Steff

My winner without a doubt has to be the idiots I caught going at it in the print room... who were stupid enough to get caught a second time. :headshake :banghead

QUOTE(quickman @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 08:19 AM) thanks for the rah rah...this is a dead end thread. Especially here. Just stamped my final payment..

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 08:10 AM) Likely story :rolly

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 09:09 PM) I want to know what she googled to turn up that gem Someone emailed it to me.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 01:58 PM) Here are the months on the Official SamME Calendar: Sammuary Februsosa March Of The Gladiator Sosapril SamMAY JuNo See Me Leave Early That Day JuLying About That Surveillance Video August of Wind Kept That Homer In The Park Sammytember OctobrrrrrIt's Too Cold To Play That Last Game Sosember Decemmy OMFG!!! I am laughing so hard my stomach hurts!!!

QUOTE(Chisoxmatt @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 05:32 PM) I understand why everyone wants to trade him. The reason people want him gone is because -he hits terrible against lefties -we need a UIF and willie only plays second -there is no guarantee he will improve substantially on the basepaths -he might have decent trade value to pick up a UIF or a good prospect. And plain and simple.. he just don't listen!!

QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 05:21 PM) I have an interesting take on this. (Let the record show that I am 100% against abortion.) If these clinics don’t think a fetus is alive and therefore is not a "human" then why should they have to dispose of it in a way that represents it as having been an important creature. Why would you burry something that was never alive? We throw weeds in the trash. Isn’t that what clinics are basically calling an aborted baby.... an unwanted weed. I don't think they are the ones that care.. it's the Church that's doing the burying. They are just giving them the remains. I think they have to creamate them. I would guess it's illegal to dispose of them in the form they are in at the time of termination.

