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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5469808/?GT1=4244 A brew too far Four Tennessee inmates go on beer run, charged with escape ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. - The party’s over for four inmates accused of going on a beer run after the jail’s doors were accidentally left unlocked. The men were charged Monday with escape and bringing alcohol into a jail. The breakout occurred Thursday night after cellblock doors at the Hawkins County Jail were left unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Sheriff Warren Rimer said. Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, leaving the door propped open with a Bible, and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a market, bought some beer and returned to the jail to share it with other prisoners. When the booze ran out, the other two inmates made another beer run to a different store. Authorities believe the inmates bought more than two cases of beer in all. “I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn’t be charged with escape,” Rimer said, “but they were wrong.” The store visits did not raise alarm because the inmates were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The crowded jail does not have enough orange jumpsuits to go around. © 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Obviously it sucked if you were there live, it might of brought in a few more viewers flipping channels on TV though. Or maybe the reason they watched is they know that a big train wreck was going to happen. Seeing how bad the crowd booed the divas kept me from changing the channel. And Eric going off on them.

http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_sho...l?article=41038 Another View: Parents, think twice about letting your children play football By CHRIS NOWINSKI Guest Commentary EVERY YEAR, around 1.5 million children and teenagers kick-off their school years as part of youth or high school football team. Another 75,000 young people will participate in college football. Every one of these young, vibrant Americans will be exposing themselves to the risk of suffering multiple concussions. Every concussion and every impact to the head may lead to some degree of long-term brain damage, the severity of which each of these young people may only realize 10, 20, or 50 years later. I have a new perspective on the game of football. At 25, I may now be forced to retire from professional wrestling because of brain damage caused by the cumulative effects of multiple concussions over my life. As part of a research project I’ve undertaken to understand what doctors call post-concussion syndrome, I have learned that my problem started in football, and that the following information needs to be shared with everyone. Most concerned parents are comforted by the belief that a helmet will protect their child’s brain. This is a mistake. The design of football helmets and face masks has evolved to remove the incentive not to use the head as a battering ram. Only now are we learning the consequences. In the last year two major studies, one by the NFL and one at Virginia Tech, have revealed the true severity of football impacts. They found that a struck player’s head may experience forces more than 130 times the force of gravity. The average player may take 50 shots to the head averaging 40 times the force of gravity in every game, and over the course of an entire season, the number of impacts reaches a few thousand. The head can experience a change in velocity of 20 miles per hour in an instant, which leads to forces similar to severe automobile accidents. Many concussion-producing hits have enough force to have cracked the skull had there been no helmet. Because athletes have continued to get bigger, stronger and faster, and because more impacts now involve the “protected” head, there is little reason to believe football players at every level are not suffering more concussions than ever before. A study published in the Journal of Child Neurology in 2001 found that around half of all football players at the high school level suffer at least one concussion a season, with an average of more than three. Two other studies published in the Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine in 2000 and 2002 confirm similar incidence rates at the college and professional levels. The need to understand the consequences of these repetitive head injuries has never been more critical. Medical science is only beginning to understand links between multiple concussions and increased risk for afflictions like Alzheimer’s disease, depression, memory loss, cognitive impairment and dementia. As well, there is evidence from studies on boxers proving that repeated head impacts can, over time, lead to brain damage despite those impacts never having caused a single concussion. Although there have been few attempts to quantify the risk, the initial research is alarming. One large study of former football players by the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes found that 20 percent of those with more than only three lifetime concussions suffered from depression, and 17 percent reported memory problems that for many of them may be an early indication of Alzheimer’s disease. As the concussion problem continues to grow, we need to prepare for a future with hundreds of thousands of young men who have 10 or 20 lifetime concussions from football. Parents should consider that younger players are more prone to getting concussions and more severe brain damage from concussions than older players. The damage caused by concussions in children theoretically impairs the child’s ability to reach their full cognitive potential, inhibiting their ability to learn and classroom performance, and can cause personality changes, behavioral, emotional, and attention deficit disorders, and may accelerate the natural process of brain degeneration when they get older. This fall, thousands of American parents will face a child begging to be allowed to play football. If you truly believe that the game is not for your child, stand firm. Chris Nowinski was a starting defensive tackle at Harvard University and currently is a World Wrestling Entertainment star. Readers may write him at 219 Main Street, No. 2, Everett, Mass. 02149 or e-mail him at [email protected]

I think it's to late for Booker ever since he was beaten by the Grand Wizard HHH. It reallys makes me mad is that they broke up the very fun and successful BookDust so Booker can job in the (almost) race angle. As for RVD I still think can be saved. But, like others have said, he'll have to change his style and wrestle WWE style, which would more or less kill his fan support.

