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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    12/18/09

    In reply to Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony
    70 wpm? I think the old people are bringing that average down.

    More info on Banita Jacks here: [www.washingtonpost.com]

    Says she thought the girls were possessed by demons but believed they would return to life after the demons were dead. Also, says they were dead in the house for 7 months. The story is bizarre, it's like she tried to conduct a half assed exorcism.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    12/18/09

    In reply to Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony
    I can type up to 132 wpm with 2 errors! I am FINALLY better at something than a child prodigy!
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    12/18/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: And I can type 2 wpm with 132 errors.
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    Image of Evie Havok Evie Havok
    12/18/09

    In reply to Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony
    Hmmm. I was unaware that they changed the definition of the word prodigy.

    Also, that's awful. Ten year old kids raping an eight year old?That's two sociopaths that should be kept in check. I know people have a great capacity to change but that situation there should be enough to have them locked away forever. Or this would be a great opportunity to see what the mind of a rapist is like. Nature vs. nurture. Cultural or individual.
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    Image of AgnesGrep AgnesGrep
    12/18/09

    @Evie Havok: The two boys who murdered James Bulger were ten at the time and were released after eight years. My guess is that these boys won't even serve half that.
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    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    12/18/09

    @AgnesGrep: Released and given new identities to protect them, right? After heartlessly killing a toddler. Ugh.
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    Image of kittiquin kittiquin
    12/18/09

    @Maritsa: If a ten year old doesn't have the capacity for change, we may as well execute every murderer, they're all lost causes.

    What they did was horrible, but they were children themselves. They deserve the chance to become somebody.
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    Maritsa promoted this comment kittiquin was starred kittiquin was unstarred
    Image of Maritsa Maritsa
    12/19/09

    @kittiquin: Yes and that three year old they kidnapped and murdered deserved the chance to have a life. They deserved more than EIGHT years in jail. People get more than that for drug charges.

    They did the minimum for a horrific crime for which one of them reportedly felt no remorse. The penal system has many objectives, one of which is rehabilitation and one of which is penal - they weren't punished enough.
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    Image of kittiquin kittiquin
    12/19/09

    @Maritsa: they spent almost half of their lives in prison - chances are, when they got out, they could barely function in the real world. They missed the most important years of social development. More time would have made it worse.

    how well do you remember being 10-18? Didn't it seem like an awfully long time, at the time? I think 8 years for a 40 year old and 8 years for a ten year old are different matters.
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    Image of Penny Penny
    12/18/09

    In reply to Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony
    I took one of those online typing tests and got 90WPM and I thought my fingers were little geniuses. Now I feel lame.
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    Image of RisaPlata RisaPlata
    12/18/09

    @Penny: It's not how fast you type, but what you say. So I'm pretty sure your fingers can keep their "little geniuses" title.
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    Image of Katxyz Katxyz
    12/18/09

    In reply to Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony
    I wonder if those two British boys had also been sexually or physically abused or had witnessed abuse recently. That's often the case.

    Justice is necessary, but when dealing with victims and criminals that young real, fair justice seems impossible.
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    12/18/09

    In reply to Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony
    The Canadian study also said that the women with "maladaptive eating patterns" believed they were in poor health. I wonder what that connection is? They didn't say.
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    Image of boobookitteh boobookitteh
    12/18/09

    In reply to Girl Prodigy Types 119-Words A Minute • Prosecution Allowed To Seek Death Penalty Against Casey Anthony
    But how fast can she text?
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    There's another honor-killing that occurred right here in the ol' USA that will be going to trial soon - the accused has been captured and is being held on $5 million cash bail: [www.azcentral.com]

    [abcnews.go.com]
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    Image of lalaland13 lalaland13
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    I haven't watched The Sing Off partly because I'm just not that interested, and partly because I got enough a capella singing growing up in Church of Christ. I would have watched it and wondered when they were gonna pass out communion, because it has to be every week, dontchyaknow.

