BERIGAN

Well, I like to fart, mine if I constantly fart while you are eating, or having a drink at a bar? Freedom is one thing, and you are right, at least short term, no one is going to die from second hand smoke... but then again, many drinkers ruin their liver, but it takes some time...their choice, at least I don't reek of booze cuz someone else has a drink next to me....I just hate, hate smelling of smoke the rest of the night because I was in a bar, or a poorly ventilated restaurant/club. Smokers have the freedom to smoke...outside(Except in some towns, and that is crazy) let me have the freedom to not cough, not need to put in eye drops, or having to shower before going to bed after being out on a Saturday night...Can you guess I dated a chain smoker at one time??? Kissing her was like liking an ashtray!

Its her navel!!!! Madonna has the ugliest navel ever seen on a woman, and Pink has a amazingly sexy one! Check it out!

Interesting interview...she likes Ella, and Sarah! I bet Britney and Christina have never heard an Ella song...of course, she's 29...just the right age.. Oh, the first lines of the story...."There hasn’t been a musical 360 like this since country superstar Garth Brooks became moody Trent Reznor-lookalike Chris Gaines." Shouldn't that be a 180????

I agree with Chuck and the others that have stuck up for Sammy.As hard as it may be to believe(I sure didn't at first) he may have had just one corked bat...Jayson Stark, who raked Sammy over the coals at first, had this side column within a column about interleague play... It's been tough to find people in baseball, at least early on, who believe that Sammy Sosa didn't know what bat he was using when he picked that cork stick out of the bat rack Tuesday night. But if it turns out that the rest of Sosa's bats are cork-free, at least that would lessen the suspicion that Sosa was cheating when he hit all those 505 home runs. How many bats are broken these days in every game? How many bats break in an inning when a Mariano Rivera or John Smoltz is out there? So if Sosa had been using a corked bat repeatedly for the last five years, or eight years, or 10 years, wouldn't someone have caught him long before this? "Sammy knows how common it is for bats to break," said one Sosa sympathizer. "He also knows that bats that have been `worked on' are more prone to exploding. Sammy is a lot of things. But he's not a stupid guy." That doesn't mean people ought to accept his alibi for this incident without a raised eyebrow. But unlike Albert Belle -- who had a teammate crawl through the ceiling to steal the evidence -- or Wilton Guerrero -- who scrambled around trying to retrieve his cork before the proper authorities did -- at least Sosa's first act was to admit he'd done what he'd done and apologize. Unlike Belle, who denied everything even after being caught, Sosa seems to understand he needs to accept at least some responsibility. In fact, there has already been some speculation that if his suspension is in line with previous bat-tampering suspensions -- i.e., about a week -- he might not even appeal. But of course, once people get beyond the question, "Did Sammy cheat?" the next question is: "Is everybody cheating?" Well, we'd bet that a half-dozen bats break every day in the average major-league game. And no one has been caught corking in seven years. So that tells you the percentage of corkers and cheaters is lower than some people think. But when Dusty Baker tried to claim Tuesday he'd never heard of anybody corking in all his years in baseball, it ought to qualify him for a spot in the next troupe down at Second City. Former Indians have suggested in recent years that they actually had a wood shop at the old Cleveland Stadium in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And who doesn't know that cheating by pitchers and hitters is a more time-honored baseball tradition than the seventh-inning stretch? One player told us recently that bat-corking technology has improved so much in recent years that the holes being bored in the wood can now be as small as 1/16 or 1/8 of an inch -- and still help improve bat speed. And the smaller the holes, the less likely the bat is to break. But the fact is, not even players themselves know how much cheating is taking place. "How much that goes on, I don't know, and I don't want to know," said 20-year-veteran reliever Dan Plesac. "I used to look at Mark McGwire, and there was no doubt in my mind his forearms were corked." http://espn.go.com/mlb/columns/stark_jayso...on/1563059.html

I saw parts of this movie, and have to admit the musical numbers were hard to take....but...when I flipped back, I was quite surprised to see the serious turn of events, and how well it was played out...the ending was quite moving, and well played, I thought( a bit happier than Romeo and Juliet! )...it is a shame that basically telling the truth about the humanity of all sides is too much for some to take.

well no, not really. Parody that many might not get...and yet, she is more than willing to participate...seeing the video on a 27 inch tv is much better than a 3 inch real player clip...>might be the link to the video< EDIT well, it takes you to the page to play it,and if you right click on the window that opens up, you can play in you own real player, blurry, but still better....

