Carlene

I found this remark grossly offensive. I suppose the really important part, for you, is getting paid. If your client gets the death penalty, but happens to be innocent....oh, well. Guess you could say he had a bad day, huh?

NORTH BONNEVILLE, Washington - A man who said he used a stun gun on his wife’s 79-year-old grandmother was arrested for investigation of domestic assault. Aaron de Bruyn, 26, was cited with fourth-degree domestic violence assault Wednesday and released from the Skamania County jail Thursday, Police Chief Calvin Owens said. The grandmother was not injured. De Bruyn said he was arguing with Rosemary Garlock, who accused him of abusing his 7-month-old son when he swatted the boy’s diapered bottom to stop him from grabbing electrical wires. When she refused to leave, he said he shocked her on her right shoulder as she sat on the living room couch. “She yelped, because getting Tased hurts,” de Bruyn told The Columbian newspaper. De Bruyn said he had the 50,000-volt Taser X26 energy weapon to protect against burglars. He said he called authorities, saying he had a relative in his house who would not leave. De Bruyn’s stun gun was confiscated. “If I had to do it over again, I wouldn’t,” he said.

What, exactly, is THAT supposed to mean?

We have 4 phones on our plan, too. I chose Cingular because of the rollover minutes. I keep track online of minutes used (mostly just toward the end of the billing cycle) and turn into the prime time gestapo if it looks like they might go over by very much. Now....if you are talking new phones, I don't recommend the Razor. I have had mine replaced 3 times - that's a total of 4 pink Razors and I still have trouble with it sometimes. It locks up and you have to take the battery out and put it back in. As far as problems with your kids surfing the 'net on their phone and downloading games, graphics, etc they can block all that stuff. Just call Cingular (or whoever) and give them the numbers you don't want to have internet access, download capability, text messaging, etc. You can even block call waiting, which I did on Cheyenne's phone because she would not click back over and ended up using 2 hours of minutes while a call was on hold.

Join this Yahoo group and just lurk for a little while. It will open your eyes big time regarding the RNY. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OSSG-gone_wrong/

I like the one for the cell phone network - I think it's Verizon - where the family is sitting around the table and Dad keeps sending the kids text messages. He obviously just learned this "trick". Finally, Mom holds out her hand and says, "Give it to me."

Customer Service reps who cannot speak understandable English. I got hold of one the other day (she was obviously in India or somplace similar) and I kept having to ask her to repeat herself. Finally, she suggested I had a bad connection and should call back. I said, "I can HEAR you just fine, but I cannot undersand you!"

The older I get, the more I have (pet peeves, that is). Poor spelling and bad grammar rub me the wrong way,too. Also... People who leave the buggies in the middle of the parking lot. Would it kill you to push the thing to the buggy corral? Irresponsible pet owners. If you can't afford to vaccinate your dog and have it spayed/neutered, you can't afford to own a pet. Using your cell phone during a movie....just plain RUDE. "Express Lane" violators. If the sign says "10 items" and you have 15, go to the regular checkout line. People who "save" seats (or places in line). I have seen this in CHURCH! Get real, people. This isn't third grade. Life is first come, first served. And finally..... Idiots who seem incapable of understanding that Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. Nothing....as in ZERO.

Clean shaven, tropical island, pencil, and matches. Oh, and I forgot.....slippers - I have lots of cold tile on my floors. Skinny jeans or bell bottoms?

Hello.....I think you're a little mixed up. They call us "Liberals" for a reason. We are the ones who are AGAINST limiting personal freedoms - like the right of gays/lesbians to marry. And, much as I don't personally embrace it, we are the pro-choice group. A "rabid desire to force all their "values" (and their thick-headed ignorance) on everyone else".....does that sound LIBERAL to you? Seems to me that would be the CONSERVATIVES.

And let us not forget that Bush has promised to veto the bill that would require Medicare Part D providers to negotiate the best price for meds, much as the VA does. If it's good enough for the Veterans, why isn't it good enough for everyone else?

From the AP wire.... In his annual address to Congress, Bush will offer to work with lawmakers on a handful of domestic issues while urging them to support his plans for Iraq. He'll call for expanding health-insurance coverage, tout a foreign guest-worker program and offer initiatives intended to slow global warming. But he has never gone to Capitol Hill under such difficult circumstances, and he's so weak politically that his effort to set the national agenda is unlikely to succeed. He'll speak at 8 p.m. CST to a Congress controlled by his political opponents and to a national television audience that has lost confidence in him. An ABC News-Washington Post poll released Monday found that Bush was more unpopular on the eve of this State of the Union speech than any president since Richard Nixon in 1974, during the Watergate scandal. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of Bush's job performance.

It is possible to save the file as a different type (eg: jpg, gif, etc) but you have to be able to open it first, and for that you will need Photoshop. E-mail it to me at carlene_m@sbcglobal.net and I will see if I can do it for you. I have Photoshop, but not the latest version,by any means.

Yeah...the Bushes have done such a great job, it's too bad Laura isn't running.

