Steff

I've got no problem with this spiff. Although I do have a problem with being attacked for asking a question. Aparently I misunderstood his comment.. and that's all he needed to say.

You've got that right... It's nice and peaceful around here during the week.

Your quote: "1) the development of a fetus is extremely effected by what a woman does to her body. With the lack of personal responsibility so rampant in our culture, its no wonder children are born with more and more abnormalities, such as ADD, Atism, and (dare I say it) homosexuality." And I never once said your knowledge was sealed and complete.. I think that's pretty obvious. I asked you a specific question about a specific comment. Can't just answer the question.. instead you choose to attack and call me names. Typical. Whatever floats your boat. Kepp up with the new you.. you've given many a clear picture as to what you really are. Have a wonderful day..

Is that your round about apology for posting ignorance on the subject? Because.. and no "personal offense".. but placing the blame for birth defects solely on the female is pretty ignorant.

You guys arguing are all wrong... The Atari 2600 system is still the best!!

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/adhd.cfm#cause Genetics. Attention disorders often run in families, so there are likely to be genetic influences. Studies indicate that 25 percent of the close relatives in the families of ADHD children also have ADHD, whereas the rate is about 5 percent in the general population.6 Many studies of twins now show that a strong genetic influence exists in the disorder.7 Researchers continue to study the genetic contribution to ADHD and to identify the genes that cause a person to be susceptible to ADHD. Since its inception in 1999, the Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Molecular Genetics Network has served as a way for researchers to share findings regarding possible genetic influences on ADHD. http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageSer...me=autismcauses What Causes Autism? There is no known single cause for autism, but it is generally accepted that it is caused by abnormalities in brain structure or function. Brain scans show differences in the shape and structure of the brain in autistic versus non-autistic children. Researchers are investigating a number of theories, including the link between heredity, genetics and medical problems. In many families, there appears to be a pattern of autism or related disabilities, further supporting a genetic basis to the disorder. While no one gene has been identified as causing autism, researchers are searching for irregular segments of genetic code that autistic children may have inherited. It also appears that some children are born with a susceptibility to autism, but researchers have not yet identified a single "trigger" that causes autism to develop. Other researchers are investigating the possibility that under certain conditions, a cluster of unstable genes may interfere with brain development resulting in autism. Still other researchers are investigating problems during pregnancy or delivery as well as environmental factors such as viral infections, metabolic imbalances, and exposure to environmental chemicals. Autism tends to occur more frequently than expected among individuals who have certain medical conditions, including Fragile X syndrome, tuberous sclerosis, congenital rubella syndrome, and untreated phenylketonuria (PKU). Some harmful substances ingested during pregnancy also have been associated with an increased risk of autism. Early in 2002, The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) prepared a literature review of hazardous chemical exposures and autism and found no compelling evidence for an association; however, there was very limited research and more needs to be done. The question of a relationship between vaccines and autism continues to be debated. In a 2001 investigation by the Institute of Medicine, a committee concluded that the "evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship.... between MMR vaccines and autistic spectrum disorders (ASD)." The committee acknowledged, however, that "they could not rule out" the possibility that the MMR vaccine could contribute to ASD in a small number of children. While other researchers agree the data does not support a link between the MMR and autism, more research is clearly needed. Whatever the cause, it is clear that children with autism and PDD are born with the disorder or born with the potential to develop it. It is not caused by bad parenting. Autism is not a mental illness. Children with autism are not unruly kids who choose not to behave. Furthermore, no known psychological factors in the development of the child have been shown to cause autism. But I suppose it's easier to blame the woman for not taking care of herself...

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Kap must have just gotten his yearly supply of chap stick..

