WillyT Records and Aftermath Inc.

yup

2005-04-28T07:52:00.000-07:00

2005-04-26T10:49:00.000-07:00

Self-righteous former jock-sniffer Keith Olbermann skillfully points out that the new Pope may have been a Nazi:

At age, 14 membership in Germany's "Hitler Youth" became mandatory. So Joseph Ratzinger enrolled.

Hmmm... I thought that the concept of Martyrdom for what you belived good and right was rewarded in the Catholic faith...hmmmm..

Not saying i wouldn't have done it... no, wait.. i wouldn't have.

Oh well, I'm not the Pope.

"Hey, sometimes you do what you got to do... Like kill Jews."

Tocuhe, Touche.

damn this world

2005-04-26T10:45:00.000-07:00

Peruvian virgin turns down $1.5m

By Hannah Hennessy
BBC News, Lima

Inside a tiny breeze block house, beneath the dusty hills on the desert outskirts of Lima, religious paintings like the Virgin and Child and the Sacred Heart share wall space with photographs of a beguiling young woman posing as a model.

Graciela's bid to sell her virginity provoked outrage in Peru

The Bible is open at John, Chapter 11, telling the story of the Resurrection of Lazarus.

Behind the curtains which separate a tiny bedroom from the living room, lies a sick 43-year-old woman, whose daughter, Graciela, is prepared to take drastic measures to help her.

Graciela - or Gracia as she prefers to be known - has been working since the age of eight, left school at 15 and now three years later earns around $60 a month acting or modelling.

Her mother is too sick to work and she does not want her 12-year-old brother to miss school.

But Gracia says the money she earns is not enough and every month she worries about not being able to pay the bills or having to say No when her brother Guillermo comes back from school asking for money for books.

Theirs is a story like thousands of other Peruvians who live in poverty, but for one fact.

I felt the hopelessness of wanting to move forward, wanting to study, and you just don't get the opportunity because it's all about money

Graciela Yataco

Last month, Gracia decided to sell her virginity to pay for her mother's medical treatment and to improve her family's quality of life.

"My mother was ill and my brother and me too. [And I felt] the utter hopelessness of wanting to move forward, wanting to study, be someone and you just don't get the opportunity because it's all about money," says Gracia.

"Sometimes you find yourself at a crossroads and you see no way out," she adds, staring at the terracotta painted walls.

"You stop and see there's only thing that's going to help you and perhaps it only has to happen once in your life.

"That's what I thought. And you never have to do it again.

"You have to get on with it, without looking back, because you can study, work with this money and help lots of people who are poor like me."

'Prostitution'

She said she offered to sell her virginity to the highest bidder, advertising herself in newspapers, on television and the internet.

Childhood: Graciela (standing) became the main provider for her family

It did not take long before many in this staunchly Catholic country were up in arms.

Some said her actions were nothing short of prostitution. Others said she needed psychological help.

She says some people admired her ingenuity, saying she was doing more than the teenage girls who lost their virginity in the parks because they wrongly thought they were in love.

Her virginity almost became a question of national pride, with some commentators and chat show hosts accusing her of trying to damage Peru's reputation.

But Gracia was unfazed by the criticisms.

"People in Peru are opportunistic and they see everyone else's problems, but never their own," she says.

"I'm just a person who's trying to get ahead in life. I've always worked since I was little, but here there are no opportunities for young people.

I came out and said publicly what my situation was and nobody, nobody has been capable of saying, thank you, I'll help you with something

Graciela Yataco

"They don't bother asking what's going on in my life, what I am like and what has forced me to take this decision. They only judge me and point their fingers at me.

"I came out and said publicly what my situation was and nobody, nobody has been capable of saying, thank you, I'll help you with something.

"And there are people who have loads of money, loads of jobs."

Graciela laughs as she recounts how a Canadian man offered her $1.5m (£780,000) to have sex with her.

"He said he'd prefer I didn't do it, but if I was going to do it with anyone, it should be with someone who treated me right and I think he knew his bid wasn't going to be topped.

"He was really happy when I said No."

Publicity stunt?

Almost a month after Gracia advertised her virginity for sale, her economic situation has not changed.

But her moral situation has. She says she has decided not to give up her virginity for any price.

"Mum lives with me 24 hours a day, and respects my decision because I am an adult.

"But she was giving me advice, and explaining how my life might be if I did this: What example would I give my children, what kind of man would accept me with this past, would it make me happy, this money?

"Obviously it's a necessity, but it's not everything, it's a bad necessity and it made me realise that this money wasn't going to make me happy, I could make myself happy with my own merits."

Some critics have suggested that Gracia offered to sell her virginity solely to court publicity and never actually intended to go through with it.

Only she will know if that is the case. Certainly, her arguments are convincing, but perhaps so too is her acting.

But what she has done, indisputably, is come out and say: The way many people live in Peru is wrong and I want to do something about it.

Shiat, what happened to a nice meal, a movie and a rose?

Or just a Big Mac?

I miss the old days....

2005-04-21T11:49:00.000-07:00

L.A. Attorney Moonlights As Porn StarApr 20, 2005 4:28 pm US/PacificLOS ANGELES (AP) Criminal defense attorney Ronald S. Miller does more than file his briefs -- he also takes them off.Miller has spent days in front of a judge and nights in front of a camera as Don Hollywood -- porn star.He has performed in more than 90 films in the past seven years, including "Justice Your Ass" and "The Jerry Shag-Her Show."Miller, 56, tells his clients about his night job and says he has had no trouble balancing the two careers. His wife, a former accountant, is also a porn star."My whole life, I've been one of those people who sees the wet paint sign and has to go up and touch it to see if it's wet," said Miller, who is currently working on 30 to 40 cases. "I want to experience everything, try everything."Ethics expert and attorney Arthur Margolis said Miller isn't breaking any rules moonlighting as a porn actor."There isn't anything more unethical about that than being an actor or a novelist or somebody who sells frozen yogurt," Margolis said. "The only thing you have to be careful of, as you would in any other industry, is you don't do anything criminal or unethical in the sense of dishonesty."Diane Curtis, a spokeswoman for the California Bar Association, declined to comment on Miller's second career but said Wednesday the bar doesn't have a policy prohibiting such activity.

I aspire to be this man. This is why i will go to law school.

hmmm... today is the 20th? 21st.

2005-04-21T11:05:00.000-07:00

Well, this is the 21st of April.. i know the last time that i posted was on the 7th.
But i promise... alot has happened to me lately.

For one, i caught mono. Whitch really, really, really sucked balls. i sat around for 10 days an wimpered like a bitch, and on top of all that, my internet at the apartment has been down for some reason. So i basically sat around and watched Dr. Phil and days of our lives as my grades flew out the door and all my friends had a great time.

Next, we had Greek week. This is a week where all fraternities compete to see who the best is. We won. I even got out and did a trivia battle for 2 hours while i had a temperature of about 103. I was slightly retarded... yet we still won.

Then i had to spend about a week running around kissing ass to try to get my grades back... whitch hopefully worked i think... i kissed alot of ass.

And now im back... kind of. With the lack of actual people who come by and look at my blog, i haven't figured out why i still do this... but i will, just not everday now.

Ok then.. bye,

still alive... again.

2005-04-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

As you know the world didn't come to end today.

Now for the third time, Warren Jeffs is wrong about his doomsday predictions.

2,500 of his most faithful followers gathered at a mysterious sprawling complex in Eldorado, Texas. Wednesday, Jeffs prophesied he and his followers would be caught up and sent to heaven, while the rest of world would come to an end. But you can see they are still there, and continue to work on their new temple.

We'll have more about the doomsday prediction out of Texas coming up tonight on ABC 4 News at 10.

Some people left behind by Jeffs in the twin towns of Hildale and Colorado City say that while there might not be violence Wednesday, they fear it will happen.

Many disaffected members of the FLDS church hope that with Jeffs gone they can get their homes back. Jeffs is the only trustee of the UEP, the group that owns most of the homes and businesses in Hildale and Colorado City.

There is also fear that warren Jeffs is stirring up racial hatred amongst his followers. A recent sermon by Jeffs was secretly recorded by a dissident member of his church. On the tape, Jeffs refers to the black race as "immoral, filthy, people"

Jeffs voice on tape:

"You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, rude, and filthy... Uncomely, disagreeable, and loathe in their habits… Wild and seemingly depraved of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind."

Jeffs also warned his followers of -quote- "relationships with blacks and of enjoying modern music".

If 50-cent heard this shiat the aftermath would be terrible.( huge pun intended)

In reality though, this is a dumb ass texas cult leader who is saying that the world is about to end and that any who follow him will go to heaven huh?

Is he a Bush?

2005-04-05T11:14:00.000-07:00

Mich. Police Hunt for Menacing Turkeys

Mon Apr 4, 6:59 PM ET

Strange News - AP

MENOMINEE, Mich. - A group of turkeys has been trotting around the city, chasing kids, startling motorists and loitering at people's homes. Authorities were notified, the EagleHerald reported, and after a slew of complaints, a hunt ensued.

"It's been keeping us on our toes," said Mike Baker, public service officer for the Menominee Police Department.

Two turkeys were captured by state Department of Natural Resources employees and turned loose in Menominee. One disappeared. Another turned up as a carcass on a city street, the newspaper reported.

A fifth, nicknamed Gertrude by a local family, also has disappeared.

Another group of marauding turkeys was found in nearby Marinette, Wis., but they appear to coexist well with residents.

"There have been no problems whatsoever," said Joe Rossley, Marinette's animal control and code enforcement officer.

The sight of turkeys in the city may be mostly in the past for the time being. In the spring, turkeys typically begin nesting and they like to do that in rural or wooded areas, not in backyards.

"A lot of wild instincts take over in the spring," says Craig Albright, a wildlife biologist with the DNR. "Most of the time they scatter about. It makes for a very exciting spring turkey hunt."

Turkey hunting season in Michigan starts in April. In fall and winter, turkeys may flock to more urban areas where residents, initially delighted with the novelty of a backyard turkey invitation, feed them.

"Turkeys seem to find cities to their liking, especially if they can find food," Albright said. "They're not afraid of people or traffic."

Turkeys have found the southwestern Upper Peninsula to be a prime breeding ground. But the birds are not native to the area. But Albright said turkeys were introduced to Menominee County in the early 1960s.

"We're about 200 miles north of their range," Albright said. "They've got to be able to scratch to the ground surface and forage.

"We've got too much snow."

Crazy turkeys... Must be trying to take over now that perdue has died.

sorry.

2005-04-05T11:05:00.000-07:00

Sorry everyone i have been very busy doing my school work and studying for the LSAT lately.

Please forgive my insolence...

Alot of good people have had tragic events lately.

1) The pope. god-communicator among catholics has passed away. In the religious game, this is terrible. In the polics game, it's a rebirth.

Now the way is open to a new pope... possibly a black one, due to the increased catholic activity in the africian regions of the world.

I put 5 buck on it, It would be a clutch move, for everybody.

2) Frank Perdue. The great chicken cutler of the world passed away. God bless his soul. All you can eat chicken buffets are in mourning currently.

3) Tom Jones. uhhhhh.... If he's not dead yet.... then im sorry. especially if he's is reading this.

4) my damn wallet. I lost the 40 dollar bastard. if you find it, give it back, you ass.

god has come...

2005-04-02T14:48:00.000-08:00

"hope he don't try to take our bitches."

sad day in chicken

2005-04-01T08:39:00.000-08:00

R.I.P.

Chicken God Frank Perdue.

yes....

2005-03-31T20:23:00.000-08:00

San Francisco Company Offers Lady Wingmen for Hire

Lady Wingmen is a service that provides the opportunity for a man to hire outgoing, personable, attractive, female wingmen to accompany him to a bar so that she can introduce him to other women. The Lady Wingman will initiate contact, keep the conversation lively, and make the man look his best.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2004 -– A new service in town allows men the opportunity to hire a Lady Wingman to help him meet the woman of his dreams. The hired female wingman will accompany the man to a bar or club and introduce him to the women with whom he wants to talk. The Lady Wingman will be responsible for initiating contact, keeping the conversation flowing, and making the man look good.The ‘Wingman Technique’ has been around for a while. This wingman role is usually played by a guy’s buddy. The wingman’s job is to approach a group of women with his friend and to start up a conversation. He then has to keep a conversation going with the entire group of girls while his buddy can concentrate all his attention on one single girl.The Lady Wingman service is a play on this technique. The wingman role is now played by an outgoing, personable, attractive female. The Lady Wingman will approach a girl or group of girls and start a conversation. Women naturally do this with other women all the time. She will then work the man into the conversation. Since the man was introduced into the group by a safe, friendly woman, he becomes, by association, a safe, friendly man who is now desirable.The Lady Wingmen service provides a needed benefit to the men who are too shy, too busy, or are just looking for an extra edge. The wingman can also provide personal coaching and dating advice from the female perspective. The Lady Wingman will introduce these men to women and assist with keeping the group entertained and interested. In effect, these men are hiring a public relations assistant to market themselves in their quest to find true love.

Now i know what i want for christmas....

