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A Philanthropist

09.29.09 (1:03 am) [edit]

This is the Story of a man that gives from the heart:

His name is Mat Dawson -- a valued Ford employee and noted philanthropist. The man could live in a large house and drive a very nice car. Instead, he gets his enjoyment out of giving money away. It makes his job as a rigger at the Ford plant in Detroit, oh so fulfilling.

“I get joy, happiness out of this; I can go home and sleep good.”

Mat’s donated money, now in the millions of dollars, comes from a man who has a 7th grade education, over 60 years at the same job, and no inheritance or lottery wins. His money is accumulated the old-fashioned way - by hard work and saving.

"I was raised like that, to help others. I have more than enough myself.''

Mat chooses to drive an older car and stay in an older area of the city. Vacations are unknown to him because he likes to give the money away instead. He'd rather work overtime than treat himself. He is the first at work to take up a collection when hard times hit a colleague. He is especially moved by the plight of children. He always wants to make sure the kids are safe.

His recipients have been college bound family members, Wayne State University, Louisiana State University, United Negro Fund, NAACP, various churches and community colleges. His gifts range in the amounts of $10,000 to $1 million dollars.

He's living his dream to be able to help people."A true inspiration.

Castration For Pedophiles

09.27.09 (1:07 am) [edit]

To many of our children are being molested and in many cases killed by pedophiles. They can't seem to stop if they wanted to, It is a terrible sickness and I think that all pedophiles should be castrated.

Castration should be MANDATORY before pedophiles are allowed to walk the streets.

Options would include surgical and chemical castration. Chemical castration is administered through injections, which reduces the amount of the male hormone testosterone in a pedophiles system. Surgical castration is the removal of the male testicles.

However, both techniques are reversible.

Castration should not be considered 'cruel and unusual' punishment for pedophiles.

The only thing 'cruel and unusual' is allowing these pedophiles to molest our children.

If you believe in castration, do something about it.

Sign the petion.

Men

09.26.09 (12:57 am) [edit]

Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle

Men are very confident people. My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they're really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.

All men hate to hear, "We need to talk about our relationship." These seven words strike fear in the heart of even General Schwarzkopf.

Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.

Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I've never seen a man walk into a party and say "Oh, my God, I'm so embarrassed; get me out of here. There's another man wearing a black tuxedo."

. Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

TV Show Tickets

09.25.09 (10:23 am) [edit]

If you’ve ever wanted to be a member of a live studio audience, check out Audience Unlimited Inc. Studios in both CA and New York are offering free tickets to the shows seen on FOX, NBC, Disney Channel and more! Check the schedule for shows starting 30 days in advance of the taping. Some of the current shows include ‘Til Death, Two and a Half Men, According to Jim, Rules of Engagement and Dr. Phil.

(TV Show Tickets)

Happiness

09.23.09 (12:08 am) [edit]

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.

   Every morning when you wake up. you have a choice; you can
   spend the day in bed
   recounting the difficulties of the past day

   or get out of bed and be thankful for this one.


   Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open,
   I'll focus on the new day
   and all the happy memories I've stored away.


   Life is like a bank account. You withdraw from it
   what you've put in.

   So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of
   happiness in the bank
   account of memories! Thank you for your part in
   filling my Memory bank. I
   am still depositing." Remember the five simple rules
   to be happy:

   1. Free your heart from hatred.
   2. Free your mind from worries.
   3. Live simply.
   4. Give more.
   5. Expect less.

Minimalist

09.22.09 (1:18 am) [edit]

Minimalist means simply getting rid of things you do not use or need, leaving an uncluttered, simple environment and an uncluttered, simple life. It’s living without an obsession with material things or an obsession with doing everything and doing too much. It’s using simple tools, having a simple wardrobe, carrying little and living lightly.

It’s a way to escape the excesses of the world around us — the excesses of material possessions, clutter, having too much to do, too much debt, too many distractions, too much noise. But too little meaning. Minimalism is a way of eschewing the non-essential in order to focus on what’s truly important, what gives our lives meaning, what gives us joy and value.

It's clearing away all but the most essential things — to make room for that which gives us the most joy. Clear away the distractions so we can create something incredible. Clear away all the obligations so we can spend time with loved ones. Clear away the noise so we can concentrate on inner peace, on spirituality (if we wish), on our thinking. As a result, there is more happiness, peace, and joy, because we’ve made room for these things.

Quotes on minimalism:

“Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” - Lao Tzu

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupe

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” - Albert Einstein

“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things will be yours.” - Swedish proverb

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as one, two, three and to a hundred or a thousand… We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” - Henry David Thoreau.

