FlaSoxxJim

I envy your ability to see everything as so black and white, Nuke. Williams is absolutely the perfect candidate for clemency, and his sentence should be commuted to life imprisonment. He has reformed himself to about the highest degree anyone can. His books, web community intervention sites, etc., as well as his changed life in prison is testament that people can and do change. Admittedly a Crip co-founder, and possibly guilty of the murder charges during the robberies he went to tial for, justice certainly can be served by keeping him incercerated for the rest of his life. But several constitutional violations and extraordinary circumstances surrounding his trial should alone be sufficient for clemency if there was any real justice. Above and beyond that, Williams is an asset to society for the work he has done from inside prison. life without parole is a plenty severe sentence, and it allows Williams to continue to serve as a role model/cautionary tale and to continue to affect positive change.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 12, 2005 -> 08:55 AM) I'm thinking how to make money off grandma . . . "When I'm trying to beat the last boss, and I've been at it for 21 hours straight, the last thing I want to do is take a break for my incontinence. That's why I depend on Depends adult diapers . . ." I'm Grandma Hardcore, and when I have to kick some serious reanimated zombie ass I don't let my arthritis get in the way. . .

Ha! Ain't she a pistol? Rock on Grandma Hardcore.

Here's one of those guys you never see too much of around here, but Happy Birthday to him anyway.

Obviously the milk companies are not giving the kind of kickbacks that Frito-Lay apparently must be.

No matter where you go in the world, it's good to know you're never very far away from a whole lotta dumb.

Happy Borthday, Bro!

I'd say it's good whistleblowing and not muckraking, actually. But, yeah, scientists are long aware of how significantly mercury "amplifies" up the marine food web even if it hasn't done a whole lot at the consumer level. To be safese, you should either eat consume products from lower trophic levels or top predators who predominantly forage away from waters near industrial point sources. Of course, with the urbanization of all of our estuaries and coasts that is a pretty tall order.

You guys can have Jomentum, we don't need him. How about we swap him for McCain?

Richard Pryor changed the whole landscape as far as standup goes. R.I.P. Richard.

QUOTE(soxman352000 @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 10:30 PM) I would give a very special gift to the nurses at Luthern General Hospital. The doctors there have parking right next to the hospital, but the nurses have to walk to a parking garage located across the street. Its a very busy street, so I would either try to buy land closer to the hospital and build a new parking lot for them or I would build a tunnel that would go above that busy street. They did such a wonderful job taking care of me while I was sick that is why I think they deserve to have a better place to park I got a very special gift for those nurses. . .

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 10:34 PM) I don't know what the rest of y'all are doing tonight...but I just feel the urge to jump up and down on my 2 bad knees right now pumping my fists. Why? I just turned in my last final project and final exam. So, God willing if I pass those 2 courses...I am completely done with course work. Completely done. As in...I never have to take another class in my life. Ever. After over 20 years, counting every level. Yippee. Now I get to actually have dinner. Face it, you're a lifer. You'll be back to coursework for something or another in a few years.

QUOTE(SnB @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 11:36 PM) I was forced to have indian food tonight. ....not that impressive I love most Indian food, but you do have to be in the mood. Tandori chicken is the best.

QUOTE(THEWOOD @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 08:49 PM) that sounds really good Mmm, and it was. Sometimes simple, home-cooked comfort food is the perfect meal.

Whoever he is, he sounds like a bad guy, so this is good.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 08:14 PM) LOL. Not when I was 12. I was talking about your teacher.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 06:59 PM) Crap. We had to write critiques of everyone in my seminar's NSF grant proposals. And mine were WAAAAAAAAAAAAY harsher than everyone else's. I can't tell if I'm an elitist b**** or just a plain old b****. Crap. Guess I won't have friends again this year. . . Way to scuttle the competition. Just like a real scientist. Just wait until you get to be on the comittee to review the proposals. Now that's power.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 06:50 PM) Class trip. Can you believe that? 'nuff said.

Shephard's pie - as soon as I get off the computer and peel potatoes.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) That's cool then. These types of questions just scare me, because the second you say something like I want to give an X-Box to my kid, then the next person chimes in with "dinner with Jesus for the Pope" and then you feel stupid. There was a question on another board years ago as to who you would want to have dinner with. I posted Joe Lansdale (my favorite author) and felt cool about it. 25 replies of "Jesus" later I felt pretty stupid. I just want to figure out what that "ideal" gift is for my wife so that I could feel good about what I buy her just for once. See, they were all thinking that with Jesus, you know you're not going to run out of fish, bread, or wine during dinner. Lansdale, on the other hand - he seems like a guy that would forget to bring the wine.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) To bad there are just no good candidates for this award. Z-to-the-I-to-the-N-to-the-G!!!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 11:28 AM) Lick my love pump. Thank you. I mean, no thank you. I mean . . .

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 10:59 AM) How about an award for best poster with 6000+ posts that has never been nominated for an award? Good idea, except as soon as that person (whoever could it be?) was nominated, he would by definition be disqualified.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 10:36 AM) d minor, i've found it's the saddest of all keys. people weep instantly when they hear it. Now THAT'S the correct way to quote Tap! It's very pretty.. . What do you call this?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 9, 2005 -> 10:25 AM) Cb? = B = not sad, unless you have to play bar chords until your fingers hurt.