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Every Christmas I try and do whatever it takes to put myself into the Christmas Spirit (whatever that may be.) In the past it has involved spending $$$$ and gathering bills I must pay in January. Last year I decided to put the DVR to good use and I watched every film adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens's story, "A Christmas Carol. You know the one, with Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and

  OK, I was going to keep this to myself. There's no reason to spread bad tidings during the holiday season. But T-Mobile has infuriated me soooo much, I just couldn't hold it in anymore! Here's the deal: This morning, my Blackberry started acting funny. As Realtors, you know how much we depend on our phones to work properly. So, after a few minutes of unsuccessfully trying to resolve the issue

If you’re like me, you’re already burnt out on all this holiday cheer. It’s not even Thanksgiving yet, and already, radio stations have been “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” non-stop. This onslaught of seasonal sap started even before Halloween with Christmas items stacked on shelves before all of the trick or treat goodies [...]

Halloween hasn’t even reared its pumpkin head yet and already you’re probably seeing Christmas items and decorations right next to fright masks and Halloween candy. In these turbulent economic times, think about doubling up on some fun Halloween items that could merit extra mileage during during the holiday season. For example, get in [...]

Akshay’s on-screen jodi with Katrina is giving Salman heartache and sleepless nights. This news-report in a daily yesterday created a mini-storm in the industry. After all, Akshay and Katrina make a fabulous jodi [on screen, of course] and the professional that she is, Katrina wouldn’t want to sacrifice her career advantage [Akshay] for her personal life [Salman].Shooting in New York for Kabee

I'm like 30 days behind on the blog. I wanted to cancel this but I didn't want anyone to think I gave up on my 365s... I'm on day 318 and show no sign of stopping (until the end of september!).. you can keep up with me on my flickr...

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Akshay’s on-screen jodi with Katrina is giving Salman heartache and sleepless nights. This news-report in a daily yesterday created a mini-storm in the industry. After all, Akshay and Katrina make a fabulous jodi [on screen, of course] and the professional that she is, Katrina wouldn’t want to sacrifice her career advantage [Akshay] for her personal [...]

The Warumpi Band is an Australian band from the bush, coming from Papunya, Northern Territory, Australia. The band was formed in 1980 by Neil Murray, a Victorian "whitefella" working in the region as a schoolteacher and labourer, George Burarrwanga, from Elcho Island, and local boys Gordon and Sammy Butcher. Over the years, many different people played in the band at various times. The only

It looks as if Ebenezer Scrooge is alive and well and living amongst the bigwigs of the airline industry.  Flight information company OAG has just revealed that global carriers are to axe 60m seats in the run-up to Christmas.  International airlines are blaming high oil prices and the economic downturn on their decision to cut festive services.  Ryanair, [...]

Another conspiracy in the making? Dunno la this fella... The Star Online > NationWednesday August 6, 2008 MYT 3:43:30 PMIt's a conspiracy: AnwarPETALING JAYA: PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim reiterates his innocence.At a press conference Wednesday at 3pm, Anwar alleged any sodomy charges filed against him were part of a conspiracy by the top police management and individuals in the Prime Mini

My poor dog finally had to go down. As I mentioned before, we knew it was a matter of time. Luckily, the kids were all out of the house when it happened. He took a turn for the worse rather suddenly, and went off by himself as animals do. We found him though. Of course the [...]

My poor dog finally had to go down. As I mentioned before, we knew it was a matter of time. Luckily, the kids were all out of the house when it happened. He took a turn for the worse rather suddenly, and went off by himself as animals do. We found him though. Of course the [...]

My poor dog finally had to go down. As I mentioned before, we knew it was a matter of time. Luckily, the kids were all out of the house when it happened. He took a turn for the worse rather suddenly, and went off by himself as animals do. We found him though. Of course the [...]

Web design is going through a change. Maybe its already changed, and Im just behind the times, which is not beyond the realm of possibility. Im an old timer in terms of web design. I remember the days when nested tables were a new thing, and GoLive was the name of the company, not the [...]

So it isn’t Christmas, but that’s the kind of mood I’ve been in these last couple of days. Between the poor little persecuted Christians to the Obamabots who hate Hillary more than they support Barack, I’m in a very bad mood. So, here’s one of my favourite songs, Bodies by Drowning Pool. [...]

