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I would too out of pure shame, if I passed on the best potential talent in the NFL since Barry Sanders. Maybe he didn't want Williams in the first place. If the coach and owner want one guy (Williams) and the GM wants another guy (Bush), who do you think wins? The guy who pays the bills at the end of the day.

I'm looking for suggestions of good sites where I can buy music to burn onto CDs/mp3 players - I'm looking for a European band that isnt on iTunes, so any other sites that people know of where you can buy single songs or whole albums would be greatly appreciated.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2427730 Lions might deal QB Harrington to Browns for pick By John Clayton ESPN.com After four difficult seasons in Detroit, quarterback Joey Harrington felt he found a safe landing place by agreeing to be traded to the Miami Dolphins and working out a financial deal. That ride might get tougher Sunday. The Lions failed to convince him this week to readjust his contract for a trade with the Chiefs or the Browns, so on Sunday morning, they plan to get tough. They are considering trading him to the Browns for a fourth- or fifth-round choice, and if he refuses to go, they are threatening to challenge his agreement with the Dolphins. Harrington visited the Dolphins and the Bengals after the Lions gave him permission to shop himself with a trade. He canceled a visit to the Broncos and decided to go to the Dolphins. Harrington and the Dolphins worked out a two-year agreement that would facilitate the trade. Because he has a $4.45 million salary and a $4 million roster bonus due around June 15, Harrington needs to restructure his contract before any trade. Although Lions president Matt Millen told Harrington he would let him go where the quarterback wanted, the Lions don't want to trade him for the sixth-round choice in 2007 being offered by the Dolphins. The Lions prefer a draft choice Sunday. A trade could be tricky with the Browns, who have seven second day draft choices. One possibility would be to make a trade with Cleveland that is contingent on Harrington reworking his deal with the Browns, and if he couldn't, he could be traded back to the Lions. The Dolphins' position is that Harrington wants to join their team. The Lions' position is that the collective bargaining agreement doesn't permit a secret deal and might go to the NFL Management Council for help. The market for Harrington in a trade diminished when the Broncos drafted Jay Cutler and the Chiefs drafted Brodie Croyle, leaving the Browns as one of the few options for the Lions aside from Miami. For Harrington, it means his exit from Detroit could become as difficult as his four-year stay.

Has anybody ever tried to purchase CDs or music from other countries that was never released in the United States. I don't think I can drop $38.00 on a single CD, and am having trouble finding any sites that have the individual songs for sale.

I am assuming this is highschool: ask your teachers to make announcements in class. Try and get on morning announcements maybe? At lunch, if you eat outside, bring a boombox and blast whatever music your people are into and try and gather everyone up, give out food or something. It's actually college, not high school. The usual things have been done by the both of us (sidewalk chalk, sheet signs, lawn signs, etc).

Random Question for Everyone: I'm running for student body president up here at my school and my opponent and I are in a very close race. Tomorrow is the last day of elections, so I need to go out strong and mobilize some votes tomorrow to pull this off. Anybody have any ideas for creative ways to get the word out (besides posters and word-of-mouth)? I appreciate all of the help I can get.

Saving Private Ryan Kelly's Heroes

The Omen trilogy Most definitely.

Sandlot Rocky IV Bad News Bears

Mich. Governor to Sign Ultrasound Bill LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Jennifer Granholm will sign a bill requiring abortion providers to give pregnant women the option to see ultrasound images of their fetuses, a spokeswoman says. Granholm generally has opposed anti-abortion legislation, but the bill was amended so it no longer requires pregnant women to see the ultrasound images, spokeswoman Liz Boyd said Sunday. Until now, Michigan law has required that women seeking abortions be allowed to review diagrams and descriptions showing a developing fetus, but not their own. Abortion opponents hailed the new law. Right to Life of Michigan said it ensures that pregnant women have fuller access to accurate information before having abortions. Critics called it a further erosion of women's rights. The ultrasound bill is one of the "small, incremental steps ... all designed to put up barriers" to legal abortion, Kary Moss, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, told the Detroit Free Press. However, the ACLU does not plan legal action to block the measure, she said. The law passed the House two weeks ago on an 84-21 vote and unanimously passed the Senate last week. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060320/ap_on_...tion_ultrasound

