Fashion Board 4-6-04 to 5-7-04

[purse junkie]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/...ballerina.html

5 ft 6 and 110 pounds? No wonder she lost.

Cow.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic


BR(I friggin' hate immigration)C

Hey, GWNC, can you send BRC one of your extra "welcome" letters and maybe cheer her up?

Originally posted by Fugee
Movie soundtrack theme. A split night -- some very very good performances and some not so good ones.

The Huffman: George, George, George. You have to pick songs that fit your voice, not songs that reflect your AI experience. Band song choice; not in his range. Very disappointing performance from him. But on the strength of his overall performances I voted for him a zillion times. He is too good to get voted off this week.

Jennifer: She is the Kim L. of AI3. It's like a whole difference person took her place -- one who doesn't wear weird pink outfits and connects with the audience. And she sang a Whitney song and did a great job.

JPL: The upside is that it was a fun performance and he didn't get excessively geeky with his dancing. The downside is that it really didn't show his singing voice. But it doesn't matter -- he's going to get a ton of votes because someone likes him. Either that or tm diva has a commercial speed dial and racks up the votes for him!

Diana D: Oh please, not Titanic!! Ohhhhhhhhhh nooooooooo! She was a little flat and was also screamy. The best part was hearing what Simon said while the audience was applauding -- I couldn't catch all the words but it was something about the audience giving that a standing ovation, yuck.

Fantasia: I absolutely love the song "Summertime." But I'm not sure I've heard many performances of it better than hers. This was Wow inducing and I'm glad I have it on tape to watch again. I hit "redial" over and over and over.

Jasmine: This is the best I've heard from her in a few weeks. But Simon is right about her and Diana -- they are teens and should be singing younger stuff. They aren't in the same league as the more mature voices of Jennifer, Fantasia and LaToya and can't compete with them on the same types of songs.

Red John: It was a good song choice for him but he didn't wow me with it. Simon was right about him not having charisma and it being at least in part because of his age. I still like his voice and style but didn't vote for him.

LaToya: Another great performance. Tonight belonged to Jennifer, Fantasia and LaToya. If they aren't the top 3 vote getters, people have wax in their ears.

Based on performances, the bottom 3 should be Red John, Diana and one of Jasmine, JPL or, if the voting is based only on tonight's performance, George. I think either John or Diana will be voted off.

George- not his best performance- he phoned it in. but george on a bad day is better than most on a good day and as QT said, You made my forget I hate that song.

Jennifer- excellent and she looks less fucked up. bad news for boring latoya

jpl- he just sucks. goofiness is not talent. he may get that last spot n the bottom three I am having troble assigning. He certainly gave the worst performance of the night, but the mormons and their phones ...

Diana. Good performance of a wretched song. She is gone.

Jasmine- She is bottom two.

John Stevens- great performance. I love his old school voice. I suppose he could be bottom three given that he is vying for it with JPL who probalgby has a stronger fanbase but I really am not sure.

Fantaisa- great performance and she lost the yeah yeah yeahs which should bring her back to the top.

latoya- excellent performance but she has no charisma. the other two black chicks are just more personable and they all have great talent so the future isnt bright for her. long shot for bottom three.

As Donald says, this is a tough one. Really the only bad singing was from JPL but he did his goofy elvis which is his thing. diana is adios. too many good singer females and nobody in america can stand that song that I know.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Presumably a straight, unmarried couple could do the same thing. The next question, however, is why would you want to? Even with the increased standard deduction for married couples, if both of you are earning decent money, you're better off filing as singles. So unless Rosie is keeping her wife home barefoot and pregnant, why file together?

I've always suspected the Republican anti-gay marriage shenanigans were just another tax cut in disguise; you guys are pathological.

(I think this post is flippant and relevant enough to be FB appropriate, but suggest that any substantive response be taken to the PB.)

[sunnybunny]

Police in Charlottesville Suspend 'DNA Dragnet'

By Maria Glod
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, April 15, 2004; Page B01


Charlottesville police have temporarily halted their practice of asking some black men to voluntarily provide DNA samples as part of the hunt for a serial rapist, Police Chief Timothy J. Longo Sr. said yesterday.



Longo, who is reexamining the months-long policy amid criticism from the black community and others, said he is confident that the DNA collection will continue once the department develops more "stringent, well-defined criteria" regarding which men will be asked to provide genetic samples.

Charlottesville police have asked 197 black men to submit to cheek swabs as part of the search for a rapist who has attacked at least six women since 1997. In most of those requests, police said, officers were responding to tips about men who resembled a composite sketch of the rapist or who seemed to be acting strangely.

A new policy could come as soon as tomorrow, when police, black leaders, city officials and representatives from the University of Virginia are scheduled to meet, Longo said.

"I think you can be respectful of the community's concerns and still use this technique in the law enforcement investigation, provided it is very focused," Longo said.

