Well...for those of us who don't care very much for television as a rule and don't subscribe to cable or dish services this is a real treat.

I am damned glad NBC is covering hockey at all.

Besides how can you not luv Matt (Hit'em with a shoe) Milbury? hahah

Hats off to NBC for once again covering NHL play-off hockey!!

Today's game promises to be a good one!

Go Caps! (Not a Caps fan...just cheering for whoever plays the Rangers...I hate those guys!)

NHL on NBC playoffs schedule
Sunday, April 26
Washington Capitals at N.Y. Rangers, Game 6, 2 p.m. ET

Saturday, May 2
Conference semifinals, Game 1 or 2, 1 p.m. ET

Sunday, May 3
Conference semifinals, Game 2, 2 p.m. ET

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Ex-Louisiana KKK chief arrested in Prague: police

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PRAGUE (AFP) — A former US Ku Klux Klan chief was arrested Friday in a Prague restaurant while he was on a speaking tour here, Czech police said.

Former Grand Wizard of the Louisiana-founded Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, was arrested on suspicion of promoting movements seeking the suppression of human rights, police spokesman Jan Mikulovsky told local media.

The arrest, in a tourist area of picturesque old Prague, took place in "quite confused" circumstances, said David Janda, the head of an anti-extremism unit of the city's police force.

Janda said Duke -- who had been due to give three lectures in the Czech Republic -- was guarded at the restaurant's entrance by militants belonging to a known far-right group "Narodni Odpor," which means national resistance.

Duke, a US citizen, is suspected of denying or approving of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes, according to the CTK news agency. This crime is punishable by up to three years in prison in the Czech Republic.

Czech Interior Minister Ivan Langer and Human Rights and Minorities Minister Michael Kocab had each expressed disapproval of the visit earlier in the week.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by a group of US Civil War veterans from the defeated Confederacy, a group of southern states that upheld slavery and maintained African Americans were inferior to whites.

It is notorious the world over for terrorising black Americans through lynchings, cross burnings and other hate crimes.

The group enjoyed a peak membership of about five million in 1925, including politicians and even a member of the US Supreme Court.

But the Klan went into virtual bankruptcy as early as the late 1920s and since the late 1970s, its membership has varied between 3,000 and 6,000.

People move about quickly now.

It takes just one carrier to make hundreds and maybe thousands ill.

Board a plane in Mexico...to NYC...in NYC people disembark to...LA, London, Hong Kong...24 hours later where is the virus?

It's funny and sad to see how out of touch with nature so many people are. (Oh yes I am aware germs can be manipulated bu governments etc.) We are animals...we can intellectualize disease processes and their affects on the population and take all sorts of stands...but...viruses are not political...for the most part they are not slowed by race...they don't care about borders and they have no agenda beyond replicating.

Here's a funny thought...if mankind thought they had a common enemy would they unite to fight it or fight about it?

Umm hahah I think we already have that answer.

WOW

No respect...fat bottom girls were good before that you know? So, can someone reference a song about plump bottomed women earlier than this?

A good song...haha

Oh..fat bottom girls were the object of many men's desires in as expressed in art...just ask Peter Paul Rubens....haha everything that was old is new again.

Hats off to Queen

Fat Bottom Girls

OOOOH, you gonna take me home tonight?
oooh, down beside that red firelight;
are you gonna let it all hang out?
Fat bottomed girls,
You make the rockin' world go round.

Hey
I was just a skinny lad
Never knew no good from bad,
But I knew love before I left my nursery,
Left alone with big fat Fanny,
She was such a naughty nanny!
Hey big woman you made a bad boy out of me!
Hey, hey!

I've been singing with my band
Across the water, across the land,
I seen ev'ry blue eyed floozy on the way, hey
But their beauty and their style
Wear kind of smooth after a while.
Take me to them lardy ladies every time!

(C'mon)
Oh won't you take me home tonight?
Oh down beside your red firelight,
Oh and you give it all you got
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round

Hey listen here,
Now I got mortgages on homes
I got stiffness in my bones
Ain't no beauty queens in this locality. (I tell ya!)
Oh, but I still get my pleasure
Still got my greatest treasure.
Heap big woman you done made a big man of me!
Now get this!

