Mercy!

It was in regard to Jamie having posted before here and already been through the gender drill. I was having a few yucks, too, since the same thing keeps happening to me here. No biggie Rex - we’re used to Bro and Dude and don’t take offense. Hope I didn’t offend YOU.

Lou Rawls tonight a cappella - Yeah, baby!

Dang. I had never bothered to check that out until now. Thanks! I had always figured it was as time intensive as registering, but just gave you an email address so you didn't have to use your own. It IS a wonderful thing. Power to the people! Take back the web! Don't Stop Believing! Etc.

There. I fixed it for you.

Hey girlfriend - don't take it personally. Some of these guys are a little dense that way. :banghead And thanks for the props. I've been reading SoSH a bit recently and enjoy the (mostly) intelligent and sane discourse.

Sonny, I'm guessing everyone over 40 looks old to you at your age. ChiSoxFan - Thanks for the background from the Detroit News. Funny stuff, esp. the threat to kick their asses - after they'd already left.

Lucky - I'll say! Congratulations. I'm not sure I'd have had the nerve. They were talking on TV about the good counterfeit tickets on the street and the arrests the police were making. One of the sad tales they told was of a father who paid $1000 EACH for tickets for himself and his son. When they scanned them at the Cell - counterfeit and tough luck. Wow.

Ah, Rumors. Where would we be without them? Maybe waiting before something actually happened before "reporting" it. Also, "Miss" Taylor. LOL. That takes me back..... as the Washington Times would like to do.

I saw Requiem For A Dream when it came out mostly because I'm an Ellen Burstyn fan. I liked the split screen stuff and the overall visual look. Don't remember a heck of a lot about it except that it was a great Just Say No to Drugs film. LOL Actually, the whole treatment of the ingestion/injection of the chemicals really grabbed me - the pupils, the sounds, the colors - what a rush!

Get out! All this time I thought that Soxy is real butch and getting way up there in years. Chomsky, huh?

Yes, local control of public education through elected school boards as provided by the various states due to the powers reserved to the states by the federal Constitution. However, I'm a she, not a he.

Then you can’t be either a conservative or a Republican. The school system in Lexington, MA is functioning exactly how our system of government intended.

Maybe Tom Cruise can pay for the funerals. He doesn't believe mentally ill people should have to take those drugs, right?

Mr. Parker moved from out of state into an overwhelmingly liberal community. He decided he didn’t like the school curriculum and started sending a blizzard of emails during a 3 month period making demands that his child’s school change its policies to suit him. He then staged a confrontation by arranging a school meeting and refusing to leave until all his demands were met, forcing the authorities to call the police. Two detectives and a lieutenant tried to convince him to leave, but he declared “If I’m not under arrest then I’m not leaving.” At the police station, he refused to pay the $40 bail ensuring that he could spend a night in jail and would have to appear in court in handcuffs the next day, maximizing the publicity value of his stunt. As you can see from the scope of his final demand, Mr. Parker would have required that his son be whisked away if a fellow student even brought up the topic, or if a gay parent volunteered at a class function. His demand was so unreasonable that I get the feeling that it was calculated to fail for a larger political purpose. Here’s a typical email: Here’s his final demand:

Uh-oh. Before you know it those old farts are going to be telling their flocks that masturbation and birth control are sins.

Juan's come out??

Article is basically a compilation of Ozzie-talk from the past year. :sleep Old news to us. But I liked Jerry’s analogy. In Chicago, Guillen Is the Talk of the Town

Doesn't this thread belong on 'Sex, LIES and Politics'?

Random Thoughts: Men kill their children to punish them for something they or the childrens' mothers did. Women kill their children because Voices told them to do it. The Voices tell men to go to a mosque, temple or marketplace and kill strangers. The Voices usually come from god.

You’re talking about “teaching.” I suspect the educators are talking about “respresenting.” Any more than having books showing people with dark skin means they discuss race or melanin production with these pre-schoolers. These books aren’t showing them pictures of Martians, but of the sorts of people they see around them daily.

More than anyone wants to know, probably. http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31761.pdf

IIRC, he wasn’t posing, he was being lazy. Wasn’t that the blowout by Oakland where Juan didn’t run out a fly ball? He wasn’t standing there admiring it; he claimed he thought it was a foul ball, and apologized to Ozzie later for not playing the way he was expected to play.

That's why god created ignore lists. And to the new folks:

Hated it when Lee did it. Hated it when Magglio did it. I hope they're happy watching the post-season on TV. The camera also caught Lee a couple of times doing a weird kissing the air thing toward someone, but I have to think THAT was just some joke with a team mate, which really did look funny. Anyway, I give our players BIG style points for putting their heads down and running the bases. I think of the opposite as NBA-style homers.