From Cathy

The music motion globe shown here was given to me by Cathy.

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Last Day Before

When Richard was in the car, ready to drive to the airport, and back to NYC, I gave him two windshield ice-breakers. I love Florida, and am glad that I am not in NYC any more.

Barbie was born in 1958

It was in 1958 that the patent for Barbie was obtained. This would be a fashion doll unlike any of her time. She would be long limbed, shapely and beautiful, all of this and only 11 ½" tall.

Paper fashion dolls of the times would give way to a three dimensional beauty with a wardrobe of unsurpassed quality. Ruth and Elliot would name their new fashion doll after their own daughter, Barbie. Barbie dolls’ soon to be boyfriend Ken, would be named after their son Ken.

In 1959, Barbie doll would make her way to the New York Toy Show and receive a cool reception from the toy buyers. She would be viewed as risky to buyers since she was not the typical style selling baby doll of the times. Upon seeing Barbie on store shelves, the public decided differently. By 1960, the mood would change and the orders started pouring in to Mattel. It took several years for Mattel to catch up with the demand for Barbie. Within ten years, the public purchased $500 million worth of Barbie products.

Meg Ryan was born today

Meg Ryan (born Margaret Mary Emily Hyra on November 19, 1961 in Fairfield, Connecticut) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has also worked in other film genres. Click on the picture.

Criptic

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It's the end of the world as we know it!

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ANTHEM THEME

ROCK AND ROLL
This song best represents my soul, life story, and favorite music.


11/11/1971 is when this song was released. This is 35 years ago today!

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This was originally posted in 2005.

Good News!

If George W. Bush and Richard Cheny kill each other during a Quayle hunt after January 30, Nancy Pelosi will become the President of The United States!

Most valuable Link

Andrew,

Thanks for the links in your blog to my George W. Bush pictorial essay. Your blog made my top 50 referrers in the last 50 days.--

DTM

HAPPINESS IS A BLUE USA

1) DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER CONTROL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

2) DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER CONTROL OF THE SENATE

3) NANCY PILOSI IS THE NEW SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

4) DONALD RUMSFELD RESIGNS

5) HILLARY REELECTED IN A LANDSLIDE

6) JEB BUSH IS REPLACED AS GOVERNOR


I CAN NOT BE MORE ECSTATIC!





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Press my number at the touch tone

When using a rotary telephone, you can DIAL a number when you hear a DIAL tone. When using a push button phone you should therefore only be able to PRESS or TOUCH a number when you hear a TOUCH tone. I propose the tone be called a CALLING tone, so that a number may be CALLED.

In December 2003, 718-347-3237 had been disconnected after more than 10.5 years in service. That was my last traditional telephone service, and was in Bellerose Queens. I only had my $15.00 Sprint Plan. The 750 Anytime Minutes Include Long Distance, 50 Free 1-way Text Messages, pcs Voice Command, PCS Wireless Web-caller ID, Call Waiting, three-way Calling, pcs voice-mail. Additional Anytime Minutes are $.15 Per Minute. I consistently only used, as little as 250 minutes per month. The first telephone number of My Samsung flip phone had the new Queens area code of 347. That is the same number as my land-line prefix of 347 for that area. I still have the same cell service plan, and once again, I usually only use about 250 minutes per month.

Since 2002, my sister has had a traditional telephone number with the 347 prefix! Again, that is the same prefix and area code I had in Bellerose. In addition to that, "Belleview" is the town listed on my telephone records for my "calls" with her! Both of these towns have the same first five letters, and have the same telephone prefix! Bellerose NY and Belleview FL have "347" and "Belle" in common.

My cell phone was soon changed to the nearby Long Island area code of 516. I am in Seminole county Florida. Now, I also have calls anywhere in the US, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Europe @ $15/month for up to 500 minutes. This VoIP also includes Free features such as: voice-mail Plus 3-Way Calling Call Waiting Call Forwarding Caller ID with Name 911 Dialing. It is ironic, that even though I advertised my unlimited telephone usage to attract tenants for my house, my tenants have not been interested in using it at all.

This was originally posted October 14, 2005.

vituperate

Dictionary definition and pronunciation:
vi·tu·per·ate (v-tp-rt, -ty-, v-) KEY VERB: vi·tu·per·at·ed , vi·tu·per·at·ing , vi·tu·per·ates VERB: tr.
To rebuke or criticize harshly or abusively; berate. See Synonyms at scold.

"The Pot Calling The Kettle Black"

Today's English Idioms

You are the pot calling the kettle black when you point to another person and accuse that person of doing something that you are guilty of doing yourself. Example: "You are accusing me of being lazy? Ha! That's the pot calling the kettle black!" "The pot" (for cooking) and "the kettle" (for boiling water) sit on the stove over the fire and become black from the flames. Example: "I'm tired of you always wearing my clothing!" Answer: "Aren't you the pot calling the kettle black? You're wearing my pants right now!" The pot and the kettle are like old friends who have turned black with time; the pot only sees the blackness which is on the kettle; he doesn't see the black on himself. Example: "Here comes the guy who is always late for work." Answer: "Aren't you the pot calling the kettle black? You are usually the last person to show up!"

Between Iraq and a Hard place.

