Daryl Johnston speaks on Moss actions during radio annoucing the game....
by Rosemary
FOURTH QUARTER
On Minnesota's clinching drive to end the game...
DARYL: Third and 11 and you let the Vikings run a draw for 10 ½. One of the many reasons the Packers don't deserve to win this game.
FOXSports.com: Would the Vikings be better served by letting Moss rest that bad ankle? Seeing as how it looks like they're going to be playing next week?
DARYL: I would at this point. But it should be a non-issue. If the league had any guts, they would suspend him for the game next week and send a message to every player that nobody is bigger than the game.
Buck said it was disgusting. Everybody is so scared of Moss, no one wants to punish him, like the Fox guys said in the pregame. I'd love to see the league fine the heck outta him and make him go to area schools and tell kids not to be like him.
and I know JJ took some heat for not drafting him, but no team needs a quitter. And that's what Moss is: he's a quitter and a whiner if he is not properly bowed down to and worshipped. He's too eager to point fingers of blame at others if his team doesn't win. Like James Brown said, no amount of talent can excuse his behavior.
exactly,,,the cowboys have worked hard to clean up their rep and moss cannot be...
by Rosemary
allowed to get away with this, Owens is one thing, although stupid and self absorbed as he is, moss just discgraced the game, a boob at the superbowl is nothing compared to this, nfl should have known not to let mtv produce the sb halftime show but this was one of their players, that was beyond disgraceful.
and said it was live tv and they didn't know he was going to do that. Aikman quickly moved on to show the replay of the actual play and talked about the pass/td only.
U.S. Helicopter Crashes in Indonesia - everyone OK
by Saien
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - A U.S. helicopter with 10 people on board crashed in a rice paddy as it was trying to land at the Banda Aceh airport Monday while on a tsunami-relief operation, injuring at least two U.S. servicemen, a U.S. military spokesman said.
The injured men, along with eight other Navy personnel, were being flown back to their ship in the Lincoln battle group, said Capt. Joe Plenzler, a U.S. military spokesman in Medan, 250 miles southeast of Banda Aceh.
The SH60 helicopter crashed in a rice paddy about 500 yards from the airport in Banda Aceh, the main city on Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island, as it was trying to land, he said.
"There was no fire ball but a little smoke. It landed on its side," Plenzler said, adding that the helicopter's propeller was twisted from the impact.
U.S. authorities said there was no indication the helicopter had been shot down.
Authorities quickly cordoned off the area and U.S. officials began searching the field around the crash site, apparently for debris.
The airport at Banda Aceh "is still functioning and the crash shouldn't effect relief operations," Plenzler said.
The helicopter was flying in personnel to the airport from the USS Abraham Lincoln group off the coast of Sumatra, he said.
"We can rule out ground fire, but until there is investigation the determination of the cause of the accident can't be made," Plenzler said.
Security concerns were heightened Sunday when a shooting incident occurred outside a United Nations (news - web sites) compound in Banda Aceh. Local police blamed the shooting on separatist rebels who operate in the area, but nobody was injured and aid officials said they did not believe relief workers were targeted.
American Idol two-night premiere on January 18th and 19th - A twist!
by Saien
A TWIST! American Idol is changing things up! This year, instead of 36 finalists, at the end of the Hollywood round, the judges will select 12 male and 12 female singers. Then in the semi-finals, one group performs on Monday and the other on Tuesday, with voting on both nights. On Wednesday, two singers from each group will be eliminated until we have our finalists, 6 males and 6 females! So now, your favorite singers will be seen every week until we've crowned our fourth American Idol!
Don't know if you guys hahd heard about Mickey Rooney's Airborne Ad that was rejected by the Super Bowl. It sounds pretty funny. I hope I get to see it somewhere on TV. Well, ESPN has a whole list of other ads that would be refused. Some of these are quite funny.
