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    Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    You stay classy Drew Peterson. I bet he gets married again within six months of his "divorce".
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Millennials think they'll be good employees?! Ha! Tell that to all the college interns we've fired since they couldn't wrap their mind around "you should be here at the time you are scheduled to start."
    That goes double for any of the ones who had their MOMS call to try and get their jobs back.
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    11/19/08

    @ I was under the impression that millenial meant 'born in the 00's'(in which case you've got some young interns, there). Or does it mean 'coming of age in the 00's'?
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    OK, no coach should beat/brutalize a child. Ever.


    But, I have sympathy for coaches who work with elite athletes and appear like monsters in the public because they are never-take-no-for-an-answer-push-you-until-you-nearly-break coaches. That's their job. They work with the best, who won't settle for second place. The biggest problem with gymnastics, as a whole, is that this level of coach becomes necessary in an elite gymnasts life at FAR TOO YOUNG an age. Mental trauma often ensues. Physical trauma (beyond the trauma inherent in reaching the top of the podium) should never, however.

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    11/19/08

    @sportz.star: The irony was during the Olympics, one of the color commentators was commenting how "unfocused" and "the lack of dedication" of the women's gymnastic teams were now that Karolyi and his cronies no longer had a death grip they used to on training programs...and how much better the old days were.
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    11/19/08

    @Athaliah: Well, part of the "death grip" was that all the top athletes had to train together a good part of the year -- shared misery, experience, and goal. Even in individual sports I totally support that. The Jamaican sprinters train together. The American sprinters don't talk to each other. Results from 2008 say, Jamaica 1, USA 0.
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    I do not understand reading on the loo. I can think of many MANY more pleasant locations to do my reading than marinating in my own stinkiness. Get in and get out, says I.
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Madeleine Pickens, you effing rock.
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    Image of The Harlot Queen Likes The Word Strumpet The Harlot Queen Likes The Word Strumpet
    11/19/08

    @Patsy_Stone: Beware lauding the Pickens clan to quickly. They are the Bush cronies who's advertising campaign swift-boated John Kerry so George Dubbya could have a second term. They may be trying to clean up their image with ecology-minded works, but their money comes from oil and they are Bush's supporters.
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    11/19/08

    @Athaliah: Yeah, and I think T-Bone's plan to convert our trucking industry to natural gas has something to do with his natural gas connections. But strange times make strange bedfellows or something.
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    WHAT!!?!! That's BULLSHIT, Indiana!


    Hope they can take that all the to the Supreme, no matter WHICH one.

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    11/19/08

    @broad: Given that "In God We Trust" is on U.S. money, it is highly unlikely that the Court will consider it religious entanglement. The phrase is probably considered to have historical significance.
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    11/19/08

    @Lymed: Also de minimus. I would be surprised if SCOTUS granted cert.
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    11/19/08

    @broad: Even if you think it's BS, and I don't wholly disagree, it's a total loser of a case. It's been well established (by SCOTUS) that recognizing a supreme being is not endorsing religion. And, since no one in Indiana HAS to have it say "god" on their license plate, it's OK. The logic and legal explanations are often exasperating and unclear, but "In God We Trust" is here to stay in the US.
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    11/19/08

    @broad: If you like that part of it you'll really like the fact that the "In God We Trust" plate is the standard plate, you have to request the plain one, which is the exact same plate but with a giant empty space where the text would be.
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    11/20/08

    @whats_in_a_name: It's not the standard plate. You have to ask for the "In God We Trust". My new plate I had to get this year is just the plain one and I didn't have to request it.
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    11/21/08

    @whats_in_a_name: Now see, when I got my plate last month, they asked if I wanted the "In God We Trust" plate at no extra.(I of course said "NO!" And the regular plate doesn't have the flag on it, but it's still not attractive. Just blue and white.) Maybe that's the benefit of living the largest blue section of a red state. Heh.


    MY issue with it, because I know I didn't clarify, (and I'm also responding to y'all a few days later) is not that they're printing it on the plates. That's fine if you want it. My issue is that it should be a vanity plate like any other. Why should the state give up a revenue stream just so people can have "God" on their plate!?? It's crap.

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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Not having to pay a $6 entrance fee is worth everyone you ever meet or pass on the street knowing which brothel you frequent?
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    11/19/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: If that's the same story I heard of before, I believe they're waiving the fee for life.
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    11/19/08

    @Mdmrptr: Exactly! So everyone would know that it was more than just a one off!
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    11/19/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: And, what precautions is the brothel taking to prevent counterfeits?
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    11/19/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Oh wait, why would they have to? Slow brain!
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    Image of MeganGlass 就是一个å¤ä»£çš„三明治 MeganGlass 就是一个å¤ä»£çš„三明治
    11/19/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: heh heh, "entry fee".
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    UVA gets a million dollars WOOOO!


    That makes me feel better about slacking on my alumni donation.

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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Millenials: even more susceptible than the average person to the above-average effect. (Sorry for getting all geeky on you, but I couldn't let that go.)
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Now I know why my stress feels all backwards today
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Oh my God the bunny with the wheelchair.


    IT'S SO FREAKIN' CUTE.

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    11/19/08

    @awesomesauce: I found a bunny wheelchair video!!!!

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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Don't you just hate the toilet flush in the middle of a conversation? Either I have friends with IBS or I bring out the shit cause it seems more often than not conversations with my friends always has a "Did I just hear the toilet flushing?"
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    11/20/08

    @Eaten not Slurped: We have a guy at work who talks on the phone while in the bathroom so often we call the bathroom his conference room or second office.
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    That whole thing about those kids in the Congo had me crying for a whole damn week..It made me not look at the news for a few days because I couldn't deal.


    So there ya go..I am kinda soft and gooey inside my crunchy exterior.

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    11/19/08

    @TheUptightMidwesterner: So, you're kind of like a popover. Or french rolls! Yummy.
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    11/19/08

    In reply to Olympic Gymnast: "Bela Karyoli Beat Me" • Drew Peterson Meets With Divorce Lawyer
    Ooh (long brewing) scandal! I'd been hearing rumours about the Karolis for over a decade (they had a school up in my neck of the woods). Between these stories finally surfacing plus that scary PBS doc about East German Olympians suffering years later from their state-sponsored steroids, I think the price some pay for Gold is too damn high.
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    11/19/08

    @Yes.We.Did.Dagnabbit.: I wish that the Karolyis could just be kicked out of gymnastics. I think it would improve the sport by making it less traumatizing. They even give me the willies when I'm watching on TV.
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    11/19/08

    @Yes.We.Did.Dagnabbit.: @ejc.yippee.skippee!: I think Bela Karolyi is a bad person. I don't care if he coached lots of winners. He was tyrannical, controlling and cruel to the children he coached. It made me really mad that NBC used him as a commentator this past summer.
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    11/19/08

    @Yes.We.Did.Dagnabbit.: My stepdaughter attended his "camp" in Houston a couple of summers ago. Her mother is obsessed with the girl being in gymnastics, to the point that she's in the gym about 20 hours a week. Is she on an Olympic track? NO. Is she underweight? YES! My hubby and I were dead-set against her going to the camp (she was 10 at the time) but we were overruled...again. I think he's a dungeonmaster.
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