MrRant

Eh.. Comp Sci isn't my deal. Security is more my interest.

Seattle Sonics - 78-79 season NBA Champions. and the last Finals appearance was in the 90's. Seattle Mariners - GRRR. Seattle Seahawks - I remember them getting to the AFC Championship game back in the 80's when they had Steve Largent but that year escapes me.

Actually you would down load it from here: http://mjc1.com/mirror/hjt/ I said it was IN GENERAL used for browser hijackings moreso than spyware. Most would agree.

It's not that bad since it's early European history. If it were political science or something I would freak out.

Partially on my way to a worthless degree in some type of history... probably. I need to go back to school though. Edit: I may change to a computer security related field though.

My first joke is usually about duct tape holding together cars, houses, toys, and basically anything else.

Just imagine.... random rusted cars from the late 70s-80's placed randomly in the halls with "The Confederacy Will Rise Again" bumper stickers. That would rock so much.

CARSON CITY, Nev. - Max Baer Jr. has gone to court in an effort to build his proposed $54 million Beverly Hillbillies Mansion & Casino in a shopping center he shares with The Glenbrook Co. and J.C. Penney. Plans for the casino include a 200-foot flaming oil derrick, 30,000-square-foot casino with 800 slot machines and 16 game tables, a 240-room hotel and restaurants _ all keying on "The Beverly Hillbillies" TV series, in which Baer starred as Jethro Bodine. In a petition filed Monday in Carson City District Court, lawyers for Baer, 66, said he has a legal right to develop his property. "We were hoping to resolve these issues outside the courtroom," said Glenbrook Co. spokeswoman Shelley Aldean. "That Baer has chosen to take this to the courts is regrettable." Standing in the way of Baer's plans are restrictions barring development of a theater, bowling alley, nightclub or other place of recreation or amusement at the mall. Signed in 1993 among the three major property owners at the time _ J.C. Penney Co., Glenbrook Corp. and Wal-Mart _ the restrictions limit the mall's use to commercial purposes "normally found in a retail shopping center." Wal-Mart had sought the restrictions, and they remained in place after the company's departure in July 2002. Aldean said Baer doesn't have the right to develop a casino without the cooperation of his partners. "This was always intended to be a cooperative venture among partners, both for development and for future development if a vacancy is created," she said. "He (Baer) just wants us to roll over and allow him to build his casino." http://www.jethroscasino.com/prsfrm.html http://www.comcast.net/News/ENTERTAINMENT/...8f9ab4f69.html#

You're a Catholic? If your kid is a boy then I really fear for him. Oh, and bitch about all the religious wackos you want -- the people I really want to hit in the head with a baseball bat are these anti-Christmas extremists. I'm the farthest thing from being a spiritual person, but Jesus Christ (pun intended) this has gone out of control... I don't practice.

Oh god.... AS and I both Roman Catholic?

I'm not overly religious but it's almost getting to the point where I consider Atheists to be just as bad as the religious wing-nuts. They are both too extreme for my tastes.

I would agree with Kahran.

Well in a way it is. There lately has seemed to be a targetting of Christian holidays but others are ok since I guess they are trying to make up for all the lost time.

BETHEL, Wash. — A music teacher's decision to replace "Christmas" with "winter" in a recent concert carol has many residents up in arms. Music teacher Mark Denison of Clover Creek Elementary School (search) in Bethel, Wash., changed the lyrics in Dale Wood's "Carol from an Irish Cabin" (search) to read: "The harsh wind blows down from the mountains and blows a white winter to me," reported the News Tribune. Parent Darla Dowell, whose 7-year-old daughter sang the song, told the Tribune the decision was "absurd." "I think the most important thing that angers me is that they sent a message to my child that there's something wrong with Christmas and saying Christmas and celebrating it and performing it at her school with her peers," Dowell told Fox News. She couldn't understand why it's okay to exclude Christmas when her daughter still sang Hanukkah tunes that included lyrics about the "mighty miracle" of Israel's ancient days. In that song, there were at least six mentions of the Jewish holiday. School officials admitted Denison may have gone too far in trying not to offend some people but they still backed him up. "The policy for our school district is to include both sacred and secular music," school district spokesman Mark Wenzel told Fox News. "We leave it to the individual music teacher to decide what music to choose. It's supposed to have some sort of learning value." Most school districts in the region, including Bethel's, allow both religious and secular songs to be performed during the holidays. Students at other schools in the district are still singing both types of songs, Mike Sander, director of arts education, told the Tribune. The policies of allowing both types of music comes from court rulings that say holiday traditions can be taught if the purpose is to provide secular instruction rather than promoting religion, the Tribune reported. No court has ever ruled that mention of the word "Christmas" in a public school violates the idea of separation of church and state. Clover Creek officials said students could get confused if the lyrics are changed back to the original version after having practiced the new version for a month. When some second graders were asked whether they wanted to keep in the word "winter" or use "Christmas," a slim majority voted for "winter." "They're making no attempt to fix the situation," Dowell told the Tribune. But no such vote was taken on the Hanukkah song. Dowell and a handful of other parents pulled their kids out of the performance. "Crossing out the word Christmas is just kind of like spitting on God," student Sheyenne Dowell told Fox News. But the word "Christmas" did get slipped into one song that was performed — in Benjamin Hanby's song, "Up on the Housetop." Dowell argued that school officials are contradicting themselves. "I've never made a stink about anything in my life," she told the Tribune. "But I feel very strongly about this." In the meantime, similar whitewash controversies are brewing around the country. In New York City, there's a lawsuit challenging the district's policy of encouraging schools to display menorahs and the Islamic crescent and star, while prohibiting Nativity scenes. In New Jersey, a school board eliminated all religious music from school programs. And in Kansas, a school district buckled under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union and did away with its yearly visit from Santa. All this despite a Fox News poll recently released that showed 96 percent of Americans celebrate Christmas, which could mean all Grinches, beware. "Some of it is actually animated by a hostility to Christianity," said syndicated talk show host Dennis Prager. "There's no question about it. But let's be very clear — if this country drops its Christianity we are doomed. This is a Judeo-Christian values-based culture." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105451,00.html ------------------------------- This is just ridiculous to the extreme. Oh and OMG ITZ FROM FAUXNEWS.COM/2003 LOLZ!!!111

