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From Denny: This has been an interesting week. The State of the Union address by President Obama basically summed up how the Republicans have been screwing over the entire country in every aspect of our lives and how much fun the Republicans have had screwing over Prez Obama at every turn while he continues to be inclusive and gracious to them.
Let's see, then our very own highest court in the land decided toscrew overthe American people by letting loose the floodgates of the greedy Big Business monopolies to fund elections and completely control the politicians elected. Granted, the corrupt basically control most of the politicians, all of the Republicans and far too many of the Democrats.
And the most recent group to get screwed over? The print publishing industry. Those adorable hold-in-your-hand books may soon be no more. Why anyone is shocked is the surprise. Come on; we all grew up on Star Trek and Sy-Fy spin-off shows where they featured hand-held computers and digital books decades before computers were any smaller than a football field, filling whole cavernous rooms like over at NASA. Of course, comparing Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, to God is a bit of a stretch - OK, it's downright creepy. :)
Take a look and chuckle for the day at how the cartoonists responded to this week's news stories:
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From Denny: The outpouring of donations worldwide for the relief of suffering in Haiti following a 7.0 devastating earthquake is incredible. The following are a list of 67 well-known established charities to which you can donate safely.
The Mobile Giving Foundation has received over $30 million in text pledges from cell phone donors the past two weeks. Even the Pew Research Center was well impressed and threw out some statistics:
14% donated by text message 12% donated by phone 23% donated via the web 5% donated via email 39% donated in person via a church or other group
Here's something I doubt any of us thought about when we donated by text message or phone: how long will it take for the phone companies to send out that donation? Turns out it can take from 30, even up to 60 days to transfer customers' contributions, which is then added to the mobile phone bills.
The biggest carriers like Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile have all decided to expedite those donations.
Here's each company's status:
Verizon Wireless: Last Friday, 22 January, they transferred $2.98 million. Today, 28 January, they transferred $4.84 million. Jeffrey Nelson declared the campaign "the largest outpouring of charitable support by texting in history — by far. In all of 2009, all mobile giving (via texting) to all charities totaled just under $4 million for the year."
AT&T: Donations are up to $10 million. The company says they will "advance payment of verified texted donations" to the Red Cross.
Sprint: Donations so far are $3.1 million. By Friday, 29 January, they will advance 80% of the donations with the remaining 20% placed into the usual 30 to 90 day settlement cycle.
T-Mobile: They are working hard to expedite on a weekly basis.
"HAITI" 90999 American Red Cross $10 "QUAKE" 20222 Clinton Bush Haiti Fund $10 "GIVE" 25383 MTV telethon $10 "HAITI" 25383 International Rescue Committee $5 "HAITI" 85944 International Medical Corps $10
"YELE" 501501 Yele Haiti foundation $5 "HAITI" 52000 The Salvation Army $10 "HOPE10" or "UNICEF" 20222 UNICEF $10 "HABITAT" 25383 Habitat for Humanity $10 "OXFAM" 25383 Oxfam America, Inc $10
"HAITI" 40579 National Religious Broadcasters $10 "SAVE" or "SAFE" 20222 Save the Children Federation $10 "GIVE" or "WORLD" 20222 World Vision, Inc $10 "CARE" 24383 CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc) $10 "AJWS" 25383 American Jewish World Service $10
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From Denny: A few years before the disaster struck in Haiti, American Brad Johnson decided to move there and help the people in his parents' ongoing Christian mission to Haiti. He was in a unique position to help after the earthquake as he already had an established school, an orphanage and a medical clinic operating, along with plenty of supplies. His mission is just outside of Port-au-Prince. He is busy distributing supplies to survivors and has been within hours of when the disaster hit.