In the meantime, Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said his office is preparing a flier that will be distributed in the Charlottesville area to inform black men that they do not have a legal obligation to let police take a DNA sample. The ACLU will not advise people to comply with or refuse the police requests, Willis said, but is simply letting them know they have a choice.

Although police have been swabbing the cheeks of black men for months, the so-called DNA dragnet has sparked increased scrutiny in recent days. This week, black leaders, community members and students held a community meeting to express growing concern over the DNA sampling.

M. Rick Turner, dean of the University of Virginia's Office of African-American Affairs and one of the people who plan to attend tomorrow's meeting, said black men in the community have been humiliated and angered by the DNA sweep. But Turner, who has met with Longo, said he is convinced that a compromise can be reached.

"The police chief and his colleagues listened, and I think they heard what the community was saying," Turner said. "We're going to go back to the drawing board and draw up a plan where you don't lose sight of the need to catch a serial rapist but you do it in a way so you don't denigrate people."

Turner said he will recommend that police narrow the list of men from whom they seek genetic samples and that the department create a policy to ensure that those men are approached with respect.

The rapist first struck the Charlottesville community in 1997, and his last confirmed assault was in April 2003. In addition to the six attacks, police said they believe the same man may be responsible for several other sexual assaults in the community.

Longo said investigators exhausted traditional law enforcement techniques before turning to the DNA testing. "We know this person's been out there for years, and we know what he's capable of," Longo said.

Although such DNA sweeps are rare, they have been used in other communities across the country and in England. Police in Florida and Louisiana have used DNA dragnets during serial killer investigations.

Charlottesville police said that the names of 690 men surfaced in the investigation and that 400 were quickly eliminated as suspects. Of the other men, 99 were identified when someone reported that they resembled the sketch, and 116 were considered because someone reported "suspicious behavior," Longo said. The remaining 75 have criminal histories.

Of the 197 men from whom a genetic swab was requested, all but 10 consented, Longo said.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by paigowprincess


As Donald says, this is a tough one.

Speaking of tough ones, did I hear the bach say we're going "tubbing" last night? With reading/pronunciation skills like that, it's no surprise he's waking up with a different strange face in his bed each morning.

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Speaking of tough ones, did I hear the bach say we're going "tubbing" last night? With reading/pronunciation skills like that, it's no surprise he's waking up with a different strange face in his bed each morning.

can someone break down tonights tv schedule? My tv is confued. What time is AI and Apprentice on? Please tell me AI is only a half hour

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
If you are gay and got married in the US, like, for example, Rosie O'Donnell, can you file your taxes as a married person with your spouse? Anyone know what is being advised on this issue?

According to the IRS,

A marriage means only a legal union between a man and a woman as husband and wife.

IRS Pub. 501, page 4

I doubt the definition will change until gay marriage has survived a multitude of legal challenges and been generally accepted.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Nah, it was Charles and Camilla.

I was about 100 yards from the crash when it happened.

On a grassy knoll?

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by spookyfish
On a grassy knoll?

Well, there was grass involved.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
[Interesting article on black men submitting to "voluntary" dna testing.]

Damn. A few questions.

1. How often is this used and what other classes of people have been singled out in a similar way? Do they do this to area red-heads when they're suspects?

2. Who are they kidding when they say, "investigators exhausted traditional law enforcement techniques before turning to the DNA testing?" If they were looking for a cop killer, best believe they'd have their man already.

3. What do they do with the DNA sample after they have crossed you off the suspect list? Does it go straight to their archive so that they have DNA on as many black men as they can get?

4. Why do they call it "voluntary?" If you refuse to submit, doesn't that make you an automatic suspect? I don't think that word is ever appropriate for this type of thing.

TM

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by spookyfish
On a grassy knoll?

She didn't act alone.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Damn. A few questions.

1. How often is this used and what other classes of people have been singled out in a similar way? Do they do this to area red-heads when they're suspects?

2. Who are they kidding when they say, "investigators exhausted traditional law enforcement techniques before turning to the DNA testing?" If they were looking for a cop killer, best believe they'd have their man already.

3. What do they do with the DNA sample after they have crossed you off the suspect list? Does it go straight to their archive so that they have DNA on as many black men as they can get?

4. Why do they call it "voluntary?" If you refuse to submit, doesn't that make you an automatic suspect? I don't think that word is ever appropriate for this type of thing.

TM

I should have posted this on the Criminal Procedure Board. While I agree with TMs questions, my head is spinning now.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I think significant income disparities are generally more common than they are among the people most of us know - we all know a few lawyer/housewife and lawyer/schoolteacher combos, but we often know a lot more lawyer/lawyer or similar combos. Unionized factory worker/drug store clerk, for instance, involves an income disparity sufficient to yield definite tax advantages.

I think it's the other way around -- being married creates a tax disadvantage if you have big income disparities, because the spouse with the low income is being taxed at a higher rate than s/he otherwise would be.

This is based on my personal experience from a few years ago, I'm not a tax lawyer, YMMV, yadda yadda yadda.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
She didn't act alone.

You and the monkey are behind this, aren't you?