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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 11:27 AM) Meh, seeing teenagers today at a pretty close level, sometimes I wonder if we give them too much credit. We all know if it is something that could attract attention, good or bad, teens are drawn to it like moths. If it involves sex and offends teachers/parents all the better. If teens could act like adults, this wouldn't be necesary, but seeing as teachers hear giggles everytime the word "penis" or "vagina" is mentioned in sex ed class, I know these things would cause problems. Which goes to show why comprehensive sex ed should be implemented. This fear of anything sexual being introduced to kids is completely irrational. And its not like they are just randomly wearing these, its publicity for the play the school is letting them put on (if I read the article correctly)

I don't have a link but I heard today in class that former WWF wrestler Chris Candido died (and ECW fame...the Triple Threat!) Edit: Go to tnawrestling.com and they have a story on it. http://www.tnawrestling.com/news/2005/4/29/newscandido.html Chris died due to a blood clot brought on by complications with his leg surgery.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 09:26 AM) But you don't have "free speech" in any school under the college years. Plain and simple. There is no issue here. Tinker vs Des Moines -- "First Amendment rights, applied in light of the special characteristics of the school environment, are available to teachers and students. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." The administrators can dislike the stuff all they like personally but the only legal way that they can ban the shirts from being used is if it meets a certain criteria. "A prohibition against expression of opinion, without any evidence that the rule is necessary to avoid substantial interference with school discipline or the rights of others, is not permissible under the First and Fourteenth Amendments." (Tinker v Des Moines) Since there is no substantial interference with school discipline due to these shirts, the school really has no recourse. Sorry, I'm in the ed minor and have to memorize all sorts of stuff like this, hahaha. They love a part of their body -- it is not disruptive and does not cause a threat to school discipline, so the school technically according to the SC has no recourse legally to ban them from using the shirts.

QUOTE(mreye @ Apr 29, 2005 -> 06:50 AM) ACLU at it again? When are they going to realize that they're a joke? :rolly The ACLU -- supporting free speech, even for its detractors since 1920.

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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 28, 2005 -> 07:34 AM) Being slightly connected to Horror films, this is a day I have been dreaming of for 20 years now! There are zombie films out there, and then there are Romero's Zombie films! The only other person alive today that could get me excited about a new zombie flick would be Michelle Soavi who did the amazing Dellamorte Dellamore, but even that is just more out of respect for Soavi as a director. But only Fulci, who is dead now, could even come close to the greatness that a Romero flick holds. And come on, Monkey Shines was a decent thriller. Romero's biggest stumble in his career, IMO, was the last film he did which was called Bruiser. I liked it just fine, and it carried many Romero trademarks, but as we had all waited so long for a new Romero, it was a bit of a let down. Advance word on LOTD is quite good. Bruiser was pretty damn terrible. Seeing Romero's name on it and totally loving his previous works, I was really let down.

I'm hoping this is better than Monkey Shines ::shudders:: But Romero is still one of the greats -- I mean, not even just the cahones to cast a black man as a lead in 1968 but while his movies are entertaining zombie flicks, they carry with them a really interesting underlying message (race relations in "Night", mindless consumerism in "Dawn", etc.)

QUOTE(mreye @ Apr 27, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) So, who flew those planes? Phantoms? Somebody call Scooby Doo! Firstly, MrEye -- William Blum (former member of the State Department and now a major writer/researcher on US policy) in his books regarding interventions of the US government from a purely historical standpoint, shows that the government has used weapons and attacks on its own people. The US Army has admitted that "between 1949 and 1969, 239 populated areas from coast to coast were blanketed with various organisms during tests designed to measure patterns of dissemination in the air, weather effects, dosages, optimum placement of the sources and other factors." Testing over such areas was supposedly suspended after 1969, but there is no way to be certain. Here's just a couple examples... New York City: 1956, a CIA-Army team sprayed New York streets and Holland and Lincoln Tunnels using trick suitcases and a car with a dual muffler. June 6-10, 1966, The Army report of this test was called "A Study of the Vulnerability of Subway Passengers in New York City to Covert Attack with Biological Agents". Trillions of bacillus subtilis variant niger were released into the subway system during rush hours. One method was to use light bulbs filled with the bacteria; those were unobtrusively shattered at sidewalk level on subway ventilating grills or tossed onto the roadbeds inside the stations. Aerosol clouds were momentarily visible after the release of bacteria from the light bulbs. The report noted that "When the cloud engulfed people, they brushed their clothing, looked up at the grating apron and walked on." The wind of passing trains spread the bacteria along the the tracks; in the same time it took for two trains to pass, the bacteria were spread from 15th Street to 58th Street. It will never be known how many people later became ill from being unsuspecting guinea pigs but the United States Army exhibited not the slightest interest in this question. Chicago: 1960s, the Chicago subway system was the scene of a similar Army experiment. And with the declassification of Operation Northwoods from the 1960s, its more plausible to believe government could and would harm its own citizens to promote an agenda (i.e. the portion of the document where it explicitly states the suggest to blow up passenger airliners so we could blame it on Cuba and therefore invade) I'm just saying there is a definite plausibility to government harming its own people to justify an advancement of its own agenda -- its been done by governments all over the globe and has been done incrementally even here in the US.