A book I am reading that I thought I would share. Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn'tVery interesting. If you are going to buy online then please buy from one of my favorite independent book stores in the Bay Area, Keplers. If you don't want to pay for shipping and decide to buy it in your city please buy from your local independent book seller.

Failing to understand the holiday spirit, the Danish Christmas Tree Growers Association allegedly fixed the prices of its Nordmann firs, reported the BBC and NYT, and reported here. Prices rose about 25 percent this season after the tree-growers association sent price guidelines to its members despite warnings from Denmark's competition authority in 2001 and 2005 not to do so.Group activities of competitors, such as trade associations, are inherently suspect under the antitrust laws as they are often a conduit for price-fixing. Trade associations and their members should be careful to avoid sharing price or price-related information with a trade association or other trade association members unless cleared with their attorneys.

Even though the mass media would have you think this time of year brings out the best in people, my personal experience is that it does exactly the opposite. Everyone is rushed and busy and striving for some kind of perfect holiday, and in being that way, they inevitably wreak havoc on everyone and everything that gets in their way.I'm not any different.Take last week at work. We're planning the office party, which happens to be reviving an old tradition -- the gag gift secret Santa. The tradition had been all but extinguished because at various times, feelings had been hurt by insensitive and occasionally inappropriate gifts. But this year, we got the go-ahead to try again -- a probation of sorts. Everyone wants this to work, to keep the tradition from dying out for good.One of my friends decided to be in charge of the process, but it became clear that he didn't have some of the organizational details down -- such as how participants have to both give and receive gifts, and th

In the spirit of Christian forgiveness and honesty I thought I would paraphrase an old hymn. I know it seems grumpy - I do love Xmas really - I am just fed up with being hassled every time I leave the house by people who should be locked up in ... Read and post comments | Send to a friend

~Snooper~A blogger that I run into over at Wake Up America quite often, turned me onto this web site.The politically correct "holiday greeting" cards are on sale and the picture really doesn't do it justice. I have ordered some but may not get here this year. They will come in handy next CHRISTmas.Behold the PC Nativity SceneTotally PC seasons greetingsSpot the PC touches in Sun reader Jon's crazy nativity scene, above.1. Recycling bins outside stable.2. A sheep plugging veganism - and muzzled in case it bites - plus another sheep advertising British Meat in fairness to non-vegetables3. Banner proclaims: "Atheism is OK too".4. Fathers 4 justice protester in Batman outfit.5. Solar panels on stable roof.6. Wise man in a wheelchair.7. "Safety in the stable" poster.8. Fire extinguisher next to poster.9. Angel in high-visibility jacket.10. Wheelchair ramp to stable.11. Statues from other religions surround the manger.12. Joseph wears hard hat - as does Mary.13. Mothers for justice demon

It's everyone's favorite time of the year ... Christmas time! So, a couple weeks ago, this old lady at work took it upon herself to organize a "Secret Santa" exchange party. She walks behind me while I'm at my computer and asks me if I would like to join in on the festivities. By the way, she was more enthusiatic than a pre-teen girl at a Justin Timberlake concert.First of all, don't walk up behind me unannounced. I could have been looking at some "questionable" websites. Right off the bat, that put me in a pissy mood.For some reason, I felt the peer pressure. Various thoughts went through my head. "I don't want to. F*ck that. I don't wanna spend $20 bucks on some co-worker I hate. What if the present I get sucks? Aww crap, everyone will think I'm cheap if I don't participate. Oh, whatever

Source: Bush's Bedside Manner by M1khaelaGeorge W. Bush, a man who has never had to work - much less succeed - at anything for his entire life, is set to stuff the collective stockings of Big Tobacco with another veto aimed squarely at the nation's must vulnerable citizens: its children.President Bush on Wednesday was ready to veto legislation that passed with bipartisan support to dramatically expand government-provided health insurance for children.It would be Bush's seventh veto in seven years — all but one since Democrats took control of Congress in January. Wednesday was the deadline for Bush to act or let the bill become law. The president also vetoed an earlier version of the health insurance program."This Congress failed to send the president legislation that puts children first," White House press secretary Dana Perino said. "Instead they sent, for a second time, one that would allow adults onto the program, expand to higher incomes and raise taxes."The bill passed the De

