justnzane

probablynot since he graduated high school at 15 and then about to graduate college at this moment, so he is probably more eloquent and refined then say a Kobe Bryant

big thing missing from above: Okoye is only 19, he has more time to develop before he heads downhill in his career --> more potential IMO

tom brady is not god...because hollywood donahore is not god

but what you are failing to recognise is that the team had some talent there during last year (Will Smith, Duece, Charles Grant, horn just to name a few). This talent did not perform too well last year as it was a team that was playing road games every week thus giving them a huge disadvantage (especially the "home" game at the meadowlands vs the Giants). Not to mention that they were an 8-8 team in the '04 season, so they were building up the team for a playoff run before last year tragedy. In addition they have drafted very well the past few years(bush, colston, jamal brown, and will smith) not just this year. But you also mentioned trades which typically mortgage out the future to get what you want. So, this would mean that the 'Aints have use more than one years worth of drafting and transactions to get where they are at. To single out modrak like this is unfair, since he is not the one calling the shots, on some of the stuff you are mentioning (trades, the actual decisions, and free agents. He only has a creative input, so blame the man above him for the failures of the past few years (TD, who was already canned). If Modrak was really considered the problem, he would have been gone at this point last year.

shhh. He's on a roll

i dunno if i should call this plan idiotic or genious? But I will call you an incredibly idiotic genious for suggesting that we get TO, but thinking dallas would give him away for a 6th

OTOH, this would also mean that more college coaches would implement systems that produce players ready to play in a Cover 2 scheme

Thanx, again. I am really humbled by this warm reception on the board. I really wasn't trying to turn the thread into a LAMP, but i really do appreciate the support, because it only encourages me to keep perservering. again thank you

ok yeah i actually lived in pembroke on akron road at the time of hitchhiking to darien lake. But, I try to keep as little affiliation with my parents as possible. I can never forgive my mom for the way she treated me then and how she is still verbally abusive towards me at family gettogethers. She left my stepdad and offered to let me move back in, and i refused to based on safety concerns. My little brother is a funny kid at the age of 7 now, but i worry that he won't get the support that he needs. My mom has been much more patient with him, partially cuz my stepdad believes that he can do no wrong. But the little one shows a lot of behaviors similar to my stepdad, ie.) when he was asked last year what his favorite part of the MLK film was, he responded when King got shot. This is prevalent because my stepfather is a supremely hypocritical bigot. My stepfather is 1/32 Apache native, yet he is an Apache supremicist that hates Irish, blacks, latinos, polish, etc.... I swear i can't make this crap up. I'll talk to my dad, but as soon as he got out of jail he started drinking again which was his big problem to begin with more than anything else. the gov't is taking child support from him and giving it to me at a whopping $8/ week for the 8000 he owes to me from when he was in prison. I'll neglect to mention my stepsiblings just because they are total waste cases too. I proudly say that my apt. which isn't much but it is enough, is all built by me, as i worked for it all. the only major thing i own that i can think of that was bought by family was my stereo, so i take pride in who i am and what i have done. The biggest issue i have with having as many miles as i have, is that i have already slowed down physically and mentally in a sense. My body, even though i am a college athlete is arthritic in certain joints and mentally, i drank and did so much other stuff when i was a teen to cope with all of this stuff that college life was almost a step backwards as far as the partying and lifestyle. I hardly get trashed anymore, and my girlfriend is in the mindset where she will drink herself into a stupor far more often than I do. I am really more mature in knowing my limits and preserving my body, because I experienced what i did

Jason Peters was not drafted you dunce, again, another misrepresentationon your part of your horribly retarded crusade

tenacious D- F*ck her gently

best of wishes man, that sux to hear

wow i am speechless for the words of wisdom and encouragement. Seriously, I had that Jesus guy praise me, which is not often i can say that . I have become an advocate for child protection, because the kids get !@#$ed up by this kind of parental conduct. I can honestly say that i had to battle through many demons to create a normal life for myself (if you call posting to random people on the internet at 9:20 at nite normal). But i think i will stop my hijacking of this thread to point out that reality is that the case that detox brought up is very sickening to see and that we as society got to do more to try to prevent crap like this from occuring

maybe but i made my previous remark, because i feel that she is an above average actress that could have a lengthy career.

