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The Courtesan Nov 21 2007, 11:04 PM Post #181
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Journeyman pitcher Joe Kennedy, 28, dies in Florida after collapsing at in-laws' home
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Oakland Athletics pitcher Joe Kennedy throws to the San Francisco Giants in the fourth inning of a baseball game in Oakland, on May 20, 2007. Kennedy died early Friday morning, Nov. 23, 2007, a Hillsborough ,Fla.,County sheriff's official said. He was 28. Kennedy passed out at home and was brought to a hospital, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Joe Kennedy, a journeyman left-hander who pitched for three major league teams last season, died at his in-laws' home Friday. He was 28.

After going to bed early, Kennedy woke up at about 1:15 a.m. Friday and collapsed as he was leaving a bedroom at the home of his wife's parents, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue took Kennedy to Brandon Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, she said.

"We were terribly shocked," Blue Jays president Paul Godfrey told The Associated Press. "From what we understand he was in Brandon ... to be the best man at a wedding today."

Godfrey didn't have particulars on the cause of death.

"Obviously, when a 28-year-old man dies, ball player or not, it's a terrible, terrible thing," he said.

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Kennedy spent seven years in the majors, playing last season with Oakland, Arizona and Toronto. He also spent time with Tampa Bay and Colorado and had a 43-61 career record with a 4.79 ERA in 222 appearances.

"He was such a focused kid from the time we took him in the draft," said Florida Marlins vice president Dan Jennings, who was the scouting director for Tampa Bay when the Rays selected Kennedy in the 1998 draft. "He was on a mission to become a major league pitcher."

Kennedy made his major league debut in June 2001 and made his last appearance in relief on Sept. 29 in a 5-3 win over Tampa Bay.

"You think all athletes and all young people are invincible," Jennings said. "Then when you see something like this, it's very tragic."

Craig Weissmann, the Tampa Bay scout who signed Kennedy, described him as a fierce, determined competitor.

"He really dedicated himself and was really on a mission to become a major league pitcher," Weissmann said. "You wish as a scout and a major league organization, you wish every kid could develop that fast."

Godfrey said Toronto was interested in bringing Kennedy back.

"We had every intention to speak to him," he said. "We had him on our list to talk to."

Kennedy's agent, Damon Lapa, did not return phone calls and an e-mail from the AP.

"He was a valued teammate and friend to everyone with the A's organization," Oakland assistant general manager David Forst said in a statement. "On behalf of the entire A's organization, we extend our condolences to Joe's wife, Jami and his entire family."

Kennedy started the 2007 season with Oakland as a starter but was moved to the bullpen after going 3-9 with a 4.37 ERA. He appeared in 27 games, including 16 starts, before being placed on waivers.

Claimed by Arizona in August, he was released that month after just three appearances. The Blue Jays signed him Aug. 29, and Kennedy got his first win as a Blue Jay on Sept. 21, in New York against the Yankees.

"He was a great father. He loved that boy and his wife both more than anything in the world. That son of his was the apple of his eye," Weissmann said. "He just was really looking forward to everything that a father shares with a son."


that's really sad. I wonder what did him in
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Julesy Nov 24 2007, 03:27 PM Post #183
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Police in Memphis are on the lookout for 3 drag queens that caused a fight at a local McDonald's. The McDonald's in South Mendenhall was the place to be last night. It all started when an argument broke out with the 3 drag queens and a McD's employee at the drive-thru window. The 3 hot bitches then jumped out of the car and blew into the restaurant ready to rumble.


An employee said, "He swung and hit my manager, manager swung and hit back, so they step back, get to takin' off they shoes, boots and whatever else they had to do to get satisfied to fight."

The fight went on for several minutes. That's when the manager grabbed a pot of hot french fry grease and threw it at the drag queens. They retaliated by hitting the manager over the head with a "wet floor sign" sending him to the hospital.

Before getting away in their car the drag queens smashed the drive-thru window.

That lesbian gang has some competition! When I was reading this article, I pictured the fight with a Disco soundtrack in the background. Those drag queen bitches are so hot. You better hide your good wigs, because they are coming for you!

