FRANCE EAGER TO ENGAGE IN SYRA. WHY?

<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="text-align: left;"></h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOdmzZEEvthsKGGljktbzo1FsrvFILMp1t3fHNsFsmsWvIPSgbhQMaU0e4T5MP_LVhyphenhyphenShBafOa2bWrZMs0Ky2bDQ3bHcQKnyJrIIXz7RFou5X60bWlj8cyEgEWp_i7K0sFphWAUKhSp_y/s1600/syria_french_mandate_france_flag_postcard-p239622958889388587envli_400.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkOdmzZEEvthsKGGljktbzo1FsrvFILMp1t3fHNsFsmsWvIPSgbhQMaU0e4T5MP_LVhyphenhyphenShBafOa2bWrZMs0Ky2bDQ3bHcQKnyJrIIXz7RFou5X60bWlj8cyEgEWp_i7K0sFphWAUKhSp_y/s320/syria_french_mandate_france_flag_postcard-p239622958889388587envli_400.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">French Syrian Mandate Flag</td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; text-align: center;">  <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br /></span></b></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">VIA BBC: </span> </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">FRANCE'S HOLLANDE BACKS US ON SYRIA ACTION</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">France is still ready to take action in Syria alongside the US, despite UK MPs blocking British involvement, President Francois Hollande has said……….</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23897775">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23897775</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 1.5pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FRENCH COLONIZERS HAVE NOT ACCEPTED THE LOSS OF THEIR COLONY</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elena Gromova</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">History stutters: the new leader of the SYRIAN National Coalition, knighted by the West, is none other than the grand-son of one of the chief collaborators of the FRENCH occupation of SYRIA in the 20s. Formerly, the FRENCH colonial power resorted to religious leaders to teach submission to the people under its domination; today it relies on clerics to overthrow the secular regime of the SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC.</span></span><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">FRANCES "COLONIAL AMBITIONS" IN SYRIA?</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8HydzNX-fa4DnYDlnEvSyoT9akeSACX7DT_nh_9pnbsBZEvcwb23nTr3S7RHDgfsVkCGNNt8MADa7ImB9njLp9_crrGmfZpNQtQZRJgprFUs654C50aBOcq1k_CZ9NSieGB8o0Z7aOZyP/s1600/520px-French_Empire_1919-1939.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8HydzNX-fa4DnYDlnEvSyoT9akeSACX7DT_nh_9pnbsBZEvcwb23nTr3S7RHDgfsVkCGNNt8MADa7ImB9njLp9_crrGmfZpNQtQZRJgprFUs654C50aBOcq1k_CZ9NSieGB8o0Z7aOZyP/s640/520px-French_Empire_1919-1939.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 3.75pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></span> </div><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">More than 70 years has passed and the grandson of this Nur-Eddin – Mouaz al-Khatib, a former preacher at the Umayyad mosque in Damascus and now a deserter and traitor – has been elected head of the “QATAR COALITION” which was created on 11 November at a meeting in DOHA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB70EfArF3CEg-qYhf0VfWhdOH8y9mYuFXXzm_Rn9Xxxzt-4rXVr5Vo_cfxSNmPKaNtACNkZ38Z8zhp_XOTpp86Ywwgn6tk0AmKVqL7dZcv7wRozAd1cbKDh-lvYllODTm6OiALSgsUPA8/s1600/images2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB70EfArF3CEg-qYhf0VfWhdOH8y9mYuFXXzm_Rn9Xxxzt-4rXVr5Vo_cfxSNmPKaNtACNkZ38Z8zhp_XOTpp86Ywwgn6tk0AmKVqL7dZcv7wRozAd1cbKDh-lvYllODTm6OiALSgsUPA8/s320/images2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Left Picture<span style="font-size: medium;">: </span>French Circassian Cavalry assembling outside the railway station at Damascus, French Mandate of Syria in preparation of the surrendering ceremony to Axis officials, Sep 1941</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FRANCE has shown its gratitude to the third-generation collaborator al-Khatib, whose grandfather collaborated with the colonisers, for his faithful service. Namely the former colonial power has been the first to recognise the “QATAR COALITION” as a legitimate representative of the SYRIAN people. It is no surprise that the flag of the “opposition” – green, white and black with three stars – is the same as the flag from the time when SYRIA was under FRENCH mandate.</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">No sooner had SYRIA gained their freedom from TURKISH rule than it immediately fell under the authority of the FRENCH in 1920, and the League of Nations gave FRANCE a mandate to control SYRIA. The FRENCH occupation army, headed by General Henri Gouraud, faced weak opposition from an armed SYRIAN army which had only just been formed and had nothing except rifles and machine guns, while the FRENCH had heavy artillery and aircraft. The conflict was one-sided.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">GENERAL YUSUF AL-’AZMA 1883-1920</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The SYRIAN Minister of War Yusuf al-’Azma accepted the battle, knowing it would be impossible to win, but being a true patriot of his homeland, he was unable to allow the FRENCH to take Damascus without a fight. The battle took place 23 kilometres from Damascus, in the mountainous region of Maysalun. Yusuf al-’Azma personally took part in the one-sided battle. The soldiers fought for a whole day, but the superiority of the FRENCH was just too great. Only when all the SYRIAN soldiers had been killed were the FRENCH able to advance on Damascus.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Syrians and Druses rose up against the FRENCH occupiers in 1925 and even managed to liberate Damascus, but the FRENCH used their military strength to quash the uprising in 1927. The first shot of the uprising was fired on 7 June 1925 – a hero of the uprising, Hussein Murshid Radwan, wounded a FRENCH officer when he ordered a peaceful anti-FRENCH demonstration to be broken up.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SYRIA reveres its heroes and at the beginning of November, a magnificent monument was erected in the city of Suwayda in Hussein Murshid Radwan’s honour. The sculptor, Fuad Naim, has paid particular attention to the hero’s enormous sword which he has clenched in his mighty hand while challenging the FRENCH to battle.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FRANCE LOST SYRIA. SOMETHING IT CANNOT OVERCOME IT SEEMS </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">In the center of Damascus, meanwhile, there is a monument in honor of the SYRIAN Defense Minister Yusuf al-’Azma, a hero of the Battle of Maysalun Pass. Here we have genuine insurgents who fought for a free SYRIA. Now, however, the word “insurgent” has been completely defiled and is used today to refer to all sorts of rubbish recruited from all corners of the world who are high on drugs and murdering SYRIANS for money.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Until quite recently there was another monument in honour of al-’Azma which stood near the General Staff building. On 3 September this year, however, during an attack on the General Staff building, terrorists did not spare this monument. The vandals destroyed it. Can SYRIA’S history really be that dear to these mercenaries? Or to the descendants of those who collaborated with the occupiers?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: red;">70 years has passed since FRANCE lost SYRIA as one of its colonies and was forced to <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">recognize</span></span> its independence. As recent events have shown, however, FRANCE just cannot ignore the colonial itch</span>. It is doing everything to regain its sovereignty, although this time around, even if they conquer SYRIA, it would no longer be full sovereignty since FRANCE would have to share it with the USA, Turkey and other NATO partners. This is not troubling Hollande, however, who is backing every reprobate in SYRIA so long as the reprobate’s position falls within the neocolonial plans of FRANCE’S false socialists.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Back in the summer, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault did not hesitate in saying that FRANCE was supplying SYRIAN fighters with communication equipment and other technology. He spoke as though the equipment was not for the purpose of killing. But it is all the same – is it really not going to aid the murderers?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">FRANCES INTENTIONS TO CREATE A “BUFFER” ZONE AND A “NO-FLY” ZONE HAD TO BE ABOLISHED </span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">And now the pseudo-socialist François Hollande has held a meeting with the old collaborator’s grandson, Mouaz al-Khatib. After the meeting in Paris, the ambassador of the SYRIAN terrorists showed up – a certain Munzir Makhous who, together with his boss, was part of the delegation who visited the Élysée Palace and implored Hollande to supply the fighters with heavy artillery. Hollande promised to bring the matter up for discussion with the countries of the EU.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"></span>Earlier, Hollande had announced his intentions to create a “buffer” zone and a “no-fly” zone in SYRIA. At that time, however, his own foreign secretary threw cold water on his plans by announcing that such zones could only be created by a decision of the UN Security Council. And the position of the UN Security Council is clear – RUSSIA and CHINA will not give the go ahead for yet more ventures like the ones that have already ruined LIBYA. Knowing this, however, Hollande is trying to raise the morale of the terrorists operating within SYRIA. In order to do this, he is promising to create a “no-fly zone” – the relentless bombardment of SYRIA, in other words – and this is the one thing that the terrorists want. They are putting themselves at risk every time they place an improvised explosive device near a school, a hospital, a shopping center, a mosque. Obviously they want to get support from the air so that they no longer have to risk their lives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pcUQ5ZasV7U9Utvi8Mn_gRDWXTJAHzhRQqec1ToI3ICQUUKquYivxz1uIJHrI5SauMXL_qxTLhyJitVU_diUQtV2AGCm5ZvtS50SR0eBuVJTEbON-Pga82z2SEXhQO47Rcem2peMPerU/s1600/gal_5652.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pcUQ5ZasV7U9Utvi8Mn_gRDWXTJAHzhRQqec1ToI3ICQUUKquYivxz1uIJHrI5SauMXL_qxTLhyJitVU_diUQtV2AGCm5ZvtS50SR0eBuVJTEbON-Pga82z2SEXhQO47Rcem2peMPerU/s320/gal_5652.jpg" width="301" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">While the SYRIAN government and the SYRIAN people are placing monuments in <span style="font-size: medium;">honor</span> of their heroes, the so-called “opposition members” are collaborating with the neocolonialists, making much of the colonialists’ flags while killing soldiers and civilians. <b>FRANCE <span style="font-size: medium;">recognizes</span> these murderers and terrorists as “legitimate representatives of the SYRIAN people”</b>. The only question is whether “representatives” like these are what the SYRIAN people really need.</span></span> </div>

