LEAP

I was sent this link a couple days ago and still haven't had a lot of time to really go thru and read a lot of the site.  But for now I'll leave you with the first paragraph from the About LEAP page:

"After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over half-a-trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies, our confined population has quadrupled over a 20 years period making building prisons this nation's fastest growing industry. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.6 million for nonviolent drug offenses‹more per capita than any country in the world. The United States has 4.6 percent of the population of the world but 22.5 percent of the world's prisoners. Every year we choose to continue this war will cost U.S. taxpayers another 69 billion dollars. Despite all the lives we have destroyed and all the money so ill spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before. We would suggest that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. This madness must cease!"

http://www.leap.cc/

let me know what you think!

my supreme court/your supreme court

this aint the type of thing i'd usually ever post here, but i'm making an exception tonite.  Below is cut and pasted from moveon.org.  The morkstriss's 3rd favorite website (after myspace and then kidpurple.com!):

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Subject: Rights at risk on the Supreme Court - time to speak out!

Hi, I just received an important message from MoveOn.org. Bush has caved to pressure from the far right and nominated Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. Alito is a notoriously radical judge who has attacked workers' rights, womens' rights and civil rights for years.

Please join me in signing the emergency petition to our Senators, asking them to stand up for us and block this nomination.

http://political.moveon.org/stopalito

Thanks!

20 things about me

I've seen some people post 100 things about themselves on their website, just a list of small facts about them.  well my plan is to hopefully get 20 things about me, but from you.  either leave a comment here or send me and email, i'll gather them all and post them when i get 20.  it can be good things or bad things, i don't care.

halloween

this set of costumes won us one of the costume awards, and all 8 of us got to split a little bottle of hot sex. static-x and stevie wonder also won some award. mike and kelly won the best couple award, i wish i had more pictures...

in the tipsy cup tourney, team woody (junior, jonsey, and dangle) sucessfully defended their title from last year!!!!

impossible concerts

I was just thinking about concerts that would never happen but I'd really like to see.  The best one I've thought of is Cat Stevens opening for Rage Against The Machine and I mean RATM, none of this audioslave crap.

What impossible concert would you like to see?

this is weird, i am tired

kinda like some type of strange cartoon-ish reality show.  You probably wouldn't beleive it if I told you and gave no link.

Fidel Castro, Diego Maradonna, and George Bush all star in this one.  I'd throw Carson Daily into this one to boost ratings a little, too many people won't know who Maradonna is, and everyone else either hates Bush or hates Castro.  I've never met any of them but if I had to choose one to be my leader, it would definetly be the one that used to snort coke.  Oh, I guess thats not specific enough, I'd pick Maradonna!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051028/ts_nm/maradona_dc

office jockey

i only read the first 2 paragraphs of the following article, but it makes me feel good to know that i'm an office jockey!  fuck yeah beeyotch!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051027/ts_alt_afp/afplifestyleinternet_051027141806

i will dominate in google

when users search for kris thoele in quotation marks.  try it search for:

"kris thoele"

and include the quotations when you do search, shit, now in a couple of weeks i'll dominate for those searching for ""kris thoele"", and then again with another set of quotations.  I'll have to see what yahoo and msn and A9 give me.

white sox!!!!

PokerStars Sit'n'Go

Some people say that Elvis isn't dead, or that Jim Morrison is still alive. Well i discovered something tonite at the poker table. I got into a cheap 2 table sit n' go at pokerstars and made it down to the final 4 (cause i took 4th place). But check out the table and see who I got to play cards with! Someone that you thought wasn't around anymore!

(Click to enlarge)

Executions Teach Vengeance and Violence

US judge sets December date to execute Nobel Peace Prize nominee.  sounds a little bit weird, doesn't it?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051025/wl_afp/usjusticeexecution

has anyone seen the tv movie mentioned in the article?  I watched it late one nite but was not able to stay awake for the whole thing.  So I was just wondering what all the great KP readers thought about the subject (Capital Punishment, not necessairly this particular case).

and this whole time i thought it was video games and movies that taught vengeance and violence?

dietrich: what causes you to be so damm violent?
charger: what causes you to be so full of vengeance?

where have all the sporks gone

I'm watching the world series, cause my new favorite team is up 5-4 right now, when i thought i'd go check out loffelmacher.com, but there's not much there. i think its been the same for a long time. i want to know where have all the loffelmacher's gone? what the hell man, where are you?

one of my favorite programs

OOo or OpenOffice.org!