    So the "more men" thing cracks me up, for some reason. Probably because COC isn't known as being woman-friendly (no, women cannot get up and talk about how proud they are that their daughter is graduating, but they can you know, write a letter for a man to read).
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    Image of Ultraprison! Ultraprison!
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    I didn't realize pouring beer on someone qualified as domestic battery? I read the article expecting to find out something worse had happened afterward, like she lit it on fire or something... but nothing. Strange.
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    Image of Copper Copper
    12/17/09

    @Ultraprison!: I did a quick search of Florida's statutes for domestic battery and only came up with domestic battery by strangulation, which this isn't.

    Then I searched for battery and came up with this:

    (1) A person commits felony battery if he or she:
    (a) Actually and intentionally touches or strikes another person against the will of the other; and
    (b) Causes great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement.

    IANAL, but this doesn't seem to be battery. Seems kind of ridiculous actually. Unless she poured it straight down his throat and he was choking, it doesn't seem to be much of a case.
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    Ultraprison! promoted this comment Copper was starred Copper was unstarred
    Image of cherry_blossom cherry_blossom
    12/17/09

    @Ultraprison!: Wikipedia sez:

    Battery is simply harmful or offensive contact, regardless of injury, and is based mostly on intent. It does not have to involve actual physical contact, e.g. spitting/peeing on someone is considered battery.
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    Image of Kayleigh R. Carter Kayleigh R. Carter
    12/18/09

    @Ultraprison!: Florida is a strange and ridiculous place. Perhaps the beer was really cheep. In that case that would be pretty insulting, you have to admit.

    A "slap in the face".
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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    It is not a given fact that male circumscision reduces the spread of HIV, and not in first world countries. That data applies to specific populations and cultures, not everywhere and not all the time. And it is not the case that HIV prevention always trumps *removing a living, usable organ* from a person's body.

    "All three studies found that non-circumcised males contract HIV infection more quickly than circumcised males.11-13 This may be because the circumcised males required a period of abstinence after their circumcision. All three studies were terminated early, before the incidence of infection in circumcised males caught up with the incidence of infection in the non-circumcised males. If the studies had continued for their scheduled time, it is probable that there would have been little difference between the circumcised group and the non-circumcised group. Mills & Siegfried point out that early termination of such studies cause the benefits to be exaggerated"
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    Image of CollegeCamel CollegeCamel
    12/17/09

    @BytheSea: Seriously, every time I read this statistic, I think to myself, "wanna know what prevents the spread of HIV even more than circumcision? Using a condom. Or not having HIV." I add that last part because I've heard a lot of people use this statistic as a way to condemn uncircumcised men, who, they seem to forget, cannot transmit HIV if they don't have it, regardless of the state of their foreskin.
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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    I do not understand how the ladies in the Lingerie Football League can even do this wearing what they wear. I did a rugby photo shoot last week wearing a cocktail dress (it was for a teammate for school) and dear God if I wasn't pulling and tugging things out of cracks and crevices.

    These ladies are not properly protected to be playing football. They have on helmets and shoulder pads to help with the upper body contact from standing tackles but I can see where other injuries would easily come into play without the same kind of protection the NFL players are afforded. I watched the video on the league site and these ladies are full-force, all-out tackling. It's football, so they're gonna tackle like that but I can't help but feel bad for them. Hell, at least in rugby I know how to tackle because I don't have any protection at all.

    Pay up, league officials!
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    Image of thePrototype thePrototype
    12/17/09

    @shorty63136: I can't watch the video right now (I don't think my boss would appreciate it), but are the women doing shoulder tackles, or wrap tackles. As you pointed out rugby players don't wear any pads and suffer fewer injuries than football because they tackle differently.
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    Image of shorty63136 shorty63136
    12/17/09

    @thePrototype: I'm seeing a lot of upright wrap tackles and some where there is zero attempt to wrap at all - just using their body as a block to stop them or hurling their body at them to send them out of bounds. I saw a couple of hip/waist tackles but they are NOT falling correctly at all - flipping over each other very haphazardly and whatnot with no regard to where their head is landing.

