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By all Means... MARRY!
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I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry.
That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.
David Bissonette

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.
Hemant Joshi

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
Dumas

The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want?
Sigmund Freud

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
Anonymous

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."
Henny Youngman

"I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years."
Sam Kinison

"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage."
James Holt McGavran

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't."
Patrick Murray

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming
1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
2. Whenever you're right, shut up.
Nash

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once..
Anonymous

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
Henny Youngman

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
Rodney Dangerfield

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
Milton Berle

Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
Anonymous

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."
Anonymous

First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!"
Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive."

September 29, 2008 | 5:07 AM Comments  2 comments

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Barack and Sarah: Yes, We Kenya!
Related to country: Kenya

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Big Oil. Trial Lawyers. The NRA. Lobbyists. I'm not really concerned about any of them. What I do find striking is the unprecedented influence of Kenya in this year's presidential election.

Readers of this blog know that I have long been fascinated by the East African nation and former British colony.

It was Kenya, of course, that the young Princess Elizabeth was visiting in 1952 when her father King George VI died in London. Elizabeth was staying at the famed Treetops Hotel (essentially a five-star treehouse) when she received the news that her beloved father had passed on, making her Queen. Indeed it was said she "went up a princess and came down a Queen."

I oftentimes imagine myself as a bellhop at the Treetops hotel, on duty at the time of Elizabeth's visit and tasked by the hotel's manager with delivering the news. (It's not the kind of information you convey with a call from the Front Desk.) Would I climb the tree and pin a note to the branch outside her window? Or would I clear my throat from the bottom of the Queen's tree to get her attention, then discreetly deliver the news? Perhaps I would blow into a conch?

Of course the news was a double whammy: her father had died, yes, but she was now Queen. So maybe this called for the classic "I've-got-some-good-news-and-some-bad-news" approach:

"Bad news first, Princess. Your father is dead. I'm deeply deeply sorry." (Wait a beat.) "But on the bright side, you now get to be Queen!"

As a child I used to gaze at the pictures of a cosmopolitan Nairobi in the 1974 World Book encyclopedia. (My mother still has the set in the house where I grew up. I feel badly for kids that don't have the giant set of encyclopedia spanning the shelf in their family room.) Everyone was impossibly chic, long lithe figures sashaying down the left side of the city's main thoroughfare. Drenched in sunlight but never breaking a sweat.

I did wonder why Kenya had so many long distance runners but so few world-class sprinters. (Conversely I've always understood why Jamaica, Kenya's track-and-field opposite, has so many great sprinters: Jamaica is simply too small and densely populated for long distance running. One would become nauseated constantly running in tiny circles.)

Suffice it to say, Kenya existed primarily in my dream-life. But now Kenya has become a reality. A campaign '08 reality.

First there's the conspicuous absence of Barack Obama's father, the globe-trotting grad school student Barack Obama, Sr. That very absence, the candidate has said, shaped and strengthened him.

(How can I put this delicately? That the candidate's Kenyan father is "unavailable" for comment might not be such a bad thing for the Obama campaign. It's not just the questions over the father's religious beliefs – questions which have unfairly cast a shadow over the son. For Barack Sr., "study abroad" apparently meant "study a broad" – or was it "studly abroad"? -- traveling from continent to continent on scholarship and fathering his own Model UN along the way. Grad school is a dreary slog for most people. Not for Barack, Sr.)

His father's restlessness aside, Kenya has loomed large in Barack Jr.'s political identity. The candidate describes himself as a "citizen of the world." No doubt Barack's late mother, the intrepid Ann Dunham, was the main influence. But his Kenyan relatives, including his irrepressible Granny Sarah, are key.

And now comes word – and YouTube evidence – of Sarah Palin's consultation with wacky witchdoctor and Kenyan Thomas Muthee, only months before she filed to run for governor of Alaska:

The most controversial line of the video: Muthee's prayer to "make her way my God. Bring finances her way even for the campaign in the name of Jesus. ... Use her to turn this nation the other way around."

Naturally the soliciting of campaign contributions in Jesus' name raises all sorts of thorny issues:

Did Palin list Jesus as a donor? Under Federal election law, this is mandated.
If so, did Jesus observe the $2300 hard money limit established by McCain-Feingold? Or did He contribute through a PAC, in which case the limit would be $5000? A violation of either limit would be ironic, considering the law's co-sponsor!

(Of course Jesus could create a 527 and give unlimited money for the production of issue ads. Those ads may not endorse a specific candidate, though they may criticize an opponent. Hence the legality of the swift boat ads in 2004.)

So what do you think of Kenya's role in the 2008 election? Is it troubling? Or cool and refreshing?!

September 29, 2008 | 4:43 AM Comments  2 comments

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BE CAUTIOUS - EVENT SCAMS!
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Hi People,

I received this e-mail in my TIG inbox from a user using the user name gcwyo and both names are GLOBAL YOUTH from USA.
Many scams invite people to register for a youth conference and are meant only to collect registration fees. Please be aware and only pay fees when you are certain it is a legitimate even. Common schemes include events taking place in both Guinea-Bissau or other country and the USA.
These may be scams:
>The International Conference on Racism and Child Abuse, in the USA and Napoli.
>World Conference Against Racism and Discrimination, in Washington D.C, USA and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
>Global Change World Youth Organization in Dakar and New York City.

The email i received:

GLOBAL CHANGE WORLD YOUTH ORG.
No 157 West 47th
Street New York,
NY 10036
UNITED STATE OF AMERICA
TELE-+1-206-888-4105
FAX-+1-610-885-5827


CONFERENCE/INVITATION
Dear Friend,
My name is Madam Williams Beauty, working with (GLOBAL CHANGE WORLD YOUTH ORG)
New York, U.S.A. We are organizing a global youths combined conferences taking place from
OCT 5TH-8th 2008 at Johnstown NEW YORK in the United States and in, Dakar Senegal from
12TH-15TH OCT 2008.
In our request to invite people from various countries around the world,
If you are interested to participate and want to represent your country,
you may contact the secretariat of the organizing committee for details and information.
I believe that we may have the opportunity to meet if you may be willing to participate in
this event.
You can also inform youths & NGOs in your country about these conferences.
The benevolent donors of the Organizing Committee will provide round trip air tickets
and accommodation for the period of participants Stay in the U.S.A,
to all registered participants. All Delegates and Participants will be responsible only for
their hotel Booking where the second phase of the Conference will be held in Dakar Senegal
If you are a holder of an international passport that may require visa to
enter the United States you may inform the conference secretariat at the time of
registration, as the organizing committee is responsible for all visa arrangements
and travel assistances. Below is the contact address of the conference secretariat:
By +1 (206) 888-4105 OR
by Fax +1 (712)-(403-4963)
emails:
globalrevolution@newyork.usa.com
OR
globalchanga@africamail.com

Thanks
Yours Sincerely,
Madam Williams Beauty,
GCWO Secretary General