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"If it's impersonal it has no meaning."
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-- Martin Sheen
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vol. 3 issue 37
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December-something-02
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** disclaimer **____________________
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/ 0212161216hrs/
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Activist Times, Inc. ATI is a
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journalistic, causistic, /
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/cyberpolitical /
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/organization, /
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/trying to /
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/help y'all, and us /
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change the world /
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radically, in less /
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than two minute /
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increments. ____/
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ASK YOURSELF - How many times has Britney Spears
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claimed she was 20, then how long for 19? 18? 17?
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NUMBERS
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http://www.raisethefist.com/news.cgi?artical=wire/-----9854803t4a.article
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http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=103875
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http://www.plastic.com/article.html?sid=02/12/10/06090413
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1216-01.htm
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http://www.americanpolitics.com/index.html
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http://talkingtree.org/index2.htm
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http://www.councilofpeace.net
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http://www.smartmeme.com
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http://linefeed.org
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http://www.wtj.com
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bringing your attention to:
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Bimbo Brand (tm) Toasted Bread
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since Oct. '99
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LETTUCE
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From: "Jennifer Harbury"
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To:
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Date: 15Dec02 08:54:11 -0600
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Dear Friends...As you read this I am heading for guatemala.
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My family has been attacked there. We urgently need as many
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calls as you and your friends can possibly make to the
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Guatemalan embassy this week, starting Monday morning....
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THANKS....
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Jennifer
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http://mke.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1601
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*************
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hey hey hey
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* it's ATI *
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*** ! ***
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*******
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"As activists we need to spend less time compiling
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reams of data and more time rewriting our cultural
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stories -- the very mythology that society gets its
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values from -- and do it quick."
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"writers" calling themself the "smart meme project"
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http://www.smartmeme.com
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A bad poem written
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time wasted once more
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you were not smitten
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I was a bore.
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-- MKE Poet Irene Loffe
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--<><><><>--
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comments?:
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ati@etext.org
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--<><><><>--
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/ Pvt. Torres, a soldier in the US Army
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/ has decided to refuse to go to the
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/ Gulf to fight. He's the first US
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/ soldier taking this stance yet.
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& IN PRIME ANARCHIST WORLD NEWS 2NITE:
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NAZI SS GUARD AND CIA AGENT DIE IN SECRET SUICIDE PACT.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (PAWN) Theodore "Ted" Shackley,
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75, the youngster in the duo, killed his boyfriend
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Anton Malloth, 90; but not before letting his victim
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kill him too.
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The two both pointed their machine guns monday, each
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at the others' private parts just as they'd agreed
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decades ago. They counted back from ten in German
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and right after 3,2,1, both closed their eyes, and
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pulled the triggers on fully automatic.
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Wow. What a mess.
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Shackley, known as "The Blond Ghost" joined the CIA
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in its earliest days, 1951. Malloth, a former Nazi SS
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guard was sentenced last year to life in prison for
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beating a jewish concentration camp inmate to death
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in 1944. He'd already been convicted of killing a
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prisoner for hidden cauliflower in her jacket and
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her Reebok pump sneakers.
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Shackley and Malloth tried killing Fidel Castro
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twenty years ago and vowed to keep trying once a
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year for two decades. If they failed the 20th time,
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they agreed they would kill each other.
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Monday's infamous double murder, suicide, homicide
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was listed as the first and only successful joint
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mission the CIA and SS ever conducted in human history.
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CARDINAL LAW AND DOCTOR KISSINGER SEEN LEAVING TOGETHER.
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PAWN - (Vatican City) Henry left first, and then came
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Bernard holding out an open hand like a lady-in-wait
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before hopping on the double-wide escalator.
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Flashbulbs galore burst as a glib Kissinger reached back
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an extended arm for Law to grab and the two descended the
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escalator walking hand in hand for most of the rest of
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their day. The pair was seen leaving dozens of different
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places while they continued on their all-exenses-paid
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end-of-career shopping sprees throughout Italy, France,
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England and Wales.
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They will settle tomorrow in beautiful Marion County
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feeding each other grapes and boiled cauliflour roll-ups
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in a condo of their own choosing. The two will summer
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at the Broadmoore Estates in Colorado Springs.
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Officiating at the ceremony was of course none other
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than Pope John "Wayne" Paul himself. He gave them his
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blessing and they're now starting their new life
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together.
