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Now why didn't I think of this while I was a kid?
Owner discovered 200 people in home
By Irene McCormack Jackson and Amy Oakes
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
October 6, 2002
CHULA VISTA – It wasn't the housewarming party homeowner Joaquin Farfan wanted.
Farfan stopped by his new, still-vacant $400,000 home in Otay Ranch recently and found lights on and doors and windows open. Inside a DJ was spinning hip-hop tunes on top of the kitchen island, a keg was in the corner and about 200 young people were dancing, drinking and frolicking throughout his two-story home.
"I was shocked," Farfan said Friday from his still-empty living room. "I told them to get . . . out of my house."
That was on Sept. 20, less than 12 hours after the Farfans got the keys to their five-bedroom, three-car garage home on Lost Arrow Place. It also was just days after Farfan and his wife's 11th anniversary.
"This has taken a toll on us emotionally," Farfan said.
Since then, police investigators have been able to track down several of the youths they believe are responsible for organizing the house party that caused $15,000 in damages, and a developer has put the homeowners' association on alert.
Lt. Tro Peltekian said detectives started their investigation with a small flier they found at the house. It advertised a two-keg party that night with entrance fees for guys at $3 and girls at $2. If the girls drank two shots at the door, they would be admitted free.
The flier also listed the party a "Playaz Club Productionz" and gave a phone number to obtain a location. A woman who answered the number Friday said she did not know anything about the party.
Several area high schools students have been interviewed and others are going to be contacted, Peltekian said. Police are treating the incident as felony vandalism, he said.
According to detectives, the flier was distributed the day before and the day of the party. Police said the party took some planning.
Farfan said he received the keys to the house at 11 a.m. that day. Family and friends came over for a while to see the place. His wife and three children were the last to leave at about 7:40 p.m.
Worried that she didn't leave any lights on, Noemi Farfan called her husband at work and asked him to check the house. That was at about 10:15 p.m.
"When I turned the corner, I saw maybe 100 cars parked outside," Farfan said. "I figured there was a big party but didn't know it was at my house."
Farfan said he thinks his house was chosen because it was vacant and on a quiet cul-de-sac. At the time, only one person lived there, and Farfan said the neighbor was told by the kids that it was their uncle's house.
"They actually invited him over," Farfan said.
After he kicked everyone out of his house, Farfan said, he saw that the screens had been kicked from the windows, bottles and red plastic cups were scattered about, and there was blood splattered on the counter tops. The wood floors were scuffed and dirty and the carpets stained with party debris. A stroller for Farfan's daughter – one of the few signs that someone had moved in – was thrown in a closet.
The home builder, RWR Co., replaced the screens, patched a hole in a wall and cleaned the carpets, Farfan said.
"In reality, they didn't have to do anything, so that kept my spirits up," he said.
Farfan said he is waiting for his insurance company to determine the damage. He wants the floors and carpets replaced. Until then, he and his family will stay in their rented home in Bonita.
Gail Crocenzi, marketing director for Otay Ranch Co., said this type of incident has never happened in the 3-year-old master-planned community.
"This is an isolated case as far as we're concerned," she said.
But the developer is working with homeowner associations to establish Neighborhood Watch programs similar to ones in other parts of the community, she said.
Police said this was the first time officers have been called to break up a party at a vacant new house.
"As we started looking into this, we've come to believe it might have been occurring for some time (at different vacant homes), but people probably never notified police before," Peltekian said.
San Diego Police Officer Carla Carigman, who works in the city's Northeastern division, said a majority of the housing subdivisions under construction in northern San Diego have security guards patrolling the grounds. The division hasn't had been told of any parties at vacant homes.
"In one sense you don't want to publicize this because you don't want people to get the idea and you don't want to encourage it," Peltekian said. "But at the same time we want people in these newer developments to know about it because if you see something like this, it might not necessarily be a housewarming party."
Farfan said he wants people to know about the party. He carries several of the fliers in his car. He doesn't want to move in until everything is back to the way it was, even if that means waiting until late November.
"People should know about this," he said. "It's obviously something that could happen on any given weekend."
Ghost car
A man stood on the side of the road hitch hiking on a very dark night in the middle of a storm. The night was rolling and no cars passed. The storm was so strong, he could hardly see a few feet ahead of him. Suddenly he saw a car come towards him and stop.
The guy, without thinking about it, got in the car and closed thedoor to realize that nobody was behind the wheel. The car started slowly. The guy looked at the road and saw a curve coming his way.Scared, he started praying, and begged for his life. He hadn't come out of shock, when just before he hit the curve, a hand appeared through the window and moved the wheel. The guy, paralyzed in terror, watched how the hand appeared every time before a curve.