A hooker.

wow

2005-03-31T20:15:00.000-08:00

Brain chip reads man's thoughts
A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind.
Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001.
The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now control everyday objects by thought alone.
The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer to decipher.
Mind over matter
He can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home.
Scientists have been working for some time to devise a way to enable paralysed people to control devices with the brain.
Studies have shown that monkeys can control a computer with electrodes implanted into their brain.
It's quite remarkable Dr Richard Apps, neurophysiologist from Bristol University
Recently four people, two of them partly paralysed wheelchair users, were able to move a computer cursor while wearing a cap with 64 electrodes that pick up brain waves.
Mr Nagle's device, called BrainGate, consists of nearly 100 hair-thin electrodes implanted a millimetre deep into part of the motor cortex of his brain that controls movement.
Wires feed the information from the electrodes into a computer which analyses the brain signals.
The signals are interpreted and translated into cursor movements, offering the user an alternative way to control devices such as a computer with thought.
Motor control
Professor John Donoghue, an expert on neuroscience at Brown University, Rhode Island, is the scientist behind the device produced by Cyberkinetics.
He said: "The computer screen is basically a TV remote control panel, and in order to indicate a selection he merely has to pass the cursor over an icon, and that's equivalent to a click when he goes over that icon."
Mr Nagle has also been able to use thought to move a prosthetic hand and robotic arm to grab sweets from one person's hand and place them into another.
Professor Donoghue hopes that ultimately implants such as this will allow people with paralysis to regain the use of their limbs.
The long term aim is to design a package the size of a mobile phone that will run on batteries, and to electrically stimulate the patient's own muscles.
This will be difficult.
The simple movements we take for granted in fact involve complex electrical signals which will be hard to replicate, Dr Richard Apps, a neurophysiologist from Bristol University, the UK, told the BBC News website.
He said there were millions of neurones in the brain involved with movement. The brain chip taps into only a very small number of these.
But he said the work was extremely exciting.
"It's quite remarkable. They have taken research to the next stage to have a clear benefit for a patient that otherwise would not be able to move.
"It seems that they have cracked the crucial step and arguably the most challenging step to get hand movements.
"Just to be able to grasp an object is a major step forward."
He said it might be possible to hone this further to achieve finer movements of the hand.
Matthew Nagel's story is featured in a Frontiers programme on BBC Radio Four on Wednesday 13 April, 2005, at 2100 BST.
Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/4396387.stmPublished: 2005/03/31 11:29:18 GMT© BBC MMV

Wow, I think my drunk roomate said it best when he simply stated, "holy shit. I'm not even paralized and i think i need one of those."

So true.

the truth... well... kind of...

2005-03-29T19:24:00.000-08:00

"Less than 3% make it back from the edge of broken glass and rock coke, the badlands where Indian squaws fill tequila bottles with piss and peyote, the war jungle from which even veterans tell no tales.
I will tell mine.
To think you cannot change the world is the thought of a broken man, who believes he lives in a broken world. As children, we fancy ourselves as shooting stars that light up the sky, when in fact we're meteors destined to impact the earth below. Our days are wasted, presuming we have more later in which to address these matters, and with time you resign. Resigned to the genocide and flawed political machine, the way money moves, the fact you may not have an orgasm every time. You become accustomed to that which you hate. The weather. The husband. The position. Nothing is new, the color fades, and you find yourself standing in a black-and-white landscape, staring at your empty hands.
This demise need not be yours. That is not what your hands are for.
The way of the distraction is the simple one, friends, a path strewn with television and liquor, debt and shitrag magazines. Internet porn feeds. Doomed relationships. Your entire life is a conditioned response, and until you bite the hand that feeds you, you'll never amount to more than another one of Pavlov's dogs, eating and humping and breeding and dying when you're told. I say chew through the chain and run rampant, eat everything, and shit on the White House lawn. Because to say you're autonomous while you're living that hollow life, is to lie in a coffin of sitcoms and late nights, and tell me you're still alive.
My time is up, that world beckons me, and I must don my suit of wool to fool the sheep. But when this day is done, I will not drop my guise and run with the wolves. "
Spoken by Thomas at www.consumtpionjunction.com

Not a bad bir of artistic writting turned inward. I don't honestly know what it is like to be a crack head and come off of it, but i bet you might feel something like this. It's like heroin junkies and thier return to normalicy.

Tho i kind of feel where he is going... sept im happy to join the wolves. Give me a suit, a diploma and a BMW and im all in the mix.

And i still find time to dwiddle in distraction. So i guess my life is a blessed one. Well, maybe not blessed, but damn lucky.

But then, my lucks got to go soon.

Just let me die in a pierre cardin suit, a good memory or two and a bottle of jack daniels.

hmmm....

2005-03-28T19:51:00.000-08:00

The Denver Postlocal
CSU, CU activists seek pot o'plentySay alcohol is greater dangerBy Monte Whaley Denver Post Staff Writer
Saturday, March 26, 2005 -
Fort Collins - Students at two Colorado college campuses rocked by alcohol-related deaths last year are pressing school officials to lighten up on marijuana users.
Claiming pot is safer than alcohol, activists at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University want sanctions for the use and possession of marijuana to be no greater than those imposed for underage drinking.
Students signed petitions last week to have the measure put on the ballot next month during student elections. The initiative also asks administrators to conduct a study to determine the impact of making marijuana use nonpunishable for students older than 18.
The vote will be nonbinding at CU and CSU. But if the measures pass, they will send a message that students think a few puffs from a joint are a lot safer than several shots of beer, said Mason Tvert, executive director for SAFER (Safer Alternatives for Enjoyable Recreation).
"If a fraternity told a freshman to go into the woods and smoke a pound of pot, he is not going to die from that," said Tvert, a recent University of Virginia graduate. "He'll fall asleep before that happens."
The Boulder-based SAFER was formed in January as a nonprofit and is looking to create chapters at CU and CSU. The group is heading up the petition drive to get the marijuana measure before student voters.
Proponents got the 1,200 signatures needed at CU and are hoping to get the required 2,085 at CSU by Monday, Tvert said.
He claims too much of police officers' time and money is spent on marijuana enforcement, while it is alcohol that claims lives. At least 1,400 college student deaths each year are linked to alcohol, according to the National Institutes of Health.
But, Tvert said, there has never been a reported case of a student dying from a marijuana overdose.
"Our stance is that alcohol is more acceptable in our society and that is just bad public policy," he said.
Marijuana is an illegal substance and can draw fines and jail time. Students caught with pot can be suspended from school.
Both CU and CSU had a student die last year from alcohol poisoning. Their deaths led to several changes aimed at curtailing alcohol abuse on both campuses and to proposals in the state legislature to tighten penalties for underage drinking.
"Tons of kids are dying every year from alcohol, and we just think there is an alternative to that," said Havi Nelson, a CSU junior and a leader in the petition drive.
Several CSU students signed the petition Friday afternoon, including seniors Joe Stiles, 22, and Russ Owen, 23.
"Both alcohol and marijuana are drugs, but you get busted for one and you get in a lot less trouble for the other," Owen said. "It doesn't make any sense."
Others, however, are skeptical that marijuana is not as dangerous as alcohol.
"It's certainly not harmless," said Anne Hudgens, CSU's executive director for campus life.
Students who use marijuana consistently have a harder time in classes, their grades fall and their relationships plummet, Hudgens said.
In all, she said, "I don't think we are interested in our school experimenting with making marijuana use nonpunishable."

Great point here, but i didn't know fraternities told kids to go into the woods and drink a bunch of booze... oh yeah... i guess thats right before we do em' in the butt as part of our "proper hazing methods".

Good concept guys, but all you hippie ass colorado dope heads need to lay off the stereo types. Friggin hippies.

2005-03-24T11:47:00.000-08:00

Supreme Court Won't Hear Schiavo Case
- By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, March 24, 2005

(03-24) 11:26 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to order Terri Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted, rejecting a desperate appeal by her parents to keep their severely brain-damaged daughter alive.
The decision, announced in a terse one-page order, marked the end of a dramatic and disheartening four-day dash for her parents, Bob and Mary Schlindler, through the federal court system.
Justices did not explain their decision, which was at least the fifth time they have declined to get involved in the Schiavo case.
There was no indication of how the individual justices voted.
The feeding tube that has been keeping Schiavo alive at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., was removed last Friday. Doctors at the time said that unless it is reinserted she will die in a week or two....(continued athttp://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/03/24/national/w072914S58.DTL&type=printable )

It's a sad day in America whn a president is set by are top judges.

explain away barry

2005-03-24T11:43:00.000-08:00

Straight from www.barrbonds.com

Thinking back on it, I should have reversed the surgery and had the right knee done first. At the time, the left one was a little bit more irritated than the right one. So I did the one that felt worse first. But I probably should have switched it.

When I'm running bases, my right is my push off leg. Every turn I make, I push off my right leg. So actually, I really have to take my time now. My right leg has to be stronger than my left for me to come back.

There's a fatigue factor in the rehab and the workouts. I'm 40 and at my age there's exercises I just don't feel like I want to do anymore. My wife has even been saying to me, "There's going to come a time, Barry, when you don't have to do this. You've dedicated your entire life to this. You go from the gym to the house to the ballpark and back again."

My family has been incredibly supportive of me because playing baseball is what I've always wanted to do. But there has to come a time when I take some of this (muscular) weight off and forget what other people think or want me to do.

If I want to live until I'm 80 years old, I'm going to have to become a leaner-type, cardio-type individual who keeps his heart rate up. I'm not going to fight that losing battle against my weight when I'm retired and my metabolism slows down.

My family cares about me being healthy. They want me to be healthy when I'm 50, 70 years old. They want me to think about the long term. They make a valid point. I'm going to be 41 this year. They ask me: "Are you going to keep beating yourself up?"

But all that's for a little bit down the road. Right now, I'm just trying to get back on the field. I don't care about this whole record thing. I just care about doing the best job that I can. It's hard, man, when baseball is all I've ever known and all I've ever done, to hit the switch and dim the lights a little bit.

HAHA. i love it. He bitches at reporters from hurting his feelings so much that he wo't play anymore, than he releases this statement.

Why not just go ahead and tell the public and your used-to-be-fans that you can't contend anymore because you are being watched for steriod use and that since you can't use then anymore, you are going to get a hellova lot smaller.

Great public relations guy you have; what a dumbass.

actually.... he most likely thought of this plan. No offence to the PR guy. Barry, your a dumbass.

Go sulk you big baby.

yessss.....

2005-03-22T04:32:00.000-08:00

More X-MEN 3 News! Want To Know Which New X-Men Are Joining The Team This Time!!
Hi, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab...
The same little birdie from Fox came a tweet-tweet-tweetin’ at my door today to give me some more X-MEN 3 news for all of you. And this time, I’m not even going to tease you about it.
Seems that Professor Xavier is adding three new team members this time out. Personally, I think I’m happiest to hear that BEAST will be joining the X-Men. I love that blue furry bastard, and it sounds like he’s going to serve the same role in these films that Morpheus did in THE MATRIX.
All of you Cajun fans can finally rest easy. GAMBIT will indeed be part of the film this time around, and expect them to cast a fairly big name in the role.
Now... what would a bit of superhero news be without some controversy? Ready for this one? ANGEL will be in the movie. But ANGEL... will be a girl.
Rev those fanboy engines and bloody up the TalkBacks. This thing’s getting more concrete by the day, and as they cast these roles, we’ll hopefully have some more news for you.

Can't wait to see gambit. He always was my favorite.

always playin that damn pick 52 game with the cards... I'll call it now, colin farrell wil play it. mark my words.

yet again...

2005-03-22T04:26:00.000-08:00

No motive known in Minnesota rampage
Student gunman kills 9 before turning weapon on himself
(CNN) -- Police are trying to find out why a student killed two of his grandparents, then went on a shooting rampage at his Minnesota high school, killing seven people and wounding as many as 13 others before killing himself.
FBI Special Agent Paul McCabe told reporters the dead include a female teacher, a male security officer and four students at Red Lake High School.
"We believe that one of those students is the shooter," McCabe said Monday.
The FBI office in Minneapolis later said two more wounded students had died.
The school, about 240 miles north of the Twin Cities, was evacuated and locked down, McCabe said.
"At this time, we believe he was acting alone," he said, refusing to comment on a possible motive, adding, "It's far too early in the investigation."
The slain students were shot in one room, he said.
"Apparently, he walked down the hallway shooting and then he entered a classroom, he shot several students and a teacher, then himself,"said Roman Stately, with the Red Lake Fire Department, who arrived at the high school moments after the shootings Monday.
Authorities discovered about an hour later that the boy had shot and killed his grandmother and grandfather, a veteran of the police force, Stately told KARE-TV.
Stately said the boy used his grandfather's police-issued weapon in the school rampage.
Witness Sondra Hegstrom described the gunman grinning and waving, according to The Pioneer of nearby Bemidji, Minnesota.
"I looked him in the eye and ran in the room, and that's when I hid," she told the newspaper.
Teacher Diane Schwanz told The Pioneer that the shooter tried to break through the door to her classroom.
"I just got on the floor and called the cops," Schwanz told the paper. "I was still just half-believing it."
The shootings occurred about 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET), in Red Lake High School, a school of 300 students that is on a sovereign Indian reservation near the Canadian border.
Tribal authorities closed the reservation after the shootings, The Associated Press reported.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty expressed his condolences and offered comfort.
"We ask Minnesotans to help comfort the families and friends of the victims who are suffering unimaginable pain by extending prayers and expressions of support,"his office said in a statement.
Sen. Norm Coleman said: "Laurie and I send our heartfelt prayers and sympathies to the family and friends of those lost and injured today in Red Lake and to all those touched by this tragedy."