Oh, (i know),you gonna take me home tonight (please)
oh, down beside that red firelight
Oh, you gonna let it all hang out
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round *(yeah)*
Fat bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go round
GET ON YOUR BIKES AND RIDE!

Oooh yeah oh yeah them fat bottomed girls
Fat bottomed girls
Yeah yeah yeah
all right
ride 'em cowboy
Fat bottomed girls
Yes yes

wow Willing...there you go reading minds again...

You really should put that gift to some better use.

Political manipulation?

You say that like you are surprised it happens haha

Not news...it's been happening since the earliest human interactions.

More wussification of hockey...this is an almost 60 year old tradition. Get over it...

Detroit Red Wings fan Greg Goloborodko isn’t sure Blue Jackets supporters understand why the octopi fly in visiting arenas at playoff time.


“It truly isn’t meant as an insult to the Blue Jackets,” said Goloborodko, a 25-year-old Ohio State student. “It’s just a way to honor a great Red Wings tradition.”

Goloborodko, a native of Russia who lives in Columbus, admits to throwing his third octopus in the past four seasons in Nationwide Arena on Tuesday during the closing minute of the Red Wings’ 4-1 win in Game 3 of a Stanley Cup playoff series.

He lobbed a 2 1/2-pound octopus nicknamed “Homer” about 60 feet over the Plexiglas and onto the ice. Yes, Goloborodko names his octopi for Red Wings’ players — the latest in honor of forward Tomas Holmstrom.

Goloborodko said he was detained by arena security, threatened by angry Jackets fans and enjoyed a chance encounter with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman before being escorted from the building.

“As I was being held downstairs, Gary Bettman and his security guys walked by,” Goloborodko said. “Like any good hockey fan, I recognized my commissioner and yelled out, ‘Hey, Commissioner.’

“I heard Bettman say, ‘I’m not happy about this one bit.’ I don’t know if he was responding to me or talking about something else.”

Goloborodko bought “Homer” several days ago and let it thaw. On Tuesday, he stood in line for six hours to purchase one of the Huntington Bank $20 tickets and returned home to pack his slimy payload in a Ziploc bag and drawstring sack.

Nationwide Arena has the reputation among Red Wings fans for being an easy building in which to smuggle octopi, Goloborodko said.

Blue Jackets spokesman Todd Sharrock said two other octopi were confiscated Tuesday. He also confirmed that Goloborodko was escorted from the arena for throwing an object onto the ice.

Red Wings fans have been tossing octopi at games since 1952. The eight tentacles represent the number of playoff wins once required to win the Stanley Cup.
(2 of 2)

Goloborodko and his brother, Misha, became Red Wings fans because of the team’s heavy Russian influence in the 1990s. Misha, who also lives in Columbus, has been a Blue Jackets fan since the team began play in 2000.

His brother remains true to the Wings and often wears a No. 13 Pavel Datsyuk jersey on the OSU campus. Goloborodko donned it Tuesday as he snuck down from his seat in Section 224 to improve his launch site.

“I had a nice wind up and the little guy just flew,” Goloborodko said.

Elsewhere in Nationwide Arena, Blue Jackets fans pounced on a fan in a Red Wings’ No. 91 Sergei Fedorov jersey before he could heave an octopus.

Goloborodko said Jackets fans vented their anger and that arena security was not happy having to defend him.

As the series resumes tonight, ticket takers will be on the lookout for more octopi with the Red Wings on the verge of a sweep. They won’t need to search for Goloborodko, he said.

“I’m just going to watch the game from a bar in the Arena District,” Goloborodko said. “Counting the one I threw at Joe Louis Arena, I have thrown four octopi. That’s enough for one lifetime.”

Goloborodko and his brother, Misha, became Red Wings fans because of the team’s heavy Russian influence in the 1990s. Misha, who also lives in Columbus, has been a Blue Jackets fan since the team began play in 2000.