ESPN Page 2
We're living in a post-Nipplegate world -- and apparently it's only going to get worse. In case you haven't heard, Fox has already rejected a Super Bowl ad starring Mickey Rooney for Airborne, the natural cold remedy.
Why? Well, in the ad, the 84-year-old Rooney is in a sauna. Someone behind him coughs. He overreacts, jumps up, screams, heads for the door, and drops his towel. His bare bum is exposed for two seconds or so. Clearly scandalous.
Who doesn't want to see Mickey Rooney's bare behind?
Turns out the Mickey Rooney commercial isn't the only new ad that's already ended up on the scrap heap. Page 2 has uncovered some of the others deemed too racy for the Super Bowl.
Product: Charles Schwab
Celebrity: George Steinbrenner
Commercial: George Steinbrenner walks through the Yankee clubhouse. He high-fives Derek Jeter. He shakes hands with Hideki Matsui. Then he comes up to Jason Giambi, whose back is turned to his locker. As Giambi reaches up to grab something, his towel falls off, revealing a skinny, shriveled-up butt. Voice-over: "Have some of your investments turned sour? Then you need our financial advice."
Product: Bed, Bath & Beyond
Celebrity: Terrell Owens
Commercial: Owens is shopping in the towel section. As he feels the towels, he keeps glancing up to see one gorgeous woman after another -- wearing, of course, nothing but a towel -- walk by. The last woman suddenly drops her towel and leaps into T.O.'s arms. Voice-over: "At Bed, Beth & Beyond, we have a large selection of towels for you to choose from. But some are softer than others."
Product: T-Mobile's Sidekick
Celebrity: Snoop Dogg
Commercial: Paris Hilton sends Snoop a text message asking for the correct way to roll a blunt.
Product: ACLU
Celebrity: Carmelo Anthony
Commercial: Anthony is walking through an airport. Security guards stop him. They start searching him. Soon, he's wearing nothing and we see his bare behind. A guard holds up a marijuana cigarette. Voice-over: "Protect your rights, even when you're caught with your pants down with your friend's marijuana. Call the ACLU."
Product: The Philip Rivers Experience
Celebrity: Philip Rivers
Commercial: Playing off the hugely-popular "Michael Vick Experience" campaign, a customer is strapped into a harness and paces the sidelines while watching Drew Brees lead San Diego to the playoffs.
Product: Boston Red Sox Season Tickets
Celebrity: George Steinbrenner
Commercial: Steinbrenner is depicted as Darth Vader representing the Evil Empire of Yankee-dom. Network execs refuse to run the ad out of fear that Vader would sue for defamation of character.
Product: Viagra
Celebrity: Randy Moss
Commercial: Camera pans to Moss leaving a Vikings game with a few seconds left. Then it cuts to Moss holding up the product. Voice-over: "Do you have trouble staying around for the entire game? Do you leave early? I've learned my lesson. Take this product and your performance will last the entire 60 minutes."
Product: Chaser
Celebrity: NBA player
Commercial: A fan at an NBA game is drinking a beer. He has another one. And another one. Then he throws a plastic cup at an unnamed player. The player attacks the fan. Then the commercial cuts to the fan waking up the next morning, with a black eye and a swollen lip. Voice-over: "Had too much to drink last night? Then take Chaser to give you freedom from hangovers (but not necessarily rampaging NBA players).
Product: Pizza Hut
Celebrity: The L.A. Lakers
Commercial: Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Caron Butler and Chucky Atkins are sitting around the locker room, trying to decide what kind of pizza they want. Kobe wants pepperoni. Lamar wants sausage. Caron wants mushrooms. Chucky wants the works. After some arguing, Rudy T walks in and tells the guys to order the Pizza Hut "4forALL" pizza, so everyone can have what they want. The pizza arrives, and everyone's happy. (Network execs rejected this one after learning that when the cameras stopped rolling, Kobe immediately started hoarding all the pies. Kobe then hinted that he and Lamar couldn't eat together and he didn't like how Rudy T. wasn't running the toppings through him.)
