Yeah, Popovich especially this year has proven to me to be the type of coach and person that you can be proud of as a fan.

And Dolan fired his head of security.

It's never a question of can things will get more bizarre/worse with the Knicks, it's just a question of when and what.

I've been on the River Walk in two different years during the play-offs, and San Antonio really loves the Spurs. We almost didn't sleep due to the noise after the games.

I mean everytime the Spurs scored the entire River Walk cheered.

Sounds awesome Nifty.

When are you gonna play some mafia?

And Greatest Hits is over! Congrats to the winners!

Happy Birthday Rokk.

On an unrelated note, some of us are playing a game over on the syndicate if anyone wants to follow along:

http://www.mafiathesyndicate.com/php...php?f=2&t=1266

howdy all just seeing how everyone is doing

since i have quit playing mafia i rarely check this thread as often as i should. If only i had more time i would try and run a mafia game again but i dont. It's even worse i can't even play as a player.

Anyway hope all is good and ill try and keep up with the mafia forums

Just watched a documentary about Thomas Quick...I have to say I'm thoroughly confused as to how anyone believed him. There must be stuff they left out of the documentary, because it's really confusing how it could have gotten that far with no corroborating evidence.

Also, why should I feel sorry for him in the first place? He was kind of a bad guy to begin with.

Yeah, that tends to be a thing with serial killers. Did the movie ask you to feel sorry? What??

well he wasn't a serial killer he just confessed to being one. But he was a chomo, and was convicted of aggrivated burglary

The main problem with Thomas Quick is that since he got used as a scapegoat, the real killers never got caught. Also, it goes without saying that doing time for a crime you didn't commit is wrong.

It was my impression that because of his previous transgressions that he would have been there for that long anyway. I mean unless Sweden doesn't care about molestation and aggravated robbery...sometimes America doesn't if someone is in the incorrect tax bracket so it would make sense I guess. Plus we have the whole Henry Lee Lucas thing as well, so it isn't as if it isn't unprecedented here either.

Of course we care about molestations and robberies, but you treat someone convicted for those crimes very differently than you do someone convicted for multiple murders. If Quick hadn't made those phony confessions, he might have gotten better help and been able to readjust to society. He should probably have been locked up, but he got locked up for the wrong reasons, and that's never a good thing.
Also, the same thing might happen again, and maybe to someone who shouldn't have been locked up in the first Place...

I didn't really mean it in the sense that you didn't care at all just not as much. It's not unheard of for molestation to get 25 years on it's own, and the Aggravated Robbery to get 15. We're so gung ho about punishment unless you have money, that I thought he was going to be in there indefinitely or for 20 + years anyway. I also doubt he would have been put in a hospital. I think this is backed up by sensationalism so it drives up paranoia.

I think my point is that it felt strange that they were trying to put him in a sympathetic light when he was already doing terrible things and was escalating. He had already tried to strangle someone and stab another. If he wasn't locked up and receiving therapy he probably would have actually done the things he was admitting to. It has more to do with the filmmakers then the country.

You guys seem to be more progressive in that you focus on rehabilitation instead of retribution, which is likely a better system. I guess it is a culture shock to see it actually be done with a dangerous individual on a personal level as opposed to thinking of it as a general idea.

I might play a one night game if I can ever get in on sign-ups, they always seem to occur when I'm most busy.

I keep my eye out for a theme I might be partial to.

I'm just busy, but I'm not completely out of sight.