Krispy Kreme wants your vote! Actually, the company doesn't care who you vote for as long as you vote. On November 4, locations around the country will be handing out free star-shaped donuts with red, white and blue sprinkles to anyone with an "I Voted" sticker (we're guessing other proof may be allowed, in case your polling place is out of stickers). The effort is non-partisan, so don't worry about one of the candidates forking over a wad of leftover campaign money in some kind of weird get-out-the-vote effort. This is just about Krispy Kreme trying to get some foot traffic of its own.
Visit your local participating Taco Bell between 2 and 6 in the afternoon of Tuesday, October 28 to get your free Taco. See the Taco Bell site for the rest of the details.
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You are invited to a special
Halloween Party
Date____Thursday & Friday
Costume of your choice
FOOD FUN & MUSIC
Let's get the party started.
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A beautiful costume choice for PirateGirl, even has a Barrell of Rum,Thanks Matey.
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OldSchool's Ghostbuster Costume.
Tampi has chosen a really scary costume.
Shichi has chosen a beautiful kimono.
Pretensions has a sexy witch costume.
AuntConi has chosen a beautiful Snow White Costume.
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Kram is the love Guru.
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Alienflea the Handsome pirate.
Surrogate has arrived to save the Day.
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Rosietulips has arrived looking beautiful.
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This is our special cake, now we need more goodies.
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Emerging has arrived,Great costumes.
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Pretension this skeleton salad is simply spooky.
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Bloody eyeball meatballs were made by pretensions, ghoulish indeed.
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Barnabus finally made and does he look good? Yes.
Got the Cake, now for the Ice cream.
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What is party without Balloons
I need help here people bring food and gifts.
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Happy Birthday to you ~
Happy Birthday, dear tampi
Happy Birthday to you.u.u.u.u.u!
So sorry we missed this one tampi ~
it was not intentional, believe me!
((hugs)) AuntConi
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Halloween is almost here and it is time to start thinking about our costumes.
For those of us who have kids, we have to get a special costume for them, I will be putting up pictures to get us in the mood.I am going to start with the kids.They are so cute.
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These were made by a mother for her children, if you are interested in the instructions go to
3 eggs, beaten
15 oz. can pumpkin
12 oz. can evaporated milk
1 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1-1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
18-1/2 oz. pkg. yellow cake mix
1-1/4 c. margerine, melted
1 c. chopped nuts
Mix the first 8 ingredients together; pour into an ungreased 13" x 9" baking pan. Sprinkle cake mix over the top; drizzle with margarine. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes; top with nuts. Bake for an additional 15 minutes. Makes 15 to 18 servings.
When life is hard and
Payday is still so far away
And when the salary comes it's not enough
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Over the past five years, 200,000 civilians have died due to violence, malnutrition, and disease in Darfur and an additional 2.2 million people have been displaced. We want to do something about it.
Fed up with watching humanitarian crises on the evening news and not doing anything to help, a group of bloggers (most notably, Leo Babauta of Zen Habits) have created and founded the non-profit Train for Humanity, which is an online humanitarian awareness and fundraising organization.
Over 150,000 new blogs are added to the internet everday. Train for Humanity’s mission is to utilize the web, social media, and blogging, in tandem with athletes in training, to support organizations that help prevent suffering and alleviate the pain of children, orphans, and refugees who have been displaced due to genocide or internal strife and war within their country.
Quite simply, they believe - getting fit + social media + blogging = social good
The three pilot project athlete-bloggers, Mark Hayward, Dan Clements, and Leo Babauta are hoping to raise awareness for the current crisis in Darfur and funds for the organization Darfur Peace and Development. All three are training for endurance events of varying distances ranging from a triathlon to a marathon.
They hope to show people that with a little creativity and innovation, anyone can assist and make a difference in the world. If you would like to learn more, have a look at the Train for Humanity website and please consider sponsoring one of them.
I had to share this;
One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me. I was maybe 2 1/2 years old and had just recovered from an accident. Someone had given me a little 'tea set' as a get-well gift and it was one of my favorite toys.
Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when I brought Daddy a little cup of 'tea', which was just water. After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea, my Mom came home. My Dad made her wait in the living room to watch me bring him a cup of tea, because it was 'just the cutest thing!'
My Mom waited, and sure enough, here I come down the hall with a cup of tea for Daddy and she watches him drink it up. Then she says, (as only a mother would know... :)
"Did it ever occur to you that the only place she can reach to get water is the toilet?"
In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas , which she does not fancy).
Your new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
(You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)
1. Then look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.
2. The letter ‘U’ will be reinstated in words such as ‘colour’, ‘favour’, ‘labour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the suffix ‘-ize’ will be replaced by the suffix ‘-ise’. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up ‘vocabulary’) .
4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you’re not quite ready to be independent. Guns should only be used for shooting grouse. If you can’t sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you’re not ready to shoot grouse.
6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. Although a permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
7. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left side with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
8. The former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling gasoline) of roughly $10/US gallon. Get used to it.
9. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
10. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. South African beer is also acceptable as they are pound for pound the greatest sporting nation on earth and it can only be due to the beer. They are also part of British Commonwealth - see what it did for them. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
11. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie Macdowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears removed with a cheese grater.
12. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies). Don’t try rugby - the South Africans and Kiwis will thrash you, like they regularly thrash us.
13. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. You will learn cricket, and we will let you face the South Africans first to take the sting out of their deliveries.
14. You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.
15. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).
16. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.
A little girl asked her father: 'How did the human race appear?'
Boy, how people here wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark. Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to another at night, pressing his naked behind _ sometimes his groin, sometimes both _ on windows. Store owners, church workers and school janitors have had to wash lotion and petroleum jelly off the windows he selects.
"This is the weirdest case I've ever seen," said police Chief Ben McBride.
Some residents of Valentine, a town of about 2,650 people, find some humor in the strange vandalism and have taken to calling the perpetrator the "Butt Bandit." But they also can't help but cringe when finding his marks.
"We were completely grossed out," said Kalli Kieborz, who works in a downtown building. "One day I walked into the office and an employee said, 'Oh, my God, we've been struck!'"
The police chief is far from amused.
"It's not funny," McBride said. "We're worried about the next step."
What would make a grown man do this?
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> > > > CAPRICORN - The Go-Getter (Dec 22 - Jan 19) Patient and
> > wise. Practical and rigid. Ambitious. Tends to be
> > Good-looking. Humorous and funny. Can be a bit shy and
> > reserved. Often pessimistic. Capricorns tend to act before
> > they think and can be Unfriendly at times. Hold grudges.
> > Like competition. Get what they Want. 20 years of good luck
> > if you forward.
> >
> > AQUARIUS - The Sweetheart (Jan 20 - Feb 18) Optimistic and
> > honest. Sweet personality. Very independent. Inventive and
> > intelligent. Friendly and loyal. Can seem unemotional. Can
> > be a bit rebellious. Very stubborn, but original and unique.
> > Attractive on the inside and out. Eccentric personality. 11
> > years of luck if you forward.
> >
> > PISCES - The Dreamer (Feb 19 - Mar 20) Generous, kind, and
> > thoughtful. Very creative and imaginative. May become
> > secretive and vague. Tends to be overly-sensitive.
> > Doesn't like details. Dreamy and unrealistic.
> > Sympathetic and loving. Kind. Unselfish. Good kisser.
> > Beautiful. 8 years of good luck if you forward.
> >
> > ARIES - The Daredevil (Mar 21 - April 19)Energetic.
> > Adventurous and spontaneous. Confident and enthusiastic.
> > Fun. Loves a challenge. EXTREMELY impatient. Sometimes
> > selfish. Short fuse.. (Easily angered.) Lively, passionate,
> > and sharp wit. Outgoing. Lose interest quickly - easily
> > bored. Egotistical. Courageous and assertive. Tends to be
> > physical and athletic. 16 years of good luck if you
> > forward.
> >
> > TAURUS - The Enduring One (April 2 0 - Ma y 20) Charming
> > but aggressive. Can come off as boring, but they are not.