Which means next week on RAW after the 60-minute iron man match the WWE will have a 60-minute iron man Diva Search. Which means 60 minutes of the divas doing whatever.

- RAW did a 3.7 rating this week off two hours of 3.7. The highest rated segment was a 4.1 for the overrun. The RAW Diva Search segment did a 4.0. Credit: PWInsider.com

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...st/inmates_beer Four Inmates Flee Jail, Return With Beer ROGERSVILLE, Tennessee - With their cell doors accidentally left unlocked, four county jail inmates escaped only to return the same night — with beer. The Hawkins County Jail inmates, who bought four cases of beer before returning to the jail, were charged Monday with escape and introduction of intoxicants into a penal institution, the Kingsport Times-News newspaper reported Tuesday. "I guess they thought if they came back they wouldn't be charged with escape, but they were wrong," Sheriff Warren Rimer said. Ridgy Dean Coleman, Jimmy Joe Stapleton, David Wayne Blizzard and David Allen Hopkins escaped Thursday night when their cell block doors were unlocked and a faulty control panel failed to alert jailers, Rimer said. Two of the inmates walked out through a fire exit, left the door propped open with a small Bible and made a hole in the exercise yard fence. They walked to a nearby market and bought the beer. The inmates did not raise alarm at the store because they were wearing street clothes borrowed from other prisoners. The crowded jail doesn't have enough orange jumpsuits for all of its inmates. The sheriff pointed out that all 36 inmates on the cell block might have tried to escaped while the doors were unlocked. "At least they came back," he said.

So did anyone else watch the show?

Ok just finished watching it. And am I the only one that thought that the white mom was a spoiled bitch? First you just know she didn't do anything around the house or work a job. And the way she acted when she first saw Mr. Biggins and said something like "He looks like you people" makes me think the only time she sees black people is when they are cleaning her home. Then she didn't feel like cooking or cleaning and wanted to just go out to eat and she just keeped on using the blowdrying when it keep blowing a circut.

I was thinking they could do it like this. You know how shows like 24 and Nip/Tuck do on the season premires with the show being commercial free and have one sponsor for that show. Like Ford did for 24 and XM radio did for Nip/Tuck. It could be like the ironman match is sponsored by Ford and it is because of them the WWE can bring you fans the ironman match commercial free.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...oliceacademy_dc All I have to say is that they better get Steve Guttenberg or else. Cause he help made the series and once he left them they went to shit.

Yeah it is. But, there far better ways to do it that are not so fucking dumb and boring.

God I hate this shit.

This is TO funny the crowd is just BOOING the fuck out of the ladies.

Just saw an ad for tonight's RAW and guess what the main thing it was about. Yep the Diva Search.

That was the period in late '97 when Wright was managed by Debra and helping her battle ex-hubby Steve McMichael. For a brief time she aided Jeff Jarrett, Wright, Eddie Guerrero, and Bill Goldberg, which made for a decent stable of wrestlers, IMO. Yeah wasn't that the plan. That Debra was going to create a stable with Eddie, Wright, Jarrett, and Goldberg but, for whatever reason it never got off the ground. I guess part of the reason was when WCW decided to really push Goldberg and make him undefeated.