The police should just pull out a boombox and play any random Donna Summer song and that will bring those whores out! Drag queens love Donna Summer.

:ha :ha :ha
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! :faint :faint :faint
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PR pageant officials probe pepper spray

By REBECCA BANUCHI, Associated Press Writer Sun Nov 25, 11:00 PM ET

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Beauty pageant organizers were investigating Sunday who doused a contestant's evening gowns with pepper spray and spiked her makeup, causing her to break out in hives.
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Beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera beat 29 rivals to become the island's 2008 Miss Universe contestant, despite applying makeup and wearing evening gowns that had been coated with pepper spray, pageant spokesman Harold Rosario said.

Rivera was composed while appearing before cameras and judges throughout the competition. But once backstage, she had to strip off her clothes and apply ice bags to her face and body, which swelled and broke out in hives twice.

"We thought at first it was an allergic reaction, or maybe nerves," Rosario said. "But the second time, we knew it couldn't have been a coincidence."

Rivera's clothing and makeup later tested positive for pepper spray.

Someone also stole Rivera's bag containing her gowns, makeup and credit cards. And a bomb threat forced pageant officials to postpone the last day of competition on Thursday, said Magali Febles, director of the Miss Puerto Rico Universe pageant.

Pageant organizers said the hoped to catch and expose whoever was responsible for the pranks. They said, however, they were handling the investigation themselves and police are not involved.

Beauty competitions in the U.S. Caribbean territory — which boasts five Miss Universe titles, second only to the U.S. — are fierce, drawing boisterous audiences and accusations of rigged results.

But the pranks under investigation this year are a first, Rosario said.

Rivera, who won Miss World Caribbean in 2005, had been a target of controversy from the start of competition, as rivals complained she was too experienced and should be disqualified.

Local media touted her as the likely winner, stoking jealousy among contestants, Rosario said.

When Rivera won, rivals accused her of buying the crown, Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Dia newspaper reported.

A tearful Rivera recounted her ordeal at a news conference Sunday, acknowledging she had wavered about staying in the contest.

"At one point I said, 'Am I a masochist?'" she recalled, her voice breaking. "But I said, 'I am with God and this is my goal, regardless of the results.'



On the one hand, I feel bad for the woman cause that was horrible that someone did that to her, but on the other hand I cant help but kind of laugh at it cause I fucking hate pagents and think that they need to do away with them
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Julesy Nov 26 2007, 10:04 PM Post #187
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like on the movie ELIZABETH! They poisoned her dress and one of her maidens secretly put it on and died! it was meant for Elizabeth!

woman can be so catty and bitchy.

i also think pageants are fucking stupid
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Auntie Maine Nov 27 2007, 12:03 AM Post #188
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Damn! And i thought queens were evil at pageants. :ha

The only thing I like about pageants is the eveing gown competition,and the crowning.Sissy loves a crown. :yahoo
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you must be a REALLY big sissy then dan if you like the crown! :wanker

poisoning a dress, now that is an inventive way to kill someone!
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OMG!! I hadn't even heard of that!!! Anyways, pageants, or should I say the "Miss Universe Puerto Rico" is HUGE in PR. Everyone STOPS to watch it... Since we're 2nd in the world for most "Miss Universe" titles, it's a BIG DEAL... Personally, I couldn't care less... But still... :ha

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I FUCKING HATE THAT WOMAN!!!! She is Dominican and she's the style/fashion/makeup AND OWNER of the damned Pageant!!!! FUCKING BITCH!!! The franchise was owned by a Puerto Rican Legend!!! The woman who introduced Puerto Rican women to the Miss Universe pageant, and gave us 3 Miss Universe!!! And it was well and truly PUERTO RICAN... Now that BITCH stepped up and accused the former franchise owner of being senile and of loosing her capabilities of running the Pageant!!! She basically put the old woman away on a hospice!!!!!! When it was clear that she could have still run it until she died!!! I HATE HER!!! Everyone was all crazy about going to her salon in Puerto Rico... EXPENSIVE AS SHIT, and I NEVER SET FOOT ON IT!!! :jesse
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puerto rico is second? that is a neat fact. What country is first?
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Iceland best place to live, Africa worst: UN

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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Iceland has overtaken Norway as the world's most desirable country to live in, according to an annual U.N. table published on Tuesday that again puts AIDS-afflicted sub-Saharan African states at the bottom.
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Rich free-market countries dominate the top places, with Iceland, Norway, Australia, Canada and Ireland the first five but the United States slipping to 12th place from eighth last year in the U.N. Human Development Index.

