Archive through January 12, 2003
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Zachsmom | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 02:16 pm     LOL..War..we have that too..even at the emergency room entrance..lol |
Lumbele | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 02:17 pm     Your hospital has valet parking? Boy, do I ever live in the wrong town, I am lucky to find a parking space at ours. Momma Grooch, my sympathies! I have heard about Hooters but never in connection with wings. |
Wargod | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 02:24 pm     Hehe, I couldn't believe it myself. It really is a good thing though cuz parking has always been a nightmare there. My aunt is 75, and while not too sickly, walking long distances with her is a problem. So usually I pull up in front of the building, help her out of the car, go park, and then walk all the way back. On our way out, I leave her at the curb, run to get the car, get her in, and then go. This makes it easier because you just pull up and go...no worries about stopping traffic or finding a spot yourself. Sorry, Grooch, we don't have Hooters here but we have Snookies, which I've heard is nowhere near as classy as Hooters. |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:02 pm     Wardog, is it legal to possess dildos in Snookies? |
Whit4you | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:31 pm     Jed - so what's the difference between a gripe and a rant... and what if I want to rant about my latest gripe? LOL. To me a rant is .. a rant... and boy can I rant. Rant to me means going on and on and getting off your chest in a sorta thereputic but perhaps childish way... just cause it FEELS GOOD to rant lol. |
Lucy | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 03:51 pm     Dumb California laws: I don't need to worry about #3 since I quit working. 1.It is illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner. 2.It is illegal to wipe one's car with used underwear. 3.It is illegal for a secretary to be alone in a room with her boss. 4.Animals are banned from mating publicly within 1,500 feet of a tavern, school, or place of worship. |
Riviere | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 04:08 pm     Gephart running for President, too big a rant to get into where I live.. I must have missed AK being a 'conservative' state when I lived there! |
Wargod | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:35 pm     Uhm, not sure, Juju,LOL. I've never visited the place myself. |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 05:42 pm     These aren't really rants, because nothing controversial is going on right now.Our newspaper is very small compared to other towns.. Deborah Norville is speaking in our town soon. The Boston Red Sox are thinking of coming to our town for spring training, since we lost the Rangers after 15 years. It was a major loss to our town to lose the Rangers! John Edward is a good friend of the people who own a small book store in town. He has mentioned them in his books. |
Pamy | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 08:41 pm     I just found out what my DH and best friend are planning for my 'surprise bday party'(I kinda figured they were doing something since they both wanted people's names/#'s). Anyway, what they are planning sucks!! I know that sounds bad, but wait til you hear....they are having it at a comedy club that is 40 min -1 1/2 hrs away, depending on where you are comming from, and guess who we get to see after that long ass drive????? OVERTON, from living single!!!!! |
Jed245 | Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 11:53 pm     Whit ya gotta figgure my lingo into the mix. See to me a rant er well I explained it in the archive. Twiggish those are rants cause they are something ya wanna talk about. :o) Jed |
Grooch | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 10:46 am     Bee Gees' Maurice Gibb undergoes emergency surgery in Miami Reuters Posted January 10 2003, 1:33 PM EST Singer Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees underwent emergency intestinal surgery in Florida and was initially listed in critical condition, the group's Los Angeles-based manager said Friday. The 53-year-old performer was stricken at his home in Miami with intense stomach pains Thursday and was rushed to the hospital. Doctors determined he was suffering from an intestinal blockage, according to manager Carol Peters. ``It was completely out of the blue,'' she said. ``No pains or anything beforehand, just all of a sudden, boom.'' She said he initially emerged from surgery in critical condition, but has ``opened his eyes, wiggled his toes and feet, so it's good.'' She said an update on the singer's condition was expected later in the day from doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. The hospital would initially confirm only that Gibb was a patient there. A brief statement said he was admitted on Thursday and underwent emergency abdominal surgery. ``He is currently in critical but stable condition,'' the hospital said. The Bee Gees, founded when the brothers were children in 1958 in Brisbane, Australia, by Maurice Gibb, his twin brother, Robin, and their older sibling Barry, hit the height of their fame during the disco craze of the 1970s with the soundtrack to the film ``Saturday Night Fever.'' Maurice Gibb, whose voice is perhaps least familiar to the public, usually focused on back-up and harmony vocals. Peters said Barry and Robin Gibb were with their brother at the hospital. All three of the British-born brothers reside in the Miami area. |
Conejo | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 10:54 am     Grooch, I'm lost - what's your rant about? |
Crazydog | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 10:59 am     I have to say that I'm still a little lost about this whole thread. First I thought it was a rant/gripe thread, then it seemed to be a strange laws thread, then a local news thread. Is it just a "write whatever you want" thread? LOL! Maybe we can have it retitled to better explain things. |