The guy gathered strength, got out of the car and ran to the nearest town. Wet and in shock, he ran into a cantina and asked for two shots of tequila, and started telling everybody about the horrible experience he went through. A silence enveloped everybody when they realized the guy was crying and wasn't drunk.
About half an hour later, two guys walked into the same cantina, and one said to the other. "Look Pepe, that's the character who climbed into the car while we were pushing."
Y-Thank you there retired Yellow Submarine Captain ;)
Thank you for your Happy Birthday Posts! :)
I hope this will be another good year that leads to a 33rd Birthday Day!
Im 32 years old today and just wanted to say its my BIRTHDAY!!!
Yesterday my wife and I went out with some friends to a movie,dinner and a Comedy show, "The Jeff Dunham show"
IF you forgot who he is or don't know click the link for a sample!
http://www.eaglestalent.com/eagles_speakers/155/
I keep my eye on them anyway lol
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Finally they posted my Boner on their web site!
This pin was received from my wife's interview along with a bunch of pens and stickers.
I was shocked to see where it was made so I had to send it in.
Do you know what is wrong with our country? That is wrong with our country!
I bet we will go to war with China next and they will use those pins against us! LOL
http://www.boners.com/grub/787391.html
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What a stroke of luck! I thought this pic was funny and thought it would be out of context on this message board. So I entered "Flying" in the search and got this message board. So I think they may enjoy this pic more than us.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=516075
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By: thepennyking $$$$$
23 Jul 2002, 10:48 PM EDT Msg. 27441 of 30556
(This msg. is a reply to 27432 by Devils_Adv.)
666 Advocate: Just cause for Saudi Princes to move out of US Equities and into liquid rising Euro as previously posted.
At the beginning of the summer of 2000, billionaire Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal jumped into the Internet stock game with a king-size splash.
On May 16th, 2000, the then 43 year-old prince purchased a $50 million (US$) stake in each of six companies: Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK), Infospace (Nasdaq: INSP), Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq NM: ICGE) and Priceline.com (Nasdaq NM: PCLN).
The prince reportedly studied more than 100 firms before choosing his "basket of Internet companies." However, as 2000 summer's end approached, about half of his $300 million investment had been lost. Today, it is all but worth less than $50 million.
The prince bought into the six Web-related stocks for an average price of approximately $67, but as of the closing bell on August 28th, 2000 the stocks averaged only $36. Today his portfolio is worth an average $12, less than $60 million.
Investing with Internet Capital Group
The prince's venture capital choice was Internet Capital Group, Inc., which fell from approximately $35 to $0.23 over the past two and a half years. Today he could buy out the whole company for less than his entire original investment.
About the Prince
Prince Alwaleed was the sixth richest individual in the world with $15 billion, a fortune he created from well-timed investments of his inheritance. Alwaleed invested in Citicorp in 1991, giving the company a sorely needed cash infusion of $590 million. He recently invested another $500 million and now holds just under 5%, being its largest individual stockholder. His stake in Citicorp was valued at $10 billion last Friday with about 280 million shares.
With his cash position in other accounts, he could easily have shorted C by 25 million shares daily for the past two days and cover tomorrow, taking in a nice $250 million profit in three days. Not bad for someone whose religious beliefs include the abhorance of charging interest on borrowed money! More irony in the fire.
Despite the steep drop in the value of the prince's Internet portfolio, the prince is known as a buy-and-hold investor, and there were many observers who believed his Internet stock selections had long-term potential. How wrong can you get?
Based on solid intelligence sources, it may appear that the once bullish Prince could soon be known as the Biggest Billionaire Bear in history. Shorting the likes of FNM which traded 6,666,600 shares today, almost twice the average volume, and which closed on an uptick, and is the subject of continued congressional scrutiny behind the scenes, with other World Comm events taking center stage of late.
It would not take much to short 10 million shares a day of FNM for this Prince, while at the same time selling off the equivelant in US long term 30 year treasuries, causing yields held in FNM's portfolio to decline further, and continue its downward trend from its high so far of $83 this year. FNM is down 20% from its January closing prices and down 25% from its 52 week high. And trending further south.
As Saudi money continues to distance itself from the US and the Bushwacking taking place, the dollar continues its voracious slide, despite covert interventions, and Saudi Princes who took advice from certain intelligence previously posted have gained 15% return by investing in liquid Euro's in just the past 12 weeks.
