standard of care in place over there at RIAA sue-your-customers HQ; this is probably more profitable in the long run than suing people who do share music, since those people are statistically more likely to spend money on CDs. Focusing on shaking down people who don't own PCs will keep the music industry from alienating its diehard fans. "I don't understand this," Walls said. "How can they sue us when we don't even have a computer?" Walls also noted that his family has only resided at their current address "for less than a year." He wondered if a prior tenant of the home had Internet access, then moved, leaving his family to be targeted instead. However, the RIAA's lawsuit maintains that Carma Walls, through the use of a file-sharing program, has infringed on the copyrights for the following songs: "Who Will Save Your Soul," Jewel; "Far Behind," Candlebox; "Still the Same," Bob Seger; "I Won't Forget You," Poison; "Open Arms," Journey; "Unpretty," TLC; No Scrubs," TLC; and "Saving All My Love for You," Whitney Houston.

In light of the Duke problems....i found this online. Rape claim By BRAD CLIFTON April 21, 2006 A MAN who claims he mistakenly had sex with "the wrong woman" after entering a dark bedroom at the home of a Sydney magazine editor was yesterday committed to stand trial for rape. Paul John Chappell, 31, was invited back to the editor's Bondi flat after they met during a night out. The pair went to bed and Chappell later got up to use the bathroom. But Chappell claims he mistakenly returned to the wrong bedroom, where the editor's 23-year-old flatmate was asleep. He got into bed with the flatmate and initiated sex, allegedly believing she was the other woman. The flatmate participated because she thought it was her own boyfriend who had come to bed after falling asleep in the loungeroom. When she turned on the light, the "hysterical" woman saw Chappell in her bed and realised her boyfriend was still asleep on the couch. Chappell intends to plead not guilty to one count of sexual intercourse without consent. "The defence case is he made a mistake," barrister Wayne Flynn told the Downing Centre Court Local yesterday. "He went into the wrong room and had sex with the wrong person. "He thought he was having sex with the person he went home with. "The (alleged victim) says she believed she was having sex with her boyfriend. She made a mistake as to who she was having sex with and so did the defendant." In a statement to police on the morning of the incident on October 1, the alleged victim said she had gone to bed about 2am, leaving her drunk boyfriend asleep on the lounge. "The next thing I remember was waking up to someone having sex with me," she said. "I assumed straight away that it was (my boyfriend) because I wouldn't even consider that it would be anyone else." She also said: "When the light is out, it is black in our bedroom, you can't see anything." To her dismay, she later turned on the light and realised it was Chappell, not her boyfriend, in the bed. "I was totally gutted that it was him and not (my boyfriend)," she said. "I went straight into (my flatmate's) bedroom hysterical." The screaming woman pushed Chappell out the front door shortly before her boyfriend woke up and was told what happened. "(He) was so beside himself and enraged that he said he was going out to find (Chappell) and kill him," she said. In her statement to police, the magazine editor said Chappell was "pretty drunk" when they arrived home and they went to her bed but she refused to have sex. "He got up and went to the toilet," she said. "After what seemed like five minutes I assumed he had passed out on the lounge or something, so I rolled over and went to sleep. The next thing I remember was (my flatmate) running into my room quite hysterical." A date for Chappell's trial will be set next week Did she actually get 'raped'??? it sounds like an honest albiet drunken mistake. I mean....the girl also made the mistake of assuming it was her boyfriend. If she can make a mistake in the dark...why can't the guy make the same mistake???

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 07:58 PM) Mission Impossible director JJ Abrams will run the show. i just finished a book about Star Trek (written by Shatner) talking about all the movies and things behind the scenes at each one. Shatner talked about this movie being made a few years ago..and how everyone involved thought it was a great idea to go back the the younger years. It would have been cheaper to make with simplier special effects and an unknown cast. Roddenberry was dead set against the idea and helped shut down the idea many times. i guess now that he's floating in outer space it's a go. Could be very interesting.