Grooch | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 11:06 am     The way I understand it, rant means local gossip to Jed. We're supposed to post about any local gossip that interests us. I could be wrong. |
Jed245 | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 12:15 pm     Grooch ya must be a carpenter cause ya nailed it. :o) Jed |
Crazydog | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 12:34 pm     Oh I see. OK, here's two items of local interest. (I live in Chicago.) Governor George Ryan today pardoned four criminals from death row. And he is continuing to make political appointments in the 11th hour before he leaves office this month at the end of his term. Governor Ryan is perhaps the state's most unpopular governor ever. I think it was reported that 70% of Illinoisans viewed him negatively. Several years ago when he was Secretary of State, there was a huge drivers-license-for-bribes scandal. He has continued to deny involvement to this day, even after it was reported that Ryan was in the room when a former aide reportedly issued orders to shred hordes of documents. A while back it was reported that there was a high ranking official in the Secretary of State's office that was directly responsible for some of the actions, and this person was labelled in the media as "Official A". Ryan claimed he had "no idea" if he was being suspected of being "Official A". Then he decided not to run for re-election because he "wanted to spend more time with his family", when the real reason is that he would get his butt kicked. The guy the Republicans ended up with as their candidate was Attorney General Jim Ryan. Unfortunately for him, even though he was of no relation to the Governor people thought so anyway, and he had to constantly remind people that they were not related. He lost, probably in part due to the unfortunate name. I really detest George Ryan (could you tell?) and I hope they eventually charge him with obstruction of justice for his role in the license scandal. A month or so ago was the first time they directly linked him to the shredder, and once again he denied it. The other item of news is that the President (Mayor) of Cicero, Betty Loren-Maltese, got 8 years in prison for her embezzlement of $12 million from the city. A group of Ciceronians who supported this woman held a vigil or protested in front of the courthouse. The judge supposedly said he added time onto the sentence because it shows how much influence Loren-Maltese had in the city which enabled her to get away for her crimes. |
Grooch | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 12:38 pm     Wow! $12 million!?!?!? I hope she serves her time. Was the license scandal the one where they were giving them to truck drivers that never took the test? |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 03:52 pm     Which reminds me, we have not had any South Florida stories from Grooch in a reallllllly long time. |
Grooch | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 05:44 pm     Juju, it's been very quiet down here for awhile. Very odd. |
Riviere | Friday, January 10, 2003 - 11:38 pm     Crazydog ~ I'll share that Guv Ryan gripe. It seems ludicrous the man has been nominated for a Pullet Surprise for his death row pardons, after one lame career as our 'public servant' with the highest unpopularity in how many decades.. |
Crazydog | Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 08:22 am     !!! And yesterday he commuted the sentences of the remaining 150 or so death row inmates to life without parole. Several months ago our un-beloved governor held days of meetings with relatives of murder victims to discuss the possibility of blanket clemency. On the news last night they had interviews with some of these relatives that were in tears. One anchorwoman looked like she was about to cry when reporting the news. I think it is ludicrous that this odious man is trying to make a name for himself in the waning days of his enormous failure of a governorship. In his speech on Saturday afternoon Ryan said that he felt he did the right thing and didn't care what people thought because he knew he would "sleep well tonight". One relative said that angered her most of all that he said he would sleep well. She said that because of him, she probably never will again. IMO, he's just trying to stick it to the incoming governor, the first Democrat governor in decades. I also think it's an attempt to make people remember him for something other than the drivers license scandal. (Yes Grooch, that was the one.) |
Goddessatlaw | Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 08:32 am     Crazydog, you hit that nail on the head - he's looking for something for people to hang their hat on besides his criminal behavior when his indictment comes down. I've watched the situation in Illinois fairly closely since my family's in Illinois, and have been absolutely appalled by it. I have to say, the death sentencing procedure has many, many, many flaws. Under the indicia of complicity with which Ryan finds himself in the ongoing criminal investigations, however, I do not believe he had any business whatsoever making such a radical and sweeping decision designed to strip victims' families and the State of any form of recourse. Dreadful. I personally think the handcuffs are going to slapped on his own wrists within days or weeks of leaving office, and he needs all the support he can get from any corner available - hence a corner of anti-death penalty sympathizers who may rush to his aid. MHO. |
Zachsmom | Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 12:14 pm     Well..I have a rant about the Maurice Gibb article..they didn't mention Andy.. as a sibling.. I am sadden to hear about his surgery and I hope he recovers quickly! I LOVE the BeeGee's |
Crossfire | Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 12:23 pm     Bad news Zachsmom. I am afraid Maurice has already passed. |
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