Johnny Damon is such a fraud and a tool, btw. Bitter?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060219/ap_on_...olocaust_denial Trial Opens for Accused Holocaust Denier By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer VIENNA, Austria - A right-wing British historian goes on trial Monday on charges of denying the Holocaust occurred ? a crime punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment in this country once run by the Nazis. ADVERTISEMENT The trial of David Irving opens amid fresh ? and fierce ? debate over freedom of expression in Europe, where the printing and reprinting of unflattering cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad has triggered violent protests worldwide. Irving, 67, has been in custody since his arrest in November on charges stemming from two speeches he gave in Austria in 1989 in which he was accused of denying the Nazis' extermination of 6 million Jews. An eight-member jury and a panel of three judges will hear the proceedings, which officials said could produce a verdict as early as Monday. Within two weeks of his arrest, Irving asserted through his lawyer that he now acknowledges the existence of Nazi-era gas chambers. The historian had tried to win release on bail, but a Vienna court refused, saying it considered him a flight risk. His lawyer, Elmar Kresbach, said last month the Third Reich historian was getting up to 300 pieces of fan mail a week from supporters around the world, and that while in detention he was writing his memoirs under the working title, "Irving's War." Irving was arrested Nov. 11 in the southern Austrian province of Styria on a warrant issued in 1989 and charged under a federal law that makes it a crime to publicly diminish, deny or justify the Holocaust. In the past, however, he has claimed that Adolf Hitler knew little if anything about the Holocaust, and has been quoted as saying there was "not one shred of evidence" the Nazis carried out their "Final Solution" to exterminate the Jewish population on such a massive scale. "What was he doing in Austria? God only knows. Possibly looking for an audience," Austrian state television said in a pre-trial commentary. Vienna's national court, where the trial is being held, ordered the balcony gallery closed to prevent projectiles from being thrown down at the bench, the newspaper Die Presse reported Sunday. It quoted officials as saying they were bracing for Irving's supporters to give him the Nazi salute or shout out pro-Hitler slogans during the trial, which will continue into Tuesday if a verdict is not forthcoming on Monday. Irving is the author of nearly 30 books, including "Hitler's War," which challenges the extent of the Holocaust, and has contended most of those who died at concentration camps such as Auschwitz succumbed to diseases such as typhus rather than execution. In 2000, Irving sued the American Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt for libel in a British court, but lost. The presiding judge in that case wrote that Irving was "an active Holocaust denier ... anti-Semitic and racist." Irving has had numerous run-ins with the law over the years. In 1992, a judge in Germany fined him the equivalent of $6,000 for publicly insisting the Nazi gas chambers at Auschwitz were a hoax.

Dear Hugg, what do you know about the state of Miss.? and Oh yeah the wwe is so real and awesome! He's Ramp, not Hugg.

Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong. Armstrong said Cheney turned to shoot a bird and accidentally hit Whittington. She said Whittington was taken to Corpus Christi Memorial Hospital by ambulance. Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060212/ap_on_...unting_accident

Diamondbacks + Reds -

I spent the past couple of days in New Orleans for a conference, but we got out for a little while, took a tour of the city and did some service work. Hard to believe that parts of it can still look like this five months later: http://community.webshots.com/user/spginter

http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/reds..._to_crisp_deal/ Looks like the deal will be: Andy Marte, Kelly Shoppach, Guillermo Mota for Coco Crisp, Josh Bard, and David Riske.

Chris George!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are still missing Chris Clapinski :confused Yea we are. Bring him back!

