It's not really surprising but it's still an interesting read.

[QUOTE=Undertow][URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4193797.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4193797.stm[/URL]

It's not really surprising but it's still an interesting read.[/QUOTE]
Edit: Nevermind. I didn't really mean that...ugh.

"See this guy? He's the JP Morgan of the smack business."

"First time I heard that."

- CARLITO'S WAY

[QUOTE=Undertow]
It's not really surprising but it's still an interesting read.[/QUOTE]
can i re-title this thread with your quote above? that way i can link some stories that fit that decription, such as [URL=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=9&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_re_us/terror_suspects_25]this[/URL], which was so stupid of some news outlets (see: Boston Globe, New York Post, etc.) to run a story based on "An anonymous tipster."

anyway, i did read your link above. at least Jp is doing this; "JP Morgan said that it was setting up a $5m scholarship programme for students living in Louisiana, the state where the events took place."

[QUOTE=Popcultjunkie]can i re-title this thread with your quote above? that way i can link some stories that fit that decription, such as [URL=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=9&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_re_us/terror_suspects_25]this[/URL], which was so stupid of some news outlets (see: Boston Globe, New York Post, etc.) to run a story based on "An anonymous tipster."

anyway, i did read your link above. at least Jp is doing this; "JP Morgan said that it was setting up a $5m scholarship programme for students living in Louisiana, the state where the events took place."[/QUOTE]

Hey, I'm all for renaming the thread!

Also, I'm not sure about the Boston Globe, but the New York post's stories are about as legit as the National Enquirer's.

[QUOTE=Undertow]Hey, I'm all for renaming the thread!

Also, I'm not sure about the Boston Globe, but the New York post's stories are about as legit as the National Enquirer's.[/QUOTE]:cool:

that's what i thought because whenever i see the frontpage to that source i imagine J. Jonah Jameson running the paper.

[QUOTE=Popcultjunkie]:cool:

that's what i thought because whenever i see the frontpage to that source i imagine J. Jonah Jameson running the paper.[/QUOTE]

Props to the J. Jonah Jameson reference, and to changing the thread title.

[QUOTE=Popcultjunkie]can i re-title this thread with your quote above?[/QUOTE]
how about next time renaming it something that helps from wasting people's time wondering what the link is about? something like "Terror Tipster Full of Shit".

[URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206089.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4206089.stm[/URL]

I guess two people can fall in love even in Auschwitz. It's a bit sappy at the end but still interesting, maybe because it's legit and not on The Onion.

Actually, I work for JPM, C. Co (recently merged with BancOne, who were linked with Citizens and Canal , the two banks having to do with the slave situation)
Rather, they [I]apologized,[/I] for it were Citizens and Canal that had done such deeds, in the past. In turn, due to mergers, JPM, C. Co. became involved. And that doesnt mean they (JPM) did it, its just that with time comes mergers of bigger, better business and with that, comes history. Banks in Louisiana; Citizens and Canal, had done so in the very past of times, in banking history, and it was said that with loans, slaves were used as collateral for those who went far beyond any acceptable delinquent circumstance, and might have sold the slaves to someone else to make up the balance. This doesnt mean that the bank actually enslaved people.
Clients (normal people, white collar or blue, [I]anyone[/I] who was abled) that took out loans and were unable to follow through with such contracts probably only had slaves to use as collateral. The business employees of Citizens and Canal probably agreed to the client offerings, being that the times, the 19th Century, were OK with such barters. Where as now, it is nearly unheard of and completely not tolerated. And so, they (JPM, and BancOne) as banks in the 21st Century acknowledged this (past happening) may bring up questions from the people, and thus we have an apology.

[URL=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/archive/2005/02/02/MILLIONAIRE.TMP]article link[/URL]

its not that i'm too lazy to read it, its that i've already read it somewhere else and i wasted my time getting suckered into clicking on this thread, clicking on the link, waiting for it to pop up and then seeing it was something 1: i'd already read and B- wasn't interested in.

but yeah, that nestle stuff is interesting. i wish i was hot and anorexic.

[URL=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4071160010&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT]Ad Space on Swimsuit Model Shaune Bagwell's Cleavage[/URL]
Its safe for work, but if you're not supposed to be looking at models in bikinis then wait till you get home.

[QUOTE=Popcultjunkie][URL=http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4071160010&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT]Ad Space on Swimsuit Model Shaune Bagwell's Cleavage[/URL]
Its safe for work, but if you're not supposed to be looking at models in bikinis then wait till you get home.[/QUOTE]
I can't believe somebody's will to pay $9000 for that, that cleavage isn't even impressive

[URL=http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-02-09T151313Z_01_N08307800_RTRIDST_0_ODD-MEXICO-DRUGS-INDIANS-DC.XML]http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-02-09T151313Z_01_N08307800_RTRIDST_0_ODD-MEXICO-DRUGS-INDIANS-DC.XML[/URL]

Some Mexican drug gangs want local indians to stop growing corn and start growing marijuana and opium instead. Need I say more?

[URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4256979.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4256979.stm[/URL]

I guess what I want to know is, why was Virginia the first state to try and fine saggy pants or exposed thongs?

[QUOTE=Undertow][URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4256979.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4256979.stm[/URL]

I guess what I want to know is, why was Virginia the first state to try and fine saggy pants or exposed thongs?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]One of them, 17-year-old Elvyn Shaw, said: "If people in Florida can wear bikinis, a little underwear showing isn't going to hurt anybody."[/QUOTE]
do people in virgina not wear bikinis?

[URL=http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-03-01T150313Z_01_N28301920_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-SEX-TEACHER-DC.XML]http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-03-01T150313Z_01_N28301920_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-SEX-TEACHER-DC.XML[/URL]

That two-year old kid is going to be all over the ladies when he turns 9.

[URL=http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-03-02T205036Z_01_N31376614_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-BREAST-DC.XML]http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2005-03-02T205036Z_01_N31376614_RTRIDST_0_ODD-ODD-BREAST-DC.XML[/URL]

[URL=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4557929.stm]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4557929.stm[/URL]

This article made me chuckle a couple times.

[QUOTE][B]White House hits out at Newsweek[/B]

The White House has urged Newsweek to take the lead in repairing the US' image among Muslims after its retracted report about desecration of the Koran.
The magazine on Monday said its report that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet was based on flawed sources.

A White House spokesman said Newsweek had done "lasting damage".

At least 15 people were killed in anti-US riots in Afghanistan following the article's publication.

As well as the deaths in Afghanistan, more than 100 people were injured in violent protests across the Muslim world, from Pakistan to Indonesia.

Insulting the Koran or the Prophet Muhammad is regarded as blasphemy and punishable by death in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[B]US policies [/B]

White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that Newsweek had an obligation to help reverse the effects of its report.

"There has been some lasting damage that has been done to our image... and it's going to take some work to repair that damage," Mr McClellan said.

The magazine should consider writing about US military policies which banned Koranic desecration, he said.

But he acknowledged it was not his job "to get into telling people what they can and cannot report".

[B]'Lying' [/B]

Newsweek's original story claimed that a military investigation was set to reveal evidence of desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo.

It followed repeated allegations by former prisoners at the camp in Cuba that interrogators had prevented them from worshipping or had sought ways to insult their faith.

But on 16 May, the magazine said the investigation in question had not looked at the desecration charges, and that its sources had also backed away from the story.

Defence department spokesman Lawrence Di Rita told a news conference that the charges of desecration had not been considered credible enough to probe.

It was "very likely" that any detainees making such a charge were lying, he said.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE][SIZE=3]FBI: Grenade at Bush Rally Was Live [/SIZE]
1 hour, 26 minutes ago

TBILISI, Georgia - The FBI said Wednesday that a grenade thrown in the crowd during last week's speech by President Bush in the Georgian capital was capable of exploding and was considered a threat against the president.

The statement by agent Bryan Paarmann contradicted initial reports by Georgian officials that the grenade was not capable of exploding and had been found on the ground. The grenade, wrapped in a dark handkerchief, fell about 100 feet from the podium where Bush was speaking May 10 and "simply failed to function," he said.

"We consider this act to be a threat against the health and welfare of the president of the United States as well as the welfare of the multitudes of Georgian people who turned up for this event," Paarmann said.

Bush spoke to tens of thousands of people in Freedom Square, a main plaza in Tbilisi. He offered strong support for Georgia's democratic development following the 2003 Rose Revolution. The crowd response was overwhelmingly favorable.

No arrests have been made in the case, and police have appealed to the public for videotapes that may contain information on the perpetrator.[/QUOTE]
I never even heard this happened

Because they want it off the record, on the QT, and very...hush hush.

[URL=http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050524%2F0910883425.htm]http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050524%2F0910883425.htm[/URL]
[QUOTE]
Man Leaps From Car to Retrieve Cigarette

FOREMAN, Ark. (AP) - A leap of faith proved hazardous for a smoker in need of a cigarette fix after a night on the town.

Jeff Foran suffered trauma to his nose, eyes and chin after jumping from a car traveling 55-60 mph. Authorities said he was trying to retrieve a cigarette blown out of the passenger-side window.

Foran, 38, took the leap Saturday night, state police Trooper Jamie Gravier said.

The driver of the car, Jerry Glenn Nelson, said Foran had asked him earlier in the evening to be a designated driver after a night of drinking.

``Foran did the right thing and asked his buddy to drive him home,'' Gravier said. ``It was obvious he was extremely intoxicated.''

Gravier added: ``If anything could make him stop smoking, this should be it. The man is lucky to be alive.''[/QUOTE]

*speechless*