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Kissinger leaves behind plantations, factories, and
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unfinished phase-two time-share apartments all over
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the continental United States, while Law leaves behind
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just a whole lot of power, authority and young slaves.
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Kissinger will keep his blood-sausage-making-facilities
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which had made him his first millions, so he can easily
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assure himself and the little-vicar a healthy retirement.
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The only thing Law was interested in keeping was a spiffy
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red and white singaporian hand-made festival hat.
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= info following brought =
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= on by a need for more =
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= real information =) =
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===========================
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OK, After all these fantastical fake stories,
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here's a real one that'll simply blow your mind.
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Berkley mayor Tom Bates will plead guilty to
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trashing newspapers.
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When the UC Berkley paper printed an endorsement
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of the mayor's opponent, he was witnessed by three
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unique people removing papers, (is it still called
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the Berkley Barb? Or was that a different pape?)
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and throwing them into a trash can on Sproul Plaza,
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which is very ironic because it's famous for being
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what people called the birthplace of the 1964 Free
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Speech Movement.
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Bates apologized at the next City Council meeting
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and announced he'll plead guilty and pay a $250 fine.
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A TIP FOR REMEMBERING YOUR COMPASS POINTS.
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Never Eat Shredded Wheat.
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\ BEWARE THE BLUNTED E-ZINE!
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\ A blunted or chipped e-zine can permanently
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/ / Take in. Make sure your e-zine is certified "K-Rad,"
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/ / Or "Decent," before reading this T-Phile. If in
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/ Doubt, have Prime Anarchist Check it for you.
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/ Because only Prime can detect E-Zine Blunt.
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SIODOH -
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The Sitting-In-Front-Of-Dahmer's-Old-House Column.
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(This one goes long, but I need every word. Enjoy.)
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Middle High German, Or WWRD?: What Would Reagan Do?
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Have you ever had someone ask you where you stand
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on assassination?
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Have you ever looked deep into their eyes? Could
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you even find their eyes? I've been asked this five
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times I remember, and I'm thinking I better discuss
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this as a phenomenon rather than avoiding it more.
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OK, I've been running homeless shelters since the
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early 90s now, and it seems to show up mostly at
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these kinds of places. Only once did I hear it from
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a fellow shelter provider, the other four were
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people right there in the belly of abject poverty.
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This is where this type of sentiment festers,
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boils and takes root. Fanatical religious groups
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seem to recruit heavily around here and the poor
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are so vulnerable, they're ripe for this kind of
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abuse. It's one thing for a clergy to say something
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like "Jesus says you must be firm," it's entirely
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something else when someone stands there surrounded
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by a black and brown aura so thick you can't get near
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them, oozing out with violence and aggression, saying
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"don't you believe in assassination?" or "this nation's
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biggest problem is when it went away from allowing
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for assassination."
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Woah!
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What do you say to that?? "I love you," didn't
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work, nor did "I feel sorry for you." Logic won't
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get you anywhere I guess. And my one time trying
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silence felt icky because in a case like this I'm
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fearful it was seen as agreement or affirmation.
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Yuck.
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I just don't know how to respond. Each time I
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think I left behind a feeling of shock from even
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knowing there's more than a tiny handful of anti-
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social psychopaths acting semi-functional out there
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who feel that way. Unfortunately I must point out
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that this energy spreads way to fast - especially
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in a time of war (or whatever you must call 13 years
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of military organized genocide).
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Dozens of "terrorists" are now on the CIA's
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"kill-if-you-need-to" list. What is this list
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anyhow? Where did it come from? Aside from brand
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new leaks, it's about as illusory as the domestic
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"No-Fly List." Apparently the Anti-Social-Psycopath-
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In-Chief himself, but no one will confirm this
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beyond the usual Woodward/Bernstein non-commital
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commitals.
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You know, "do you still beat your children..."
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"no comment..." - you tell your boss he said yes...
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"What list?" "if there is a list we only use it
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as last resort... Oh... don't quote me. There is
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no list."
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An old executive order still bans assassinations,
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and of course Bush keeps trying like hell to get
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"his" congress to overturn it. They went for a lot
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of dark dreary things but even a congressionally
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complicitous war criminal (if he's not quite a
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full-on psycopath himself) won't agree to something
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like this, so they voted him down again.
