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Old 01-20-2012, 08:18 AM   #1
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Originally Posted by Walt Whitman
O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.


My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
Captains used to be a lot more respectable.

Whitman wrote this about President Lincoln's assassination. Politicians used to be a lot more respectable too.
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:37 PM   #2
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Maybe he was trying to hide the fact that he was obviously intoxicated or something, which would explain the ship crashing in the first place, and he decided he'd rather be known as a coward than be brought up on charges? Of course, now it looks like he'll be brought up on charges anyway...
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Old 01-20-2012, 04:56 PM   #3
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Old 01-20-2012, 05:26 PM   #4
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Old 01-25-2012, 10:36 AM   #5
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Old 01-25-2012, 10:42 AM   #6
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Old 01-29-2012, 12:38 AM   #7
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Remind me never to click on a link from NY Post again. I tried to scroll down the page but a float-over menu blocked out the story and wouldn't go away. When I click off to the side to restore focus, 3 (3!) pop-ups fired off (aside from the one pop-up blocker already squashed, which spawned just from opening the page). Jeez, I hope they make a shitload of click-through money from that one, and only, visit people ever make to their site.
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Old 01-25-2012, 10:59 AM   #8
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Old 01-25-2012, 11:50 AM   #9
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I wonder if it's done intentionally half the time. There are some folks who are underemployed and bored out of thier minds.

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Old 01-25-2012, 01:09 PM   #10
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Plus, even if it's a mistake, it's close enough for government work. You want them to spend tax dollars to fix it?
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Old 01-25-2012, 01:31 PM   #11
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Maybe it's intentional. It gets your attention.
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Old 01-25-2012, 01:54 PM   #12
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It get's my attention. thats for sure.
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Old 01-26-2012, 04:52 PM   #13
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from Reuters via Yahoo!News.

De La Hoya goes Charlie Sheen...

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NY Model Tells of Drug-Fueled Romp With De La Hoya

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Playboy model said on Wednesday she feared she would die while trapped in a luxury hotel room with former boxing champ Oscar De La Hoya during a night of drugs and kinky sex.

Angelica Cecora, 25, in a lawsuit filed in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, accused the former Olympic gold medalist and world champion of multiple weight divisions of dressing in women's underwear while trying to force her to engage in "disgusting" sexual acts in March 2011.

Cecora spoke to reporters outside a court hearing during which De La Hoya's lawyers asked to dismiss the lawsuit, which seeks $5 million for emotional distress, false imprisonment, assault and battery.

"Once 12 o'clock hit that night, he just started doing more and more drugs and wanted me to do more and more things," she said.

De La Hoya, 38, the so-called "Golden Boy" who for years was the biggest name in boxing, did not appear in court Wednesday but after the hearing his attorney Judd Burstein said the encounter was consensual and he's confident the court will dismiss the lawsuit.

"These allegations are offensive and frivolous," he said, declining to elaborate.

The complaint says Cecora and De La Hoya had sex and shortly afterward the boxing champ put on her underwear and walked around the room at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York City. De La Hoya then picked up a phone and ordered around $300 worth of cocaine and marijuana to be delivered to his room, the complaint said.

The intercourse was consensual but De La Hoya's increasingly strange behavior and sexual requests afterward were against her will, Cecora said.

She feared for her life, afraid to run away, when "things took a wild turn that I didn't sign up for."

De La Hoya met Cecora in March of last year and invited her to meet for dinner at his hotel. After a long conversation, he invited her up to his room, according to the lawsuit.

Cecora, whose lawyer said she has modeled for magazines including Playboy and Maxim, said she accepted the offer to his room but was unaware he was married at the time.

Attorney Tony Evans said De La Hoya used his fame to manipulate her, promising to use her as a ringside girl in his boxing promotion ventures.

"It's the old Hollywood show business story," he said. "Find a girl who wants to be a model and say 'Oh you can come work for me.'"

De La Hoya was 39-6 in his professional boxing career, winning world boxing titles in several weight classes before retiring in 2008.

De La Hoya has gone through drug rehabilitation since the incident and is turning his life around, his attorney said.

"His life was spiraling out of control," Burstein said. "He's a changed person now."

(Editing By Barbara Goldberg and Daniel Trotta)
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Old 01-26-2012, 06:45 PM   #14
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Old 01-26-2012, 07:05 PM   #15
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That's right, no kissing. Remember the Sham Wow guy.
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