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From Denny: This is so funny, mainly because the lampooning Italians have us accurately nailed to the wall. If you have ever wondered what Americans sound like to others who speak different languages you will laugh at this. An Italian singer decided to write a song with nothing but gibberish to sound like it was intelligible English. Of course, the funniest thing of all is that often today's music sounds unintelligible to us as well! :) But hey, pop music is really all about the beat that makes you want to dance and have fun! ("That's my story and I'm sticking to it!" as the saying goes in America...) I guess Americans can remind themselves of the other saying: "Imitation is the greatest form of flattery." Anyway, you look at it, this little musical spoof is great fun!
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* When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. - Marcel Achard
* Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. - Euripides
* I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson
* I've been on a calendar, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe
* Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. -Robert Frost
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From Denny: You knew it was going to come at us full tilt - cartoonists lampooning the airport body scan debate. Tiger Woods got lucky in this week's news cycle.
Then there are those retiring politicians on both sides of the aisle like Senator Chris Dodd. People were happy with him until he was an advocate of the odious bailout monies for Wall Street, killing his popularity and trust with the people. He had done a lot of good in his many years of office but this was a serious political miscalculation.
Cartoonists - and the public - are still asking the age old question: Hey, old boys club, where's the change you've been promising the voters? Sure looks like business as usual at Capitol Hill. Yet another athlete disappoints those who were foolish enough to put him on a pedestal in the first place. Wall Street is as cavalier as ever with everyone else but their self-absorbed selves.
Old Rush took another hit for wanting attention so badly he faked a heart attack. Guess his bloated ego just couldn't stand it that the news world tilted to Hawaii while the President was trying to have some semblance of a vacation from the fools in Washington. The CIA took it on the chin, absorbing all the intelligence criticism, when the reality is there are a good deal more agencies involved who did not do their part properly "so easy a caveman could do it." (GEICO ad, how appropos since GEICO started out as a government insurance agency.)
Take a look at this week's funny roundup and enjoy!
Link Latte 285
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To Scale! The Solar System - [one of the best videos]
The Hardest Gear In The World That Will Take Forever to Spin - [wow video]
Welcome to Scuba K...
Refgrunt 4/15/22
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I'm sitting at the Greeter Desk by the door. I either say "bye, have a
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morning omen
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You know how when you use the last of the gallon of milk for your bowl of
cereal? And then you pour your second bowl of cereal and the Fruit Loops
get a li...
To Peddle a Story
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Update:
I just updated Where's My Book? for the first time since creating the page.
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What's Wrong With What's Right?
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What's wrong with what's right? Well…let me tell you a story: Awhile ago I
was posting #whatsright photos on Instagram (and sometimes Facebook) often,
as r...
Cabbie recalls
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Being a cab driver in Calcutta, or India as a whole, isn't an easy job.
Underrated, yes, but definitely not the easiest. There's the navigating
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30/30 Poetic Vision Day: Nisa Kinsley
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Inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, *National Poetry
Month *is now held every April, when schools, publishers, libraries,
booksellers, an...
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*Seurat? Seurat, Dept.*
I was fortunate enough to see last night's performance of this sold-out
revival of a Sondheim favorite *Sunday in the Park with G...
Thalia Definsky Cady, 1950 - 2013
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*It is with sadness that we enter this blog entry. Thalia, the author of
this blog, died on May 7, 2013. The project described below is still in
progress, ...
Walking on the Wing of a Whim
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My neighborhood looked like a ghost town.
As far as I could see down the block, the driveways were empty of
cars. I had already been walking abo...
washed stones: a new space to write
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would not change a thing. It has been rich here, interacting with friends.
How ...
I perceive the world as a playground .....
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*I perceive the world as a playground*
*Where dawn and dusk appear in eternal roundsIn His Universal form is a
plaything the throne...
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i love that every time i return to this blog, the recent post has something
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Culo Evans 1997-2010 - That's All Folks
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I met Culo, then known as Jack, at the old Humane Society Silicon Valley in
Santa Clara, CA, summer 1997.
December 5, 1997, almost 1 year
October 23, ...
Peace in Odd Places
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Peace, originally uploaded by OC Always.
Sometimes you find Peace in the oddest places...OC Always found this one in
an abandoned Drive In theater...Peac...