> > Hard workers. Warm-hearted. Strong, has endurance. Solid
> > beings that are stable and secure in their ways. Not looking
> > for shortcuts. Take pride in their beauty. Patient and
> > reliable. Make great friends and give good advice. Loving
> > and kind. Loves hard - passionate. Express themselves
> > emotionally. Prone to ferocious temper-tantrums. Determined.
> > Indulge themselves often. Very generous. 12 years of good
> > Luck if you forward
> >
> > GEMINI - The Chatterbox (May 21 - June 20) ;Smart and
> > witty. Outgoing, very chatty. Lively, energetic. Adaptable
> > But needs to express themselves. Argumentative and
> > outspoken. Like change. Versatile. Busy, sometimes nervous
> > and tense. Gossips. May seem superficial or inconsistent.
> > Beautiful physically and mentally. 5 years of bad luck if
> > you do not forward.
> >
> > CANCER - The Protector (June 21 - July 22) Moody,
> > emotional. May be shy. Ve ry loving and caring.
> > Pretty/handsome. Excellent partners for life. Protective.
> > Inventive and imaginative. Cautious. Touchy-feely kind of
> > person. Needs love from others. Easily hurt, but
> > sympathetic. 16 years of bad luck if you do not forward.
> >
> > LEO - The Boss (July 23 - Aug 22)Very organized. Need
> > order in their lives - like being in control. Like
> > boundaries. Tend to take over everything. Bossy. Like to
> > help Others. Social and outgoing. Extroverted. Generous,
> > warm-hearted. Sensitive. Creative energy. Full of
> > themselves. Loving. Doing the right thing is important to
> > Leos. Attractive. 13 years of bad luck if you do not
> > forward.
> >
> > VIRGO - The Perfectionist (Aug 23 - Sept 22)Dominant In
> > relationships. Conservative. Always wants the last word.
> > Argumentative. Worries. Very smart. Dislikes noise and
> > chaos. Eager. Hardworking. Loyal. Beautiful. Easy to talk
> > to. Hard to please. Harsh. Practical and very fussy. Often
> > shy. Pessimistic. 7 years of bad luck if you do not
> > forward.
> >
> > LIBRA - The Harmonizer (Sept 23 - Oct 22)Nice to everyone
> > they meet. Can't make up their mind. Have own unique
> > appeal. Creative, energetic, and very social. Hates to be
> > alone. Peaceful, generous.. Very loving and beautiful.
> > Flirtatious. Give in too easily. Procrastinators. Very
> > gullible. 9 years of bad luck if you do not forward.
> >
> > SCORPIO - The Intense One (Oct 23 - Nov 21) Very
> > energetic. Intelligent. Can be jealous and/or possessive.
> > Hardworking. Great kisser. Can become obsessive or
> > secretive. Holds grudges. Attractive. Determined. Loves
> > being in long Relationships. Talkative. Romantic. Can be
> > very centered at times. Passionate and Emotional. 4 years of
> > bad luck if you do not forward.
> >
> > SAGITTARIUS - The Happy-Go-Lucky One (Nov 22 - Dec
> > 21)Good-natured optimist. Doesn't want to grow up (Peter
> > Pan Syndrome). Indulges self. Boastful. Likes luxuries and
> > gambling. Social and outgoing. Doesn't like
> > responsibilities. Often fantasizes. Impatient. Fun to be
> > around. Having lots of friends. Flirtatious. Doesn't
> > like rules. Sometimes hypocritical. Dislikes being confined
> > - tight spaces or even tight clothes. Doesn't like being
> > doubted. Beautiful inside and out.
Noah is a little boy about four years old, has already lost one eye (this is hereditary), gone through surgery, radiation, etc. for the past two years and has been OK. Because of the cancer, the eye was removed and he has a glass one in its place. Many trips have been made to Jackson Memorial, Miami, FL. This past week the parents have found out the other eye has cancer in it, too. They are going to give him radiation in that eye and check him in two weeks to see if it works, but if not, then they will take that eye, too. Please pray for this child and his family. Thank you.
This is a scam, please warn your friends!!
