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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-proviso-west-sex-assault-met-20150514-story.html
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http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/miami-dolphins/article21153423.html
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Some trivia: His "signature sound" on the guitar did not come out of ego, it came out of necessity. He tried to work the bottlenecks and slides the traditional way, but his fingers were so fat that he couldn't make it work. He came up with something to approximate it by wiggling his fingers on the frets (creating a vibrato). He grew up on a cotton plantation, working the fields and playing the guitar in his free time. The white plantation owner taught him how to drive a tractor, and tractor drivers were making 10 times more than the cotton pickers. When World War II broke out, he enlisted in the army and was getting ready to be sent overseas when the army found out he drove a tractor. They immediately discharged him because a tractor driver was considered a civilian occupation that was "vital to the war effort". He played the blues because, growing up in the 1930's, he would stand on the street corner every Saturday afternoon and play gospel songs, and everybody would compliment him but not leave and tips. When people asked for blues songs, he would play them and leave tips.
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http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-harry-shearer-leaving-simpsons-20150513-htmlstory.html
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/man-sex-car-exhaust-tailpipe-video-article-1.2219271
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http://pagesix.com/2015/05/09/3941513/?_ga=1.169973922.327508041.1431382816
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nebraska-boy-dead-river-bro-abandoned-dumpster-article-1.2218214
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/burt-reynolds-attends-comic-philadelphia-article-1.2217060
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I would be very honored if Beerball would let me call him a "mother".
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P is a B: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/collin-county/headlines/20141216-deion-sanders-ex-wife-jailed-loses-rights-to-see-kids.ece
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Deflate-gate investigation complete
\GoBillsInDallas/ replied to YoloinOhio's topic in The Stadium Wall Archives
Rumor: NY Post says four-game suspension likely: http://nypost.com/2015/05/08/brady-4-game-suspension -
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/crime/ct-sta-battery-over-sex-st-0508-20150507-story.html
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http://extracredit.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2015/05/07/maverick-high-charter-school-principal-suspended-after-pot-arrest/
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I was reading an article over lunch in the Financial Times newspaper call "Autocracy is the cause, not the cure, of the Middle East's ills" (it's a pay subscription site so I can't link to it). Here's what a reader wrote in the "comments section" underneath the article: "What utter drivel. The cause of Middle East problems are two things: the violent nature of bitterly divided modern Islam and the complete breakdown of Arab society. In fact the ONLY stability that has been enjoyed is with a strongman running a country. It has been that way for 1400 years. The Middle East destabilized for the worse when the USA took out Saddam Hussein and thought if we stuck a 3 piece suit on some Iraqis and had an election that somehow it would help. It is now worse than ever. In fact, Iraq is de facto divided into 3 nations right now: Sunnistan (ISIS), Kurdistan, and Shiastan (Bagdad). Only the borders of these 3 nations is being defined through conflict. Egypt devolved overnight with the "election" of the Muslim Brotherhood into power into a looming terrorist state that openly spoke of its plans to co-operate to destroy Israel as soon as possible. It openly welcomed Hamas (since it is a Brotherhood offshoot). Christians were murdered for being Christians by the truck loads, while the Brotherhood government looked the other way. El-Sisi stopped it, and was right to do so. Now Egypt has a strongman it is has become stable. Arab and Islamic culture have no sense of "democracy" in its traditions, culture, or mindset. Dominance and power are how governing is accomplished. They are tribal and sectarian and wish to remain that way. All they want to enjoy the wealth of the West under those same traditions, cultures, and mindsets. To the Arab, "democracy" simply means putting your strongman in power in place of your rival's strongman. Have the guts to spend some extended time there, as I have, and you'll learn it for yourself instead of pontificating some Liberal philosophy that works well in a classroom and sounds so high minded in a pithy editorial."
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Anyone ever get fired or quit
\GoBillsInDallas/ replied to Ice bowl 67's topic in Off the Wall Archives
From the other side... We contract out a lot of work every year ($200m), including scientists, engineers and many other skills. This work is VERY complex and detailed, so we need to see people who have extensive experience. The contract companies that we hire promise us experienced people, but they always try to push young, inexperienced people on us. They negotiate a price for experts, but instead give us millennials. We yell at these companies and end up terminating their contract. And the companies yell at us (seriously), saying that their work is "good enough". Ageism is really a large problem out there today. -
http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20150504/news/150509767
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If bowling pins are outlawed...
\GoBillsInDallas/ replied to \GoBillsInDallas/'s topic in Off the Wall Archives
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... then only outlaws will have bowling pins. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/illinois-man-bowling-pin-strike-burglar-head-cops-article-1.2184490