NU students: ‘Cut it out!’ April 17, 2006 Bob Saget’s material is considered adult mainstream comedy which, in theory, means it’s intended for an adult audience. The behavior of the mostly student audience at his stand-up act Friday makes us question Northwestern undergrads’ ability to act their age. Saget’s guest spot on “Entourage” and his appearance in “The Aristocrats” showcase his transformation from goofy dad to dirty daddy, but lewd humor on behalf of the performer does not sanction offensive audience conduct. Saget performed on a weekend evening at a university; it’s expected that a few students would down a few cocktails before attending his act. But the noisy belligerence and intrusive behavior of the audience would have been fitting for a Kanye concert, not a comedic event. The act was off to a bad start before Saget even stepped on stage — the overzealous audience were hushed multiple times by people sitting in the back rows of Pick-Staiger Concert Hall who couldn’t hear Saget’s voice. During the performance, Saget talked about his real-life children but omitted their names. His attempt to maintain their privacy was thwarted by an audience member who shouted out one of their names. Saget attempted to cover his discomfort by noting his children are named DJ, Stephanie and Michelle, but he was clearly irritated. Throughout his act, Saget was interrupted multiple times by audience antics. Certain female audience members had the gall to throw tampons scrawled with phone numbers at the comedian. Saget’s act was temporarily stopped to clear the stage. He verbalized the sentiments of many audience members when he asked the tampon-throwers,“What made you think this was a good idea?” Throwing your panties onstage at a rap concert is a tired tactic, but at least it’s socially acceptable. Pelting a comedian with feminine products just embarrasses the entire audience. Saget’s material was meant for an adult audience. We clearly haven’t matured past our “Full House” days. How rude. Drunk undergrads at a comedy show acting rudely??? who would have thought it???

Woman Unknowingly Videotapes Sister's Demise MIAMI BEACH, FL -- In an odd twist of fate, a sister caught her sister's last minutes alive - without even knowing. Maria Ramoutar and her sister were in separate cars on their way back from Miami Beach when Maria saw a fiery car crash. She decided to videotape it with her cell phone. Four people inside that burning car died, including Maria's sister. Maria didn't find out it was her sister till the next day. Now she says she wishes she would have done something to save her. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- it doesn't say how old this lady is or how bad the fire was when she got there....but maybe she should have tried to help whether it was her sister or not. Either way....it's a sad story. :headshake

Gee..i wonder what's gonna be on the next cover of People and US Weekly?????

i've never been a fan of Daughtry but i admit he impressed me tonight. i don't think Kellie said anything that we all weren't singing. she might have gotten by with that performance in other weeks but it seemed like everyone was on tonight except for her. i doubt people will vote it that way but they should and Kellie should start thinking about what to tell Hugh Hefner when his offer comes in.

