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.