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50 Ways To Confuse Your Roommate 1. Smoke jimson weed. Do whatever comes naturally. 2. Switch the sheets on your beds while s/he is at class. 3. Twitch a lot. 4. Pretend to talk while pretending to be asleep. 5. Steal a fishtank. Fill it with beer and dump sardines in it. Talk to them. 6. Become a subgenius. 7. Inject his/her twinkies with a mixture of Dexatrim and MSG. 8. Learn to levitate. While your roommate is looking away, float up out of your seat. When s/he turns to look, fall back down and grin. 9. Speak in tongues. 10. Move you roommate's personal effects around. Start subtlely. Gradually work up to big things, and eventually glue everything s/he owns to the ceiling. 11. Walk and talk backwards. 12. Spend all your money on Jolt Cola. Drink it all. Stack the cans in the middle of your room. Number them. 13. Spend all your money on Transformers. Play with them at night. If your roommate says anything, tell him/her with a straight face, "They're more than meets the eye." 14. Recite entire movie scripts (e.g. "The Road Warrior," "Repo Man," Casablanca,") almost inaudibly. 15. Kill roaches with a monkey wrench while playing Wagnerian arias on a kazoo. If your roommate complains, explain that it is for your performance art class (or hit him/her with the wrench). 16. Collect all your urine in a small jug. 17. Chain yourself to your roommate's bed. Get him/her to bring you food. 18. Get a computer. Leave it on when you are not using it. Turn it off when you are. 19. Ask your roommate if your family can move in "just for a couple of weeks." 20. Buy as many back issues of Field and Stream as you can. Pretend to masturbate while reading them. 21. Fake a heart attack. When your roommate gets the paramedics to come, pretend nothing happened. 22. Eat glass. 23. Smoke ballpoint pens. 24. Smile. All the time. 25. Collect dog ###### in baby food jars. Sort them according to what you think the dog ate. 26. Burn all your waste paper while eying your roommate suspiciously. 27. Hide a bunch of potato chips and Ho Hos in the bottom of a trash can. When you get hungry, root around in the trash. Find the food, and eat it. If your roommate empties the trash before you get hungry, demand that s/he reimburse you. 28. Leave a declaration of war on your roommate's desk. Include a list of grievances. 29. Paste boogers on the windows in occult patterns. 30. Shoot rubber bands at your roommate while his/her back is turned, and then look away quickly. 31. Dye all your underwear lime green. 32. Spill a lot of beer on his/her bed. Swim. 33. Buy three loaves of stale bread. Grow mold in the closet. 34. Hide your underwear and socks in your roommate's closet. Accuse him/her of stealing it. 35. Remove your door. Ship it to your roommate's parents (postage due). 36. Pray to Azazoth or Zoroaster. Sacrifice something nasty. 37. Whenever your roommate walks in, wait one minute and then stand up. Announce that you are going to take a shower. Do so. Keep this up for three weeks. 38. Array thirteen toothbrushes of different colors on your dresser. Refuse to discuss them. 39. Paint your half of the room black. Or paisley. 40. Whenever he/she is about to fall asleep, ask questions that start with "Didja ever wonder why...." Be creative. 41. Shave one eyebrow. 42. Put your mattress underneath your bed. Sleep down under there and pile your dirty clothes on the empty bedframe. If your roommate comments, mutter "Gotta save space," twenty times while twitching violently. 43. Put horseradish in your shoes. 44. Shelve all your books with the spines facing the wall. Complain loudly that you can never find the book that you want. 45. Always flush the toilet three times. 46. Subsist entirely on pickles for a week. Vomit often. 47. Buy a copy of Frankie Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka," and play it at least 6 hours a day. If your roommate complains, explain that it's an assignment for your primitive cultures class. 48. Give him/her an allowance. 49. Listen to radio static. 50. Open your window shades before you go to sleep each night. Close them as soon as you wake up.