All of this sounds good but I have a lot to do before becoming a minimalist .

Ponder This

09.21.09 (12:53 am) [edit]

· I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

· Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

· Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

· The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

· Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

· There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

· Life is sexually transmitted

· The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

· Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

· Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

· Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

· Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

· All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

· In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

· Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

· How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

· Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"

· Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat the next thing that comes outta its butt."

· If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

· Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

Happy Birthday AuntConi

09.19.09 (8:10 pm) [edit]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNTCONI

Happy birthday on this beautiful day,
There's so many things, I just want to say.
You inspire many, with your thoughts and actions,
We're all so grateful, for your calm reactions.

Happy birthday on this beautiful day,
You've always been there, when we needed you to stay.
Kindness and thoughtfulness is your forte,
Our love for you, we wish to convey.

Happy birthday on this beautiful day,
We wish you the best, without any delay.
Hope you enjoy it, from beginning till end,
((((((((((((HUGS))))))))) )))

Expresso Book Machine

09.19.09 (7:46 pm) [edit]

We have Expresso coffee and now we have an Espresso Book Machine that Prints a
Book Faster Than You Can Make A Cup of Coffee

. The Espresso Book machine prints, slices, binds and spits out a copy of a book on demand.

The Espresso Book Machine was just launched by Blackwell yesterday and will be a
boon to people looking for out-of-print editions, or novelists looking to print a
copy or two of their own work.

The machine, which resembles an industrial photocopier and printer, prints 105 pages a minute,
or one book every five minutes or so.

(Expresso Book Machine)

Sugar Pie

09.18.09 (10:54 am) [edit]

Sugar Pie Sistas!

Visit The Farmhouse! Pour yourself somethin’ yummy to drink, relax , make yourself at home.

Creating a welcome-home feeling is every woman’s challenge. As the makers of our home we want the hearts of our loved ones to feel hugged as they walk in through the front door. We want the sights to be warm and cozy, the sounds to be calming and joyful, and the smells to be yummy. We want to create a comforting environment that will help melt away the stresses of the day.

“If I can just get home, everything will be all right.” What a blessing it would be if every member of your family and mine knew that there is one place on earth where everything will be all right!” ~ Elizabeth George

God Bless this home in which we live;

God bless its every part.

God grant it peace and sweet content.

God grace our every heart. ~ Bert Whitehouse

Join The Sugar Pie Sistas

When Are We Going To Get Over It?

09.17.09 (11:16 am) [edit]

Andrew M. Manis is associate professor of history at Macon State College in Georgia and wrote this for an editorial in the Macon Telegraph.

Andrew M. Manis: When Are WE Going to Get Over It?

For much of the last forty years, ever since America "fixed" its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, "When are African Americans finally going to get over it?

Now I want to ask:

"When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?
Recent reports that "Election Spurs Hundreds' of Race Threats, Crimes" should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in "Bombingham," Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than "talk the talk."

Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood.

We white people have controlled political life in the disunited colonies and United States for some 400 years on this continent.

Conservative whites have been in power 28 of the last 40 years. Even during the eight Clinton years, conservatives in Congress blocked most of his agenda and pulled him to the right. Yet never in that period did I read any headlines suggesting that anyone was calling for the assassinations of presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan, or either of the Bushes. Criticize them, yes.

Call for their impeachment, perhaps. But there were no bounties on their heads. And even when someone did try to kill Ronald Reagan, the perpetrator was non-political mental case who wanted merely to impress Jody Foster.

But elect a liberal who happens to be Black and we're back in the sixties again. At this point in our history, we should be proud that we've proven what conservatives are always saying -- that in America anything is possible, EVEN electing a black man as president.

But instead we now hear that school children from Maine to California are talking about wanting to "assassinate Obama."

Fighting the urge to throw up, I can only ask, "How long?"

How long before we white people realize we can't make our nation, much less the whole world, look like us?

How long until we white people can - once and for all - get over this hell-conceived preoccupation with skin color?

How long until we white people get over the demonic conviction that white skin makes us superior?

How long before we white people get over our bitter resentments about being demoted to the status of equality with non-whites?

How long before we get over our expectations that we should be at the head of the line merely because of our white skin?

How long until we white people end our silence and call out our peers when they share the latest racist jokes in the privacy of our white-only conversations?

I believe in free speech, but how long until we white people start making racist loudmouths as socially uncomfortable as we do flag burners?

