Tim McG

Do you guys ever talk about anything other than that Eastern Baseball shit? I mean, really...is that all there is in your baseball lives? Eastern Baseball and that's it? There is more to life than the fucking Yankees and BoSox, Boyz. Trust me on this one. OK?

Marie Osmond Marie Antoinette Mary Tyler Moore

With $18 Billion dollar quarterly profits for the oil companies? C'mon. That is a clear indication of greed, my friend. There is no supply problem here.

Giants take two out of three from the A's. Saturday with Lincecum on the mound- 1-0 Today with Sanchez pitching- 11-1 You know, the A's took out a full page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle bragging how they have dominated this year's version of the Battle of the Bay. Saying it isn't much of a battle. I wish they'd do that stupid crap more often Why? Because the Giants just waved bye-bye with their knuckles. Blam! How do you like us now, A's fans?

Screw the Dish. Go Broadband/Cable.

A bit, um...nonplussed, are we? Tell us what you really think, Dan

11 out of 20 here. Some were trick questions or look alikes. I cry foul.

Tina May Earl May Erskine May Peter Erskine Wayne Shorter Jaco Pastorius Joe Zawinul Joe Pass Big Joe Turner

Val Kilmer Valerie Bertinelli Valerie diLorenzo

Aren't we supposed to stick to the names of real people? Just askin'....

My Giants beat them, so I'm OK with it

Sounds like my kind of weather. I'm sick of the heat! I'm right there with you. Trade with you, MG. Hot, smoky and smoggy today.

Reading list for this summer: Brave New World Like Water For Chocolate Hamlet Ender's Game Lord of the Flies

Neil Young Jim Messina Richie Furay

I bet you dollars to donut holes it'll be well over $5.00 by July Fourth. The greedy bastards....and no you can't have our coastline. Oil Executives: Eat shit and die! Grrrrr

Bill Evans Bill Graham Bill Cosby

$4.46 here....at the Coast, over $5.00 now. Supply and demand? SheeYEAHright.

Certainly not true. Read the original article. The mother herself has suffered harm. I read the article. I said that there was no "lasting" harm done. The mother will recover. Indeed. Into one's life some rain must fall, yes? BTW...I had to report on two instances of child abuse this past school year. One ended up being a kid getting "jumped in" by his gang and the second invloved a knife his father used to cut his son. This is some serious shit, Guys. And if the cost is one mother being rightfully upset by an imperfect system, I'm OK with it.

This was not a random reporting, Jazzmoose. Yours, however, is. if I tell you i am a psychic and the third child back in the second row of your first class is being molested by their uncle, you would immediately report it? hope you had great holidays! Hum a few bars and I'll let you know. And thanks....our trip was very nice, indeed.

This was not a random reporting, Jazzmoose. Yours, however, is. Besides, school's out for the summer

But doesn't it seem that there was no greater chance that Victoria was being abused than that any other child in the class was being abused? If there had been any evidence that sparked the interest of the educational assistant or the teacher, definitely, err on the side of caution. But here there was no evidence. The "sexualized behavior" had not alarmed the adults--it was only after a voice from the spirits mentioned the letter V that it was reinterpreted. The rhetorical question was asked above, what if the psychic had said all the kids in the class were being abused, or, say, all the kids whose names began with A through L? Would it have been wise in that case to report all those cases to the authorities? And if would not be in that case, why would it be if only one letter were singled out? Tom, I get your point, but not reporting this and on the basis of what a district empolyee alledged to the teacher is against the law and against school board policy. We don't get to make that determination. We are given one option: Reprt it or suffer the consequences. IMHO, it is easy for those not in the teaching biz to say this should be done this way or that could have been handled another way, etc. As school district employees we simply do not have that luxury. There is a lot of stupid shit we, as teachers, must do because we are told to. Sure, I could go aginst all that but I'd eventually lose my job or worse, my job life could be made into a living hell. Where I am sorry for that girl, I know that her limited suffering pales in comparison to the thousands of children helped because of this law. That is my stand and no matter what anyone here says I will perform my duties with the children in mind first, adult issues last.

OK....I can die now. I've heard everything: Tigers' Inge loses battle with pillow, placed on DL Detroit Tigers' Brandon Inge is on the disabled list after a freak injury involving a pillow. BY JOHN LOWE • FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER • June 26, 2008 For the past three weeks or so, the rigors of baseball couldn't aggravate Brandon Inge's side injury enough for him to be placed on the disabled list. What those rigors couldn't accomplish, a pillow did. "It was the stupidest, most freakish thing," Inge said Wednesday, explaining why he had just been placed on the 15-day DL with the pulled side muscle (oblique) he suffered 3 1/2 weeks ago. "I have a 3-year-old son who sleeps in the bed with my wife and me," Inge said. "I was trying to push the pillow down behind his head (two nights ago), and when I did ... I repopped (the strained muscle). "You take swings in baseball, and it's not as bad as pushing a pillow down." Upon hearing this story, manager Jim Leyland said, "That's a first."

Sorry, but "covering your ass" is not the same thing as "acting in the child's best interests". Once again, would you be willing to take the chance that the child was not being abused? When the consequences, both to the child and to you, are so great? Yes, they were "covering their asses" but they were ALSO "acting in the child's best interests." Exactly. It is, if I may be so bold, the very reason the law is there in the first place: To make certain no child is needlessly suffering abuse. Well said, Alexander.

Jazzmoose and Dan, If I don't report, I am disobeying the law and my superiors and school board policy. I could be fined, jailed or lose my job. Why don't you consider those possibilities first, eh? Now, if you guys have a alternative solution to the legal constraints we work under...I'm all ears. And Jazzmoose, the argument has been the same from the get go. Because I offer a different angle for the same argument it is not changing anything. It is offering new insight, evidence or thought processes. Now then, I am off to celebrate our 25th Anniversary by taking my Lovely Betrothed, Mrs. GoodSpeak, to the Coast for three days. Try not to go sideways on me until I get back, OK? Play nice, or I may have to do a report on you two.