Save all your pennies, you are going to need them more than ever!
(Voluntary Disclosure: Position- Short; ST Rating- Strong Sell; LT Rating- Strong Sell)
By: IownsomeNVEI $$$
02 Jun 2001, 04:21 PM EDT Msg. 54942 of 85959
WHAT IS THAT LOUD, HORRIBLE SUCKING SOUND?
Im not that hot with writing but I just wanted to share this idea that popped in to my head.
As you know we've had a hot market for a few years and then it just tanked.
Iv been in the market since the Dow was 3300 and at that time a run to 4000 I thought was amazing. A few years down the road here comes 12,000, well close.
I was wondering where all this money was coming from. Would it be hard for a few foreign countries to Inflate our market and then pull out causing what we are dealing with now?
There are companies going bankrupt, all the people I know that are in the market say their stocks dropped and they sold and lost money. Do you know anyone or a company that's in the green? Where did the money go?
Did they invest in our markets, pulled out and ran with the money back to their countries?
That and in conjunction with high oil prices to ruin the US economy?
This is just an idea that I had.
What do you guys think? Could it happen?
Your comments are welcome,Im sure Ill learn something :)
Thank you
God Bless America!
AL
This and companies cooking the books!
That link shuts down internet explorer.
strange Ö
Ever see this footage of SIL?
http://content.surfline.com/sw/content/mag/pulse/2002/2/02_26_liquid.jsp
UK Xbox owners will be able to go to ntl, Telewest or BTopenworld to get high-speed Internet connectivity for their console from next March
Ntl has joined BTopenworld and Telewest in securing a deal with Microsoft to supply broadband connectivity for Xbox Live.
Xbox Live is Microsoft's forthcoming online gaming service, which it hopes will give it the edge against Sony in the console market. Due to launch in the UK in March 2003, it will let gamers compete against each other across the Internet, as well as giving access to new characters and levels.
As ZDNet UK reported on Tuesday, BTopenworld is the only company offering ADSL-based broadband to secure an Xbox Live deal so far.
Ntl believes that it will provide a better service, though. While BTopenworld's consumer broadband product runs at a maximum of 512kbps, ntl offers a 1Mbps service as well as its 600kbps service. These products, ntl claims, will make for a better gaming experience.
"It's game on for ntl's broadband customers. The launch of Xbox live is a shot in the arm for the Broadband Britain," said Bill Goodland, director of Internet at ntl, in a statement.
Like BTopenworld, ntl plans to sell a connection kit that will allow users to split their broadband connection between their PC and their Xbox. Ntl has also said that users will be able to plug an Xbox into their existing broadband cable modems through the Ethernet port.
The BBX
Frequently Asked Questions (Updated July 19, 2002)
When will the BBX launch?
The Bulletin Board ExchangeSM (BBXSM) is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2003, pending approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Who is eligible to apply to the BBX?
Any company with publicly traded securities is eligible to apply to the BBX.
How do I obtain an application, and when will the BBX start accepting them?
The BBX is currently working with the SEC to obtain regulatory approval for the BBX. Until we receive SEC approval, we will not be accepting applications. Once we are able to accept applications, we will immediately make them available on the BBX website as well as send out application kits in the mail to all current OTCBB issuers and parties who have requested them.
What will happen to the OTC Bulletin Board?
The current OTC Bulletin Board® (OTCBB®) will be replaced by the BBX. To ensure a smooth transition to a listed-market environment for OTCBB companies, Nasdaq will continue to operate the OTCBB for six months after the BBX launches. There will not be any simultaneous trading on the OTCBB and BBX. Once an issue is listed and traded on the BBX, it will no longer trade on the OTCBB.
What will happen to OTCBB securities that are not listed on the BBX?
OTCBB securities that do not transition to the BBX or any other listed market will continue to be traded on the OTCBB for six months after the launch of the BBX. At that time, market makers may choose to move their positions in those securities to the PinkSheets.
How does a company list on the BBX?
In order to be listed on the BBX, all issuers, including OTCBB issuers, will be required to submit a listing application. Applications will be mailed to OTCBB issuers and those who have requested to be on our mailing list. They will also be posted on the BBX website. If you would like to be included on our mailing list, please send an email to bbxinfo@bbxchange.com.
What are the listing qualifications for BBX?