I really like the look of an x within a box....

I wish they carried more titles, but http://www.deepdiscountcd.com has some good prices... some that are just crazy cheap...haven't tried to order it yet, but they have a Bear family Ella Mae Morse set for $67, and Amazon is asking something like $137 for the same set!!! I have used their sister site, http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/ more, and have had no problems...and gotten films 40% off what amazon has shown the retail as.... PS, if someone does sign up with them, yes for some reason you need to sign up separately for both sites...

Lon, you are not a liberal???? Come now, anyone who says I read very few political threads because the tacit agreement with the imperialist stance and oligarchic trends of this present administration I found within them repelled me! Imperialist? Oligarchic? Thems liberals words! It's ok to admit to being one, honest! Set yourself free!

Sad news, even though he was in his 80's.... He was the first person to kiss Deanna Durbin in a movie, but then you all knew that, right? 1939! An late Aunt of mine had gone skeet shooting with him(Or more likely he was there and so was she) He was just about the best skeet shooter in the country at one time... a bit more on his film career, which started in 1939 after all...well, allmovie will not let me know the page for this, so instead of a link, here is the info The son of a wealthy California businessman, Robert Stack spent his teen years giving skeet shooting lessons to such Hollywood celebrities as Carole Lombard and Clark Gable; it was only natural, then, that he should gravitate to films himself after attending the University of Southern California. At age 20, he made his screen debut in Deanna Durbin's First Love (1939) in which he gave his teenaged co-star her very first screen kiss. Two years later he appeared opposite his former "pupil" Carole Lombard in the Ernst Lubitsch classic To Be or Not to Be (1942). After serving with the navy in WWII he resumed his film career, avoiding typecasting with such dramatically demanding film assignments as The Bullfighter and the Lady (1951), The Tarnished Angels (1957), and John Paul Jones (1959). He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as a self-destructive alcoholic in Written on the Wind (1956). In 1959 he gained a whole new flock of fans when he was cast as humorless federal agent Elliot Ness in TV's The Untouchables, which ran for four seasons and won him an Emmy award. He continued playing taciturn leading roles in such TV series as Name of the Game (1969-1971), Most Wanted (1976-1977), and Strike Force (1981), and since 1991 has been the no-nonsense host of the TV anthology Unsolved Mysteries. Not nearly as stoic and serious in real life, Stack was willing to spoof his established screen image in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) and Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's Airplane! (1982). The warmer side of Robert Stack could be glimpsed in the TV informational series It's a Great Life (1985), which he hosted with his wife Rosemarie, and in his 1980 autobiography, Straight Shooting.

hey, how does one censor the moderator anyway? I missed that lesson!