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
— Dennis Wholey, 20th/21st-century self-help author and journalist
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
— Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and third U.S. president( 1743-1826), letter to George Hammond, 1792
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
— Arthur Vandenberg, American journalist and senator (1884-1951)
The belly comes before the soul.
— George Orwell, British journalist and novelist (1903-1950)
Rise above principle and do what is right.
— Walter Heller, American economist (1915-1987)
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
— Billie Holiday (Eleanor Fagan), American singer (1915-1959)
The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give every man his due.
— Justinian I, Byzantine emperor (483-565)
A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.
— Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Greek scholar (fl. c. 20 B.C.)
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (1892-1971)
I do get scared about the physical danger from drug dealers. But it's not in the same league as the danger I feel eating an $80 lunch with my privileged friends to discuss hunger and poverty. That's when my soul feels imperiled.
— Jonathan Kozol, American journalist and author (b. 1936), on his work chronicling the lives of the poor in the Bronx.
This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.
— Theodore Roosevelt, American adventurer and 26th president (1858-1919)
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.
— E. B. White, American essayist (1899-1985)
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
— Joseph Conrad (Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), Polish/English novelist (1857-1924)
If you want to work for world peace, go home and love your families.
— Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu), nun and founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity (1910-1997), Nobel Prize for Peace acceptance speech, 1979
Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Or are we all alone?
Obviously, I don't have the answer to that question. It is one that has sparked much debate and controversy over the years.
Maybe you believe that there is intelligent life in far-off reaches of the universe. In that case, join the search!
SETI@home is a distributed-computing project that is looking for signs of life in deep space. And it is looking for all the help it can get.
All you need to do is install a small program on your computer. It will take advantage of your computer's unused resources to analyze data.
Who knows? Maybe you will be responsible for discovering life on a distant planet!
I have read so much lately about forclosures and I don't have to look far to find it. Some of my neighbors have lost their homes an practically every neighborhood you drive through, there are signs everywhere.
I was especially sad to read about the 90-year-old Ohio woman, facing eviction from the home she has lived in for 38 years, she shot and wounded herself this week, becoming another grim symbol of the U.S. home mortgage crisis.
She was found lying on the floor of her home with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to her shoulder when police came to the home on Wednesday to serve an eviction notice.
Polk survived the shooting and is now being treated in a hospital.
It was the latest attempt by sheriff's deputies to evict Polk from her modest single-family home because she could not keep up with her mortgage.
She's lived in the house, the neighbors said, for something like 38 years and in the last couple of years fell prey to some predatory lending company or financial institution.
They should jail some of these predatory lenders. I had this happen to a neighbor recently, He refinanced his home with promises that they would pay off all of his debts and lower his payments, none of this was done. After signing, the bank sold it to another company and he is now paying $4,000 a month instead of $2,000.
Please pray for him that he doesn't lose his home and for the poor 90 year old woman, what is going to happen to her?
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I thought you might find the following article interesting about Hairbands from China.
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Be cautious of hair bands at open markets around the city too - they are probably from China since they are purchased in bulk very very cheap !!!!
Take a good look before buying hair bands in future - specially like the following kind...
.. These Hair bands were made from used condoms and threads. That was so disgusting, I would not want to use them!!
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BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms are being recycled into hair band s in southern China threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday
In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said.
'These cheap and colorful rubber bands and hair ties sell well ..... threatening the health of local people,' it said.
Despite being recycled, the hair bands could still contain bacteria and viruses, it said.
'People could be infected with AIDS, (genital) warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while waving their hair into plaits or buns,' the paper quoted a local dermatologist who gave only his surname, Dong, as saying. A bag of ten of the recycled bands sells for just 25 s en (three cents), much cheaper than others on the market, accounting for their popularity, the paper said.
A government official was quoted as saying recycling condoms was illegal. China 's manufacturing industry has been repeatedly tarnished this year by a string of scandals involving shoddy or dangerous goods made for both domestic and foreign markets.
In response, it launched a public relations blitz this summer aimed at playing up efforts to strengthen monitoring systems.
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Check your kids hair bands and make sure they do not put them in their mouth while trying to plait or tie their hair