    Man, there might be more visible blood in rugby but football...those pads should not give license to do that kind of stuff, IMO.
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    Image of thePrototype thePrototype
    12/17/09

    @shorty63136: I agree 100%, but one thing to note is that I am sure these women don't weigh much over 120lbs.. if that, and don't have that much kinetic energy going into their hits.
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    12/17/09

    @thePrototype: You'd be surprised. I've got a 110, 115-lb girl on my rugby team and she is a beast! If they've got the speed behind them and they're hurling themselves at you, it can hurt. I'm pretty sure that hard plastic doesn't feel too pleasant either.
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    Image of Dancingfrog Dancingfrog
    12/17/09

    @thePrototype: Have you ever babysat? An 80 pound kid, who's still developing muscles, can h ave a lot of force if they decide to try the new tackle they learned in football practice on you without warning. A 120 pound woman would certainly have enough kinetic force to cause injuries, especially if she's trained in tackles that are meant to get other people going the other way... or down on the ground.
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    shorty63136 promoted this comment Edited by Dancingfrog at 12/17/09 8:17 PM Dancingfrog was starred Dancingfrog was unstarred
    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    12/18/09

    @shorty63136: Plus, I think they play on astroturf.

    When I heard the details about the lingerie football league - full contact, limited padding, etc. - I went on a feminazi bonerkiller rant that lasted 10 minutes. The thing is, my sportswriter dude colleague completely agrees with me. NFL players are always and forever nursing injuries because the sport they play is so high-impact, and they wear so much padding they practically look like soldiers. Yet they are going to have women do the same thing, with no protection? Why, so the ten dudes who actually watch this can have even more jack-off material, as if we have some sort of paucity of hot young chicks in their underwear in this culture?

    And now they won't even pay their medical bills? BULLSHIT.

    The whole thing frustrates me to no end.
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    12/18/09

    @thePrototype: I've seen video and photos of these women, and while I can't speak authoritatively about the styles of tackles they are using, I can say these women are not exactly waifish bikini models. They are buff, with arms I envy, and they look like they could take a m'fer down.
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    Image of cate3710 cate3710
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    "The lawsuit also reveals that the players were asked not to wear bras or underwear, in order to better promote "accidental nudity.""

    Based on that picture, I assumed that was ALL they wore.
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    Image of Scout Scout
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    If I had to guess WHY there are no all-girl a capella groups left in the competition would be because they don't have the same range as the boys. I mean it is much easier to find a falsetto boy than a bass girl.

    The all girl Noteworthy was just not good. period. The Maxx Factor's were good, in a traditional way, but I think their choice of material simply didn't speak to the audience.

    My money is on Nota only because I find the Beelzebubs from Tufts really annoying in that Frat Boy sort of way.

    Sing-Off is the first and only competition show I've ever watched and I like it - to hear people actually singing and it sounding 1) amazing and 2) as though there were actual instruments is pretty cool.
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    Image of bananaballs bananaballs
    12/17/09

    @Scout: I HATE the Beezlebubs (and my best friend for making me watch). They're goofy and sound bad and fratty to boot. Team Nota. They're hot and the most talented, by far.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    12/17/09

    @Scout: And now you've made me miss the Mint Juleps all the more.
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    Image of Experiment626 Experiment626
    12/17/09

    @Scout: Nota was really impressive, but aside from them and the Beelzebubs, the other teams never really impressed me. I've heard some amazing all-female acappella groups - BU Terpischore, Wellesley Widows that could give these guys a run for their money, but alas, they're not on the show.
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    Scout promoted this comment Experiment626 was starred Experiment626 was unstarred
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    12/17/09

    @bananaballs: ...such as the Beelzebubs accidentally burning down their founder's house in Somerville, Mass.

    Frat Boys !!!

