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Oh Lord. How can something be used for "decoration" when it's welded in an exhaust pipe? If this ain't a reason for White Flight, I don't know what is...

No, that strategy for their last World Series bid. This strategy would be to slash payroll, trade anyone that might earn a buck or two on the free market. The Reds organization, a team you're familiar with, is trying this approach already...

I think O'Reilly said that to another guest (guy whose father died in the 9/11 attacks -- I think the son signed some ad in the NY Times protesting war, but don't quote me on that), and frankly, Bill looked horrible in the segment...

Here's Ebert's three-and-a-half-star review for those that care (SLIGHT SPOILERS)... http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-...rundown26f.html Early in "The Rundown," The Rock is entering a nightclub to confront some tough guys, and he passes Arnold Schwarz-enegger on the way out. "Have a good time," Arnold says. It's like he's passing the torch. Whether The Rock will rival Schwarzenegger's long run as an action hero is hard to say -- but on the basis of "The Rundown," he has a good chance. I liked him in his first starring role, "The Scorpion King" (2002), but only up to a point; "On the basis of this movie," I wrote, "he can definitely star in movies like this." That's also true on the basis of "The Rundown" -- but it's a much better movie, and he has more to do. He plays a man named Beck, a "retrieval expert" who in the early scene is trying to retrieve a bad debt from an NFL quarterback. He does, beating up the entire defensive line in the process. Then his boss sends him on another mission -- to bring back his son, who is somewhere in the Amazon. The moment I heard "Amazon," I perked up, because I'm getting tired of action movies shot entirely within Los Angeles County. Hawaii doubles for South America in the movie, and does a great job of it, apparently aided at times by computer effects; and the jungle locations give the film a texture and beauty that underlines the outsized characters. Beck's mission takes him to a town named El Dorado, run by the evil Hatcher (Christopher Walken, whose first appearance, as usual, cheers up the audience). Beck's quarry is Travis Walker, a feckless fortune hunter played by Seann William Scott, who, yes, is the same Seann William Scott who plays Stifler in the "American Pie" series. Here he has the same cocky in-your-face personality, has add-ed a beard, and is once again a natural comic actor. So is The Rock, within the limits set by his character (there is some kind of a sliding scale in action pictures in which the star can be funny up to a point, but the second banana can go beyond that point). I liked, for example, Beck's call to his boss before beating up half the NFL team: He doesn't want to pound on them because "They may have a chance to repeat." Just about the first person Beck meets in El Dorado is the bartender, Mariana, played by Rosario Dawson, who later sees a lot of action and is convincing in it, reminding me a little of Linda Hamilton in "The Terminator." "Have more beautiful lips ever been photographed?" I asked in my review of her performance in "Chelsea Walls." On the basis of her performance here, I suggest that the answer is "no." Walken's character runs El Dorado as the kind of company town where all your wages go right back into the pocket of the boss (you have to rent your shovel by the day). Dawson's character doesn't like this, but I will not reveal more. Scott's character wants to find and steal a priceless Indian relic that will free the Indians in some unspecified way, but not if he sells it on eBay first. The Rock's character gets in the middle. It goes without saying that Beck and Travis have to get lost in the jungle at some point, but how to arrange this? The film is admirably direct: Beck causes a Jeep to crash, and he and Travis roll down a hillside that is about nine miles long. I was reminded of the similar scene in "Romancing the Stone," and indeed the two movies have a similar comic spirit. Once in the jungle they have all sorts of harrowing adventures, and I enjoyed it that real things were happening, that we were not simply looking at shoot-outs and chases, but at intriguing and daring enterprise. So determined is the film to avoid shoot-outs on autopilot that Beck makes it a point not to use firearms. "Guns take me to a place I don't want to go," he says. When the chips are down and the going is very heavy, however, he reconsiders. There's a lurid, overheated montage showing closeups of guns and ammo and closeups of The Rock's eyes, and the pressure to pick up a gun builds and builds until it's like the drunk in "The Lost Weekend" contemplating falling off the wagon. Christopher Walken has a specialty these days: He walks onscreen and delivers a febrile monologue that seems to come from some steamy bog in his brain. In "Poolhall Junkies," he had a riff about the law of the wild. In "Gigli" he wondered if aliens had kidnapped the judge's brother. Here he tells a torturous parable about the Tooth Fairy, which the locals have a lot of trouble understanding. He also has a hat that reminds me of the hat rule: Hero wears normal hat, sidekick wears funny hat, villain wears ugly hat. The movie was directed by Peter Berg, the actor, whose first directorial job was "Very Bad Things" (1998), a movie I thought was a very bad thing. Since I am quoting my old reviews today, let it be noted that I wrote in my review of that one: "Berg shows that he can direct a good movie, even if he hasn't." Now he has.

I say let them win the whole thing. Then all owners will adopt the Marlins winning strategy...

FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FATHER SHUT UP! Um, he did. Big deal. I have also gone on record when someone rips Bill a new one, too. OH I GUESS I SHOULD TYPE IN ALL CAPS TO MAKE MY POST MORE MENACING -- ROAR!...

Heck, if I worked at the FAUX NEWS CHANNEL LOL 2003! I'd be calling the Carlson household screaming at them, too, among other things. Carville calling Ailes a "good man." That has to be sarcasm, right? Good thing Tucker's show is on CNN -- I'm sure not too many people heard the number. If "Crossfire" was on MSNBC, there wouldn't be a story at all...

