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Saturday, October 3, 2009
***Test Post***
I copied and pasted a former photo to see if it will once again post. Maybe I can extract the code added to the photo, for future postings, in order to beat them at their own game!!!
Monday, September 28, 2009
What A Sleeze Bag!!!
Ex-aide: John Edwards Promised To Marry Mistress After Wife Died
Posted: 8:03 am EDT September 20, 2009
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A man who once claimed to have fathered the child of John Edwards' mistress says in a book proposal the former presidential candidate is the real father and that Edwards and worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday.
The New York Times said the book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young states he helped facilitate the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter. According to the newspaper, Young wrote that Edwards once told Hunter they would wed after Edwards' wife, who has cancer, died.
Edwards told Hunter that the ceremony would be held on a rooftop in New York and the Dave Matthews Bands would make an appearance, the newspaper said, citing its examination of the book proposal.
St. Martin's Press has said Young signed a book deal with the publisher in June and it involved a strict confidentiality agreement. A spokesman for the publisher did not immediately return a phone message and e-mail seeking comment Saturday.
Edwards has said the affair with Hunter ended in 2006. That year, Edwards' political action committee paid Hunter's video production firm $100,000 for work. Then the committee paid another $14,086 on April 1, 2007. The Edwards camp has said the latter payment from the PAC was exchanged for 100 hours of unused videotape Hunter shot.
The same day, the Edwards presidential campaign had injected $14,034.61 into the PAC for a "furniture purchase," according to federal election records.
Edwards, a U.S. senator representing North Carolina from 1998 until his vice presidential bid in 2004, acknowledged in May that federal investigators are looking into how he used campaign funds. Grand jury proceedings are secret, and the U.S. attorney's office in Raleigh has declined to confirm or deny an investigation.
Edwards adamantly denied during an interview with ABC News last summer that he had fathered a child with Hunter, and he welcomed a paternity test. His wife, Elizabeth, has said she doesn't know if her husband is the father.
Young said in 2007 he was the child's father. Hunter said around the same time that Young was the father and the birth certificate does not list a father's name.
Michael Critchley, Hunter's attorney, declined to comment Saturday. A lawyer for Young did not immediately return messages left at his office Saturday.
Joyce Fitzpatrick, a spokeswoman for Edwards and his attorney, Wade Smith, said that Edwards would not comment Saturday. Smith has said Edwards may make a statement at some point in the future about the paternity of Frances Quinn Hunter, who is 19-months old, but there was no timetable for that.
Young hasn't spoken publicly since saying he was the father in 2007 and has repeatedly ignored reporter requests for interviews.
Young got his last campaign paycheck in the middle of November, a month before he and Hunter publicly declared through attorneys that he was the father. Fred Baron, who was Edwards' national finance chairman and a wealthy Dallas-based trial attorney, said last year he quietly sent money to Hunter and to Young's family to resettle in California.
Baron, who died following complications from cancer just a few months after Edwards acknowledged the affair, said he provided the money on his own, to "help two friends and former colleagues rebuild their lives when harassment by supermarket tabloids made it impossible for them to move forward on their own."
The New York Times said the book proposal states Edwards knew from the start that he was the father of the child and expended considerable effort trying to conceal that. The proposal says Edwards pleaded with Young to claim paternity and asked Baron to check whether a doctor would fake the results of a paternity test.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Posted: 8:03 am EDT September 20, 2009
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- A man who once claimed to have fathered the child of John Edwards' mistress says in a book proposal the former presidential candidate is the real father and that Edwards and worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday.
The New York Times said the book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young states he helped facilitate the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter. According to the newspaper, Young wrote that Edwards once told Hunter they would wed after Edwards' wife, who has cancer, died.
Edwards told Hunter that the ceremony would be held on a rooftop in New York and the Dave Matthews Bands would make an appearance, the newspaper said, citing its examination of the book proposal.
St. Martin's Press has said Young signed a book deal with the publisher in June and it involved a strict confidentiality agreement. A spokesman for the publisher did not immediately return a phone message and e-mail seeking comment Saturday.
Edwards has said the affair with Hunter ended in 2006. That year, Edwards' political action committee paid Hunter's video production firm $100,000 for work. Then the committee paid another $14,086 on April 1, 2007. The Edwards camp has said the latter payment from the PAC was exchanged for 100 hours of unused videotape Hunter shot.
The same day, the Edwards presidential campaign had injected $14,034.61 into the PAC for a "furniture purchase," according to federal election records.
Edwards, a U.S. senator representing North Carolina from 1998 until his vice presidential bid in 2004, acknowledged in May that federal investigators are looking into how he used campaign funds. Grand jury proceedings are secret, and the U.S. attorney's office in Raleigh has declined to confirm or deny an investigation.
Edwards adamantly denied during an interview with ABC News last summer that he had fathered a child with Hunter, and he welcomed a paternity test. His wife, Elizabeth, has said she doesn't know if her husband is the father.
Young said in 2007 he was the child's father. Hunter said around the same time that Young was the father and the birth certificate does not list a father's name.
Michael Critchley, Hunter's attorney, declined to comment Saturday. A lawyer for Young did not immediately return messages left at his office Saturday.
Joyce Fitzpatrick, a spokeswoman for Edwards and his attorney, Wade Smith, said that Edwards would not comment Saturday. Smith has said Edwards may make a statement at some point in the future about the paternity of Frances Quinn Hunter, who is 19-months old, but there was no timetable for that.
Young hasn't spoken publicly since saying he was the father in 2007 and has repeatedly ignored reporter requests for interviews.
Young got his last campaign paycheck in the middle of November, a month before he and Hunter publicly declared through attorneys that he was the father. Fred Baron, who was Edwards' national finance chairman and a wealthy Dallas-based trial attorney, said last year he quietly sent money to Hunter and to Young's family to resettle in California.