It's said that this has happened yet again.

More than likely there is no reason why this happened... a sad schizophrinic child who got made fun of to much... nothing that truly can be avoided all the times without millions of dollars put into psycological screenings for every kid...

But because of this the senate will try new leaps and bonds to make are schools safer... and i don't mean with metal detectors... they will try "expensive" new ideas that have never been tried...

And we have a falling budget and a growing deficit.

This is more tragic than imagined.

God bless those poor people.

god bless

2005-03-20T15:33:00.000-08:00

New Liquor Law Changed by Amendment

Updated: 10:53 PM Mar 19, 2005
Tim Saunders

The general assembly has passed legislation to keep liquor out of the hands of minors at private parties, but an amendment has actually reversed that restriction. The problem caught the attention of the bill's supporters, who want Governor Mark Warner to fix it. Current law allows people who hold parties in their own homes to serve booze to anyone, regardless of age. The Governor has through March 27 to veto, amend or sign the legislation.

God bless the state of..... uhhhh.... virgina...? Where the hell is that?

2005-03-20T15:26:00.000-08:00

First Hydrogen Car for Sale in 2012 - DaimlerChryslerWed Mar 16, 2005 02:46 PM ET

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - DaimlerChrysler's first hydrogen-powered car using fuel cell technology will be on sale from 2012, a company executive said on Wednesday.
The firm has sent 60 Mercedes-Benz A-Class cars to Japan, Germany, Singapore and the United States for tests. Many car companies are developing hydrogen-powered cars to help wean the globe off diminishing oil supplies.
The Mercedes car uses fuel cell technology where electricity is generated through the chemical reaction between hydrogen and air, emitting only water vapor.
"It (commercialization) will start in 2012," Herbert Kohler, Vice President of the Body and Powertrain research unit at DaimlerChrysler told reporters in Brussels, on the margins of a hydrogen car technology exhibition.
But there are still technical obstacles to overcome such as extending fuel cells' reliability and durability; ensuring that they start at sub-freezing temperatures; reducing costs, and storing enough hydrogen in a small enough space to be workable.
The car industry is also waiting for the roll-out of hydrogen filling stations.
Shell Hydrogen Chief Executive Jeremy Bentham said once consumers demanded hydrogen filling stations, energy companies would meet it.
"We see that these vehicles have the potential to be attractive to consumers," he told reporters. "Our job is to make sure we are prepared for that business."
Hydrogen is already produced in refineries for industrial purposes and the energy industry needs to build the infrastructure to sell it to consumers, said Bentham.
He said Europe would need 50 million tons of hydrogen per year to power cars.
Shell Hydrogen is a division of Royal Dutch/Shell.

I can only pray for the world's sake that the oil giants dont figure out a way to screw us out of this one,

But they will. Gasoline for all, and for all a high price.

whats up all...

2005-03-19T13:21:00.000-08:00

Just got back from my vacation, and i see that not alot more has transpired.

The senate decided to order a halt to the murdering of Terri, thank god for that.. And thank god it was a joint party venture. I was very worried that some jack asses in the senate would make it a party issue and that poor woman would get murdered.

But, i think the senate see's this as an opportunity to take back some power from the judges.

Rightlyfully so, they have to much right now...

But, here is a little slide show for you all...

JACK AND THE WASABI SNORT

Enjoy!

2005-03-19T13:15:00.000-08:00

Here's the close up... Thats a water bottle top for size refrence...

2005-03-19T13:08:00.000-08:00

He's smiling now... just wait...

2005-03-19T13:06:00.001-08:00

The big snort... coke heads eat your hearts out... your pussy's compared to this man.

2005-03-19T13:06:00.000-08:00

It just hit the brain... Brad's giving some encouragement.

2005-03-19T13:03:00.000-08:00

He's momentarily stunned.

2005-03-19T13:02:00.001-08:00

still going... (jase gives words of support)

2005-03-19T13:02:00.000-08:00

Still going down...

2005-03-19T13:01:00.000-08:00

And it's down! That my friends, is a true man.

On Spring Break...

2005-03-17T11:14:00.000-08:00

Helloooo everyone.

I know It's been about a week, but I have been wine'in and dine'in in the wonderful town of Panama City, or, AKA, the Redneck Riviera...

And the town definitly lives up to it's name. The street are filled with crazy Black/White want to be's filled up on and fueled off of untold amounts of liquer, Fat bitches constantly flashing thier titties, and teenagers just being retardly drunk.

But, atleast im not staying smack dab in the middle of it. My Girlfriend has a very nice house off of the normally trashed roads with it's own private beach, so we don't have to put up with the drunkin' bullshit.... unless it comes from my friends.

Whitch, it tends to do. My friends have yet again amazed me with their ability to get extremly drunk and not make any sense. It's been very fun tho.

Unfortunitly, it seems i have choose the worst week in the year to take a vacation away from my computer and broadband service. Right now, I'm using an ancient dial up service, so im not able to scour the net for my wonderful stories.... but, we all know that they are already there.

1st) TheTerri Schiavo case. A judge has ordered that a feeding tube be removed from a woman who is in vegitable like state because her husband said that is what she would have wanted.

Fucking terrible. What makes it even worse is that the husband manged to weasel three million dollars out of the doctors BEFORE he decided to cut off all help to his wife.

Fucking terrible. What makes it even worse is that a judge has ordered that this feeding tube be removed... not because he thinks it is the right thing to do, but because he is trying to set some presedense to become famous.

Fucking terrible. Put the judge in jail for attempted murder.

Oh well....

Here some pictures from spring break. I'll be back on soon.

And i didnt catch a fish. damn it.

2005-03-16T11:20:00.000-08:00

Holy Shit it's Cole drinkin' a beer...

2005-03-16T11:19:00.000-08:00

Becky and I climbin' the rocks.

2005-03-16T11:17:00.000-08:00

St. Andrews jetties.

2005-03-16T11:15:00.000-08:00

Molly, the Ashleys and Beckam.

2005-03-16T11:14:00.000-08:00

yep, Rob got it. hole in one, bitches.

2005-03-16T11:12:00.000-08:00

Party on the beach.

2005-03-16T11:10:00.000-08:00

Go jack...

2005-03-16T11:09:00.000-08:00

Everybody on the beach...

2005-03-16T11:07:00.000-08:00

Becky and I at dinner.

2005-03-16T11:05:00.000-08:00

The ashleys and becky.

2005-03-16T11:04:00.000-08:00

Jase...very inebriated...bad.

2005-03-16T11:03:00.000-08:00

It's Becky....

2005-03-16T11:02:00.000-08:00

The Grayson boys... and Jake.

2005-03-16T11:01:00.000-08:00

Kuglin, Me and Jackson.

2005-03-16T11:00:00.000-08:00

neo kuglin... retard.

2005-03-16T10:59:00.000-08:00

Becky and I, and i'm slightly drunk.

sheep orgy

2005-03-09T13:22:00.000-08:00

Man charged with assault on sheep
A N. Codorus Twp. man broke into a barn, police said.

By CARYL CLARKE

Daily Record/Sunday News
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
At bottom: · PRIOR CASES
Somebody was making nighttime visits to farmer Terry Patterson's sheep barn in the 600 block of Big Mount Road in Paradise Township, police said.
Patterson told police he saw the evidence of several sexual assaults on his sheep, but never the intruder.
So he installed an alarm and intercom system.
It sounded about 3 a.m. Tuesday. Patterson went to the barn while his wife, Cindy, called 911.
Patterson told Northern York County Regional Police he peered in the barn window and saw a man assaulting a sheep, according to an arrest affidavit filed in District Justice Gerald Shoemaker's office.
Bruce Charles Englar, 53, of the 4600 block of Bentz Road in North Codorus Township, is charged with felony burglary for entering a building with the intention of committing a crime, namely, having sexual intercourse with a sheep.
Officer Patrick Gartrell of Northern Regional Police was patrolling nearby when 911 dispatched him to the Pattersons' home. He heard the farmer yelling in the barn, telling someone to stop. The officer ran toward a man dressed in black and ordered him to stop and put up his hands.
"I found baler's twine in Englar's back pocket, matching the twine that was hanging in the barn," Gartrell wrote in the affidavit.
Police allege the twine was to be used to secure the sheep for sexual intercourse.
Duty District Justice Nancy Edie also arraigned Englar by video camera on charges of criminal attempt to have sex with an animal, criminal trespass, possessing the instruments of crime and loitering and prowling at night.
Englar had parked his car several hundred feet south of the Pattersons' home, jumped over a fence surrounding the barn and walked in, according to the affidavit.
Englar allegedly told police he was just petting the sheep. Northern Regional Lt. Mark Bentzel said it was not a reasonable explanation for being inside somebody's barn at 3 in the morning.
Englar posted $10,000 bail Tuesday for his release from the York County Prison, a spokeswoman said.

I must have been born under a rock or something, because i grew up smack dab in the middle of Dixie Land, and i have NEVER heard of this nasty stuff really going down... Petting the sheep.... shheeeesh...

Look at these other cases in the same area...

· 1997: An Adams County man pleaded guilty to cruelty to animals for sexually assaulting a live turkey in a restroom at the Wampler Foods plant in New Oxford. The man was fined $750.

A friggin' turkey? Is that physically possible? Damn thats gross...
· 1992: A carnival worker was charged with agricultural vandalism after authorities said he had sex with a ram at the York Fair. The charge was later dropped in a plea bargain.

Leave it to carni's. Thats just how those folks get down...

2005-03-08T17:46:00.000-08:00

An official from the Ugandan Wildlife Authority steps over a 16-foot-long crocodile after its delivery to a sanctuary on Tuesday. The crocodile is said to have eaten 83 people over the last two decades.

Killer crocodile snared in Uganda
16-foot beast ate scores of people, officials say

KAMPALA, Uganda - A 16-foot-long (5-meter-long) crocodile said to have eaten more than 80 people has been caught alive in Uganda and transferred to a sanctuary, officials said Tuesday.
The giant beast — weighing about a ton — was captured by wildlife experts who spent three nights camping in the bush before locating their target.
Residents told local media the crocodile killed 83 people over the last two decades, mostly fishermen plying their trade on Lake Victoria off the shores of Bugiri district.
“Much as the residents of Luganga wanted to kill the reptile after our rangers had captured it, it is our responsibility to protect it by removing it from that area and keeping it in a safe place,” Uganda Wildlife Authority spokeswoman Lillian Nsubuga told Reuters.
The beast — reportedly more than 60 years old — was trapped using ropes and transported by pickup truck to the Buwama crocodile farm, west of the capital, Kampala.
The state-owned New Vision newspaper said it “roared” as it was released into a holding ground at the farm Monday.
Crocodiles sometimes attack and kill villagers collecting water or fishing in Lake Victoria, Africa’s biggest lake.

No wonder it ate som many damn people, look at the idiot "stepping over" him. If i had fried chicken dancing around my head when i slept i'd eat tha shit to.

Hmmmmm.... fried chicken.

Im going to zaxbys.

Tiger escapes

2005-03-08T08:36:00.000-08:00

Zookeepers Chase Man In Lion Suit
Zoo's Wacky Escape Drill
POSTED: 10:17 am EST March 7, 2005
UPDATED: 10:22 am EST March 7, 2005
TAMA, Japan -- A Japanese zoo prepared for animal escapes by chasing a volunteer dressed in a lion costume.
Slideshow: Zookeepers Chase Man In Lion Suit
FeedRoom

Zoo's Wacky Escape Drill

Zookeepers tracked the "lion" through the park Monday as zoo goers watched.
Zoo staff set up makeshift fences to contain the wild beast. If it was not a drill, the animal would be shot with a tranquilizer and quickly moved back to its cage habitat.
The annual costumed rehearsal is a favorite spectacle for zoo goers. Last year, the zoo practiced capturing a man dressed as an escaped polar bear.
All of the drills have been successful, zoo officials said.

Dear lord, i watched this video and laughed my balls off. Little slow in the begining, but wait till they get the nets out and everyone starts screaming in terror. It's friggin great.

Im gona watch it again....

fuck you sharpton.

