As most of you heard, a few weeks ago I was in a wreck where this drunken assclown hit me almost dead on. We have a court date later on this week, but this guy has a history from what I've been told. He and his lawyers want to settle out of court since he's got a fairly high profile in this town. I've already decided that if we did settle, it would just be for my medical costs and enough money to buy a new car, since my old one is totalled. Some friends have suggested cleaning the guy out, since he makes more in a month than most of us see in a year.

If this had happened to you, what would you do? Clean the guy out, or just get enough to pay off your bills?

Hi Lent.

How are you.

I thought you were never coming back again?

What happened? The word never only means a month in white boy years?

[self-congratulation]
because of posting on messageboards.

It's been a little less than a year that I've been posting on these boards here, but I have noticed a significant improvement in the speed of my wit thanks to it.

I'm in a 40-hour a week conentrated MBA program with the same 51 people every day, and so there are countless opportunties where one could pipe in with a wise-ass comment. But the thing is knowing when you've got a good line, and when to hold it in. My success rate in the class is stuff of legends now. People ask me to teach them, but alas, I wouldn't know where to start.

My experiences here have sharpened the speed, quality, and content (using less words is always funnier) to heights I wouldn't think was possible.

I can honestly say that I've gotten laid from saying witty things that I probably wouldn't have come up with a year ago.

I can't be the only one that has gotten so much real-life personality improvement off of this type of communication.
[/self-congratulation]

i'm gonna have to watch that.

july 27th is when it's going down.

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Edited By LZMF1 on July 15 2002 at 8:01

to bed.

Sweetdreams :-D

i collect pez. have about 200 of them. i also collect handblown crystal eggs. have about 25 of those. anybody collect anything?(other than maynerds ass-pimple collection)

Anyone?

No moderators or admins logged in. I think a <s>celebration</s> party is in order...

I'll bring the beer and pretzels.

Does this bother anyone else? Recruiting the "average" American and giving him a right to spy on the rest of us. I mean I know that there are terrorist cells in America but how do the rest of you feel about the armchair Thought Police? Would yo join?

US planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies
By Ritt Goldstein
July 15 2002

The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups.

The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to report "suspicious activity".

Civil liberties groups have already warned that, with the passage earlier this year of the Patriot Act, there is potential for abusive, large-scale investigations of US citizens.

As with the Patriot Act, TIPS is being pursued as part of the so-called war against terrorism. It is a Department of Justice project.

Highlighting the scope of the surveillance network, TIPS volunteers are being recruited primarily from among those whose work provides access to homes, businesses or transport systems. Letter carriers, utility employees, truck drivers and train conductors are among those named as targeted recruits.

A pilot program, described on the government Web site <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.citizencorps.gov">http://www.citizencorps.gov</a><!-- w -->, is scheduled to start next month in 10 cities, with 1 million informants participating in the first stage. Assuming the program is initiated in the 10 largest US cities, that will be 1 million informants for a total population of almost 24 million, or one in 24 people.

Historically, informant systems have been the tools of non-democratic states. According to a 1992 report by Harvard University's Project on Justice, the accuracy of informant reports is problematic, with some informants having embellished the truth, and others suspected of having fabricated their reports.

Present Justice Department procedures mean that informant reports will enter databases for future reference and/or action. The information will then be broadly available within the department, related agencies and local police forces. The targeted individual will remain unaware of the existence of the report and of its contents.

The Patriot Act already provides for a person's home to be searched without that person being informed that a search was ever performed, or of any surveillance devices that were implanted.

At state and local levels the TIPS program will be co-ordinated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which was given sweeping new powers, including internment, as part of the Reagan Administration's national security initiatives. Many key figures of the Reagan era are part of the Bush Administration.

The creation of a US "shadow government", operating in secret, was another Reagan national security initiative.



Edited By IkeaBoy on July 14 2002 at 4:46