FRANCE EAGER TO ENGAGE IN SYRA. WHY?

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4 Steps To Lose Weight Quickly

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4 Steps To Lose Weight Quickly

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During weight loss, one tends to feel hungry due to the insulin spikes that occur post-meal. One need not put more effort to reap the cinnamon's benefits as researchers have proven that various conditions like cholesterol, blood sugar and triglyceride levels can be effectively reduced with a quarter tablespoon of cinnamon every day. Best thing to use cinnamon is to sprinkle it in salads, breakfast cereals, and to include it with a morning latte.<br /> <br /> Chillipeppers<br /> <br /> Researchers have concluded that intake of a spicy food in the morning like consuming chilies during breakfast can make you to go for a small lunch. This is because chilies contain a natural component called capsaicin and distinct appetite suppressing properties are found in red chilies. As it is a known fact that chilies are not easy to be taken early in the morning as a meal; however, it can be taken in an egg white omelet or stirred into scrambled eggs to jumpstart weight loss.<br /> <br /> Fennel tea<br /> <br /> Various health providing benefits can be reaped by the intake of fennel tea as it is fully packed with high levels of elements such as magnesium, calcium and potassium, including vitamin C and B. fennel offers a double benefit when it comes to losing weight. It acts as metabolic booster as well as an appetite suppressant which are both important functions to lose weight. Fennel tea can be easily obtained from supermarkets and be included to the daily diet to fend off the cravings and increase fat burning process.<br /> <br /> Salad<br /> <br /> Intake of a low calories salad before meals not only promotes weight loss, but also creates a feeling of stomach fullness that enables you to eat less food. Moreover, one can have daily recommended dose of vegetables as it is not a random rocket science to promote weight loss; but a meager salad volume can fill up the stomach. One should stave off from fatty salad dressings but can include little balsamic vinegar and olive oil which make up a fresh and healthy salad.<br /> <br /> Green tea<br /> <br /> Another highly recommended brew is green tea as it offers unlimited energy and multiple health benefits. It has been proven that it increases endurance by up to 24 percent and is a perfect pre-workout drink for some one who is into fitness. Moreover, it helps to perform long workouts and burn more number of calories. When it comes to its effect on boosting up weight loss, a study performed by the journal of nutrition claims that one can lose twice as much weight, especially around the middle of the body by the intake of about 5 cups of green tea.<br /> <br /> Celery<br /> <br /> Celery is one of the best weight loss foods that promote burning up of more calories soon after taking it. Celery is well-packed with foliate and fiber which has highest nutritional value. Foliate is an essential nutrient that promotes formation of new body cells with its protective action; while fiber enhances digestion. Celery is effective in losing weight and no wonder that it has been featured in various options such as a pre-meal salad, meal or a healthy snack to munch on.<br /> <br /> Lentils<br /> <br /> Lentils make up the best weight loss diet as they have potential to satisfy cravings without requiring packing the body with more fat and calories. Hence, lentils are therefore used to substitute meat as it helps to feel that one has had a meaty dish despite not consuming more calories and saturated fat that is loaded in meat. Lentils are rich in fiber and foliate like celery. Hence, it creates a feeling of fullness, promotes growth of new cells and aids in digestion.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>If you are looking for extra information related to <a href="http://www.biosanes.com/blog/best-ways-to-track-your-weight-loss-progress">organic and natural weight loss</a>. Anyone can head straight to our primary web page listed here: <a href="http://www.biosanes.com/contact">www.Biosanes.com</a></div><br /> </div><br />

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10 week weigh in! Did I meet my goal?

Hello Everyone,<br /><br />Today was the day - I met with my peeps at the doctors office bright and early for my weigh in.  Unfortunately, my friend Karen had to run out to take her son to school.  Something about not being late ha!  So, Sammy stepped in to run the scale and of course Tammy is holding the phone to video.  So thanks to them for being helpful as always.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>So the question is........ Did I meet my goal?  Let's watch and see..........</strong></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/8TiK7UYav9s?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><br />I have to say - go look at the first weigh in video and compare it to this one:  <a href="http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/video-weigh-in.html">http://www.belviqdaily.blogspot.com/p/video-weigh-in.html</a>  - can you not see the difference?  I was taken back and TOTALLY excited.  Other in my face, I can totally see the difference.  The only thing I seemed to have that double chin but it was the way I was leaning back and had my head titled ha! Hey, I was trying to see.  I need reading glasses LOL.<br /><br />Anyway, 31 pounds down - I met my goal.  I am as happy as can be!!  I really thought I was pushing it to hit 30, but 31 - WOW.  My scale at home is exactly 3 pounds off from my doctors office scale.  I am going to maybe do my weigh in video monthly but probably start reportuing a weekly unofficial weigh in from home just to keep the momentum going!!<br /><br />This is a holiday weekend.  That means I will be taking a holiday!  NO POSTING ha!  I deserve the break right?  <br /><br />Oh, and.....#Belviq ROCKS!<br /><br />xox<br />Ellie<br /><br />PS - THANKS to the donations this month.  I will be picking up my September 1st Belviq.  YAY!!!

10 week weigh in! Did I meet my goal?

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try not to labor too much

The only thing better than heading into a weekend is knowing its a three-day weekend. Summer is slipping through our fingers so soak up every last minute of it.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcC7y_voPdqfOnTwe6koAkDJailoSPt4CQzM0SlKjS3lK3nJGF-TuoWvx1BcJC8nB-4MQCczwGw2ElR19R3Ce1CMxlfLpdlVMpihkYf6-zIb8HmJ2Vdtr2AOWeXSguiVKSvKIq5lGeAms/s1600/AmeliaFloatsLaborDay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqcC7y_voPdqfOnTwe6koAkDJailoSPt4CQzM0SlKjS3lK3nJGF-TuoWvx1BcJC8nB-4MQCczwGw2ElR19R3Ce1CMxlfLpdlVMpihkYf6-zIb8HmJ2Vdtr2AOWeXSguiVKSvKIq5lGeAms/s640/AmeliaFloatsLaborDay.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />For those in the US - happy labor day! And for all of my other friends, happy weekend!