But the index, blending 2005 figures for life expectancy, educational levels and real per capita income, finds that all 22 countries falling into its "low human development" category are in sub-Saharan Africa, with Sierra Leone last.

In 10 of these countries, two children in five will not reach the age of 40, said the compilers at the U.N. Development Program. Last year's report said HIV/AIDS had had a "catastrophic effect" on life expectancy in the region.

The index ranks 175 U.N. member countries plus Hong Kong and the Palestinian territories. It does not include 17 countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, because of inadequate data.

Norway had held top spot for six years but was edged into second place by Iceland this year because of new life expectancy estimates and updated figures for gross domestic product, or GDP, the report said.

U.N. officials played down the significance of minor short-term shifts in the rankings including the slide in the U.S. position. They said if subsequent data for the year in question been available for last year's report, the United States would have been in 10th, not eighth place.

The United States scores high on real per capita GDP, which at $41,890 is second only to that of Luxembourg ($60,228), but less well on life expectancy -- joint last in the top 26 countries, along with Denmark and South Korea, at 77.9 years.

Japanese have the longest life expectancy -- 82.3 years -- and Zambians the lowest, at 40.5.

The report said most countries had seen their human development index rise over the last 30 years, but in 16 it was lower than in 1990, and in three -- the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe -- lower than in 1975.

Per capita GDP is 45 times higher in Iceland than in Sierra Leone.

The United Nations has published its human development index every year since 1990
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Jules here is the story about that football player you were talking about earlier. I had no idea 3 other NFL players (all 24 years old) also died earlier this year. I hadnt heard those other stories. So very sad!!:

NFL's newest dark cloud
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
November 27, 2007

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For the NFL, 2007 has been a year of tragedy and scandal, ugliness and senselessness, each month seeming to bring worse stories of off-field trouble that stand in stark contrast with an on-field product that is running on all cylinders.

The latest, and hopefully last, came Sunday when the Washington Redskins' Sean Taylor was gunned down during a home invasion. He died Tuesday.

It was brutal and sad, the snuffing out of a talented and promising life made even worse by the realization that he is the fourth active NFL player to die this year alone. Combine that with high-profile legal issues, major injuries to current players and a bitter pension fight involving former ones and you have a year to forget.

Things are so bad, the depths so low, the pain so real, it's overshadowed a season that, on the field at least, should be one to remember.

The Indianapolis Colts, featuring the popular Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy, finally won the Super Bowl. The New England Patriots have emerged as perhaps the greatest team of all time this season, chasing both a perfect team record and a book full of individual marks. Big fan base franchises such as the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers are having great years while a number of other franchises have been rejuvenated.

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The league has not just an array of great young talent (Adrian Peterson, et al) but a rebirth of some older ones (Brett Farve, Terrell Owens, Randy Moss). When the Colts and Patriots met earlier this month, it was the latest matchup of unbeaten teams since the 1970 merger. The game then actually lived up the hype.

So too, perhaps, will the rare late season matchup of one-loss teams, the Cowboys and Packers, Thursday.

That is, if anyone even remembers to watch.

The thing is: as great as the action has been, as great as the storylines have played out, as perfect as heroes and villains have taken their roles, '07 has been a disaster in every other measurable way. One horrible tale replacing another.

Taylor's murder this week was an all-too familiar one.

The year started bad when, during the early morning hours of Jan. 1, the Denver Broncos' Darrent Williams was shot and killed by a passing gunman while riding in a limo after an altercation at a local nightclub.

Less than two months later, Broncos running back Damien Nash collapsed and died after playing a charity basketball game in his hometown of St. Louis.

In March, the Patriots' Marquise Hill accidentally drowned after falling off his jet ski in his native Louisiana.

All four men were just 24 years old.

