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I dont think so...Perhaps the artist should do a World Cup Blues cover for statesmen

Neil Young talks about his early musical influences (Jimmy Reed, Van Morrison, JJ Cale), his career and what he is up to now. All exclusively on www.kcrw.com today and tomorrow. You can hear him now on their simulcast radio channel, or tune in tomorrow, or check out the archives later. Recommended listening :good job: http://www.kcrw.org/cgi-bin/db/kcrw.pl?sho...tmplt_type=show

Here's one example. I once did some research for the Kineseology dept at UCLA on skaters. In essence, I had to transcribe taped interviews with kid athletes. They would get up every 4 am, and the parents would dutifully take them to practice before school. They had very tough coaches, and the transcripts would discuss the rigermerole that they would have to go thru. These skaters started training at 6 years of age, and this would continue through high school, up and to the Olympics. The parents and kids talked about the strain of no money, no support, abusive coaches, rivalries, along with the usual growing up stuff. These Olympian bound skaters have to do cake and brownie sells to raise money to support their dreams. If you want to learn more, contact the UCLA Kineseology Dept for more info.. Logic dictates, that the other Olympic hopefuls in non-professional disciplines more than likely went thru the save trevails...

Gymnasts, skaters, runners, rowers, skiiers, and the list goes on, are not paid athletes or trust fund babies. How anyone could think that all athletes are weathy or sponsored is beyond me. Man, don't you have better things to do than make ridiculous and condescending arguments?

Web Addiction Gets Conscripts Out of Army Tue Aug 3,10:20 AM ET HELSINKI (Reuters) - A number of Finnish conscripts have been excused their full term of military service because they are addicted to the Internet, the Finnish Defense Forces said Tuesday. Doctors have found the young men miss their computers too much to cope with their compulsory six months in the forces. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...and_internet_dc

We have a couple urban specialists in house - check back and hopefully somone can help you on this.... and...Welcome to Beatking :strumma:

Got a link to the website/song by any chance?

Ballet cat

Cat in a glass

Exactly - there are many voices here

Of course they know - they had Iraq on the brain...

Interesting stuff, LOTD. Thanx for the heads up on this new technology...

Frankly, to think that athletes set policy, or that they all live in Aspen mansions, just shows how ill-informed you are. And - as to your punk-ass swipe at my reply to your post, knock the chip of your shoulder and be as respectful to people on the is board as we are to everyone else or fuck off. You think you have everything figured out politically and that you are holier than thou--but the fact of the matter is you are less tolerant than the people your criticize - pathetic and hypocritical.

have a drink and chill, jipper beats all that walking

Sorry to hear about Mr. Jip r.i.p. Welcome aboard Jipper :good job:

you have an all-american accent

Laughable if it were not for the fact this guy actually believes this crap

The segregating of American and Israeli atheletes is about the politics of fear - the atheletes themselves dont have a word in the matter and should not be criticized. In terms of begin pampered...well, tell that to people that have worked for this moment since early childhood, and the parents and friends who helped sacrifice to get them there..

Our paranoid leadership DOES NOT represent the spirit or the collective conscious of the American people - remember, they did not win the popular vote, and won only by a corrupt vote by the Supreme Court. The leadership would argue that they are trying to protect the atheletes from potential terrorism - which in my mind, has been created in their mind set.

Perhaps we should send the teen to the gas chamber for her offence?

Id give this a listen...

