Steff

QUOTE(greg775 @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 02:06 AM) Did you notice Big Hurt was wearing green this year? Ohh boo hoo. The guy could still play and wanted to still play so because of loyalty he was just supposed to sit at home cause he wouldn't be wearing a Six uni.. It's a 2 way street so if you're going to try to use that (weak, imo) argument at least don't be hypocritical about it.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Oct 31, 2006 -> 08:18 AM) Tex, not saying you said these, but I remember lots of people on here raving when conservatives get hit with pies, or have hecklers try to talk them down from a speech or something. babs should just stay out of politics, at least in her shows. She is supposed to be an entertainer, and by taking political positions, she is potentially alienating half her audience, like the Dixie Chicks did. Shut up and sing like the trained mokey you are, and spout your politcs after the show. That being said, they should be charged, just like the pie throwers should have been, etc. Game over.

"In my 26 years in the profession, I have never seen a mother trying to poison her own child," said Rodrigues" Well then, you are an idiot who needs a new pair of glasses. Females who use DURING pregnancy are doing the exact same thing.

Rex's link. I read about the shop way back when and thought "hmm, that's good. She realizes she has to step up to the plate to feed herself". I don't think she was rooting for him to kick the bucket... but who knows... and I don't think (hope) she realized she would hit the lotto again with his demise. Yes, it sucks for the innocent folks. I've said that a million times that Ken was a dirtbag scum that I wish could have somehow gotten his. But since I've got no control over the situation I'm gonna hope she does something to make good and help those her husband destroyed. Eternal optimist. Sorry, again.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 30, 2006 -> 06:29 PM) And the chances of that are?? If the NYT info is right and the estate still owns $8 million in stock in two outside companies another $25 million in real estate holdings, various properties in Aspen, Colo., and a Houston apartment, then she's got a whole lot more than what she needs to live on. Those are ill-gotten gains as far as I'm concerned if they are the fruits of illegal business dealings. If I made millions of dollars selling drugs and got busted for it but then had teh good fortune to die before I could appeal a verdict, should my widow be allowed to keep the money I made dealing drugs bacause I was the bad guy and not her? Slim to none. I understand and agree. I am aware. Don't hate the player, hate the game. I got nothing else. Sorry.

I'm sure this wont be the popular opinion, but while it sucks total behind for all those he screwed she didn't do it and I don't think she should be penalized. Maybe (hopefully) she will have a heart and still make good on some of the damages and only keep what she needs to live on.

QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 11:01 PM) Fair enough. I'll talk to you more about it when everybody for the most part has gotten a chance to see it. There is one part about the movie that made absolutely no sense to me. Hated the last 2 minutes. Loved the rest. I dont want a 4th... though it looks like there will be one.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 05:36 PM) If you never seen "The Killing Fields"... I recommend this film. It's got classic late 70s, early 80s chaos in the story telling, but the acting is superb as well as the gripping story. as for "SAW"... I don't on ever "seeing" these films, I just like to know the "plot twists" and who the guy was that did all of the killing. PM me or ***TEASER alert*** your message. Either way, that's about all the interest I have in the movies. THat's the beauty of the movies (the first 2). Jigsaw didn't "kill" anyone. QUOTE(Jordan4life_2006 @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 04:51 PM) Just got back from Saw 3. I'm num right now. The movie is utterly amazing. Any questions you might've had about Saw and Saw 2 are answered during this film. And like the review that Steff posted earlier said, that's it. This is the end for me. There better not be a Saw 4. It would be totally pointless. Oh, and this movie is not for those with weak stomachs. So watch at your own risk. It's much more graphic than the first 2 IMO. Uhhh.. I am sooooo excited to see it . We're going to see Dolgin at an appearance tonight then going to a midnite show. Thanks for the heads up J4L!!

QUOTE(Soxbadger @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 02:42 PM) No matter what it just is a sad circumstance, especially if the father really did not do it. Umm.. and that the girl was brutally mutilated...