here's a bit more details..... SPRINGFIELD — A bill to bar demonstrations 200 feet from cemeteries and funeral homes has hit a snag with the American Civil Liberties Union and a labor union representing gravediggers. But its Senate sponsors believe a deal to stop a fundamentalist Kansas church from picketing soldiers' funerals in Illinois can still be struck before the Legislature's expected adjournment in the next two weeks. "I'm hopeful that by the end of the week, we can have something worked out. If we can't, that would be unfortunate," said Sen. Arthur J. Wilhelmi, D-Crest Hill. "It's my goal to make sure all parties can walk away with a win-win." Illinois is among at least 14 states that have attempted to crack down on protests at military funerals by Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., which believes soldiers killed in action died for a country that supports homosexuality. The legislation has stalled in the Senate amid First Amendment concerns by the ACLU and worries by the Service Employees International Union that picketing by cemetery employees in potential labor disputes could be hindered. Senate Republicans called on the chamber's Democratic leadership to set aside those issues and allow an immediate floor vote after the initiative won nearly unanimous backing in the House this month. "We want to see this bill moved out of the Senate Rules Committee," said Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon. "This is quite simply a very easy, very decent thing we can do for families who have given up so much for the sake of their country overseas." Sen. Chris Lauzen, R-Aurora, is a chief co-sponsor of House Bill 4532, which is backed by Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, a Democrat. The bill would establish the "Let Them Rest in Peace Act" to prohibit loud and inflammatory protests within 200 feet of all Illinois funeral services beginning 30 minutes before a funeral, during a funeral, and 30 minutes after the funeral. "We shouldn't be playing politics with such an important issue," Lauzen said. "This bill should be released to the full Senate for individual members to decide on a 'yes' or 'no.'" Senate President Emil Jones, D-Chicago, supports the legislation, and his spokeswoman, Cindy Davidsmeyer, downplayed GOP concerns that the issue would stay bottled up beyond the Legislature's expected adjournment. "Just as appropriate limits are set on free speech to prevent someone from yelling 'fire' in a movie theater, there needs to be safeguards in place to prevent the desecration of a soldier's funeral just to advance a political agenda," said Lauzen. Lauzen was convinced to sponsor the measure after learning that protestors threatened to picket the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Adam Wade Kaiser, 19, of Naperville, who was killed in Iraq last year. 03/29/06

i don't have the newspaper with me but that church group from Kansas is planning to protest in a funeral or two in illinois in the next week or two. That's why the illinois goverment was trying to rush through a bill to make it illegal to protest within a certain amount of feet of a funeral. That bill is hung up at the moment(last i heard) and doesn't look like it will be passed in time for the funerals here. It's sad....but a small group of people doing to protesting. They enjoy the press the are getting but i'm surprised that someone hasn't walked over and just started kicking someone's ass. not that i condone such actions GOD BLESS OUR VETS!!!!!!

found this on a website i peruse often....i've posted his whole rant and Comedy Central letter.... Comedy Central cop-out!!!! Wow, what a cop-out. I sent a compaint email to Comedy Central after the South Park episode the other nght where they censored an image of Mohammed while allowing a sequence where Bush, Jesus and others crapped on each other and the American Flag. My email: Dear Sirs and Madams, You seriously suck. There’s no other way to say it. You’re hypocrites, intellectually bankrupt and you suck. Their response: Thank you for your correspondence regarding the “South Park” episodes entitled “Cartoon Wars.” We appreciate your concerns about censorship and the destructive influence of outside groups on the media, entertainment industry and particularly Comedy Central. To reiterate, as satirists, we believe that it is our First Amendment right to poke fun at any and all people, groups, organizations and religions and we will continue to defend that right. Our goal is to make people laugh and perhaps, if we’re lucky, even make them think in the process. Comedy Central’s belief in the First Amendment has not wavered, despite our decision not to air an image of Muhammad. Our decision was made not to mute the voices of Trey and Matt or because we value one religion over any other. This decision was based solely on concern for public safety in light of recent world events. With the power of freedom of speech and expression also comes the obligation to use that power in a responsible way. Much as we wish it weren’t the case, times have changed and, as witnessed by the intense and deadly reaction to the publication of the Danish cartoons, decisions cannot be made in a vacuum without considering what impact they may have on innocent individuals around the globe. It was with this in mind we decided not to air the image of Muhammad, a decision similar to that made by virtually every single media outlet across the country earlier this year when they each determined that it was not prudent or in the interest of safety to reproduce the controversial Danish cartoons. Injuries occurred and lives were lost in the riots set off by the original publication of these cartoons. The American media made a decision then, as we did now, not to put the safety and well being of the public at risk, here or abroad. As a viewer of “South Park,” you know that over the course of ten seasons and almost 150 episodes the series has addressed all types of sensitive, hot-button issues, religious and political, and has done so with Comedy Central’s full support in every instance, including this one. “Cartoon Wars” contained a very important message, one that Trey and Matt felt strongly about, as did we at the network, which is why we gave them carte blanche in every facet but one: we would not broadcast a portrayal of Muhammad. In that regard, did we censor the show? Yes, we did. But if you hold Comedy Central’s 15-year track record up against any other network out there, you’ll find that we afford our talent the most creative freedom and provide a nurturing atmosphere that challenges them to be bold and daring and places them in a position to constantly break barriers and push the envelope. The result has been some of the most provocative television ever produced. We would like nothing more than to be able to look back at this in a few years and think that perhaps we overreacted. Unfortunately, to have made a different decision and to look back and see that we completely underestimated the damage that resulted was a risk we were not willing to take. Our pledge to you, our loyal viewers, is that Comedy Central will continue to produce and provide the best comedy available and we will continue to push it right to the edge, using and defending the First Amendment in the most responsible way we know how. Sincerely, Comedy Central Viewer Services That was one hell of a wordy cop-out. Comedy Central is run by a bunch of cowards who wouldn’t know the First Amendment if Trey Parker an Matt Stone crammed it up their asses ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So they agree with the 1st amendment but they went against it. hmmmm is that like Kerry voting for the tax increase before voting against it?????

