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Nice Planet 2011

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Old Pio said:
Why do I generally rate tattoo artists above lawyers? Well, we can start here.
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The only attorney mentioned in that article is the school's. So either you agree with the mother, or you're presuming she isn't pro se.
 
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unofan said:
The only attorney mentioned in that article is the school's. So either you agree with the mother, or you're presuming she isn't pro se.
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It's the latter Mr. Burger. Besides, I said "generally," which leaves room for Louis Nizer and a few others, like Joseph Welsh and Clarence Darrow (anyone who could keep Leopold and Loeb out of the electric chair did a heap of lawyering).
 
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unofan said:
I always thought Millenials meant people born around 2000. I thought the 1980's-90's kids were Generation Y.
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I've seen Gen Y and Millennial used interchangeably to describe those born in the 80's and 90's.

I don't think the 00's kids really have a name yet.
 
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I hope a prison thug savagely beats that p.o.s., but only after giving him the pretty-boy treatment for several hours.
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The worst case of child abuse (at the time) in Houston involved a beautiful 5 or 6 year old, Tommy Lott. Not only had he been savagely beaten over time, but the mother's boyfriend had burned the little boy's scrotum with cigarettes, among other tortures. At trial, a 25 year veteran Houston homicide cop broke down, introducing the pictures into evidence. The boyfriend was a skinny punk and those of us who followed the case knew that while nothing would ever undo the horrors visited on that little boy, the punk was going to be the bellle of the ball. Some consolation there.
 
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Slap Shot said:
I hope a prison thug savagely beats that p.o.s., but only after giving him the pretty-boy treatment for several hours.
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From what I remember, the prisons keep child-abusers/murderers/etc away from the other inmates, due to the internal unwritten prisoner code. Basically, if you mess with kids, the other prisoners will f* you up something fierce.
 
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Brenthoven said:
From what I remember, the prisons keep child-abusers/murderers/etc away from the other inmates, due to the internal unwritten prison

er code. Basically, if you mess with kids, the other prisoners will f* you up something fierce.
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"Oops, did I forget to lock that door?" D*mn.
 
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Brenthoven said:
From what I remember, the prisons keep child-abusers/murderers/etc away from the other inmates, due to the internal unwritten prisoner code. Basically, if you mess with kids, the other prisoners will f* you up something fierce.
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Old Pio said:
"Oops, did I forget to lock that door?" D*mn.
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Personally, makes it a whole lot easier to deal with those sickos when they're dead instead of wasting time trying to fix them. No fixing them short of short drop with a sudden stop.
 
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Here's a head scratcher: some gay rights activists are opposing the suggestion that the Navy name a ship after Harvey Milk (about which I'm ambivalent). Their reasoning is that he was anti-war. They conveniently overlook or downplay his apparantly honorable service as a Navy diver. Turns out we've recently named a ship for that cheap Abscam crook John Murtha (who at least served in the Marine Corps) and Cesar Chavez who had no connection whatsoever to the Navy. Go figure. We could name a garbage scow after Mama Cass.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...vey-milk-sparks-criticism-from-gay-community/
 
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Mary Kennedy is dead. We don't yet know the circumstances. Certainly over the years, this family has had more than its fair share of unfortunate deaths. That cannot be questioned. CNN's website today produced the by now cliche rendering of "Kennedy family tragedies." But two of the incidents stand out to me as tragedies for families other than the Kennedy's.

What happened on Chappaquiddick to Mary Jo Kopechne all those years ago is a tragedy all right, but for the Kopechnes, not that drunken lech Ted Kennedy. Unless you consider his resulting life long disqualification for the presidency, a "tragedy."

And what happened when that piece of sh*t Michael Skakal (who jerked off in a tree before bashing Martha Moxley's head in with a Tony Lima golf club) is most certainly not a Kennedy family tragedy. It's a Moxley family tragedy.

The deaths of the three Kennedy brothers, one in war, the other two by assassination. And the death of JFK, jr are legitimate tragedies. Including the Kopechne and Moxley deaths on the list, it seems to me, cheapens the real tragedies of these Kennedy deaths. I'll be accused of "hatred" and "anger" and all the rest, but this is crap.
I attribute the inclusion of Mary Jo Kopechne and Martha Moxley primarily to laziness, rather than any political motivation. The activities of Teddy the Hero decades ago has been referred to so often as a "Kennedy tragedy" in the interim that it's entered the American culture, under false pretenses.
 
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Old Pio said:
Mary Kennedy is dead. We don't yet know the circumstances. Certainly over the years, this family has had more than its fair share of unfortunate deaths. That cannot be questioned. CNN's website today produced the by now cliche rendering of "Kennedy family tragedies." But two of the incidents stand out to me as tragedies for families other than the Kennedy's.

What happened on Chappaquiddick to Mary Jo Kopechne all those years ago is a tragedy all right, but for the Kopechnes, not that drunken lech Ted Kennedy. Unless you consider his resulting life long disqualification for the presidency, a "tragedy."

And what happened when that piece of sh*t Michael Skakal (who jerked off in a tree before bashing Martha Moxley's head in with a Tony Lima golf club) is most certainly not a Kennedy family tragedy. It's a Moxley family tragedy.

The deaths of the three Kennedy brothers, one in war, the other two by assassination. And the death of JFK, jr are legitimate tragedies. Including the Kopechne and Moxley deaths on the list, it seems to me, cheapens the real tragedies of these Kennedy deaths. I'll be accused of "hatred" and "anger" and all the rest, but this is crap.
I attribute the inclusion of Mary Jo Kopechne and Martha Moxley primarily to laziness, rather than any political motivation. The activities of Teddy the Hero decades ago has been referred to so often as a "Kennedy tragedy" in the interim that it's entered the American culture, under false pretenses.
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To me, tragedies by the Kennedy family and tragedies on the Kennedy family can be combined to Kennedy Tragedies (any tragedy that involves a member of the Kennedy family). It's lazy journalism (as you said) to lump everything as a tragedy on the family.
 
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Almington said:
To me, tragedies by the Kennedy family and tragedies on the Kennedy family can be combined to Kennedy Tragedies (any tragedy that involves a member of the Kennedy family). It's lazy journalism (as you said) to lump everything as a tragedy on the family.
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This is not a huge big deal. I just get tired of hearing about "Kennedy family tragedies," that include Teddy and that Skakal as*hole. I'd really like it if somebody took a golf club to HIS head. Those events, especially Chappaquiddick, have been referred to as "Kennedy family tragedies" for so long, nothing is going to change. So maybe I should just shut up about it. That sentiment will be greeted with silent "yesses" in some quarters, no doubt. ;)
 
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Old Pio said:
This is not a huge big deal. I just get tired of hearing about "Kennedy family tragedies," that include Teddy and that Skakal as*hole. I'd really like it if somebody took a golf club to HIS head. Those events, especially Chappaquiddick, have been referred to as "Kennedy family tragedies" for so long, nothing is going to change. So maybe I should just shut up about it. That sentiment will be greeted with silent "yesses" in some quarters, no doubt. ;)
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Just remember, the Kennedys made their money through shady schemes, SOME of which may have been illegal.
 
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Old Pio said:
And daddy Joe was way too close to guys with broken noses named Joey Bagodonuts in Chicago.
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Their story is fascinating, don't get me wrong. But the uh, questions behind how they got their riches, and we all know money buys fame and fortune....that's what bothers me. I don't give a crap about what they think politically. But that family is not a bunch of folk heroes and inspirations.
 
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