Open Office 2.0 has just been released! Unless you are a real power user of M$ Office, you can use Open Office for free. Yeah, its reall free! It even handles any type of M$ Office file that you want! I won't ever install M$ office again I don't think!

check it out for yourself: http://www.openoffice.org/

just kidding

i was just kidding before....

ahhhh ha

greatest single line in music history

"a dead goat got pregnant and said it was mine"

who said it and in what song?

dreams are sometimes weird

in this dream the 3 of us (me, casey T. and p-man) were sitting at some type of reunion thing with some girls that i vaguely remember from high school.   they were talking about what they remembered people for and who is most likeyly type of things.  they said that p-man was most likely to kill someone after high school, they remember me for my smile, and casey for having the coolest underwear

weird eh?

i have a goofy looking smile, i'm willing to bet p-man has not killed anyone, and casey's underwear are usually at least partially poopy!

the high life show

i figured everyone needed a picture with the 40 oz. here and the unfortunate (fantastic) results!

i've got some spare time

i think i'll build one of these clocks, what the hell.  anyone want to help me out with this.  i think it'll be fun, we can start on it this weekend!  it sounds simple enough!!!!!

http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-05/cover/

i was born here, biatch...

i saw this over at the morkstriss is here dot com and thoguht i could beat her:

You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations - you got 9 out of 10 correct!

Could You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

aparently i could only pull out a tie. i wonder what i got wrong, it had to be the question about the original 13 colonies. dammit. yo morkstriss, i noticed your GWB thing and wondered if he could score as good as we did on that test?????? hmmmmmm.

why the hell would i

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinnitus

what would cause me to have this.  i'm not posotive that I do have this, but yes, my ears are often buzzing.  this is why i used to always sleep with the radio on, i hated being in a totally quiet environment for a long time.  a little noise will usually drown out the buzzing.  this buzzing is not constant, maybe i'm just going crazy.

it is worse in my left ear right now.  i'll have to pay attention to see if that is always the case.

weird

being a royals fan

well i guess i can't name many (if any) current Kansas City Royals, but I've been a Royals fan for a long time. Does George Brett still play?

well anyway, i've gotten sick of, so I decided that the white sox are my new favorite team, and they've made it to the freaking world series, how great is that!

2 reasons i choose the white sox: 1. they were playing the red sox (neal's favorite team), 2. everyone like the damm cubs, no one likes the white sox.

GO WHITE SOX!!

exciting new: world's oldest noodle found!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051014/od_nm/noodles_dc

aparently the record for the world's oldest noodles has been broken.  that too bad because the previous record holder was a package of noodles that my grandma had in her basement. (she likes to keep stuff around for a long time)........

Happy Birthday

Happy (27) Birthday Jill

Happy (29) Birthday Violent Ed

Happy (29) Birthday Gravy

hopefully they let me play!

I have registered to play in the
Online Poker Blogger Championship!

This event is powered by PokerStars.

Registration code: 5614479

a bloggers poker tournament

my favorite poker room is have a bloggers only poker tournament!  i kinda wonder if this really qualifies, i suppose a monkey could set up a blog on blogger and register for this tourney, but i think i'm gonna try!

http://www.pokerstars.com/blog_tournament/

the burrito game

i was playing against quite a few well know poker bloggers i guess:

 

this guy started at my table, he didn't last really long:

http://taopoker.blogspot.com/

 

she was to my left for the whole tournament (or maybe she moved to that spot very early in the game), this is who knocked me out with 77 vs my AJ

http://www.kebzweb.com/

 

This guy came to my table half way thru the game and i think he was also at the final table:

http://pokerintheweeds.blogspot.com/

 

this girl was at my table for a long time too, and she ended up winning it all:

http://joanne1111.blogspot.com/ -- also writes for http://cardsquad.com/

 

i didn't get to sit at the same table as Wil, but he was observing my table and chatting with several of these people that he aparently knows!

