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QUOTE(Jeckle2000 @ Jan 4, 2005 -> 03:15 AM) That is just sick. I'm going to think twice before I order the chicken mcnuggets again... Damn why do they have to be so tasty :banghead Cuz they spend months mixing chemicals to make it that way. The fries scare the s*** out of me at McDonalds. For anybody who has seen the extras on "Super Size Me", they buy a Big Mac, a Filet o' Fish etc. and put them into individual jars. They put McDonalds fries in a jar. Then they get an independent mom and pop store burger and fries and put them into 2 more jars. So there are 8 jars and they show it 2 weeks later and just about everything is moldy. They come back every week until about 6 weeks in. The fries from McDonalds have not molded, have not gone bad and look like they just fell out of the cardboard "Super Size" box...after a month and a half of just being in a class jar in an office.

And note -- I'm just saying -- if people are going to b**** about Kofi being callous with being on vacation and taking 3 days to come back, they also need to rag on El Presidente and his massive amount of vacation time that he's been taking. Just needed to clarify.

Is there anywhere to find out how much vacation time Kofi has taken with his years in service? According to an August 2003 article in the Washington Post, President Bush has spent all or part of 166 days during his presidency at his Crawford, Texas, ranch or en route. Add the time spent at or en route to the presidential retreat of Camp David and at the Bush family estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, and Bush has taken 250 days off as of August 2003. That's 27% of his presidency spent on vacation. Although to be fair, much of this time is classified as a "working vacation." Bush isn't the first president to get away from his work. George Bush Sr. took all or part of 543 vacation days at Camp David and in Kennebunkport. Ronald Reagan spent 335 days at or en route to his Santa Barbara, California, ranch during his eight years in office. Of recent presidents, Jimmy Carter took the least days off -- only 79 days, which he usually spent at his home in Georgia. That's less than three weeks a year, which is closer to the average American's paid time off of 13 days per year. What about Clinton? As of December 1999, President Bill Clinton had spent only 152 days on holiday during his two terms, according to CBS News. A former staffer noted Clinton was such a workaholic that "it almost killed Clinton to take one-week vacations during August." In 2000, Clinton cut his summer vacation short to just three days, so he and his wife could concentrate on her Senate race and fundraising for Democrats. While we couldn't find the exact tally for Clinton's last year in office, it's reasonable to expect he didn't increase his vacation rate. And in barely three years in office, George W. Bush has already taken more vacation than Clinton did in seven years. The UN is a good idea but the security council basically can bend it over whenever it wants so s*** takes forever/doesn't get done.

Gleason, I believe that is activist/porn star Mary Carey (activist in the 'Bullets, Not Boobs" campaign to stop the Army from offering plastic surgery and instead spend that $$ on supplies for the soldiers since she is an advocate that non-plastic breasts are better) ::cues the "More You Know" music::

The air of secrecy that has surrounded the 9/11 attacks is a scary one, to say the least. A little off tangent but has some reasons to not necessarily believe the government line regarding the 9/11 attacks as a whole. At least 7 of the hijackers who the US said committed the attacks are alive still -- http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/hijackers.html That shows just the tip of the iceberg in the discrepancies. Plus, if we get out a little bit of the old tin foil -- In the 1960s, there was a program created by the government called Operation Northwoods http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war. Among the actions recommended was "a series of well coordinated incidents to take place in and around" the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This included dressing "friendly" Cubans in Cuban military uniforms and then have them "start riots near the main gate of the base. Others would pretend to be saboteurs inside the base. Ammunition would be blown up, fires started, aircraft sabotaged, mortars fired at the base with damage to installations." The suggested operations grew progressively more outrageous. Another called for an action similar to the infamous incident in February 1898 when an explosion aboard the battleship Maine in Havana harbor killed 266 U.S. sailors. Although the exact cause of the explosion remained undetermined, it sparked the Spanish-American War with Cuba. Incited by the deadly blast, more than one million men volunteered for duty. Lemnitzer and his generals came up with a similar plan. "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," they proposed. But the craziest one on there (and quite eerie) was the plot to "create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States to Jamaica, Guatemala, Panama or Venezuela. The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba. The passengers could be a group of college students off on a holiday or any grouping of persons with a common interest to support chartering a non-scheduled flight." The US government has toyed with the idea of taking down passenger airliners as an excuse for war in the past. On February 26, 1993, the World Trade Center was hit with a truck bomb that killed 6 people. The FBI and US government claimed they had no idea that radical Islamic terrorists could commit such an attack. But is that the truth? But a Dec. 15, 1993 Chicago Tribune article states that it was an FBI informant that built the bomb that was used. Even the New York Times stated on Oct. 28, 1993: "Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast. The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said. The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings that Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as being in a far better position than previously known to foil the February 26th bombing of New York City's tallest towers." Essentially, the FBI cooked and delivered the bomb that took 6 lives in 1993. In 1995, the US government found out about an Al Qaeda plot to use planes as bombs that would target the White House, CIA HQ, Pentagon, WTC and other targets. It was called "Project Bojinka". In 1993, international intelligence agents put together a report called "Terrorism 2000", that detailed how planes could be used as bombs at national landmarks...and it especially named the WTC. But we had no idea that terrorists would use planes as bombs like Condie Rice asserted in her testimony?

