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November 21, 2004
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30 games is not enough. Ron Artest should be suspended for the rest of the year. He even punched the wrong guy. The guy he went after didn't hit him with the beer. These players get paid way too much to conduct themselves in this manner. It's absurb. I was watching the Detroit game when the fight broke out at The Palace (which is interesting because I don't like basketball). Ben Wallace is a drama queen. He overreacted to the hard foul by Ron Artest. And what in the world was Steven Jackson thinking? He must've thought that he was at the Vibe Awards or something. A 20 game suspension is not enough for him either. Did you see the hook that Jermaine O'Neal put on the chunky guy? Priceless.
[edit] The press releases keep changing, but for now Ron Artest has been tossed for the for the year without pay.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Ron Artest was suspended for the rest of the season Sunday as the NBA came down hard on three members of the Indiana Pacers for fighting with fans when a melee broke out at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons.
Overall, nine players from the teams were banned for 143 games, including some of the harshest penalties the league ever issued. Artest is the first player to be suspended for nearly an entire season for a fight during a game.
Indiana's Stephen Jackson was suspended for 30 games and Jermaine O'Neal for 25. Detroit's Ben Wallace -- whose shove of Artest after a foul led to the 5-minute fracas -- drew a six-game ban, while Pacers guard Anthony Johnson got five games.
Four players were suspended for a game apiece: Indiana's Reggie Miller, and Detroit's Chauncey Billups, Elden Campbell and Derrick Coleman.
All of the suspensions are without pay.
Artest, O'Neal and Jackson -- who all threw punches at fans in the stands or on the court at the end of the nationally televised Pacers-Pistons game Friday night -- began serving their suspensions Saturday. Indiana, limited to just six players because of the suspensions and injuries, dropped an 86-83 decision to Orlando.
PARIS - Major economic powers agreed on Saturday to write off billions of dollars of debt for Iraq, the French Finance Ministry said, in a deal that marked a significant step in U.S. efforts to help put the Iraqi economy back on its feet.
For the life of me, even as a Christian, I can't understand why these people are so hardpressed about a federal ban on gay marriage. This is a state issue. It's amazing to me how these people can condemn gays, yet turn a deaf ear to poverty & homelessness. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not for gay marriage, but Homosexuality is not to blame for the current desheveled state of marriage. You have heterosexuals to blame for that one. Divorce, infidelity, dishonest & many other factors are at fault for the corrosion of the marriage institution. Will somebody please tell me how the marriage of Ronald & Tyrone is going to affect my (heterosexual) marriage with my husband?
People are just way too sensitive. I saw the Monday Night Football Skit, and though I thought it was dumb, I wasn't offended. In fact, the only thing that people should've been offended at was TO's acting. Now that was really horrible. I have issues with the people who believe that TO or ABC did something wrong. The funny thing is, TO was only going along with a ready made script. It's not like he made it up himself. Poor TO. Anything this brotha does is going to be scrutinized. How can you condemn the skit yet condone commercials for erectile disfunction (which also aired in the same broadcast). You know those commercials. The ones that say, "You remember that guy that used to be called 'Wild Thing'. He's back." It's ok to air ads to help your penile deficiency, but it's outrageous for a white woman to be seen jumping into the arms of a black man.
Not a bad a choice for President. Right now, I think I'll settle for anyone butGovenor BoboArnold Schwarzenegger or Rudy Guiliani.
Wierd Stuff
BEIJING (Reuters) - An elephant that stamped on his keeper at a Chinese zoo in the mating season and crushed him to death has been declared innocent because of mitigating circumstances, Xinhua news agency has said.
Hu Tianmin was cleaning the elephant house at the zoo in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, in August when the five-tonne, 20-year-old male Asian elephant named "Zhongbo" lifted him up, threw him to the ground and stamped on him.
"The production safety administration in Kunming confirmed that the victim was responsible for his own tragedy because he had entered the elephant pen all alone and without adopting any protective measures, in violation of zoo rules," Xinhua said on Sunday.
Finally, somebody got it right. An animal is not to be blamed when it attacks a human being. Humans just don't get it. Leave the animals alone. Bad things happen when you try to domesticate wild animals. Just ask Roy!
Looks to be that there may be some kindness & humanity left in America. I'd like to believe that the young men who returned the purse, did it out of compassion & honesty. But even they didn't know that the purse contained $43,000. I wonder would they had returned the purse if they knew the money had been present? I know I would have...honestly!
RIYADH (Reuters) - A furious Saudi bride has beaten up a woman who photographed her with a mobile phone camera at her wedding party, a local newspaper reports.
The bride "beat up the woman, completely destroyed her phone and pulled her by the hair in front of a big crowd of guests" for taking pictures in the women-only section of the wedding at Taif, in western Saudi Arabia, Al-Jazirah daily said on Sunday.
That's crazy. She straight snatched a chick up for taking her picture. And she was applauded for it. LOL
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Posted by Timi at November 21, 2004 1:34 PM