Ashlee, girl -- the singing thing? Yeah, give that up. And we liked you better as a blonde, too.
Product: Ashlee Simpson's album "Autobiography"
Celebrity: Ashlee Simpson
Commercial: In another attempt to prove that she can really sing, Simpson is sitting by herself on a stool in an empty room. She begins to sing a capella and the sound is downright awful -- like a cross between a boiled kitten and Lou Ferrigno yelling at his father in "Pumping Iron." (Network execs rejected this one because they were concerned millions of TV sets would spontaneously combust.)
Product: Fox TV program "Who's Your Daddy?"
Celebrity: Shawn Kemp, Andre Rison, Ricky Williams
Commercial: A girl who's never met her biological father spends time with Kemp, Rison and Williams and tries to determine which one is her father. (Network execs decided to scrap this ad, and the show, when they realized how horrendous it was.)
Product: Formula 409 All-Purpose Cleaner
Celebrity: Najeh Davenport
Commercial: Najeh, all grimy from a hard day at practice, comes back to his house trailing dirt behind him. After showering, he goes from room to room, using his 409 to clean everything, and commenting on how it removes "even the toughest stains." The commercial closes with Najeh scrubbing his closet, and winking. "And odors, too." (Network execs rejected this commercial after learning that Davenport is apparently a subscriber of method acting, and once again dookied in the "closet" off the soundstage.)
Product: Adidas
Celebrity: Tracy McGrady
Commercial: Miniature bright white soldiers, tanks and helicopters attempt to slow McGrady's trip down the court. (Was rejected because network execs were afraid the ad would incite racial tensions for its portrayal of the white man trying to keep a brother down.)
Product: Vick's Children's Nyquil
Celebrity: None
Commercial: A mother eases her child's cold symptoms by tenderly giving him a spoonful of Nyquil before bed. (Scrapped because it promotes alcohol use among minors.)
Product: Salad Shooter
Celebrity: None
Commercial: A mother prepares a salad in the kitchen for her family. (Scrapped because it promotes the use of firearms in the home.)
I don't think it's going to happen...all I can find is old articles..nothing I can find on NASCAR.com either. I might be wrong but the new season is coming up soon ...we should have heard something by now.
Hall of Fame Racing
Hall of Fame Racing is still moving forward although suffering some set backs and tragedies. Our alliance partner and friend Rick Hendrick and his family have suffered an unimaginable loss of family and friends with the crash of a team airplane. Our thoughts and prayers are constantly with everyone in the Hendrick family.
Our team attracted a world class sponsor in 2004 and we thought we would be on the track in 2005. We then found out that our sponsor would be prohibited from participating in NASCAR because of a conflict with the Nextel sponsorship of the Cup series. We were extremely disappointed but understand the position of Nextel. We feel our associate sponsorship is relatively assured if we can secure our primary sponsor. The cost of racing these days is not insignificant and there are just so many companies which can make the kind of expenditure necessary to be a primary sponsor. We are in talks with several organizations and expect to have something secured for the 2006 season.
Hall of Fame Racing is committed to entering the sport with enough money to compete at the highest level. For that reason we won’t cut corners or try and do a half way program. There is a possibility of us entering the Busch series first. The team is working hard on making our collective goal a reality. We just need a few bounces of the ball in our favor. We’ll keep you posted with our progress.
Just a week after Scott Peterson was arrested in the deaths of his wife, Laci, and the couple’s unborn son, he wrote Amber Frey, his former secret girlfriend, a letter from jail telling her he was praying for her and her daughter.
“You deserve the best in the world,” Peterson wrote in a letter he signed simply “Scott.” “Children are the miracles that we get (to) watch and help with. What a gift.”
Details of the letter and Frey’s relationship with the now-convicted Peterson are revealed in her new book, “Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson,” which went on sale Tuesday. The 29-year-old massage therapist was the prosecution’s star witness in the case against Peterson, who was found guilty Nov. 12 of murdering his wife and unborn son.