His brother remains true to the Wings and often wears a No. 13 Pavel Datsyuk jersey on the OSU campus. Goloborodko donned it Tuesday as he snuck down from his seat in Section 224 to improve his launch site.

“I had a nice wind up and the little guy just flew,” Goloborodko said.

Elsewhere in Nationwide Arena, Blue Jackets fans pounced on a fan in a Red Wings’ No. 91 Sergei Fedorov jersey before he could heave an octopus.

Goloborodko said Jackets fans vented their anger and that arena security was not happy having to defend him.

As the series resumes tonight, ticket takers will be on the lookout for more octopi with the Red Wings on the verge of a sweep. They won’t need to search for Goloborodko, he said.

“I’m just going to watch the game from a bar in the Arena District,” Goloborodko said. “Counting the one I threw at Joe Louis Arena, I have thrown four octopi. That’s enough for one lifetime.”

I love it!


12-year-old girl throws perfect game against boys

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BAYONNE, N.J. (AP)—On the pitcher’s mound, a 12-year-old girl from New Jersey is perfect.

Mackenzie Brown is the first girl in Bayonne Little League history to throw a perfect game. She retired all 18 boys she faced on Tuesday.

There are no official records of how many perfect games are thrown per season. Little League Baseball in Williamsport, Pa., estimates only 50 to 60 occur each year. No one knows how many have been thrown by girls.

Brown says she knew she had something special going in the fourth inning and just tried not to mess up.

She’ll get to throw out the first pitch at Citi Field on Saturday when the New York Mets host the Washington Nationals.

Information from: The Star-Ledger, http://www.nj.com/starledger

haha Are we related Boo?

I had braids too that were so tight when they went in my vision was blurred. A girl didn't go to school without her hair bound up and her clothing properly assembled. Not good girls from good families anyway.

Of course those were the days when girls were not allowed to wear pants to school. So there I was in a skirt with a sort of a undershorts that made the winter walk somewhat warmer little white socks and saddle shoes. In the worst winter weather the saddle shoes were covered with rubber boots.

I remember the sensation of the cold to this day. The lace on undershorts stiff and scratching my thighs with the stiff tops of the boots cut into my calves. Michigan winters and long walks made those mornings hard to forget.

I remember hearing the news in 5th grade that pants would be allowed for girls! I think I whooped out loud. Something children in school rooms didn't do then especially girls.

It was the beginning of a new time. Pants became jeans and the hair was loose, long and wild at times. Self expression was the rule of the day and we weren't concerned about labels or styles. Anything goes...long skirts, short skirts, jeans...like I said before...we all knew there was plenty of time in the future to wear the work uniform. Now...kids...go little future corporate slaves are being stuffed into uniforms practically at birth.

That is what it is all about you know? Uniformed corporate slaves...conformity...march in lock step..do not express yourself, do not question authority, do not find joy and beauty in the human body...assimilate...feel shame...feel fear...you are easier to control that way.

Here is an interesting proposal. A new way to look at marriage. Instead of till death this writer asks why not make it a renewable contract. It makes sense in some ways. After all...might it make more people actually work at renewing and maintaining their marriages?

So, what do you think?

After all...statistics clearly show conventional heterosexual marriage is not working as intended.

Marry with a fixed-term contract, not for 'til death do us part

ACCORDING to the Australian Bureau of Statistics it appears that lifelong marriages are becoming a thing of the past. Few marry for life any more.

Thirty-two per cent of divorces involved separation within the first five years of marriage, and 22 per cent within five to nine years of marriage.

Have your say: What's the ideal term for a marriage contract?

We have fixed term-contracts for the buying of property, cars and insurance, but there is only one contract available for marriage and it is for life. Is it time to consider introducing fixed-term marriage contracts?

The fixed-term contract is not meant to be a "quick fix" or an "easy out".

It would allow for the celebration of the renewal of vows after a five-year or 10-year term and encourage partners to work towards maintaining a good relationship – in effect, it opens communication akin to a marriage performance review.

