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Mikey
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:28 pm |
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Dave wrote: Mikey wrote:
Break out the party favors tonite Dave....Hope you have a safe trip home....
Yup... Time to break 'em out and get things in place. Just in case.
Got one of these?..hehe
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:23 pm |
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Mikey wrote:
Break out the party favors tonite Dave....Hope you have a safe trip home....
Yup... Time to break 'em out and get things in place. Just in case.
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Mikey
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:21 pm |
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How does it go Arnold..??.. "We're gonna pump you up"..
At least he figured out that the judges might know a little more than he does....
Break out the party favors tonite Dave....Hope you have a safe trip home....
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marc
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 08:09 pm |
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Dave wrote: I'm amazed that Arnold didn't give him clemancy...
Governor Declines To Stop Williams Execution
Way to go Arnold....Terminate em......Terminate all of em.....
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 07:55 pm |
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I'm amazed that Arnold didn't give him clemancy...
Governor Declines To Stop Williams Execution
SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused Monday to spare the life of Stanley Tookie Williams, the founder of the murderous Crips gang who awaited execution after midnight in a case that stirred debate over capital punishment and the possibility of redemption on death row.
pdf.: Governor's Statement
Images: Hearing | Images: Exhibits Displayed | Images: Rallies Held | Images: Execution Date Set | Video: Defense Urges Clemency
Schwarzenegger was not swayed by pleas from Hollywood stars and petitions from more than 50,000 people who said that Williams had made amends during more than two decades in prison by writing a memoir and a series of children's books about the dangers of gangs.
"After studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences, I could find no justification for granting clemency," Schwarzenegger said in writing less than 12 hours before the execution. "The facts do not justify overturning the jury's verdict or the decisions of the courts in this case."
With a reprieve from the federal courts considered unlikely, Williams was set to die by injection at San Quentin State Prison early Tuesday for murdering four people in two 1979 holdups.
Williams, 51, was condemned in 1981 for gunning down a clerk in a convenience store holdup and a mother, father and daughter in a motel robbery less than two weeks later. Williams claimed he was innocent.
Schwarzenegger's decision came immediately after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said it would not block the execution and reopen the case because, among other things, there was no "clear and convincing evidence of actual innocence."
Copyright 2005 by NBC4.tv. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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marc
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 06:13 pm |
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Dave wrote: Lion Bites Woman Who Climbs Zoo Fence To Pick Flowers
Talk about Stupid.......
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 06:00 pm |
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Lion Bites Woman Who Climbs Zoo Fence To Pick Flowers
POSTED: 5:16 am PST December 12, 2005
SYDNEY, Australia -- An Australian woman has learned the hard way why there are safety barriers at zoos.
Authorities said a lion at the Melbourne Zoo bit off the tip of the woman's finger and ate it after she climbed over a barrier next to the animal's cage to pick flowers.
The zoo's director said visitors are asked to stay behind the safety barriers.
The lion apparently bit the woman from inside its cage, even though she was outside.
The attack was the second in a month by a big cat at the zoo. Last month, a Persian leopard reached through a wire fence and badly scratched a 9-year-old boy who had climbed over a safety barrier.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5516150/detail.html
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Mikey
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 01:34 pm |
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- Quit smoking, or you're fired. 
That's what Scotts Miracle-Gro is telling its employees. If they don't quit smoking by October, they'll lose their jobs.
The lawn and garden company is trying to keep health insurance costs down by promoting healthy lifestyles for its employees.
Its chairman and chief executive, James Hagedorn, said the company shouldn't have to shoulder health risks for employees who smoke. It pays for 75 percent of employees' health insurance.
The Ohio-based company has 6,000 employees. It said it can fire smokers legally in 21 states.
Workers who smoke can get free counseling, nicotine patches and classes on quitting.
A spokesman said the company hasn't yet decided how it will enforce the smoking ban.
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marc
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 12:10 pm |
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| LOL....Get a life...Spend more time on pedophile priests....
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Dec 12th, 2005 10:07 am |
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Raunchy 'South Park' Virgin Mary Episode Angers Catholics
POSTED: 6:17 am PST December 9, 2005
NEW YORK -- "South Park" has proved again that nothing's sacred.
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is condemning an episode of "South Park" that it said "defiled" the Virgin Mary.
The cartoon, which runs on Comedy Central, features an episode this week titled "Bloody Mary," in which a South Park character claims to have been sprayed with blood from a body orifice of a Virgin Mary statue. When Pope Benedict investigates, he declares that she's just having her period.