Until the book’s publication, Frey’s only public comments about her involvement with last year’s most-watched murder trial came during the two weeks she spent in the Redwood City, Calif., courthouse last August. Frey spent most of her time sitting in the courtroom listening, along with the jury and throngs of reporters, to the dozens of secretly taped phone conversations she’d had with Peterson in the two months after his wife disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002.
Frey begins her 210-page book detailing the whirlwind romance with Peterson that started on a blind date Nov. 20, 2002.
Frey, who had had a series of bad relationships, wrote that she was almost in disbelief at her good fortune. She thought perhaps she’d found the perfect man. She writes that she would later realize that even their earliest conversations were filled with lies from Peterson, whom she came to view as a pathological liar. Peterson told Frey that he’d never even gotten close to being married and was “completely monogamous” with her.
Frey said she could hardly breathe after learning that Peterson was the man in the news whose wife was missing and the subject of an intense national search.
Along the way, Frey, who makes references to finding strength through God throughout the book, said that she had come to believe that she was chosen by God to help find Laci.
The book includes 13 pages of photographs of Frey, including photographs with her young daughter, two dozen shots from a modeling shoot taken in 2000 and photographs of her and Peterson embracing at a formal Christmas party.
Even after Modesto police told Frey she had done enough for them and could stop recording her calls with Peterson, Frey insisted she continue taping their conversations in hopes of finding new clues for the investigation. But the single mother of two young children said she’d never expected the tapes to be played in open court or made public, and as she sat there in court listening to herself on tape, she felt “completely humiliated.”
On April 13, 2003, after the bodies of a baby and a woman washed ashore, Frey wrote Peterson a one-sentence e-mail: “Were those the bodies of Laci and Conner?” He never responded.
Man faces charges for 1964 slayings.
Published Sunday, January 9, 2005
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (AP) - Wilford Barrett, whose barber shop sits across the street from the county courthouse, thinks the 41-year-old slaying of three civil rights workers should stay where it is: in the past.
"It’s been so long ago," he said. "I wouldn’t mess with it."
The arrest of former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen on Thursday in one of the most horrific crimes of the civil rights era was for some a satisfying culmination of a long-delayed hunt for justice.
But others here would rather forget the crime, along with the stain of violent racism it left on the town.
Killen, 79, and his wife, Betty Jo, have lived in the same house for 40 years and are familiar figures in the small, rural Mississippi town that became infamous with the 1964 slayings dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."
James Chaney, a 21-year-old black Mississippian, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, were ambushed by Klansmen, beaten and shot. Killen is the first to face state murder charges in their deaths.
Long a focus of suspicion, Killen made a livelihood from farming, operating a sawmill and preaching to a small congregation at Smyrna Baptist Church.
He’s old now - a tall, thin man with a balding head. He is being held in isolation at the Neshoba County Jail and pleaded not guilty Friday to three counts of murder.
County NAACP President Leroy Clemons said the arrest brings relief to a community haunted by the ghosts of the slain young men and helps heal long-open wounds.
"There’s been a feeling of futility over the years about nothing being done," said Stanley Dearman, the retired editor and publisher of the weekly newspaper, The Neshoba Democrat. "The case is just as current now as it was the night the murders were committed, legally and morally."
But at Barrett’s Barbershop, Kenneth Wells snorts when asked whether he believes the preacher is a killer.
"He’s a preacher. He wouldn’t have done nothing like that. Everybody knows Edgar Ray Killen," said Wells, a 64-year-old lifelong resident of Philadelphia.
According to FBI files and court transcripts, Killen not only participated in the crime but did most, if not all, of the planning.
It was Schwerner the Klansmen were after, said Howard Ball, the author of "Murder in Mississippi: United States v. Price and the Struggle for Civil Rights" and a professor of political science at the University of Vermont.