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Apr 17, 2006 -> 09:06 PM) Interesting op-ed piece in today's Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/17/opinion/...serland&emc=rss This is no more a watergate than when the Democrats slashed the tires on all the Republican get-out-the-vote vans on the morning of elections. People are just fishing for conspiracies everywhere.

A FAMILY of ten is demanding their council give them a TEN-bedroom mansion. Sue McFadden, 54, says she needs the space for her three children and six grandchildren. The family lives in a three-bed semi in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire. Only one of the four adults works — so they rake in the equivalent of £32,000-a-year in benefits. Sue says she’d like a luxury shower room, two bathrooms and a plush fitted kitchen — in the posh suburbs of Chester. She said: “I feel like old Mother Hubbard cooped up in here with all these kids.” “The council offered me a six-bedroom house but it’s on the same road as my ex-husband — so I turned that one down. “One of my daughters was offered a one-bed flat but she didn’t want it because she relies on my help and she doesn’t want any of the kids to be separated.” Eldest daughter Teresa, 33, claims she can’t work because she’s suicidal and relies on her mum to look after her five children Kyle, 16, CJ, 11, Courtney, seven, Tyler, eight and Lucas, four. Debbie, 32, has a five-year-old daughter Jodie and says she is too busy babysitting to work while Tammy, 23, is a clothes shop assistant. But the council says the family has the biggest house available. A spokesman added: “We only have three five-bedroom and four six- bedroom houses in Ellesmere Port and Neston, which people are currently living in. “As they wish to stay together unfortunately there isn’t anything we can do at the moment.” “The council offered me a six-bedroom house but it’s on the same road as my ex-husband — so I turned that one down. i still can't figure out why anyone is GIVING them a house??? :headshake

PONTIAC, Mich. - A 24-year-old college student was ordered to spend the weekend in jail after skipping out on jury duty. Ilya Kluzner, a student at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, must also write a five-page essay on the historical perspective of the American dream and why jury duty is crucial, under the sentence imposed by Oakland County Circuit Judge Fred Mester. Mester found Kluzner in criminal contempt Thursday after he missed the second day of a two-day drug possession trial. "He just felt like he was skipping class," Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Jeffrey Kaelin said. The student initially faced up to 30 days in jail. His lawyer asked for leniency and his mother apologized for her son's behavior. The guy's 24 and didn't think he'd have a problem??????? :headshake

after reading the first paragraph....read it again....you read it right. where are these Hooters restaurants. Alabama man sues over sex-for-pay claim at Hooters restaurant BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A man who worked at a Hooters restaurant in Alabama filed suit claiming he was fired for complaining after a corporate trainer told waitresses it was OK for them to have sex with customers "if the money is right." Jarman C. Gray, 31, filed suit under federal civil rights laws contending he was wrongfully terminated from Hooters of Auburn, where he worked as an assistant manager. Gray claimed his dismissal by the owner of the franchise restaurant, Darrell Spikes, amounted to illegal sexual harassment and retaliation. A spokesman for the Atlanta-based Hooters of America Inc. did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Friday, and an employee at the Auburn restaurant said Spikes was not at the business.

i hit that Mission: Space ride a summer or two ago and honestly...i didn't see that it was that good of a ride. i wasn't very impressed considering it was Disney and all.

