http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:07:57 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:07:57 Saturday, November 21 - Oakland, California (SHOWTIME) - super middleweights: Mikkel Kessler (42-1, 32 KOs) vs. Andre Ward (20-0, 13 KOs)

HBO will be featuring last weekend’s Pacquiao vs Cotto fight tonight, for those of us who did not see it live. However, opposite that, Showtime will be presen... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/703 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:01:57 One evening this semester, in a criminal justice class, another student was talking about an incident he had recently been involved with, as part of his job. He is a state trooper, who is working on continuing his education. It was interesting to me, because the class gives a lot of different perspe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/702 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:01:42 My memory is not serving me well right now, and so I am unable to give the proper context to an old Irish story …..but it has to do with one of the United Irishmen, being questioned about possible regrets moments before he was executed. "No regrets," he said, "for I have sons to carry on from here."... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/701 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:35:16 Thank you, Members of The Democratic Underground!

On behalf of "H2O Man’s" family, I want to thank each and every one of you who has taken the time to send a much needed message of concern and support to Dad. We have been reading your notes to him, and I think that they are as uplifting to us as ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/700 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:38:44 To those on The Democratic Underground:

We think that many of the people on this forum know our father, "H2O Man." This is the political site he likes the best. So we want to share some information with you about Dad.

For the past month, we’ve known that he has some serious health issues. But ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/699 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:43:17 "I’m for whatever gets results. I don’t go for any organization that has to compromise with the power structure and has to rely on certain elements within the power structure for their financing, which puts them in a position to be influenced and controlled all over again by the power structure its... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/698 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:56:28 Recently, there have been a number of threads on DU:GD, in which the topic of a possible "men’s issues" forum has been discussed. I’ve made a few brief comments on some of these threads. In one, I added a few thoughts that I hoped might be of some value to others; that post resulted in what I believ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/697 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:37:30 Saturday, November 14 - Las Vegas, Nevada (HBO PPV) - Welterweights: Miguel Angel Cotto (34-1, 27 KOs) vs. Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KOs)

Certain truths are self-evident. Among them, that the term "Super Fight" is over-used by promoters seeking to inflate ticket and PPV sales. However, this com... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/696 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:30:01 "Soldier, your eyes, they shine like the sun
I wonder why
Soldier, your eyes shine like the sun
I wonder why

"Jesus, I saw you walkin’ on the river
I don’t believe you
You can’t deliver right away
I wonder why

"Jesus, your eyes shine like the sun
I wonder why"
--Neil Young

I enjoy l... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/695 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:36:50 "The Irish found their way in sports, too, earliest and perhaps most memorably in boxing. ….The Irish were also drawn to baseball." –The Irish in America; Coffey & Golway; 1997; page 182.

Usually, my contributions to the DU sports forum focus on the sport of boxing. However, in recent weeks, I’ve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/694 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:19:34 "We do approve of such psychological tactics and techniques as trickery and deceit that are not only helpful but frequently necessary in order to secure incriminating information from the guilty." –Criminal Interrogation and Confessions; Inbau and Reid.

Last week, I had an interesting conversatio... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/693 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:49:18 " ….you think everybody has no secret or one big, big secret, they are what they seem or they are the opposite. You look at me and think: ‘Which is he? Plus or minus?’ …you insist on laboratory standards for reality, while I insist on its artfulness. So be it with us all, we’re not so one-or-the-oth... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/692 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:03:57 {1} President Obama’s winning the Peace Prize is a good thing. It allows the voices of sanity within the United States a wonderful opportunity to use moral pressure in opposing attempts to continue the military occupation of Afghanistan, and to increase the number of troops to engage in the violence... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/691 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:19:07 Saturday, October 10 - New York, New York (PPV) - junior featherweights: Juan Manuel Lopez (26-0, 24 KOs) vs. Rogers Mtagwa (26-12-2, 18 KOs); featherweights: Yuriorkis Gamboa (15-0, 13 KOs) vs. Whyber Garcia (22-6, 15 KOs)

Juan Manuel Lopez and Yuriorkis Gamboa will be showcasing their skills o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/690 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:54:56 Federal District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan ruled that the FBI must reveal the majority of the notes taken from the 2004 interview with Dick Cheney, in which the vice president discussed his role in the Plame Scandal. This ruling, in response to a suit filed by CREW this summer, allows for sect... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/689 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:02:37 Some experiences stick with you. Decades later, something triggers the memory, and the old gray cells replay the events in great detail.

Before I worked in mental health, I had been employed with a different agency in another county. I had a case referred to me, involving a 14-year old boy who ha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/688 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:21:50 {1} I can remember my father saying, "You can only hard boil an egg once," years ago, when he and some other family members were discussing LBJ’s approach to US policy in Vietnam. It was around the time that George Ball was advising the President not to take the military’s recommendations. Ball had ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/687 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:44:06 Saturday, September 26 - Los Angeles, California (HBO) - heavyweights: Vitali Klitschko (37-2, 36 KOs) vs. Chris Arreola (27-0, 24 KOs)

In the past few years, boxing fans have been treated to a number of weight classes being truly competitive. Due to a number of factors, many of the top fighters... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/686 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:35:21 September 18
At Miami Beach, Fla. (ESPN2): Guillermo Rigondeaux vs. Giovanni Andrade, 10 rounds, junior featherweights; Felix Diaz vs. Luis Adorno, 4 rounds, junior welterweights; Yunier Dorticos vs. Melvin Miller, 4 rounds, cruiserweight; Yordanis Despaigne vs. Micky Scaraborough, 4 rounds, light ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/685 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:34:30 I was glad to hear that the police investigators in New Haven arrested lab technician Ray Clark for the brutal murder of Yale student Annie Le. The murder is the type that shocks society, and I’ve found myself following the updates in the news. I’d like to take a couple minutes to talk about some of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/684 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:10:09 Saturday, September 12: Mikkel Kessler vs Gusmyl Perdomo; 12 rounds; WBA super middleweight title; Andre Ward vs. Shelby Pudwill; super middleweight.

Tonight on Showtime (10 pm/est), there is "same day" coverage of Kessler’s defense against Perdomo, plus live coverage of Ward vs Pudwell. Kessle... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/683 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:31:16 "In early 1972, a young radio reporter in Miami stood outside a supermarket trying to get people to sign a copy of the Bill of Rights. Seventy-five percent refused, many saying it was ‘Communist propaganda’."
--Individual Statement by Senator Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.; The Senate Watergate Report; 19... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/682 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:08:26 I like to watch some of the criminal trials on "TrueTV," and think they serve a useful purpose in providing public education on the legal system. In the last week or so, there was a trial of a vicious rapist/murderer in Florida; he was found guilty of kidnapping, raping, and murdering a 21-year old ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/681 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:43:00 When the great Oglala Lakota leaders Crazy Horse ("Tha-Sunke Witko"; literally "His-Horse-Is-Crazy") died on 9-5-1877, his last words were spoken to his father. He asked his father to deliver a message to his people: "Father, tell them that it is no use to depend on me anymore. I am dying." On the e... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/680 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:07:44 (8-31) ESPN-Classic will be featuring films of the career of the great heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano from 9am to 4 pm est. Today is, of course, the 40th anniversary of his tragic death at the age of 45, in an airplane crash.

Rocco Francis Marchegiano is one of the great sport's legendary fi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/H2O Man/679 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:58:05