The three were participating in Freedom Summer 1964 - an effort by hundreds of colleges students from the North to help educate and register blacks to vote in the South. Ball said Schwerner was targeted because he was a paid worker for the Congress of Racial Equality.
"The other two were killed simply because they were with Schwerner," Ball said.
On the day of the crime, the workers were arrested and accused of speeding while driving to investigate the ruins of a black church that had been firebombed. Then they were released. Authorities said Killen organized the ambush while the men were being held by police.
HOUSTON - Andrea Yates, the former nurse whose capital-murder convictions for drowning her children in the family bathtub were overturned last week, is calmer and in better spirits at the prison psychiatric ward where she has been serving a life sentence, a friend says.
Instead of sobbing uncontrollably or slipping into a psychotic state, Yates was cheerful and optimistic during prison visits in December, said her best friend, Debbie Holmes.
"Her hands used to tremble and shake, and she used to move the phone from ear to ear, back and forth," Holmes told the Houston Chronicle in Sunday's online edition, describing the visits. "She is much more calm now. Actually, I thought she was very good, considering it was the holidays and we talked about how excited the kids would get at Christmastime."
Holmes, also a former nurse, reminisced about past holidays spent together during one visit the day after Christmas.
Holmes said Yates asked her whether she had used glass ornaments that the Yates children made for her.
"I told her I had and that I would put them up every year until the day I die," Holmes said.
She said that Yates, separated by glass and listening to her through a telephone, paused, then smiled.
Holmes said that kind of discussion one year ago might have triggered a psychotic episode.
Last week, the 1st Texas Court of Appeals threw out Yates' convictions in three of her five children's drownings, saying testimony from the state's expert witness, psychiatrist Park Dietz, was false.
Yates, 40, was convicted in March 2002 on two counts of capital murder in the deaths, as jurors rejected her insanity defense.
Harris County district attorney's officials have said they will ask the appeals court for a rehearing and, if that fails, seek a new opinion by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Yates could face a new trial in the June 2001 drownings if the state's appeal is rejected.
Yates' mother, Jutta Karin Kennedy, said the family doesn't want another trial.
Yates is visited on alternating weekends at the Skyview Unit in Rusk by her husband, her mother and brothers and her attorney, George Parnham. Her activities at the prison include mopping floors, gardening, attending prayer groups and writing letters to relatives and friends.
Rusty Yates filed for divorce last year. Kennedy said he wants her daughter to give him 60 percent of their remaining assets instead of splitting 50-50 because she has not been a contributing member of the household.
Rusty Yates' lawyer, David Salinsky, said some assets might be divided unequally. A divorce trial is scheduled for March 28 in trial in Harris County state district court.
NewsweekJan. 17 issue - Andrea Yates, serving a life sentence for drowning her five children—ages 6 months to 7 years—mostly stares out the window of her cell these days. But it's unclear what she sees. During a recent visit from her mother, the 40-year-old asked plaintively, "Who's babysitting the kids?" She's a lost woman, says Wendell Odom, part of her legal team, who recounted the visit. A jury in 2002 decided she was sane enough to know right from wrong, and sent her to prison instead of a hospital. But a Texas appeals court last week ruled that Yates should get a new trial.
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It turns out the only psychiatrist who claimed in court that she was sane, Dr. Park Dietz, had made a serious misstatement during the trial. He testified that he consulted on a "Law & Order" episode about a woman with postpartum depression who drowned her children and was found to be insane by a court. In fact, no such program was ever produced. Nonetheless, prosecutors implied that Yates watched the show and patterned the killings after it, trying to get away with her murders. In overturning the conviction, the Court of Appeals for the First District ruled the false testimony might have tainted the jury. Harris County prosecutors immediately appealed the ruling.
George Parnham, the chief lawyer for Yates, hailed the decision. But he said it scarcely means Yates is going to walk free. He said he hopes to get her into a private mental-health-care facility "where her actions can be monitored ... probably for the rest of her life."