I thought I better post the rest for Ken, given its a Tuesday tomorrow marty Jones has bruising in all four fetlock joints, the equivalent in humans of sprained ankles. It was not a career-ending condition, veterinarians who examined him said, but one that Smarty Jones's owners feared might be aggravated. "If anything else went wrong, it would break our heart," said Pat Chapman who, along with her husband, Roy, owned and bred the 3-year-old Smarty Jones on their aptly named Someday Farm in Pennsylvania. "After all he's done, I couldn't live with myself if I thought we were putting him in harm's way. He doesn't owe us anything, and we owe him a lot." The Chapmans acknowledged that it was a heart-rending decision to retire Smarty Jones, who won eight of nine career races and earned $7,613,155, the fourth most of any thoroughbred. He also made famous three everyday horsemen: Chapman, a car dealer from Philadelphia; the trainer John Servis; and jockey Stewart Elliott. Smarty Jones, with his catchy name and Triple Crown bid, had been a boon for racing. He attracted thousands of fans to his home base of Philadelphia Park for morning workouts, helped increase television ratings for the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, and inspired scores of children to write him letters. But the Chapmans conceded that the economics at the elite levels of horse racing influenced their decision. In June, after Birdstone ran down Smarty Jones in the Belmont and kept him from becoming the first Triple Crown champion since Affirmed in 1978, the Chapmans sold 50 percent of the colt's breeding rights for more than $20 million to Three Chimneys Farm near Midway, Ky. While shopping the stallion rights to commercial breeders, the Chapmans insisted that potential partners allow them to race Smarty Jones as a 4-year-old to pay back racing and the nonracing public that had turned Smarty Jones into America's horse. But after consulting with veterinarians and the principals at Three Chimneys, they decided it would be more prudent and lucrative to send the colt to the breeding shed next season. The farm has yet to determine a stud fee for Smarty Jones, a son of Elusive Quality, but breeding experts said it is likely to be between $75,000 to $150,000 a coupling. The fetlock, commonly referred to as a horse's ankle, sits roughly four inches from the ground and serves as a shock absorber, said Dr. Larry Bramlage, an equine orthopedic surgeon who consulted on the case. Last week, after withdrawing Smarty Jones from the Pennsylvania Derby, Servis acknowledged that several bruises had to be cut out of Smarty Jones's hooves over the last five months, including one before the Kentucky Derby. But a subsequent nuclear scan showed more inflammation than had been suspected. "We bring horses back from this all the time," Bramlage said. "It's not a structural problem, and the prognosis for full recovery is excellent. He needs to have an opportunity to move around in the field for a while. They have to have a break." But the time off was likely to last several months, and the Chapmans and Three Chimneys opted for the almost certain prospect of having more than 100 mares awaiting Smarty Jones in the breeding shed, rather than the uncertainty of when, and how effective, the colt might be on his return to the racetrack. "I'm sorry if it casts any negative light in any direction," Pat Chapman said when asked about the couple's change of heart. Servis sounded devastated by the retirement of the best horse that ever graced his barn. A year ago, before Smarty Jones had ever raced, Servis was on the track when the colt reared in a training gate, fractured his skull and nearly died. Upon the colt's recovery, Servis handled Smarty Jones brilliantly. He raced Smarty Jones first as a 2-year-old in Pennsylvania, where he won his only two starts by a combined 22 3/8 lengths. As a 3-year-old, Smarty Jones made a victorious stop at Aqueduct in the Count Fleet, and then Servis took him to Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark. Besides slowly stretching his colt out in distances over a series of three races, Servis also put Smarty Jones in the position to capture a $5 million bonus offered by Oaklawn Park to any horse that won its Rebel Stakes and Arkansas Derby, and then went on to win the Kentucky Derby. Smarty Jones did just that, then looked invincible galloping off with the Preakness by a record 11½ lengths. In the Belmont, Smarty Jones had a chance to join Seattle Slew as only the second undefeated Triple Crown champion in history. He was harassed by three rivals early in the grueling mile-and-a-half marathon, dispatched them and looked every bit like Seattle Slew and the 10 other Triple Crown champions until the final strides. "It hurts me," Servis said. "He could do things so effortlessly. He might be the best of all time. It's unfortunate people won't see that. I know he's a great horse. I just hope it carries over to the breeding shed.'' Smarty Jones will occupy the former stall of Seattle Slew at Three Chimneys, and like Seattle Slew, he is expected to attract scores of visitors who were thrilled by his performances on the racetrack. "I think 10 years from now we'll be saying that Smarty Jones was a great one on the track and a great one in the breeding shed," Dan Rosenberg, the president of Three Chimneys, said. "He became America's horse with his speed, charisma and way of overcoming the odds."

Does this smell like politics to you, like it does to me? :angry:

Reports That Led to Terror alert Were Years Old, Officials Say By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON Published: August 3, 2004 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way. But the officials continued to regard the information as significant and troubling because the reconnaissance already conducted has provided Al Qaeda with the knowledge necessary to carry out attacks against the sites in Manhattan, Washington and Newark. They said Al Qaeda had often struck years after its operatives began surveillance of an intended target. http://www.beatking.com/forums/index.php?a...st&CODE=00&f=86