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This is Amazing - on one hand they say they need money [ the banks ] from the government [ really the tax payers ] to survive and they promise to help with the struggling economy and they start imposing fees on unemployeed people who are collecting unemployement ??? What the heck is going on - Read the article below - blew my mind... Hey - Whats Obama Doing ?? Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD AP Business Writer The Associated Press Friday, February 20, 2009 12:25 AM EST For hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs during the recession, there's a new twist to their financial pain: Even as they're collecting unemployment benefits, they're paying bank fees just to get access to their money. Thirty states have struck such deals with banks that include Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase and US Bancorp, an Associated Press review of the agreements found. All the programs carry fees, and in several states the unemployed ha

Look, I am not questioning your belief. Weather you believe in God or not. Weather you are Christian, catholic , evangelical, Baptist or not... I am not talking about that. And I hate making post about Obama especially if it looks like I am attacking him unjustly - but with that said - He says he is a candidate for change ... but he seems to be using the “old good old boy - politics as usual” tactic.... He says one thing to you and another to someone else. He says he is this for you and turns and says he is something else to someone else. He seems to play what ever card needed to win your approval but really stands for nothing?? Don't take my word for it. He goes to church, he says he is a Christian [ Christians believe in the bible as the truth and nothing but the truth ] and yet in the video below he seems to be mocking not only Christians, his own beliefs but the bible as well ??? I tell my children "say what you mean and mean what you say". I tell my children to be o

My Son Drinking Coffee? It’s way to early in the morning. Here I am dealing with a clogged drain while everyone else is sleeping. Yes, I can’t seem to let things go. It happened late last night and I was told by my spouse to leave it for tomorrow. I guess you can call 6 am in the morning tomorrow. A long story short I left around 7:30 am in search of driano. When I cam e back I found my spouse and my little boy of only four years old - Drinking coffee. The both of them....... Can you imagine, this little ball of electric energy needs coffee to brighten up his day today. I guess yesterdays fourth of July festivities took a lot out of him… What am I saying - he’s four years old… Well I guess I can’t complain, I’ve been trying to cut down on my coffee consumption - But today, I am already on my fifth cup and it’s only 8:30 am in the morning......

Oh the things I would do if I had $30 million dollars to spend. life would be so different. i would probably spend my money on silly stupid things - but not on this piece of Art? Would you? A Lucien Freud painting scoops the world record for the highest price paid for a work by a living artist. Benefits Supervisor Sleeping went for a whopping $33.6 million at Christie's in New York, shattering the previous record by $10 million set last November. Paul Chapman reports. Meet Freud's million dollar muse Sue Tilley, a government worker in the UK, finds herself in the spotlight after her Lucien Freud portrait goes on the market with an estimated value of up to 35 million dollars (USD).

Well, this one has left me for a loss of words. I can't believe people actually throw thier babies off a fifteen tfeet tall tower as a ritual of health and luck. Waht is more suprissing is the fact that the authorities do nothing about it?? What do you think?????????

I read in the newspaper how a 13 year old boy held his mother captive against her will. Imagine that - your child charged by a court of law for "Kidnapping" and the victim, his Mom!!!!! [ see copy of news clip below ] This is why I believe in discipline and in "corporal" punishment. I believe that your child should have a healthy dose of respect for his/her parent and some fear too. Fear of punishment will help your child to listen when thier small and respect you when thier big [ that is if your respectable ]. The facts are that my children will grow, will get stronger and I , well I will grow old and weaker. I've seen parents in NY who basically lost all control of thier children and it sad to see the children run the home and worst - to see a child beat up on a parent. Do you think she was wrong for calling the COPS? If I were her, they would have called the cops on me to rip his dead corps from my closed fist.......... Police: Kid Kidnaps Mom By Joe Seelig

In the video below they are warning the elder about a new system crooks have. Nice appearance, clean cut, and smooth talking friendly criminals that chat you up while the partner robs you blind. Maybe it's because I come from NY, or because as a kid I was a small time thief - or maybe I just don't trust anyone I don't know for more than 5 years..... but I suspect that it's safer to be on guard than relaxed. I'm not saying be anti-social just don't be so trusting. After all - we tell our children not to talk to strangers and be aware of their surrounding but we adults walk around like if nothing could happen to us - that is until it does. I remember when I first moved to Florida - people would leave their front door unlocked or their garage open and even their cars unlocked. Talk about an open invitation. My better half says that I'm just anti-social - I say I just work to hard to have someone walk away with my stuff because I was to lazy to keep an eye on th

It's easy to forget that everyone that says they want to help - is honestly trying to help. lets face it, when your drowning it's hard for you to stop and consider - who is giving you a hand. When your drowning, all your looking for is any hand that appears to be outstretched enough to help. That is when you usually get burned, sometimes burned badly. I’m still hocked up on medication and I know I shouldn’t sign over the deed to my house to anyone. It happens to everyone. Crooks are not as stupid as portrayed in movies. They come in all shapes and forms. they are every smart enough to build professional appearances and even legal entities. It's stories like the one above - that proves no matter how good a helping hand may be - ask questions, do background checks, don't take a friends word over your gut feeling. And as always - if it sounds to good to be true - it's not good for you. Lets face it your drowning, if your going to go down - go with dignity.