How long until we white people will stop insisting that blacks exercise personal responsibility, build strong families, educate themselves enough to edit the Harvard Law Review, and work hard enough to become President of the United States, only to threaten to assassinate them when they do?

How long before we starting "living out the true meaning" of our creeds, both civil and religious, that all men and women are created equal and that "red and yellow, black and white" all are precious in God's sight?

Until this past November 4, I didn't believe this country would ever elect an African American to the presidency. I still don't believe I'll live long enough to see us white people get over our racism problem.

But here's my three-point plan:

First, everyday that Barack Obama lives in the White House that Black Slaves Built, I'm going to pray that God (and the Secret Service) will protect him and his family from us white people.

Second, I'm going to report to the FBI any white person I overhear saying, in seriousness or in jest, anything of a threatening nature about President Obama.

Third, I'm going to pray to live long enough to see America surprise the world once again, when white people can "in spirit and in truth" sing of our damnable color prejudice,

"We HAVE overcome."
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Online Jobs Doing Tough Times

09.16.09 (1:10 am) [edit]

The economy is bad and there are a lot of people that have lost their jobs and eagerly looking for another one.

Be careful looking for a job online, if it sounds to good to be true it is a scam, Beware.

There are legitimate job sites on the web and Kim has a list of them plus excellent tips on writing a proper resume.If you are looking for a tech position or upper level position you should check out her site

Online Job Help

Friends Online

09.15.09 (3:53 am) [edit]

No flowers will you find;
Instead you'll see the friendships
That I have made online.

They grow from something other
Than normal flowers do.
They thrive on love and support
And understanding too.

This special little garden;
No matter rain or shine,
Is always in bloom;
This special place of mine.

It's filled with fun and laughter;
Where happiness abounds.
This lovely garden echoes
Many joyful sound.

I would like for you to know
That you are planted here
In my "Friendship Garden

"Rules for Giving Flowers"

09.14.09 (1:39 am) [edit]

When it comes to giving flowers there are no rules because It's the thought that counts. Its a way of letting someone know that you love them or in some cases, I hate your guts.

Flowers have many meanings, also different colors have a meaning of their own.I will give you a few meanings to think about when you decide to give some for whatever reason.

Marigold____desire for riches

Magnolias___ Dignity

Stargazers____Ambition

Calla Lily_____Regal

Lilac______First Love

Iris___Inspiration

Jasmine___Grace an Elegance

Gardenia______Joy
Daisy______Innoncence

Roses are given more then any other flower.Pink roses mean friendship,Red roses mean passion,red and white roses mean unity,white roses mean purity and yellow roses mean zealous.

Finally giving zinnias means thoughts of friends.

Help A School

09.12.09 (1:25 am) [edit]

Kids have gone back to school and it is sad that the school system can't pay for the supplies that kids need.

Teachers have to spend some of their own money and we know that teachers are underpaid.

It is not only in California that schools need help but with this recession, a lot of schools are hurting.

Well now we can help. A web site has been set up where teachers can ask for help with what their students need most. If you want to help with a donation from $1.00 on up it will be appreciated.

Go to the site and look up the needs in your state..

(Help a school here)

In Remembrance Of 9-11

09.11.09 (9:46 am) [edit]

We will never foget you.

Paris Hilton's Quote

09.11.09 (2:20 am) [edit]

What a surprise to hear that Paris Hilton has a quote in the

latest edition of the Oxford Book of Quotations -- and she reckons it's "so cool."

It is listed in the latest version of the 65-year-old dictionary, released this week, alongside the likes of Confucius, Oscar Wilde and Stephen Hawking.

Her contribution?:

"Dress cute wherever you go, life is too short to blend in."

Sarah Palin's Quote

"What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull? Lipstick."

Barack Obama Quote

t"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice."

Child Abuse At Daycare

09.09.09 (4:17 pm) [edit]

It is bad enough to have to leave your child in daycare but when you have
to worry about them not being cared for properly or abused is to much

There are very few mothers that can afford to be stay at home moms.
Mothers go out of their way to find a good reputable daycare provider.

Sometime that is not even good enough.

I was so angry when I read about the woman in Pennsylvania,
who between 1997 and 2002 would turn over the children in her care to her
boyfriend knowing that he was going to sexually abuse them and With her
knowledge, he videotaped and photographed his sexual abuse of the children.

She also turned over a six-week-old baby for him to sexually abuse.
Thank God the abuse was finally discovered.