Just sharing...

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Apr 23, 2005 -> 10:04 PM) There's plenty of "research" and "facts" that say it never happened.......they all must be true. Nuke, the guy who wrote the Vietnam stuff is a Vietnam combat veteran. Allow me to put that in bold and repeat it again for you and CK Vietnam combat veteran. His research was peer reviewed quite successfully from many different aspects of the historical academic community (and yes, before you ask, that includes conservatives).

QUOTE(The Critic @ Apr 23, 2005 -> 06:55 PM) They may as well trade that Dubois kid for a closer, cuz Dumbass Dusty won't use him anyway. He's not a 10-year veteran, so The Pitcher Killer has no use for him. Flash, I think Jon Leicester was the other lily-livered reliever you were thinking of. Nice to see that the Sox have four closers and the Cubs have none. Borowski has the mental part, but came down with a glass arm like so many other Cub pitchers. And there's also Cliff Bartosh in the pen for the Flubs. And as Critic mentioned who can forget the "Ice Man" John Leicester?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 23, 2005 -> 12:05 PM) 100 motives for 100 people. Can we get past that chapter? Clinton did make some mistakes, he lied, he was disrespectful to the office. It is a shame his legacy will be filled with innuendos and snide remarks. But he made that bed. Tex, the problem with this is that anything Clinton did that was not dealing with BJ-Gate was seen as "wagging the dog" (i.e. making any attempt to go after Al Qaeda) so indirectly, these "He got a BJ!" Congressional proceedings greatly inhibited the commander in chief's ability to protect the nation (and that's not even discussing the numerous extra-marital affairs that various presidents have had that had no impact on their ability to maintain the presidency i.e. FDR, JFK, etc.)

QUOTE(CubKilla @ Apr 23, 2005 -> 03:35 PM) Yep..... here's that piece of garbage I was referencing CK, I'm more apt to believe his research that has been peer reviewed by all political aspects of the historical community than your incessant anti-liberal whining.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 09:37 PM) I seem to remember several liberals on this board having a grand old time when Ann Coulter got hit in the face with a pie. How is that so different? She was still 'attacked'. Spitting, tossing pies, dousing with salad dressing are all poor ways of getting one's point across. The differentiation betwen Fonda and Coulter is that Fonda is able to speak about her points without calling her opponents "monkeys" etc. (Yes, I have read "Treason" -- some of the funniest stuff is when she has the 1919-1920 Red Scare taking place in the mid 1920s and butchers history so very hardcore...by putting events in the wrong years) and there she has a slight one up on Coulter. But your point about Coulter is well taken since they promote promote anti-American actions and domestic terrorism (i.e. Coulter suggesting that it was a tragedy that McVeigh did not blow up the NY Times building)

QUOTE(CubKilla @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 03:07 PM) But no Vietnam Vets were EVER spit on NUKE. I've read the leftists literature here that PROVES it!!!!! :rolly How about something from the veterans themselves, CK? http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Did_protes...spit_050803.htm One pro-war Vietnam-vet claimed he was spat upon in uniform, though he didn't specify the circumstances of the incident. While there's little doubt that some Vietnam vets in uniform were spat upon during those turbulent years, no proof exists that antiwar protesters were the spitters. Jerry Lembcke, an associate professor of sociology at Holy Cross and a Vietnam combat veteran, has written a well documented book, "The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam" (New York University Press, 1998) that thoroughly debunks the tales of protesters "spitting upon" Vietnam vets. Lembcke conducted extensive research to ascertain that there were no contemporaneous news reports or police complaints lodged to substantiate the claims that began appearing in the media about 1991. The perpetuation of such myths only blocks the healing of Vietnam veterans from our "culture of victimization," and it serves the agenda of those pro-war forces who place fear and intimidation in the path of open debate on the pressing issues of the moment.