I say if she wants to emulate RFK, then she should go all the way with it...

Guess somebody was surprised that Paris had a war heroes museum. (Sorry, I just got back from this thread) http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?...ST&f=18&t=41753 Palmer makes one. George Plimpton makes two. http://forums.thesmartmarks.com/index.php?...ST&f=12&t=41766 Who will be third?...

A while back O'Reilly (OMG FAUX NEWS LOL 2003!) had some teacher on that did something similar to this in her class. It wasn't nearly as extreme as the above mentioned, and I think it dealt more with news articles. He tore that bitch apart...

Man, there's an Alzheimer's joke somewhere in there but even I'm not touching it with a 10-foot pole...

OMG NY POST LOL 2003!!!!! Actually, I think OMG NY POST WHICH IS OWNED BY THE PARENT COMPANY OF FAUX NEWS LOL 2003!!! is a more fitting title. FAUX FANS that watch the FAUX REPORT will get the joke...

I'd create a deck of French war heroes, but finding 52 (do we include joker cards in these?) is an awfully tall order...

Hmmm, this could mean a number of things: 1) Tucker did it on purpose to rile up a rival news channel *must show restraint...* 2) Tucker may be moving to a rival news channel because how else would he know that certain news channel's number *must show restraint...*

While reading this I got a call from the "Pennsylvania Narcotics Department," which is just a scam to milk you out of money. Of course, since these guys are "fund-raising," I don't think they would be affected by this legislation. Damn phone in the computer room doesn't have caller ID...

Yeah, Wad, I saw the episodes your spoiler contained -- that was kinda strange. It feels so weird to cheer skinheads one minute, then the muslims the next (although I'm partial to the muslims, I love the Hank S. character). I wish that guy who knows the warden (tried to kill him in tonight's episode) would just die already...

*Yawn* If only all media outlets were as fair and balanced *must resist urge to shout FAU...* as, say, the BBC...

Wait until the primaries are well under way, then I'll start giving a crap about which Dem can kick Bush out of the White House...

This has nothing to do with California, or research, but it does have a tingle of Affirmative Action to it, and I found the story funny as hell... http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/na...0,5341103.story Texas University Shuts Down Bake Sale DALLAS -- Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale Wednesday in which cookies were offered for sale at different prices, depending on the buyer's race or gender. The sale was organized by the Young Conservatives of Texas, who said it was intended as a protest of affirmative action. A sign said white males had to pay $1 for a cookie. The price was 75 cents for white women, 50 cents for Hispanics and 25 cents for blacks. Members of the conservative group said they meant no offense and were only trying to protest the use of race or gender as a factor in college admissions. Similar sales have been held by College Republican chapters at colleges in at least five other states since February. A black student filed a complaint with SMU, saying the sale was offensive. SMU officials said they halted the event after 45 minutes because it created a potentially unsafe situation. "This was not an issue about free speech," Tim Moore, director of the SMU student center, said in a story for Thursday's edition of The Dallas Morning News. "It was really an issue where we had a hostile environment being created." The sale drew a crowd outside the student center and several students engaged in a shouting match, Moore said. David C. Rushing, 23, a law student and chairman of Young Conservatives of Texas at SMU and for the state, said the event didn't get out of hand. At most, a dozen students gathered around the table of cookies and Rice Krispies treats, he said. "We copied what's been done at multiple campuses around the country to illustrate our opinion of affirmative action and how we think it's unfair," he said. Matt Houston, a 19-year-old sophomore, called the group's price list offensive. "My reaction was disgust because of the ignorance of some SMU students," said Houston, who is black. "They were arguing that affirmative action was solely based on race. It's not based on race. It's based on bringing a diverse community to a certain organization." The group sold three cookies during its protest, raising $1.50. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled universities could use race as a factor in admissions under limited conditions. In Texas, universities had been banned from using race as a factor under a 1996 decision by a lower court.

That was my first thought upon reading the Thread's title. I think you've got a real hard on for these kind of stories, Boo...

Uh-oh. If there's one thing less reliable than punch-card machines and optical scanners it's... it's... it's... it’s... THE FAUX NEWS CHANNEL/.COM LOL 2003!!! Seriously, I loved how Big Media crapped their pants regarding punch-card machines in the 2000 Election, with some publications (Snooze-week for one) comparing those machines to money collectors on vending machines spewing back out your one dollar bill. Of coruse, Snoozeweek’s solution was for election booths to have optical machines, which is funny because I guess nobody from Big Media ever travels to a discount store/grocery and watches in amazement at the stupidity of people in those U-Scan Express aisles. Back in 2000 I used a punch card for the first time, and yes I was a bit taken aback. For about 3 seconds. After making my marks -- and double checking my votes -- I then *gasp* flipped my card over to see if I had any dingleberry chads. I didn't, and my GOP straight ticket (I would have voted for one Dem, but he pissed me off with his pimping in political ads about church attendance) and "No-on-any-proposition-that-involved-more-tax-and-spending" went through without a hitch. Sorry, but I just get my panties in a bunch every time I hear the whining about unfair voting machines and such...

I wonder if she'll be featured in the next iPod commercial?...

Let me guess, and the person saying this looked like Roger Ebert...

I picked defense, but I also think injuries and coaching play critical roles, too...

Yep, you know high schoolers made this one. Need a little more experience in the sack before making movies, kids...