He was convicted after a three-week jury trial. The evidence at trial consisted
largely of photographs and videos that he had made of his crimes. Judge Stengel
sentenced him to 120 years in prison and sentenced the woman to 30 years in prison.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood.
who locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who
exploit children via the Internet, as well as identify and rescue victims.

This case made me so sick. If your child is in daycare be vigilant about checking
them over when you get them home, most of the kids can't even talk.

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Southerners

09.09.09 (12:36 am) [edit]

Southerners know best, and how to say it.

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Southern women know their summer weather report: Humidity, Humidity, Humidity

Southern women know their vacation spots: The beach, The rivuh, The crick

Southern women know everybody's first name: Honey, Darlin' ,Shugah

Southern women know the movies that speak to their hearts: Fried Green Tomatoes, Driving Miss Daisy, Steel Magnolias, Gone With The Wind

Southern women know their religions: Baptist, Methodist, Football

Southern women know their cities dripping with Southern charm: Chawl'stn, S'vanah, Foat Wuth, N'awlins, Addlanna

Southern women know their elegant gentlemen: Men in uniform, Men in tuxedos, Rhett Butler

Southern girls know their prime real estate: The Mall, The Country Club, The Beauty Salon

Southern girls know the 3 deadly sins: Having bad hair and nails, Having bad manners, Cooking bad food

More Suthen-ism's: Onlya Southerner knows the difference between ahissie fit, and aconniption fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them.
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Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas, beans, etc., make up "a mess."
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Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of"yonder."
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Only a Southerner knows exactly how long"directly"i s, as in: "Going to town, be back directly."
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Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the middle of the table.
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All Southerners know exactly when"by and by"is. They might not use the term, but they know the concept well.
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Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also know to add a large banana puddin!
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Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between"right near"and"a right far piece."They also know that"just down the road"can be 1 mile or
20
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No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn signal is actually going to make a turn.
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A Southerner knows that"fixin"can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
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Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, ... And when we're "in line,"... We talk to everybody!
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Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're related, even if only by marriage.
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In the South,y'all is singular, all y'all is plural.
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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
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Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food.
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When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
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Only true Southerners say"sweet tea"and"sweet milk."Sweet tea indicates the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened. "Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk.
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And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say,"Bless her heart"... And go your own way.
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To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning. Bless your heart!
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And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this Southern stuff, ... Bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have classes on Southernness as a second language!
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And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long time, all y'all need a sign to hang on y'alls front porch that reads "I ain't from the South, but I got here as fast as I could."

Southern girls know men may come and go,but friends are fahevah!

Now...... Shugah, send this to someone who was raised in the South or wish they had been! If you're a Northern transplant, bless your little heart, fake it. We know you got here as fast as you could.........................

Very Important

09.08.09 (9:29 am) [edit]

> VERY IMPORTANT , PLEASE READ THIS
>
> Anyone-using Internet mail
> such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so
> on.
> This information arrived this morning, Direct from both
> Microsoft and Norton
> Please send it to everybody you know who has Access to the
> Internet. You may
> receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled 'Mail
> Server Report' If you open
> either file, a message will appear on your screen saying:
> 'It is too late now,
> your life is no longer beautiful...'
>
> Subsequently you will LOSE
> EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent it to you
> will gain access to
> your Name, e-mail and password.   This is a new
> virus which started to
> circulate on Saturday afternoon.   AOL has
> already confirmed the severity, and the anti
> virus software's are not capable of destroying
> it.
>
> The virus has
> been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life
> owner'.
>
> PLEASE SEND A
> COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
> PASS IT ON
> IMMEDIATELY!
>
> THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
>
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Reputation Is Important

09.08.09 (1:15 am) [edit]

The internet is a great place to meet people and make new friends. We tell all about ourselves and sometime reveal things that should be kept private.

All of this can come back to haunt you if you are looking for a job. Employers are checking you out on the internet before hiring you.

Employers are using the Internet to assess your character. That means they’re searching your name on Google.

They’re visiting social-networking sites and reading blog posts. Unflattering comments and photos can put you out of the running for a job. So, you will want to clean up your online reputation before job hunting.

(Check story here)

Happy Labor Day

09.07.09 (1:53 am) [edit]

Enjoy Your Day.

Buy Some Friends

09.06.09 (3:39 am) [edit]

Real friends or fake friends, which do you prefer? If you are like me you want real friends.
There are some lonely people out there that does not make friends easy and will go as far as to buy some.

If you use Facebooks I guess you need a lot of friends are just have the appearance of
having a lot of friends, after all who will know the difference?

Well Usocial has come to the rescue of the lonely people that don't have friends.