2005-03-07T15:51:00.000-08:00

Rev. Al airs gangsta ban plan
BY TRACY CONNOR and BILL HUTCHINSONDAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
The Rev. Al Sharpton
-->The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling for a 90-day ban on radio and TV airplay for any performer who uses violence to settle scores or hype albums.
"There has to be a way to step in and regulate what's going on with the airwaves and with violence," Sharpton told the Daily News yesterday. "The airwaves are being used to romanticize urban violence."
The activist minister plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission and the country's major radio broadcasters to back his proposal.
His call follows last week's shooting outside Hot 97 radio's SoHo studios that apparently was sparked by a feud between rappers 50 Cent and The Game.
A member of The Game's entourage, Kevin Reed, 23, of Compton, Calif., was shot in the buttocks after 50 Cent bad-mouthed The Game during an on-air interview at the radio station.
Bad blood between 50 Cent and The Game continued to boil over the weekend when The Game challenged his former mentor to "Come get me, you little bitch!" during a concert in Long Beach, Calif.
Last night, 50 Cent was escorted through LaGuardia Airport by Port Authority cops "for his own protection" when he arrived on a plane from Detroit about 8 p.m., a Port Authority spokesman said.
Said Sharpton, "We may not be able to stop people from shooting, but we can stop people from profiting from the violence." Sharpton declined to comment specifically on the beef between 50 Cent, who was born Curtis Jackson, and The Game, whose real name is Jayceon Taylor.
Sharpton said he has no intention of trying to broker peace between the two rap stars, who have both recently released top-selling CDs.
"You can't deal with this on an artist-by-artist basis," he said. "I'm not going to become a mediator between artists. This is a recurring problem."
In a letter Sharpton plans to send to the FCC and broadcasters, he said the outcry against violence among entertainers should be just as loud as the response last year to Janet Jackson's breast-baring Super Bowl stunt.
"I recall the outrage that the FCC and others displayed in response to the Super Bowl performance of Janet Jackson," Sharpton wrote. "Yet, when acts of violence happen around radio stations that actually have caused bloodshed, there has been a strange and disturbing silence from all quarters."

Fuck you sharpton. This stuff is classic, and it's what sells CD's. I'll admit, the game's CD and 50 cents CD are the best rap CD's i've heard in a long time. Yes, it is all loaded with violence, but damn it, who doesn't like hearing about rap violence.
As a upper class white male citzen... I say, sharpton, shut yo ass up for you get slapped, biatch. Note: not bitch, BIATCH.

Im so hood. Where is my federal school loan check... i need to buy some sizzzurp.

socrates death, through platos eyes.

2005-03-06T20:13:00.000-08:00

"When Crito heard, he signaled to the slave who was standing by. The boy went out, and returned after a few moments with the man who was to administer the poison which he brought ready mixed in a cup. When Socrates saw him, he said, 'Now, good sir, you understand these things. What must I do?'
'Just drink it and walk around until your legs begin to feel heavy, then lie down. It will soon act.' With that he offered Socrates the cup.
The latter took it quite cheerfully without a tremor, with no change of color or expression. He just gave the man his stolid look, and asked, 'How say you, is it permissible to pledge this drink to anyone? May I?'
The answer came, 'We allow reasonable time in which to drink it.'
'I understand', he said, 'we can and must pray to the gods that our sojourn on earth will continue happy beyond the grave. This is my prayer, and may it come to pass.' With these words, he stoically drank the potion, quite readily and cheerfully. Up till this moment most of us were able with some decency to hold back our tears, but when we saw him drinking the poison to the last drop, we could restrain ourselves no longer. In spite of myself, the tears came in floods, so that I covered my face and wept - not for him, but at my own misfortune at losing such a man as my friend. Crito, even before me, rose and went out when he could check his tears no longer.
Apollodorus was already steadily weeping, and by drying his eyes, crying again and sobbing, he affected everyone present except for Socrates himself.
He said, 'You are strange fellows; what is wrong with you? I sent the women away for this very purpose, to stop their creating such a scene. I have heard that one should die in silence. So please be quiet and keep control of yourselves.' These words made us ashamed, and we stopped crying.
Socrates walked around until he said that his legs were becoming heavy, when he lay on his back, as the attendant instructed. This fellow felt him, and then a moment later examined his feet and legs again. Squeezing a foot hard, he asked him if he felt anything. Socrates said that he did not. He did the same to his calves and, going higher, showed us that he was becoming cold and stiff. Then he felt him a last time and said that when the poison reached the heart he would be gone.
As the chill sensation got to his waist, Socrates uncovered his head (he had put something over it) and said his last words: 'Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. Do pay it. Don't forget.'
'Of course', said Crito. 'Do you want to say anything else?'
'There was no reply to this question, but after a while he gave a slight stir, and the attendant uncovered him and examined his eyes. Then Crito saw that he was dead, he closed his mouth and eyelids.
This was the end of our friend, the best, wisest and most upright man of any that I have ever known"

This was written by plato, who was one of the great socrates students. I found this on a website that tells of history as told through peoples eyes.

Awsome.

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

the coolest view

2005-03-06T20:09:00.000-08:00

This is probley the coolest pic i have seen on the internet in a long time.

This is the panoramic view of what it looks like on the top of mount everest.

Enjoy.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050306.html

haha

2005-03-05T13:47:00.000-08:00

Posted on Fri, Mar. 04, 2005
Police make drug, prostitution arrests in raid on funeral homeAssociated Press
ATHENS, Ga. - Police raided an Athens funeral home and made drug and prostitution arrests.
Lt. Mike Hunsinger, supervisor of the Athens-clarke Police Department's Drug and Vice Unit, said Hurley Funeral Home had been under suspicion for illicit activities for at least a year.
"We received information, particularly over the past year, that there were drugs in and around the funeral home and that prostitutes were frequenting the area," Hunsinger.
Police arrested Lawrence Edward Hurley, 51, and Larry Donnel Watkins, 54, on charges of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possession of cocaine within 1,000 feet of public housing. Hurley's family owns the undertaking business.
Also arrested on Thursday were Angela Marie Ray, 35, of Bowman, and Camila Renee McCann, 37, of Colbert, both of whom were on probation for previous prostitution arrests, police said.
Police said they believe the home was only rarely used for funerals, with the most recent service being held Jan. 22.
"We don't believe it was an active funeral home," Hunsinger said. "It was rare for them to have a client."

Well, good job Athens,

Least in milledgeville we only have a golden pantry that sells crack pipes.
or "roses on glass" as they are called.

Wonder if that place did all that necrophiliac stuff..... gross.

Go dawgs. woof.

2005-03-04T19:12:00.000-08:00

GQ Bitches

2005-03-04T19:11:00.000-08:00

It's Becky (kip).....

2005-03-04T19:10:00.001-08:00

Yea i caught it, i'll have bigger ones when i come back from florida

2005-03-04T19:10:00.000-08:00

Some wildass looking duck

haha

2005-03-04T17:21:00.000-08:00

This one goes out to my brother and any other nerds who understand it.

I saw this one on a photoshop contest about video game chars. in real life situations.

a pair of paris in aruba

2005-03-04T17:06:00.000-08:00

HILTON'S BEDROOM ANTICS CAUSE HOTEL UPROAR
Socialite PARIS HILTON and her latest lover PARIS LATSIS sparked fury in a Caribbean hotel when guests were kept awake all night - by the loved-up pair's moans of pleasure.
The new couple decided to take their burgeoning relationship to the next level by booking a holiday on the sun-drenched island of Aruba, but their saucy antics reportedly enraged holiday-makers staying at the plush Radisson Hotel.
Guest LENNY GOLDSTEIN tells British newspaper THE SUN, "You could hear moaning and groaning and the bed bumping the wall. They were doing it as much as four times a night." 04/03/2005 09:36

Never thought i would give a man named Paris props... but i am. good job, you lucky queer.

Four times a night? girl, i can do it one time... the whole night. Trust me, half a bottle of whiskey and a hot turkey and cheese sub, and its on.

tasting music?

2005-03-04T16:14:00.000-08:00

Report: Woman 'tastes' musical notes
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Music can be a mouth-watering experience for one Swiss musician who "tastes" combinations of notes as distinct flavors, according to a report in the science journal Nature.
The 27-year-old woman known as E.S. is a synaesthete, someone who experiences sensation in more than one sense from the same stimulation, researchers said on Wednesday.
When E.S. hears tone intervals, the difference in pitch between two tones, she not only can see the musical notes as different colors but can taste the sounds.
"This is a special case of a musician who, when she hears tone intervals, she has a perception of a taste of a tone," said psychologist Michaela Esslen, of the University of Zurich in Switzerland.
"She doesn't imagine the taste, she really tastes it."
The case of E.S. reported in Nature is exceptional because seeing letters or digits in a certain color is more common in synaesthesia. It may also involve seeing a musical tone as a color.
But E.S. sees the colors and depending on the tone intervals a symphony could be bittersweet, salty, sour or creamy.
"Whenever she hears a specific musical interval, she automatically experiences a taste on her tongue that is consistently linked to that particular interval," the scientists said in the journal.
They tested E.S.'s ability by applying solutions tasting sour, bitter, salty or sweet to her tongue and asking her to identify the tone intervals, a difficult task that requires musical training.
When the applied tastes corresponded with the intervals she was able to identify them quicker than other musicians.
"We found that E.S.'s tone-interval identification was perfect," the researchers said.

Wellllll..... i call the bullshit card.
This is to weird to be true, like magic or something... and how does something taste creamy? thats more of a texture then a taste.

Play that bitch some G UNIT.... and watch her squirm.

bout time greenspan

2005-03-03T11:07:00.000-08:00

Greenspan: Consumption Tax Could Help Economy

Thursday, March 03, 2005

NEW YORK — Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (search) on Thursday gave his support to an overhaul of the U.S. tax code and said some form of a consumption tax — such as a national sales tax — could help the economy, but he cautioned that the government would face significant problems making such a transition.

The central bank chief made his comments in prepared remarks to the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform. Revamping the complex tax code is an important goal of the Bush administration.

Greenspan pointed out the merits of a "consumption" tax, as well as the challenges of setting up such a tax. Consumption taxes can take the form of national retail sales taxes (search) or a value-added tax, imposed on the increased value of a good or service at each stage of manufacture and distribution and ultimately passed on to the consumer.

"As you know, many economists believe that a consumption tax would be best from the perspective of promoting economic growth — particularly if one were designing a tax system from scratch — because a consumption tax is likely to encourage saving and capital formation," Greenspan said.

"However, getting from the current tax system to a consumption tax raises a challenging set of transition issues," he added.

Bush's advisers have spoken favorably of the economic benefits that could be achieved by moving from a system that taxes income to one that taxes consumption. However, Democratic critics contend such a consumption tax would hit low-income Americans the hardest.

Bush's aides have pointed out that the current tax system is actually a combination of a system that taxes income and one that taxes consumption. They note the creation of individual retirement accounts and other tax-deferred savings accounts allows taxpayers to shelter some investment earnings from tax.

The tax panel is responsible for coming up with recommendations to make taxes fairer and simpler. In addition to revamping Social Security (search), Bush wants to overhaul the nation's tax system — two centerpieces of his second-term economic agenda.

In his remarks, Greenspan also backed the goal of simplifying the tax code and said previous overhauls, including the most recent revamp in 1986, could provide guidance on how to proceed.

"Since the exemplary 1986 reform, the tax code has drifted back to be overly complicated and burdened by higher marginal rates and by many special provisions that have undesirably narrowed the tax base," the Fed chief said.

"A defining feature of the 1986 reform was the broadening of the tax base and the lowering of tax rates, and it is widely believed that these changes enhanced economic efficiency," he added.

Greenspan didn't offer a specific approach for policy-makers to follow as they consider an overhaul of the tax code.

But he did say that changes should be aimed at making the tax code easier for Americans to navigate, be fair and should contain an element of predictability so that businesses and consumers alike can look into the future and have a good idea what their tax obligations are — allowing them to plan ahead.

"A simpler tax code would reduce the considerable resources devoted to complying with current tax laws, and the freed up resources could be used for more productive purposes," Greenspan said.

I've been hearing this preached since i was a little boy, im glad greenspan backs it.

A complete overhaul from income taxing into all around consumption tax isn't going to happen and work right for a long time...

I hope they are bright a bout it and just add a small national consumption tax to the food companies right now. Pushing it directly along to the customers quickly is going to hella piss off some poor people. Like me. I don't have a damn income, so that one just sucks.

obvious

2005-03-03T11:03:00.000-08:00

Ten Commandments cases go before high court
Justices debate legality of Texas, Kentucky display

		From left, the Revs. Kenneth Carroll, Mike Coppersmith, Ray Hines and Gary Dull, all from Kentucky, protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington while justices hear arguments in the Ten Commandments cases.
		AP Photo by Gerald Herbert

By YONAT SHIMRON, Staff Writer

WASHINGTON -- Duke University law professor Erwin Chemerinsky barely spoke three sentences Wednesday before U.S. Supreme Court justices peppered him with questions about whether Ten Commandments displays on government property endorse a religion.

Can prayers said before a legislative session, they asked, be unconstitutional?

How about the invocation said before every Supreme Court hearing, "God save the United States and this honorable court"?

What about the Thanksgiving holiday, a government creation to thank God for the earth's bounty?

In a soft-spoken, friendly manner, Chemerinsky answered -- arguing that in each case context, content and history were key.

"It all depends on how it's done," he replied.

The court was hearing back-to-back cases alleging that displays of the commandments on public property violate the First Amendment's prohibition on the establishment of religion. The justices are expected to rule on both cases this summer.

Chemerinsky argued against the display in the first of the cases: Van Orden v. Perry.

The courtroom was packed. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was absent; Justice John Paul Stevens took on his duties.

