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Archive for February, 2009

28
Feb

In like a Lion

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The old saying is that is March comes in like a Lion, it goes out like a Lamb.  I really hope that old saying is true because we’re supposed to get snow tonight and tomorrow morning.  So that means to me that March is coming in like a Lion.  I’m really ready for the Lamb, warm and calm.  Funny thing but with snow, it looks more like a Lamb, all fluffy and white but it bites like a Lion because it’s COLD!!!!

Here it was in the 60′s a couple days ago and now this.  Oh well, I have lived long enough to know that February and March are up for grabs by either spring or winter and often you can see one on any day and the other on the next day.  I’m ready for spring and only spring.


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25
Feb

Wall Street

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Well I feel sorry for anyone that has a lot of money in the stock market.  I should say I feel sorry for anyone that ‘HAD’ money in the stock market because they don’t have much anymore.  Just when is it going to rise again?  Well your guess is as good as anyone else’s in that.  One day it bounces back pretty good and the next, well any gain it made seems to go away and then even more is lost too.

I do believe that our new president will do everything possible to help us out of this deep recession.  But the problem is, what will really make it better?   It’s not as simple as us on the street think it is.  Stop and think just how hard it is to live in a budget.  Now imagine that you are responsible for every one’s budget.  If it’s hard to balance your own budget, just imagine trying to keep everyone able to live within their budget.

Yes everyone is going to have to live with less but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  We are a generation of ‘Now’ unlike our grandparents.  They learned from their parents that lived through the depression to only buy what you can pay for right then instead of wanting it now.  You planned for what you intended to buy.  Our generation now has to learn that lesson.


CATEGORIES: entertainment, family and friends, government, opinion

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20
Feb

Roman Polanski

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When most people hear the name Roman Polanski, they think of the great movies he has directed and been honored for.  They don’t think of this man:

In 1977, Polanski was arrested charged with sodomy, sexual assault and rape of a 13-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson’s house in California, United States. Polanski agreed to plead guilty to unlawful sex with a child, often called statutory rape, in exchange for having the more serious charges dropped. However, in 1978, before his sentencing, Polanski fled the United States. He has since been a fugitive and faces arrest if he sets foot on US soil. France refuses to extradite him.

Polanski’s lawyers argued that there were irregularities and misconduct in the original handling of the case. While the Judge agreed, he rejected the notion that the charges should be dismissed on the grounds that Polanski cannot challenge the ruling while on the run as a fugitive.

There’s something wrong with this picture, don’t you think?  How can an industry honor a sexual predator like the movie industry has?  There is just something fundamentally wrong with that I think.  If I were an actor, I don’t care how much money he offered me to be in a movie he was making, I would have to refuse or tell him that I would only if he films it here in the United States.  I’m not so sure I care to ever see another of his films now that I am aware of this either.  Just a thought.


CATEGORIES: entertainment, legal, opinion, work and money

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15
Feb

World record holder loses record

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When I think of a world record holder, people that hold Olympic records come to mind.  But this world record holder is a record holder in The Guinness World Record book.

A woman who held the Guinness World Record for having the world’s longest fingernails has lost them in a four-car accident in her hometown of Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States. 66-year-old Lee Redmond was seriously injured after she was ejected from the sports utility vehicle (SUV) she had been a passenger in. It had collided with one car, causing it to collide with two other cars on Tuesday February 10. She is expected to make a full recovery.

“[Her nails] were damaged beyond repair,” reported the BBC, quoting Guinness World Records, who also said that Redmond’s nails were “a fundamental part of her life and unique character”. The cause of the crash is not yet known and an investigation is ongoing.

Redmond is credited by the Guinness Book for having a combined fingernail length of 28 feet, the longest on record. She has been growing all eight fingers and two thumbnails since 1979. Her longest of all nails was her right thumb, which was 2ft and eleven inches long.

Before Redmond was named as the record holder in 2006, Shridhar Chillal from India had the longest at a combined length of just over twenty feet.

My question is why would someone want to grow their fingernails that long to begin with?  You can’t do anything with them like typing on the computer for instance.  How do you button anything with nails that long.  Her thumb nail on her right hand was almost 3 feet long, that’s like having a yard stick on your thumb!!!  I guess she just wanted to be unique and that she is, even without her long nails!!


CATEGORIES: entertainment, opinion, technology and gadgets

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5
Feb

MySpace safer now?

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Well I have always been a bit leary of MySpace for this very reason.  They took 90,000 sex offenders off of their web site today.  I was absolutely amazed at the number just as I think that MySpace was too.  MySpace officials stated that they have removed 90,000 sex offender accounts from their website.

The social networking site admitted this is double what they anticipated last year. MySpace previously thought the site had 40,000 offender accounts registered.

Well the problem I have with this statement is they thought they had 40,000 offender accounts registered.  That almost sounds to me like they didn’t mind that many offenders to have accounts which I’m sure is not true at all.  It’s a shame that there are so many preditors out there these days but there are and that’s what worries a lot of parents of kids that have a MySpace page and I honestly don’t blame them at all.  Here’s one thing I did like reading about MySpace:

North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper and Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal stated that they encourage and seek more social networking sites like MySpace to become safer. After the MySpace team calculated the number of sex offenders on their website they submitted the numbers to both attorneys on Tuesday February 3.

“This shocking revelation, resulting from our subpoena, provides compelling proof that social networking sites remain rife with sexual predators,” said Blumenthal.

Both attorneys work with Facebook and MySpace in an agreement to make their social networking websites safer, especially for young users. They have already made both websites safer by implementing dozens of safeguards and a special features where users older than the age of 18 have limitations searching users less than 18 years of age.

At least MySpace and Facebook both are trying to make their web sites safer for younger people.  But even with that, it’s not fool proof and never will be unfortunately.  Nothing is totally safe and all younger people should be taught that from the time they’re old enough to understand, oh say about 4 or 5 years old.  Not that they will understand but they can understand that “You don’t talk to strangers because they might get you.”  Some may feel that might scare a child that young, well good because if they are afraid, then they might be a little safer.  I sure hope so.


CATEGORIES: education, legal, opinion, technology and gadgets

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