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you may be right, but I think that Jamison is a little bit more coachable. Van Smack has always had problems with coaches. PG - Nash SG - Finley SF- Jamison PF - Nowitzki C - Bradley Hmm...... I could almost see Jamison and Finley getting in each other;s way from time to time... but it doesn;t sound like a bad lineup in my head.

Gagne is not going to get the Cy young unless somehow he comes close to the saves record or breaks it.

And considering that 50 million were affected and chaos did not immediately ensue (for which I am thankful), that says something. Most people just played it cool, though i heard from a friend in akron about the wild speculations.... I said to her that people are waiting for the other shoe to drop since Hussein's sons were killed, and events like this tend to fuel hysteria. Thankfully cooler heads prevailed, though I can;t say the same is the power had been out in such a wide region for say, a week. The power was out here for about 16-17 hours. I've been in brownouts in Florida in the dead of summer, not to mention not paying my power bill one time. This was nothing.

He doesn't care. He knows how close he was to having his team in the finals.

I get pissed because the prick just IMs me and say something like "you should kill yourself because you are not in your prime." I just block the idiot but next time he does that, he's getting banned no matter what. Doing his little prime joke is one thing, its amusing for all of about three minutes, but saying something like that is crossing the line. God, I hate immature little pricks.

my question is, where would Antawn fit? Fortson is a banger, he'll find a spot.

I'll say this for Hanks. He outdid Robin Williams. I remember the days where Robin started going for more serious roles in movies because he wanted to be a serious actor. That effort met with mediocre success.

Satanico, you must die for that sig.

Dames is okay, the Diatribe will be up a few days late, though, understandably.

I think if they put juwan at the 3 and gooden at the 4, they should be all right... they would get more rebounds, thats for sure.that would give them a decent bench of Giricek, Garrity and Gaines, since Lue is going to be the staring point guard.

sounds like Battlezone to me, though there are no biplanes.

Damn Dames, if I remember the size of NYC city blocks correctly, you must have walked at least ten miles. ::Makes a mental note to get a calling card along with filling up his gas tank, so he can call his mommy. Bridgeport was hit too::

I need to find out what my Magic are up to... they've been quiet since they let Darrell Armstrong go, and I have mixed feelings on that issue.

Which reminds me, I need to call my mother.... My roommate works in Ann Arbor, and he told me it was hellish getting home from there.. I can only imagine how bad it was in the NYC area.... speaking of that... ::runs to call his momma::

And he was right about every single bit of it. There wasn't anything about Nash that used to excite me back in those days, and he does even less for me now. I used to like Scott Hall until the bastard no-sold my friendly greeting in a Circle K when I lived in Orlando. Seriously, how much effort does it take to say hello when someone says it to you first? and we're just finding out just how much of a scumbag Waltman is, with this situation with Chyna, jokes from my boys at Between The Ropes notwithstanding.

LaJon (sp) from Sevendust, along with his bass player, their voices are very similar, but just different enough to make a nice harmony. Geoff Tate Robb Thomas Bruce Dickinson (Blaze Bayley would have made a decent replacement if someone had put his sack in a vise to get the extra octave out of him) Chris Cornell Jerry Cantrell (I was surprised how decent he was) Phil Anselmo (pre-Vulgar Display. He reminded me of Geoff Tate before he started growling and screaming exclusively) John Bush The lead singer of Dream Theater, whose name escapes me right now.

People driving like idiots who don;t know that a traffic signal out at an intersection is a *4 WAY STOP*. But as bad as it was here in Michigan, it was FAR worse when I lived in Orlando.

Farscape I agree with wholeheartedly. That was one of the best, most innovative sci-fi shows to hit TV since Star Trek back in the 60s, and USA pulls the plug on them for no reason other than personal taste. I'm sorry but I got tired of David Spade's act after the second season, especially after he went into syndication and you saw his smarmy, sarcastic ass on practically every independent station.

Forget gold, that was platinum. I always thought Cornette was a prick until recently... he speaks his mind, and sometimes that gets him into trouble, but I can respect that. That rant was Awesome baby, with a capital A.

not bad. I'll have to try that out when the power comes back on.

That happened twice ehre... we've been told that we might not get our power back fro a couple of days.... bummer.

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He has a point about F1. Its basically a three team race.

Sorry dude, but if you're going to start this kind of crap, you had BEST be prepared to take some. Think back to oh, 1986-87. Howard Beach, NYC. There were mobs of angry white guys roaming the streets looking for blacks to prey upon, and they found a few, thats for sure. It has nothing to do with intimidation in that fashion. Some of what has been said I agree with (such as black people tired of the ignorance that some other blacks carry on with, Chris Rock had a great comedy routine about it, and truer words were never spoken), but if you;re going to spark a racial debate, you had best believe there are a few people here that are going to jump your ass for what you say. I am a black male in my 30s. I have subjected to *both* sides of racism, from something as subtle as a white woman locking her car door as I walk past, which eternally saddens me, to spoiled rotten white kids pulling childish pranks on me and constantly fighting with them in private school, to ignorant blacks giving me static about me liking rock and heavy metal, to getting jumped by several of them, because I wouldn't help their asses in a fight that they probably started anyway. There are a few things I have learned. Ignorance and stupidity are color blind. Words mean little, compared to actions. But even so, though i understand where you might be coming from, it shows your ignorance. It has been said before about television. There have few precious few television series that have established MINORITY actors (not just black) on them which portrays them in a positive light. This has slowly gotten better over the years, but true equality in this (or any other) issue still is years, maybe even decades away. Stereotypes are abound in this society, about where people of race "should" be, rather where they COULD be. You want to talk about the ghetto? I've lived there through most of my childhood, right on the fringe. I consider myself lucky, because I saw how other kids lived growing up. Its a hard life, and getting out of it is even harder. So many things and people will try and drag you back down into it, even as you struggle to get out of it. Then when you are making headway and are on the right track, there will be those trying to push you back INTO it as well. I've seen it with my friends and members of my family. Faced with that, I can understand how some people can become bitter, even though being bitter is a way of giving up, sinking into your anger at your situation instead of trying to rise above it. I am waiting for the true "content of character" days that Martin Luther King spoke of back in the 60s, and though there has been progress over the last 40 plus years, those days will probably come long after I am dead. But I do know they are coming, and I do my best, in being the best human being I can be every day, to ensure those days DO arrive for a future generation. Nuff Said.

I'm sorry Poet, but there are some things that are left up to chemistry rather than deity. This is and always has been my problem with organized religion as a whole. There are so many interpretations of what is true and right within it that for the last two thousand years (and a good amount of time before that), man is willing an able to kill over it, or mutilate themselves, physically or otherwise. This Baptist sect is obviously extreme in their tenets, like John Lithgow in Footloose, but much, MUCH worse. From what I have read, I surmise that it is going to take a total and complete supression of basic human nature to keep one "pure" in the eyes of God. That means no physical expression of love of affection outside the immediate family (firmly resists making the obligatory incest jokes that result from that). You are supposed to channel this neature back towards your faith, making your bond with God stronger and more pure. Being in the great nation of ours, they have the right to worship how they see fit, but its also my right to say that what they espouse is a steaming pile of bovine fecal matter, and that to use their faith to retard the development of their children as human beings in any way borders on the criminal.