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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

Go Hazel: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/hazel.php

The Zombies: - Odessey and Oracle [Remastered] [Fuel 2000] by Liam Singer The Zombies' 1968 classic is generally categorized as a psych-pop treasure, but despite what its cover art and legacy suggest, its complex arrangements and baroque instrumentation-- much like The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society-- were idealized harbingers of today's indie pop. Decades ahead of its time, Odessey and Oracle is the final statement from an unfortunately short-lived band, and stands as one of the late 60s' greatest achievements. You can read the full review here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-revie...nd-oracle.shtml

Two beautiful young scientists find the answer here: http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/goldschlage...ldschlager.html

Smarty Jones Is Leaving as Quickly as He Arrived By JOE DRAPE Published: August 3, 2004 Smarty Jones was retired to stud yesterday almost as suddenly as he captured the nation's imagination last spring, when he rolled to victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes before sustaining his only loss at the Belmont Stakes in a gallant, but ultimately leg-wobbling defeat just yards away from capturing the Triple Crown. You can read the full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/sports/o...3smarty.html?hp

yep -must be that kryptonite thingy...

Ted Turner takes on Big Media in this column in the Washington Monthly. Here ere are some excerpts: My Beef With Big Media How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me. By Ted Turner In the late 1960s, when Turner Communications was a business of billboards and radio stations and I was spending much of my energy ocean racing, a UHF-TV station came up for sale in Atlanta. It was losing $50,000 a month and its programs were viewed by fewer than 5 percent of the market. I acquired it. When I moved to buy a second station in Charlotte--this one worse than the first--my accountant quit in protest, and the company's board vetoed the deal. So I mortgaged my house and bought it myself. The Atlanta purchase turned into the Superstation; the Charlotte purchase--when I sold it 10 years later--gave me the capital to launch CNN. Both purchases played a role in revolutionizing television. Both required a streak of independence and a taste for risk. And neither could happen today. In the current climate of consolidation, independent broadcasters simply don't survive for long. That's why we haven't seen a new generation of people like me or even Rupert Murdoch--independent television upstarts who challenge the big boys and force the whole industry to compete and change. It's not that there aren't entrepreneurs eager to make their names and fortunes in broadcasting if given the chance. If nothing else, the 1990s dot-com boom showed that the spirit of entrepreneurship is alive and well in America, with plenty of investors willing to put real money into new media ventures. The difference is that Washington has changed the rules of the game. When I was getting into the television business, lawmakers and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) took seriously the commission's mandate to promote diversity, localism, and competition in the media marketplace. They wanted to make sure that the big, established networks--CBS, ABC, NBC--wouldn't forever dominate what the American public could watch on TV. They wanted independent producers to thrive. They wanted more people to be able to own TV stations. They believed in the value of competition. So when the FCC received a glut of applications for new television stations after World War II, the agency set aside dozens of channels on the new UHF spectrum so independents could get a foothold in television. That helped me get my start 35 years ago. Congress also passed a law in 1962 requiring that TVs be equipped to receive both UHF and VHF channels. That's how I was able to compete as a UHF station, although it was never easy. (I used to tell potential advertisers that our UHF viewers were smarter than the rest, because you had to be a genius just to figure out how to tune us in.) And in 1972, the FCC ruled that cable TV operators could import distant signals. That's how we were able to beam our Atlanta station to homes throughout the South. Five years later, with the help of an RCA satellite, we were sending our signal across the nation, and the Superstation was born. That was then. Today, media companies are more concentrated than at any time over the past 40 years, thanks to a continual loosening of ownership rules by Washington. The media giants now own not only broadcast networks and local stations; they also own the cable companies that pipe in the signals of their competitors and the studios that produce most of the programming. To get a flavor of how consolidated the industry has become, consider this: In 1990, the major broadcast networks--ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox--fully or partially owned just 12.5 percent of the new series they aired. By 2000, it was 56.3 percent. Just two years later, it had surged to 77.5 percent. In this environment, most independent media firms either get gobbled up by one of the big companies or driven out of business altogether. Yet instead of balancing the rules to give independent broadcasters a fair chance in the market, Washington continues to tilt the playing field to favor the biggest players. Last summer, the FCC passed another round of sweeping pro-consolidation rules that, among other things, further raised the cap on the number of TV stations a company can own. Read more here: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/...407.turner.html

During the summer of 1970, such iconic acts as Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band and others travelled across the country by CN train to play music festivals in Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary over five crazy days. The entire experience, on-stage and off, was filmed extensively but the footage remained scattered across the country, until now, due to a feud between the concert promoters and the film's original producer. And even if Smeaton is no Martin Scorsese in the style department (Woodstock, The Last Waltz), he has some pretty amazing footage to work with. http://64.4.16.250:80/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang...fpCCVbafpL9g%2f

Jul 26, 2004 Krist Novoselic, former bassist for Nirvana, will become a published author in September. Novoselic's book, Of Grunge and Government: Let's Fix This Broken Democracy!, will hit book stores in the fall from Akashic Books/RDV Books. The publisher describes the book as a combination personal memoir and political commentary. Since Nirvana broke up in the wake of Kurt Cobain's 1994 suicide, Novoselic played music sporadically, though none of his bands ever gelled. http://by22fd.bay22.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bi...dfcf07215ad8b8c

I heard a new version of Suffragette City called Suffragette Killer, that was rock'n...Im told it was part of the promotion of the tour, but its not on the new album, which you can hear excerpts of at http:www.davidbowie.com **** Here is a review from Zboneman.com (http://www.zboneman.com/music/563.html): Reality Music Review: If Low, Heroes, and Lodger were David Bowie albums that should be seen as connecting works, then I guess that last years Heathen album would have to go hand in hand with Bowie's new output Reality. Both have Tony Visconti behind the boards, and both contain two cover songs surrounded by new upbeat material. Reality, however, seems to be the more rocking and just plain dominant release of the two. Opener "New Killer Star" is rousing with Bowie sounding very energetic. His cover of the Modern Lovers "Pablo Picasso" is also very spry, and truth be told, Bowie's version turns out to be even better than that of which Jonathan Richman sang about over 20 years ago. "Looking For Water" has a chugging desperation about it which keeps the listening intriguing, and ending tune "Bring Me the Disco King" has a spunky jazz twinge to it. The only real pratfall here happens to be the other cover song, George Harrison's "Try Some, Buy Some." Bowie's version comes out sounding flat and insipid. Definitely the worst of the four cover songs in the last two years. But overall, yet another fantastic album in less than two years from this ageless legend. **** Last but not least, I came across the David Bowe fansite that has a wealth of information about David Bowie: http://www.bowiewonderworld.com

Nice cut. I particularly like the opening. Like to hear what others think of this rock/metal band of tenth graders - I think they are talented... :good job:

I think Jude Law will grow into the part perfectly...hes just a little young...

You must be hungy - its not even Tuesday

He's out of his mind...

according to npr today, haliburton was in charge of protecting trucks and equipment in Iraq, and cant account for a third of its charge how do you lose a truck?