Source: Bush's Bedside Manner by M1khaelaGeorge W. Bush, a man who has never had to work - much less succeed - at anything for his entire life, is set to stuff the collective stockings of Big Tobacco with another veto aimed squarely at the nation's must vulnerable citizens: its children.President Bush on Wednesday was ready to veto legislation that passed with bipartisan support to dramatically ex

Ho Ho Ho or Bah Humbug:What's Your Holiday Mood This Year?The Mo ShowTonight (Wednesday December 5th)@ 7pm EasternOn Blog Talk RadioI see you! Don't forget to leave a comment and have a great day. :)

leute mein passwort wurde geheckt… wenn ihr iwelche seiten geshickt bekommen habt..löscht die bitte, denn ich war das nicht.. ejj das regt mich grad super auf.. w elcher spasti amcht sowas? AHHHHHHHHHHH danke .. gruß [eigentlich kein Grund vorhanden, aus Nettigkeit den Namen zu verschleiern] Geheckt? Ist das ein Verb, was sich auf eine Hecke bezieht? Und.. KLAR, DU warst das. DU hast auf einen tollen Link geklickt, der «wie Myspace» aussah, um ein tolles Feature zu erhaschen. DU hast geklickt, weil DU sehen wolltest, wer dich so toll findet und dein Myspace-Ding ansieht. DU bist schuld, DU allein und deine blöde Naivität. Also warst DU das auch. Reg dich mal nicht so super auf, sei demnächst einfach etwas vorsichtiger und schalte das Zentrum für Menschenverstand ein, sofern es nicht durch die Turmfrisur nach draußen entwichen ist. Und welcher Spasti sowas macht? Keine Ahnung, böse Menschen, die die Dummheit anderer ausnutzen vielleic

Well well well… MIER (Malaysian Institute of Economic Research) predicted that our local fuel prices will probably increase by more than 20% next year (MalaysiaKini has more on this) and that would also send our inflation rate on another bullish run! There is no other way around it according to Barisan Nasional as we have been told too many times all ready. We would have to brace ourselves for the worst, folks. The imminent fuel price hikes would create a big domino effect on everything. In the end, the price of everything would be raised (much to the joy of our filthy rich and extremely greedy business community) and poor Malaysians like me would once again be told by the powers-that-be to change our pathetic lifestyles! :-( Poodahh!! Related Post: Having thoughts to move or migrate to some other places? Tired of Malaysian politics? Come an

As much as I love reviewing books, there's always a time when it's hard to do so. Sometimes I read a book I just don't like and didn't move me. Most of the time, I don't review them. It's also a dangerous path to walk as a reviewer who isn't paid and doesn't work for a publication. Especially, because I want to be published myself someday. A lot of book reviewers (at least online) are working on a book of their own. The book I've been working on for four years is Christian fiction. Christian fiction is a small community where you often encounter the same people again and again. The authors are absolutely fantastic when it comes to supporting their fans. So it's doubly hard to review a book I don't like: first, I don't want to upset someone I like as a person, and second, I don't want to shoot myself in the foot by making enemies in the very community I'm hoping to become a bigger part of. Ultimately, I think it's important to post the occasional review of a book I don't

Halloween annoys me, thank God that’s over. A herd of fat-assed rugrats in plus-size costumes begging door to door for the last thing in the world with which they should be gorging their pieholes. These days they don’t even limit the panhandling to their own neighborhoods, no! There are apparently simply not enough calories on a [...]

How Tony Blair's foreign farewell tour contributed 600 tonnes of CO2 to the atmosphere, writes the Green Party's Sian Berry

Did you hear the snigger as Britain complained that Iran had broken international lawIt is an awkward question to ask but did anyone else hear the rest of the world sniggering? I thought I heard it, that’s all. The sequence of events went like this: the unfortunate British soldiers were kidnapped by Iran, Britain announced that Iran had broken international law... and that was when I thought I

Did you hear the snigger as Britain complained that Iran had broken international law

Did you hear the snigger as Britain complained that Iran had broken international law

Did you hear the snigger as Britain complained that Iran had broken international law

OK so I am a cantankerous old bastard at times, but I have to comment on this. We watched A Christmas Carol with George C Scott in it last evening. I am sure your familiar with the story. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a business man. A pillar of society. A hard [...]