These are from a book called "Disorder in the Court." They are statements people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters. __________________________________________________ Judge: "Well, Sir, I have reviewed this case and I've decided to give your wife $775 a week." Husband: "That's fair, your honor. I'll try to send her a few bucks myself." ______________________________________________ Q: What is your date of birth? A: July fifteenth. Q: What year? A: Every year _____________________________________________ Q: What gear were you in at moment of the impact? A: Gucci sweats and Reeboks. _____________________________________________ Q: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your memory at all? A: Yes. Q: And in what ways does it affect your memory? A: I forget. Q: You forget. Can you give us an example of something you've forgotten? ______________________________________________ Q: How old is your son, the one living with you. A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. Q: How long has he lived with you? A: Forty-five years. ______________________________________________ Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning? A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?" Q: And why did that upset you? A: My name is Susan. _________________________________________ Q: And where was the location of the accident? A: Approximately milepost 499. Q: And where is milepost 499? A: Probably between milepost 498 and 500. _______________________________________ Q: Sir, what is your IQ? A: Well, I can see pretty well, I think. ________________________________________ Q: Did you blow your horn or anything? A: After the accident? Q: Before the accident. A: Sure, I played for 10 years. I even went to school for it. ________________________________________ Q: Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing? A: Yes. Q: Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car? A: Yes, sir. Q: What did she say? A: What disco am I at? ________________________________________ Q: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning? ________________________________________ Q: The youngest son, the 20-year old, how old is he? _________________________________________ Q: Were you present when your picture was taken? _________________________________________ Q: So the date of conception of (the baby) was August 8th? A: Yes. Q: And what were you doing at that time? _________________________________________ Q: She had three children, right? A: Yes. Q: How many were boys? A: None. Q: Were there any girls? __________________________________________ Q: You say the stairs went down to the basement? A: Yes. Q: And these stairs, did they go up also? __________________________________________ Q: How was your first marriage terminated? A: By death. Q: And by whose death was it terminated? _________________________________________ Q: Can you describe the individual? A: He was about medium height and had a beard. Q: Was this a male or a female? _________________________________________ Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition that I sent to your attorney? A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. ________________________________________ Q: Doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? A: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. ________________________________________ Q: All your responses must be oral, OK? A: OK. Q: What school did you go to? A: Oral. _________________________________________ Q: Do you recall the time that you examined the body? A: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m. Q: And Mr. Dennington was dead at the time? A: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy. ___________________________________________ Q: Are you qualified to give a urine sample? ___________________________________________ Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for pulse? A: No. Q: Did you check for blood pressure? A: No. Q: Did you check for breathing? A: No. Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? A: No. Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor? A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. Q: But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless? A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere.

OMG.. I just got that.. ME :dips***

I'm in favor of global warming... it's damn cold here in the winter time!!!

Another step closer to hell for you..

That's not nice Tex...

And this is hysterical!! http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/200...ling041007.html California town wants artist to correct spelling Last Updated Thu, 07 Oct 2004 10:51:49 EDT LIVERMORE, CALIF. - City councillors in Livermore, Calif., want to spend $6,000 US to correct the spelling on a large mural outside the city's new library. A misspelled William "Shakespere" on the ceramic mural at the Livermore Library. (AP photo) Councillors and spectators were shocked when the $40,000 US ceramic mural was unveiled outside the new library in June, revealing the misspelled names of Einstein, Shakespeare, Vincent Van Gogh, Michelangelo and seven other historical figures. "Our library director is very frustrated that she has this lovely new library and it has all these misspellings in front," city councillor Lorraine Dietrich told the Associated Press. Dietrich is one of three council members who voted this week to authorize paying another $6,000 US, plus expenses, to fly artist Maria Alquilar from Florida to fix the errors. Livermore city council has four councillors plus Mayor Marshall Kamena. Alquilar told the Associated Press she is willing to fix the five-metre mural, but had no apology for misspelling 11 names, including "Eistein," "Shakespere" and "Michaelangelo." There are 175 names on the mural. "The importance of this work is that it is supposed to unite people," Alquilar said. "They are denigrating my work and the purpose of this work." She created the work on her own time and it sat for two years before the city installed it. She said plenty of people who could and should have noticed the spelling errors had been around during the installation. True artists, she said, wouldn't have noticed the errors. "The people that are into humanities, and are into Blake's concept of enlightenment, they are not looking at the words," she said. "In their mind, the words register correctly." Livermore is a town of about 80,000 people located 65 kilometres southeast of San Francisco.