The offseason was also plagued with high-profile legal trouble. It started with the Tennessee Titans cornerback Pacman Jones' involvement in a gentlemen's club shooting in Las Vegas that left a bouncer paralyzed.

Then the Atlanta Falcons' Michael Vick, the league's highest paid and one of its highest-profile players, was arrested in connection with a dog-fighting ring on property he owned in rural Virginia. Vick pled guilty and is serving time in advance of his sentencing in early December.

Even O.J. Simpson is in trouble again.

Meanwhile, former NFL players continued to fight the league for improved pension and health benefits while spinning terrible tales of woe and making the NFLPA look like a heartless organization. It helped draw attention to the massive physical injuries, particularly concussions, which NFL players deal with after their playing days.

That hit home on the league's opening weekend when the Buffalo Bill' Kevin Everett suffered a severe spinal injury on a simple kickoff play. At least there is some bright light here. Everett is out of the hospital and doctors believe he may even walk again one day.

You can't blame the NFL for wondering what possibly could be next?

There is no simple conclusion to draw here. Each situation is different, each tragedy its own. But sometimes bad things seem to come in waves and the NFL is certainly dealing with that now.

If the league was just about football, then the worst thing to happen all year was the Patriots' "Spygate" scandal, which, in truth, just helped create more interest and excitement for the product on the field.

That's the kind of controversy that professional sports like.

Not endless funerals, court proceedings and Congressional hearings.

Not superstars behind bars. Not all these 24 years olds gone forever.

The people to remember in thoughts and prayers are the families and friends of those dealing with death and injury, with life-altering moments that they had nothing to do with and almost certainly can't make sense of.

Roger Goodell would be the first to tell you that, the first to tell you to think of those folks.

But here in 2007, in the new commissioner's first full year on the job, it's OK to acknowledge all that has been thrown at him and his NFL.

And then hope we never see another year like it
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Thats so sad. Poor guy was only 24. Younger than me!

I bet John Madden is going on a killng spree....jk

That is rather strange that other players of the same age died this year as well.
Im sure my retardo will give me more of the scoop tonight. Thats the first thing he talked about this morning.
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my Brian Westbrook better stay alive! I think he is a little older than 24 though so he ma y have a shot of surpassing the curse, lol
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Im glad my Kurt Warner is older but I think Leinart is 25 so he maybe safe too.

I still say its John Madden on a murder spree.His voice is creepy enough.

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Lottery winner wasn't supposed to gamble By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Nov 28, 6:49 PM ET



BOSTON - The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He's a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to gamble. Timothy Elliott faces a Dec. 7 court hearing over whether he violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the $800 Million Spectacular game at a supermarket in Hyannis.

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Elliott was placed on five years' probation after pleading guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a January 2006 heist at a bank on Cape Cod. Under terms of his probation, he "may not gamble, purchase lottery tickets or visit an establishment where gaming is conducted, including restaurants where Keno may be played."

Elliott, 55, has collected the first of 20 annual $50,000 checks from the Massachusetts lottery commission. A picture of Elliott, holding his first check, was posted on the lottery's Web site Monday, though it was removed by Wednesday.

As part of his sentence, Elliott was put under the care of the state Mental Health Department and sent to a hospital for treatment, and state officials refused Wednesday to say whether he was still being treated.

A telephone number for Elliott could not immediately be located Wednesday, and it was not clear whether he had a lawyer.

The lottery routinely cross references the names of winners with the state Revenue Department to see if they owe back taxes or child support, lottery spokesman Dan Rosenfeld said. In those cases, winnings go straight to the Revenue Department.

But in this case, it will be up to the court to determine what will happen with Elliott's winnings.

"This is kind of new territory," he said.


thats what you get for being a scum bag thief!
I hate people who fucking steal.
When we lived in an apt. our cars always got broken into, or stolen. :jesse
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Go Iceland and Norway. :clap But damn Sweden for beating us! Grrrrr!
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Julesy Nov 29 2007, 03:14 PM Post #199
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isnt BJORK from Iceland?

my sister used to play her all the time.
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Yep, she is. Funny little thing that Björk. Also a bit crazy but it's all good.
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