Let's see what has changed about Rob's art from when X-Force first came out and compare his art to now. What has changed 1. Rob's colorist 2. Cable's gone to the Hair Club For Men and now has a full set of hair. 3. Cable's lost about 200lbs aka those big ass shoulder pads he use to wear. And that's pretty the only things that have changed about Rob's art since the early 90's.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...arvel_lawsuit_2 Marvel Sues Disney Over Comic Royalties Fri Jul 16, 7:50 PM ET By GARY GENTILE, AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES - Marvel Enterprises Inc., creators of such comic book superheroes as "Spider-Man" and "The Incredible Hulk" is suing The Walt Disney Co. in a royalty dispute over animation programs aired on Disney's ABC Family channel. Marvel is asking for nearly $55 million in compensatory damages, interest and other fees it says it is owed for royalties generated by made-for-television episodes of "Spider-Man," "X-Men" and "The Incredible Hulk." The agreements at issue in the lawsuit, filed late Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, were made before Disney acquired Fox Family Worldwide in 2001. The lawsuit claims Disney has not kept accurate records of royalties due under those inherited agreements. Disney spokesman John Spelich said the company had not yet seen the lawsuit and could not comment. Episodes of all three shows were made in the late 1990s and Disney inherited the right to air them and sell the shows on home video and into foreign markets, the lawsuit claims. Marvel claims it is owed millions of dollars in royalties, including from the licensing of music associated with the shows. It also claims Disney failed to aggressively market the shows, especially in light of the popularity the three titles have gained from the successful theatrical movies made by other studios. "Indeed, although Disney is the heir to these important rights, it has treated these profitable properties as second rate," the lawsuit states. The lawsuit, which claims $54.8 million in total damages, does acknowledge that Disney did pay some disputed royalties when asked.

The acoustic verison of Plush by Stone Temple Pilots. It was so popular that it went on to become a hit on the radio.

weird though it is mile high comics have printed a "preview" of x-force #1 which actually gives you the entire story (every page of the book) as it will appear. anyone wanting to read it: http://www.milehighcomics.com/firstlook/marvel/xforce1/ enjoy

http://slate.msn.com/id/2103794/?GT1=4244 Bill Cosby America's granddad gets ornery. By Debra Dickerson Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004, at 11:22 AM PT Lately, Bill Cosby has been making a comeback—as Shelby Steele. The 67-year-old comedian—who became America's Dad in the 1980s and America's Granddad more recently—has launched a series of surprising assaults on the pathologies of low-income blacks. "They think they're hip. They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere," he said in Chicago at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference on July 1. This followed an attack launched at the NAACP's Brown v. Board of Education 50th anniversary gala at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., in May. No laugh tracks there. The Cos has chastised young black men for "beating up your women because you can't find a job," blasted poor parenting in the ghettoes, heaped scorn on Ebonics, and lambasted aimless blacks for squandering the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement. Symbolically, he made his comments in high-profile "public" (read: where whites could hear) venues. Many critics expressed shock that the beloved figure of Americana—the genial observational humorist; the wise paterfamilias of the beloved The Cosby Show (1984-1992); the winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002—should offer such a pointed, and conservative, political message. Yet those who were fooled by Cosby's silliness into surprise at his newfound ferocity were just that—fooled. Cosby has long been a good "race" man on an all-too-serious mission. There was always darkness in the Cos' light. From humble beginnings in the projects of Philadelphia, raised by a domestic and a laborer, Cosby parlayed his impish nature and keen insights into the transcendent in daily life into a successful comedy career during the early 1960s heyday of stand-up. In 1963, he was chosen as the first black guest host of The Tonight Show and in 1965 as the first black star on a white drama. On I Spy, he and Robert Culp played intelligence agents gone undercover as an international tennis player and coach. Overnight Cosby became the "Jackie Robinson of television," a crucial figure in bringing unapologetic but unconfrontational blackness into the mainstream. It is almost impossible now to convey the watershed I Spy represented in American life. Those were the days when blacks called each other in wonderment to make sure that no one missed seeing one of their own in America's public square. That Cosby's "Scotty" was an abstemious, multilingual Rhodes Scholar and devoted family man while Culp's "Kelly" was a womanizing boozehound from the wrong side of the tracks was no accident. Cosby himself lobbied to make Scotty the brains of the outfit, the one who traveled the world and tended to national security matters. Nonradical elements of the black community always embraced strategic racial inroads like this as exactly the type of gains they were trying to make—securing a place at the table instead of dismantling the table. Radicals like the Black Panthers, socialists, and Amiri Baraka, of course, considered Cosby a sell-out—a judgment for which his recent comments merely provide them the final proof. Once Cosby found the upward path, he worked hard to stay there and to help bring the race along with him. His philosophy was always to play by the rules so as to beat the master at his own game—to be clearly black-identified, but not, you know, militant about it. Like that of Nat King Cole, Flip Wilson, and Diahann Carroll, television's other black pioneers, Cosby's appeal lay in presenting the universality of black life "apolitically," on its own terms (or, if you're Amiri Baraka, in the least discomforting way possible for whites). Their sudden presence in public life was all the rebuke that pre-Civil Rights Act America could face. But Cosby's critics are wrong to say Cosby is either "incognegro" or an appeaser. The man always had a plan. While his humor is nonconfrontational, his attitude has been anything but; like Oprah Winfrey and Magic Johnson's inner-city focused business empire, Cosby sees the acquisition of power as a civil rights strategy. He's worked to be in the meetings where decisions are made rather than outside picketing them, though he was an ardent supporter of the civil rights movement and used his shows to pay homage to it. And he succeeded. Once his star took off, Cosby was rarely without either a sitcom, a game show, an animated series, best selling non-fiction, or a comedy album riding the top of the charts. His power allowed him, among many other good deeds, to support black higher education by donating millions to schools, sending deserving, hardscrabble youngsters he'd read about in the newspaper to college, and challenging universities to ambitious fundraising goals by offering generous matching funds of his own—facts he's been advertising in a PR counteroffensive after the harsh reaction his recent comments provoked. So why now? Why is Bill Cosby suddenly so sour, so publicly? Perhaps it was watching one of his four daughters struggle with a drug habit in the 1980s. Perhaps it was losing his only son, Ennis, to random violence in 1997. (Ghouls click here for a guide to the murder site.) Perhaps it was having to acknowledge having cheated on his wife of 40 years, Camille, who is nearly as beloved by blacks as he is. To make matters worse, the news of this infidelity broke when a young woman tried to extort hush money from him, and he helped the FBI send his (probable) love child to prison. But perhaps the final straw was watching Eddie Murphy reprise his history-making I Spy role on the big screen in 2002, not as a jet-setting, high-minded patriot but as a jive-talking, barely literate boxer who couldn't care less about national security; Cosby has long been vocal in his disgust with what he sees as the minstrelsy, vulgarity, and low artistic value of modern black comedy, film, and television. Don't even get him started on rap music. "I'm a tired man," he said recently, but he wasn't talking about the energy required to defend himself. He was talking about still fighting battles his generation thought would have been long won by now, and he's talking about how draining it is to watch black complacency with its pockets of stagnation. But true acolytes will recognize the Cos' own personal progression through the stages of life, territory he just about owns. One of Cosby's standards bits was in ribbing his mother for coddling her grandchildren after having been so tough on her children. "That's not the same woman that raised me," he'd claim in mock confusion. Watching our beloved Cos take his people so publicly to the woodshed, it's our turn now to marvel at the evolution of the man we thought we knew so well. Debra Dickerson is the author of The End of Blackness and An American Story.

