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Jbean
Member
01-05-2002
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 2:41 pm
Kelly's voice is just about as good as anyone's voice could be. She was singing live with no pitch tuner and she didn't miss a single note. Her dress was hideous, but she can sing. I agree 100% with what you said, Spy. I am always saying there will never be a better idol than Kelly. She rocks! She's a nice person, too! About her dress, it's been brought to the public's attention by the media, that's she's put some weight on...the dress didn't do anything for this fact. poor girl. Yeah, sometimes she doesn't dress the best...but when it comes to her voice, come on, it doesn't get much better! BTW, Jordin is my favorite this year, followed very closely by Melinda. I kinda had a feeling that were skewing the results, because Dial Idol had her as the top vote getter. That was pretty low of them to do that, though.
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 2:55 pm
The duet was phenomenol imo.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 3:29 pm
I absolutely love Kelly's performances. She was the perfect American Idol and they are incredibly lucky to have had her as their first idol. She is wonderful. To me she is what American Idol is all about.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 4:05 pm
are we sure the producers had some nefarious reason for not including a ton of men in the video pieces?
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Zgoodgirl
Member
08-22-2003
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 4:11 pm
I totally agree with you TVJunkie, until everyone gets on the boat, this will always be a problem. A wife does not question their husband at all, let alone make him wear a condom. Maybe some will disagree, and even though I am very discouraged of the problem, sometimes I feel like we are throwing money into a bottomless pit. How many condoms are you going to throw at them, and how much medicine and counseling are you going to give before you realize that it is not going to end until woman AND men face the fact that it is a epidemic? Sure, the woman will take their child to the clinic, accept the handful of condoms and agree with everything they say; maybe to get their child fed and checked by a doctor. But you think she is going to go home and stand up to her husband? Probably not. And those who do have a chance of ending up being beaten or worse, murdered. Maybe I am having a bad day and will feel differently tomorrow. But I am 35 years old and for as long as I can remember, there has always been an AIDS epidemic in Africa. It is not getting any better. And I am so frustrated with the fact, because it seems to me that they are just not getting it! The only thing that I have seen that looks promising, is what Oprah is doing. Opening up a full housing school, and educating them and then getting them out of there to go to college. Basically taking the child out of the situations they are in. JMO Here it is education, plain and simple. Not enough money is getting to the schools in these locations. Some do not even offer a foreign language which is a requirement for college. Most kids who graduate at these schools at the top of their class realize when they get out some can't even get into college, and those who can are blown away by how far behind they really are and end up leaving. And the fact that it's still happening here, is horrifying. I'm surprised that no American Indian reservations were shown, for most of them are some of the poorest locations in the country.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 4:49 pm
just so you know, US aid to Africa for AIDS comes with the "moral" (or immoral, depending upon how one looks at it) stipulation called the Global Gag Rule. It forbids mentioning condom usage even in areas with the highest concentration of HIV infection. The problem isn't that we are giving too many condoms to Africans that they refuse to use, but that we have forbidden even mentioning it lest they lose their aid. That is one of the reasons, and certainly there are others, the AIDS pandemic has overwhelmed the continent.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 4:52 pm
‘Idol’ charity special pulls in $60 million! 
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 5:01 pm
Unless I'm mistaken, weren't some of the women and kids shown as suffering from malaria?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 5:06 pm
Before we can speak of languages, we need to speak of literacy, here and educating girls at all in Africa and even basic healthcare. Randy is from New Orleans, so I imagine that is where his heart led him.
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Bonbonlover
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 5:26 pm
Costa...yes AIDS, Malaria and as Bonza'a link points to TB as well
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Kizz
Member
07-26-2001
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 7:41 pm
Tish! I had no idea about this Global Gag Rule...thank you for sharing the link. My goodness, our leaders have some peculiar ideas about what is moral...personally I find a 12 year old boy and his 7 year old sister raising themselves in squalor because their parents were dead from AIDS immoral.