Legal experts say a re-trial would be risky for both sides, besides being a huge undertaking that would once more evoke the unspeakable images of the drownings, one after the next. Yates, who had earlier been diagnosed with psychosis and postpartum depression, told police she was acting on instructions from Satan. It was the only way to save them, she explained, because she was a "bad mother."
Ronald Allen, a law professor at Northwestern University, says he'd "bet the mortgage" that prosecutors and defense lawyers are negotiating an agreement. "Neither side can be confident of what could happen in a new trial," he says. For the prosecution, a new trial could bring a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, though Yates would remain under the custody of the state. But another trial would be a roll of the dice for the defense, too, a massive legal effort that might simply result in another guilty verdict. Her husband, Rusty Yates, who filed for divorce last July, has asked that criminal charges be dropped.
Parnham said that when news of the appeal ruling reached Yates, "she was surprised and not unpleased ... She understands what's happening." Dr. Lucy Puryear, who testified that Yates was insane at the time of the killings, says the woman's mind-set changes from day to day. (Yates was charged in only three of the deaths.) She spends much of the time in a daze, not quite sure of the past. But when her medication works, she remembers what she has done. During these times, Puryear says, she often "becomes too overwhelmed," refusing to eat or drink, as the memories come back to haunt, and the desperate cries of her children scream in her ears.
The woman who accused Kobe Bryant of rape has dropped plans to file a civil suit against the basketball star in a California state court, her lawyer said Friday.
Lin Wood said his client worried that attempting to move the action - which is pending in federal court in Colorado - would add legal layers that would delay the resolution of the case.
"We're going to stay in Denver on the Bryant case in the hopes we'll get to trial sooner rather than later," Wood said.
The woman, whose name is being withheld by The Denver Post because she says she is a rape victim, had contemplated filing suit in California, where there is no cap on monetary damages for pain and suffering.
In Colorado, such damages typically are capped at $366,000.
Wood has said U.S. Supreme Court decisions allow him to file civil suits simultaneously in federal and state courts.
The woman claims Bryant raped her in June 2003 in his room at the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera near Edwards.
Charges against Bryant were dropped when, after jury selection had begun in the criminal trial, the woman decided she did not want to go forward with the case.
By the time her attorneys get their share, she'll practically get nothing -- but may risk having more horrid details about her life come out. Not worth it to me.
Coca-Cola has announced that Coke with Lime will be available in the United States by the end of March, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Sunday.
Coke confirmed plans for Coke with Lime Friday, after a report in Beverage Digest. The company hopes the success of Diet Coke with Lime, launched a year ago, will be repeated by the new product. Diet Coke with is the top-selling flavored diet cola in the United States.
Coca-Cola also hopes Coke with Lime will help combat dropping sales for non-diet soft drinks.
It will be the first line extension of Coke Classic since Vanilla Coke in 2002.
I saw him near to the goal post and doing a little butt wiggle dance....but what else did he do to get such a reaction from the announcers? I must have missed the whole thing.
thats not what he did.he pulled his pants down then wiped his butt on the field goal pole.
by Rosemary
he should be suspended indefinitely. He was not pretending to moon. It was much more than that. That is why the announcers were so upset. This guy needs to be taught a lesson once and for all. The vikes are going no where so I say Tagliabu sits him for the rest of the playoff and more games next season. You had to see the whole sequence from the beginning to understand that he was not mooning. As if that would not be bad enough. I am outraged.
Minnesota Vikings (news) receiver Randy Moss (news) bends over to the crowd after catching a 34-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter of their NFC wild-card game against the Green Bay Packers (news) Sunday, Jan. 9, 2005, in Green Bay, Wis. The Vikings won 31-17. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Tehran court sends woman to lunatic asylum for keeping cats
by Saien
Tehran, Jan. 08 – A Tehran court put a young woman on trial for keeping six kittens in her apartment, the state television reported yesterday.
