I saw this in some blog...

1. At least 2 people in this world love you so much they would die for you.
2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.
3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.
4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.
5. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean the world to someone.
7. If not for you, someone may not be living.
8. You are special and unique.
9. Someone that you don't even know exists, loves you.
10. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
11. When you think the world has turned its back on you, take a look: you most likely turned your back on the world.
12. When you think you have no chance of getting what you want, you probably won't get it, but if you believe in yourself, probably, sooner or later, you will get it.
13. Always remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.
14. Always tell someone how you feel about them; you will feel much better when they know.
15 If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great.

*** Well, it's a nice thought but I will be honest here and see if they apply to me.
1. Nope. No one would die for me. There are a couple of people I would lay down my life for.
2. In my case 10 tops.
3. I am pretty hateable by most people for being arrogant and a know it all.
4. I rarely smile and when I do it's not that miraculous to all the world.
5. Praying for my death maybe!!
6. If I mean the world to you raise your hand. Anyone?!?! Anyone?!?!
7. I did save this girl and her baby's life one time. I doubt she ever thinks about it though!
8. OkayI am unique!!! So there is half of one that is true!!!
9. Ummmmmm no.
10. Well, everything you do is done for a purpose to get you toward your destiny. So I will admit to that one.
11. Okay that one is partially true also.
12. And another one I agree with!
13. I try and put aside the negative but the positives are too few and far between.
14. True, but you open yourself up for some heartbreak in certain occasions.
15. Absolutely!!! Never let anyone feel unwanted!!!

So that's 5 plus two half truths so six all together. They are definitely not 100% true!!

Update Friday

Well, GLoria called a while ago and I haven't returned the call. She called from her new cell phone, so she is making an effort to get to me. I may rethink my position.

Moons over Maryland?

By Ernesto Londoo

Updated: 9:59 a.m. ET Jan. 4, 2006
WASHINGTON - Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland.

"If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge.

Debelius made clear his disdain for the defendant, calling the alleged act "disgusting" and "demeaning." The outcome could have been different, he suggested, if the man had been on trial for "being a jerk."

The case arose from a June 7 argument between the defendant, Raymond Hugh McNealy, 44, and a neighbor, Nanette Vonfeldt. Vonfeldt pressed charges against McNealy after he allegedly yelled and, according to Vonfeldt, threatened to "blow up my building" as she and her 8-year-old daughter walked out of their apartment, in the 20200 block of Shipley Terrace in Germantown.

Then, for whatever reason, in full view of my daughter, he mooned us," Vonfeldt wrote in a court document. The two had a long-standing feud over issues before their homeowners association, which held a heated meeting the night before, McNealy's attorneys said. McNealy wanted Vonfeldt off the association's board, his attorneys said.

The case went to trial Sept. 12 before Montgomery District Court Judge Eugene Wolfe, who ruled against the defendant. Indecent exposure in Maryland is punishable by as much as three years in prison and a $1,000 fine.

The artist known as Hoppy...

p>BAKER, Calif. (AP) - An artist who chained his legs together to draw a picture of the image hopped 12 hours through the desert after realizing he lost the key and couldn't unlock the restraints, authorities said Wednesday.

Trevor Corneliusien, 26, tightly wrapped and locked a long, thick chain around his bare ankles Tuesday while camping in an abandoned mine shaft about five miles north of Baker, San Bernardino County sheriff's Deputy Ryan Ford said.

"It took him over 12 hours because he had to hop through boulders and sand," Ford said. "He did put on his shoes before hopping."

The artist, who is from the area, often sketched images inside mines in the Southwest. He had finished his drawing Tuesday when he realized he didn't have the key.

Corneliusien finally made it to a gas station and called the sheriff's department, which sent paramedics and deputies with bolt cutters. His legs were bruised but he was otherwise in good health, Ford said.

The artist did not have a listed phone number and could not be reached for comment.

And the drawing?

