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Fred Williams

"Add it up!" Awesome concert video, 1988, Aukland, NZ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHapDS2fcFE (sometimes, it is just something to do with luck...) So what's the latest from McCann? Just where is he deployed anyway? How does he keep up with Chula Vista news? I wonder how we got from his wife to discussing violent femmes...oh wait.
— August 17, 2009 10:17 p.m.

The drinking problem in Balboa Park after dark

Storyteller: "If you disgust me, you belong in a labor camp." SDaniels: "Disgusting, Fred." Therefore: Fred belongs in a labor camp. ...sigh. Perhaps, after I complete my term of involuntary servitude breaking rocks in the hot sun, I'll learn to never joke again. (*hangs head in shame, marches off quietly with the burly labor officers)
— August 17, 2009 10:12 p.m.

Hofbräuhaus, Munich

I'm not at all furry, and Czech beer is, in my never humble opinion, better than German beer. Though it's extremely tempting, I've still not used a pseudonym here since registration has been required for posters. And, yes, it's my real name. Best, Fred
— August 17, 2009 10:02 p.m.

My Thoughts on Michael Douglas and Michael Vick

The NFL is a business out to make as much money as possible, just like Hollywood. Don Bauder has convincing proof that professional football is dominated by the mafia. Talk to anyone in show business and you'll hear similar tales. None of these poeple should be considered automatic candidates for role model status. Now it may happen by chance that someone involved in this system is a genuinely good person who just doesn't know any better. But the overwhelming majority of professional athletes and actors couldn't give a squirt of piss about the rest of the world. They're out there to win by any means possible and to make as much money as they can. They are NOT out there to set a good example for the rest of us. Morally, there is absolutely NO difference between strippers and ball players. Both are athletic young people using their bodies to entertain men drinking beer. We don't hold up strippers as role models, so why do you expect ball players to be any better? Nobody cares if a stripper has a DUI or if she's been involved in dog fights. They only want to see her body as she swings herself around on a pole. Similarly, sports fans and team owners should care much less what these guys do off the field. As long as some over-muscled moron throws the ball in the right direction, it's irrelevant what he does in his free time. He's not a role model. He's a ball player. As a proud carnivore, I am not entitled to condemn someone for enjoying watching domesticated animals fight when I'm buying a fresh pork chop that came from an animal that was raised in misery and slaughtered with no mercy...pigs are just as intelligent as dogs, after all. Do you reserve your moral judgements for abusers of cuddly creatures alone? Josh, are you swearing off steaks and bacon? Otherwise, you're as morally tainted as Vick. Moreover, don't you like to watch boxing? What about Mixed Martial Arts? Enjoy watching a really hard body slam on the hockey rink? Yet you condemn someone for watching animals hurt each other? What about humans? Time for a bacon sandwich, Josh. As you chew, think about whether you've got the moral high ground in condemning Vick. Consider whether it's at all logical to hold him to a higher standard as some kind of "role model" as you enjoy that crispy mouth-watering taste of pork flesh. Personally, I love bacon. Yummy. So I cannot condemn the butcher as immoral while I enjoy eating dead animals. Nobody ever watched Vick on television because he was a morally superior person. They watched because he knows how to throw a football. To demand that this ball player set standards for you to follow and admire is ridiculous. He was involved in one of the oldest entertainments known to mankind...raising animals to fight. So what? He's a ball player...nothing more. Don't hold him to some higher ethical standard while you're chomping away on a t-bone, okay? (Dang...I'm hungry now.)
— August 16, 2009 1:18 a.m.

The drinking problem in Balboa Park after dark

Uh, Ms. Daniels, how does a tennis bracelet compare to a "pearl necklace"?...see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_necklace_(sexu… Barbara Bush, mother of George Jr. has a bit of a fetish for pearl necklaces...(type "barbara bush" into google images to see for yourself). She's also the one who quipped that the evacuees of Hurricane Katrina were oh so lucky having lost their homes: "What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them." See: http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/2005/09/08/barbar… Which ties into the original point of this thread...rich people, born with a silver foot in their mouth, have no business pronouncing judgement on the down and out. When they do, it reveals just how undeserving the wealthy are of their enormous, often ill-gotten, privileges.
— August 16, 2009 12:38 a.m.