Portable Basketball Goals

Want to play some basketball, but don't have a court nearby or just don't want to leave the house?

Well, then a portable basketball goal is the answer for you. They are cheap to buy, check out the Big 5, they are almost always having a sale on them. Once you bring it home, you have a basket you can practice with 24/7. Now, you can improve your foul shooting or try those crazy shots. Just make sure it's not position so the back is towards the neighbor's yard. If you overshoot the goal, you're going to loose your basketball!

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CD Replication

CD replication is where you take something you want to put on a cd, like your band's songs, a family photo album, or any other data that you want to distribute to a lot of people and send it to a company that can handle the job. This cd replication company can then produce the cd's with custom jewel cases, custom cd's, and any promotional items you want with the cd.

CD replication

Young girl strip searched....Homeschooling sounding better now huh?

A 13 year old girl was strip searched, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area.
The reason?
She was accused by a student caught with aspirin, that she gave that student the aspirin.
So on heresay, a student was humiliated. What's funny is this student didn't have any record of misbehavior and was, in fact, an honor's student.

But hey, some student accused them, so I guess that's enough to tell a kid, take off your clothes! I mean where did these adults go to college, that they use such terrible reasoning skills?

What if the student was muslim or a member of another religion where revealing your body is a big no no? The administrator couldn't call the parents first?

It's funny, the school needs permission for kids to go on a field trip, or to be treated by a doctor if the student gets hurt on a field trip, but they don't need permission to tell your child to get naked! What a weird world we live in.

It makes me glad that I decided to home school my child and I hope this story makes parents think hard about homeschooling their children as well. Believe me, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Public school is for the dregs of society.


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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/16/teen.strip.search/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A 13-year-old Arizona girl who was strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain reliever will have her case heard at the Supreme Court.


With the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, Redding and her family sued, and a federal appeals court in San Francisco, California, ruled against the school.

The court wrote: "Common sense informs us that directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen ... was excessively intrusive."

The court said the school went too far in its effort to create a drug- and crime-free classroom. "The overzealousness of school administrators in efforts to protect students has the tragic impact of traumatizing those they claim to serve. And all this to find prescription-strength ibuprofen."

In its appeal to the high court, the school district said requiring a legal standard of "probable cause" to conduct student searches would cast a "roadblock to the kind of swift and effective response that is too often needed to protect the very safety of students, particularly from the threats posed by drugs and weapons."

"Major sacrifice" to wear some decent clothing?? lol!

I understand someone from such a permissive society would have a problem with wearing some clothing that actually didn't reveal their skin, but to call it a major sacrifice is ridiculous. At least she wasn't jailed over it, like a muslim women was for wearing her hijab in a courtroom.

Is it really that bad to have a man look at your eyes rather than your breast or thighs? Not to long ago, the kind of dress women do in modern Islamic Countries like Malaysia, was standard here in the USA; that is until the permissive people of society won and got everyone else to get more lax every year.

Just look at attendees of TV shows. Back in the heyday of TV, people actually dressed UP when they attended those shows. Now, people go in shorts and t-shirts.

So again, Avril, is it such a hardship to actually NOT show off your 'assets' in public? I would think it's the other way around. 

The entertainment industry has made showing off skin as an acceptable, even standard of entertainment. This makes it hard for women to make it as an actress without having to show off skin. They are FORCED to do this, just look at the wardrobe for the women compared to men on tv shows and films and you'll see what I mean!

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Rihanna taking no wardrobe risks for Malaysia show

By SEAN YOONG, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jan 6, 7:29 am ET

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – The good girl gone bad has promised to be good for one night.

R&B sensation Rihanna will shun skimpy outfits when she performs inMalaysia next month, the concert's organizers said Tuesday, becoming the latest international star affected by the Muslim-majority country's strict rules on performers' dress.

Recent concerts by Gwen Stefani and Avril Lavigne faced protests by conservative Muslim Malaysians over immodest clothes. Stefani eventually made what she called "a major sacrifice" at her show by donning attire that revealed little skin.