Fetus Cannot Feel Pain, Expert Says 04.14.06, 12:00 AM ET FRIDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News) -- Fetuses cannot feel pain, therefore U.S. legislation requiring doctors to tell women that the fetus will feel pain, or to provide pain relief during abortions, has no scientific basis and may harm the women involved, a leading expert contends. "This is an unwarranted piece of legislation because there is good evidence that the fetus cannot feel pain at any stage of gestation," said Stuart Derbyshire, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Birmingham, U.K. He authored an review of the available data on the subject in the April 15 issue of the British Medical Journal. "I don't think the question of pain resolves the argument about abortion," said Derbyshire, who said abortion remains a social, moral and political question. However, he said that, based on the evidence, "it's illegitimate to use the possibility of pain as a way of trying to prevent abortion from occurring, because the possibility of pain doesn't exist." Some other experts agreed. "No one wants to inflict pain in fetuses unnecessarily, nor do physicians want to put the mother at risk by the unnecessary administration of analgesics to treat her fetus, not her," said Dr. Henry J. Ralston, a professor of anatomy and neuroscience at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco. "I agree with Dr. Derbyshire's primary conclusion, that 'Legal or clinical mandates to prevent pain in fetuses are based on limited evidence and may put women seeking abortion at unnecessary risk.'" The U.S. government is presently considering legislation that would require doctors to inform women seeking abortions that "there is substantial evidence that the process of being killed in an abortion will cause the unborn child pain." The legislation would additionally require that a fetus of more than 22 weeks' gestational age receive anesthesia before the abortion procedure. Doctors who refuse to comply could be fined $100,000 while also losing their license and their Medicaid funding. More than a dozen state legislatures -- including those in New York and California -- have debated such bills. Several states have already passed laws. Congress is also considering whether to require doctors to provide anesthesia to fetuses in all cases of abortion after 22 weeks of gestational age. But is there enough evidence to conclude that fetuses actually experience pain? After examining the available neurological and psychological literature, Derbyshire says "no." The neural circuitry needed to process pain is complete, if not mature, by 26 weeks' gestation, he said. "From about 26 weeks you can talk about there being a complete system in terms of biology, a link from the skin to the spinal cord to the brain, and we know that set-up is reasonably functional," Derbyshire explained. But to properly experience pain, the mind must also be developed, something which cannot happen until after birth. The mind permits the subjectivity of pain, said the U.K. expert, who has previously served as an unpaid consultant to Planned Parenthood of Virginia and Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, as well as the U.K.-based Pro-Choice Forum. "The key thing is representational memory," Derbyshire explained. "If you want to discriminate pain from hunger, from vision, or from any other sensational experience, you need to be able to label it in some way, and that will come from interactions with the primary caregiver," -- in other words, after birth. "I agree that pain is a complex sensory experience that requires activation of many regions of the cerebral cortex and that 'Without consciousness there can be nociception [response to noxious events] but there cannot be pain,'" Ralston said. "I do not know when that necessary neural circuitry is fully developed and functional, but it certainly is not established by 20 weeks gestational age, as encoded in legislation in several states in laws penalizing physicians for not informing mothers about pain in their fetuses." The problem with the actions encoded in the legislation is that it could put the mother at risk, according to Derbyshire. "It does introduce risks to the mother if we start to inject drugs to the fetus and increase the time of the procedure," Derbyshire said. "That would be unnecessary and involve unnecessary costs and risks."

Not one to stereotype or anything but maybe this pic will explain part of this couples problem...... lotto winner