The US is between a Brick & a Hard place:

Brick US Hard place

O'Brien

Soledad O'Brien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien [1](b. September 19, 1966) is an American television journalist. She is an anchor of American Morning, the marquee morning newscast on the North American CNN television service. Her common surname with her co-anchor Miles O'Brien is a coincidence.
Contents[hide]
1 Personal life
2 Broadcasting career
3 Honors and recognitions
3.1 The Colbert Report
4 References
5 External links
[edit] Personal life
O'Brien's father is an Australian of Irish descent and her mother is Afro-Cuban. Her parents met at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland in 1958. In 1959, when they married, interracial marriage was illegal in Maryland—as it was in all southern states until the United States Supreme Court decided in Loving v. Virginia (1967) that interracial marriage bans were unconstitutional—so they married in Washington, D.C., and moved to the community of St. James in Smithtown, New York on Long Island, where Soledad was born and raised. On the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait, Don't tell Me O'Brien explained that in Spanish her full name means, "The Blessed Virgin Mary of Solitude." When she started working in TV, many people recommended that she change her name, but she refused. She also revealed that much of her fan mail comes from foot fetishists who request autographed photos of her wearing opened-toe shoes.[2]
Despite her partial Latina heritage, O'Brien admits she doesn't speak Spanish fluently. That has resulted in some awkward exchanges with people who assume she does, including former vice-president Al Gore. [1]
She is a graduate of Harvard University, with a degree in English language and American literature.
O'Brien has two daughters, Sofia (born 2000) and Cecilia (born 2002), and twin sons, Charlie and Jackson (born 2004).

[edit] Broadcasting career
O'Brien began anchoring CNN's flagship morning program from New York City in July 2003, when she joined the network. Years before, she was a regular correspondent known as the "Cyber Diver" on the Discovery Channel's show, The Know Zone.
O'Brien came to CNN from NBC News, where she had anchored Weekend Today since July 1999. During that time, she contributed reports for the weekday Today Show and for weekend editions of NBC Nightly News, and covered such notable stories as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane crash and the 1990s school shootings in Colorado and Oregon. In 2003, she covered the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and later anchored NBC's weekend coverage of the War in Iraq

Miles O'Brien (journalist)
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Miles O'Brien (b. June 9, 1959) is a news anchor and reporter for CNN. He formerly co-hosted Live From, a weekday afternoon show on CNN's North American feed, alongside Kyra Phillips. He became a co-host of American Morning, alongside Soledad O'Brien (no relation) on June 20, 2005.
A licensed aircraft pilot, O'Brien is widely recognized as CNN's in-house expert on aviation, space exploration and space technology. He took over from John Holliman who was killed in a car accident in 1998. Prior to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003, NASA was reportedly close to announcing that O'Brien would be, or would be a candidate to be, the first American journalist in space. After the destruction of the Columbia and a suspension of the Space Shuttle program, the idea was shelved [1].
O'Brien is originally from the Detroit area and attended the prestigious University Liggett School in Grosse Pointe, later graduating from Georgetown University. He began his career in journalism at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. as an assignment editor in 1982. He would later go on to KQTV St. Joseph, Missouri, then to WNYT-TV in Albany, New York. He later went to WTSP-TV in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he won his first Emmy Award for coverage of the 1984 chlorine gas leak disaster in Bhopal. In 1987, he went to report at WCVB-TV in Boston.
O'Brien was awarded the Space Communicator Award from the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement for outstanding media coverage of space reporting.

Miles O'Brien (Star Trek)
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Miles O'Brien
Chief Miles O'Brien
Species:
Human
Gender:
Male
Hair color:
Brown
Eye color:
Blue
Home planet:
Earth
Affiliation:
Starfleet
Posting:
USS Rutledge tactical officerUSS Enterprise-D helmsman, transporter chiefDeep Space Nine chief of operationsUSS Defiant chief engineerStarfleet Academy instructor
Rank:
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Portrayed by:
Colm Meaney
Senior Chief Petty Officer Miles Edward O'Brien, played by Colm Meaney, is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe. He first appears as a flight control officer in Star Trek: The Next Generation's pilot episode, but he subsequently appears as a transporter operator in TNG and as Deep Space Nine's chief of operations in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In DS9's finale, O'Brien is set to leave the station to teach at Starfleet Academy.

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RESUME' of Geoge W. Bush

RESUME'

GEORGE W. BUSH

1600Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC 20520

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

LAW ENFORCEMENT
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine , in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.

MILITARY
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam

COLLEGE
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. With the help of my fatherand our friends in the oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas .

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union . During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as themost smog-ridden city in America.

I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tuneof billions in borrowed money. I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history. With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT
I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record. I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week. I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.

In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month. I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire,"Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President. I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations. My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.

My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision. I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the MonicaLewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. historyand refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I appointed more convicted criminals to administrationthan any President in U.S. history. I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.

I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history. I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission. I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S . "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention. I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history. I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S.the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

I have set the all-time record for most people world wide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.

I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community. I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in-wartime. In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends. I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to worldpeace and security. I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical BunkerBuster," a WMD. I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden [sic] to justice.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for public view. All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. I am a member of theRepublican Party.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN THE 2006 MIDTERM ELECTIONS. PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW.

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Yiddish with George and Laura

VidLit? - Yiddish with George and Laura by Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman from Hachette Book Group

Tim Robbins 1958 -

Tim Robbins was born on this day in my year of 1958

It takes a Village Idiot

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