I am so thankful for my dead bird, which by the way is gone now. BOH, you have indeed had a rotten week. You are such a good daughter. I hope, if you have children, that they will learn from your example and when you are elderly they will give you the same care.

Yes....those were Karen Carpenter's "before" and "after" pictures. A very talented young woman, and a great pity that she died.

What do you think? Too thin? Or not? Anyone else recognize her?

Updated: 2:33 a.m. CT Jan 20, 2007 DALLAS - In a case that has renewed questions about the quality of Texas justice, a man who spent 10 years behind bars for the rape of a boy has become the 12th person in Dallas County to be cleared by DNA evidence. That is more DNA exonerations than in all of California, and more than in Florida, too. In fact, Dallas County alone has more such cases than all but three states — a situation one Texas lawmaker calls an "international embarrassment." James Waller, 50, was exonerated by a judge earlier this week and received an apology from the district attorney's office after a new type of DNA testing on hair and semen showed he was not the rapist who attacked a 12-year-old a boy living in Waller's apartment building in 1983. The boy had been the chief witness against him. Only New York, Illinois and Texas have had more DNA exonerations than Dallas County, which has a population of 2.3 million, according to the Innocence Project, a New York-based legal center that specializes in overturning wrongful convictions. Legislative push "These are appalling mistakes, and in the case of Dallas County, there have been so many," said Democratic state Sen. Rodney Ellis of Houston, who is sponsoring a bill to create Texas Innocence Commission to scrutinize the state's criminal justice system. A similar bill failed to reach the floor in the past two legislative sessions. But "my colleagues in the Senate, in particular, are beginning to see these are human lives we are talking about," Ellis said. "There are times when we make mistakes, and when we do, we ought to be big enough to admit it." Since the nation's first DNA exoneration in 1989, 26 defendants have been cleared in Illinois, including 11 in Chicago's Cook County, according to the Innocence Project. There have been 21 exonerations each in Texas and New York, nine in California and six in Florida, the organization said. In Dallas County, about 400 prisoners who filed wrongful-conviction claims have received DNA testing, leading to the 12 exonerations, said Trista Allen, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office. New District Attorney Craig Watkins, who took office two weeks ago, is determined to look into the underlying causes, she said. "DNA testing is to make sure innocent folks are not in jail," Allen said. "If you are not guilty, we want to get you out of jail. We're not going to be the DA that stands in the way." Trouble with eyewitnesses? Barry Scheck, co-director of the Innocence Project, said the number of exonerations in Dallas County "demands a closer look and statewide action." He said there is no clear reason there have been so many wrongful convictions in Dallas, but "many of the cases have to do with eyewitness identification." That was true with Waller. A day after the rape, the boy was at a convenience store when he heard Waller's voice and became convinced Waller was the man who attacked him in his apartment. Earlier, the boy had told police that he never saw the attacker face-to-face and that the man had worn a bandanna covering most of his face. Waller was also heavier and taller than the man described by the youngster. Waller and his family were the only black residents of the apartment complex, according to the Innocence Project. He began seeking DNA testing in 1989. Since his parole, he has had to register as a sex offender, but his lawyers are trying to get that requirement lifted.

Pre-band, I worshiped bread. Hot bread was a meal for me, and one I would gladly choose over many other things. I thought a day without bread was a day without sunshine. I haven't had a piece of bread in over 2 years. I can't eat it without horrendous pain, which is a great behavior modification tool. Maybe I could get dry, crumbly toast down, but that wasn't the bread I loved, so why bother? Sometimes a waiter will plunk down a basket of frezh yeast rolls in front of me. But much like Pavlov's dogs, I have learned not to touch them. If I could still eat bread, I would. In huge quantities. And I know this, so I don't complain. Because it was bread that caused a lot of my weight problem. Bread is the enemy.

Jodie....MK Olsen is NOT "naturally thin". She has been treated for eating disorders off and on for years! There is nothing natural about that. And she's 20 years old but looks about 60 in the picture I posted. Notice her hair? What's left of it, that is. I cannot imagine that you'd want to look like poor Mary Kate. Or that men would find her attractive.

Here is Mary Kate Olsen from the recent Golden Globe awards. Bear in mind, she was trying to look her BEST in this photo. To me, she looks AWFUL...and definitely too skinny!

No offense taken. I'm not exactly laughing, though. It's a BIG bird - like a huge crow or something. A sparrow I could maybe deal with but something the size of a chicken going all necro on my skylight.....EWWWWWWWW!

Men are just so touchy when it comes to their penises.

I read that, too. It is the most unconscionable thing I have ever heard of. I hope the bastards responsible for this decision ALL rot in hell. Politics is a dirtier game than most of us ever imagined.

If the sentences for various types/instances of murder had just a little bit of consistency, I might feel better about the death penalty. When two people are both involved in a crime and, because they are tried separately, one gets death and the other gets a lesser punishment, then there's a problem, in my opinion. Also, rich people can almost kill with impunity. I have huge issues with that.