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Kim Kardashian -- Exactly Why Is She Famous?
It seems that I hear or read the name Kim Kardashian all of the time. Can't watch TV or read a newspaper without a mention of Ms Kardashian. The question is why? Who is she and why is she famous?
Kim Kardashian The Make Believe CelebrityLet's take a look at what Kim Kardashian (Read More)
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Best Title Of A Book Or Short Story
Forget the story...what is the best title of a book or short story?
Here are the answers that were emailed in:Best TitleGravity's Rainbow Their Eyes Were Watching God (by Alice Walker)MasterpieceThe Sun Also RisesWhere's My CowJingoThe Troublesome Demons of Cardinal Guzman by Louis DeBe (Read More)
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After decades of struggle, countless tax dollars spent, and at the overwhelming sacrifice of many spent genius minds, medical science appears to have finally discovered a cure for the ghastly condition commonly known as: Cabin FeverThe Cure: Get out of the house and do something.Warning: Do not attempt to diagnose any me (Read More)
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Motivation is interesting.If you ask someone what it is that motivates them to:
Work Hard
Live A Good Life
Be A Loving Husband/Wife
Be Charitable, etc...
You would get as many different answers as people that you asked the question to.Why is that?Because there are no two people exactly alike. Therefore, we are motivated b (Read More)
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My wife and I recently ate out at a "Fine" Italian restaurant. My wife ordered the chicken fettuccine alfredo and I ordered the four cheese lasagna.I moved to Las Vegas in 1992, and believe it or not, I have been wanting to eat at this restaurant since I first heard of it 16 years ago. I don't care who you are but 16 yea (Read More)
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My wife is fond of telling me, "Life is not a dress rehearsal. You only get one shot at it."Millions of people wake up every morning just to struggle and cringe at the very thought that they have to once again push themselves out the door and into the beginning of yet another day. People dread:
Their Jobs
Their Relations (Read More)
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It seems that everybody wants to be a celebrity today. Maybe they don't really think that they will be on Entertainment Tonight, but in their own world they dream of being the "It" person.I'm not sure why people crave celebrity. What I do know is this: If all you do to claim celebrity is what everybody else is doing then (Read More)
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"Too Much Bad News Reduces Charity Cash."So says AP writer, Lisa Tolin."Compared with disasters such as the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, those in China and Myanmar have generated just a trickle of aid."So the question is: Do we draw the proverbial line in the sand as it pertains to charitable giving when there are (Read More)
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"I would rather prove my self to be a Gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, vertuous, and communicable, then by a fond ostentation of riches."-- Walton, The Angler (1653)On the local news in Pittsburgh one evening, I was startled to hear a woman complain to a reporter, “that gentleman expose (Read More)
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As I was zipping home from my ritual Saturday morning run to Starbucks, I noticed a group of unfamiliar cars parked on the street in front of my neighbor's house. Actually it was more than just a group of cars it was more like 15 or 20 cars. The amount of cars you would normally associate with a party or a good size to-do (Read More)
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I hardly ever "go" on vacation. What I mean , for the most part, I don't make structured plans for my time off.But recently I did just that.Puerto Vallarta Mexico thank you very much. The plane reservations were made, the all inclusive resort reservations were made, even the transportation from the airport in Mexico to th (Read More)
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"If you remember the sixties," quipped Robin Williams (and quite a few others), "you weren"t there." He was, of course, referring to the haze created by all those mind-expanding drugs the beautiful people popped, mainlined and smoked. In truth, however, time has proved an equally effective hallucinogen. As years go by, (Read More)
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Accomplish any goal.Step 1: Wake up in the morning.Step 2: Realize that you are one lucky SOB to have woken up this morning.Step 3: Put forth a super human effort in the pursuit of your goal.Pretty easy. You can memorize the directions without much effort.So what's the problem? The problem is, most of us, most of the ti (Read More)
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
For presidential candidates, celebrity endorsements can be a mixed bag—especially when the star in question is a polarizing figure, as is the latest famous figure to give the nod to Barack Obama: audacious auteur Michael Moore. READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated EntriesApril 21, 2008 Maliki Asks for a PassApril 19, 2008 NYT (Read More)