The state television aired the court proceedings in which the judge in branch 19 of Tehran’s court questioned the woman about why she was keeping the kittens in her apartment and how she was feeding them.
The woman’s elderly father was also questioned by the judge.
At the end of the trial, the judge ruled that the women suffered from mental illness and ordered her confined to Razi Sanitarium in the capital.
Razi sanitarium is among the worst kept facilities in the entire country, where patients do not receive adequate care due to staff shortages and lack of psychiatrists and mental health specialists.
We are from a small village in the Aceh Region in Indonesia affected by
the recent Tsunami Quakes/floods Disaster that swept through South
Eastern Asia.
We have been rendered homeless and have lost all we have in life. Many
foreign tourists also were affected by the quakes/floods.
Since we have no other way to survive as of now and have lost most of
our relations and children, we have decided to write this letter of
APPEAL FOR DONATIONS.
We will be very grateful if you can assist us with any amount of money
to enable us start a new lease of life. Our little business have been
swept off by the floods and we cannot go and steal. All we need is money
to rehabilitate and start business again to make a living. No amount is
too small to assist in this relief efforts.
We are sending this mail to many people all over the world for
assistance as we can't help ourselves. The United Nations and other world
bodies/organisations are helping but the funds are not well circulated. So
we need your assistance.
Sir/Madam we pray that God/Allah will reward you abundantly for
listening to the voice of the less privileged and people whose lives have been
devastated by a natural disaster.
Any donation can be sent either by Western Union Money Transfer
Services or Money Gram Transfer to:
Mr. Musliman Musliman
Kp Kurus RT 009-RT0089
Utara, Jakarta,
Indonesia,
14130.
As soon as you effect the Payment, email me the relevant Money Transfer
details vis: Money transfer control number, senders name and address as
it appears in the transfer receipt, amount sent, test question and
answer (if any).
My email for further contact is: tsunamirehab@netscape.net
Your assistance will be appreciated. Thanks for your anticipated
cooperation.
Mr. Musliman Musliman
For: Aceh Victims of Tsunami
Indonesia
email: tsoonamirehab@netscape.net
We are from a small village in the Banda/Aceh Region
in Indonesia affected by the recent Tsunami
Quakes/floods disaster that swept through South
Eastern Asia.
We have been rendered homeless and have lost all we
have in life. Many foreign tourists also were affected
by the quakes.
Since we have no other way to survive as of now and
have lost most of our relations and children, we have
decided to write this letter of APPEAL FOR DONATIONS.
We will be very grateful if you can assist us with any
amount of money to enable us start a new lease of
life. Our little business have been swept off by the
floods and we cannot go and steal. All we need is
money to rehabilitate and start business again to make
a living.
We are sending this mail to many people all over the
world for assistance as we cant help ourselves. The
United Nations and other world bodies/organisations
are helping but it is mostly in Clothes, water and
medicaments. So we need your assistance Sir/Madam and
we pray that God will reward you abundantly for
listening to the voice of the less priviledged and
people whose life have been devastated by a natural
disaster.
Any Donation can be sent to us through our nominated
bank account below:
BANK: KOREA EXCHANGE BANK, ITAEWON BRANCH,
SEOUL. SOUTH KOREA
SWIFT CODE: KOEXKRSE,
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Please do not hesitate to reach us with a copy of the
transfer slip for any money sent to our designated
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with the bank.
Your assistance will be appreciated.
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.