This was the first time the court had taken up a Ten Commandments case since 1980, when it ruled in Stone v. Graham that the commandments cannot be posted on schoolroom walls. Since then, the Ten Commandments have become a weapon in the culture war, especially among those who say religion has been forced out of the public square.

The issue became particularly contentious when former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore ignored a federal court order to remove a 5,300-pound monument of the Ten Commandments from the state's judicial building in 2003.

In the past 25 years, 30 lower courts have issued conflicting decisions on whether the Ten Commandments can be displayed on public property. In the Van Orden case, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a 6-foot monument on the Texas Capitol lawn can stay.

The case was initially brought by Austin resident Thomas Van Orden, a former lawyer who is now homeless. He persuaded Chemerinsky to appeal the circuit court's decision.

Van Orden did not attend the hearing Wednesday.

In the second case, McCreary County v. ACLU, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ten Commandments displays in two Kentucky county courthouses are unconstitutional. Those displays have changed at least three times in response to litigation. They now form part of a "Foundations" exhibit and include framed copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carta.

One reason the high court decided to hear the cases might have been to resolve the conflicts in the lower court decisions.

Justice Antonin Scalia was Chemerinsky's toughest challenger, arguing that for most Americans, the Ten Commandments are a symbol that government derives its authority from God.

"Ninety-nine percent of people believe in the Ten Commandments," Scalia said. "Eighty-five percent couldn't tell you what they are," he added to widespread laughter.

Other justices questioned whether the nation ought to silence all religious expression. Justice Anthony Kennedy suggested that pretending the nation has no religious convictions in effect implies "hostility toward religion."

Chemerinsky, however, suggested that in the Texas case, the placement of a granite slab between the state Capitol and the state Supreme Court would make anyone who was not Christian or Jewish feel like an outsider. Moreover, it may undermine a system that promises justice for all.

"Imagine someone who is Muslim or Buddhist who walks into the Supreme Court," he said.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott argued that the Ten Commandments monument was part of 17 markers on the grounds of the Capitol that form a kind of museum of the people, events and ideals that have shaped the culture and history of Texas. Abbott said the Ten Commandments are a recognized symbol of law. Texas legislators received the monument as a gift from the Fraternal Order of Eagles to fight youth delinquency.

True, Abbott said, the Ten Commandments were religious. But they also had a historical component.

Chemerinsky, however, claimed that any document that begins, "I am the Lord Thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me," is inherently religious, and its historical component ancillary.

"This is the sole religious message on government property," Chemerinsky said. "This isn't a museum. Texas put it there to express a religious message."

Is it not the truth? so many people claim it is right, but they can't even back up thier own statements.

You can always count on stupid, blind people.

yes....

2005-03-02T12:04:00.000-08:00

Whatever. If a picture really says a thousand words, then this one says...

"Prince checks out aboriginal yaayaas."

Thank you, im out.

ignorance is bliss... untill the baby comes out

2005-03-01T11:26:00.000-08:00

Filipino couples just 'do it,' survey shows

By Blanche Rivera
March 1, 2005

In the Philippines Filipinos do it (and how they do it! Think 85 million Filipinos) but a recent survey found that quite a number of them did not know what "doing it" led to.

Exactly a week into the government's Ligtas-Buntis campaign, Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said couples with no notion of family planning lacked even the "very basic" knowledge of how children were conceived.

"They don't know how pregnancy happens. Many don't even understand that they have a uterus ... [It's] incredulous but it's true," said Dayrit at a media briefing yesterday.

A recent survey by the private polling firm Social Weather Stations found that only 30 percent of all Filipino couples practiced any form of family planning, either through artificial or natural means.

Of the 70 percent that did not use any method, the Department of Health (DoH) said 30 to 40 percent practiced family planning at one point but had stopped, while the remaining 30 percent had "no notion" at all or were considered "ignorant" of family planning.

Missed conception
Some of those who were ignorant did not know how conception took place, while some women even thought that their menstrual discharge came from the blood that flowed through their veins instead of as a result of the shredding of the uterine wall, Dayrit said.

"So you can just imagine why very few people practice family planning," he said.

Dayrit blamed their ignorance of sexual health and functions on the lack of education among Filipinos, especially the poor who tend to drop out of school and get pregnant early.

He said the values system in the country also contributed to the low level of education on sex and fertility among couples.

The Catholic Church in the Philippines opposes the use of artificial methods of family planning and even reminded the health workers involved in the Ligtas-Buntis campaign of their "right to conscientious objection."

"What we're doing is [trying to] create a healthy supportive environment where people can talk about sex, fertility ... because it is not happening; a lot of it is cultural," Dayrit said.

Value judgment
"Knowledge is often tempered by values, and if their values are such that they reject knowledge, there's nothing we can about it. We're doing this (Ligtas-Buntis campaign) in the hope that, eventually, they can prevent pregnancies if they wish," he said.

Health workers in Central Luzon and Bicol regions had talked to around 1,500 couples the past week, according to initial field reports.

Dayrit expressed confidence the national and local governments would be able to reach the two-million target couples who are said to have an unmet need for family planning.

The quote in blue explains why so many people in the world lack proper life information and are filled with so much hate.

As to the ignorance of the philly's... HOLY SHIT. Thats all i can say. Someone needs to get them a T.V. with the Oh! Oxygen channel...

But then we might have an over abundance of Philly Lesbos.... hmmmm... choices, choices...

Justice for all... unless....

2005-03-01T11:22:00.000-08:00

High Court Ends Death Penalty for Youths

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Mar 1, 10:12 AM (ET)

By HOPE YEN

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the Constitution forbids the execution of killers who were under 18 when they committed their crimes, ending a practice used in 19 states.

The 5-4 decision throws out the death sentences of about 70 juvenile murderers and bars states from seeking to execute minors for future crimes.

The executions, the court said, were unconstitutionally cruel.

I got really mixed feelings on this one. In my mind, i find that it is very rightous that young children around the age of 13 cannot be excuted when they could be helped... but a 17 year old who raped and murders a girl can get off scott free...?

Hmmmm, maybe this should have been looked at a little more closely.... possibly diffrent scenarios and such... but i guess presidence dosn't work like that.

Atleast young children who grew up in bad homes and did not know better will not be subject to such a terrible punishment.

I think 16 would be a much more preferable age limit tho.

Sorry iv'e been a while guys, i had mid terms that have been wallopin' my ass.

yes....

2005-02-26T07:54:00.000-08:00

Norwegian Catches Halibut Too Big for Boat
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OSLO, Norway (AP) - Unlike many fishermen, Harald Skoge didn't have to exaggerate the size of his latest catch. The 321-pound halibut was too big for his nearly 29-foot boat.
Skoge, who fishes as a hobby, was trying his luck off western Norway with a simple hook and line on Wednesday when he thought something had gone wrong.
"At first, I thought the hook had gotten stuck at the bottom," the retiree was quoted as saying in Friday's edition of his local newspaper, Sunnmoersposten.
Slowly, he was able to roll in the line, and realized something very, very big was on the end. When the giant halibut broke the surface, he realized it was too big to haul into his boat.
"I had to tow it to land," he told the newspaper.
After three hours of towing the fish, he was able to deliver it to a local fish processing plant, which weighed and bought the catch.
According to Skoge, the fish's head alone weighed 42 pounds, more than many anglers can claim for their whole catch.

unbelivable. and i haven't caught a damn fish in over a year.

Scary

2005-02-24T11:29:00.000-08:00

Found this pic up on a photoshop contest at FARK.com.

Farker Yammering_Splat_Vector created it.

It's just friggin scary looking. Wish i had a dog that scary, no one would fuck with me. ever. Or i'd send my drug dog out to poke em'.

little info

2005-02-24T11:19:00.000-08:00

Today we hit over the 1,000 mark for this month on my blog.

Im glad everone likes it, i guess im doing something right.

Little more info, with my ads up, i have made exactly 3 cents.

So damn it people, click the ads. I have to eat. Im running out of ramen noodles and natural light.

Who would have thought?

2005-02-24T11:11:00.000-08:00

Awsome story. to long to put here, but read it if you got the time.
Real life fight club. god i loved that movie.

http://www.sfbg.com/39/21/cover_fight.html

smart man.

2005-02-24T11:07:00.000-08:00

Cranky customer becomes suspect in robbery

Canadian Press
Feb. 23, 2005 11:20 AM

WINNIPEG, Canada - A man has been charged after a convenience store was robbed at knifepoint by a customer who said he wasn't happy with a recent purchase.

Someone disguised with a scarf over his face went to Halal Meats Centre and Specialty Foods in Winnipeg on Monday afternoon, said police spokeswoman Const. Shelly Glover.

"He approached the clerk asking for a refund on products he had purchased previously," Glover said. "When the clerk refused to provide a refund, the male produced a knife and demanded his cash back."

The employee turned over an undisclosed amount of money and the bandit bolted.

The uninjured clerk called police who responded and found the suspect waiting for a bus at a nearby bus stop.

The store's manager did not return phone calls.

Ishag Ahmed, 29, of Winnipeg is charged with robbery with a weapon and wearing a disguise with criminal intent. He was detained in custody at the Winnipeg Remand Centre.

Yet another brilliant crook. Awsome. Wonder if he had a frequent ride card.

why?

2005-02-24T11:03:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK (AP) -- While Hollywood gossips about who was -- and wasn't -- in Paris Hilton's cell phone book, the hotel heiress/reality TV star says she feels "horrible."

Last week, Hilton's cell phone was hacked into and its contents (her phone numbers and e-mail addresses) were posted on the Internet.

In an interview with Us Weekly magazine, on newsstands Friday, Hilton says: "I feel horrible that, once again, someone has invaded my privacy. I want to apologize to all my friends and family. I don't know why this stuff always happens to me, but I wish it wouldn't anymore."

Hilton, 24, said she first heard the news from her sister, Nicky.

"(Nicky) told me it was out there," she said. "It's too upsetting for me -- I can't believe it."

Some of her friends have been besieged with calls and e-mails. Actress Lindsay Lohan tells the magazine: "It's crazy. I even got an e-mail from someone pretending to be Hugh Hefner."

Hilton's privacy was previously exposed when a sex tape of her and an ex-boyfriend became a cyberspace novelty. She stars on the Fox TV reality show "The Simple Life 3: Interns" with friend Nicole Richie, daughter of R&B singer Lionel Richie.

First, this one in BREAKING NEWS. why? this stupid bitch always gets in the headlines for dumb shit.

Second, why is she apoligizing? Because she is a victim? just like that video, she's always just trying to get i the news.

Hot tho. So, ill read it. and so will you.

Anyone ever seen that video? LOVED IT.

a lil info...

2005-02-21T05:52:00.000-08:00

a little info fo yo asses...

1. In warm weather, 6th president of the United States John Quincy Adams customarily went skinny-dipping in the Potomac River before dawn.

2. 9th U.S. president William Henry Harrison was inaugurated on a bitterly cold day and gave the longest inauguration speech ever. The new president promptly caught a cold that soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison died exactly one month into his presidential term, the shortest in U.S. history.

3. John Tyler, 10th U.S. president, fathered 15 children (more than any other president)--8 by his first wife, and 7 by his second wife. Tyler was past his seventieth birthday when his 15th child was born. He also formerly helped the use of the word, P.I.M.P.

4. Sedated only by brandy, 11th president of the United States James Polk survived gall bladder surgery at the age of 17. While the doctor preformed the surgery with his teeth.

5. 15th U.S. president James Buchanan is the only unmarried man ever to be elected president. Buchanan was engaged to be married once; however, his fiancée died suddenly after breaking off the engagement, and he remained a bachelor all his life. slight mishap of falling down the stairs.

6. Often depicted wearing a tall black stovepipe hat, 16th president of the United States Abraham Lincoln carried letters, bills, and notes in his hat.

7. 17th U.S. president Andrew Johnson never attended school. His future wife, Eliza McCardle, taught him to write at the age of 17. (Bonus fact about Andrew Johnson: He only wore suits that he custom-tailored himself.)

8. Ulysses S. Grant, 18th president of the United States, died of throat cancer. During his life, Grant had smoked about 20 cigars per day. common sense, simple, commmon sense.

9. Both ambidextrous and multilingual, 20th president of the United States James Garfield could write Greek with one hand while writing Latin with the other. Just plain cool.

10. Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th president of the United States, underwent a secret operation aboard a yacht to remove his cancerous upper jaw in 1893.

11. The teddy bear derived from 26th U.S. president Theodore ("Teddy") Roosevelt's refusal to shoot a bear with her cub while on a hunting trip in Mississippi.

12. William Taft, 27th president of the United States, weighed more than 300 pounds and had a special oversized bathtub installed in the White House for his fat ass.

13. Warren Harding, 29th U.S. president, played poker at least twice a week, and once gambled away an entire set of White House china. His advisors were nicknamed the "Poker Cabinet" because they joined the president in his poker games. Now we got coke heads. nice trade off.

14. Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States, had chronic stomach pain and required 10 to 11 hours of sleep and an afternoon nap every day. no comment.

15. Herbert Hoover, 31st U.S. president, published more than 16 books, including one called Fishing for Fun-And to Wash Your Soul. Yes......