Congrats! Whatever you do, don't let her become a Cubs fan.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 02:51 PM) Agh, the American Pie movies (O.K., the first two, never saw the third) are pretty abysmal, IMO. But otherwise I more or less agree with all of the opinions there, and even where I do disagree, I understand why one might not like the certain movies. Something About Mary I enjoy, but it isn't worthy of the praise it gets, same with Old School and Dodgeball. Both are funny, but nowhere near the classic tag that they seem to get labeled with. Now Kingpin, that is some damn funny s*** from the past 10 years. Kingpin! I haven't seen that movie in a long time. Ishmael: I am so sloshed! Bowling Alley Owner: That's ginger ale.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 02:20 AM) Well maybe it was just me but I think you'd really only enjoy this film fully if you are a fan of the horror movie genre and the Evil Dead series. If not there are still some funny parts but nothing that makes this more than an above average comedy. Elvis: "I was dreamin'. Dreamin' my dick was out and I was checkin' to see if that infected bump on the head of it had filled with pus again. If it had, I was gonna name it after my ex-wife Priscilla and bust it by jackin' off. Or I'd like to think that's what I'd do. Dreams let you think like that. Truth was, I hadn't had a hard-on in years." Elvis: "Marilyn Monroe. How was she in the sack? JFK: "That is classified information. But between you and me? WOW!"

QUOTE(Mr. Zero @ Jan 2, 2005 -> 11:33 PM) Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health. Does this make sense? Why even bother reading the rest when they're proposing I live a life where I do not have children. They are a bunch of tree hugging morons, they'd give up all of mankind just so inanimate objects and animals can be healthy. That's great and all but.. no one will be there to care, except for a bunch of animals. I hate some of what people do just as much as the next guy, but this is just plain silly. If you wanna deal with a baby who will shoot puke 45 feet+ across a room, be my guest.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 02:01 AM) Hey Apu, is Bubba Ho Tep worth netflixing? Is it a comedy or one of those stupid/funny movies. I liked it a lot. It was kinda the humor of Army of Darkness. It wasn't like a stupid funny movie -- definitely had a plot that way out there (soul sucking mummy at a Texas rest home that they need to stop) but it was pretty solid.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 01:34 AM) I just saw Shawn of the Dead and thought it was pretty funny. I loved the ending to that film...and Jas, you got red on you

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Jan 3, 2005 -> 01:07 AM) did you watch any bears games this year? i'd say he was pretty damn consistent. Yep -- Maynard is a good punter in a place where he's gonna get a lot of work. At least he'll be earning his money, haha.

Critic -- It seems that more and more Democrats have that impregnable dome of hair. You could take a f***ing industrial jackhammer to it and it wouldn't move an inch...and probably damage the jackhammer a la Curly's head in the 3 Stooges. It seems though that Gov. Blowhard is doing everything to piss everybody off -- raising tolls, policing video games etc. He's such a maroon. :finger Blago

I think we can all agree that Hastert, Pelosi, Reid, Santorum and the rest of the partisan hacks in Congress suck ass. Come on people now / smile on your brother / Everybody get together and realize Congress blows right now

I just finished "Bubba Ho-Tep" (2002). It was a little slow at times but it was a good movie of an elderly Elvis and a black man who is JFK taking on a mummy attacking the rest home residents.

Here's some more hilarity -- police blotters from this California town for 2004 http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2004/12/3...2004_041231.txt July 27, 4:10 p.m.: A 14-year-old girl in the 1300 block of South Lee Avenue received a slanderous letter from Santa. Dec. 21, 6:30 p.m.: A woman may have been attacking her furniture with a knife in the 500 block of Almond Drive.

Ghost Dog represent!

QUOTE (SoxFan562004 @ Jan 2, 2005 -> 12:56 AM) 4. David Cross- It's Not Funny -Stand-up CD, but hysterical I laughed my ass off at that album. He is so goddamn funny.

In no order... Kill Bill II Spider Man II Hero (technically out in 2002 but meh ) Super Size Me Shaun of the Dead

QUOTE (The Critic @ Jan 1, 2005 -> 09:18 PM) Formerly and now currently ( again ) of Motley Crue. They're going on a US reunion tour, despite Mick Mars having a VERY serious illness that virtually guarantees that he'll be unable to complete the tour. He's had one hip replaced, he's going to need the other one done, only one of his vocal cords works, his eyesight, posture and hearing are affected by the illness and he only weighs 112 pounds right now. He says he's in constant, excruciating pain and that greed is his only reason to do the tour. If you saw them on the Tonight Show last night, you'd have been downright scared for Mick's health and life. It's THAT bad. Whatever stops Tommy Lee from bad rap videos.

The Empire Strikes First - Bad Religion Pressure Chief - Cake American Idiot - Green Day Drunk In Public - Ron White (alright, not a music CD but damn funny) Let the Buyer Beware Lenny Bruce box set (which just got released this year finally)

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Oral Roberts University -- as in the crazy ass right wing religious nut whackjob Oral Roberts?

Kicking back with: Army of Darkness (1993), Dr. Strangelove (1964), The Good the Bad and the Ugly (1966) plus there is an all night SVU marathon on and South Park.

I thought the Sinatra/Harvey/Leigh one was so much better than the new one. The new one was pretty crappy.