Those guys at Google are just so damn creative...

I've been looking for a reeeeallyy good Billy for a couple years now. I bid on the one used in Saw from some Hollywood prop auction but got beat out at the last second. A couple hundo's. We're going to see it tonight.

Yo.. this thing working...??? LOL.

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LOL. I found a new site...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/27/female.c...n.ap/index.html Female circumcision trial may be first in U.S. POSTED: 1:49 p.m. EDT, October 27, 2006 LAWRENCEVILLE, Georgia (AP) -- The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow. Khalid Adem, a 31-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, is charged with aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Human rights observers said they believe this is the first criminal case in the U.S. involving the 5,000-year-old practice. Prosecutors say Adem used scissors to remove his daughter's clitoris in their apartment in 2001. The child's mother said she did not discover it until more than a year later. "He said he wanted to preserve her virginity," Fortunate Adem, the girl's mother, testified this week. "He said it was the will of God. I became angry in my mind. I thought he was crazy." The girl, now 7, also testified, clutching a teddy bear and saying that Adem "cut me on my private part." Adem cried loudly as his daughter left the courtroom. Testifying on his own behalf Friday, Adem said he never circumcised his daughter or asked anyone else to do so. He said growing up in Addis Ababa, the capitol of Ethiopia, he had never heard of the practice until he was 11 and heard a school lesson against it. He said the capitol is a developed city and he considers the practice more prevalent in rural areas. "As far as I'm concerned, there is no way that female genital mutilation would be accepted," said Adem. Adem, who came to the U.S. as a political refugee fleeing civil war in Ethiopia, said he is a legal U.S. resident and is working toward his citizenship. Female circumcision is common in Adem's homeland, and his lawyer, Mark Hill, acknowledged that Adem's daughter had been cut. But he said his client did not do it, and he implied that the family of Fortunate Adem, who immigrated from South Africa when she was 6, may have had the procedure done. The Adems divorced in 2003, and Hill suggested that the couple's daughter was encouraged to testify against her father by her mother, who has full custody. If convicted, Adem, a clerk at a suburban Atlanta gas station, could get up to 40 years in prison. The U.S. State Department estimates that up to 130 million women had undergone circumcision worldwide as of 2001. Knives, razors or even sharp stones are usually used, according to a 2001 department report. The tools often are not sterilized, and often, many girls are circumcised in the same ceremony, leading to infection. It is unknown how many girls have died from the procedure, either during the cutting or from infections, or years later in childbirth. Nightmares, depression, shock and feelings of betrayal are common psychological side effects, according to the federal report. Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of Equality Now, an international human rights group, said female circumcision is most widely practiced in a 28-country swath of Africa. More than 90 percent of women in Ethiopia are believed to have been subjected to the practice, she said, and even more in places like Egypt and Somalia. "It is a preparation for marriage," Bien-Aime said. "If the girl is not circumcised, her chances of being married are very slim." The practice crosses ethnic and cultural lines and is not tied to a particular religion. Activists say the practice is intended to deny women sexual pleasure. In its most extreme form, the clitoris and parts of the labia are removed and the labia that remain are stitched together. "I had maybe read about it in Reader's Digest or some other journal, but not really considered it a possibility here," said Dr. Rose Badaruddin, the pediatrician for the Adems' daughter. Many refugees from Ethiopia and Somalia come to Georgia through a federal refugee resettlement program. "With immigration, the immigrants travel with their traditions," Bien-Aime said. "Female genital mutilation is not an exception." Federal law specifically bans the practice, but many states do not have a law addressing it. Georgia lawmakers, with the support of Fortunate Adem, passed an anti-mutilation law last year. However, Khalid Adem is not being tried under that law, since it did not exist when his daughter's cutting allegedly happened. Bastard...