16. 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt was related, either by blood or by marriage, to 11 former presidents. Nobelesse class in the U.S. you say? My ass!

17. The letter "S" comprises the full middle name of the 33rd president, Harry S. Truman. It represents two of his grandfathers, whose names both had "S" in them.

18. Military leader and 34th president of the U.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower loved to cook; he developed a recipe for vegetable soup that is 894 words long and includes the stems of nasturtium flowers as one of the ingredients.

19. 40th president of the United States Ronald Reagan broke the so-called "20-year curse," in which every president elected in a year ending in 0 died in office.

20. George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, and his wife Laura got married just three months after meeting each other, While also currently on a three month coke binge.

i knew it...

2005-02-20T16:01:00.000-08:00

Secret tapes say Bush used pot, report says
February 20, 2005
NEW YORK -- Private conversations with George W. Bush secretly taped by an old friend before he was elected president foreshadow some of his political strategies and seem to reveal that he acknowledged using marijuana, the New York Times reported Saturday.
The conversations were recorded by Doug Wead, a former aide to Bush's father, starting in 1998, when Bush was weighing a presidential bid, until just before the Republican National Convention in 2000, the Times said in a story posted on its Web site.
The tapes show Bush crafting a strategy for navigating the tricky political waters between Christian conservative and secular voters, repeatedly worrying that evangelicals would be angered by a refusal to bash gays and that secular Americans would be turned off by meetings with evangelical leaders.
'How can I differentiate sin?'
On one tape, Bush explains that he told one prominent evangelical that he would not ''kick gays because I'm a sinner. How can I differentiate sin?''
In early tapes, Bush dismisses the strength of John McCain (R-Ariz.) for the nomination and expresses concern about rival Steve Forbes. He also praises John Ashcroft as a promising candidate for Supreme Court justice, attorney general or vice president.
Bush also criticizes Vice President Al Gore for admitting marijuana use and explains why he would not do the same.
''I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions,'' he said, according to the Times. ''You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried.''
According to the article, Wead played 12 of the tapes to a Times reporter. He said he recorded them because he viewed Bush as a historic figure. He is the author of a new book on presidential childhoods.
The White House did not deny the authenticity of the tapes.
''The governor was having casual conversations with someone he believed was his friend,'' White House spokesman Trent Duffy said, referring to Bush.

No shit. Smoke em' if you got em'.

Didn't talk about them importance of keeping in college cokehead days on the low tho. good job.

Just got back to m-ville

2005-02-20T15:51:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

Just got back from the lake with all my pledge class... Hungover...

Ill have you something later. See ya.

2005-02-18T09:32:00.000-08:00

Loonyey toons to lunatics?

Buggs Bunny to Buzz Bunny?

There destroying everything that my childhood had to offer.These guys look like evil depictions of new age Tron 3.0 shiat.

Might as well piss on Mad Max and Transformers why you are at it... geeze...

Bugs Bunny gets an extreme makeover Kids’ WB network updating Looney Tunes characters

The Associated Press
Updated: 7:19 p.m. ET Feb. 17, 2005
NEW YORK - Bugs Bunny and his pals are being updated for the future — way in the future.
The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children’s series, “Loonatics,” that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters’ descendants — Buzz Bunny and the like — will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.
The network’s animators have re-imagined Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote as sleek new figures for a modern age.
“We all flipped for it,” David Janollari, president of the Kids’ WB, said this week. “We just said, ‘Wow, what a great way to take the classic Looney Tunes franchise that has been huge with audiences for decades and bring it into the new millennium.”’
Janollari said both boys and girls enjoyed the new action figures in test runs of the show. Their parents may be a little surprised, however.
“I think the legacy is intact,” he said. “If anything, it’s an homage to the legacy instead of a destruction of the legacy.”

terrible

2005-02-18T09:14:00.000-08:00

So, now nerds can become even more fat and lazy while not having to waste the time and the the few feet it takes to get to the car and go pick it up. no offence to my brother. nerd.

Friday, February 18, 2005Everquest -- now with pizza Everquest has added a simple in-game command to order pizzas while playing. I'm surprised that they don't pre-populate the pizza-ordering form with the info from your Everquest account -- usually games have such crazy, one-sided terms of service that the privacy implications of such a thing would shred like wet kleenex.
You're in luck - pizza is just a few key strokes away! While playing EverQuest II just type /pizza and a web browser will launch the online ordering section of pizzahut.com. Fill in your info and just kick back until fresh pizza is delivered straight to your door.

shit makes me laugh.

hitchhikers guide trailer

2005-02-16T08:24:00.000-08:00

This here is a trialer to one of the best books i have ever read, A Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy. Enjoy:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/104-9903924-6640760

after ray...

2005-02-15T20:47:00.000-08:00

So, now that we have seen the death of one of the greatest African American singers and song writers of the past, i think it is time that we start looking for some new ones. And don't you worry, im here to help. Now, we will go through some of the best song lyrics from our great black artists.

First, we will start with the one and only Tango Redd.

" but i got to let you know don't eva try to play a pim nigga like Tango Make your money baby (Com on drop it to the flo, bring it back up make it shake a lil mo) Make yo money baby(Girl shake dat thang do sumin strange for a lil piece of change) The way she wobble & shake it(shake dat thang) The way she wobble & shake it(for a lil peice of change) The way she wobble & shake it(let me see yo G-string)WobbleWobbleWobbleWobble."

Please note the wonderful change in style from "Let me see yo G- string" right into the melodious "WobbleWobbleWobbleWobble". Really switches the songs rythem into a more complex being. I give this one a sturdy thumbs up.

Next, lets look at Jadakiss and Why: This one is a little in depth and very artsy, so im going to help you desipher the hidden meaning here for your enjoyment.

Q: “Why is Jadakiss as hard as it gets?”
A: Well, jadakiss is not really hard, he's kind of fat and soft. But he has been working out, and he wears teflon. Teflon my friends, is VERY hard.

Q: “Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt?”
A: Well, the amount made of each CD is quite small when you consider all of the diffrent people who have to wrk to get the cd to you. The artist, in all reality, still makes more than the truck driver, We will all need to write to the record company to change this. And we need to fire the truck drivers.

Q: “Why they gonna give you life for murder? Turn around and only give you eight months for a burner?”
A: hmmm, this one is difficult. When you look at the scheme of things, life for murder is somewhat harsh. and only 8 months for a burner? When i got my stove top replaced, it only took 2 weeks. Someone needs to get jada a new maintance man. Cedar Ridge Rules! (shameless plug)

Q: “Why they sellin’ niggaz CDs for under a dime?”
A:Because they dont like black people. NEXT. no really, ive seen david hasselof's cd for like 14 cents.

Q: “Why are you even alive?”
A: Is this a trick question?

Q: “Why did Kobe have to hit that raw? Why he kiss that whore?”
A:She was white with big titties. But there is no proof he kissed her.

Q: “Why did Bush knock down the towers?”A: There is no evidence that President Bush was involved in the 9/11 attacks. In this passage, Jadakiss is proclaiming his support of the Kerry ticket.

Q: “Why they stop letting niggaz get degrees in jail?”
A: TAXES TAXES TAXES. I dont think they let white people get them tho. dont feel outs my fellow bretherin. We are all getting screwed by the system.

Q: “Why they let the Terminator win the election?”
A: I mean would you fuck with him? he kills robots for a living!

And finally, LIL Jhon.

YEAH!!! nof' said. PEACE.

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2005-02-14T11:28:00.000-08:00

Took this one from Eric's site, cuz it just kicks ass.

That is such a blue dildo sitting in the right corner there...

GO LOHAN, GO LOHAN...

Iv'e always wanted little robots in me... fantasy of mine...

2005-02-14T11:25:00.000-08:00

Inventor Kurzweil Aiming to Live Forever
WELLESLEY, Mass. -- Ray Kurzweil doesn't tailgate. A man who plans to live forever doesn't take chances with his health on the highway, or anywhere else.
As part of his daily routine, Kurzweil ingests 250 supplements, eight to 10 glasses of alkaline water and 10 cups of green tea. He also periodically tracks 40 to 50 fitness indicators, down to his "tactile sensitivity." Adjustments are made as needed.
"I do actually fine-tune my programming," he said.
The famed inventor and computer scientist is serious about his health because if it fails him he might not live long enough to see humanity achieve immortality, a seismic development he predicts in his new book is no more than 20 years away.
It's a blink of an eye in history, but long enough for the 56-year-old Kurzweil to pay close heed to his fitness. He urges others to do the same in "Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever."
The book is partly a health guide so people can live to benefit from a coming explosion in technology he predicts will make infinite life spans possible.
Kurzweil writes of millions of blood cell-sized robots, which he calls "nanobots," that will keep us forever young by swarming through the body, repairing bones, muscles, arteries and brain cells. Improvements to our genetic coding will be downloaded via the Internet. We won't even need a heart.
The claims are fantastic, but Kurzweil is no crank. He's a recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT prize, which is billed as a sort of Academy Award for inventors, and he won the 1999 National Medal of Technology Award. He has written on the emergence of intelligent machines in publications ranging from Wired to Time magazine. The Christian Science Monitor has called him a "modern Edison." He was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. Perhaps the MIT graduate's most famous inventions is the first reading machine for the blind that could read any typeface.
During a recent interview in his company offices, Kurzweil sipped green tea and spoke of humanity's coming immortality as if it's as good as done. He sees human intelligence not only conquering its biological limits, including death, but completely mastering the natural world.
"In my view, we are not another animal, subject to nature's whim," he said.
Critics say Kurzweil's predictions of immortality are wild fantasies based on unjustifiable leaps from current technology.
"I'm not calling Ray a quack, but I am calling his message about immortality in line with the claims of other quacks that are out there." said Thomas Perls, a Boston University aging specialist who studies the genetics of centenarians.
Sherwin Nuland, a bioethics professor at Yale University's School of Medicine, calls Kurzweil a "genius" but also says he's a product of a narcissistic age when brilliant people are becoming obsessed with their longevity.
"They've forgotten they're acting on the basic biological fear of death and extinction, and it distorts their rational approach to the human condition," Nuland said.
Kurzweil says his critics often fail to appreciate the exponential nature of technological advance, with knowledge doubling year by year so that amazing progress eventually occurs in short periods.
His predictions, Kurzweil said, are based on carefully constructed scientific models that have proven accurate. For instance, in his 1990 book, "The Age of Intelligent Machines," Kurzweil predicted the development of a worldwide computer network and of a computer that could beat a chess champion.
"It's not just guesses," he said. "There's a methodology to this."
Kurzweil's been thinking big ever since he was little. At age 8, he developed a miniature theater in which a robotic device moved the scenery. By 16, the Queens, N.Y., native built his own computer and programmed it to compose original melodies.
His interest in health developed out of concern about his own future. Kurzweil's grandfather and father suffered from heart disease, his father dying when Kurzweil was 22. Kurzweil was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in his mid-30s.
After insulin treatments were ineffective, Kurzweil devised his own solution, including a drastic cut in fat consumption, allowing him to control his diabetes without insulin.
His rigorous health regimen is not excessive, just effective, he says, adding that his worst sickness in the last several years has been mild nasal congestion.
In the past decade, Kurzweil's interests in technology and health sciences have merged as scientists have discovered similarities.
"All the genes we have, the 20,000 to 30,000 genes, are little software programs," Kurzweil said.
In his latest book, Kurzweil defines what he calls his three bridges to immortality. The "First Bridge" is the health regimen he describes with co-author Dr. Terry Grossman to keep people fit enough to cross the "Second Bridge," a biotechnological revolution.
Kurzweil writes that humanity is on the verge of controlling how genes express themselves and ultimately changing the genes. With such technology, humanity could block disease-causing genes and introduce new ones that would slow or stop the aging process.
The "Third Bridge" is the nanotechnology and artificial intelligence revolution, which Kurzweil predicts will deliver the nanobots that work like repaving crews in our bloodstreams and brains. These intelligent machines will destroy disease, rebuild organs and obliterate known limits on human intelligence, he believes.
Immortality would leave little standing in current society, in which the inevitability of death is foundational to everything from religion to retirement planning. The planet's natural resources would be greatly stressed, and the social order shaken.
Kurzweil says he believes new technology will emerge to meet increasing human needs. And he said society will be able to control the advances he predicts as long as it makes decisions openly and democratically, without excessive government interference.
But there are no guarantees, he adds.
Meanwhile, Kurzweil refuses to concede the inevitably of his own death, even if science doesn't advance as quickly as he predicts.
"Death is a tragedy," a process of suffering that rids the world of its most tested, experienced members - people whose contributions to science and the arts could only multiply with agelessness, he said.
Kurzweil said he's no "cheerleader" for unlimited scientific progress and added he knows science can't answer questions about why eternal lives are worth living. That's left for philosophers and theologians, he said.
But to him there's no question of huge advances in things that make life worth living, such as art, cultural, music and science.
"Biological evolution passed the baton of progress to human cultural and technological development," he said.
Lee Silver, a Princeton biologist, said he'd love to believe in the future as Kurzweil sees it, but the problem is, humans are involved.
The instinct to preserve individuality, and to gain advantage for yourself and children, would survive any breakthrough into biological immortality - which Silver doesn't think is possible. The gap between the haves and have-nots would widen and Kurzweil's vision of a united humanity would become ever more elusive, he said.
"I think it would require a change in human nature," Silver said, "and I don't think people want to do that."