The Catholic League is urging the board of Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, to apologize to Catholics and stop the episode from airing the next several nights as scheduled.
The Catholic League notes that Viacom board member Joseph Califano is a practicing Catholic, and that Thursday was the church's feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
http://www.nbc4.tv/irresistible/5499799/detail.html
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Mikey
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Posted: Sun Dec 11th, 2005 02:41 pm |
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Randy in Pensacola wrote: Mikey wrote: Dave wrote: Segments of the population here (A.K.A. Minorities) do use blackmail to change the legal system to do what they think it should in a lot of cases.
I agree with ya Mikey, he shoulda gotten that shot years ago. It's impossible to undo the damage he's done at this point. I don't really care what he's written or what he's done since. The damage is irreversible at this point. And it's become generational too. Now his son is in prison for attempted murder (I think that's the charge)
At least with the Rodney King thing, I was ready for any "Festivities". I still have plenty of party favors on hand in case anything happens here.
Didn't this guy find "Isalm".??..I thought they looked forward to death.. Thats only if you strap a bomb to thier ass...... Well..I bet the LA Bomb Squad wouldnt mind the practice...
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Randy in Pensacola
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Posted: Sun Dec 11th, 2005 02:39 pm |
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Mikey wrote: Dave wrote: Segments of the population here (A.K.A. Minorities) do use blackmail to change the legal system to do what they think it should in a lot of cases.
I agree with ya Mikey, he shoulda gotten that shot years ago. It's impossible to undo the damage he's done at this point. I don't really care what he's written or what he's done since. The damage is irreversible at this point. And it's become generational too. Now his son is in prison for attempted murder (I think that's the charge)
At least with the Rodney King thing, I was ready for any "Festivities". I still have plenty of party favors on hand in case anything happens here.
Didn't this guy find "Isalm".??..I thought they looked forward to death.. Thats only if you strap a bomb to thier ass......
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Mikey
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Posted: Sun Dec 11th, 2005 02:38 pm |
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Dave wrote: Segments of the population here (A.K.A. Minorities) do use blackmail to change the legal system to do what they think it should in a lot of cases.
I agree with ya Mikey, he shoulda gotten that shot years ago. It's impossible to undo the damage he's done at this point. I don't really care what he's written or what he's done since. The damage is irreversible at this point. And it's become generational too. Now his son is in prison for attempted murder (I think that's the charge)
At least with the Rodney King thing, I was ready for any "Festivities". I still have plenty of party favors on hand in case anything happens here.
Didn't this guy find "Isalm".??..I thought they looked forward to death..
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Dec 11th, 2005 02:28 pm |
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Segments of the population here (A.K.A. Minorities) do use blackmail to change the legal system to do what they think it should in a lot of cases.
I agree with ya Mikey, he shoulda gotten that shot years ago. It's impossible to undo the damage he's done at this point. I don't really care what he's written or what he's done since. The damage is irreversible at this point. And it's become generational too. Now his son is in prison for attempted murder (I think that's the charge)
At least with the Rodney King thing, I was ready for any "Festivities". I still have plenty of party favors on hand in case anything happens here.
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weasle
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Posted: Sun Dec 11th, 2005 01:54 pm |
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| ya know this seems to be a la thing, you guys might as well throw out your court system , as it seem segments of your population, use blackmail to reverse the verdics of your courts. my 02.
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Mikey
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Posted: Sun Dec 11th, 2005 01:48 pm |
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I wonder how many people are going to wind up dead over it??..Most of them rioting will probably have no idea as to why he is being executed..They just see the "white man" killing off another black man..Sickening to think that people will stand up in defense of a cold blooded murderer...Maybe the governement can create another hurricane and have it hit LA this time..you know..the way they did in NO... ..In my opinion...they should have given him that needle a long time ago..
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Dec 11th, 2005 01:29 pm |
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L.A. worried about riots if 'Tookie' executed
(I ain't that worried, I got plenty of "00" shot and slugs for the 12 gauge. Left-overs from the Rodney King verdicts...) 
CTV.ca News Staff
Updated: Sat. Dec. 10 2005 11:46 PM ET
Authorities in Los Angeles are concerned about possible rioting if the co-founder of the Crips street gang, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, is executed as planned.
Williams, 51, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison on Tuesday.
However, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is currently weighing Williams' request for clemency. It's not clear when a decision on that might come.
Fearing a repeat of the 1992 race riots in which 52 people died, police, schools and community groups have been told to prepare for violence if clemency is not granted.
Robin Toma, executive director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, said the organization had received "credible" threats of violence if Williams is put to death.
There are also fears that Williams' execution could cause unrest in the prison system.
For that reason, all prisoners at San Quentin will be locked down during the execution, and there is the expectation that other state prisons will choose to do the same.
Williams has spent 24 years on death row for the shooting deaths of four people in 1979. He was convicted in 1981 of killing a convenience store worker and, days later, killing two motel owners and their daughter during a robbery.
His case has gained wide media attention because of the growing support of many -- including celebrities such as Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx and Archbishop Desmond Tutu -- who say Williams has turned his life around in jail.
Williams has written nine anti-gang books aimed at young people, been nominated several times for the Nobel Peace and Literature Prize, and his "Protocol for Street Peace" has been used by rival gangs to broker gang truces.
Prosecutors, and some of the families of Williams' victims, say nothing he does now changes the fact that Williams fatally shot four people.
The Crips co-founder denies committing the murders.
A California governor has not granted clemency since 1967, when Ronald Reagan spared the life of a brain-damaged killer.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051210/tookie_riots_051210/20051210?hub=World
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marc
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Posted: Sat Dec 10th, 2005 03:17 pm |
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Mozilla to Fix 'Minor' Firefox Bug
Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
The first Firefox 1.5 security vulnerability, made public Thursday, is not as critical as initially perceived, but a patch will be available to fix it early next year, a Mozilla executive says.
Mozilla plans to repair the hole in the latest version of its open-source browser when it releases its next regularly scheduled stability build of Firefox. That should happen in late January or early February, said Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering for Mozilla. Firefox 1.5 was released November 30.
"Based on the information we have, it's a low-severity issue, but we will address it anyway," he said in an interview Thursday.
Researchers Describe Glitch
Packet Storm Security on Wednesday released code that takes advantage of the vulnerability, which can cause a buffer overflow and put users at risk of a denial of service attack when running the browser, according to a posting Thursday by independent security consultant John Bambenek on the SANS Internet Storm Center Web site.
According to the posting, the vulnerability is in the browser's history.dat file, which stores a user's history of Web sites visited. It can be exploited by crafting an abnormally long URL with perhaps a few million characters. If a user navigates to a site that exploits the hole, "it will crash the browser each time it is started after going to such a page," Bambenek wrote in the posting.
Security research company Secunia Thursday gave the bug a rating of "not critical" in a report on its Web site.
Problem Rare, Mozilla Says
Schroepfer said a team of volunteers and Mozilla engineers never discovered a denial-of-service problem using the proof of concept code from Packetstorm.
"We have no independent confirmation that it crashes, not for lack of trying," he said.
Schroepfer said that when engineers tried to recreate the problem, the browser worked sluggishly and took an exceptionally long time to load a Web page, but only after the browser was closed and then restarted after the first security breach. However, the browser will not crash.
"Eventually, it will process and will start properly," he said.
Furthermore, Schroepfer said it would be extremely rare for someone to visit a site that exploits the hole during a typical Web-browsing session.
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zippo
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Posted: Thu Dec 8th, 2005 06:22 pm |
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I saw this on the “Today” show this morning. It is a link to a web site that tells you how to get around a lot of the IVR systems (voice response units that make you press buttons) and get to a real person. Of course now that is public knowledge, they will probably change the access route.
http://paulenglish.com/ivr/
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zippo
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Posted: Thu Dec 8th, 2005 03:10 pm |
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Mikey wrote: Police: Officer Zaps Partner After Soda Dispute
POSTED: 6:19 am CST December 8, 2005
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. -- Authorities said a police officer in Michigan used a Taser stun gun on his partner during an argument about stopping for a soft drink.
The suspect was fired after the Nov. 3 incident and is charged with assault.
Ronald Dupuis, 32, could get up to 93 days in jail if convicted.
Authorities said Dupuis asked partner Prema Graham to stop at a store for a soft drink, but she refused and instead kept driving back to headquarters.
Authorities said the partners struggled over the steering wheel, and Dupuis hit Graham's leg with his department-issued Taser gun. She wasn't seriously hurt. I don't abiut now, but back in the late 60's Hamtramck had the single lagest concentration of Polish people outside of Warsaw Poland
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