Really.. how about this..?? http://www.ktvu.com/news/3837596/detail.html Appeals Court Rules That Whales Can't Sue Navy POSTED: 4:23 pm PDT October 20, 2004 UPDATED: 4:58 pm PDT October 20, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court decided Wednesday that marine mammals have no standing to sue to stop the U.S. Navy from using sonar. In upholding a lower court decision, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco said the world's cetaceans -- whales, porpoises and dolphins -- have no standing under the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act or the National Environmental Policy Act. If lawmakers "intended to take the extraordinary step of authorizing animals as well as people and legal entities to sue, they could, and should, have said so plainly," said Judge William A. Fletcher, writing for the panel. The Navy uses a type of sonar that helps detect quiet submarines at long range. Low frequency transmitters emit sonar pulses or "pings" that can travel hundreds of miles through the water. "The negative effects of underwater noise on marine life are well recognized," the court said. Even the Navy acknowledged any "human-made noise that is strong enough to be heard has the potential to reduce (mask) the ability of marine mammals to hear natural sounds," according to the court. In arguing for the cetaceans, Hilo, Hawaii-based lawyer Lanny Sinkin asked for an injunction banning long-range sonar until President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld consult with the National Marine Fisheries Services and prepare an environmental impact statement. Sinkin did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Wednesday.

Make sure you watch the video.. http://www.ktvu.com/news/3841819/detail.ht..._11000010222004 DOUGLASVILLE, Ga. -- A Georgia family is trying to figure out why a woman moved into their home while they were away on vacation. Video: Family Finds Uninvited Guest Beverly Mitchell, of the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville, said she returned from 2½ weeks in Greece to find that her personal belongings -- including clothes, furniture and dishes -- had been removed. She said most of the carpet had also been taken out and the house had been redecorated. "I was ready to strangle this woman," Mitchell said. "How could you not know someone lives here?" Sheriff's deputies found Beverly Valentine, 53, in a bathroom and charged her with burglary. Police said Valentine told them she used a shovel to break into the house. Beverly Mitchell Mitchell said the woman had the electricity switched over to her name and also moved in a washer and dryer. She brought in her own furniture, clothes and decorations and even repainted rooms in the house. "Now we have portraits hanging on the wall that we didn't have before," Mitchell said. "And we've got all kinds of new appliances." Mitchell has moved all of Valentine's belongings out but doesn't know what to do with them. She hopes the woman's relatives will reclaim the goods. "It's the most bizarre thing I've ever seen," Mitchell said. Investigators at the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said they are unsure why Valentine moved into the woman's home. The suspect has not yet explained her actions. "She's never met her before so we really don't know why this lady picked this particular house," said sheriff's Lt. Bobby Holmes.

Bill probably making a little extra coinage.. they did good with that on the Apprentice.

There were 10 and 12 year olds in the group with their parents. The bus was 20 feet from us. I can understand their logic.. but they could have handled it much better than forcing all of us down onto the street. They ask no questions, and we were not being loud. It just pissed me off that they took the "get down or we'll shoot" attitude rather than.. "hmm.. I see youngins with that group.. maybe they aren't causing trouble.."

I was downtown for one of the Bulls celebratons and I swear I was scared to death I was going to be shot.. by the COPS! We were walking to a bus (there were about 25 of us that had gone together) and they thought we were a "mob" walking across the street from Chelios' bar. Made us get on the ground, face down and everything. I was scared s***less.

That's cause it's a crrraaazzzzyyyy idea.

Classy bunch there. Classy.

Henry is known near and far...

I know. They do.

You would be very surprised as to who lurks on these boards and even more surprised who repeats things from these (here, WSI, and the AOL) boards. Grobber posts on WSI on a regular basis.. and we've caught Jay repeating things posted there. And we have planted "crap" in the past and Jay's repeated it.