    [www.dailyemerald.com]
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    12/17/09

    @la.donna.pietra: WOW! I love them! thanks for sharing.
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    12/17/09

    @Experiment626: I wonder what the criteria was for choosing the initial list of groups? hmmmmm

    I rather like that Ben Folds is a judge, too.
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    12/17/09

    In reply to Lingerie Football Fumbles • Sarah Palin's Favorability Is Rising
    OK, how do people not know that they are pregnant!? This terrifies me.
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    Image of sassyredhead sassyredhead
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: I can't believe there's a whole tv show based on not knowing your pregnant and then giving birth. How can this many women not know?
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    Image of amazoncowgirl amazoncowgirl
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: A close family friend had been on the pill for seventeen years after her second child was born. She had a variety of health problems and so, when she started putting on weight, she attributed it to the various medications she was on. Since she had her period like clockwork it never dawned on her she might be pregnant.

    It wasn't until she went to the doctor when she thought she had been suffering from the flu for a longer period than normal that she discovered she was eight months pregnant.
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    Image of cate3710 cate3710
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: Weightlifters have so little body fat that she may have been accustomed to missing periods for long stretches of time, so that may play a part in this particular case.
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    12/17/09

    @sassyredhead: I mentioned this to my gynecologist at my last visit (and felt like a dope afterward, because she had never heard of the show). I was like, "I get my period every month but what if I really am pregnant?" She looked at me like I was crazy.
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    Image of cate3710 cate3710
    12/17/09

    @amazoncowgirl: Whoa whoa wait. How can one be pregnant and still have your period? This is something I have not heard.
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    12/17/09

    @cate3710: This makes sense, but then how could she not notice a baby bump?!
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    12/17/09

    @amazoncowgirl: THIS: how do women get their periods while pregnant? This is the baffling and scary thing.
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    Image of cantankasaurus rex cantankasaurus rex
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: i didn't know until i was 5.5 months! deprovera (aka the shot) makes most women not get their period, and so you don't realize anything's wrong until all of a sudden you find yourself halfway through a pregnancy! also happened to my cousin. don't use depo ladies!
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    Image of cate3710 cate3710
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: Er... Maybe her extreme ab muscles kept the uterus from expanding as much? I honestly don't know.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    12/17/09

    @cate3710: Technically, it's breakthrough bleeding mistaken for a period. It happens scarily often, especially on certain varieties of the pill.
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    Image of Bitingpika Bitingpika
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: I can't even imagine how women in this situation feel. "You're okay, you're just going to have a child. IN SIX WEEKS!" Shudder.
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    Image of QoB QoB
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: previous history of irregular periods or amenorrhea due to exercise+/contraceptive use; anterior placenta; being overweight so the bump isn't noticeable; growth-restricted fetus... I'm sure the list goes on...
    scary eh...?
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    Mary McCarthyite promoted this comment QoB was starred QoB was unstarred
    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    12/17/09

    @Bitingpika: Seriously. This is the stuff of a nightmare.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: My co-worker had bladder surgery, and the idiot surgeon left little bits of plastic tubing in her abdomen. They punctured her bladder, uterus, intestines, and a couple of membranes. This resulted in major nausea and bleeding out of every end. She had another surgery to correct the first one, and discovered afterwards that she felt kinda... pregnant. Turns out she was 5 1/2 months along. She'd been 12 weeks pregnant during the second surgery and hadn't known it, with all the bleeding and throwing up.

    Her daughter turned out fine, thank goodness.
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    12/17/09

    @la.donna.pietra: This is even more baffling because the doctors performed surgery! HOW COULD THEY NOT NOTICE? Gah!
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    Image of amazoncowgirl amazoncowgirl
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: Well, I think in my friends case it had more to do with the fact that she was on the pill. I think they're called withdrawel bleeds rather than periods, per se.
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    12/17/09

    @cate3710: I think with the pill it's considered a withdrawal bleed rather than a period. But she was still getting them. For the whole eight months.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    12/17/09

    @Mary McCarthyite: Even better: the surgeon wanted to perform a hysterectomy, because she "already had a kid; wasn't she done?" Yeah. When she was 12 weeks along with her daughter.

    The best part? She's a lawyer.
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