Living foreverw would kick total ass. would take a starship to another planet with a computer filled with every great book ever written and spend my eternity reading in a comfortable chair. And having sex.. alot... with women who tought i was a Pharoh god son... in a egyptian like world created by me and my minions.

God im brilliant.

damn queer ass pikes.

2005-02-13T19:18:00.000-08:00

BOWLING GREEN -- Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity is being investigated after reports that a naked member harassed another.
The incident happened almost a month ago at the fraternity house on campus. Police say Nicholas Vogele forced his way into another member's room and simulated intercourse on the man.
Several other fraternity members watched. Detectives say one member photographed the incident with a digital camera. Police have confiscated that camera.
News 11 talked to several students who are outraged by the alleged incident. "I just think it's really immature," said student Sandy Langenderfer.
"I think they should be kicked out of the university because it's no different then a girl being raped or something like that, I just think they need to be kicked out and the fraternity needs to be penalized as well," said student Miranda Bond.
Vogele was charged with criminal mischief. He will be in court in March. The fraternity could also face a penalty.

This kind of shit cracks me up and pisses me off at the same time.

Im pissed because it is faggots like this that give greek life such a gay ass name.

At the same time, it makes me laugh my balls off because every Pike i have ever met is a steriod poppin' stuck up bitch. Oh well, Kappa Sigs are fuckin' tight!

Well, i atleast speak of my Chapter. Lambda XI runs it.

Queer pikes tho... make me laugh.

Just appreciate it.

2005-02-11T14:04:00.000-08:00

This is all i got right now. appreciate it.

The whole state is now a middle school

2005-02-10T14:11:00.000-08:00

Tighten Your Belts, VirginiaRICHMOND, Va.,
Feb. 9, 2005
Virginians who wear their pants so low their underwear shows may want to think about investing in a stronger belt. The state's House of Delegates passed a bill Tuesday authorizing a $50 fine for anyone who displays his or her underpants in a "lewd or indecent manner." Del. Lionell Spruill Sr., a Democrat who opposed the bill, had pleaded with his colleagues to remember their own youthful fashion follies. During an extended monologue Monday, he talked about how they dressed or wore their hair in their teens. On Tuesday, he said the measure was an unconstitutional attack on young blacks that would force parents to take off work to accompany their children to court just for making a fashion statement. "This is a foolish bill, Mr. Speaker, because it will hurt so many," Spruill said before the measure was approved 60-34. It now goes to the state Senate. The bill's sponsor, Del. Algie T. Howell, has said constituents were offended by the exposed underwear. He did not speak on the floor Tuesday. Spruill and Howell, also a Democrat, are both black.

THE WHOLE STATE IS NOW A FUCKING MIDDLE SCHOOL.

hmmmm... i wonder who let him in... so many times?

2005-02-10T11:49:00.000-08:00

White House reporter's credentials questioned

Man worked for Web site owned by Republican activist

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A New York congresswoman asked the White House to explain Wednesday why a man who worked for a news Web site owned by a GOP activist was able to obtain White House press credentials under an assumed name.

James Guckert, who reported from the White House for the Talon News Service under the name "Jeff Gannon," announced he was quitting the business "in consideration of the welfare of me and my family."

"Because of the attention being paid to me, I find it is no longer possible to effectively be a reporter for Talon News," he said in a statement posted Wednesday on his Web site.

In a letter to President Bush, Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Democrat, questioned why Guckert routinely received credentials for White House news briefings.

Slaughter linked Guckert's case to recent revelations that two conservative columnists who supported Bush administration policies had received government money.

"It appears that 'Mr. Gannon's' presence in the White House press corps was merely as a tool of propaganda for your administration," Slaughter wrote.

The White House had no comment.

The House and Senate press galleries declined Guckert's request for credentials in 2003.

Julie Davis, chairwoman of the Senate press gallery's executive committee, said Guckert could not demonstrate any separation between Talon News and GOPUSA, a Republican consulting group.

Both organizations are run by Bobby Eberle, a Texas GOP activist. Many Talon News articles also appeared as news releases on the GOPUSA Web site, said Davis, a reporter for The Sun newspaper of Baltimore, Maryland.

In a statement on the Talon Web site, Eberle referred to "Gannon's" resignation and said, "I understand and support Jeff's decision."

Slaughter said she was writing at the request of senior editors of the Niagara Falls Reporter in her Buffalo-area district.

The newspaper ran an open letter questioning "how a partisan political organization and an individual with no credentials as a reporter -- and apparently operating under an assumed name -- landed a coveted spot in the White House press corps."

During White House press secretary Scott McClellan's regular briefings, Guckert routinely offered administration-friendly questions.

He became the focus of liberal and media Web sites after Bush called on him during his news conference January 26.

Guckert asked Bush how he could deal with Democratic congressional leaders "who seem to have divorced themselves from reality."

Guckert told The Washington Post in an article published Tuesday that his political leanings were "admittedly" conservative "and that point of view is not represented in the briefing room at all."

"Call me partisan, fine, but don't let my colleagues off the hook," he said. "They're partisan too, but they don't admit it."

Slaughter said ideology had nothing to do with the dispute.

"It doesn't matter whether he's a conservative reporter. The question is, is he a reporter?" she said.

She told CNN that she believed the White House gave Guckert credentials to get a friendly questioner into the room during White House briefings.

"I don't want to be fed propaganda from this White House," she said. "I don't want people to be paid to give it to me. We deserve the facts, or this democracy will suffer."

Last month, conservative commentator Armstrong Williams apologized for not disclosing that his company had received $240,000 from a public relations agency hired by the Department of Education to promote Bush's No Child Left Behind education overhaul.

Syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher also apologized to her readers for not disclosing a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help create materials used to promote Bush's $300 million initiative encouraging marriage to strengthen families.

At the January 26 news conference, Bush said he disapproved of such practices and wanted them to stop.

"There needs to be independence," he said.

"All our Cabinet secretaries must realize that we will not be paying ... commentators to advance our agenda. Our agenda ought to be able to stand on its own two feet," Bush said. (Full story)

HHS later disclosed that a third conservative columnist, Mike McManus, had received $10,000 to promote Bush's marriage initiative, according to an Associated Press report. His weekly column appears in about 50 newspapers.

Several congressional Democrats have introduced a bill to stop what they termed taxpayer-funded "covert propaganda campaigns" that violate a provision included in annual appropriation acts since 1951.

Under the new bill, dubbed the Federal Propaganda Prohibition Act of 2005, the prohibition on propaganda would become a permanent part of federal law.

Federal agencies would also have to notify Congress about public relations, advertising and polling contracts, and the funding sources of all federally funded public relations materials would have to be disclosed.

Hmmmm, i wonder how he go in? I didn't know the White House had secret back doors! It's retarded to thin that the Bush Admin. DID NOT know who he was and that he was using an alias. Just another sly ass trick used by the Bush Admin. If politics was football, Old bush would have oiled down calves and hot sauce dripping off his fingers.

Where i come from, we have a word for people that play with other people's feelings...

No, no we really don't. I just wanted to souns like some old southern guy there. i made that up. but he is fo sho a deuche.

deuche, deuche, deuche.

2005-02-09T09:24:00.000-08:00

Rice: Iran must halt nuclear program
Secretary of state says Iran could be referred to Security Council
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday that Iran must live up to its international obligations to halt its nuclear program or "the next steps are in the offing."
"And I think everybody understands what the 'next steps' mean," Rice told reporters after a meeting with NATO foreign ministers and European Union officials.
"It's obvious that if Iran cannot be brought to live up to its international obligations that, in fact, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) statutes would suggest that Iran has to be referred to the U.N. Security Council," she said.
Iran has refused to halt its nuclear program, saying it is only intended for peaceful energy production.
In recent months, negotiators from France, Britain and Germany have been trying to coax Iran to fully disclose the parameters of its nuclear program and abandon efforts to produce nuclear fuel in exchange for economic and political incentives.
"The message is there, the Iranians need to get that message, and we can certainly always remind them that there are other steps that the international community has at its disposal should they not be prepared to live up to these obligations," the secretary of state said.
She said that no timetable had been set.
"We continue to be in completely close consultation with the Europeans about how it is going, about whether progress is being made, about whether the Iranians seem to be moving toward living up to those obligations, and we'll just monitor and continue those discussions," she said.
In his state of the union address last week, President Bush singled out Iran as "the world's primary state sponsor of terror -- pursuing nuclear weapons," while depriving its people of freedom.
The administration made similar statements and threats in the run-up to its invasion of Iraq.
But Rice on Friday said that the question of using military force against the Tehran regime "is simply not on the agenda at this point in time."
'Time for diplomacy'
"We believe this is a time for diplomacy," the secretary said Wednesday, adding that human rights in Iran and Tehran's sponsoring of terror groups are also causes for concern.
"The message that we are giving to Iran: We do have diplomatic means at our disposal, we are doing this bilaterally as well as multilaterally, and I believe that a diplomatic solution is in our grasp, if we can have unity of purpose, unity of message with the Iranians and if the Iranians understand that the international community is quite serious about it living up to its obligations."
The IAEA has the authority to refer Iran to the Security Council, but the group's board of governors has refrained from doing so in seven meetings on the topic in the past two years.
Mark Gwozkecky, a spokesman for the IAEA, said the governors have reaffirmed their support for the inspection process at each meeting "as long as inspectors are making progress and not being obstructed, and as long as Iran appears to be cooperating."
The board next meets February 28, Gwozkecky said.

Sweet, we are going to war.... again.
I truly hope that they do actually go through the U.N. on this one and hopefully Iran will comply, if not...

Id hate to see what happens. We are stretched way to thin right now as it is to throw Iran into the mix, who is not by anymeans going to be easy to win aganst.

"Iran has begun major military exercises near its border with Afghanistan.
More than 70,000 soldiers from the elite Revolutionary Guards have been testing their latest weapons and equipment.
Reports say tanks and aircraft are also taking part in the manoeuvres in an area 50km from the Afghan border."

Oh well, guess ill go ahead and pack my bags. no point in being late!
No, just kidding. really. i like my slow paced student life, and hopefully im just smart enough to keep it. Or atleast work on a computer or somethin.

Go team... There go my testicles!

2005-02-08T11:56:00.000-08:00

Cruel cut for Welsh rugby fan
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles to celebrate Wales beating England at rugby, the Daily Mirror reported on Tuesday.
Geoff Huish, 26, was so convinced England would win Saturday's match he told fellow drinkers at a social club, "If Wales win I'll cut my balls off," the paper said.
Friends at the club in Caerphilly, south Wales, thought he was joking.
But after the game Huish went home, severed his testicles with a knife, and walked 200 metres back to the bar with the testicles to show the shocked drinkers what he had done.
Huish was taken to hospital where he remained in a seriously ill condition, the paper said. Police told the paper he had a history of mental problems.
Wales's 11-9 victory over England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff was their first home win in 12 years.

Talk about a good sport. I wish i had a fan who would cut there balls off if i won something. The real question is did the team help him get them put back on or not?

I mean, the man cut his balls off.... i don't really know what else to say here...

Well, hopefully this is a wake up call for the other team to get there balls rolling for the championship next time...

Oh well, i guess the balls are up in the air on that one.

Well, im off to class. Hope its a ball.

Im all out of ball jokes.

[insert yours here]

this man definitly got some...pizza... for this one.

2005-02-08T11:24:00.000-08:00

Army pilot rap over pizza flight

The Lynx was on a low-level flight

A lieutenant has been disciplined after using an Army helicopter to deliver a pizza to his girlfriend.

The incident on 25 January saw the unnamed officer divert from a routine training flight over Stanford, Norfolk, to take the fast food.

The Ministry of Defence refused to name the officer, from 659 Squadron, or divulge how he was punished.

A spokesman said: "The chain of command doesn't condone these sorts of actions. The individuals have been disciplined."

He added: "During a routine low-level training sortie, somebody decided it would be an opportunity to use it for a delivery."

The extra cost caused by the diversion is not known.

The pizza was understood to have been delivered to a female officer cadet at an Army range at Thetford, Norfolk.

The Ministry of Defence spokesman did not confirm what toppings were on the pizza.

That man is so getting laid for this one...
But why can't we know what was on the pizza?

Shockin' soldiers.

2005-02-07T18:58:00.000-08:00

Toby Keith in not the only one shockin yall. Score one for the U.S. Troops. I wonder how many people actually knew what those big hands are doing. Best thing i have seen in a long time, even better than a wanderin' tittie. Touche to the man who invented the foam shockers, and Touche to the soldiers.

Thomas at CJ writes...

2005-02-06T13:28:00.000-08:00

Don't read the following if your soft hearted or can't stand profanity. The [explitive]'s are only words i don't like to read. there is still a bunch in there. Thomas cracks me up tho. i don't care if hes vulgar.