 

it was really a lot of fun, but it would have been so much better if i could have moved up 2 spots and made the final table!

and here is another one that i found, notice me in the hand history, i folded right away!
http://feedingtheaddiction.blogspot.com/

wheres my burrito poker tournament

Well Wil Wheaton's poker tournament is over. 96 players each tossed in $10 for this one. I started out good, of course this is too early to mean absolutely anything, but hey:



so the game went on, i built up a really nice big stack, but with about 5 tables left, my QQ ran into a KK, and i doubled that guy up. i was down to the small stack, well under 1K in chips, but slowly built my way back up. with 15 players left i got lucky and my K2 beat a KQ to almost double me up, then we were down to 14 players, and quickly after that, 13.

we sat at 13 players for quite a while then. (top 9 were in the money). finally 13th dropped out, down to 12. within a span of about 4 minutes, i had A9 lose to 22, and then AJ lose to 77, and i even caught an A on the board on that one, unfortunately along with a 7... that was the end of my game.

but what made it even worse is that 2 other people went out at the other table right about the time i did. before i was even done screaming at my monitor, they were at the final table. dammit, maybe next week.

WWdN Poker Tournament

What: WWdN Where's My Burrito? Invitational
Where: PokerStars.
When: Friday, October 14th. 4:00 PM EST
Password: monkey
Tournament number: 13722477
Buy-in: $10+1

I'll be there!

playin poker

1. one of these guys is really into his own chips.
2. one of these guys is jealous of someone elses chips.
3. one of these guys is hoping to get his (tiny) blind back.
4. one of these guys is looking at some elses boobs across the table.

can you pick each of them out of the pic?

naked poker!

someone forward this to josh

It's aparently a game now...

being a shepard

i knew i should have become a shepard.  but then i get to the end of the article only to find out that its not all about sitting around with you dog smoking a pipe all day long.  what a major blow to my dream of one day becoming a shepard.  i don't have a dog or a pipe, but thats what i want to do some day.  I don't mean I want to do that for a living, but just one saturday afternoon, i wanna sit with my dog in a field and smoke a pipe!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051011/od_nm/hungary_shepherds_dc

kris thoele's alternate identity

Oh my god, Kris Thoele IS Freddie Prinze Jr.

tell me, how many times have you ever seen the two together, NEVER....  I swear it has never happened.  check out the picture below and you'll see what i mean.

http://www.eonline.com/Gossip/Fashion/Archive2/0,1912,1525,00.html

thanks to bierwoman for pointing this out to me

WoW

it must be about time i start playing again i think. my new laptop should be here next week (fingers are crossed), and i think i'll have to get back into it. i recently was thinking about guild wars again, but i only know other who are playing WoW, so.....

buy me a 2 month game card and you can be my friend!

the secret of my success

as a lot of you may know, i have never lost at monopoly!  some people may challenge this truly legitimate feat that i have accomplished over thousands of monopoly victories that I have built up over the years, but don't beleive them.

anyway, i'm here to reveal the secret of my monopoly success,

drumroll please..............

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml

how many times....???

why does yahoo want me to verify my fucking password 8 times a day.  I don't even use yahoo as my main email provider, but still, somehow yahoo asks my for my damm password about 8 times every freaking day.  it disturbes me, i'm gonna start having nightmares about going to school and trying to open my locker, but then yahoo shows up and asks me what my locker password is.  every day i do it many times, but then that one day for some reason i just forget it.  and the only difference is not that yahoo laughs and points at me.  when it was just my locker i'd just walk away in peace, but now there a big Y and a big exclamation point pointing and laughing at me in front of all my friends.  but they are my friends so they know that i'm just gonna kick Y!'s ass after school, like i would normally do.

anyway, i think i will have my free psp deal completed now, so don't sign up now still expecting the dvd's.  for both of you guys that signed up today, i'll still give you the dvd's if you complete an offer!  i'll even post you links here if you give them to me!

cheers!
i'm goin to bed!

cocky

http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news?slug=afp-fblengprespchelseadelhorno&prov=afp&type=lgns

i remember what happened when manchester united said they wanted to go the entire year without a loss.  well i don't remember exactly what happened, but they didn't manage to even get close to that, in fact they lost more games than several other teams and probably finished 3rd or 4th that year!  i hope the same happens to the blues.

only one more for the free psp!

One person has earned the 9 dvd's!  Now I only need one more person to complete my free PSP offer!

get 9 dvd's full of music if you do, just click the link below and complete an offer!!!!

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http://www.FreePSPs.com/?r=15326684

its 12:30 and i need to go to bed

we bought a new tv today! but its still at best buy, why? because its too big for either of our cars dammit.

i'm gonna go on a cleansing diet, so that i can poop clear watery liquid! don't worry, i'll take pictures. i don't know when i'm gonna start.

if i had a superpower, it would be to be able to read minds.

i think some weird chemicals have found their way to my brain or something???