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You have hit the nail on the head. You will notice that all of the kids that go on murderous rampages were targets of endless teasing by other and the kid saw no other escape from the torment.
Change the tolerance to teasing and this phenom will go away. And by change the tolerance to teasing I mean do not tolerate it in any way shape or form. Each kid has right to go to school without beaing harassed by some idiot.
But tolerance is the catch word for the new millenium. Everything must be tolerated. Everything except a biblical worldview, ... oh wait, if we had a biblical worldview, we would not tolerate teasing and the like ...
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In Niger, they use the Communauté Financière Africaine Franc
In Nigerian, they use the Nairas
To further distance the two, they are not linked in their trading. They are totally separate currencies, and before now, no one here knew the name of either one -- not widely used as is the dollar, yen or euro
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Going further with this religios theme, is Jacks father not named CHRISTIAN Shepard.
Also, got his idea for the significance of the numbers from another board.
Enetr the numbers in order fro Latitude and Longitude, and what do ya know, Nigeria pops up on the map.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searc...in=8&longsec=15
I was with you, but the numbers bring up the border between Niger and Mali. Nigeria is another country to the sout of Niger -- still intriguing though.
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I think I get what you are saying (that Locke didn't have a choice...Boone was going to get hurt either way?)...
But I'm not sure that would work (if that's what you are saying). Only because the island (according to the dream) gave him a choice, either keep going or end up in the chair. So, Locke had the power to prevent Boone from being injured. If he decided not to pursue the "hatch" any more, Boone wouldn't have been bloodied but Locke would have lost the use of his legs.
Except he began to lose the use of his legs while pursuing the lead of the island. I don't see it fitting.
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Actually, the writers have been saying that a major character's going to die toward the end of the season (not necessarily the finale) all along to anyone who'll listen. It doesn't give away anything. Just makes you wonder who it is and gets you asking yourself lots of questions to keep it in your head, and that's a great thing about the show. There's been a lot of smaller clues as to who it is and why they die, but I'd say it's not necessarily Boone. Jack looked determined in the preview for next week, and we all know what Jack can do when he's determined. Part of the whole Jack Shepard=looking after his flock=Christ reading I've been getting is that he raised Charlie from the dead = Lazarus.
I suppose that the supposition that Locke sacrificed Boone might be Abraham and Isaac, if I recall (I dare not pick up a Bible b/c I'd burst into flame
)?If Locke/Boone = Abraham/Isaac, then the writers missed big time. Abraham never causes harm on Isaac in the Genesis account. He is willing, but never hurts him.
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My wife & I thought that he would be paralyzed by the operation. Locke mentions that his back is shaved ... they take out kidneys now from the front, we thought it was going to be an operation mistake. But, we missed that ....
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You're kidding, right?
95% of NFL contracts never see the numbers that get published in large headlines in the paper. "BRUSCHI SIGNS 7 YEAR, $50 MILLION CONTRACT" would have ensured that he'd be cut after year 3, 4, 5, whatever it was (See Bledsoe, Drew and in the future, Milloy, Lawyer). He "didn't make a lot of money"?? Check the numbers. Bruschi pocketed over $2m last year. His bonus was also over $2m. I think that might qualify as a 'lot of money'. Take into account he's with the model franchise in pro sports, he makes countless more in endorsements in the Boston area, and the fact that he might just enjoy playing where he plays and enjoys living where he lives, and I'm sure he's much happier with his situation than a guy like Takeo Spikes might be in his.
Just sayin'.
I'm guessing gettting cut after 3 years of a 7 year/$50 Million contract would still net him a lot more than what he has netted in his current contract. Sure, there is less stability, but if we're talking purely about cash, big deals have more guaranteed money in them. Period.
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The mind boggling thing that caught my eye was the salary that Brusci is set to earn: $850K for the heart and soul of their defense, and possibly their team? That's a better deal than THen would have been, even if WM never set foot on the field.
Just watch the Patsie force him to retire to get out of paying that next to nothing amount, instead of placing him on PUP and giving him a thank you for this year.
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oh yeah, I'll take TH's word on whether or not there is a viable trade on the table. THen has truly proven to me that he is trustworthy, forthright and honest.
/sarcasm off
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Not to jump into the discussion about terrorism, but ....
I have bought a ticket to ride in a small aircraft of this nature. I would have been upset if the dude sitting next to me (my grandfather) had decided that he wanted to make a statement by holding a gun to the pilot's head and crashing the plane. BTW, there is no screening/security process for small craft.