Art and Travel - February 9, 2010 edition
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Welcome to the February 9, 2010 edition #1 of Art and Travel.
Travel
*MatthewPaulson* presents Stop Wasting Time Shopping For Online Airfare
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Good-Bye Blog World
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After a year of having this blog, I've decided to close down operations. I
just don't see the point of having a blog anymore. Perhaps, I'm having a
mid-lif...
City Hall and City Hall Park
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There's a enormous building with a big, gold figurine right next to City
Hall Park.
Many people consider that to be City Hall. On the contrary: that's the ...
Thoughts While Reading Swiss Family Robinson
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I'm mostly able not to read this through the prism of chronic pain &
fatigue, but it's not easy. So many instances I stop and just think, how
would I surv...
Moving day at Read Street
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The Baltimore Sun is shifting the platform for its blogs, so Read Street is
moving to a new address:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/books/read-street...
How to Lead Others Through Mattering
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However you define your role as a leader, it is essential to understand how
your choices impact others. As entrepreneurs, we are all leaders by
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Top Cell Phone Plans 67
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*Verizon Shared Data 5 GB:* Verizon’s Shared Data 5 GB plan starts at $65
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This Blog Is No Longer Active
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Effective July 29, 2018, this blog is no longer active.
Previous posts have not been deleted and may be searched with the search
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Giving It Up--Sort of
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I let it happen again. I start thinking about things and then one thing
lead to another, and well, we all know how I am about *things*.
It started out with...
Have Fun, Do Good Has Moved to brittbravo.com
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Hello Have Fun, Do Good Readers!
After almost 10 years of writing Have Fun, Do Good on the Blogger.com
platform, I've decided to integrate it into my Big V...
The Best Grammar Blog for Useful Grammar Links
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The English You Need Blog has won a prize: "The Best Grammar Blog of 2011
for Useful Grammar Links".
[image: The Best Grammar Blog of 2011 for Useful Gramm...
"The Window" Moving to New Location!
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This blog, "The Window," is *moving to a new site*:
http://blog.clerestorylearning.com/.
This will be the *final post at this site*.
If you signed up to r...
Mathematics Bloggers
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Today I saw a great collection of Mathematics bloggers. All of them not to
miss type. Mathematics teachers/educators are using different
techniques/tools/m...
In Nature...
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... nothing, stands alone...
... because nothing, is created from fractions.
*" that's why "*
Zero is the something, that nothing is said to be...
how...
How I Learned to Surf
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*author’s note:*
I believe without question: there's a part of me that knows exactly what I
need to do.
*HOW I LEARNED TO SURF*
Years ago
I felt my leg...
The Gift of Entropy
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This is a new piece that incorporates a 'similar triangles' structure.
The GiftThe work’s main image displays a biblical reference to the Garden
of Eden do...
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*After A Day*
After a day of atonement we’re freed of all guilt we’d
believe came to pass, tho we are refused seeing any
change - its as if it is mea...
On disappearance and selfishness
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*She went after her dog*
*Nearly dusk*
*“Luna! Come to mum!”*
*Hours gone*
*Despair grown*
*Nowhere to be found*
*Never seen again*
*The dog up at d...
The Secret
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*You are the secret my heart holds*
* silently, quietly, gleefully. *
* When life erupts around me *
* or turbulent skies loom, *
* I take you out and ...
The ActivateNow Store Is Open!
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EXCITING NEWS! We have launched the ActivateNow store! We have T-Shirts,
Buttons, Coffee Mugs, Stickers and more! Free shipping on all orders while
supp...
Sunday morning pleasures
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Our regular Sunday mornings are great. We get up a little later than
during the week, get ready at a comfortable pace, and head out the door in
plenty o...
CHILDHOOD AT THE SHORE
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There’s a boy at the water’s edge,
laughing and splashing, wet sand
smeared on his face, chest, arms
having the time of his life, no doubt-
is what we alway...