Mr Teh Ho
For: Banda/Aceh Victims of Tsunami
Indonesia
people who are going to beleive it and donate money. That's what drives all the bogus requests in the first place. If they weren't being successful, they wouldn't be doing it.
your picks have been fixed. don't know what happened. did you experience any problems at all when you made your picks? I did have your confirmation so you were covered. BTW - every confirmation that is sent out also gets sent to me. I keep them until the pool is over. I did this as a second verification and as a backup in the event that the hosting server goes down, I could still manage the pool manually using the copies of all the confirmations if I had to. Hiccups do happen, sorry this one happened to you
I didn't really have a problem, but just thought it was funny that the yellow buttons were already there before I ever picked! It's great that you get the confirmations too. You do such good work! Thanks again
has anyone heard of GreyMagic Software from Israel? I ran a spycheck on my computer this morning & that is what came up as part of my problem. I don't know what it is or what to do with it or how I came by it. I supposedly deleted it. Thanks.
changeover to Firefox from Explorer , you will never worry about spyware or bugs again...
by Rosemary
It works almost exactly like explorer but cleaner and so much faster. It is free and will automatically import your favorites. Takes about a minute to download. I have been using it for almost two months and have had no problems.
ROTFLOL...Marine phone conversation to Mom: "Mom, did you know that tampons expand?"....
by Rosemary
"Marine Moms" is an organization that sends care packages to Marines. The following is an email describing a phone conversation one of the Mom's had with her Marine son about the care packages....
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He told me how wonderful the care packages were and wanted me to tell everyone thank you. He said that one guy we’ll call “Marine X” did get a girl care package and everyone was giving him a hard time. My son said, "Marine X got some really nice smelling lotion and everyone really likes it, so everytime he goes to sleep they steal it from him." I told my son I was really sorry about the mistake, and if he wanted I would send Marine X another package. He told me not to worry about Marine X because everytime I send something to him Marine X thinks it's for him too. He said when my husband and I sent the last care package Marine X came over to his cot picked up the box, started fishing through it, and said, "What'd we get this time?" )
My son said they had the most fun with Marine X’s package. He said he wasn't sure who we were sending the pack to, but the panties were size 20, and he said one of the guys got on top of the humvee and jumped off with the panties over his head and yelled, "Look at me, I'm an Airborne Ranger!!!!". He said one of the guys attached the panties to the anntenna and it blew in the wind like a windsock. He said it entertained them for quite awhile.
Then of course, they had the tampons. When he brought this up my imagination was just running wild, but I let him continue. My son said they had to go on a mission and Marine X wanted the chapstick and lotion for the trip. He grabbed a bunch of the items out of his care package and got in the humvee. As luck would have it he grabbed the tampons, and My son said everyone was teasing him about "not forgetting his feminine hygiene products". My son said things were going well, and then the convoy was ambushed. He said a Marine in the convoy was shot. He said the wound was pretty clean, but it was deep. He said they were administering first aid but couldn't get the bleeding to slow down, and someone said, "Hey use Marine X’s tampons". My son said they put the tampon in the wound. At this point my son profoundly told me, "Mom did you know that tampons expand?" ) "Well, yeah!". They successfully slowed the bleeding and got the guy medical attention. When they went to check on him later the surgeon told them, "You guys saved his life". If you hadn't stopped that bleeding he would have bled to death. My son said, "Mom, the tampons sent by the Marine Moms by mistake saved a Marines life." At this point I asked him, "Well what did you do with the rest of the tampons?" He said, "Oh, we divided them up and we all have them in our flak jackets, and I kept two for our first aid kit".
I am absolutely amazed by the ingenuity of our Marines, and can't believe that something that started out as a mistake ended up saving someone's life. My sister said she doesn't believe in mistakes. She said that God had a plan all along. She believes that female care package was sent to Marine X to save our Marine. Either way ladies our efforts have boosted the morale of many Marines, provided much needed items for our troops, AND saved the lives of a Marine! God bless each of you for your efforts and hard work, and God bless our Marines!
I'm glad that they were able to overcome adversity and saved a life. I sure wish they'd give more protection for our troops. Lord knows they need better supplies and protective gear. God bless them.
Wow! Correct spelling, good sentence structure and grammar. What school in Florida is that cheerful 14-year-old going to?
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