At least I have a reason to go see 1 Red Bull game this year

MADRID (Reuters) - Former England captain David Beckham will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season and sign a five-year deal for MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy, he told Reuters on Thursday.

"This week Real Madrid asked me to make a decision regarding my future and the offer to extend my contract for a further two seasons," Beckham told Reuters.

"After discussing several options with my family and my advisors to either stay here in Madrid or join other major British and European teams I have decided to join LA Galaxy and play in the MLS from August this year.

"I would like to thank supporters and the people of Madrid who have made my family and I so welcome in my time here making this an extremely difficult decision to make.

"I have enjoyed my time here enormously and I am extremely grateful to the club for giving me an opportunity to play for such a great team and their amazing fans."

The 31-year-old, who joined Real from Manchester United in June 2003, is the most famous player to sign up for Major League Soccer since it began in 1996.

He is also the biggest name player to move to club soccer in the U.S. since the likes of Pele, Franz Beckenbauer and Johan Cruyff played in the long-defunct North American Soccer League (NASL) in the 1970s and early eighties.

HUGE DEAL

His deal is reported to be one of the biggest in global sport with Beckham set to earn more than $250 million over the duration of his contract.

The news ends months of speculation about the future of the midfielder whose contract with Real expires at the end of the season.

Having been first choice in the Real Madrid starting lineup since he moved to Spain, Beckham lost his place following the arrival of Italian coach Fabio Capello.

He has only started five of Real's 16 league games this season and was known to be frustrated with his lack of opportunities in the first team.

The former Manchester United player said he was now inspired by the challenge of cracking the American soccer market.

"I am proud to have played for two of the biggest clubs in football and I look forward to the new challenge of growing the world's most popular game in a country that is as passionate about its sport as my own.

But he insisted he would be giving his all for Real Madrid until the end of the season to try and win the major trophy that has eluded him since he joined the club in 2003.

"For the rest of this season I will continue to give 100 percent to my coach, team mates and fans and I believe Fabio Capello will bring this club and its supporters the success they truly deserve."

You WILL fucking come bow to my superior fantasy football performance this year. Oh yes, you will.

...worrying, Im here.

I must have somehow put on dirty or otherwise contaminated underwear this morning.

I was sitting at my desk surrounded by this putrid odor until I realized that it had to be me.

I then realized that it was clearly the smell of ball sweat and swamp ass.

I then felt down under my grundle, and it was rubbing a puddle of water.

I had to walk into the bathroom, sit on the pot, and rip my underwear off (since I didn't want to take my shoes and pants all the way off.

And then I threw my ripped drawers into the trash (which is uncovered) so someone will clearly see (and likely smell) the rancid undies next to the bathroom sink while the wash their hands.

I also just sprayed my sweaty nuts with AXE body spray.

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WASHINGTON - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?
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In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.

The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.

Intelligence and technology experts said such transmitters, if they exist, could be used to surreptitiously track the movements of people carrying the spy coins.

The U.S. report doesn't suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why. It also doesn't describe how the
Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function or even which Canadian currency contained them.

Further details were secret, according to the U.S. Defense Security Service, which issued the warning to the Pentagon's classified contractors. The government insists the incidents happened, and the risk was genuine.

"What's in the report is true," said Martha Deutscher, a spokeswoman for the security service. "This is indeed a sanitized version, which leaves a lot of questions."

Top suspects, according to outside experts: China, Russia or even France — all said to actively run espionage operations inside Canada with enough sophistication to produce such technology.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said it knew nothing about the coins.

"This issue has just come to our attention," CSIS spokeswoman Barbara Campion said. "At this point, we don't know of any basis for these claims." She said Canada's intelligence service works closely with its U.S. counterparts and will seek more information if necessary.

Experts were astonished about the disclosure and the novel tracking technique, but they rejected suggestions Canada's government might be spying on American contractors. The intelligence services of the two countries are extraordinarily close and routinely share sensitive secrets.

"It would seem unthinkable," said David Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. "I wouldn't expect to see any offensive operation against the Americans."

Harris said likely candidates include foreign spies who targeted Americans abroad or businesses engaged in corporate espionage. "There are certainly a lot of mysterious aspects to this," Harris said.

Experts said such tiny transmitters would almost certainly have limited range to communicate with sensors no more than a few feet away, such as ones hidden inside a doorway. The metal in the coins also could interfere with any signals emitted.