"I'm not exactly sure the government hasn't infiltrated this sport, anyway. What the fuck is up with the EAGLES versus the PATRIOTS? Is this some kind of propaganda for American civil war? Two infamous Stars and Stripes symbols, fighting over a fucking football and all the glory bestowed upon who dances more times in the end zone? Joy. JAX Stadium seats approximately 83,000 fuckheads, which is maybe 1/2 the number of unfortunate Americans avoiding suicide bombers and AK-47 rounds in Iraq today. Good times!! The President, a self-proclaimed fan of the Pigskin, will take another day off his busy schedule of cutting benefits, environmental protection programs, and education salaries to watch a bunch of [explitive] run with the ball. Capitalistic pigs will dump millions of dollars to post witty commercials to Budweiser swizzling latent faggots who skipped church this morning to prepare for the arrival of their one, true God. By Jesus, Joseph, and that [explitive explitive], if this isn't an American holiday to surpass all others, I'm moving Christmas to the summertime.
Holy shit, the man himself is already here.
Yes, that's right, some podunk hillbilly in Philly has exercised every neuron in his brain to come up the most original unofficial mascot in history. Santa Claus, toting his Nest of Death sports gear. What's next, the Easter Bunny wearing an eyepatch for Tampa Bay? Or maybe the crucified Christ himself, wearing a tiger stripe thong for Cincinnati? What sort of horseshit-eating redneck Yankee came up with that one?
Now look here, Junior, what do you mean football is boring? Even Santa Claus is an Eagles fan!! Now sit your ass down and pay homage to your new God!
Yes, Virginia, there is a Super Bowl. But unless you have money riding on this game, you're business watching it is a direct result of you either having too much goddamned time on your hands, or not enough of a life to know any different. Now I'm gonna go fill up my Patriots flask with Kentucky Wild Turkey, drink myself blind, and run headlong into a wall. With any luck, I might knock myself out entirely and wake up as if nothing happened today.
Which, with the exception of the cleaning crew at ALLTEL Stadium, will be exactly the truth. "

To all who are intrested: this is where Thomas rests his head: (don't go if your weak of hear and/or stomach.)

www.consumptionjunction.com

2005-02-06T13:09:00.002-08:00

What i came home to one night

2005-02-06T13:09:00.001-08:00

lost in the woods - blair witch style

2005-02-06T13:09:00.000-08:00

new 9mm

2005-02-06T13:08:00.000-08:00

Brad's pics

2005-02-04T14:11:00.000-08:00

Legal war deepens over song that uses Rosa Parks's name
With stakes high, case becomes cause
By Peter Slevin, Washington Post February 4, 2005DETROIT -- When lawyer Gregory Reed filed the first lawsuit, he referred to his client as "Rosa Parks (a.k.a. Mother of Civil Rights Movement)." Targeting the hip-hop group OutKast and its backers, he asked for an injunction and upward of $5 million.
Last year, after federal courts had dismissed and reinstated the claim, Reed filed a new petition. He asked for $5 billion.
"You know what that does? It gets your attention," Reed said. "You can't put a price on a name. You really can't put a price on a legacy."
Reed got people's attention, not all of it favorable. His lawsuit over OutKast's use of her name set the stage for a messy fight over Parks, 50 years after she famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus.
Ailing and unable to understand what is happening around her, Parks will turn 92 today as a growing scrum of lawyers, friends, and relatives battles over the meaning of a song.
The complications reach beyond the courthouse into questions about Parks's care. A federal judge, worried that Parks's own interests were becoming lost in the squabbling, drafted former Detroit mayor Dennis Archer to be her guardian.
Archer, once a Michigan Supreme Court justice and past president of the American Bar Association, said in an interview that he is "just trying to bring the temperature down." He wants to settle the case, "before everyone's gotten full body armor on and gotten out their long rifles and bayonets."
But he does believe in the lawsuit. He believes a wrong has been done to Parks and that someone in the music business should pay. "She is a symbol," Archer said, "of all that is good about America."
The trouble started when OutKast titled a song "Rosa Parks." Although the lyrics never mention her, they contain sexual references and vulgarity that disturbed Parks, once a seamstress and NAACP activist in segregated Montgomery whose arrest led to a tide-turning bus boycott.
The refrain is, "Ah ha, hush that fuss. Everybody move to the back of the bus." Group members Big Boi (Antwan Patton) and Andre 3000 (Andre Benjamin) say it refers to the way OutKast intends to beat its rivals and rule its corner of the music kingdom.
By using her name without her permission, Parks's many lawyers contend, the producers and marketers broke federal rules designed to prevent people from profiting through misrepresentation. OutKast has been dropped from the lawsuit, which now mainly targets LaFace Records, Arista Records, and BMG Entertainment, a division of music conglomerate Bertelsmann AG.
Reed, who wrote a book with Parks during better times -- "It outsold the Bible for 30 days," he likes to point out -- initiated the case. Calling her "a saint among angels," he said he tried to persuade the record company to change the song's title but got nowhere.
"We just wanted the name off," Reed said. "The music would've sold."
Over time, the complaint became a federal case, and the case morphed into a cause.
Reed's law partner, Stephanie Hammonds, wept as she said Parks is not only the victim in the case, but its inspiration.
"The real story to take from this is that . . . if someone is big, it doesn't matter how big. If it's wrong, stand up," Hammonds said.
Rhea McCauley smells a rat. A niece to Parks, who has no children, McCauley considers the lawsuit a waste of time and money.
"My poor aunt is being used. Her image is being dragged through the mud for money," said McCauley, a financial planner in Ypsilanti. "I would like those people to let my auntie go, like the pharaoh in Egypt."
Reed dismisses McCauley as a niece-come-lately who rarely visits or calls her aunt.
When McCauley said she had been blocked from visiting, Reed countered with a caregiver's affidavit alleging that she had barely tried. And when McCauley said Parks would be opposed to a lawsuit, he produced a February 1999 letter from Parks welcoming his efforts.
Parks has been a bystander to the squabble in recent years. Medical records released by the court show she has been suffering from dementia since 2002.
"From time to time, she speaks. From time to time, she demonstrates emotions," said Archer, who described Parks as "very well taken care of."
Parks relies mainly on Social Security and a small pension and has often struggled to pay her rent. But Archer said Parks's landlord has decided to allow her to live rent-free for the rest of her days.
Arguing the case for the music defendants is Joseph Beck. He grew up in Montgomery and remembers the boycott well. A former legal services lawyer in Washington, his current clients include the estate of Martin Luther King Jr.
Beck believes the First Amendment protects everyone connected with the OutKast production, but with settlement negotiations taking place as recently as Monday in Detroit, Beck also said his clients are not ogres.
"We've always been willing to do something for Mrs. Parks, not because we have to -- because under the law we don't -- but because we respect her," the Atlanta-based Beck said.
The question under discussion is how to define what is reasonable and how to determine where the money should go.
Archer said his ambition is to attract enough money to "allow Mrs. Parks to have a life that is comfortable for the rest of her life. The plaintiff in this case is Mrs. Parks."

It's a sad day when two of our greatest new age artists and on of our great old geezers have to have a ongoing legal battle for.... u guessed it.. money.

Unfortunitly, they did not get permission to use her name, so basically she is in the right. It's sad tho that she is not the one moaking the money.

"Ailing and unable to understand what is happening around her, Parks will turn 92 today as a growing scrum of lawyers, friends, and relatives battles over the meaning of a song."

Leave it to crooked family members to milk the good name of Roas Parks while saying they are doing it for the good of her name. Im sorry, but Mrs. Roas Parks doesn't need 5 billion dollars for he last days. Outkast should donate some of that ATL Kushe tho for her last days. That would be the right thing to do in this legal battle.

NERDS DOMINATE...

2005-02-02T22:03:00.000-08:00

holy shiat...

2005-02-02T21:34:00.000-08:00

Check this shiat out, looks like it hurts, but dont worry, he lived.

http://media.uselessjunk.org/videos/instant_karma_darwin.wmv

Now whats weird is that if you listen closely in the beginging they are listening to Karma Police by radiohead.

And what about that frind picking up the phone after it happens? nice guy to hang out with.

Create your own Karma Sutra!

2005-02-02T21:26:00.000-08:00

Sorry yall, i know its late, but i keep finding all this cool shiat on the net. i need to go to sleep, but have fun making up your own sexual positions!

http://www.thezutons.net/karma/

How Not to get a ticket... good rules to follow.

2005-02-02T21:13:00.000-08:00

I got these rules from a blog called the beer drinkers society. good page, awsome rules tho. Seems almost fool proof....

http://beerdrinkersociety.blogspot.com/

How not to get a ticket:

1. Pull over immediately.The second you're lit up by The Long Arm of the Law, pull over. Don't bother using your turn signals to work your way over to the shoulder. Just get over and put the car in park. Better yet, turn the car off once you've stopped.

2. Roll down your windows.Driver's side should be rolled down all the way. Passenger and rear windows should be rolled down partially. This makes it easier for the approaching officer to gauge the situation and take a quick mental inventory of what (and who's) inside your car.

3. If it's dark, turn on your dome light.Again, this makes it easier for Johnny Fuzz to see inside.

4. Show your hands.As the officer approaches your window, keep both hands on the steering wheel. Preferably at the 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock positions. The first thing he's looking for is your hands to make sure you're not holding anything stupid. Don't make him guess.

5. Call him "sir" once, but not twice.Using the phrase "sir" during the initial conversation automatically signals to the guy WITH A LOADED GUN ON HIS HIP that he's in control and you know this. Then talk to him as you would anyone else. If you call him "sir" more than once, it's seen as ass-kissing and will cause him to be suspicious.

6. No sudden movements.This is where most people screw up. When he asks to see your license, tell him you're going to reach into your back pocket with your right hand to retrieve it and do so slowly. When he asks for proof of insurance, tell him you're going to lean over with your right hand to grab it from the glove box and do so slowly. At this, he will automatically ask you what you do for a living. When this happens, you're almost in the clear. He thinks you're a cop.

6. Don't lie.Don't tell him you're a cop if you aren't. Just be honest. Tell him you know the dangers he faces every day, especially when approaching a car at night. You simply want him to feel safe, 'cause if he feels safe you won't get shot. Tell him that, and he'll laugh as he walks your license back to his car to check for any outstanding warrants. Just hope you got that case settled back in Shreveport correctly and you'll be fine.

You can tell one of them is a pig tho... his stupid ass wrote six twice instead of seven. That, and lets be real, everyone in thier right mind would tell the cop that they are a bounty hunter... geeze..

State of the unions on...

2005-02-02T18:56:00.000-08:00

Im sitting here watching the state of the union speach right now...

Did anyone hear that part on Iran? he is so going to war soon...

I wish i could piss on Cheneys face.

Oh well.

And if yall get this quick, play the state of the union drinking game!
http://www.drinkinggame.us/

"...And here with us right now, i have brought in Byron Norwood's family so that i can toy with Americans emotions and make sure they pay attention to this poor couple while they totally forget what i am actually saying."

You know Bin Ladens pissed about this one...

2005-02-02T08:19:00.000-08:00

I hope they are using a sarated knife, because i can tell you from personal experience, a butter knife just wont work.

So-called U.S. hostage appears to be toy
(CNN) -- A photograph posted on an Islamist Web site appears to be that of an action figure and not a U.S. soldier being held hostage.
Liam Cusack, the marketing coordinator for Dragon Models USA, said the figure pictured on the Web site is believed to be "Special Ops Cody," a military action figure the company manufactured in late 2003.
"It pretty much looks exactly like the same person," he said.
Cusack said he was contacted Tuesday morning by one of his retailers, who informed him that the alleged hostage appeared to be one of the company's action figures.
"I thought it was a joke at first," he said.
But after reading a report on a news Web site about a U.S. soldier allegedly being captured, "I looked at it and said, 'It does look like one of our action figures.'"
"Cody" is an action figure the company made for the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, which supplies U.S. military bases worldwide with various items. The doll was meant to look like a U.S. soldier who might be serving in Iraq, Cusack said.
On the Islamist Web site, a group calling itself the Al Mujahedeen Brigade, posted a photograph of a man it claimed was a captured U.S. soldier named John Adam, and it threatened to behead him if Iraqi prisoners are not released by U.S. forces.
Staff Sgt. Nick Minecci of the U.S. military's press office in Baghdad told The Associated Press that "no units have reported anyone missing."
The photograph showed the figure against a black flag with white lettering reading, "God is great, there is no god but Allah." A U.S. military assault rifle was pointed at its head. It appears that "rifle" was part of the plastic weaponry that came with the action figure.
The photograph immediately raised questions.
CNN military analyst James Marks, a retired Army general, questioned its authenticity.
He told CNN in a phone interview that the flak jacket in the picture had a kind of trim along the edges that he'd never seen before, and that the open-legged pants, as opposed to gathered hems, struck him as odd.
He also questioned what appeared to be camouflage paint on the face.
"We have not used camo paint with conventional forces serving in Iraq," Marks said.
Copyright 2005 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report.

This is the best article i have ever seen. This is like one of those "stupid criminal" stories in the Smoking gun. Keep it up terrorists, and i promise we will release your buddies as soon as you safetly return everyone of our toys, including that new GI JOE with the kung fu action grip.