Baron, who died following complications from cancer just a few months after Edwards acknowledged the affair, said he provided the money on his own, to "help two friends and former colleagues rebuild their lives when harassment by supermarket tabloids made it impossible for them to move forward on their own."
The New York Times said the book proposal states Edwards knew from the start that he was the father of the child and expended considerable effort trying to conceal that. The proposal says Edwards pleaded with Young to claim paternity and asked Baron to check whether a doctor would fake the results of a paternity test.
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Air Duct Cleaning
"Air duct cleaning" is such a hoax, and is therefore a completely unnecessary expense. It would probably take 20,000 years, before your air ducts are clogged enough to actually restrict air flow!!!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Hands & Feet
It has always amazed me the people of negroid descent have virtually "white" palms of hands and bottoms of feet, as if the rest of their color is just a stain.
I feel like if I had been born that way, it (the color mismatch) would bother me to the point of trying to stain/darken those areas in order to match the rest.
Hey, maybe that's why Michael Jackson lightened his skin, because he couldn't stand the mismatch?
I feel like if I had been born that way, it (the color mismatch) would bother me to the point of trying to stain/darken those areas in order to match the rest.
Hey, maybe that's why Michael Jackson lightened his skin, because he couldn't stand the mismatch?
Friday, September 25, 2009
Truckstop Bathroom Wall Report
Truckstop bathroom walls are not kind to Obama. They often show a hammer & sickle for the 1st letter of his name.
I like the often scrawled saying:
One
Big
Ass
Mistake,
America!
I like the often scrawled saying:
One
Big
Ass
Mistake,
America!
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
"Horns Of The Devil"
As I watch the crowd at a Megadeth concert on HDNet, I wonder what the "horns of the devil" symbol (thumb and pinky extended) really means? (George W. Bush got it WRONG!). Any ideas?
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
"Gridiron" Is Such A Dumb Word
Exactly how the word "gridiron" got to be used for the game of football is beyond me. For one thing, the field has no grid; for it to be a grid, is has to have "X" and "Y" coordinates. It does not. Secondly, there is no iron on the field, either.
Somebody undoubtedly failed miserably at trying to make a wimpy sport sound "tough". I say it is wimpy, because each team plays a measly 16 game a year, a mere one game a week, and their so-called playoffs are a mere one game per round. Shoot, in hockey, sometimes they play 4 games in 5 nights! Now THAT is tough.
Der Struwwelpeter
Der Struwwelpeter (1845) is a popular German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first story provides the title of the whole book. Literally translated, Struwwel-Peter means Shaggy-Peter.
Hoffmann, a Frankfurt psychiatrist, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for Christmas in 1844. Not impressed by what the stores had to offer, he instead bought a notebook and wrote his own stories and pictures.[1] Hoffmann was persuaded by friends to publish the book anonymously as Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3-6 Jahren (Funny Stories and Whimsical Pictures with 15 Beautifully Coloured Panels for Children Aged 3 to 6) in 1845. It was not until the third edition in 1858 that the book was published under the title Struwwelpeter. The book became very popular among children throughout Europe, and, writes author and researcher Penni Cotton, the pictures and characters showed a great deal of originality and directness.[1]
Struwwelpeter has been translated into several languages. The first English translation appeared in 1848. Mark Twain's English translation of the book is called "Slovenly Peter."
In 2006, Fantagraphics Books published the first completely digital version of Struwwelpeter, reinterpreted and illustrated by Bob Staake.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Are People Actually This Dumb?
To spend a whopping $230.00 for so-called "custom" tail lights??? (just curious)
Friday, August 28, 2009
Best Church Sign Yet!
Whilst driving around all over the place during work activies, I spy many changeable church signs that try to be cutesy with their (believed to be) clever sayings.
But the other day, I came across the best one yet.
It simply said:
Don't Worry
Be Happy!
I can actually relate to that!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Eco-Friendly My Ass!!!
Had a load of "100% recycled" paper products the other day. Problem was, the load came all the way from New Jersey to Florida!!! The amount of fuel used to ship it, far outweighed any benefit of the recycling. It would have been much better (ecologically) to have a non-recycled product coming from a Florida paper plant. Yet, some buyers of the product are going to feel sooo good about paying MORE for a product to do their part to help the environment (I roll my eyes).
Sunday, August 16, 2009
What Is A "Sport"???
OK, a sport is a game, such as baseball, football, tiddlywinks, etc.
But the word itself is trying to mean too many things to too many people (i.e. has too many definitions), which befuddles me!!!
For instance: why are certain articles of clothing called "sport jacket" or "sport coat", when you NEVER see them worn during any actual sport??? Is it because they are CHEAP (compared to a "suit")???
This brings us to an apparent other definition: in the automotive industry, "sport" does indeed mean cheap (in most cases), such as having a painted plastic bumper instead of chrome, 2 doors instead of 4 and a shorter wheelbase (such as in the Explorer photo), vinyl seats or vinyl floor instead or cloth seats or a carpeted floor.
But in European vehicles, the opposite is true as far as what "sport" means. There, it is usually a more expensive vehicle (i.e. more luxurious), or has a more powerful engine, further confusing the definition.
Then there is me: I often "sport" while bantering about theism/super-naturalism. Further adding yet another definition!
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Two Dead Lizards
Two lizards manage to hang onto our garage wall, even after they both are long dead. Weird, eh? I guess maybe they had a territorial battle, and neither one would concede?
Click on the picture to get a close-up view of the carnage!!!
Friday, August 14, 2009
Weird!
Click on the picture, then view it from a distance away, and see a completely different image!
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