I linked the story from '97 in case some of you don't know about this story. Since he's been in jail supposedly 5 other females has come forward to claim he raped them. This guy, and his asshole parents, are total scumbags!! http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_024170735.html (1010 WINS) (STAMFORD) Convicted rapist Alex Kelly, who spent years as a fugitive in Europe, is seeking parole after serving about half of his 16-year prison sentence. The move angered his victims. "I think it's outrageous," Adrienne Bak, one of Kelly's victims, said Monday. "He hasn't served even the amount of time he spent as a fugitive from justice." Bak, a medical saleswoman, learned recently that Kelly was up for parole and vowed to fight his release. A parole hearing has tentatively been set for March 3, said Gregory R. Everett, chairman of the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Paroles. If Kelly is granted parole, he could be released from a Suffield prison in July when he has served about eight years, Everett said. "There's no guarantee anybody will be released," Everett said. "He may get out, he may not get out." A prosecutor said Monday he would oppose Kelly's recent request for parole, which was reported Monday by The New York Post. "Hopefully the Parole Board will do the right thing," said David I. Cohen, state's attorney for Stamford and Norwalk. "To my way of thinking he should serve every day of his sentence." Kelly's defense attorneys could not be reached for comment. Telephone messages were left with his attorneys, Hope Seeley and Thomas Puccio. Kelly, 37, was an 18-year-old wrestling standout at Darien High School when he was charged in the rapes of two teenage girls four days apart in February 1986. Just before his trial was to begin in 1987, Kelly fled the country. He spent eight years as a fugitive before surrendering in Switzerland in 1995. While in Europe, he spent time skiing, hang gliding and mountain climbing using money authorities say his parents sent him. He was convicted in the first case in June 1997 and later pleaded no contest to first-degree sexual assault in a separate attack on a 17-year-old Stamford girl. In April 2001, the state Supreme Court upheld Kelly's conviction. Hillary Buchanan, whom Kelly raped and sodomized three days after he assaulted Bak, also vowed to fight his release. Buchanan, 36, is a former ski patroller who is now a stay-home mom. "The fact that he was in jail less time than he was having fun in Europe is disturbing, to say the least," Buchanan said. "He shows no remorse for it. He's very capable of doing it again because he doesn't seem to think he did anything wrong to begin with." Kelly was supposed to serve at least 85 percent of his 16-year prison sentence before being eligible for release. But a Connecticut Supreme Court decision about five years ago affected Kelly and hundreds of other inmates by rejecting the retroactive application of the 85 percent rule, Everett said. The ruling meant that Kelly would be eligible for parole after serving about half of his sentence under the laws in effect in 1986. Article about the case from back in 1997 http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/12/kelly.guilty/ Alex Kelly found guilty of rape June 12, 1997 Web posted at: 5:20 p.m. EDT (1720 GMT) STAMFORD, Connecticut (CNN) -- Onetime fugitive athlete Alex Kelly was convicted Thursday of raping a teen-aged neighbor, more than a decade after fleeing his wealthy suburb to avoid a trial and traveling around Europe for eight years. It was the second time Kelly, 30, was tried for the 1986 rape of a 16-year-old girl. His first trial ended in a mistrial in November after the jury deadlocked 4-2 in favor of conviction. This time it took the panel of three men and three women 8 1/2 hours of deliberations over two days, requesting to re-hear several hours of testimony from five witnesses. The jurors spent most of the morning Thursday re-reading testimony given by Kelly's accuser and the female police officer she told her story to the day after the attack. After the verdict was read, Kelly cried out, in a voice choked with sobs, "I'm not guilty, I'm not guilty, I'm not guilty!" He then looked at jurors and said "God, I didn't do this. Why are you doing this to me? I am not guilty." At the request of the judge, sheriffs subdued Kelly by holding his arms to his side. He was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs, while his mother cried and his father covered his face. Kelly's bond temporarily revoked Judge Kevin Tierney released Kelly on a $1 million bond, the highest ever posted in the state of Connecticut, and some of the conditions of the bond have been tightened. A sentencing date has been set for July 24th. Kelly was an 18-year-old wrestling star at Darien High School when he was charged in the rape of the Darien teen-ager as well as the alleged rape four days later of a 17-year-old Stamford girl. He fled the United States in 1987 shortly before his first trial was scheduled. He evaded the FBI for eight years, traveling around Europe and, according to the stamps on his passport, visited more than a dozen countries. Authorities say his wealthy parents bankrolled his life as a fugitive. Kelly decided to return to the U.S. in 1995 with a woman who is now his fiancee to face trial. He faced a single count of sexual assault, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail. Kelly, who did not take the stand in either trial, claimed that the sex was consensual. One of the most notable differences in the two trials was the testimony from Kelly's accuser. Kelly faces 2nd trial on another rape charge The woman testified that Kelly offered her a ride home from a high school party, then forced her into the cargo area of a Jeep Wagoneer, where, she said, he choked her, raped her and threatened to kill her if she told anyone. The accuser, now a 27-year-old pharmaceutical saleswoman, said during the first trial that Kelly kept one hand on her throat during the entire attack, even when he reached around her to lower the rear seat of the Jeep. Several jurors in that trial said they could not understand how Kelly was physically able to pin the woman in the front passenger seat and lower the back seat with just one hand. In the retrial, the woman said Kelly did take his hand off her throat to lower the rear seat with both hands. That account matched the story she gave Darien police 11 years ago. The woman told the jury she simply made a mistake during the first trial. Kelly faces another trial on charges of raping the second girl.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiheral...al/10717642.htm Mom, son die in crash Police are searching for the driver who may have caused an accident on the Dolphin Expressway that killed a young mother and her 4-year-old son. BY MONICA HATCHER [email protected] Gisela Avellan and her husband Miguel Rodriguez loved to take their kids to the movies on weekends. But Saturday their routine ended in tragedy. On the way home from International Mall at 10 p.m., the Dodge minivan they were taking eastbound on State Road 836 was struck by a speeding car near the Northwest 72nd Avenue exit. Their minivan went out of control, crashed through a guardrail and flipped onto an embankment. Avellan, 30, and her 4-year-old son were ejected from the vehicle. Both of them died. No one in the car was wearing seat belts, said Julio Pajon, a spokesman with the Florida Highway Patrol. Miguel Rodriguez, 37, who was driving the minivan, was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released Sunday. The couple's second son, Miguel Rodriguez, 11, and a neighbor, Francisco Tellez, 12, were taken to Miami Children's Hospital. Miguel is in critical condition with severe injuries to one of his legs, Avellan's sister, Juana Avellan, said. Francisco's injuries were minor, and he was released Sunday as well, she said. Now authorities are looking for the driver of the 1997 Nissan Maxima that hit the minivan. After striking the left rear side of the van, the Maxima spun out of control and smashed into a concrete barrier wall. The driver abandoned the car and fled on foot. Police want to question Hector Bermudez, a Miami resident, who they believe may have been driving the car. While authorities searched Sunday for the man who may have caused her sister's death, Juana Avellan remembered Gisela as a wonderful mother who worked cleaning houses while taking care of her youngest son. Juana Avellan said Miguel was recuperating from the accident, but he was grieving the loss of his wife and son. ''We're here to help him, and especially me,'' Juana Avellan said. ``I'm her sister; my nephews will be like my own sons.'' Mom, son die in crash Police are searching for the driver who may have caused an accident on the Dolphin Expressway that killed a young mother and her 4-year-old son. (clip)No one in the car was wearing seat belts, said Julio Pajon, a spokesman with the Florida Highway Patrol.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 05:07 PM) ...and He is good. (Fingers Crossed Steff) Cutting off the circulation...