WASHINGTON - Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89. McCarthy died in his sleep at assisted living home in the Georgetown neighborhood where he had lived for the past few years, said his son, Michael. Eugene McCarthy challenged President Lyndon B. Johnson for the 1968 Democratic nomination during growing debate over the Vietnam War. The challenge led to Johnson's withdrawal from the race. The former college professor, who ran for president five times in all, was in some ways an atypical politician, a man with a witty, erudite speaking style who wrote poetry in his spare time and was the author of several books. "He was thoughtful and he was principled and he was compassionate and he had a good sense of humor," his son said. When Eugene McCarthy ran for president in 1992, he explained his decision to leave the seclusion of his home in rural Woodville, Va., for the campaign trail by quoting Plutarch, the ancient Greek historian: "They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view." McCarthy got less than 1 percent of the vote in 1992 in New Hampshire, the state where he helped change history 24 years earlier. Helped by his legion of idealistic young volunteers known as "clean-for-Gene kids," McCarthy got 42 percent of the vote in the state's 1968 Democratic primary. That showing embarrassed Johnson into withdrawing from the race and throwing his support to his vice president, Hubert H. Humphrey. Sen. Robert Kennedy of New York also decided to seek the nomination, but was assassinated in June 1968. McCarthy and his followers went to the party convention in Chicago, where fellow Minnesotan Humphrey won the nomination amid bitter strife both on the convention floor and in the streets. Humphrey went on to narrowly lose the general election to Richard Nixon. The racial, social and political tensions within the Democratic Party in 1968 have continued to affect presidential politics ever since. "It was a tragic year for the Democratic Party and for responsible politics, in a way," McCarthy said in a 1988 interview. "There were already forces at work that might have torn the party apart anyway the growing women's movement, the growing demands for greater racial equality, an inability to incorporate all the demands of a new generation. "But in 1968, the party became a kind of unrelated bloc of factions ... each refusing accommodation with another, each wanting control at the expense of all the others." Although he supported the Korean War, McCarthy said he opposed the Vietnam War because "as it went on, you could tell the people running it didn't know what was going on." "I admired Gene enormously for his courage in challenging a war America never should have fought," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (news, bio, voting record), D-Mass., said Saturday. Drawing a parallel to the current debate over the Iraq war, Kennedy said, "His life speaks volumes to us today, as we face a similar critical time for our country." Former Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., said McCarthy's presidential run in 1968 dramatically changed the antiwar movement. "It was no longer a movement of concerned citizens, but became a national political movement," McGovern said Saturday. "He was an inspiration to me in all of my life in politics." McGovern won the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, when McCarthy ran a second time. Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., who ran for vice president in 2004, said McCarthy "was a remarkable American, a man who spoke his conscience, and he was a great leader for my party." In recent years, McCarthy was critical of campaign finance reform, winning him an unlikely award from the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2000. In an interview when he got the award, McCarthy said money helped him in the 1968 race. "We had a few big contributors," he said. "And that's true of any liberal movement. In the American Revolution, they didn't get matching funds from George III." After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, McCarthy said the United States was partly to blame for ignoring the plight of Palestinians. "You let a thing like that fester for 45 years, you have to expect something like this to happen," he said in an interview at the time. "No one at the White House has shown any concern for the Palestinians." In a 2004 biography, "Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism," British historian Dominic Sandbrook painted an unflattering portrait of McCarthy, calling him lazy and jealous, among other things. McCarthy, Sandbrook wrote, "willfully courted the reputation of frivolous maverick." In McCarthy's 1998 book, "No-Fault Politics," editor Keith C. Burris described McCarthy in the introduction as "a Catholic committed to social justice but a skeptic about reform, about do-gooders, about the power of the state and the competence of government, and about the liberal reliance upon material cures for social problems." McCarthy was born March 29, 1916, in Watkins, a central Minnesota town of about 750. He earned degrees from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn., and the University of Minnesota. He was a teacher, a civilian War Department employee and college economics and sociology instructor before turning to politics. He once spent a year in a monastery. He was elected to the House in 1948. Ten years later he was elected to the Senate and re-elected in 1964. McCarthy left the Senate in 1970 and devoted much of his time to writing poetry, essays and books. With a sardonic sense of humor, McCarthy needled whatever establishment was in power. In 1980 he endorsed Republican Ronald Reagan with the argument that anyone was better than incumbent Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. On his 85th birthday in 2001, McCarthy told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that President Bush was an amateur and said he could not even bear to watch his inauguration. In an interview a month before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, McCarthy compared the Bush administration with the characters in the William Golding novel "Lord of the Flies," in which a group of boys stranded on an island turn to savagery. "The bullies are running it," McCarthy said. "Bush is bullying everything." McCarthy was an advocate for a third-party movement, arguing there was no real difference between Republicans and Democrats. In 2000, he wrote a political satire called "An American Bestiary," illustrated by Chris Millis, in which high-level advisers are portrayed as park pigeons "they strut and waddle" and reporters are compared with black birds who flock together. He blamed the media for deciding who is and is not a serious candidate and suggested he should have kept his 1992 candidacy a secret, since announcing it publicly did no good. McCarthy also ran for president in 1972, 1976 and 1988. For McCarthy, the 1950s and 1960s were the Democratic Party's high points because it pushed the Civil Rights Act through Congress and championed national health insurance programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. "I think he probably would consider his work in civil rights legislation in the 1960s to be his greatest contribution," his son said Saturday. The bad times, Eugene McCarthy said, began with America's increased involvement in the Vietnam War and the simultaneous failure of some of Johnson's Great Society social programs. Instead of giving people a chance to earn a living, McCarthy said, the Great Society "became affirmative action and more welfare. It was an admission the New Deal had failed or fallen." In recent years McCarthy had lived at Georgetown Retirement Residence, an assisted living center in Washington. He and his wife, Abigail, separated after the 1968 election. She died in 2001. Survivors include daughters Ellen and Margaret and six grandchildren, Michael McCarthy said. A private burial is planned for next week and a memorial service in Washington will be scheduled, Michael McCarthy said. Eugene McCarthy Dies at Age 89

Probably Lugo and not Pierre Very easily could be.

Yea, definitely does seem like they are overpaying.

Like I said, its a comment by some poster on a website; take it for what it's worth. Definitely nothing official yet.

Not to start spreading false rumors or anything, but someone over at MLB TradeRumors.com is reporting: The Cubs would get: Jaun Pierre Matt Erickson The Marlins would get Sean Henn Scott Proctor Jeffrey Karstens Jerome Williams Jerry Hairston The Yankees would get: Correy Patterson Ron Villone From some guy who "has a source" at the Winter Meetings. Take it for what it's worth. MLBTradeRumors.com

Okay UConn coming in tied for 86th overall. :plain

Jesus... Are we not allowed to get any hitting prospects? Who the hell plays 2nd for us now? word is they will be auditioning Billy the Marlins and some of the Mermaids to cover 2nd base next season... Or heck, we could go find Chris Clapinski again. :mischief2