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QUOTE(Chisoxrd5 @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 07:50 PM) Teri Hatcher :puke *shudders* umm...ok??? if you say so.

QUOTE(Brian @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 05:03 PM) I thought Howards speech was kind of repetitive, but it got a reaction none the less. I noticed the dump button being pushed many a times during his speech. They dumped on all of their speeches at least once. Artie..Robin...even Fred got dumped once. i was beginning to wonder if some of them were more satellite interference than actually dumps.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 05:04 PM) Well, maybe if she didn't brag that her boobs were "fabulous" on prime time TV, people wouldn't talk about her like this. Actually...her boobs are real and they're Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LONDON (Reuters) - Actress Teri Hatcher won substantial libel damages on Friday from a British newspaper that alleged she used a camper van outside her home to have sex with a series of men. The "Desperate Housewives" star, 41, who first found fame as Lois Lane in the 1990s television show "The New Adventures of Superman", will also receive a public apology from Britain's Daily Sport tabloid which published the story. "I have tolerated many ridiculous and fabricated lies and gossip in the tabloids," Hatcher, a Golden Globe winner, said in a statement after the case was settled at London's High Court. "But when a story appeared about me, insinuating that I am an irresponsible and neglectful parent, I had to draw the line." Her lawyer David Smith told the court that the article had appeared in the Sport on July 25 this year under the heading "Teri's Passion Wagon". The story was accompanied by a picture of a smiling Hatcher standing next to the van accompanied by the caption: "Tasty Teri's old VW helps her with her sex drive." Smith said Hatcher did own a camper van but that she used it to take her daughter on holiday. The paper, known for its sensationalist stories, had agreed to publish a prominent front-page apology and to pay "very substantial" damages and to reimburse Hatcher's full legal costs, he added. There were no details available of the sums of money involved. The Sport's lawyer David Hirst said the paper was sorry for the article "which they fully accept was entirely false". All Hail Teri Hatcher's Passion Wagon

i saw it on yahoo news but didn't realize it was in their entertainment/gossip section. still....it's one of the few stories that very well could be true

MARSEILLES, France -- Skirt-chasing playboy Daniel Anceneaux spent weeks talking with a sensual woman on the Internet before arranging a romantic rendezvous at a remote beach -- and discovering that his on-line sweetie of six months was his own mother! "I walked out on that dark beach thinking I was going to hook up with the girl of my dreams," the rattled bachelor later admitted. "And there she was, wearing white shorts and a pink tank top, just like she'd said she would. "But when I got close, she turned around -- and we both got the shock of our lives. I mean, I didn't know what to say. All I could think was, 'Oh my God! it's Mama!' " But the worst was yet to come. Just as the mortified mother and son realized the error of their ways, a patrolman passed by and cited them for visiting a restricted beach after dark. "Danny and I were so flustered, we blurted out the whole story to the cop," recalled matronly mom Nicole, 52. "The policeman wrote a report, a local TV station got hold of it -- and the next thing we knew, our picture and our story was all over the 6 o'clock news. "People started pointing and laughing at us on the street -- and they haven't stopped laughing since." The girl-crazy X-ray technician said he began flirting with normally straitlaced Nicole -- who lives six miles away in a Marseilles suburb -- while scouring the Internet for young ladies to put a little pizzazz in his life. "Mom called herself Sweet Juliette and I called myself The Prince of Pleasure, and unfortunately, neither one of us had any idea who the other was," said flabbergasted Daniel. "The conversations even got a little racy a couple of times. "But I really started to fall for her, because there seemed to be a sensitive side that you don't see in many girls. "She sent me poems she had written and told me about her dreams and desires, and it was really very romantic. "The truth is, I got to see a side of my mom I'd never seen before. I'm grateful for that." When starry-eyed Daniel asked Sweet Juliette to send him a picture, Nicole e-mailed him a photo of a curvy, half-clad cutie she'd scanned from a men's magazine. "The girl in the picture was so beautiful, I begged Juliette to meet me on the beach -- and Mom said yes," he recalled. "Mom says she was falling for me, too, and she just wanted to meet me, even though she knew I'd be disappointed when I saw her. "As for me, I figured I was going to find the girl of my dreams. "I guess that's about as wrong as I've ever been." Daniel admits he and his mother could do little but stammer and stutter around each other for days after their cyberspace exploits came to light. And his father Paul -- Nicole's husband of 27 years -- wasn't too happy when the story hit the news and his beer-drinking buddies made him the butt of their jokes. "Dad was ticked for a while and he forbid Mom to talk to anybody on the Internet ever again," said embarrassed Daniel.