i was barely able to ever watch 24 due to my school schedule, but i was surprised to see Kal Penn (guy who played Kumar in Harold and Kumar go to white castle) doing a serious role even if it is a terrorist. Then again i was surprised to see him him as a serial murderer/rapist Tuesday nite on Law and order SVU. Kinda funny that you get to see Kumar caused a nuke to detonate in LA one nite and a psychorapist the next

honestly i do not mind, i have gone beyond that pain to become something greater than my parents ever will be

well i am very open about this. My mom was very abusive to me, as she would physically kick the living crap out of me, throwing objects at me ranging from ashtrays to remotes, after 2-3 hour football practices she would go up to the bar for beers and make me run in my cleats 2-3 more miles along side the car at times ranging from 9pm to 1 am (i was as young as 7 at the time), she tried stabbing me with a knife, and smeared dog crap in my face. Most of this was for stupid little stuff that a rational minded person would let go. Some of her boyfriends and then her husband would kick my ass too in drunken rage. My stepfather also tried burning my hand on the stove, pulled out a shotgun at my head, tried running me over with his pickup truck, and also tried stabbing a few times. he walked all over me and i couldn't stand up for myself without some kind of violent action happening. between my mom and stepdad, they emotionally !@#$ed me up by making me take care of the whole apt/ house, sometimes my baby brother was thrust upon me because my stepfather was passed out drunk and my mom was not home, when i started working, the only place in town that had a job for me was darien lake which was 8 miles away and they wouldn't provide me with a ride which made me walk and hitchhike to work on a daily basis. Now if you wonder why i was so desperate for work, partially to get me out of the house, partially because my mother wouldn't provide me with basic needs like deodorant, toothbrush, clothes while i was a teenager (basically from age 11 up). Luckily when i was 13 i convinced my grandmother to take custody of me, which was great because i came out of my shell and learned a lot about the way life really is. Unfortunately she passed away two years later and i had custody revert to my dad, which was a nightmare too cuz he is a drug addict drunk that let my stepmom and stepsiblings kick my ass. So I decided to go back to my moms. I basically had to put up with a lot of bull sh-- until I got to college. During Spring Break my freshman year, I stood up for myself as my stepdad basically took advantage of my generosity to watch my lil brother. He proceeded to walk into my room and throw my stuff out into the yard. I gathered it up, but had nowhere to go, especially since my dad just begun a 3 year prison sentence. I made it to the next week and through the rest of the semester barely. I almost had to leave college until a financial aid counselor recognized my situation and help get me a financial aid independence override. This basically gave me maximum amount of grants and supplemented the rest of costs with loans. I was a Resident Assistant for a couple years, which saved me a lot of money in loans. Luckily the school also passed a policy that mandated health insurance within a year of me getting really sick. I had to battle through pretty bad illness in fall of 05, but in spite of that and my family situation, I am going to graduate in december with 5 and half years of college experience with mathematics teacher cert and coaching cert, plus being a college athlete and involved in other on campus roles. Wow that was a little bit of a tangent, but what i was trying to get at was that I am lucky to make it out of where i did, and i am lucky that the government helped me out immensely. I can proudly say that i have come so far, without the support of my immediate family, but with the support of friends (including TSW'ers) and cousins, aunts and uncles.

local message board about the topic As a former abused kid, I was once confined during the summer to my room for two weeks and it was hell. However, I had some stuff to play with. Its rare that i say this, but i think (and am pretty sure) i had it better than this kid. Parents who do not actually try to be loving supporting and caring like these people deserve to be in prison. This half assed kind of parenting is why so many kids today come out so F---ed up.

rotflmao

I <3 Scarlett. If she does it, I hope that the movie is tasteful and not pure trash. In other words, I hope that it would be a good movie even if the nudity was minimized.

happy GG day

just a little wisdom about democracy from Walker and Texas Ranger

agreed. but seriously who (besides maybe tom or crayonnz) would think of stabbing someone w/ a comb. It sounds about as odd beating someone senseless with a Bic pen

Wow this is very well detailed and more rational than most other things on this board. Who are you and what did you do to JDG?

uh it sounds like you are having some Erectile Dysfunction issues. Do you need a purple pill