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 12:59 PM) Who contacted who to do the ad? Both Dem's and Republican's have contacted him to do ad's for the cause as well as him offering as well as him taking matters into his own hands and going to speak before congress unaccounced or pre-planned.

wgas

QUOTE(Soxy @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 09:45 AM) DAMMIT! I just got back from the doctor. I have a sinus infection, ear infection AND strep throat. Wtf? I didn't even think anything was wrong other than a minor sinus infection. And I had a fever of 101. Seriously, I must be part pitbull because I feel no pain. Oh lovely. 3 people in my office have strep - and being the troopers they are came to work versus staying home as they were told to do - and I have had an earache for 2 days now.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 27, 2006 -> 09:29 AM) My problem with this is when he says "Republicans even want to criminalize... blah blah blah". That's horses***. Do what he does, fine. Stay out of the political ads. Because the republican that is facing the dem in that area DOES want to criminalize...bla, bla, bla..? Maybe that one incident was horses***, but you did say "I'm pretty sure that it was planned by the Dems to use MJF," and that part is horses***. MJF marches to the beat of his own drummer. No one uses him for anything.

Are donations tax deductable?

QUOTE(The Ginger Kid @ Oct 26, 2006 -> 04:43 PM) I'll be surprised if another game is played in Detroit in 2006. LOL. World Champs for another day..

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 26, 2006 -> 05:34 PM) I just wish he wouldn't have done the ads and just stuck to what he does best... and that is speaking out on behalf of finding a cure for his disease. By doing the ads, he threw himself into a spectacle that should have never been. The thing is, I'm pretty sure that it was planned by the Dems to use MJF, for the very reasons it's doing right now... attention. And that's the part I disagree with. You can't be serious... He's been all over the place on SCR since he was diagnosed. He's been in congress, screaming at the senate, even begging Bush personally. Ever hear about that...? Nope. Not until Rush makes some stupid ass comment does it turn into something dirty. QUOTE(jasonxctf @ Oct 26, 2006 -> 05:09 PM) He trembled uncontrollably, and his legs shook, but he explained it was actually a side effect of not taking enough medication. He told me he reduced his dosage because he didn’t want to have dyskinesia, which is the side effect of too much medication, and which causes the swaying back and forth that was so evident in the controversial ad for Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill. Fox said that he can never tell from one day to the next how serious his symptoms will be. It’s a crapshoot. He talked about politics and how he supports both Democrats and Republicans -- he’s a big backer of Arlen Specter, among others – and he spoke with great feeling about how he’s living with this disease. Too much medicine screws him up, not enough screws him up... wow. Some deck he ended up getting. Clearly a master manipulator as well. :rolleyes

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Oct 26, 2006 -> 03:17 PM) My wife straightens up the house, does dishes and sometimes laundry before the cleaning lady gets here. As she puts it: " I can't have her see the house looking like THIS" Ditto.

QUOTE(Jenksismyb**** @ Oct 26, 2006 -> 02:40 PM) If he just had a 'bad day' with the disease when he filmed it, fine, there's nothing wrong with it. But from what I saw in the two clips, it looked like it was a clear attempt to gain a sympathy vote, which as I've said is BS. While I'd like to agree, I just don't trust the media, and more importantly, the political parties, to make accurate, neutral ads using 'truth.' As any 'reality' show fan knows, 'reality' can be manipulated to produce the show the creators want. "Truth" can be manipulated in the same way. In his case you don't even have to look at the media. He's been in front of congress at least a dozen times over the past 5 years begging for SCR. As for his shaking, I strongly suggest you watch the clip from his congressional appearances in '02, '03, and '05 specifically. He shakes a lot when trying to stay in one spot. His reality is he has Parkinson's. No manipulating that.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Oct 26, 2006 -> 02:33 PM) You did see that the Ted Danson article was from The Onion, right? No, I didn't. Does it make a difference though? MJF, Chris, Lance Armstrong, etc, etc... I think the point I was making is valid. Most of the time people don't think about illnesses unless they happen to them or someone they are close to. Very sad.