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Bush chairs Patriot Golf Day to raise funds for children of fallen, disabled troops

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5s7e9_qsqG8o4qkxXe7ZIXnTVfNlHxUf_jGTLfRHoAcVRlqo-KRfgbuVT9ZzAjO8GycvztrAlkQvdfxGNFtKexFkGKjpvDHBqQorBgH4XQpjpvul27TVyy_Lb3dKw5Qj6xZDtjmNMlIiK/s1600/George+W.+Bush+37+patriot+golf+day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5s7e9_qsqG8o4qkxXe7ZIXnTVfNlHxUf_jGTLfRHoAcVRlqo-KRfgbuVT9ZzAjO8GycvztrAlkQvdfxGNFtKexFkGKjpvDHBqQorBgH4XQpjpvul27TVyy_Lb3dKw5Qj6xZDtjmNMlIiK/s1600/George+W.+Bush+37+patriot+golf+day.jpg" /></a></div><br />Many will hit the links this weekend and raise money on <a href="http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwfitness/article/Patriot-Golf-Day-Events-Raise-Awareness-for-Folds-of-Honor-830-92-20130826">Patriot Golf Day</a> for educational scholarships for the children of disabled and fallen American heroes: <br /><blockquote>Patriot Golf Day, supported by The PGA of America and the United States Golf Association (USGA), is a yearlong initiative for Folds of Honor with its national promotion over Labor Day Weekend. Since 2007, Patriot Golf Day events have raised more than $17 million, including a record-setting total of more than $4.3 million in 2012. Folds of Honor has awarded more than 5,000 educational scholarships, with more than 1,200 awarded this year. President George W. Bush serves as the Honorary Chairman of Patriot Golf Day.<br /><br />During Labor Day weekend, golfers are asked to make donations at participating courses, while non-golfers can participate by donating to the foundation at FoldsofHonor.org.<br /><br />"Thanks to the continued support of golfers, The PGA and the USGA, we are honoring the legacy of those who have sacrificed so much for our country by ensuring their loved ones are not left behind on the field of battle when it comes to education," said Major Dan Rooney, Folds of Honor Founder. "We hope everyone gets out to play during Labor Day Weekend to support these families."<br /><br />Rooney, a PGA Professional and USGA member, launched Patriot Golf Day in 2007 following his second of three tours of duty in Iraq. After returning from his second tour, Major Rooney witnessed a profound display of a family's grief as they welcomed home the remains of Corporal Brock Bucklin. Inspired by this heartbreaking homecoming, Rooney started the Folds of Honor Foundation to provide support to military families in the aftermath of their tragedies.<br /><br />Read more about Patriot Golf Day Events Raise Awareness for Folds of Honor, 8/30-9/2 - BWWFitnessWorld by www.broadwayworld.com</blockquote>Friday morning found Fox and Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade in Dallas to interview President Bush and participate in the event along side the former president. Always there to support the troops ... thank you, President Bush.

Brian Kilmeade Dan Rooney Folds of Honor Fox and Friends George W. Bush Patriot Golf Day PGA USGA Bush chairs Patriot Golf Day to raise funds for children of fallen, disabled troops

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Today's Teamster News 08.30.13

<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/illinois-teamsters-endorse-pat-quinn-governor" rel="nofollow">Illinois Teamsters endorse Pat Quinn for governor</a>  Teamsters Joint Council 25   ...Teamsters Joint Council 25 endorsed Pat Quinn for a second term as Illinois governor today in a press conference at the Chicago International Produce Market...<br /><a href="http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=32821&t=Teamsters-Approve-Contract-Extension-With-DHLs-Air-Express-International" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Approve Contract Extension With DHL’s Air Express International</a>  Transport Topics   ...Teamsters union workers employed by DHL subsidiary Air Express International have approved a one-year contract extension, the union said...<br /><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/business/fast-food-strikes-hit-cities-across-country-8C11028643" rel="nofollow">Fast food strikes go super-sized in clash over wages</a>  CNBC   ...From San Diego to New York, workers stopped flipping burgers, frying fries, and slathering on secret sauce in what organizers called the largest strikes against the nation's fast food companies ever...<br /><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-banks-earn-record-422b-2nd-quarter" rel="nofollow">US Banks Earn Record $42.2B in 2nd Quarter </a> Associated Press   ...The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. says the banking industry earned $42.2 billion in the second quarter, up 23 percent from the second quarter of 2012. About 54 percent of U.S. banks reported improved earnings from a year earlier...<br /><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/29/200769/teen-employment-hits-record-lows.html#.UiB9IGTF36k" rel="nofollow">Teen employment hits record lows, suggesting lost generation</a>  McClatchy   ...slightly more than three in 10 teens actually worked a summer job, out of a universe of roughly 16.8 million U.S. teens. “We have never had anything this low in our lives. This is a Great Depression for teens, and no time in history have we encountered anything like that,” said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston...<br /><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/28/us-usa-municipals-sanbernardino-idUSBRE97R18020130828" rel="nofollow">San Bernardino, California, eligible for bankruptcy: judge</a>  Reuters   ...The tentative ruling came despite objections by the California Public Employees' Retirement System, or Calpers. The $260 billion pension fund is the city's biggest creditor...<br /><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-fear-of-a-black-van-7000019846/" rel="nofollow">NSA: fear of a black van</a>  zdnet   ...Most of us are good citizens. And yet. What if the government is listening in, or watching, or scanning, and some algorithm triggers an investigation and some quota-happy g-man decides to make one of us a pet project?...<br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/29/poverty-mental-capacity-complex-tasks" rel="nofollow">Poverty saps mental capacity to deal with complex tasks, say scientists</a>  The Guardian   ...Poor people spend so much mental energy on the immediate problems of paying bills and cutting costs that they are left with less capacity to deal with other complex but important tasks, including education, training or managing their time, suggests research published on Thursday...<br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/30/sydney-university-strike" rel="nofollow">Why is Sydney University on strike? Because students are not our 'clients'</a> (opinion)  The Guardian   ...The ongoing commodification of higher education is just one facet of the disastrous hijacking of universities by corporate ideology. We are fighting this...<br /><a href="http://www.3news.co.nz/Colombia-farmers-strikes-spread-to-cities/tabid/417/articleID/311106/Default.aspx#ixzz2dKQK5aXF" rel="nofollow">Colombia farmers' strikes spread to cities </a> 3 News   ...Nationwide agricultural strikes are continuing in Colombia after more than a week of ongoing roadblocks, marches and clashes with the police. Protests have grown in size and intensity after the president, Juan Manuel Santos, denied a strike was happening...<br /><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/29/politics/holder-marijuana-laws/" rel="nofollow">No federal challenge to pot legalization in two states</a>  CNN   ...Attorney General Eric Holder, in a conference call Thursday morning, notified the governors of Colorado and Washington that the department, for now, will not seek to pre-empt those states' laws, which followed voters' approval of ballot measures that legalized recreational marijuana use...<br /><a href="http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/nearly-40-top-paid-ceos-bombed-their-jobs-5348" rel="nofollow">Nearly 40% of the Top Paid CEOs Bombed at Their Jobs</a>  Economic Populist   ...Of those 500 who made the Wall Street Journal's top 25 highest paid Chief Executive Officer list, a whopping 38% were utter failures at their jobs...

Today's Teamster News 08.30.13

Illinois Teamsters endorse Pat Quinn for governor  Teamsters Joint Council 25   ...Teamsters Joint Council 25 endorsed Pat Quinn for a seco...

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Fast-food strikes shut down stores, penetrate the South

