My two…

Claire, great article, interesting how dubya was into everything unsavory and is so religious at the same time.

Mischa/Tina/anybody, again I missed something – who the f is Brad? Pitt is the only one worth mentioning but I have no idea who this one is – ???

Anonymous, yes I researched and wrote about Blackwater and its doings last year on my blog, unbelievable isn’t it? It’s even deeper than you think…you seem a titch like Anonz in basic tone but that may be my own wishful thinking once again. : )

Laura, your last line had me laughing right out loud, thanks for that…although no gun power kin the sack = less fun for you, hope you have your own ways to remedy that sitch.

#16 gen info, how about the south of France, Italy’s Amalfi Coast (Italy’s Tuscany and Umbrian regions as well) and Da Nang, Viet Nam are also excellent places to live out the rest of your life, the US is kind of boring, especially a few of the places listed. #22 gen info – yeah paying bills as you go along sounds like a groovy way to live if you always have bucks in your account, many people don’t at this point in time.

On that note, I need to go dress a woman in the valey, she’s got a hot little body also, wish me luck : )

Luv, Zen Lill

That may have been too much information. My wife likes the ladies. She is very attractive. She is 5’10″ 124lbs, blonde and green eyed.

We have been married for 12 years. She is 32 and I am 41. We have no children but two cats and one dog. I am a products liability attorney. Ellen is a trust fund child.

She’s been “earning” at least $50K a month since she was 18. No, I didn’t marry her for her money, It was her body that hooked me. Later i fell in love with the personality that makes her so unique.

Her father approved of our union because we are both from old money. We were at her 20th birthday party when I proposed.

We were three years into our marriage when she confessed that she was bisexual. At first I was a bit angry, perhaps because I felt threatened.

But nine years later and countless honeys have mellowed me. She has excellent tastes. We frequently attend the Supper Club. Let’s make it a date.

And Michelle bring Doug I’ve been known to sample tight ass. Yes, I’m bisexual also.

Ted

Leo Babauta

It’s amazing how people let the simple, predictable chore of paying monthly bills create so much stress, with paperwork getting lost, deadlines being missed and mad dashes to the post office.

I used to think that waiting to pay all my bills once a month was efficient and financially advantageous, since it allowed my money to sit in an interest-bearing account a bit longer each month.

Reality: Whenever you create such a “system” to simplify your life, it’s important to do what’s easiest in practice, not theory.

For me, the longer a bill sits around, the easier it is to forget about or lose. And just one late-payment penalty can negate several years of extra interest you might earn by waiting until the last minute to pay.

So now, I keep my checkbook and stamps handy and pay each new bill with the next day’s mail. It’s quick and easy — and there’s never any stress.

Bottom Line/Retirement interviewed Leo Babauta, author of The Power of Less (Hyperion). He created and runs the popular Internet blog ZenHabits (www.zenhabits.net), which has more than 137,000 subscribers and two million visitors a month.

Time magazine selected the blog as one of the 25 best of 2009. Babauta lives with his wife and six children in Guam.

Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays.

These excerpts are published each year for their amusement.

Here are last year’s winners…

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field  toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m., at a speed of 35 mph.

Of course this is a lie. What business do you know that wants competition?
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GTA TeleGuam Welcomes Competition in Guam

By Mini Swamy
TMCnet Contributor
 
A joint statement was issued by the governors of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, CNMI in short, and GTA (News – Alert) TeleGuam issued a statement in response.

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Appreciative of the swift support of Guam Legislature to safeguard the will of the people, Daniel J. Tydingco, executive vice president of external affairs for GTA TeleGuam, said,

‘GTA TeleGuam salutes the Guam Legislature for recommending safeguards for protecting the competitive landscape on Guam and reaffirming the policy that they, the Governor and community took five years ago with privatization.”

Tydingco continued and added that consumers and businesses would be best served by preserving the competitive landscape that was already in place.

This was the intention of privatization five years ago and currently, it still remains the will of the people.

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Talking about the different markets in Guam and CNMI, Tydingco indicated that their respective needs were different, and this was reflected in the availability and cost of services at both locations.

Strong competition in Guam was responsible for declining rates , accelerated innovation and improvement in overall service.

This was in stark contrast to the situation in CNMI, where a basic T_1 connection between Guam and CNMI cost $6,000, which was the cost for 100 times this bandwidth on a connection from Guam to the United States.

Tydingco re-iterated the fact that neither GTA TeleGuam nor the Guam legislature had questioned the use of funds that were earmarked for CNMI or Saipan, where need was apparent.

GTA TeleGuam had no hesitation or reservation in supporting CNMI, but what CNMI could do was ask NTIA to sever their needs from those of Guam.

“We would strongly encourage this so competition can also flourish in CNMI without adverse impact to Guam’s thriving landscape,” said Tydingco.

GTA TeleGuam provides complete communications services on Guam. These include local and long distance telephone service, 3G wireless, DSL Internet access, and IPTV (News – Alert).

It also operates a data center or offering business data storage and managed wide area networking.

Mini Swamy is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Erin Harrison

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I suppose they think we are just the stupid customer.

Peter