Or it would allow for the marriage to be dissolved by completing an acceptable contract term, without the shame and stigma associated with the failure of a marriage.

So why bother getting married at all? Because inherently we want to believe that we are making a commitment for life. Surely no one enters a marriage with a view to "give it a shot".

We stand in front of friends, family, even God and promise "until death do us part" and, at the time, we believe it. This only adds to the sense of failure when we can't deliver this promise.

It's a simple process: the standard certificate of marriage becomes a five-year contract. The marriage celebrant would continue to retain a copy for their records; forward the certificate to the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages for the registration of the marriage; and provide the marrying couple with a copy.

The marriage licence would clearly state the start and dissolution date for the five-year term.

The marriage contract dissolves if the parties do not "apply again". This eliminates the stress of dissolving the marriage by having to reopen wounds one year later, file papers together and be issued divorce papers.

The celebration is in the renewing – what better excuse for a party and family gathering?

The marrying couple are responsible for monitoring the date of renewal, signing the renewal form, having it witnessed by a Justice of the Peace and returning the form to the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

Perhaps when a couple completes a 10-year marriage term (two five-year consecutive contracts), they could opt to undertake an "eternity" contract.

And what about the children? Divorces are happening irrespective of the family unit. The proportion of divorces involving children was 49.3 per cent in 2007 (ABS). Is a fixed-term marriage contract likely to increase this statistic? Are parents more likely to stay together for the children if they have a traditional marriage licence?

According to Families in Australia: 2008 (released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet), marriage bears a less direct relationship to having children.

By 2026, couples without children are projected by the ABS to be the most common type of family in Australia (44 per cent of all families).

We are a society that has adapted to change: divorce, work contracts, the internet, SMS text, email, digital television, water restrictions and much more.

Eventually a generation may only know of one type of marriage contract: fixed-term.

Helen Goltz, a writer and marketing consultant, has written a discussion paper on fixed-term marriage contracts

So, this guy dies and in his obit there is a pitch for a car sale? talk about desperate!

oh and sad...

Dimmick, Chuck P.
born December 29, 1958 in Riverside, CA passed away suddenly on April 18, 2009 while attending a NASCAR race to watch his favorite driver, Jeff Gordon. Chuck was the loving husband of Kristen and devoted father of Dillon. Chuck was the Director of Marketing for the Lund Cadillac Group. We are sure he would still want all to know that 0.9% financing is still available on all New 2008 Hummer H2's. A mass celebrating Chuck's life will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday, April 24th at St. Patrick's Church - 10815 N. 84th St. Scottsdale, AZ. Arrangements handled by Hansen Desert Hill Mortuary 480-991-5800. In Lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Dillon Dimmick Donation Fund at any Bank of America.

Published in The Arizona Republic on 4/23/2009

Humm the lotto is 150mil this Friday here in Michigan.

Suddenly I am motivated to buy a ticket now that there is something worthwhile to spend it on.

A very small percentage of containers entering the US are physically examined according to information I have discovered. Of course how many and by what methods they are screened is information I am sure is closely guarded.

I agree this is a situation that is extremely important and should be discussed more. India and Pakistan are forever sparring and are both in possession of nukes. Add the Taliban into the mix and well...the possibilities of a spreading war, an intervention by India or China and even the use of nukes are all possible.

Additionally military strategist almost all agree that the geography of the area would make fighting there extremely difficult.

Teaching a child their body is wicked, unclean, should be covered...all of that is disturbing and disgusting.

In an attempt to shelter the child you are in fact sexualizing them, teaching them shame and creating a poor body image.

Uniforms are wrong as far as I am concerned.

Children and teens should be able to experiment with clothing, hair and other forms of personal expression while they are young. There's plenty of time in the future when as adults they will have to wear uniforms while they labor.

Life is short...

Here is an interesting op-ed piece from an intelligence officer who was personally involved in the questioning of terror suspects. As you all think about and debate the merits of torture you might find this piece interesting.