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Bush is not allowed to assassinate ANYONE. The
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language is rather clear. But how does he react?
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Probably chants the daily mantra: WWRD - What Would
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Reagan Do.
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Bush has provided written legal authority to the
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CIA to hunt down and kill the "terrorists" when and
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where (and how) they want.
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Jeff Smith, a former general counsel for the CIA
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and now just a DC lawyer, said it is important for
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the US to keep the assassination ban intact. "The
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ban is good policy, and we don't want to create a
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situation where assassination becomes an accepted
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form of behavior."
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My only question after a truth like that is, but
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will we allow for the regular use of it as an accepted
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form of unaccepted behavior? Did that come out right?
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I think you know what I mean.
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I'll end this suggesting you look up the etymologies
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of two words.
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Terrorist and Assassin.
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You may want to brush up on origins of the word
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Putsch also.
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#### YOU ARE TUNED TO KATI; 2002 ON YOUR FM DIAL ####
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AND IN MKE SPORTS:
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Tim Thomas and Ray Allen had great game bringing
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to a 101-79 win over the Portland Trailblazers.
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Portland's Scotty Pippin played really well but
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the Trailblazers seemed a bit off overall. Maybe
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too much hanging around in the Hyatt or carousing
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around town before the game.
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It was not easy to root for my newest hometeam
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this game for two reasons.
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1) from Connecticut.
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2) REALLY LIKE OPONENT'S COLOR SCHEME!!!
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I landed these tickets late enough to have no
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chance to check with more sports-competent
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friends. Not sure how a Bucks win or loss might
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affect any Celtics outcomes. Red and black is the
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shit, man. I'm telling you. As a youth, I played
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for both soccer teams and baseball companies that
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had red and black "anthems." And besides I just
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plain dig everything red & black stands for. That's
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why my favorite bird in the world is the little
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old vulture they call the redwinged blackbird.
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But I digress. I watched Tim Thomas grab two
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three-point plays in a row, and a normal basket
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right after that. Some playing! He had game with
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5 threepointers total, among 25 points and under
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the boards he got himself seven rebounds. Cassell
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did almost as well as Thomas getting himself 19
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points and 10 assists.
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I'll be honest, I'm rooting for the hometeam
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for one reason since my other indicators were
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absent. Ray Allen's my boy, being from UCONN
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territory and all.
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This game wasn't a blowout by any stretch.
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The only huge bursts came in the 3rd and 4th
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quarters, making for some exciting b-ball.
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So here's some misc. from the recesses of
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my brain throughout the game. Who played sax
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at the beginning of the show? That's the first
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National Anthem I've heard in about 11 years I
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didn't find downright boring. It was quite a
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rendition. And the ending was outragious. Twice
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he commanded incredible applause, and never once
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did he bust into those stupid Kenny G stylistic
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triplets that every intermediate level player
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falls into often.
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Who's smoking dope? I smelled some serious
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marijuana out there! Seemed to be coming from
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the VIP section. Hmmm. So at 9-9 early on they
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played the Car Wash theme. Quite popular around
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here for some reason. My partner says she wishes
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they'd play more than just the snippet though.
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She and I really wanted to show off that not
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only are we old enough to remember the whole
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tune, but good enough to sing it out.
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So you knew the Bucks were going to win when
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Portland called the first time-out at 16-9.
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They play a good game of catch-up from that
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moment on.
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Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad plays while
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TV-Landia gets to watch couples all over the
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bleachers get mistletoed.
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So what member of what team had their
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birthday February 26th? I missed the
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answer. Wasn't paying attention really
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because I was so bothered and turned off
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by the whole "Verizon sponsors 'Meet The
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Bucks,'" thing.
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At 22-19 Bonzi gets net -- makes me think
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Portland has a chance. Here comes that Carwash
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theme again.
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The Bucks cheerleaders make their first
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appearance to Jimi Hendrix' "Let Me Stand Next
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To Your Fire." Never mind that I know a couple
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of them, I have to say that not only are they
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much better looking than the Dallas Cowboys
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Cheerleaders used to look when I was a teenager,
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but they seem to be a heck of a lot more savvy
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and intelligent. Something tells me that Cheer
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in general is nowhere near as ditzy-dinghy a
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field as it used to be when I was coming up.
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Maybe it's me, call me old-fashioned, but
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when the hometeam makes noise during a free-
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throw I get not just annoyed but deeply offended.
