BERIGAN

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.

damn, this person is actually selling a fair number of bills this way! Heres one for Johnny!

As well as illegal. I thought so as well, but they are claiming it is 100% legal...so it must be! I might just have to make this one my new signature line!

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????

Gosh, a real live woman is on this board? Not one of those "Men with women's names" folks like Fran, Bev, and Mary McGoon? If I had only known, I thought this board was all male. Sorry ma'am! Let me the first to wish you a belated Happy Mother's day!

Hope you don't mind if I "borrow" that image! :rsmile: Have to admit, now I am aroused by it....

Brad, I just fail to see how it could offend a lot of people! I laughed out loud when I saw it, thought there was something genuine about it, thought others might as well. I was only going to have it up for a day or two, then saw this thread, and how some reacted to it. Now it is staying, at least thru the week-end. This image is not going to bring down a board, a board not run by a business(OK, you could say it is run by a business, but not a big one!) Funny, how some on the left always want to censor folks, or force them to censor themselves if they disagee with someone's views. Well, image wise at least. Words are a different thing altogether. People can say Fuck, shit, whatever on this board, and we are supposed to be adults and able to handle it, but post a non-nude photo in your signature line, and all hell breaks loose. If there were 12 year olds here, it would be different, though how many here would still want to use any and all language anyway, saying they know the words anyway? I wonder how many would complain about Andres Serrano's Piss Christ used in a signature line...nah, that's "Art"

Yes Lon, you are....You truly remind me of a grade-schooler with a grudge... You got mad at me at the AAJ, for daring to joke that I had had sex with Norah Jones.... Here is the semi funny remarks that so angered Lon and first got me called...shutter, a 12 year old. Yes, Mosaic, please put out a complete Herman Columbia set! I hear Norah is quite the big fan! In fact, she just told me the other day after we had sex, that if Mosaic didn't put out a Herman set, a Jack Pettis set, a Boswell sisters set, AND a Annette Hanshaw set, she was going to quit Bluenote!!!no, I didn't call her a 20 dollar an hour whore, just made a remark. Funny, Chris A. can call Condoleezza Rice a Skeeza, a whore, yet that 70+ year old isn't called a 12 year old by Lon. Wonder why??? Oh that's right, Lon holds a grudge forever! Why?? Well, the fascinating story is that a long time ago, on a board far, far away, I dared to comment that I wanted to punch Michael Moore in the nose! No, I did not wish he would have a heart attack and die, or that I would like to slit his throat, I said I wanted to punch him in the nose!!! Oh, the humanity! I am a violent man with a hair trigger temper!That really got stuck in Lon's craw! A few months later, I PM the guy to tell him about a cd, and I get a message back saying he didn't want to associate with people who want to hurt someone he admired(Moore) Now, what was it that pushed me to say I wanted to punch Moore? Well, someone had posted an article from England, from someone who saw Moore's one man show. If the passengers had included black men, he(Moore) claimed, those killers, with their puny bodies and unimpressive small knives, would have been crushed by the dudes, who as we all know take no disrespect from anybody. Now, I ask you, who should be more upset, Lon, at me for saying I would like to punch Moore in the nose, Or me at Lon for admiring Moore even after insulting DEAD MURDER VICTIMS, AND THEIR FAMILIES??? Lon, you have never once addressed what he said. Do you find that it tickled your funny bone? Did it seem to be in good taste? I bet you that some family members really did hear about his hatful remarks about their loved ones. How does that make you feel? Norah is never going to see my remarks, but I need to grow up. I post a old woman getting her boobs held, by her husband I might add, no nipples showing, and that is just terrible! makes perfect sense to me! Look in the mirror Lon! You need to grow up! Some people are liberals, others will be conservatives! Hold both groups to the same standard you claim to have...

This from a 10 year old.....

Man, how do these old men get so damn lucky! Tony Iommi, of Black Sabbath fame, married Maria Sjöholm OF Drain STH fame(Surely you heard of them???)The lovely couple... Here is the cover of the groups last cd before they broke up... It's just not fair I tells ya!