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Biginjapan
Member
07-23-2005
| Thursday, April 26, 2007 - 8:42 pm
Who do you think this non elimination will help the most??? I think it will help Jordin the most...cause people will think she was bottom ...but she was not really. Also it may help Chris cause they would think he is bottom two also. So i think those two benefit the most. So probably Phil and Lakisha lose out.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 12:06 am
Remember the President of South Africa claims that AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus.
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Hobbs
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 6:19 am
Let me just say that I have learned so much in the last two days here at TVCH. Very eye opening.
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Biginjapan
Member
07-23-2005
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 7:11 pm
It was good to see Kelly...actually i think she has helped out the show, which is awesome, by being such a star she gives the show so much credibiliy...If she was a flop it might be a different story
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Beth4freedom
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 9:13 pm
Thanks to whoever drew the line through "and eliminaton" on the show header!
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Sunrvrose
Member
08-13-2001
| Friday, April 27, 2007 - 10:41 pm
I just wanted to stop in to say that Idol last night was one of the very best things I have ever seen on Television.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 28, 2007 - 12:53 am
I hate to be a wet blanket, but I always heard not to give money to African countries because so many of them are run by dictators who got mega-rich off the backs of their people. Build them a school, supply them with books, give them things the rich dictators don't want or can't use because after the rich Americans (or whoever) leave, the dictators come in and take the money from the people. Kind of easy to believe if you also know about the bloodbaths that take place in parts of Africa. Just what I heard, not what I know, personally, for fact so please don't shoot the messenger.
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 9:12 pm
Help. I have info that could be considered a potential spoiler.....where, how should I post it????
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Sunday, April 29, 2007 - 10:59 pm
You could put it here, in a spoiler box??? Use \ spoiler{...} without the space after the \. If you describe the nature of the spoiler people will know whether to peek or not.
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 7:49 am
I am going to practice putting in a spoiler box here since I have never done it before and want to be sure I do it right before I put in what I wanted to spoil. Be patient with me. Thanks.
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | this is my practice box |
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 7:51 am
I'm not sure how accurate this is but I will put it in a box in case it would mess with people's expectations. However, I have NEVER posted a spoiler box before. It worked so here goes.....
Spoiler Click below to view spoiler | my TiVO listing for 5/8 says it is down to four finalists and then list Lakisha, Melinda, Chris and Jordin. I see no Phil listed which makes me wonder if he is, indeed, eliminated. | However, how anyone could know this ahead of time, if it is "live", is beyond me. So perhaps it is just speculation.
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 7:58 am
Nice work on the spoiler box Auntiemike! With respect to the spoiler, it's likely that it was just an error.
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 8:04 am
Thanks...LOL. At least I'm improving in my technical abilities.
Now we'll have to wait and see....as always.
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 8:57 am
My fingers are crossed that it's Chris & Lakisha that go home this Wed. They're my least fav's of the remaining 6.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 9:04 am
When you hit "info" while you are sitting on the individual listing page for that show on TiVo, all top 6 names are listed alphabetically by last name for May 8. It's just the first 4 listed in the synopsis..Probably for space.
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Bonbonlover
Member
07-13-2000
| Monday, April 30, 2007 - 10:22 am
nice job on the Spoiler box Auntiemike!! And yep I must agree that Tivo is either wrong or conserving space...after all the idol want-to-be's haven't even sung or been voten on this week...
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Hobbs
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, May 04, 2007 - 10:02 am
I purchased Kelly's song from itunes. Man, she can sing the blues! It was a great duo with Jeff Beck. I'd love to see AI do a blues night. They could get Joss Stone or B.B. King or Norah Jones to do it. Blues is one of my favorite Genres.
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Roteach
Member
06-01-2003
| Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 4:40 pm
Hobbs, I think a blues night would be a great idea! I think you should email the powers that be at AI and suggest it. After all, the blues is a very American music form.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, May 05, 2007 - 7:54 pm
Hobbs, I was thrilled almost speechless to see Jeff Beck play. What a rare treat! I'm all for a blues night!
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Hobbs
Member
08-05-2002
| Monday, May 07, 2007 - 11:54 am
When I heard Jeff Beck and Kelly Clarkson, I said to myself, "Now there's a surprise duo." I was more shocked at that than at Elvis and Celine!
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