I know the feeling of waking up to a house in the 40's or 50s. i don't know what's worse....waking up cold or knowing waht a pain in the ass is in store for you trying to get someone out to look at the furnace and then fix it. especially right around X-mas. if you are lucky...it'll be something small like an ignighter...that and service call was ONLY $100. whew!!!

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 11:26 PM) I can't believe Arnold Schwartzenegger was forced to decide whether someone lives or dies. Just think about that for a second, f***in' ridiculous. why is it ridiculous???? He's the governor so he decides. it isn't that complicated. Good call Arnie!!!!!! Tookie Williams??? HE GAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :finger :finger

Back on to Tookie's case...he continued to run his gang for 7 years while behind bars....no deterrent there. If he's in the ground....guess what.....he isn't running a thing except a food bar for the worms.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 06:25 PM) 122 since 1973 -- which is really 122 too many. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=6&did=110 Their main page has exonerations by state, year and race. I can no longer believe it works after McKlesky v. Kemp -- A study of death sentences in Philadelphia found that African American defendents were almost FOUR times more likely to receive the death penalty than were people of other ethnic origins who committed similar crimes. Over 80% of people executed since 1976 were convicted of killing white victims, although people of color make up more than half of all homicide victims in the US. A defendant who can afford his or her own attorney is much less likely to be sentenced to die. 95% of all people sentenced to death in the US could not afford their own attorney. In 1987, McCleskey v. Kemp, a Supreme Court case brought forth the famous Baldus study that revealed facts that proved the following: "(1) defendants charged with killing white victims in GA are 4.3 times as likely to be sentenced to death as defendants charged with killing blacks; (2) 6 of every 11 defendants convicted of killing a white person would not have received the death penalty if their victim had been black; and (3) cases involving black defendants and white victims are more likely to result in a death sentence than cases featuring any other racial combination of defendant and victim. This case was defeated by a 5-4 vote given the reason by Justice Powell: "McCleskey's claim, taken to its logical conclusion, throws into serious question the principles that underlie our entire criminal justice system." Just google the Baldus study and you'll get the details about how he came to his conclusions. As long as we have a system that is highly arbitrary in who receives it along with a blatant race/class based bias, there should be no faith in a system that can take a life, especially under these dubious circumstances. I'd sit here and type more but just look around http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=1328 for info. And I forgot: "The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being. I've witnessed the execution of a human being. This is not an abstract for me. I promise you, it isn't going to heal anybody. I'll never recover from it. It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions." --Steve Earle I'm not sure who Steve Earle is (unless it's the country singer of the early 80's) but i have seen interviews with people who say witnessing an execution of a murderer of a loved one DOES give them closure. Closure is different to each of us so i don't think he or any of us can say what gives us closure.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 04:15 PM) Occassionally the state just misses and executes an innocent person. occasionally....that is correct.....but in this particular case...i think they got it right. even after all the appeals he's still headed towards death. I for one have faith that our justice system got this one right. Just curious, since i knew someone would bring up this argument...how many people have been excuted in the US in the last 50 years and how many times has facts turned up afterwards to prove innocence??? you make it sound like they are excuting innocent people all the time. I'm not saying it doesn't happen but i doubt the CSI teams across the country are getting innocent people out of jail on a weekly basis. No justice system is perfect..(well...one is but you have to believe in god to believe that) but i feel ours is about as perfect as one can be and we have to believe it works. (unless you're named O.J.)

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 03:37 PM) Yet, even after their fellow gang members have been executed, they still commit murder? I guess this isn't much of a deterrent. I know this would never happen but if we were to give a person a fair trial....one appeal then if the death penalty is applied do it with in a month...it might help. Ever since i was little, i couldn't figure out how or why people sit on death row for 18 or 20 years. As far as being a deterrent...we excute a couple hundred gang members a year instead of 1 or 2 every 20....guess what.....some people might wake up.