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if she's good enough, sure. It's not like women's golf where the tees are closer to the hole.
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We have someone (her husband) saying she told him she wanted to die if she were in such a state. We have no one saying they heard her say she'd want to be kept alive. The parents need to stop being selfish and let go. The feeding tube is what's keeping her alive, because without it she'd die. She has no quality if life. Sometimes no life is better than "living."
The problem with everyone weighing in on this in terms of saying that we're keeping her alive is this:
a feeding tube is NOT extraordinary means to keep someone alive.
I hope you have more loving spouses when you have to undergo surgery some day. What she receives is equivalent to the saline drip that you receive after surgery for a couple days until your stomach is ready to receive food -- except that includes more nurtrients than your drip. How'd you like to be disallowed the drip after surgery because your wife/husband says that you didn't want to use extraordinary means to extend your life? Yeah, that's what I thought.
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This seems to come pretty close to Johnny Playfair's dead grandma on Survivor for premeditated strategy -- not fair, not honest, but quite a strategy
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What I have been wanting to change in the replay area in regards to the fumble is:
If a fumble is recovered before the whistle sounds, it can change possession. So many times that a ref blows a play dead is the whistle coming a second or two after the "tackle". Allowing the players to recover a loose ball in the split seconds therein would provide for a more accurate call. They cannot be talking about continuing play after a whistle. That would be ridiculous.
For example, Nate Clements tackles David Givens after Givens catches the ball. As Givens is falling to the ground, NC knocks the ball out just before Givens hits the ground. The ball takes a fortuitous bounce off the ground directly into NC's hands as they both land. Unfortunately, the back judge was on the wrong side of the action and raises his whistle and blows the play dead. In 2004, the ball is a catch and stays in possession of the Paytoilets. Our only replay recourse is to review, hoping that there was no possession with a football move to indicate an incomplete pass. Hopefully, in 2005, the replay can look and see that NC stripped the ball and recovered before the 80 year old back judge could get enough wind to blow the whistle.
Really, this is common sense, if the fumble is caused and recovered before the whistle, it is a fumble -- regardless of what the ref was intending by blowing the whistle.
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The man has little real knowledge of the game. Sorry, as great as Jim Brown may have been, the greatest lax player of the 20th century was probably Jim Thorpe. Yeah, the same Jim Thorpe that put the NFL on the map. Seems as though he had time to do both, maybe Jim Brown wasn't quite as good as advertized (just giving him a hard time).
This writer is probably someone who wants co-ed football, with no tackling.
Lax is poised to take hockey's place, if the NHL can't get its act together. They have been poised for a couple of years, and they are beginning to get the notariety to make it happen. I was personally hoping that it was the NBA that tanked due to labor disputes and stupid, hooligan players, but the NHL may do it first. We'll see. Here's to hoping that there is room for a fifth major sport, trusting that hockey makes it back. That is, unless the NBA would like to back out of the national spotlight and keep it at four major sports ...
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Does Rudy post under two different names now?
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I have a friend who works at Skywalker Ranch for ILM. He is one of the main artists that does the concept work for Lucas on the SW films. There is a book coming out in April called Visionaries that are the main eight artist doing some concept work that fills in background on the whole SW universe.
Anyway, Alex was the supervisor for all of Yoda's CG artwork in EP II. While I know some people weren't impressed with the whirling dervish yoda in his fight with Dooku (that is the story that Lucas wanted), the seemlessness of the animation was some of the best we have ever seen. This time around, Alex was one of the main supervisors on the opening space battle, which is supposed to be the grandest space sequence ever filmed.
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Hey Steve, can you do the robot, that would be the bomb!
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Labs are AWESOME -- had one from puppy 'til death
Now we have a StBernard -- our St. is even better than the lab was. The best part is that they don't eat anymore than the lab because she is less active during indoor time. When we take her out, she's just as active, but then she crashes inside. Use her for a TV pillow, etc. And we can't roughhouse with the kids like we used to. She won't allow it!
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I've been giving since I was eligible. I'm now almost 33 and I'm really close to closing out gallon #5. I think three pints -- although I'm giving thought to the apheristic (sp?) donation where they take double the normal volume of just the red blood cells and return the plasma, whites, and platletes. You get double value on your card for that, but can only do it every 112 days instead of 56.
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Who will be the best QB from 2004 draft?
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They don't have electricity in their hunting shacks, so we have to wait 'til they come back home.