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You just have to watch the "Don't try this at home" ad and then you are ok. Here's a trick to get around that, you can's skip the chapter, but you can fast forward through it. Use the fastest FF and the thing ends in seconds.

Yeah, I remember finding it odd when they edited "gun" out of Fuel's "Jesus or a gun?"...

What is wrong with having a Jewish president? As a supporter of Joseph Lieberman, your attitude offends me. If you have "nothing against em" then why does it matter what religion he is? At least it wouldn't have been a "black dood" right?

Even so, you said that I had a position in the administration, which was once quite true (I moved on from that job some months ago). To equate that with being employed by the President, however, is ridiculously ignorant. The President doesn't employ the Secretary of Defense, the White House Press Secretary, or the Attorney-General either, or anyone else in his administration; he's their boss. There's a difference. You were correct, or at least once correct, and snuffbox got it wrong. End of story. Ah, ok. I could have sworn you mentioned having a position in the administration at one time. Even if that is now incorrect, it wasn't me taking snipes like "works for King George"

Oh, so we're trying to pass the blame to me, eh? Sorry for the "bad intel" I will form a commitee immediately to look into the matter and where I went wrong...ehem. Marney's always been kind of vague with her status in the government, and her obvious political leanings threw me off I guess. What I meant by made a fool of, is she tends to strike like a pitbull at times in this folder but you got off easy. And...um....I have no problems with law abiding citizens owning guns but I think mandatory background checks and licensing is a good idea just to protect the innocent. As for guns in a home with children, it's the parent's responsibilty to take neccesarry safety precautions just like anything else...

Boy would we feel like assholes if everything was true and the poor guy's in trouble...

lol To be PERFECTLY honest, the infusion of ICP on TNA lately and best friend just getting into them has led me into them, so I looked up threads with "clown" (since "ICP" apparently is too short a search string or something), and kind of got lost in this thread. I've ALWAYS been a rock/metal guy nothing more, but I've been sampling some Outkast stuff to see if I like it since everyone is gushing about them. Can't hurt. And hey, I can read what I want! EDIT: Just in case you didn't get my PM, how did you know I was reading a thread that hasn't been bumped in 2 years anyway? EDIT2: Oh, I just realized there's an option to view what thread or forum the online members are viewing. That's...kind of...creepy.

maybe we should pay tribute to this guy: http://www.mizzou.edu/~npvytc/Budlight/Bud...%20Designer.mp3 Here's to YOU, Mr. Pro Wrestling Wardrobe Designer!

Right but not all politicians have the audacity to claim to have helped common people when they've only used common people to get filthy rich and destory businesses and doctors at the same time...

ignoring "socialist" bickering I still think the article I posted is the big case against Edwards. He's out for working people?!? HELLO?! He won record setting 30 million dollar lawsuits in his state and helped the lead the wave of trial lawyers that are destorying the medical field and raising premiums to absurd levels all the while making himself obscenly wealthy. He can talk about a background of helping people but the truth is he's done nothing but exploit people for the purposes of making himself record setting fortunes while putting good doctors out of practice. He is the poster child for the "sue America" mentality that needs to find someone to blame for all your problems. Sometimes bad things happen. Babies are born with disabilities, it's life, it's not always a doctor's fault. And furthermore even if there is some culpibility, fair damages should be awarded, but how is 30 million dollars to a trial lawyer supposed to be fair, let alone help the "victim" which will see maybe a small fraction of that? It is what it is, and good for Edwards for taking advantage of a legal system desperately in need of reform but it's a mockery for one of the poster boys of one of the major problems in this country to not only be running for president, but has the gall to run on the image of being able to identify with "regular people".

See, this is why after his "conclusion" he should be allowed to make a second "full disclosure" post that reveals what the real deal was (if at all).

Finished off Return Of The Warriors, your right, excellent show. Favorite moments were Yvel's kick to Goodridge, Ryan Gracie playing punching bag with the Japanese guy's head, Silva and Mezger trying to kill each other and Renzo getting his arm twisted. Probably a good time to ask, how many Gracie's are there? And what are their relations to each other? What happened with Shamrock though? He was dominating that fight and was moving really crisply and then he just gave up. Was he hurt? Also that crazy Giant Ochai, is he the one that died this past year? Yeah, top to bottom each match had something good about it. Will watch Collision Course soon.

HUH?

rawmvp, I think I speak for us all in asking that once you post the final entry, that you post a full disclosure. I would ask the mods to allow you the opputunity to do so as well, just to cap the thread off before it goes into the classics vault. I think that would give things closure if your "epilogue" came clean with us in terms of how much was true and how much was fabricated (well, more likey just at one point it started being fabricated).

Good call on reopening the thread. I must say though that if the thread is still extremely active, and many people come to the board for it, I don't see the need to lock it so quickly, just harmless fun, but I guess a Classics induction is a good consolation. What do I expect? You 2 finally hook up and....she's a MAN, BABY!

Jerry is like TNA's horse. They've beaten all they can out of him, now he's broken down and will be taken out back and made into glue....

So, is John Edwards going to make this a campaign policy?