It is amazing to me how the human will to survive, to achieve - can over come so many obstacles. I personally get upset with my children and with myself when we so easily give up on things. we stop trying because it's to hard, to difficult - in our mind - it's impossible. Yet a group of deaf dancers can perform an specialized timed dance - over coming not just average challenges, but overwhelming obstacles such as a disability. {see video below ]. There performance is amazing, their courage inspiring, their determination breath taking. Yet it bothers me that when I look at most young people today - all they care about is not looking foolish is something doesn't come easy to them. I feel guilty myself, thinking back on all the things I avoided or never finished because hey it was to hard... Ofcourse I could see, hear, walk, and use my arms and have full mental capability. It's so sad we find it so easy to give up........ Disabled troupe breaks barriers through expressive

Now I am not one to judge what you wear or how you dress. That doesn't mean I will agree with your style or wears- but, to each is own. But an interesting little tid bit came to my attention - about hoodies that cover your face [ see video below]. Coming from NY and knowing how it feels to walk down the street looking over your shoulder because your afraid to get mugged, robbed or worst - I think you have to be a complete moron not to be concerned when you see a hooded figure walking towards you on the street. Especially if it sports a skeleton or other menacing figure. Look don't get me wrong, people have the right to wear what they want - but don't expect me not to judge you harshly if you look like your about to rob me. Don't be offended if I cross the street to avoid you, because after all - you do portray someone who has something to hide or is about to do something so dasterdly that you must conceal your identity. Now I am not stupid enough to complain that this s

A traditional holiday fist-fight Dec. 27 - Peruvians dance and fight at a traditional festival designed to wipe the slate clean of personal problems. It starts with dancing and a religious processions on Christmas Day. But instead of exchanging gifts participants then trade blows. Lindsay Claiborn reports.

Is it me or do they have a fixation with the toilet Bowl? First came the toilet Bowl shaped house - now thier eating out of toilet bowls.......? Nov. 17 - A diner in the capital of Taiwan is attracting clients with toilet humour. The Modern Toilet diner is one of 12 eateries with a toilet theme scattered across the island of Taiwan. Daragh Burke reports.

Could it be true - what do you think? Scientists have found the fossilised claw of a 2.5 metre long sea scorpion, a nighmarish creature living before the age of dinosaurs. German scientist Markus Poschmann, who found the claw in a quarry around 15 years ago, says scientists didn't previously know that these prehistoric animals were so big. Joanna Partridge reports Soundbite: Markus Poschmann, scientist who discovered fossilised sea scorpion claw.

New Immigrants From: "David LaBonte" My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the OC Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to "print" it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register: Dear Editor: So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry. Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some would eve

I'm not sure if I believe it but - He is trying to help the 40% of the world population that don't have toilets [ sanitation ]. My question is if he really wanted to help - why not start by building them each a bathroom instead of a toilet building?? would you pay $50,000 dollars to stay in a toilet house????

It’s no wonder other countries think we’re crazy. Half the world including our own country has parts full of starving people - but here in California we have nothing better to do with a 1,500 pound Pumpkin, except smash a school bus with it. Yes you heard me correctly - smash a Bus. It’s amazing, what lengths we will go to waste here it America. But oddly enough, I am kind of amazed that the pumpkin did smash that bus ????

Personally, I don’t like all the huggy huggy thing. I personally reserve hugs for family and special friends. I would also like to add that I would prefer that my daughter stay at least fifteen “Hundred” feet away from boys. But this is ridiculous - to ban hugs??? I thought it was funny at first till I read in the news paper that it wasn’t only this school in Fossil hill that banned hugging in school. From Bend, Ore., to Oak Park, ill., to Des Moines, Iowa, to Orlando Florida schools are banning hugs. And the excuse - that it causes congestion in the hall ways - well, tell the kids to move along and not be late but banning hugs??? Hey, I personally would prefer my little girl would never hug a boy and never marry till I was dead - but that’s not going to stop her.. Some believe this ban is due to fear of sexual harassment or worst - sexual activity. Give me a break - first, teach your child correctly and hope they do the right thing. Second, like it or not if they want to “do it” they

I know children are important. They are our future... We even have a famous song written how they are our future and we should protect them - ask Michael Jackson.... And I don't want to sound serious because the story really sounds silly to me, but with all the millions of babies we abort, Parents kill, murders take away from us - It's no wonder we're in such desperate need that Countries have to make these kinds of "incentive offers"..... _____________________________________________________ (AP) Make a baby. Win a car. Don't be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region Wednesday as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia's demographic crisis. Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Morozov has decreed Sept. 12 a Day of Conception and is giving couples time off from work to procreate. Couples who give birth nine months later on Russia's national day - June 12 - receive money, cars, refrigerators