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Episode 4

"You Got To Blame The Thing Up Here"

The boys find ways to help Ray now that his trailer has burned down. Bubbles realizes that the fire was not his fault.

Randy - "You forgot your cards Mr Lahey."

Mr Layhey - "Thanks BoBandy"

"I fell asleep with a Semi and awoke with a Woody"

- Paan

Are we allowed Ass Beards?

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

This is my signature for my work e-mail :wink:

This stuff drives MarcO crazy.

The Montreal Jazz Festival is held yearly just outside of Winnipeg and features a wide array of reggae and Brazillian musics. Plans for 2005 include an academic study of the role of the wah wah pedal in porn soundtracks and a keynote address from Nancy Kerrigan. Tickets are available at the website.

[color:red]Will Nancy be talking about "that" tragic event?

Oasis!! sweet!! What are they doing these days anyways?

(about the only band formed after 1979 that I enjoy )

New album 'Don't Believe The Truth'. The album is released in the UK on the 30th May !

[color:red]Here's another aritcle somewhat related.

Only in America: God Goes Commercial

by jo swift at 11:34AM (CEST) on May 4, 2005 | Permanent Link

Is 'God' a Brand Name? How about a Big God with Fries? God: It's the Real Thing. Crazy Christians Want To Wear Religion In Public. Once relegated to Bible stores, religious fashion items are sold in Saks

Trapper Blu, a ski and snowboarding instructor from Wanship, Utah, brought his family to Christopher's, a T-shirt shop in Greenwich Village, recently.

He tried on a shirt emblazoned with an image of Jesus and the slogan "Put Down the Drugs and Come Get a Hug."

"I would wear this, you bet," Blu, 23, said, scrutinizing his reflection in the mirror. "The shirt is funny," he added, as he tweaked the brim of his cowboy hat, "but it doesn't make fun of Jesus or anything."

A few blocks south at Urban Outfitters, part of a youth-oriented chain that sells Tshirts along with shag rugs, coffee mugs and multitiered hippie skirts, Jurek Grapentin, visiting from Germany, looked on as a young friend of his examined a shirt printed with a rosary entwined with the words "Everybody Loves a Catholic Girl."

"It's a nice message," Grapentin, 22, said. "Catholic people most of the time can be so traditional in their thinking. To me this looks more new, more in."

Blu and Grapentin are among the legions of the faithful, or the merely fashionable, who are increasingly drawn to the religious themes and imagery -- portraits of saints, fragments of scripture -- that have migrated in recent months from billboards and bumper stickers to baseball caps, T-shirts, flip-flops and even designer clothing.

Such messages are being embraced by a growing number of mostly young people, who are wearing them as a testament of faith or, ironically, as a badge of hipness.

"There is no question, religion is becoming the new brand," said Jane Buckingham, the president of Youth Intelligence, a trendforecasting company.

"To a generation of young people eager to have something to belong to, wearing a `Jesus Saves' T-shirt, a skullcap or a cabala bracelet is a way of feeling both unique, a member of a specific culture or clan, and at the same time part of something much bigger.

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Fuck I thought this was going to be an Ace Of Base thread :wink:

The next Crusade is well under way!

I will be there if Stephen Harper lets me!!

bradm, pretty sure I'll have room in the teal for some passengers from Ottawa, drop me a line anyone else from Otown who may need a ride, my plans will depend on what goes down politically, so unfortunately may be a little last minute depending on events....

I seem to remember that happening to you before :wink:

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Last Updated Tue, 03 May 2005 13:04:27 EDT

CBC News

HALIFAX - Walt Disney Co. is not amused that a smoke shop in Halifax that sells drug paraphernalia decided to adorn its building with a mural showing Sneezy, Sleepy, Happy and their fellow dwarfs.

Sweet Leaf Smoke Shop owner Kenny Banks had the mural painted last summer, featuring the famous Disney cartoon characters using a joint and a bong, among other drug equipment.

The Halifax Regional Municipality intervened this spring after a neighbour complained that the advertising wasn't appropriate, and Banks was ordered to remove the marijuana references by May 1.

The dwarfs stayed in place, however – until Walt Disney Co. heard about the mural.

In a letter last week, the company demanded that the entire painting be covered up because the characters are Disney's intellectual property.

Banks had the dwarfs covered with whitewash.