Sorenstam: Singh entitled to his opinion Funny, that a man of color has problems with a woman just trying to see how she stacks up with the boys...she has been working out like a fiend, several hours a day, and I bet some of those pot-bellied "athletes" are afraid of being shown up!(Yes, there are real athletes, but some of them ) Associated Press GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. -- Annika Sorenstam doesn't think of herself as a pioneer, and she isn't listening to Vijay Singh. Sorenstam Whatever happens next week in the Colonial, the first woman in 58 years to play in a PGA Tour event says she just wants to see how she stacks up against the world's best. "I'm testing myself, but I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody,'' she said Wednesday. "That's not why I'm doing this. This is for myself. ... I'm coming to a stage that's totally different than I'm used to: tougher course, tougher competitors, all the attention. It's just going to be so different.'' Still, she's not resigned to playing a few rounds just to make her mark. She'll play to win, and she thinks she can. "I believe so, if all the stars are lined up right,'' she said. “ The people that say that, they don't know me. When I started playing golf ... I was afraid of the limelight. My game has changed, but me personally has not changed. ” — Annika Sorenstam reacts to those that think she wants publicity On Sunday, Singh told The Associated Press that Sorenstam had no business playing in the event and said that on the odd chance he gets paired with her, he'd withdraw. "I hope she misses the cut. Why? Because she doesn't belong out here,'' Singh told AP golf writer Doug Ferguson during an interview. "If I'm drawn with her, which I won't be, I won't play.'' Singh later said he was sorry if his comment came across as a personal attack. Speaking on a conference call to promote next month's ShopRite LPGA Classic, Sorenstam said she was surprised at the stir created by her decision to play in the event. "I think everybody's entitled to their own opinion, and obviously they speak their minds, and that's just where I want to leave it,'' she said. "I don't hold anything against anybody. "I was maybe a little naive when I didn't think about this. I'm still amazed by all the attention, all the opinion, all the experts on my game. It's really funny. I never expected anything like this.'' PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said critics of Sorenstam should "just relax.'' He also cautioned fans not to be "too hard'' on those who criticize her. "It's going to be very interesting,'' he said, speaking in the Kansas City area. "She wants to see how her game stacks up against the best players in the world, males, and I accept that. "I think if a player criticizes it, I don't think you all should be too hard on that player, like Vijay.'' In accepting the spot, Sorenstam will do what no woman has done since Babe Zaharias qualified for the 1945 Los Angeles Open. Sorenstam won 13 times around the world last year, the most by a woman in nearly 40 years. She's the only woman to shoot 59. She acknowledged she will be nervous playing the 7,080-yard, par-70 Colonial Country Club course, but said she hopes to make the cut or shoot par at least. Tiger Woods thinks it would be terrific if Sorenstam makes the cut. "I would think it was a fantastic performance -- no doubt about it,'' he said in Alveslohe, Germany, where he's playing in the PGA European Tour's Deutsche Bank-SAP Open. In Irving, Texas, at the PGA Tour's Byron Nelson Championship, some players admitted they were eager to find out how she'll fare. "Everyone is extremely curious to she how she's going to play, and we really don't know what's going to come of it,'' Ben Crane said. "I'll be very interested to see how she plays.'' David Toms, who won the Wachovia Championship last week, said: "I hope she plays well for ladies' golf and for her. But what is playing well? Nobody knows, nobody has anything to measure it against. I don't have any hard feeling toward her at all. She thinks she can do it, I guess we'll find out.'' He noted a lot of players get upset about sponsor's exemptions. "Over the years, unrestricted sponsor's exemptions have been controversial because if you give them to someone who's really not trying to play the tour, arguably, they're taking a spot from an individual,'' he said. "We've got a lot of good players. For a player to be frustrated is understandable. It's not anything new. Guys have complained a lot about tournaments (granting exemptions to) local pros. "In this case, it's a woman. So it's a bigger deal. I think we should relax a little bit about this. Let it happen. Let her play golf. See how she plays. If you're a golfer and you love the game, it's pretty interesting stuff.'' Finchem said he wasn't worried that Sorenstam might be treated rudely by her male counterparts. "They're going to treat her fine,'' he said. "These are all professionals. They have a great deal of respect for her. She'll be treated like anybody else in the field. There won't be any issues there.'' He also said he disagrees with those who say the women's tour might be hurt if its No. 1 player turns out to be entirely noncompetitive. "The only downside would be if the top 15 LPGA players came to the men's tour and were successful,'' he said. "But that's not going to happen.''

Chris, are these black early child care organizations , city, state, or federally funded, or all of the above? I don't doubt what you say about being then being underfunded, but whenever you hear of federal cutbacks, it is usually a cut back of a planned increase in funding....