It amazes me how many people for "Tookie" refer to his children's books as a reason for him to live. I am trying to find the article i saw it in but i read that the amount of books he sold was around 350. That's it!!!!! Reading some of these news stories you would think the guys sales rivaled Dr. Suess or something. i think the street gang he founded and headed took out more kids than that in a year. Call me what you want....but for the destruction in the black community he caused he should die.....if the black community wants to put themselves up in flames for the guy (and i'm sure it's not the WHOLE community) well then they are a bunch of animals. (not very PC i know but it's getting really stupid

...and let's not forget that performance in Superman III..what a flick!!!!!

Most overrated song????? tough choice but i'd say anything by the Dave Matthews Band or U2.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 7, 2005 -> 12:21 AM) Until we stop doing it. LIke it or not, it has been done before Bush, and will continue to be done after Bush. We just hear about it now because it is harder to keep secrets nowadays. If you think we DIDN'T do it before Bush, you need to put down the latte and wake up.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 6, 2005 -> 06:54 PM) I've seen the banana many times, but it's funnier when it isn't HUGE and pixelized with really bad music. maybe this will be better..... here ya' go

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Over this past weekend we celebrated my wife's birthday and per her request Saturday we went into the city to see Marshall Fields windows among ohter things. Driving from the south burbs up to the city i got this warm holiday feeling all over, and at that time i realized that despite some money problems this holiday season everything is going to be all right. That was right as we passed U.S. Cellular Field and i said to myself "There is the home to the World Champions Chicago White Sox...MY Chicago White Sox." Man...what a wonderful feeling!!!!!!

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 2, 2005 -> 08:18 PM) I was driving back from getting a sammich from Carms for lunch when I saw a strangely disturbing sight. There was a lady crossing Wolf Road just before Roosevelt by the cemetary. She got to the other side, and then went back out into the street to pick something up. I slowed down so that she wouldn't make a dent in my front bumper (don't ya hate it when that happens) and I saw that the "package" she was picking up was actually a dead squirrel!! She had it by the end of it's fuzzy little tail and it was swinging around like a pendulum. When she got back up on the curb, she threw the squirrel down on the ground and stared at him like she was gonna jack him for his fur coat, but maybe she was just looking for some ID so his family wouldn't have to identify him. I didn't get to see the end of the saga because I had to turn and it's not nice to gawk at accident scenes anyway. So my little melodrama made me wonder: What weird things have you seen today? maybe she was a member of PETA and was mad at the squirrel for wearing fur!!!!?????

an all-time comfort food for me is Mac and cheese with tunafish. sounds gross but man is it good. i turned three girlfriends in college onto it and two of them told me recently that they still eat it. cheap, easy to make, what cold be better????

an all-time comfort food for me is Mac and cheese with tunafish. sounds gross but man is it good. i turned three girlfriends in college onto it and two of them told me recently that they still eat it. cheap, easy to make, what cold be better????

The other morning Howard Stern was talking about Stapp and relayed a story in which Stapp appeared on his girlsfriend's 'show'. (That movie/gambling show on USA or FX i'm not sure). Anyways..Howard said his girlfriend came home and was visibly upset. She said Stapp was on her show..showed up drunk...was abusive to her at the beginning and got 'touchy-feely' as the day went on. The show eventually booted his sorry ass out and they finished the show without him. i chuckled at that story as Howard said there was more to it but he promised his girlfriend not to say anything on the air. then later on i hear about the latest incident. He seems like a prick who can't face the fact that he was a faceless member in a faceless band that probably couldn't be picked out of a crowd by most of his fans. Stapp needs help. cause it seems that + + = :finger . Get help or go away.....maybe do both

QUOTE(Brian @ Dec 2, 2005 -> 04:25 AM) Seems like she is treating her new baby as a new toy. to Britney's credit...she DID give the kid a normal name. unlike most celebs nowdays.

Maybe it's just me but i'd like to see Garland have two good years in a row before i start paying him the big bucks. i hope i'm wrong but what happens if next year he goes back to his usual 13-12 with a 4 ERA. Was last year a fluke or a look at things to come????? We'll have to see.