"I'm not aware of any (transmitter) that would fit inside a coin and broadcast for kilometers," said Katherine Albrecht, an activist who believes such technology carries serious privacy risks. "Whoever did this obviously has access to some pretty advanced technology."

Experts said hiding tracking technology inside coins is fraught with risks because the spy's target might inadvertently give away the coin or spend it buying coffee or a newspaper. They agreed, however, that a coin with a hidden tracking device might not arouse suspicion if it were discovered in a pocket or briefcase.

"It wouldn't seem to be the best place to put something like that; you'd want to put it in something that wouldn't be left behind or spent," said Jeff Richelson, a researcher and author of books about the
CIA and its gadgets. "It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense."

Canada's largest coins include its $2 "Toonie," which is more than 1-inch across and thick enough to hide a tiny transmitter. The CIA has acknowledged its own spies have used hollow, U.S. silver-dollar coins to hide messages and film.

The government's 29-page report was filled with other espionage warnings. It described unrelated hacker attacks, eavesdropping with miniature pen recorders and the case of a female foreign spy who seduced her American boyfriend to steal his computer passwords.

In another case, a film processing company called the
FBI after it developed pictures for a contractor that contained classified images of U.S. satellites and their blueprints. The photo was taken from an adjoining office window.

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Yeah, not really. I know someone who met him once that got his business card, but that’s about it.

Anyway, the guy’s a fucking moron and deserves what he gets for being stupid enough to download that shit at work. If you’re going to have unorthodox sexual fetishes/fantasies, the least you can do is keep it to yourself and in your home.

But a 150 year sentence for looking at some naked underage girls? That seems a bit harsh. In fact, the whole legal issue of downloading/viewing objectionable material such as child porn is a bit odd to me. The implication is that there is a causal relationship between downloading pictures of naked 10-year olds and sexually abusing a 10-year old, and I just don’t see that as always being the case. In the case of this guy, he’s been collecting images since 2002 and (from all known reports) has never acted out his fantasy. Bestiality is illegal in most states, but you never hear of anyone getting arrested for amassing a huge collection of horsecock pictures or pigfucking videos.

I’m not advocating child porn as a victimless, innocuous crime. Whoever is responsible for photographing the kids and providing the material should be punished accordingly. But I don’t think you can unequivocally say that everybody that gets turned on by nude preteens is a dangerous depraved child molester in the waiting. Some people are completely capable of separating fantasy from reality. I think most people would agree that people who enjoy watching stuff like Faces of Death are not going to automatically go out and kill people afterwards. Why, then, do we just assume that anyone that enjoys looking at naked kids will also enjoy raping naked kids? You can just as easily masturbate to a 10-year old without a visual aid to assist you. It doesn’t make you any more or less dangerous than guys like this flutist.

A guy sitting in the privacy of his own home masturbating to pictures of 10-year olds is considerably less dangerous than the guy that doesn’t own a computer, sitting in his car outside an elementary school with candy in one hand and his erection in the other.

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looks pretty damn cool. to bad its only on cingular

Well, not really. He's as easy a 1st-ballot choice as there's ever been. 400+ HR and, more importantly, 3100+ hits are automatic. But considering he played 21 seasons, including 16 1/2 consecutively, the numbers are really not that impressive.

1 30 HR season
4 100 RBI seasons
2 200 hit seasons
5 .300 seasons

He was a very good, consistent, durable player. No way he is a HOF'er though if he averages, say, 142 games played instead of 162.

That's not to take anything away from the streak. It is what it is and will never be done again. But Gehrig's worst year is better than Ripken's best. It's unfair to compare players from different eras - especially to Gehrig - but in this case it is very telling because the streak is 95% of why Ripken is a HOFer in the first place. Without the streak, he'd just be an infield version of Andre Dawson/Harold Baines/Dwight Evans/Dave Parker.

My own odor is nauseating me right now. Stay away from that shit or you'll smell like a wet mop after only about 5-6 hours.

Professor at U of P beats wife to death: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/08/prof.c...index.html

Not really, but I did go to the school next door there for about 6 mos so we likely beat the same parts of the street. I actually took M.E. at Penn State taught by some pitch black african fella. I had that and micro E back to back, two 1 hour and 15 minutes classes, and it was like getting a good beating every tues and thurs, so it's all makes sense and comes together if you look at the big picture.