The proposed BBX listing requirements have been created to provide an opportunity for the largest number of current OTCBB issuers to continue trading in the new listed environment, while at the same time offering a full complement of qualitative standards to provide enhanced protection to investors. Under these listing requirements, companies must meet qualitative standards, but do not have to meet financial or minimum share price standards. Specifically, the BBX proposal will require:
Public interest standards identical to those currently utilized for Nasdaq National Market® (NNM) and SmallCap® market, which will provide the BBX with the discretion to deny listing or de-list an issuer for the purpose of protecting investors and the integrity of the market;
A requirement of 100 round-lot shareholders and 200,000 shares in the public float; and
Corporate governance standards similar to those imposed by the NNM and SmallCap markets, with an adjustment to the independent director and audit committee requirements in recognition of the difficulty small companies may have meeting these requirements.
The proposed BBX listing standards are available on the BBX website.
Will companies listed on the BBX have new trading symbols?
All issuers will be required to choose a new symbol for their BBX security. The symbol naming convention will be as follows: two letters, XB, followed by three alpha characters of the company’s choice, for a total of five letters in each symbol. Requests for trading symbols will be submitted as part of the listing application and symbols will be assigned on a first-come-first-serve basis. For more information on trading symbols, refer to the BBX trading symbol section of this website.
Will banks be required to file public reports?
Yes. Banks will be required to meet the same listing requirements as other issuers, including filing periodic reports with the SEC, as required by the Exchange Act of 1934.
How can I learn more about the BBX?
OTCBB issuers and other interested parties are invited to attend information forums to discuss the listing qualifications, application process, and BBX marketplace rules. Forums are being scheduled for several locations around the country. Once it has been finalized, the forum schedule and agenda will be available on the BBX website. If you would like to be updated with the latest BBX developments via email, please sign up to be on our distribution list.
What is the definition of an Independent Director?
The BBX proposes to use the definition of an independent director as set forth in Rule 4200(a)(14) of the NASD Manual Marketplace Rules.
What are the requirements for the composition of the audit committee?
The proposed rule filing states that the audit committee must not be comprised of a minority of independent directors. Therefore, if your company has only one independent director, your audit committee may consist of a maximum of two people – in this case, one independent director and one non-independent director.
What is the 100 round lot shareholder requirement?
Each company must have at least 100 round lot shareholders. One round lot is equal to 100 shares. Restricted shares may qualify for the calculation of round lots.
What are the costs associated with being listed on the BBX (in comparison to the OTCBB)?
Unlike the OTCBB, the proposed BBX will be a listed market. BBX issuers will be required to pay both initial and annual listing fees to be on the BBX. For more information on these fees, please refer to the BBX Issuer Fees. In addition, there may be costs associated with meeting some BBX qualifications, such as costs associated with being current in SEC filings and meeting certain corporate governance requirements.
Will there be any rules regarding short selling on the BBX?
Yes. Market makers will be required to report their short interest positions on a monthly basis. These reports will be available on the BBX website. Additionally, BBX market participants must comply with the NASD rule regarding affirmative determination, which requires that a short seller determine that he can borrow the shares before he completes the short sale transaction.
Will issuers be required to go through a market maker to list on the BBX? Will market makers file 15c2-11 forms on behalf of BBX issuers?
No, issuers will not be required to go through a market maker to list on the BBX. Each issuer will apply for listing directly to the BBX. Market makers will not submit a form 15c2-11 for trading securities on the BBX. Market makers will continue to quote and trade in BBX securities;therefore, applicants will be required to have at least one market maker agree to maintain a quote in its security once it is listed on the BBX.
Where can I find a list of market makers?
A list of market makers that currently make markets in OTCBB stocks is available on the OTCBB website.
Who owns the BBX?
The BBX is owned and operated by The Nasdaq Stock Market®.
How smart are you?
http://www.dur.ac.uk/t.m.jackson/intelligentietest.htm
Broadband over power lines idea alive and well
By John Leyden
Posted: 20/09/2002 at 12:37 GMT
Remember the idea of using power cables as a medium to transmit high-speed Internet traffic?
The concept was all the rage in the late 1990s but then high-profile suppliers, such as Nortel/Norweb, Siemens and more recently RWE, pulled out the market citing regulatory issues and slow sales. As a result, ADSL cemented its position as the primary means to deliver broadband to consumers.
However the technology hasn't gone away; far from it.
A meeting of Plcforum, an industry group of suppliers and technology vendors to the industry, held in Edinburgh, Scotland last weekend reaffirmed their commitment to develop Power Line Communications (PLC) as a competitive broadband access and in-home LAN technology.