QUOTE(mac9001 @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 09:05 PM) Yeah, but people seem to have it in for Crede. If Crede was still hitting .200 people would be b****ing left and right, while one person says something negative about Rowand and everyone comes to his defense. Rowand has shown he can put it together over a season. Crede has not. It is just that simple.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 02:44 PM) they are not eliminating the filibuster, they are eliminating the filibuster on JUDICIAL NOMINEES, which are NOT to be a super majority vote - which is directly in the constitution when a super majority is called for. Nominations on judicary is NOT one of those. The democrats have found a way to circumvent a straight up or down vote by using this procedure, which has not happened in 200 years. I posted on here the other day, this whole f***ing government of ours needs blown up and started over. They are all self-serving f***s. Two party system is killing us. IIRC, McCain has been against this tactic of eliminating the filibuster as well in his comments that the Congress is not going to be Republican forever and this could really come back to bite them on the ass hard as a political party.

Good thing too cuz somebody needs to feed Spree's kids.

QUOTE(Soxnbears01 @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 07:25 AM) its hard to get in here man. I went through all this last year and know plenty that got denied. It's just when people get in here they show their dumbass self. Just seeing some of the people in my education classes, I have to wonder how the Hell they got in -- Hell...I only had like a 3.7 GPA and a 27 on my ACT and I got in (but then I was applying into LAS)

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 05:44 AM) Because a lot of teenage kids do not talk to their parents about what goes on at school. You can ask and ask, and get a boat load of "Nothin'" and "I dunno". Of course, you can always beat the information out of 'em. A lot of parents are also unresponsive/don't have much time. Since I'm in the secondary education minor at school, the state has us do observations in various schools in the area that are demographically and different in locations -- which is really cool & relevent to becoming a teacher. In the first school I was in, the teacher was telling us during the planning period one morning that a majority of the parents in the school work 2 jobs and barely ever have time to see their kids just so there can be enough money in the house to pay the bills & keep food on the table. So, he said it was difficult to get in contact with parents about what was going on at school and even if they did, a lot of the parents leave for work before the kid gets up and get back after they've fallen asleep. I dunno if there is a similar situation but it could be that some of the parents would like to have the extra time but can't just out of the sake of needing to pay the bills. (Then there are also the parents who have a bunch of cash but just overwork themselves to death while never spending time with their kid -- but that's a different discussion entirely)

Happy Birthday Jas

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Apr 21, 2005 -> 06:55 PM) Homemade... OMG! Jason is Lee Van Cleef!

QUOTE(soxman352000 @ Apr 21, 2005 -> 07:08 PM) I want to go to U of I. But I don't know if I will get in Being a student here & seeing some of the students who have gotten in...I'd say that unless you're dumber than a sack of hammers, you should be able to get in.

I'm trying to apply for a op ed column in my hometown newspaper & I am writing about how insane the policy of Safe Games Illinois is. Anyway, I'm trying to think of a bunch of scandals and problems for Blagojevich because I want to add it in as an aside...and I haven't kept too up to date on a lot of the local scandals with Gov. Moussed Hair. So any assists would be much appreciated.

I was sitting around listening to my tracks on Winamp when one of my favorite pieces came on, the infamous Lee Elia tirade from 1983. I went and read up on it a little bit and it seems that the anniversary of this great event in sports history is coming up on April 29. So, since it is finals week for us, we won't have classes what about the prospects of a Lee Elia Tirade Memorial Bash?! April 29 (the 22nd anniv. of the tirade that gave Guido about 1/2 his vocabulary ) Murphy's Pub (obviously haha) I say we need to celebrate this moment of candid hilarity. I expect to see everybody there from here that can be because 85% of the f***ing world is working. It'll be the other 15% who come out to Murphys Plus meeting Sox fans around here is refreshing since so many idiots drink the damned Cubbie Kool-Aid.