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgPK1GRhKEhx0lR2oNa4zAYZ7IDVwirOYeZCpor4FsX7u4GhDqcSlDC24VZqQJBfZkvsne-UrQHY2WE_bLRyho4xylcqW0OROT2yCniPSGvYBysTNQqJDf1CJi8Eau1hvY8TZauyQVtS-/s1600/burger+king.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgPK1GRhKEhx0lR2oNa4zAYZ7IDVwirOYeZCpor4FsX7u4GhDqcSlDC24VZqQJBfZkvsne-UrQHY2WE_bLRyho4xylcqW0OROT2yCniPSGvYBysTNQqJDf1CJi8Eau1hvY8TZauyQVtS-/s320/burger+king.png" width="320" /></a></div>Fast-food workers on strike today continue to make history and they are showing their power in real time.<br /><br />In Raleigh, N.C., <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=623536737677047&set=a.591503887546999.1073741828.580610428636345&type=1">Burger King offered to pay employees double to work today</a>. <br /><br />Tell that to those who doubt the effectiveness of striking, and tell that to those who insist fast-food giants can't afford to pay their workers a living wage.<br /><br />Today's national fast-food workers strike has hit 60 cities around the country. <br /><br />And like so many workers in America, Teamsters know that this fight isn't just about fast-food workers - it's about the dignity of all workers. That's why our brothers and sisters at Local 391 were out today <a href="http://www.digtriad.com/news/photo-gallery.aspx?storyid=296911">supporting the fast-food strikers in Greensboro, N.C</a>.<br /><br />Workers have successfully shut down stories in many parts of the country, <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-restaurants-strike-20130828,0,3586222.story">Reuters reports</a>:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The strikes spread quickly across the country and have shut down restaurants in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Raleigh and Seattle, according to organizers.</blockquote>In Madison, Wisc., almost 60 workers and supporters are outside a Dunkin Donuts chanting "$15 and a union! $7.25 has got to go!" Workers in Madison also shut down a Family Dollar story after walking out today.<br /><br />Here's a sampling of reports on Twitter and Facebook to give you a flavor of what's been happening today:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>St. Louis:</em> STL Represent! RT <a href="https://twitter.com/MOJwJ">@MOJwJ</a>: Workers, community leaders just packed this STL <a href="https://twitter.com/McDonalds">@mcdonalds</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23829strike&src=hash">#829strike</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/141YjHt">http://bit.ly/141YjHt </a></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>New York:</em> Fast food workers on strike today at McDonald's near Yankee Stadium in NYC <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23iamfastfood&src=hash">#iamfastfood</a> <a href="http://t.co/4wZu7SJtcO">pic.twitter.com/4wZu7SJtcO</a></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>San Francisco:</em> Workers from 37 East Bay locations (Burger King, McDonald’s, KFC, Wendy’s, Subway, more!) are striking! <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23829strike&src=hash">#829strike</a> <a href="http://t.co/47VsOvZ1B3">pic.twitter.com/47VsOvZ1B3</a></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Boston</em>: Another elected official out supporting workers on the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LowPayIsNotOk/posts/623633707667350"> strike lines in Boston</a>! <a href="http://bit.ly/829nationwide" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a></blockquote><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Indianapolis:</em> RT <a href="https://twitter.com/829StrikeIndy">@829StrikeIndy</a>: Indy on strike! at McDonalds. <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23829strike&src=hash">#829strike</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/fightfor15">@fightfor15</a> <a href="http://bit.ly/17llH3p">http://bit.ly/17llH3p </a></blockquote></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>Houston:</em> "I'm at work more than I see my children, thats why I'm on strike" Burger King worker Luis Ortiz <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23829strike&src=hash">#829strike</a> <a href="http://t.co/LGRMJawPam">pic.twitter.com/LGRMJawPam</a></blockquote></div><div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><em>New York:</em> Clergy, community and workers will not be moved! View of<a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=553240191404308&set=a.435703519824643.99006.430475173680811&type=1"> sit-in at 5th Ave McDonald's in NYC</a> at 6:30am this morning! </blockquote></div><br />We've also just gotten word that Rep. John Lewis is speaking to Atlanta fast-food workers on strike right now.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnbvHMj32X2IAbJLyzqhkOQq3vk3u64WFlwXrpALtM3NCU4-_RG3pawwxM5xIVEyCv2Ul-3HlDdjtBhhmCRU4L-8FY-YZOl7NF8p7l2MRVSXgRUQIGmp0gDHI0ztZWF8MKwwHZSgVUDsu1/s1600/john+lewis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnbvHMj32X2IAbJLyzqhkOQq3vk3u64WFlwXrpALtM3NCU4-_RG3pawwxM5xIVEyCv2Ul-3HlDdjtBhhmCRU4L-8FY-YZOl7NF8p7l2MRVSXgRUQIGmp0gDHI0ztZWF8MKwwHZSgVUDsu1/s320/john+lewis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br />It's hard to overstate just how significant today's events are for fast-food workers and the overall movement among low-wage workers for better pay and rights on the job. Today's strikes are reaching every corner of the country, including the South. <br /><br />Columbia University political science professor Dorian Warren was quoted saying that the inroads the strike movement is making today in the South is "<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-restaurants-strike-20130828,0,3586222.story">a huge, huge deal</a>":<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The South has always been the model for low wage employment, from slavery to the Jim Crow laws, to the present. It's also the most anti-union part of the country, so the fact that workers feel empowered enough to take collective action is enormous.</blockquote><div>The day is far from over for striking fast-food workers who will be protesting into the evening in many cities. <br /><br />We'll soon know more about the full scope and impact of today's strikes. But it's safe to say that the living-wage movement in America has taken a huge step forward with today's walkouts.<br /><br />Way to go, brothers and sisters!  </div>

fast food strikes fight for 15 low wage workers Fast-food strikes shut down stores, penetrate the South

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SYRIAN CONFLICT: LUCRATIVE FOR US DEFENSE INDUSTRY

<h2 class="article-main-title" id="header-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE ONE GRAPH THAT SUMS UP WHY TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON SYRIA </span></span></h2><h2 class="article-main-title" id="header-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;">By Chris Miles via Policymic</span> </span></span></h2><br /><div class="article-photo-container"><img alt="the, one, graph, that, sums, up, why, were, going, to, war, with, syria, " class="photo-image-article-main" height="401" src="http://media1.policymic.com/site/articles/61599/1_photo.jpg" title="the, one, graph, that, sums, up, why, were, going, to, war, with, syria, " width="640" /> <br /><div class="landscape-caption"><br /></div></div><div class="article-photo-container"><br /></div><div class="article-photo-container"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Geopolitical Analysis and Monitoring wrote on 28 Aug 2013:</span></b></span></i></div><div class="article-photo-container"></div><div class="article-photo-container"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"With short surgical missile strikes the USA saves its face by sticking to its threat; mainstream media on the other hand has its action extravaganza, portraying the intervention in an inflated way in order to continue the propaganda-media war which has raged in SYRIA since the beginning of the uprising and <span style="background-color: yellow;">last but not least the weapons industry will also be a benefit, for the uprising in SYRIA</span> will continue for quite some time."</span></i></div><div class="article-photo-container"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Read entire article at:  </span></i></div><div class="article-photo-container"><i><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/us-military-intervention-in-syrian.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/08/us-military-intervention-in-syrian.html</a></i></div><div class="article-photo-container"><br /></div><div class="fb-like fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/PolicyMic" data-send="false" data-show-faces="false" data-width="450"><span style="height: 24px; width: 450px;"></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">If ever there was a sign of the military industrial complex in America, this graph is it.</span></span><br /><br />Reports that the United States is very near to launching an attack against Syria to punish Damascus for the use of chemical weapons sent <span style="color: #cc0000;">Raytheon’s</span> stock price to a 52-week high this week.<br />Who is <span style="color: #cc0000;">Raytheon</span>? The manufacturer of the BGM-109, more commonly known as the Tomahawk missile, the weapon of choice of the Obama administration in any strike against Syria.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Raytheon</span> <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RTN+Interactive#symbol=rtn;range=20130628,20130828;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;" style="line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">stock has surged</a> over the past two months, coinciding with the biggest U.S. military build-up America has mounted since it launched an assault against Libya in 2011.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Raytheon</span> is a Cambridge, Mass.,-based American defense contractor with total employment of 72,400 people. It is the world’s largest manufacturer of guided missiles and produces such widely used weapons as the AIM-7 Sparrow missile, the <a class="kLink" href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2012/02/28/ten-companies-profiting-most-from-war/2/" id="KonaLink4" style="line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank">AIM</a>-9 Sidewinder missile and the BGM-109 Tomahawk. The company is also responsible for the Air Warfare Simulation program used by the Air Force. According to the <a href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2012/02/28/ten-companies-profiting-most-from-war/" target="_blank"><i>Wall Street Journal</i></a>, in 2010, the company had nearly $23 billion in arms sales, more than 90% of its total revenue for the year.<br />The Pentagon buys 196 Tomahawk missiles a year, considered the "minimum sustaining rate" for the U.S. military's arsenal. And there are some key members of Congress who think more should be spent on these weapons.<br />“There are many of us who have been concerned for years about maintaining our missile capabilities,” said Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, to <i>Politico</i>.<br /><span style="color: #cc0000;">Raytheon</span> has delivered 252 missiles this fiscal year and 361 last fiscal year. War with Syria means that there would likely be a future increase in orders for the missiles, which can go for about $1 million a pop. In the 2011 U.S. military adventure into Libya, 124 Tomahawk missiles were fired by U.S. and UK ships against Libyan targets. The Libya campaign would give a comparable bar on how many Tomahawk missiles will be used in a Syrian campaign.<br /><br /><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Supply and demand</b></span><br /><br />The BGM-109 has been used in each of America's official <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_%28missile%29#United_States_Navy" target="_blank">conflicts</a> in the last 22 years. Using wings and a flight system, cruise missiles like the Tomahawk are designed to carry a heavy warhead at subsonic speeds over a significant distance. Originally developed by General Dynamics in the 70s, the 3,500 lb. 20 foot long <a href="http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/tomahawk-long-range-cruise-missile/" target="_blank">Tomahawk missile</a> is now manufactured by Raytheon, a large U.S. defense contractor. Each unit can cost anywhere from the mid-$500,000s to almost $1.5 million, depending on the chosen configuration, payload, and booster deployment. The missile's modular system allows it to carry a conventional or nuclear payload if needed.<br /><br /><a href="http://media2.policymic.com/89037abd2e43fc529ca9bd82fd3309e2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" class="inarticle-image" data-original="http://media2.policymic.com/89037abd2e43fc529ca9bd82fd3309e2.jpg" height="308" src="http://media2.policymic.com/89037abd2e43fc529ca9bd82fd3309e2.jpg" style="display: inline;" width="320" /></a><img class="inarticle-image" data-original="http://media2.policymic.com/bd0f277f4ca022e466192cea2b5fa24f.gif" height="320" src="http://media2.policymic.com/bd0f277f4ca022e466192cea2b5fa24f.gif" style="display: inline;" width="312" /><br /><br /><br />In its budget submission for fiscal 2013, the White House requested 196 Tomahawks, for a total program cost of $320 million. The White House is requesting the same amount next fiscal year, for a cost of $325 million.<br />War is big business, and Syria is paying the bills. <br />Need more proof that companies are profiting off of the recent Syria war mongering?<br />Lockheed Martin — the largest arms-producing and military services company in the world, with nearly $3 billion more in arms sales — saw its stock spike to a six month high on Monday, the <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/61097/the-verdict-on-syria-has-already-been-decided-we-re-going-to-war">day that the war drums with Syria really started</a> beating.<br /><br /><img class="inarticle-image" data-original="http://media2.policymic.com/1c931514c6593aef4731b6e0671069eb.png" height="353" src="http://media2.policymic.com/1c931514c6593aef4731b6e0671069eb.png" style="display: inline;" width="640" />