In the end, though, he said he wasn't too upset. He's out $1,800 for the mural, but he's received the kind of publicity money can't buy.

"Through TV, newspapers – sure it worked out OK," he said. "But I still like the mural. So do a lot of people in the neighbourhood."

Some people interviewed by reporters said the mural added colour to the area.

Others were offended by it, especially parents.

"A lot of people on the street have kids and they're starting to get to the age where they are asking, 'What is that they're holding?'" said parent Ethan Neville.

"Try to explain that to your eight-year old."

Banks plans to replace the image with something less controversial.

- Very heart warming.

Beckham best paid player in world

Canadian Press

5/3/2005

PARIS (AP) - David Beckham is still the best-paid soccer player in the world, according to a study published Tuesday by France Football magazine.

The Real Madrid midfielder does not make the highest yearly salary in world soccer but his commercial endorsements and image rights increase his annual take to 25 million euros ($40.3 million Cdn).

Soccer's richest manager, according to the study, is Chelsea's Jose Mourinho, who has already earned 7.5 million euros ($12.1 million Cdn) in salary and bonuses - and that could increase if the Blues win the Champions League.

Beckham takes home the same yearly wage as Real Madrid teammates Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane - 6.4 million euros ($10.3 million Cdn).

Ronaldo's total yearly income is estimated at 19.6 million euros ($31.6 million Cdn) placing him second on the list, while French midfielder Zidane pockets is third at 13 million euros ($30 million Cdn).

Of the 20 richest players in the world, Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has the highest wage of 7.6 million euros ($12.3 million Cdn) but limited commercial interests mean his overall income is 9.4 million euros ($15.2 million Cdn) - placing him sixth in the world.

Internazionale striker Christian Vieri, at 12 million euros ($19.4 million Cdn), and Alessandro Del Piero of Juventus, at 9.5 million ($15.3 million Cdn), are fourth and fifth respectively.

Eight of the top 20 play in the English Premier League. The next highest-paid after Lampard is Thierry Henry (Arsenal), followed by John Terry (Chelsea), Ruud van Nistelrooy (Manchester United), Roy Keane (Manchester United), Patrick Vieira (Arsenal), Sol Campbell (Arsenal) and Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United).

Soccer players in the less-glamorous French first division earn considerably less.

Paris Saint-Germain's Colombia international Mario Yepes leads the way with three million ($4.8 million Cdn) annually, followed by Marseille goalkeeper Fabien Barthez at 2.6 million euros ($4.2 million Cdn) and Lyon striker Sylvain Wiltord at 2.4 million euros ($3.9 million Cdn).

Long-serving Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson is second to Mourinho among managers at six million euros ($9.9 million Cdn), followed by England coach Sven Goran Eriksson at 5.8 million euros ($8.4 million Cdn). Arsenal's Arsene Wenger gets 4.4 million euros ($7.1 million Cdn).

P.S. Is there anybody more on fire than Lampard right now?

Does anybody know if the 2 day pricing applies to Friday and Saturday as well(instead of the Saturday/Sunday posted on the web)?

TOPEKA, Kansas (Reuters) -- Evolution is going on trial in Kansas.

Eighty years after a famed courtroom battle in Tennessee pitted religious beliefs about the origins of life against the theories of British scientist Charles Darwin, Kansas is holding its own hearings on what school children should be taught about how life on Earth began.

The Kansas Board of Education has scheduled six days of courtroom-style hearings to begin Thursday in Topeka. More than two dozen witnesses will give testimony and be subject to cross-examination, with the majority expected to argue against teaching evolution.

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As a young boy I listed to CCR on an almost daily basis.

There is also a third very graphic image of a human this bear killed just previously. I'm not going to post it here but you can google to it.

I still love that part in the season opener when Ricky saw that movie called the "Directors Cut".

Put your guns down, Bubbles is crying.

Last time I saw him was in Hamilton delivering a couch to Willy's place. Fuck that was funny.

Union Cries Foul in Wal-Mart Sign Fight

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Published: April 19, 2005

The image planned for the anti-Wal-Mart billboard was unusual - a fire-breathing Godzilla standing next to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge - and the language was strong: "The Wal-Monster will destroy Staten Island businesses and devastate our quality of life."

But New Yorkers may never see the billboard, which was supposed to go up on the island, because Clear Channel, the giant radio network that also runs an outdoor advertising company, has rejected it, saying its image and language are too inflammatory.