This article is from last year, but it hits the nail on the head and pinpoints the core problem behind Edwards and his credibilty. Malpractice Suits Driving Out Doctors If you haven't yet heard of Sen. John Edwards, the junior Democrat from North Carolina, you soon will. Elected in 1998 over the stodgy conservative Lauch Faircloth, Edwards is a rising star, sporting boyish good looks, a populist message and a handsome Southern drawl. People magazine named Edwards America's "sexiest politician," and a gushing Nicholas Lemann recently profiled him in the New Yorker. He's considered by some to be the Democrats' best hope for knocking off George W. Bush in 2004. Edwards largely funded his own Senate campaign with a $20-50 million fortune he earned as a trial lawyer, winning huge medical malpractice and products liability claims.Some (including Al Gore's 2000 campaign staff) might consider Edward's career path a liability to his aspirations for higher office. But Edwards doesn't. Should he run for president, Edwards intends to wear the trial lawyer label conspicuously and proudly. On Meet the Press last Sunday, Edwards told host Tim Russert he built his considerable estate "representing people who were in very difficult places in their lives and trying to give them a shot. And I'm proud of what I did …" Edwards might want to rethink his strategy. The United States increasingly faces a health care crisis. Many doctors, faced with ever-mounting malpractice insurance premiums, have gone out of business. Others are retiring early. Some are moving to states that have enacted tort reform, while rural states without significant tort reform are losing doctors hand over fist. Their poorest citizens can't find medical help where they need it. Trial lawyers like John Edwards are a big reason why. Huge awards in malpractice lawsuits over the years have caused many insurers to abandon medicine. Others have had to raise premiums to rates that effectively prevent doctors from staying solvent. Obstetricians — the most likely to be sued — have seen premiums increase from 20 to 400 percent in the last few years. Some have had their policies cancelled altogether. The trend has hit general surgeons and emergency room physicians too. In Mississippi, where annual premiums for OB/GYNs can range from $40,000-$110,000 (far more than many doctors in the state make), physicians are fleeing in droves, leaving poor, rural women without doctors to deliver their babies. One medical school in Nevada had to close because no insurer in the state would grant it coverage. In parts of Florida, malpractice premiums for individual doctors can exceed $160,000. In Edwards' home state of North Carolina, health care costs are also soaring. Consequently, awards in malpractice cases have grown too, as compensatory damages necessarily reflect current health care costs. Of course, higher damages mean higher insurance premiums, and higher insurance premiums in turn lead, once again, to higher health care costs. It's a nasty cycle, and all the while, malpractice lawyers continue to siphon off generous contingency fees, sometimes as much as 30 percent. Prominent Raleigh trial attorney Mark Holt told North Carolina Lawyers Weekly in a 2000 article that "… when you go against a medical provider, how much can be paid hinges directly on the amount of insurance coverage." In 1997, a botched childbirth resulted in a state record $23.5 million award, setting off a runaway train of jury malpractice awards in North Carolina. John Edwards was the plaintiff's counsel. He broke his own record that same year with a $30 million award. North Carolina avoided Mississippi's dearth-of-doctors fate by putting caps on punitive awards with a law that took effect in 1997. Mississippi has yet to enact any such tort reform, and continues to lose doctors. Some doctors and hospitals have found a solution to insurance costs by requiring patients to sign waivers submitting any claims to private arbitrators. But trial lawyer lobbyists are trying to nix that remedy, too, and have begun to push Congress for anti-arbitration legislation. This lobby is closely tied to Edwards. According to the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, 86 percent of the $1.39 million raised by Edwards' recently formed political action committee came from fellow trial lawyers. Roll Call writes, "No other Congressional leader or potential presidential contender has such a heavy reliance on a single industry for their leadership PAC." Additionally, Edwards was a chief co-sponsor of the "Patients Bill of Rights" legislation. The Edwards-sponsored version of the bill would have permitted patients to sue health care providers for punitive damages in federal court — allowing lawyers to circumvent state court caps on punitive damages like those enacted in North Carolina. The Employment Policy Foundation estimated at the time that the Edwards bill would result in 56,000 new lawsuits per year, a $16 billion increase in health care costs, and nine million more Americans with no health care coverage at all. Trial lawyers, of course, loved it. Edwards' background wouldn't be so important to his presidential ambitions if he weren't so blatant about mischaracterizing it. He talks about "helping the helpless," but in fact, he built his fortune and paved his way to politics chasing doctors out of the medical profession. Lots of those "helpless" people he mentions live in low-income areas without access to the health care they need. Radley Balko is a writer living in Arlington, Va., and publisher of The Agitator.com

Right, but for most 10 bucks a DVD at the local Suncoast is a lot easier than sending away for bulk bootlegs over the internet...

w00t~! Ok, no more one "word" comments. It should be awesome, I hope everyone gives it a chance and orders. Spread the word!

Shit.

Cut off before the KGB blood bath! Come on, reopen it, it's harmless fun...

You just answered your own question there.

Fuck power hungry judges. YOU DON'T MAKE THE LAWS. God. Civil Unions are a perfectly fair compromise...

BINGO. The man simply wants kids protected from inapprorpriate material and wants parents informed with warnings on the packaging. If you're over 17, there shouldn't be a problem!