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 08/30/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/ipad-tips-and-tricks.htm">The Best iPad Tips and Tricks</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">This handy set of tips for the iPad is one to share with students and teachers who are just getting their device. There are many great pointers from arranging apps to syncing and tweaking fonts. I use the autotext feature a lot as it can save time typing long text. Pass it along.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/ipad">ipad</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/tumblr">tumblr</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.downes.ca/post/61045/rd">Definition of MOOC in English</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">One of the co-originators of the term "MOOC" takes issue with the definition as inserted into the Oxford dictionary. I agree with Stephen Downes, the definition as cited is sorely lacking in understanding. Surely definition writers can do better.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/mooc">mooc</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/08/29/states-online-assessments/">How 4 states are gearing up for online assessments</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">As many move to "online assessment" of Common Core - here is my issue. From talking to teachers this summer, the main issue for teachers in schools where kids don't use technology is this. THE ONLY TIME KIDS ARE USING TECHNOLOGY is when they are TESTED. That is it. They say their kids don't even know how to scroll down or click. They say the technology is an encumbrance because it is never used except for the test. For students, the test should be about content not about how the test is administered. To test students online or via computer when they use the computer infrequently is grossly unfair and downright educational malpractice. Now, I do have a word or two for schools who don't have technology but in their defense, some of them are very short on funds and in uber-restrictive districts and states. But if a state is unfriendly to tech for teaching, it shouldn't be the first thing they run to for assessment. Students should be tested in a native environment. If their environment is predominantly paper and they aren't fluent on the computer - test time is not the time to learn hard lessons about how to click and scroll. Don't interpret this to mean that I think we shouldn't all move towards paperless and technology-rich environments - WE SHOULD. But we must be fair to students - how can they show what they know when they don't know how to use the computer used to administer the test. What we're really testing in that case is computer skills, not common core anything.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/assessment">assessment</a></p> </li> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/29/skype-is-working-on-3d-video-calls/?ncid=rss_semi">Skype is working on 3D video call capability, is held back by current technology's limitations</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Not sure why everyone is 3D. While I do think holograms and virtual presence are likely next, I'm not so sure about the type of 3D that is really an optical illusion. It just seems like an intermediate step to me. What is the purpose of 3D -- to make things seem more real. Honestly, seeing my son's face on facetime is more than enough for me -- if I could just get him to take my calls! ;-) </p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/skype">skype</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/innovation">innovation</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

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This One's For Angel

Take it to heart darlin', life is too short.<br />It's OK to take the pain out and look at it once in a while but ya gotta put it back and make new, better memories.<br /><br /> Banish the sonsabitches for good and start living the rest of your life.<br /><br />There's No Need To Suffer Anymore.<br /><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/SgTzdHi5e4c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

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A Quick Guide For Reaching Your Weight Loss Goals

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Beauty Smith</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Losing weight may take some time, but the rewards will be well worth it. The following article will give you advice on how you can get down to your desired weight.<br /> <br /> Water is the drink that is most conducive to weight loss. Other drinks, like soda and coffee have too many calories. Water has zero calories, and can even help you to feel full.<br /> <br /> A good way to help you lose weight is to eat egg whites and discard the yolk. Yolks are high in cholesterol and fat. Egg whites are an awesome source of quality protein.<br /> <br /> Hang out with your active friends more to lose weight more quickly. Surrounding yourself with active people will encourage you to be active as well. Spending time with a couch potato will likely influence you to curl up on the couch with them.<br /> <br /> You will find that of you eat walnuts it will help you lose weight. A study has found that eating walnuts with your breakfast helps you feel full for longer than just eating a regular breakfast. They make wonderful snacks, too.<br /> <br /> Cardiovascular exercise is the key to losing weight, and running in an outdoor setting like the beach will let you workout while taking in a nice view. Sand isn't as forgiving as grass or pavement, so you get a better workout.<br /> <br /> If you are attending an event or a party, eat a good sized meal before you get there. This will prevent you from cracking when you see the cakes and fattening foods offered at the party. Insist on wine as compared to higher calorie alternatives like beer.<br /> <br /> Avocados are a great alternative to some of the fatty snacks out there. Although they do contain a lot of fat, it is unsaturated fat, which is healthy. The richness they offer makes for a very satisfying experience for anyone steering clear of other types of fat. You could make a vegetarian taco, including lots of salad and avocado, and you would not even notice there is no meat involved.<br /> <br /> As this article told you, it is possible to lose weight if you follow through with it. You now hopefully have an abundance of knowledge to begin your weight loss journey so that you can turn into the person you've been desiring to be. It is a matter of mind over matter!<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Try our new Cellulite Treatment and Solutions where you can find the best products at the best prices and by clicking <a href="http://cellulitetreatmentandsolutions.com/">http://cellulitetreatmentandsolutions.com</a>. Shop securely online today!</div><br /> </div><br />

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HP Launched Two Notebooks: EliteBook Revolve 810 and ProBook 430

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hp launched two notebooks in India with the tag of HP EliteBook Revolve 810 and HP ProBook 430. Both devices designed for the professional user and for business purpose. Both devices are running on Windows 8.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elitebook Revolve 810:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AOGIdYOUWJ0/UiBX3yslVbI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/VbtJaIWAK2k/s1600/hp-elitebook-revolve.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="215" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AOGIdYOUWJ0/UiBX3yslVbI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/VbtJaIWAK2k/s1600/hp-elitebook-revolve.jpg" title="Elitebook Revolve 810:" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ndtv.com</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elitebook Revolve 810 have a touch-enabled screen of 11.6-inch with a resolution of 1366-by-768 pixels. You can convert this laptop in to tablet according to your need. The device is powered by third generation Intel Core processor; users have also option to choose a processor in between of Core i5, Core i5 and Corei3 with Turbo Boost Technology.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Laptop has a HD camera of 720p for video conferencing with dual microphone array and DTS Studio sound. The device is preloaded with Intel HD 400 Graphics GPU. It will give you 12GB RAM DDR3L PC3-12800 SDRAM, 1600 MHz with 256GB storage. Notebook has 2 USB 3.0 ports, an Ethernet port, a power connector and a slide docking is available in device. The device is support 3G mobile Broadband network. The body of device is scratchproof and display is made by Gorilla Glass.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Price:  Rs. 90,000.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ProBook 430:</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rRJnhYasJT0/UiBYvYTvOCI/AAAAAAAAARA/fs85rCYoA5E/s1600/hp-probook430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" border="0" height="187" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rRJnhYasJT0/UiBYvYTvOCI/AAAAAAAAARA/fs85rCYoA5E/s1600/hp-probook430.jpg" title="ProBook 430" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">ndtv.com</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The notebook comes with a 13.3-inch HD display. The resolution of screen is 1366-by-768 pixel. The device is powered by fourth generation Intel Dual Core i7, i5, i3 processors with 16 GB RAM and 500GB hard disk. Intel HD Graphics 4400 or 5000 is preloaded, depending on processor. It comes with a HD camera of 720p for video conferencing.   The microphones and studio Sound System is same as Elitebook Revolve 820. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In other features, 2 USB 3.0 ports with a USB 2.0 power port, a HDMI port, microphone input, Ethernet port are also available.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Price: Rs.39,000.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">According to Head Commercial PC Category, PPS, HP India Mr. Sunish Raghavan "Professionals today demand zero-compromise productivity and extreme mobility in a computer, and HP offers the best solution with EliteBook Revolve and ProBook 430. As a sleek and lightweight notebook that also converts to a tablet, the HP EliteBook 810 is designed to revolve around a busy executive's life, and comes with elegant touch computing, enterprise-grade security and military-grade durability."   </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://plus.google.com/100638775997274345522" rel="author">Anil Swami</a></div></div>