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 04:27 PM) For all the hate for Harris, I wonder why so many people dont hate Crede? I dislike (hate is too strong a word..) Crediocre as much as I dislike Willie

QUOTE(Jabroni @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 04:13 PM) Levine also said that he thinks Willie Harris' tenure with the White Sox is in jeopardy. There IS a God...

Welcome..

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 04:01 PM) steff why are you always the bringer of bad news :banghead More like beyond belief news.. Somedays I just stare at the screen and shake my head. :headshake

A NYPD detective has been charged with taking sexually explicit photos of legendary rocker David Bowie's stepdaughter after she was brutally raped, it was disclosed yesterday. Investigators recovered 15 shocking photos of Stacia Lipka, 24, in Staten Island Detective Richard Vecchio's files at the 123rd Precinct stationhouse. "These are the type of pictures that you would see in Hustler or some other pornographic magazine," said a source close to the probe. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/cri...7p-234444c.html No wonder so many sex crimes are unreported, I wonder how long this creep has been doing this. He's still working (and get paid) but on limited duties. I feel so sorry for the victim right now, I hope she gets some kind of justice.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 02:20 PM) Ouch. Tell me about it. It's a long treck back to Plainfield at 10:30 after the games. We started looking elsewhere for a place. Got a few leads.. hopefully we'll make a decision soon and have a place down there by May.

Well.. it IS the most depressing day of the year..

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 12:46 PM) Last year they had ads for the condos going up around 35th and state. I wonder how those did? I'll bet they exploded in price. They haven't done anything yet. The permits are not all approved and because of that we can't sign a contract to build...

QUOTE(Spiff @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 11:55 AM) I don't understand what's so bad about the first story. I think he was grossed out by the act of cremating an aborted fetus. Just a guess though..

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 11:18 AM) I've been using the same damn coffee maker for 10+ years now. It makes crappy coffee, but with the prices that these damn things run lately, forget it. The stuff Starbucks sells may as well be sold at an airport with as overpriced as they make it. Luckily there is a donut shop by my house that makes some of the best coffee out there, and they only charge $1.00 for a 20oz. cup! I can't even get that price from the crappy gas station coffee! Oh, and I am a decaf drinker, so if I don't get my coffee, I am fine. Jim and I both can't stand Starbucks coffee. It's gross. In the mornings we get White Hen coffee.

:headshake 21 minutes ago By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether states may offer plates with anti-abortion messages, leaving lower courts divided over whether the programs in a dozen states unconstitutionally restrict dissenting views. Without comment, justices let stand a lower court ruling that said South Carolina's license plates, which bear the slogan "Choose Life," violate the First Amendment because abortion rights supporters weren't given a similar forum to express their beliefs. The high court's move means that South Carolina will either have to eliminate the specialty plates or begin offering plates with abortion-rights views. That ruling is an odds, however, with a decision by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which essentially allowed the plates because it said anti-abortion advocates didn't have standing to bring a lawsuit in the case. Under the South Carolina program begun in 2001, drivers may pay a $70 fee to purchase the anti-abortion plates, with the revenue going toward local crisis pregnancy programs. Specialty plates with abortion-rights slogans are not offered. Planned Parenthood (news - web sites) of South Carolina, which filed the lawsuit, had argued the program amounts to "viewpoint discrimination" by state officials since they allow expression of only one side of the abortion debate. South Carolina countered that the plates are "government speech" that entitles them to allow a particular viewpoint without an obligation to include dissenting views. Otherwise, the state would have to allow countering views to license plates touching on any public policy matter, such as "God Bless America." The plate is "the most recent and apparently most visible expression in a long line of statements asserting the state's clear and oft-repeated preference for childbirth over abortion," state officials argued in their filing. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (news - web sites), based in Richmond, Va., disagreed and ruled the plates were unconstitutional. It rejected South Carolina's claim that Planned Parenthood lacked "standing," or an actual injury, since it never applied for a specialty plate under a separate law allowing nonprofit groups to seek plates bearing their insignia for members. The 4th Circuit also covers Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. The ruling was at odds with one by the 5th Circuit, which ruled in December 2002 that Louisiana abortion rights advocates had no standing to sue that state over its anti-abortion plate. The 5th Circuit covers the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. Planned Parenthood may "base their claim of injury on the state's unequal treatment of two viewpoints in the abortion debate, specifically, its promotion of only the pro-life view," the 4th Circuit stated. According to South Carolina's court filing, 11 other states offer driver "Choose Life" plates and lawmakers in 11 additional states are considering providing them. States offering the plates are: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma and Tennessee. The states that have "undertaken legislative action to some degree" on anti-abortion plates are: California, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia. The law allowing the "Choose Life" plate was signed by South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges in 2001 and included in a bill that allowed NASCAR (news - web sites) and other specialty plates. In 2003, U.S. District Judge Patrick Michael Duffy issued a preliminary injunction blocking South Carolina from issuing the plates until the case was heard. The case is Rose v. Planned Parenthood of South Carolina, 04-429. ___ On the Net: Supreme Court: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