Op-Ed Contributor
My Tortured Decision

By ALI SOUFAN
Published: April 22, 2009

FOR seven years I have remained silent about the false claims magnifying the effectiveness of the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding. I have spoken only in closed government hearings, as these matters were classified. But the release last week of four Justice Department memos on interrogations allows me to shed light on the story, and on some of the lessons to be learned.

One of the most striking parts of the memos is the false premises on which they are based. The first, dated August 2002, grants authorization to use harsh interrogation techniques on a high-ranking terrorist, Abu Zubaydah, on the grounds that previous methods hadn’t been working. The next three memos cite the successes of those methods as a justification for their continued use.

It is inaccurate, however, to say that Abu Zubaydah had been uncooperative. Along with another F.B.I. agent, and with several C.I.A. officers present, I questioned him from March to June 2002, before the harsh techniques were introduced later in August. Under traditional interrogation methods, he provided us with important actionable intelligence.

We discovered, for example, that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. Abu Zubaydah also told us about Jose Padilla, the so-called dirty bomber. This experience fit what I had found throughout my counterterrorism career: traditional interrogation techniques are successful in identifying operatives, uncovering plots and saving lives.

There was no actionable intelligence gained from using enhanced interrogation techniques on Abu Zubaydah that wasn’t, or couldn’t have been, gained from regular tactics. In addition, I saw that using these alternative methods on other terrorists backfired on more than a few occasions — all of which are still classified. The short sightedness behind the use of these techniques ignored the unreliability of the methods, the nature of the threat, the mentality and modus operandi of the terrorists, and due process.

Defenders of these techniques have claimed that they got Abu Zubaydah to give up information leading to the capture of Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a top aide to Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and Mr. Padilla. This is false. The information that led to Mr. Shibh’s capture came primarily from a different terrorist operative who was interviewed using traditional methods. As for Mr. Padilla, the dates just don’t add up: the harsh techniques were approved in the memo of August 2002, Mr. Padilla had been arrested that May.

One of the worst consequences of the use of these harsh techniques was that it reintroduced the so-called Chinese wall between the C.I.A. and F.B.I., similar to the communications obstacles that prevented us from working together to stop the 9/11 attacks. Because the bureau would not employ these problematic techniques, our agents who knew the most about the terrorists could have no part in the investigation. An F.B.I. colleague of mine who knew more about Khalid Shaikh Mohammed than anyone in the government was not allowed to speak to him.

It was the right decision to release these memos, as we need the truth to come out. This should not be a partisan matter, because it is in our national security interest to regain our position as the world’s foremost defenders of human rights. Just as important, releasing these memos enables us to begin the tricky process of finally bringing these terrorists to justice.

The debate after the release of these memos has centered on whether C.I.A. officials should be prosecuted for their role in harsh interrogation techniques. That would be a mistake. Almost all the agency officials I worked with on these issues were good people who felt as I did about the use of enhanced techniques: it is un-American, ineffective and harmful to our national security.

Fortunately for me, after I objected to the enhanced techniques, the message came through from Pat D’Amuro, an F.B.I. assistant director, that “we don’t do that,” and I was pulled out of the interrogations by the F.B.I. director, Robert Mueller (this was documented in the report released last year by the Justice Department’s inspector general).

My C.I.A. colleagues who balked at the techniques, on the other hand, were instructed to continue. (It’s worth noting that when reading between the lines of the newly released memos, it seems clear that it was contractors, not C.I.A. officers, who requested the use of these techniques.)

As we move forward, it’s important to not allow the torture issue to harm the reputation, and thus the effectiveness, of the C.I.A. The agency is essential to our national security. We must ensure that the mistakes behind the use of these techniques are never repeated. We’re making a good start: President Obama has limited interrogation techniques to the guidelines set in the Army Field Manual, and Leon Panetta, the C.I.A. director, says he has banned the use of contractors and secret overseas prisons for terrorism suspects (the so-called black sites). Just as important, we need to ensure that no new mistakes are made in the process of moving forward — a real danger right now.

Ali Soufan was an F.B.I. supervisory special agent from 1997 to 2005.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23soufan.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

/jealous

We aren't talking just about beliefs here.

A woman is dead.

That is bad.