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font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif";} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOOcrw_Eg1aQCBmMEfFH8qs_JHgKpHzM3HdaKzLN6HTpFUFmILnbvy8bGYlX2-VgmWR0QBvTbCLT03S0Sch6hyphenhyphenXXY3_itJiYfVGjXl5IwZQJpOyUKrke6VVXDDYouZ3kG2vmpksDddRg/s1600/unfaithfully-yours.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWOOcrw_Eg1aQCBmMEfFH8qs_JHgKpHzM3HdaKzLN6HTpFUFmILnbvy8bGYlX2-VgmWR0QBvTbCLT03S0Sch6hyphenhyphenXXY3_itJiYfVGjXl5IwZQJpOyUKrke6VVXDDYouZ3kG2vmpksDddRg/s1600/unfaithfully-yours.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">When Rex Harrison came to Hollywood in 1945 to make a movie, he was 37 years old, had already been on the stage in England for 22 years and had been making films there since 1930. Orson Welles later claimed it was on his recommendation that Harrison was given his first American role, a part that Welles himself turned down, that of the King in the 1946 production of <i>Anna and the King of Siam</i>. Welles told his friend, director Henry Jaglom, over one of their now famous lunches, “I suggested him. Rex made pictures that only played in England, teacup comedies and things. No one in Hollywood knew who he was.” Welles had refused the role, he said, because he didn’t want to work with Irene Dunne, who had already been cast as Anna. And so, Rex Harrison made his American film debut.</span></span><br /><br /><a name='more'></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTd5V-4uc3NW4g7buI5JCzhZy9rcRELdI24nahbkezkwRxK2GMsFnS7BSRWfwkFHifFDIaV9xdqwKUOsdpiAIiA8eT6a7Wewi2jpcIcJMHKzr0xK64S93ekFiwX8_UKUiedMPNNVZlMM/s1600/anna-and-the-king-of-siam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTd5V-4uc3NW4g7buI5JCzhZy9rcRELdI24nahbkezkwRxK2GMsFnS7BSRWfwkFHifFDIaV9xdqwKUOsdpiAIiA8eT6a7Wewi2jpcIcJMHKzr0xK64S93ekFiwX8_UKUiedMPNNVZlMM/s320/anna-and-the-king-of-siam.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anna and the King of Siam</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">At the time he arrived in Hollywood, Harrison was married to his second wife, German actress Lilli Palmer. She also began making movies in the U.S. and started by co-starring with Gary Cooper in Fritz Lang’s <i>Cloak and Dagger</i>in 1946. Both Mr. and Mrs. Harrison starred in 1947 classics - for Rex, the first and best of his three films for Joseph L. Mankiewicz, <i>The Ghost and Mrs. Muir</i>, with Gene Tierney; for Lilli, Robert Rosen’s <i>Body and Soul</i>, opposite John Garfield. Rex also starred in <i>The Foxes of Harrow</i> in 1947; Lilli would star in <i>My Girl Tisa</i> in 1948. Then came the scandal that ruined Harrison’s personal reputation and may or may not have brought him the nickname “Sexy Rexy.”</span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5nmAgHJNcBLaFSszcfbSL8U31Y_olDLlblmZw10huHFkAQHWLo8KJe-pBJKahO98AZLre43DqwbsUsD3xIy-rFt_XdNKPnIb2E5AV8eHSyPMjFvq6nevjnweXMxhcoPsyVYGrfd25nk/s1600/Lilli+Palmer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_5nmAgHJNcBLaFSszcfbSL8U31Y_olDLlblmZw10huHFkAQHWLo8KJe-pBJKahO98AZLre43DqwbsUsD3xIy-rFt_XdNKPnIb2E5AV8eHSyPMjFvq6nevjnweXMxhcoPsyVYGrfd25nk/s320/Lilli+Palmer.jpg" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Lilli Palmer</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Rex Harrison, it seems, was a ladies’ man. By 1947, he had become involved in a romance with actress Carole Landis. The affair was no secret in Hollywood and was apparently made public by columnist/radio commentator Walter Winchell. On the night of July 4, 1948, after Harrison spent the evening with her at her home, Landis consumed a lethal dose of barbiturates. Ruled a suicide, her death was naturally surrounded by a storm of hearsay and speculation. The rumor mill had it that Landis was despondent because Harrison refused to leave Lilli Palmer and/or because he was soon to depart for New York to star on Broadway in <i>Anne of the Thousand Days</i>. There was even some conjecture that Harrison had murdered the woman and staged the scene to look like suicide.</span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKMY0TWOq_t-bLKZDaXMsGghstYZGazLX3_kjd-I-owzDVNDtLRBA2fjnoxZs7k_p9OIn3GF4xL3LVh5VIiJwwdyg1ZMvfKILmkvD-4P3wgYXyT_ClbLpf8XukhooQTwHhQTXqVGFLHPw/s1600/Carole_Landis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKMY0TWOq_t-bLKZDaXMsGghstYZGazLX3_kjd-I-owzDVNDtLRBA2fjnoxZs7k_p9OIn3GF4xL3LVh5VIiJwwdyg1ZMvfKILmkvD-4P3wgYXyT_ClbLpf8XukhooQTwHhQTXqVGFLHPw/s320/Carole_Landis.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Carole Landis</span></td></tr></tbody></table>A few months before Landis’ death, Harrison had completed production on a film for legendary writer/director Preston Sturges. It would be the one-time wunderkind’s final cinematic gem, a darkest-black comedy titled – perhaps unfortunately – <i>Unfaithfully Yours </i>(1948). The lurid and lingering Landis tragedy would have an impact on the fate of the film. In an attempt to distance it from the scandal, the film’s release date was held up for several months. Additionally, publicity was dialed back - and the marketing campaign changed drastically. It was labeled a murder mystery, it was touted as “six kinds of picture all rolled into one” – confusing and misleading the movie-going public.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Preston Sturges had written a Broadway hit in 1929 and trekked to Hollywood following the play’s adaptation to the screen. He penned several films for Paramount, including <i>Easy Living </i>(1937) and <i>Remember the Night </i>(1940). In 1940 he asked for and was given a chance to direct as well as write. The result was his political sendup, <i>The Great McGinty</i>, a break-out hit that brought Sturges an Oscar for his original screenplay. A string of sly and exhilarating classics written and directed by Preston Sturges followed, namely: <i>The Lady Eve </i>(1941), <i>Sullivan’s Travels </i>(1941), <i>The Palm Beach Story </i>(1942), <i>Hail the Conquering Hero </i>(1944) and <i>The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek </i>(1944). But Paramount had begun to view its genius-in-residence as next-to-impossible to deal with, and relations between the studio and the man soured. When his split from Paramount finally came, Sturges went into partnership with Howard Hughes on California Pictures Corporation for three disastrous years. Sturges and Hughes parted ways in 1947 and the writer/director soon went to work for Darryl F. Zanuck at 20^th Century Fox. Zanuck was interested in a story Sturges had written years earlier titled <i>Matrix</i>. In the end, <i>Matrix </i>was dropped for lack of interest and a treatment of another early Sturges story - he called it <i>The Symphony Story</i> - was picked up instead and retitled…</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjOmLYlFIt9swMPpDFCTLH0xjQjRasi47jOyLZWEG0uZlJU7ABxWPqVSEX98Y_v68EpyZtg4C40uTUfGLHiebSnv5ES039xhb3qHTwM7_Owz6MwbNgZIWQ92DFSrTcFZ5mczWHjAJxkQ/s1600/sturgespreston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibjOmLYlFIt9swMPpDFCTLH0xjQjRasi47jOyLZWEG0uZlJU7ABxWPqVSEX98Y_v68EpyZtg4C40uTUfGLHiebSnv5ES039xhb3qHTwM7_Owz6MwbNgZIWQ92DFSrTcFZ5mczWHjAJxkQ/s320/sturgespreston.jpg" width="281" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Preston Sturges</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Unfaithfully Yours</i> bears most trademark Sturges elements – it moves at a dizzying pace, overflows with clever dialogue, is peopled with assorted (and well-cast) eccentrics and its plot completely confounds audience expectations. But in this case Sturges ventured into especially dark farce…</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The film opens with the return to New York of Sir Alfred de Carter (Harrison), a well-known symphony conductor, who has been in London. He is warmly welcomed by his beautiful young and doting wife, Daphne (Linda Darnell). But soon the mischief begins. It seems that before leaving New York, Sir Alfred had asked his rich but dull brother in law (Rudy Vallee) to keep an eye on Daphne while he was away. The brother in law misinterpreted the request and took it upon himself to hire a private detective to monitor her. And now he has come to deliver the detective’s report. Sir Alfred, initially shocked and outraged at the misunderstanding, eventually manages to read the report and works himself into a frenzy of jealousy and suspicion. While conducting a concert after quarreling with his wife, Sir Alfred begins to fantasize about how to handle what he believes is her infidelity. As he conducts three orchestral pieces, he vividly imagines three different possible scenarios – each played out onscreen. The first fantasy involves murder and a frame-up, in the second Sir Alfred is noble and obliging, in the third he falls victim to his own bravado. When the concert finally comes to an end, Sir Alfred sets out to make one of his fantasies real.