QUOTE(Pale Hose Jon @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 11:00 AM) :puke :puke :puke You think that's bad... Check this out.. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42495 'Abortionist 'flushed babies down toilet' Doctor's receptionist also faces charges for illegally performing terminations... Police in New Jersey say an abortionist who flushed the remains of babies down toilets and tossed bloodied materials into garbage bins is now facing charges, just days after his receptionist was arrested for illegally performing terminations. According to the Asbury Park Press, Dr. Flavius Thompson, 60, turned himself in at the Lakewood Police Department this week, and is accused of operating an abortion clinic without a license to process or store medical waste. Thompson's office is at the Pleasant Women's Pavilion, a licensed abortion clinic, where a search warrant was executed last Saturday. Officials say he's charged with violating the New Jersey Water Pollution Act by flushing "products of abortions" into the sanitary sewer. The Press says Thompson also faces a charge of "dumping class-three regulated medical waste, mainly human blood products and items saturated, dripping or caked with human blood into the trash to be carted to a place not authorized to accept medical waste by the state Department of Environmental Protection." The charges against Thompson come in the same week his receptionist was arrested for allegedly performing abortions without a license. Liza Berdiel, 24, is accused of injecting abortion-inducing drugs into three patients. Prosecutors say she performed the abortions after-hours or when Thompson was not working. Both Berdiel and Thompson have been released by authorities pending future court dates. "This investigation exposes some of the many abuses that occur daily inside the so-called 'safe and legal' abortion industry,'' Marie Tasy, executive director of New Jersey Right to Life, told LifeNews.com.

QUOTE(Pale Hose Jon @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 10:58 AM) This kid needs some prison time, at 17 he is eligible for an adult sentence, and i think he has earned it. But.. ONLY 3 years. This kid is a sociopath. This will lead to larger more violent crimes, IMO. Remember his name.. we'll be hearing it again. :headshake

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0...4751301,00.html Sunday January 23, 2005 11:46 PM By CATHERINE TSAI Associated Press Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A Roman Catholic church buried the ashes of hundreds of aborted fetuses Sunday, a day after the 32nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal, drawing criticism that the church was exploiting women's grief to make a political statement. A crowd of 250 parishioners prayed as the ashes were buried in the Sacred Heart of Mary Church cemetery, while a handful of protesters gathered nearby holding signs that read, ``This church is a grave robber.'' A mortuary hired by the abortion clinic to dispose of the fetuses had been giving the ashes to the church for years to be buried at a memorial. Dr. Warren Hern, clinic director, said he had no idea such an arrangement had been made and said his contract required the mortuary to bury the ashes in its own plot. The church agreed to return the remains of 300 to 500 fetuses that had been cremated in November before the service began Sunday. The church had been planning to bury up to 1,000 fetuses. Seven bags containing remains from miscarriages also were buried. Organizers said they wanted to give the fetuses the burial they deserved and provide a place for women who have had abortions to grieve and mourn. ``I think they misunderstand what we're doing,'' service organizer Susan LaVelle said. She said the parish has held unannounced burials twice a year since 2001, but the parish priest agreed to make the burial public this year. LaVelle said the timing of the service so close to the Saturday anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision was a coincidence. But Kate Horle, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, has said many of Hern's patients were devastated by the news of a religious service. ``Our concern is for the women who had personal relationships with Dr. Hern and their understanding of what would happen with the fetuses,'' she said. ``That trust was violated with a third party.'' Horle said most of Hern's patients have fetuses with fatal anomalies. His clinic specializes in ``late abortion for fetal disorders,'' according to its Web site. Hern did not immediately return a message seeking comment Sunday, but called the service last week ``a cynical exploitation of private grief for political purposes.'' Doug Kramer, 18, said his family attended the burial because his sister considered an abortion 14 years ago but instead gave her baby up for adoption. ``It's great to bring this out to the public,'' he said. ``The word needs to be spread. Abortion does stop a beating heart. It's not giving a girl or boy a chance at life.'' ^--- Boulder Abortion Clinic: http://www.drhern.com Sacred Heart of Mary: http://sacredheartofmary.org

QUOTE(mreye @ Jan 24, 2005 -> 10:47 AM) Seriously, though, how many times have you really done that? I'll start the coffee, get in the shower and when I get out, I've got coffee all over the counter and floor. Ummm... zero.