Did Verve make him the CEO?

Thinking??? Thinking??? If you sit on a toilet, then decide to use a cell phone , the blood must be cut off to your brain....

Yep!!!!

Microsoft Scratches Plan for Web in Potty By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft Corp. canceled its plans for the iLoo, an Internet-equipped portable potty, after erroneously saying Monday that the project had been a hoax. Lisa Gurry, director of marketing for MSN, chalked it up to "internal miscommunication." News that the software firm was readying the Wi-Fi water closet for use at outdoor festivals this summer in Britain was widely reported in the U.S. But on Monday the company decided to cancel the project, which was developed by employees in the United Kingdom operations of its MSN online unit. When word of that decision got back to Microsoft headquarters, however, some Microsoft representatives had the impression that the project had been a practical joke from the beginning, telling reporters that they had been unaware that it was a joke. The iLoo, Ms. Gurry said, was the latest in a U.K.-based MSN marketing program, which already had touted Internet connectivity through various venues, including a high-tech park bench.

Hey, I'll top you all, a Babe who was a female, female woman, not a pig! Ya'll are familier with Babe Didrikson ain't ya! in case you ain't, err , I mean ai not..... http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/...s/00014147.html

Sniff!I love you man!!! Not in a gay way mind you...not that there is anything wrong with that.... 16 to 16...and the electoral votes have not been counted yet!

Nicholson gets court rage Nicholson rarely misses a home Los Angeles Lakers game Actor Jack Nicholson was almost evicted from an NBA basketball game after stepping onto the court and shouting at a referee. The Oscar-winning star and Los Angeles Lakers fan was watching the drama of his team's playoff game against the San Antonio Spurs. He got out of his seat and yelled at referee Mark Wunderlich during a break in the action after Lakers player Shaquille O'Neal was called for his third foul in the second quarter. Officials said Nicholson - who plays an anger management therapist in his latest film - would have been thrown out if he had encroached onto the playing area. "I pay a lot of money for this seat," Nicholson said. "This is the NBA, you can't tell me to sit down." The following day, O'Neal said: "I'm glad somebody sticks up for me - I appreciate it, Jack." With his $500-a-game courtside seat, Nicholson rarely misses a home game. The contract for his film Ironweed stipulated that producers must work their shooting schedule around the team's games. Nicholson's latest movie, Anger Management, has taken $115m (£72m) at the US box office. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3018487.stm

I'll say...why would he have a buy it now for $ 12 less than the Bix/Tram/Teagarden set sells for at Mosaic??? He says the cds are still new... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=2530435828

As usual, "berigan" has taken things out of context and twisted them to suit his own agenda. I have referred to Rice as Condosleaza (or something like that), a long time ago, and I believe I once suggested that she was prostituting herself--i.e. by going along with a program that clearly does not have in mind the interest of black people. That is not the same as calling someone a prostitute, at least not in the usual sense of the term. Chris said....If it means whore, Baraka is absolutely right.

What I don't get is that Chris and Chuck talk to him, making me think they know he is just joking....a guess that is....

I don't know Lon, other liberals here seem to allow me to have views other than their own, and converse with me... And thinking I will act violently if you did comment on Michael Moore..I think you are thinking of Greg....If you had once said how you felt about his remarks (Something Like, I felt they were in poor taste but he has the right to say what he said) is not going to make me call you names. I would still say he was an insensitive bastard for saying them, but that would have been it. I was called all sorts of names at the other board for posting Ann Coulter articles(Hmmm, wonder if she has written anything of interest of late) And I (And others) sure give Johnny hell for posting anything about/by Moore...shit happens. We both can take it..... I do however expect folks who say I am too crude/childish, to call others on it, even if they agree with their political views....Jazzmoose beats the crap out of lefties and righties all the time....we are all scared of him!

Could be or maybe Betty Crocker. It definitely is not Bettie Page! P.S. Happy Mothers Day!! And how do you know its not Bettie Page, circa 2003????