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Upwards
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From the mountain’s base he gazed
Upwards towards the summit,
A foreshadow of the climb to follow.
He began to scale the silver rock—
The slithering trail ...
Every Flower Is The Rose
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Lovers jump into bed without thinking. That's the only way it can be done.
A cup that was spilling over still wanted more.
We all talk to ourselves. Thos...
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Hello everyone who follows David King (My Father). On behalf of the family
this post is to let you know that Dad sadly passed away, peacefully, on
Friday 4...
From a Summit High
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From a Summit High
The beauty of a dream, is how it can come true,
Everything we want, we can have, if we want to.
Just set your sights upon, the thing...
Under Reconstruction.. New Facelift Coming Soon..
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Another Awakening
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In an ecstasy of madness I broke my chains it took many years before I
realized what I had done A shadow, cast by moonlight, alerted me to my
freedom I wan...
Thanks
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Friends,
After much thought I’ve decided to suspend this blog. I will leave what is
here for the rest of the year so you might read the poetry I’ve posted ...
New Perceptions
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*New Perceptions*
*My life today is from decisions once made*
*Resentment and Rejection has been long over-played*
*The secret to life, I've yet to fin...
New Blog - December 09, 2010
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Thank you to everyone who has
followed this blog. I now have a new
one that can be located at
http://www.changefulstormpoetry.blogspot.com
Neva Flores
The Fence
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Today was a big day
momentous in fact
Today we finished the fence
5' tall horse fencing, wooden posts
It looks great
in a country sort of a way
For the fini...
Tonight
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Tonight, let your substance ascend
establish my dreams with flesh
let your kisses travel distances and oceans
swallowing fresh my glances with your legs o...
Screenwriting 101: Wentworth Miller
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“The one question I will ask myself as I’m re-reading a script for the 60th
time is, ‘Am I entertained? Still?’ If the answer is ‘yes,’ I’ll assume
other p...
We've Moved
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Hello all, Living a Life of Writing has moved, so please set your bookmarks
and other links to http://livingalifeofwriting.com See you there.
Goodbye and Hello
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Seven years ago this month I started this blog and wrote my first post. My
goal was to tell other writers about the opportunity that booklets present.
I’...
A Letter to Wired Magazine
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Dear Editors: You published in your February, 2012 issue a piece titled
“Use Your Own Words”. In fact, you chose to make it the first article in
the magazi...
Web Writing and SEO – How to Combine the Two…
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The world of search engine optimization (SEO) can seem like a mystery to
some people. Whilst there are many guidelines out there that can teach you
the bas...
Okay, I Give: I'm out of the Bang
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I wanted to do this Dragon Age Bang, I did. But it's now been a full four
weeks since the last update on the group page and the deadline to post
anonymous ...
Creative writing is for everybody
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As Writopia Lab continues to grow in Westchester, our partnerships with
local libraries, schools, and bookshops remain crucial to how our writing
community...
My First App
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*I have a dilemma regarding ebook publishing. I am a seasoned graphic
designer/illustrator trying to break into the kidlit industry with an
author/illust...
support...
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a foundation
of support.
Today, I am aware of support....from family...from friends...from virtual
strangers...
7 Ways Goal Setting Can Fail
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*People are not lazy.*
*They simply have impotent goals*
*— goals that do not inspire them.*
* — Anthony Robbins*
A common complaint of po...
What Bag to Wear in Paris
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American celebrities like to carry whatever *Parisian IT $$$$$ bag* is IN.
According to *Vogue, ‘There’s a certain cool girl look’ Parisians have down
pat...
Summer in New Zealand
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Wywiad z Ryszardem Pawłowskim
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Opublikowano 12 marca 2016 przez Bartek Legenda polskiego i światowego
himalaizmu. Człowiek znany z niesamowitej wytrzymałości i determinacji w
dążeniu do ...
Auckland New Zealand
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When we were in New Zealand a few years ago we rode the Shotover Jet. It
was exciting to say the least! the boat drivers are maniacs. Anyway, we
survi...