smak soccer! I'm a fan of widespread Eurohumiliation!! GO HOLLAND

>>And the only thing any of them (the few that got charged with their "crimes") had done was to send money to their relatives in the countries where they came from. This was labeled "sending money to terrorists".<<

I think you are seriously confused.  Very few people got charged, many more had bank accounts closed.  And in Minneapolis which has about 60,000 Somali immigrants, one of the wire services operating to Somalia paid Al Qaeda $0.08 on every dollar wired out of America, so the FBI had every reason to slam that down.

>>It's like during the cold war BW (if you have any recollection of that) when people could say "my neighbour is a comi!" to get him/her arrested (with no proof). This is the same. No proof needed to take someone in, and no courts needed to send him/her to jail or our of the country.<<

No, that was the Red Scare of 1920 which also followed terror attacks, the Wall Street bombing and the attempted murder of a Secretary of State by two unknown men (their bomb went off while they were planting it on the porch and all we know about them is there were two of them by the number of arms recovered from the neighborhood)

Yeah but Memorial Day sticks in our craw.

We came up with Memorial Day first in 1866 to commemorate our civil war dead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_day
originally "Decoration Day" because it focused on putting flowers and flags in war cemeteries

"Veterans Day" is November 11, guess when that got started?

Memorial Day

>>yell, it's not jackson's fault, he might have a little something to do with it, but you can't fire a great coach like him, he's one of the best coaches if not the best coach in NBA....why would u even think he should be fired?<<

I sure as hell would fire his ass, AGAIN, he is nowhere near a great coach, let's check the facts:

1.  He made his bones coaching Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen.  Who WOULDN'T win finals with those guys?
2.  He totally screwed up the whole Kobe-Shaq drama.  A GOOD coach, not a great coach but even a GOOD one, would have run that out of his lockerroom the first season.  We had five years of it.
3.  He chokes. Totally.  He goes into the finals with a game plan and NO CONTINGENCY.  We all saw it when the Pistons mopped the floor with the Lakers in 2003.  He was scribbling on his little whiteboard but it didn't matter.  He can't improvise and he's not that much better than the competition that he can stick to Master Plan A.

>>i blame it on lakers bench, they should know what kobe is thinking when he passes them the ball, and they end up blowing a perfectly set up play<<

Maybe they need some sort of supervisory advisor to help them with that? Perhaps they could hire one? What title should he have?

And how

I forget, do the Bugs fry Rico's mom in the movie?

Good point, time we repudiated the UN Convention since it covers people forced to wear jumpsuits and pick up trash along the highway

I think vissertje and WFS are the same guy

OK I have been informed by reliable sources that Indy did not shag the Ruski babe and that is downright unAmerican! 

I saw "The Happening", some thoughts

1. Shamalayan could have called it "The Plants" except Hitchcock's estate would have sued his ass off for plagiarizing "The Birds".  It's borderline and that would have been final proof...
2. Kudos to a film that effectively demonstrates the need for private gun ownership
3. Could also have been called "The Slappening" but you won't find that out until you're 4/5ths through the movie
4.  Seems to me if there's something in the air to make you kill yourself you'd do ok to get hella drunk.  Unless it made you roll over and puke.  So you'd have to strap yourself into a chair or something.
5. "Uh, I'm gonna go do something suicidally reckless m'kay? So I'm gonna leave my daughter with you m'kay? HEY Don't you go being a reckless dumbass with my little girl! Or I'll be mad about leaving her with you or something right up until my inevitable death!"
6. We saw six previews with this flick and I dont' want to see any of them.

BW I think you have lived in New York too long.

"It just takes some time"-- the rest of the country prefers it take as long as the words "You're fired" to go from the boss' lips to the snafu's ear.

I have busted my ass in a press shop that was too poor for a union-- they don't bother with outfits that won't support their dues. OK fair enough but spare me the "Voice of the Common People" crap.

Now what they're doing in CA is striking to force a smaller pension package for new hires so the company can afford the older more generous package for the veteran employees.  You work at those places, they make you join a union, and then they tie you into a budget pension plan In The Name Of The Worker. Thats if they hire Americans and not skilled illegals.

How can you doubt Google hates you all?