The Plcforum General Assembly meeting was hosted by Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE), which is currently trialling a commercial PLC system in Scotland supported by funding from DTI (Department of Trade and Industry) and the Scottish Executive.
It's hoped that the technology offers an economicall viable way of deploying broadband services in rural Scotland.
According to Antony Lole, a Telecom Infrastructure Manager at SSE, the trial is still in its early stages, with just a dozen or so customers connected in the Crieff and Campbeltown areas of Perthshire. However results so far are encouraging, and guinea pigs are seeing good throughputs, in some cases getting a symmetric connection delivering speeds in excess of 1Mbps.
"We're learning how to tweak the equipment to get throughput up and noise down," Lole told us.
The outcome of the trails, still at an early stage, will help SSE decide whether to make the service available commercially.
Elsewhere in Europe, particular in Germany, power utilities are further ahead in rolling out Net over power line services. Leading supplier include EnBW in Germany and Endesa in Spain.
Currently, there are more than 60 PLC sites in the world with thousands of paying customers connected, operating "without disturbing security services or any other broadcasting services", the Plcforum notes.
That last remark is telling because Norweb/Nortel decision to pull out of the powerline market in 1999 was made against the backdrop of fears that the technology could drown out other radio traffic and interfere with civil aviation and emergency service transmissions.
SSE's Lole said regulatory issues still exist but equipment has become "quieter" and lessons have been learned about how to install the equipment so it is less noisy.
During recent years, PLC technology has improved, and has reached "industrial maturity" as an alternative broadband access technology, according to the Plcforum. Current generations of power line technology can provide broadband access at speeds of up to 45Mbps. ®
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Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.
We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the city dump.
Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump
closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.
We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw our's down.
That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage."
After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer's station.
Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car."
And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography.
After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your
wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my
wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,
and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.
We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And
we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
what I came to tell you about.
Came to talk about the draft.
They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."
And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."
Didn't feel too good about it.
Proceeded on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only got
one question. Have you ever been arrested?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever
go to court?"
And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W .... NOW kid!!"
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it
up and said.
"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."
And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar.
With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does. Here it comes.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.
So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
harmony and feeling.
We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.
All right now.
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Da da da da da da da dum
At Alice's Restaurant
Copper
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Breaking News
Massachusetts Officials Urge NY AG to Charge CSFB
September 19, 2002
By Charles Gasparino
Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal
NEW YORK -- The office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has received a criminal referral from Massachusetts securities regulators recommending that Mr. Spitzer file criminal charges against Credit Suisse First Boston over the firm's research coverage, according to a spokesman for the office.
The referral involves an investigation by Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, which has focused on e-mails and other evidence showing Credit Suisse First Boston research analysts felt pressured to avoid writing negative stock evaluations on current or prospective investment-banking clients of the firm.
A spokesman for Mr. Spitzer says the office "needs to consult with the Massachusetts authorities and review evidence they've amassed" before making a final decision on what to do. A CSFB spokeswoman had no immediate comment.
In recent days, Mr. Galvin has said that he was considering referring the case against CSFB, a unit of Credit Suisse Group (CSR), to criminal prosecutors. Mr. Galvin referred the case to the New York attorney general, who under a New York state law known as the Martin Act, has vast powers to charge individuals or Wall Street firms with criminal wrongdoing.
Of course, Mr. Spitzer may not follow through and bring criminal charges against CSFB or executives there. Earlier in the year in his case against Merrill Lynch & Co. (MER), and its former Internet analyst Henry Blodget, Mr. Spitzer considered criminal charges but ultimately pursued a civil case, and he may do the same here, say people close to the matter.
But the referral is significant. The Massachusetts probe -- part of a broad investigation into whether Wall Street firms deceived investors by hyping stocks of companies that were investment-banking customers -- is one of numerous state probes on Wall Street abuses. Mr. Spitzer won a $100 million settlement from Merrill Lynch in May, following his investigation into the firm's research. The New York Attorney General is now investigating Salomon Smith Barney's research.
In pursuing the investigation, Massachusetts officials have reviewed more than 80,000 e-mails and other documents delivered under subpoena and have taken depositions from former CSFB employees, a person with knowledge of the matter said. The criminal referral could cover both the firm and executives at the firm, this person said.
In addition to indicating potential conflicts involving research reports, CSFB e-mails also show a link between analysts' compensation and the amount of investment-banking business they worked on. Regulators believe the arrangement may have compromised the independence of some analysts' research, according to this person.
-By Charles Gasparino, The Wall Street Journal; 212-416-2230
Copyright (c) 2002 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
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