The firm Usocial has the answer for you -- buy Facebook friends and fans.

For $654.30, Usocial will deliver 5000 new buddies to your Facebook account.

That's a lot of money for friends.

If you want Facebook fans you can buy 10,000 of them for $1167.30,

There are people that will also pay you to come and leave a comment on their site.

I hope that I never get that lonely.

Bank Teller Caught Stealing

09.04.09 (11:16 pm) [edit]

I am always amazed at the nerves of some criminals and the lengths that they will go through
to steal what does not belong to them.

My friend told me last year that money was being taken out of her bank account by someone at the bank. It was being investigated at the time.

Apparently they was taking a little every month so that it maybe wasn't noticeable, I didn't know whether to believe her or not.

Well I found out today that this is possible.

A 39 year old teller at Wachovia Bank in Penn. was recently arrested by the FBI.

From 2003 through 2009, while working as a teller, she stole $286,000 from the bank.

If convicted, she faces a maximum possible sentence of 30 years in prison.

we all need to keep a closer eye on our bank statements.

How did she get away with this for so long?

How Would You Handle This?

09.03.09 (12:28 pm) [edit]

A woman was in the store recently shopping with her 2 year old child.
The child starts crying and a stranger tells the mother to either shut the
child up or he will.

Before the mother knows it he grabs the child and slaps her four times.
The child is not hurt seriously other then having a red face.

The police was called and the 61 year old man was taken to jail but what
would cause a stranger to react like that?

I have to assume that he suffers from some form of dementia but I think I would
have hit him with something before the police arrived.

How would you handle this?How Would

Good And Evil

09.03.09 (1:35 am) [edit]

Do all the good you can By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as you ever can.
— John Wesley, evangelist and founder of Methodism (1703-1791)

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
— Edmund Burke, English statesman and political philosopher (1729-1797)

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
— Hannah Arendt, German-Jewish political philosopher and author (1906-1975)

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
— Friedrich Hebbel, German dramatist (1813-1863)

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.
— Juvenal, Roman satirist (c. 58-c. 127 A.D.)

The good ended happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
— Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish writer (1854-1900), Miss Prism speaking to Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart.
— Alexandr Solzhenitzyn, Russian novelist and historian (b. 1918)

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.''
— Mary Wollstonecraft, English feminist and writer (1759-1797)

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
— Denis Diderot, French philosopher, Encyclopedist and writer (1713-1784)

DO YOU HATE THIS?

09.02.09 (1:59 am) [edit]

Does it bother you to read someone's blog or receive an email and it is all done in capital letter's?

I must admit that it does bother me a little but I usually ignore it and just wonder why do it. I notice someone will write the person and say, hey what is the problem? will you stop it with the caps, why are you so angry? this is the type that it really bothers.

A lady was fired for always sending letters to fellow employees done in caps. She was not pleased with the way that they were filling out certain forms and this was her way in getting her point across.

People complained about it and she was fired.

She sued the company and won, apparently you can't be fired for writing in all caps, no matter how annoying it is.

(Story here)

Peanuts

09.01.09 (9:32 am) [edit]

For lovers of boiled peanuts, there's some good news from the health front. A new study by a group of Huntsville researchers found that boiled peanuts bring out up to four times more chemicals that help protect against disease than raw, dry or oil-roasted nuts.

Lloyd Walker, chair of Alabama A&M University's Department of Food and Animal Sciences who co-authored the study, said these phytochemicals have antioxidant qualities that protect cells against the risk of degenerative diseases, including cancers, diabetes and heart disease.

"Boiling is a better method of preparing peanuts in order to preserve these phytochemicals," Walker said.

Walker said peanuts and other plants use phytochemicals for things such as helping avoid disease and insect attacks.

"These things are not nutrients; at the same time they have health benefits to humans, "The trick is to keep those health benefits, not to process them out of the foods."

According to Walker, water and heat penetrate the nuts, releasing beneficial chemicals to a certain point. Overcooking the nuts destroys the useful elements.

This is good news because I love boiled peanuts.

Recipe for boiled peanuts

2 to 3 pounds fresh green peanuts
1 1/2 cups salt

Put the peanuts and the salt in a large stockpot. Cover completely with water. Bring to a boil and simmer for at least 1 hour and up to 3 hours. To check whether they are done, pull 1 or 2 peanuts out of the pot and crack them open. When they are soft, they are done. If they are still slightly crunchy, they are not done yet, If they are not salty enough, leave them in the salted water and turn off the heat. When they are done, drain and serve immediately