Click here to register for the top-secret new blog service!! It doesn't even seem like the holiday season in the Omni abode; we don't have a single Christmas decoration out yet... heck, we still haven't put the ones from Halloween and Thanksgiving away. As always, I'm held hostage by the disinclination of my lazy and procrastinative husband to tackle the floor to ceiling stacks of huge boxes that all our holiday paraphernalia is in so that stuff can be packed up and replaced with, er, other stuff; I'm not remotely strong enough to shuffle the stacks myself, and I'm not QUITE willing to hire a handyman to help me, so I'm stuck in a holiday display timewarp until I can scream loud enough and long enough for my husband to give in and take time out from screwing around on forums and do his 5 seconds of work so that *I* can spend several hours tearing down old displays and then putting out my most elaborate one of the year... which, if I'm lucky, will occur BEFORE Christmas d

It's official. I'm over Christmas. And it hasn't yet arrived! These last few days at work are draggin' like a porn star's appendage. The crowds have taken over my food court with their prams and Santa (Satan!) sporn, casually strolling around lapping up the festive season. FUCK OFF WOULD YOU! My heels are bleeding at your appalling motor skills not to mention my eyes nippin' at the sorry sight of your tasteless Christmas apparel. Just cos Santa's embracing a jolly white belly doesn't mean you should! Put. It. Away.Things are looking up though. Friday will be a half day (full pay) which will give me the chance to prepare for the enchanting Riza's highly-anticipated return to the East Coast. He's on route to his family in Newcastle which incidentally is where I'm also headed this year with my parentals' unexpected relocation there just a few weeks ago. He's catching a lift with me on Christmas Eve. Ah, it'll be just like old times… we've had a few road tri

Unbelievable, I know, but true: I had somehow managed to make it through at least five holiday seasons without ever hearing Newsong's insipid "The Christmas Shoes." But, lo, suddenly there was with the 93.9 FM broadcast, the strains of overwrought sincerity, and then there were the Women M-mv, sobbing in the Target parking lot."Why is she dying?""Yeah, and if she's dying [*sniff*], why isn't he with her?""How does he know she's going to meet Jesus, anyway?""And what does this have to do with Christmas?"Hey, hey! I've got one: Why couldn't we get the dying mother some shoes prior to her imminent death, eh? Yeah, what about that, sappy songsters?Kids, get your mom the shoes she wants today. (Note to Family M-mv: See photo above.) Don't wait until she's no longer able to enjoy them. That's just a waste of time and money.And two buckets of Women M-mv tears.

With only 7 days left until Christmas many of us may find it hard to keep our tempers in check.Working within a retail setting as a CSR at a local outlet, I find many customers are becoming more rude than normal. I understand that you may feel your time is the only time but that does not give you the right to become Ebenezer Scrooge especially to someone who has no control over procedures and price points.Instead of making that poor cashier feel like you no what, take a deep breathe and hold it to yourselves. If after December 25th you still feel a need to complain, keep all of your purchase information and get the problem solved through the right people and not the kid or senior citizen making minimum wage.It is hard enough for us retail workers to get into the holiday spirit and we do not need you Ba Humbugs making it worse.So please if you are the type of person who gets rude and becomes a big pain in the butt please take this advice...stay home and do all your shopping on line.Merr

It doesn't even seem like the holiday season in the Omni abode; we don't have a single Christmas decoration out yet... heck, we still haven't put the ones from Halloween and Thanksgiving away. As always, I'm held hostage by the disinclination of my lazy and procrastinative husband to tackle the floor to ceiling stacks of huge boxes that all our holiday paraphernalia is in so that stuff can be packed up and replaced with, er, other stuff; I'm not remotely strong enough to shuffle the stacks myself, and I'm not QUITE willing to hire a handyman to help me, so I'm stuck in a holiday display timewarp until I can scream loud enough and long enough for my husband to give in and take time out from screwing around on forums and do his 5 seconds of work so that *I* can spend several hours tearing down old displays and then putting out my most elaborate one of the year... which, if I'm lucky, will occur BEFORE Christmas day.The real bummer is that my spectacular Christmas tree is abs

Hey!! Come On!! Don''t be a Scrooge this Christmas!! Add Some Christmas Graphics to your Myspace page.. Be Festive!!! Be Jolly! You can see all the Christmas Graphics we have available for Myspace.. and See all the Christmas Layouts we have for Myspace.. Meanwhile...If you are just like Scrooge.. Here are some Scrooge and Bah Humbug ...