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Why? That's just rude. Over the top, man. When
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I played b-ball (and don't get me wrong. It was
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my least accomplished sport behind soccer and
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baseball) we were completely disallowed from
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making noise during a freethrow. Some of the
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penalties levied for such obnoxious behavior
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were things like clearing the bench, single
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fouls, or in the case of the crowd doing it
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one of the coaches was given a technical.
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Halftime seems to serve about one purpose.
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An open floor to place sandwich boards for
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your favorite corporate muckety muck. "Tonite's
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game of Dodgeball is sponsored by Midwest
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Express and Piggly Wiggly, Klements sausages
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and Senator Herb Kohl." No it's not, all that
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and Dodge itself. The winner gets a brand new
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Dodge car. Gee if that doesn't keep you from
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buying Chevy or Ford, I don't know what will.
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Or any car, for that matter, right?
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OK, it's Verizon text messaging time. Get out
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your verizon cellfones. (we'll allow other fones
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so long as you let us keep saying verizon out
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loud. Verizon) Call the verizon fone number on
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the centercourt teleprompt and whoever's the first
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to hear the operator try to sell you fone service
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will win a nifty verizon prize. Did I say verizon?
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Verizon.
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Wow, the crowd goes simply wild for snippets of
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Ozzy's "Crazy Train." And Tim Thomas has 25 points.
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The "guy" shooting halftime hoops as Bango the
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Bucks mascot has a dirty little secret I should
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tell you about. Yup, even deeper than Victoria,
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of Victoria's Secret fame.
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You ready for this?
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Bango the Bucks' mascot boy is a girl. She's
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30 and she rocks! The woman behind me in the
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bleachers does her hair. This was whispered
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to me by her daughter. It turns out the woman's
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only done her hair once, but the rest is fact.
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Her mom thinks her name was Jennifer.
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So was it a Portland timeout or MKE when the
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cheerleaders performed a rendition of Bachman
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Turner Overdrive's "Takin' Care Of Business?"
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Besides "Crazy Train," this was clearly the
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only other song to outdo "Carwash" in pop smash.
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First verse and the chorus three times. My
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partner and I showed off bigtime.
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Not only did I smell pot two or three times
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throughout the game, but I went to bed last
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nite and woke up this a.m. with that grungy
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grimy gooey throat I tend to get whenever I
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leave the east-coast casinos Foxwoods and
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Mohegan Sun. I don't request they cut out
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smoking if that's what it was, but I would
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suggest they spend the millions needed to
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ventilate the whole stadium properly.
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Do it fast before people sue you for
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second hand smoke damage. The only reason
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Foxwoods didn't lose their shirt over that
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one is they were making so many billions
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per month they could afford the low millions
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or high hundred thousands to settle out.
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So I had a really good time at the Bucks
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game last night. I want to thank the secret
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donors who got me there. In my current
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lifestyle, if I had the extra forty-bucks-
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a-ticket in cash lying around I'd surely
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spend it on something else like breakfast
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here in the Hyatt or parafin for my bike
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chain or something instead. But I did have
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a great time nonetheless.
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So yes, there's probably a lot I can say
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bad against corporate sports, but one thing
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I must point out about the Bucks besides
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being owned and operated by one of the WORST
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senators the US has ever seen, is that the
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stadium donates leftover foods to the shelter
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I help run on a fairly regular basis. That is
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compassion at its finest.
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Shit!
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I was gonna end this here and pay out the
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damage, but I just met two guys from my favorite
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sport. Yup. Soccer. The Force are here to play
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the Wave this afternoon. So I was schmoozing
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with them a little. They're cool. And to top
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it off, I had enough schmoozing, so I ended
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saying "Beat Milwaukee, please. I'm from CT,"
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and one of them held me back saying, "which
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part?" He's from Newtown. Ah, the Newtown Bee
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newspaper, and visions of WLAD before it went
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easylistening danced in my head. I told them
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about Italian soccer showing on bigscreen
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tomorrow morning at the best coffeeshop in
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town if they have time before their next road
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game, and made my way back to the laptop and
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the morning paper.
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So hopefully now I can put this story to
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"galley" and "blow this taco stand" before
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I bump into some girl from a bus-and-truck
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show, or some talkshow host or cheesecake
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salesman.
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