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IYFC9k7u_2X-_vjCOCxZ0GRbWKh9TJIkqVVInMXz-LfkWqQ5br7tKpeZRJraZqt_9G9mUgNPFkLc7X8MnqveT8QN5q9Je-yuresrpaheQqAfioqxnhzLqZNSJThNtZqgRxjhlR5lKcU/s1600/unfaithfully-yours2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-IYFC9k7u_2X-_vjCOCxZ0GRbWKh9TJIkqVVInMXz-LfkWqQ5br7tKpeZRJraZqt_9G9mUgNPFkLc7X8MnqveT8QN5q9Je-yuresrpaheQqAfioqxnhzLqZNSJThNtZqgRxjhlR5lKcU/s400/unfaithfully-yours2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Unfaithfully Yours </span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">- fantasy or reality?</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Although Sturges wasn’t entirely happy with the film’s final cut (which came courtesy of Mr. Zanuck), he was pleased with the performances – Rex Harrison executes a superb turn as the temperamental artist/bungling schemer. Sturges was also particularly fond of the fantasy segments. He wrote that he tried to construct the three scenarios envisioned by the conductor “as if written and directed by Sir Alfred, who is neither a writer nor a director.” In his fantasies, the conductor imagines his own behavior “vividly” while the other characters are “marionettelike.” Sturges believed this would be “the natural result of Sir Alfred’s ability to have them say and do <i>exactly </i>what he wants them to say and do.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The film’s themes are dark and, perhaps, for the audience of its time, too much so for “six kinds of picture all rolled into one." Its timing in proximity to the leading man's notorious Hollywood scandal was extremely unlucky. For whatever reason or combination of reasons, <i>Unfaithfully Yours </i>was not a success. In his autobiographical notes Sturges reflected, “<i>Unfaithfully Yours</i> received much critical acclaim and lost a fortune.” That the film failed to find an audience contributed to the steep decline of his increasingly precarious career. He would write and direct only one more Hollywood film (<i>The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend</i> in 1949) and it was a resounding flop.</span></span><br /><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zHjwUYa4nh3RjiM65yGYM49ckWAk1mVpi7MiucZgPFm9rtW1yZb_1hqqE7OaeYMcGzRRZsbI29H1ROixsrQE4Wxfxx2MIxT03GQPofAGwvA514oBXjI9R9pkwgOiM62PSgFy1NTPHco/s1600/My_Fair_Lady.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0zHjwUYa4nh3RjiM65yGYM49ckWAk1mVpi7MiucZgPFm9rtW1yZb_1hqqE7OaeYMcGzRRZsbI29H1ROixsrQE4Wxfxx2MIxT03GQPofAGwvA514oBXjI9R9pkwgOiM62PSgFy1NTPHco/s320/My_Fair_Lady.jpg" width="257" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>My Fair Lady</i>, with Audrey Hepburn</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rex Harrison continued to work steadily and successfully on stage, film – and TV – for the rest of his life. He gained worldwide stardom with his performance in George Cukor’s 1964 film adaptation of <i>My Fair Lady</i>, a long-running Broadway hit in which Harrison originated the role of Henry Higgins and for which he won a Tony Award. For transferring his Henry Higgins from stage to screen, he duly took home an Oscar for Best Actor. Knighted in 1989 at age 81, Sir Rex would, as the producer of <i>The Circle</i>, Harrison’s final Broadway play, put it, very nearly die “with his boots on;” his last stage appearance preceded his death, in 1990 of pancreatic cancer, by only six months.<i> </i>Harrison’s long Hollywood career had brought him two Oscar nominations and one win; his even longer career on Broadway brought him five Tony nominations and three awards as well as a special Drama Desk Award in 1985. He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for film and one for television.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPqs9gJBHiAA8Fd0hEkUSeRlB5RoaRX9upAfVsokljn8YipMVTGgPzlL7K2nTaprjGl5ePLyKwUBQK9DZ9DOKKNt6BvL-kQiyiBwswPJ-7Uc7erkP2TSjPzPQIDF-tVVGtEdecLp4WyQ/s1600/Kay_Kendall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqPqs9gJBHiAA8Fd0hEkUSeRlB5RoaRX9upAfVsokljn8YipMVTGgPzlL7K2nTaprjGl5ePLyKwUBQK9DZ9DOKKNt6BvL-kQiyiBwswPJ-7Uc7erkP2TSjPzPQIDF-tVVGtEdecLp4WyQ/s320/Kay_Kendall.jpg" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Kay Kendall</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Rex Harrison would also continue to be inconstant in his private life. Sandy Sturges, Preston’s widow, recalled walking in New York with her husband and Harrison in the early 1950s. Suddenly and unexpectedly Rex walked away and left them – he’d spied a lovely young thing on the street and simply followed her. His interest in women, Mrs. Sturges recalled, was “not subtle at all.” Harrison’s marriage to Lilli Palmer continued until 1957, when the two divorced so that he could marry his lover, actress Kay Kendall, who was dying of leukemia. He married Welsh-born, Oscar-nominated, Tony-winning actress Rachel Roberts in 1962. That marriage ended in divorce many years later and, it is said, she reacted by drinking ever more heavily and by finally taking her own life. Harrison was married to the ex-Mrs. Richard Harris, Welsh actress/socialite Elizabeth Rees-Williams, for a time, and his 6^th and final wife was Mercia Tinker, to whom he remained married until the end of his life.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-RSHo6S3xnWs8ezJYb-tROmCrDvpCAG4KqawK7iTrh_cUzenYmjV9waXc19X0LEmGxxpsEmzuO1yVDZostDADZEXu5OQoFPwrNugj0lpmn-GCTd7sKmqkl3Mj90MqRvLAjQydLJ4k5Q/s1600/rachel_rex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5-RSHo6S3xnWs8ezJYb-tROmCrDvpCAG4KqawK7iTrh_cUzenYmjV9waXc19X0LEmGxxpsEmzuO1yVDZostDADZEXu5OQoFPwrNugj0lpmn-GCTd7sKmqkl3Mj90MqRvLAjQydLJ4k5Q/s320/rachel_rex.jpg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rachel Roberts and Rex Harrison</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Harrison has garnered much praise for his work on stage and screen, but not much admiration for his conduct out of the limelight. One of his biographers, Nicholas Wapshott (<i>Rex Harrison</i>, 1991) met the actor while doing research for a biography on British director Carol Reed. Wapshott considered Harrison a “technical genius” capable of “effortless delivery of difficult prose.” He noted that the actor didn’t make much visible effort, “he was inescapably Rex in everything - but his understanding of the text meant that he hit every note the first time.” On the other hand, the author found Harrison, in person, “a cad of the first order,” and at first hesitated to take on the biography of a man whose “black-hole egotism meant he could not appreciate the worth of others, particularly other men, and his attitude to his string of wives…and lovers was often hard and heartless.” Wapshott blamed Harrison’s involvement in the Carole Landis scandal for the fact that <i>Unfaithfully Yours </i>“languished for years.” </span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkPHecQmazP4h_wsXN-HHN1FhYoqq_nTtNhY24FJufSP7N6jzQ7nGS_hQCg495i50hatfsh2cAu7wwx7JEOlI3xl4zxXz2eC4thvsha2BWsNapGPCpqEMexK7HPlMuAE5D8saBsX4pTM/s1600/arent_we_all.