Officials of the labor union that was planning the message to help fight a Wal-Mart proposed for Staten Island yesterday accused Clear Channel of improper censorship, asserting that the company was taking pains not to offend Wal-Mart Stores, the country's largest company.

"This absolutely is censorship," said Michael Mareno, secretary-treasurer of Local 342 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which signed a contract with Clear Channel Outdoor for a billboard near the ferry terminal in St. George. "I'm really disappointed because we wanted to express how we felt and tell the truth about Wal-Mart."

Paul J. Meyer, the chief executive of Clear Channel Outdoor, said that because billboards are a type of advertising that people cannot avoid, his company felt an obligation to restrict a message that might offend.

"Are we perhaps oversensitive on this?" he asked. "Maybe. When it comes to images of violence in New York City after 9/11, we feel we have to be very careful."

Last summer, Clear Channel faced accusations of censorship when, shortly before the Republican National Convention, it rejected a Times Square billboard that was to show a bomb and a fuse, decorated in stars and stripes, with the message, "Democracy is best taught by example, not by war." The antiwar group that sponsored the billboard sued Clear Channel, and the two sides settled when the company accepted a new design in which a dove replaced the bomb.

Mr. Meyer said Clear Channel would work with the union to find an acceptable image and text for the Staten Island billboard.

But Mr. Mareno said that even after the union agreed with the company's demand that it drop the words "destroy" and "devastate" from the billboard, Clear Channel continued to reject it, even with a toned-down message, "The Wal-Monster will diminish Staten Island businesses and impede our quality of life."

"The Clear Channel rep said the image and words were inappropriate for the post-9/11 world, that words like 'destroy' and images like Godzilla were offensive," Mr. Mareno said. "It's laughable."

Local 342 has a contract with Clear Channel to pay $3,500 a month for six months for a billboard near Borough Hall.

Evan Stavisky, a partner with the Parkway Group, the consulting firm that the union hired to design the billboard, said, "It's outrageous that Clear Channel is seeking to censor legitimate public discourse in the city of New York."

Mia Masten, a Wal-Mart spokeswoman, declined to comment, saying the dispute was between Clear Channel and one of its clients.

Staten Island officials say that a prominent developer is seeking approvals for a Wal-Mart in Richmond Valley, near the Outerbridge Crossing. These officials said developers were also exploring construction of a Wal-Mart in Mariners Harbor, in the northern part of the island. Either store would become the first Wal-Mart in New York City.

In February, a developer who was planning to build a Wal-Mart as part of a shopping mall in Rego Park, Queens, decided against including the store in the face of intense community, labor and political opposition. Unlike the Wal-Mart planned for Queens, the one proposed for Richmond Valley has some important political supporters, including Vito J. Fossella, the congressman who represents Staten Island, and Guy V. Molinari, Staten Island's former borough president.

"Every poll or questionnaire that has been done on the subject tells us that the consumers want Wal-Mart, and they want it badly," said Mr. Molinari, who represents Cedarwood Development, which hopes to build the Wal-Mart in Richmond Valley.

Union officials say a Wal-Mart would drive unionized supermarkets that pay significantly higher wages out of business and could also hurt small businesses and increase traffic.

Mr. Mareno, the union official, said the local and its consultant were developing a new billboard that would omit the Wal-Monster. Clear Channel officials, he said, "want to make it palatable to Clear Channel and also to Wal-Mart."

1. Secular Humanism (100%)

2. Unitarian Universalism (99%)

3. Liberal Quakers (83%)

4. Nontheist (82%)

5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (74%)

6. Theravada Buddhism (73%)

7. Neo-Pagan (60%)

8. Taoism (48%)

9. Bah�'� Faith (45%)

10. New Age (44%)

11. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (37%)

12. Orthodox Quaker (36%)

13. Mahayana Buddhism (35%)

14. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (34%)

15. Reform Judaism (33%)

16. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (28%)

17. Jehovah's Witness (26%)

18. New Thought (26%)

19. Jainism (23%)

20. Sikhism (22%)

21. Scientology (21%)

22. Seventh Day Adventist (17%)

23. Hinduism (11%)

24. Eastern Orthodox (8%)

25. Islam (8%)

26. Orthodox Judaism (8%)

27. Roman Catholic (8%)