They don't see the camera. Or the lights. Or the boom guy. Hey, they're busy EMOTING! One of my favorite "The camera's not there skit" is when The Rock came back and Angle was a face. Rock and Angle are talking and Rock is trying to get Angle to sing. The Rock then turns to the camera and ask the folks "Would you like to hear Angle sing?" and Angle has a confused look on his face and asks Rock who's he talking to. And Rock tells him to never mind. To funny.

Obviously. Kane's presumably only previous experience with a girl was a dead chick. Yean and fucking Lita was a huge step down for Kane.

For me it would be the X-Men first followed in a close second by Spider-Man.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...health_aids_mtv MTV chief says Bush AIDS policies will not halt condom adverts BANGKOK (AFP) - The president of cable music giant MTV vowed not to stop the channel's hard-hitting AIDS (news - web sites) and condom messages despite the US government promoting a sexual abstinence programme to counter the pandemic. "We get criticised quite a bit, we even get penalised quite a bit and I am here to see that we will continue to take those risks," said Bill Roedy, at the 15th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, where the debate between strict sexual abstinence versus a pro-condom approach has emerged as a key issue. Roedy said MTV's no-nonsense specials on AIDS and condom use had also found the televised music giant in hot water in many countries outside the United States. The MTV president sat on a panel with Hollywood icon Richard Gere, who joined Roedy in criticising the approach of President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s administration to condom and AIDS awareness. "We may well have hopefully another administration in about four months in the US and along with that some sanity on this subject," said Gere. An adviser on women's issues to the United Nations (news - web sites) on Friday partially blamed a rising AIDS rate among women in the US on popular media such as MTV. "Among young people in America, there is a feeling that sex is cool, that it's okay to be growing up and to be sexually experienced," said Stephanie Urdang. The number of American women with HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS leapt from 180,000 in 2001 to 240,000 two years later, she said.