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQkPHecQmazP4h_wsXN-HHN1FhYoqq_nTtNhY24FJufSP7N6jzQ7nGS_hQCg495i50hatfsh2cAu7wwx7JEOlI3xl4zxXz2eC4thvsha2BWsNapGPCpqEMexK7HPlMuAE5D8saBsX4pTM/s320/arent_we_all.jpg" width="309" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rex Harrison and Claudette Colbert in <i>Aren't We All</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Tony-winning, Oscar-nominated actor Frank Langella admired Rex Harrison’s work extravagantly; “He was my idol. I thought him the most accomplished, technically perfect, and totally believable English actor of his time.” Langella managed to meet Harrison twice. Their first meeting occurred in the early ‘70s at a cocktail reception in the older actor’s honor. Langella encountered his idol in the foyer where he was removing his hat and coat. The young actor put out his hand and began to extend a greeting when Harrison flung both his coat and his wife’s over Langella’s arm, as if he was a servant, and made his entrance into the party. The two met again in 1984 when a friend of Langella’s was appearing in <i>Aren’t We All</i> on Broadway with Harrison and Claudette Colbert. Forgoing dinner with his friend and Miss Colbert (who utterly charmed him) in order to try once more to pay his respects to Harrison, Langella found him in his dressing room and finally delivered his heartfelt homage. The old actor heard him out and dismissed him with, “Thank you. Very kind. I’m afraid I can’t ask you to sit down.” Langella was not amused and would remember that his good friend, Harrison’s 5^th wife, Elizabeth, told him of Rex, “He was the only man I ever knew who would send back the wine at his own dinner table.”</span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4KeE1U9zW4sdQmVrnqOSY2sLWslv_kCSZ1z67RQoSfilrWkYhOCyN0Rswwzw8vIhbIwj6YWUYNmSSUDjTovYDhleMV8NBET_WasjTq0QJlx5dRuxpF_UCZ6dRIL2cEES-DQqfsuR2dxE/s1600/rex_preston.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4KeE1U9zW4sdQmVrnqOSY2sLWslv_kCSZ1z67RQoSfilrWkYhOCyN0Rswwzw8vIhbIwj6YWUYNmSSUDjTovYDhleMV8NBET_WasjTq0QJlx5dRuxpF_UCZ6dRIL2cEES-DQqfsuR2dxE/s1600/rex_preston.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Rex Harrison and Preston Sturges on the set</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">British film critic and historian David Thomson‘s view of Harrison the actor is fairly restrained, seeing in most of his screen roles the personification of the stereotypically empty-headed aristocrat. However, Thomson allows that <i>Unfaithfully Yours </i>is “one of the few films that made use of his grating charm.”</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Harrison is in top form in Sturges’ black-humored classic, adapting with surprising ease to the writer/director’s penchant for slapstick. <i>Unfaithfully Yours</i> airs on Saturday, August 31, at 3:00pm Eastern/noon Pacific, part of TCM’s 2013 <i>Summer Under the Stars</i> tribute to Rex Harrison.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>This is my entry for the <b>2013 TCM Summer Under the Stars Blogathon</b></i> <i>now in progress and hosted by Jill Blake of<span style="color: red;"><a href="http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/"><span style="color: red;">http://sittinonabackyardfence.com/</span></a></span> and Michael Nazarewycz of</i><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://scribehardonfilm.wordpress.com/"><i><span style="color: red;"> http://scribehardonfilm.wordpress.com/</span></i></a></span><i>. Visit their sites for more information and links to participating blogs.</i></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><u>Notes</u>:<i> </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>My Lunches with Orson </i>by Henry Jaglom and Peter Biskind (Metropolitan Books, 2013)<i> </i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges</i> adapted by Sandy Sturges (Simon & Schuster, 1990)<i> </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>The New York Sun</i>, “Unfaithfully Yours, Rex” by Nicholas Wapshott, March 8, 2008<i> </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Dropped Names, a Memoir</i> by Frank Langella (Harper, 2012)<i> </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>The New Biographical Dictionary of Film</i> by David Thomson (Knopf, 2010)</span></span></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Cheeeeeers!!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ufALmikCTz4qX3CzE1e31N2sGKUMrzZwnX9bXFxCHfeBJyrKgdTfBpM4o-bsTnnD-3PLp0ziz_O3pTiOcw8dosZ7WzUN1654uq4Ci8kFl9uUjbwbkHq8q-hA68ByLlVOPbPi_h1odZaG/s1600/Matt+Man+Thoughtful.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ufALmikCTz4qX3CzE1e31N2sGKUMrzZwnX9bXFxCHfeBJyrKgdTfBpM4o-bsTnnD-3PLp0ziz_O3pTiOcw8dosZ7WzUN1654uq4Ci8kFl9uUjbwbkHq8q-hA68ByLlVOPbPi_h1odZaG/s400/Matt+Man+Thoughtful.jpg" width="287" /></a></div><br />Y’know?  Something really not good happened yesterday.  What’s that you ask?<br /><br />I think I may have grown up!!<br /><br />IKR?<br /><br />At the ripe old age of 48 plus, Matt-Man may have hit the mercury mark and as the mercurial metal of time and temperature rises, he says unto himself…<br /><br /><i>“I should really start acting my age…Okay, I should really act like I’m nearly 50...Fuck it, but can I at least have some sense of grown-up decency before I die for Godssakes and go out on top as an adult male, you old man!!?”</i><br /><br />Y’know?  I think about my own demise…I don’t think of it in terms of how it will be regaled like the Lady of Shallot’s boyfriend being sailed down the river in a pine box, but I think that…<br /><br />Considering my family history, I am not long for this world in relative terms of time and space, however, and here is what drives me…<br /><br />I am doing what I want to  do, and dare I say, what I was meant to do.<br /><br />I remember a couple of years ago, my wife, the uber-toxic Janet said to me…<br /><br /><i>“I told Ryno (my son) that if he didn’t he didn’t start getting better grades, he would end up working at a Drive-Thru like Dad.”</i><br /><br />To which I thought to myself…<br /><br /><i>“This is the same woman who when I had a chest tube in me, asked if it would reach to the ATM Machine!!”</i><br /><br />Nonetheless, it hurt my feelings…on both counts.<br /><br />But over the last couple of years, while I used to carry anger toward her, I have chucked it away because really…<br /><br />Can a sane person, really ask a hospital patient with over a gallon of lung funk in his body for money?  No, and a sane, self-described Christian person, doesn’t ask that of him.<br /><br />So?  I just chalk her comments of hatred and belittlement of me up to, well…hurt, anger, and…bipolar craziness.<br /><br />M’eh, I just don’t care anymore about that, and I am done knocking her…although it is quite fun, helps me to vent, and give a little of the same back to her from what I took from her the past thirteen years.<br /><br />Of course, I would never claw her face, push her into the pantry, nor spit in her face like she did me.  What?<br /><br />Anyhoo…<br /><br />Yeah, I was going to start a segment about her on <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sunday‘s Season Four IWS premier</span></a>, but eh, it would just make me mad, and I don’t want that.<br /><br />So instead, I chose to write about it, and now I feel better.<br /><br />I know that this was not the funniest post ever, but maybe now, come Sunday on the IWS Radio Show, I’ll be funnier, because this has really been bothering me, and now?<br /><br />I have let it go…<br /><br /><i>Cheers!!</i><br /><br /><i>Matt-Man</i><br /><br /><a href="mailto:mattmaniws@ymail.com">mattmaniws@ymail.com</a><br /><a href="https://twitter.com/MattMan_IWS" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">@MattMan_IWS</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/mattmaniws" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">My Facebook Page</span></a></div>

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Cheeeeeers!! Y’know?  Something really not good happened yesterday.  What’s that you ask? I think I may have grown up!! IKR? At the ripe old...

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