If you don't mind me asking, why don't you support homosexual civil unions? Because it doesn't go well with cheese.

Well I'm awaiting Ripper's response.

Supporton the Orton? I like "Support the Ort" better.

So would you take a WS this year in exchange for 5 years of Tigerdom?

Would you want a hummer from this?

I'll probably be banned when kkk is.

Steph was so much hotter with the whore gimmick.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The NBA has fined Rasheed Wallace for the length of his shorts, for his many technical fouls, for his refusal to speak with reporters and for a postgame run-in with officials. So perhaps not surprisingly, the Portland Trail Blazers forward doesn't hold the league in high regard. In an interview published in Thursday's edition of The Oregonian, Wallace said league's white establishment is exploiting young black athletes to enrich itself. "I'm not like a whole bunch of these young boys out here who get caught up and captivated into the league," Wallace, 29, said. "No. I see behind the lines. I see behind the false screens. I know what this business is all about. I know the commissioner of this league makes more than three-quarters of the players in this league." Wallace added that teams are drafting high school players because they want athletes who are "dumb and dumber." "That's why they're drafting all these high school cats, because they come into the league and they don't know no better. They don't know no better, and they don't know the real business, and they don't see behind the charade." Wallace is aware of his status among the fans, some who have said they will not renew their season tickets unless Wallace is traded. They see him as the prime example of everything that has gone wrong with the team in recent years. "I know I'm Public Enemy No. 1. Fifty percent (of the fans) hate me and 50 percent love me no matter what I do," Wallace said. "I can't worry about that. If you're not part of my inner circle of family, it don't matter." Wallace also said he's not concerned with NBA officials, who whistled him for a record 41 technical fouls in 2000-01. "That's just the fire in me. Some of the technicals I deserved. Cussing at the officials or throwing something," he said. "But some of them I didn't deserve. "I'm not scared of the NBA. I'm not scared of the NBA officials. If I feel as though myself or my teammates have been dealt a wrong hand, I'm going to let it be known. I'm not going to sit up here like most of these cats and bite my tongue. That's not me." Wallace is in his eighth season with Portland and is making $17 million this season. He is the only Blazers player who lives in the area throughout the year, not just during the NBA season. Wallace said he and his wife of five years, Fatima, like the city and would prefer to stay. "It's real nice and pretty in the summer," Wallace said. "All the trees, flowers and everything else is more colorful. It's nice out here in the summertime, and it's a good family atmosphere." Wallace said his wife helped him realize that some of his actions can have a negative effect on their family, such as when he was arrested and charged with marijuana possession in November 2002 while riding in a sport utility vehicle with guard Damon Stoudamire. Wallace says he didn't regret the incident initially. Then he heard from his wife. "It was embarrassing from the standpoint of my family. That's one of the things my wife made me realize. She was like, 'I know how you are. I know stuff like that doesn't really affect you too much. But it affected us,'" Wallace said. "She meant her and my kids. That made me sit back and think about it, and she was right. A situation like that, I have to think past myself. I got a family. Got a wife. She was telling me what was happening with my kids. After I talked to her about it, I regretted the whole situation." But Wallace, who's one of the more charitable Blazers, doesn't consider himself a role model and doesn't feel he needs to constantly represent the Blazers and the NBA in public and in front of the media. "It doesn't have to take a Portland Trail Blazer or a professional basketball player to do good things in the community. You can work at a bank or work at a 7-Eleven. You donate your time or money to the local Boys & Girls Clubs or PAL (Police Activities League) Club. They won't see you as a role model, but you are. I don't know why they see a basketball player as a role model." Still, he knows participating in charitable events for the Blazers is part of his job as an NBA player. But once again, he prefers doing it his way. That doesn't always include posing for pictures. "They try to glorify stuff with the media being there when they do things in the community, but that's not me. I don't need a TV camera to let me know on the inside that I'm doing something good." Edit... Damn hit the "U" instead of "H". If a mod could edit that please.

<--- Nominates self for Most Valuable Poster.

Depends on the issue.