Under government guidelines, a female performer must be covered from the top of her chest, including her shoulders, to her knees.

Wearing a t-shirt with foreign language = terrorist?

Can you  believe the ignorant people in America? People in other countries learn 2,3 or even more languages, but because we are so focused only on America, most Americans only know English.

How can people compare someone wearing a t-shirt saying 'we will not be silent' to a bank robber saying they are a bank robber? 

The shirt didn't say "Terrorist" or "Airplane Bomber"!

Seems now an easy way to make money, though. Get a t-shirt printed with some arabic script for about $20. Book a flight from a major airport. Wear said shirt and hope to be asked to cover it up. Even better, get a long fake beard for about $50 to improve your chance of being asked to cover the t-shirt up!   Call up the ACLU and have them represent you in Court....Ca-ching!!!

240,000 dollars awarded to man forced to cover Arab T-shirt

NEW YORK (AFP) – An airline passenger forced to cover his T-shirt because it displayed Arabic script has been awarded 240,000 dollars in compensation, campaigners said Monday.

Jarrar, a US resident, was apprehended as he waited to board a JetBlue flight from New York to Oakland, California, and told to remove his shirt, which had written on it in Arabic: "We will not be silent."

He was told other passengers felt uncomfortable because an Arabic-inscribed T-shirt in an airport was like "wearing a T-shirt at a bank stating, I am a robber,'" the ACLU said.

Jarrar eventually agreed to cover his shirt with another provided by JetBlue. He was allowed aboard but his seat was changed from the front to the back of the aircraft.

Malaysia ---- an Islamic Country or Not?

Salam Alaykum,

I just heard from a relative in Malaysia, that the Malaysian government appears to be not following the Quran. 

A scholar in Malaysia informed the government that the memorials in the country are haram. Yet, the governement asked him to change his findings, but he refused. So what did the government do with this information????

Nothing!

Think about it, memorials are like worshipping the dead. There are engraven images at these memorials, I'm sure.

You would think that an Islamic Government would listen to a scholar, but obviously they are more concerned with being modern. Also, think about this, the PM there as well as the king have commissioned portraits of themselves. These are also haram according to the Quran.

It's bad enough to be Muslim in a Christian-Judeo-Atheist country like the USA, but you would think a Muslim would have it better in an Islamic country.

Obviously this is not so.

What are your thoughts?

$5 Late Fine Overturned After 47-Page Appeal Filed

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) ― A prosecutor's $5 fine for being late to court was overturned after his boss filed a 47-page appeal. The 4th District Court of Appeals ruled that Riverside County Superior Court Judge Helios Hernandez failed to give prosecutor Phillip Greenberg proper written notice before sanctioning him for being five minutes tardy to an April robbery case. District Attorney Rod Pacheco petitioned the appeals court to overturn the fine on grounds that it violated rules governing contempt of court by imposing a fine without a written explanation. The county has a huge backlog of criminal cases, and several have been dismissed because they exceeded the time limit for going to trial. In February, Hernandez began fining lawyers $1 per minute for being late to criminal cases nearing the deadline. Yesterday, Hernandez said he has stopped issuing the $1-a-minute fines. Now, he warns attorneys the first time they are late.


Great use of our tax dollars huh??? It must've cost around $1.31, if they used a laser printer, to pritn the appeal. Then, add to that the time it cost to TYPE that appeal(say a secretary did it at 2 pages/min=about 24 mins=about $6). So the total would be about $7.31. TO AVOID a $5 fine! Make sense? Nope, that's government for you! You wonder why people don't want to pay taxes anymore? It's because we don't want to support these idiotic bureaucrats!!

Just pay the $5 fine. The guy was late! What are we in high school and need a 'written' reprimand first? I thought attorneys have a JD and pass the bar. Can't they tell time? If they were late to the bar exam, I doubt they'd even let them take it. Yet his BOSS has to appeal a $5 fine? Does his boss have nothing better to do?