"He brought it down with him," Ford said. "It was a pretty good depiction of how a chain would look wrapped around your legs."

It sounds like a bad movie...

ORLANDO, Fla. - Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year's party.

Paul Camporini brought his wife, seventh-grade daughter and eighth-grade son from Safety Harbor and said he had to "delicately explain to my Catholic school children that swingers change partners during the evening."

"My biggest gripe is that the hotel had two distinctly different groups under the same roof," said Camporini, 49. "A soccer team and middle-aged swingers should not have been booked together."

The families said the sexually adventurous partygoers sometimes flashed breasts and bare buttocks in front of the children as they sashayed through the hotel atrium. The parents described the dress at the Crowne Plaza Hotel-Airport in Orlando as "raunchy, despicable and worse than prostitutes."

"We thought we were coming to Orlando, not the Las Vegas Strip," said Mark Gilbert, the father of a boy who plays on the Clearwater Chargers, a group of 13-and-under players from Florida.

The teams booked the $92-a-night rooms for Disney's Soccer Showcase, and said hotel management did not tell them about the swingers' party or try to keep the partygoers away from the children.

Managers of the hotel, which is owned by Columbia Sussex Corp., did not immediately return a telephone message Tuesday.

InterContinental Hotels Group, which owns the Crowne Plaza corporate brand, said in a statement to the Orlando Sentinel that it "does not endorse or approve such reported activities in public areas of Crowne Plaza hotels. (InterContinental) has been in contact with the hotel owner and management and is actively reviewing the situation."

All the swingers had checked out of the hotel by late Sunday.

"We're not prudes by any means," said Rob Young of Greenville, S.C., who said his two daughters, Leah, 13 and Lauren, 11, asked questions he struggled to answer. "We would have liked to have been informed when we checked into the hotel so we could have made other arrangements.

"The kids could see through the glass atrium into the ballroom where naked people were dancing. There were exposed breasts, thongs and see-through dresses on women who were not wearing any underwear."

Young said he complained to hotel management and to John Hollis, an off-duty Orlando police officer hired by the hotel for a New Year's Eve security detail. He said neither did anything to help.

Lt. John Mina, a watch commander for the Orlando Police Department, said Hollis didn't witness anything illegal.

Priorites?!?! What priorities?!?!?!

MANTECA, California (AP) -- A husband and wife -- who found a dog sitter for their new puppies but left their 9-year-old son home to care for his younger autistic brother while they celebrated the new year in Las Vegas -- were arrested Wednesday, police said.

Jacob Calero and his wife, Michelle De la Vega, left Calero's sons -- Joshua, 9, and Jason, 5 -- at their San Ramon home early Friday while the newlyweds headed out of town for a five-day trip, police said.

The children's mother, Cristina Calero, died of breast cancer in 2003 and Calero married De la Vega last year.

The maternal grandmother, Libbey Holden, said she called police after she suspected the couple had left the children behind.

"I had big concerns," Holden said Wednesday, sitting in her Manteca apartment filled with family pictures, including smiling portraits of her late daughter. "These kids are helpless."

Police said they found the children asleep in their beds Saturday night, a day after being left alone. A gas fireplace was turned on, but they found nothing out of the ordinary.

"It appears that the food and the environment were set up for them to be alone," San Ramon Police Sgt. Brian Kalinowski said.

The older boy said he was instructed to not answer the front door, so officers had to use a ladder to enter the home through an unlocked sliding glass door on a second-floor balcony.

Joshua said he and his brother ate cereal for breakfast and cooked frozen dinners in the microwave for lunch and dinner. He said his dad and stepmother left Friday morning while they were asleep. They had asked him to watch his younger brother, but didn't tell him where they were staying, he said.

"They shouldn't leave us alone," Joshua said, sitting in the living room of his grandmother's apartment. "I didn't know who I could call in an emergency. Even if I called my father, he's far away so there wouldn't be much he could do."

Joshua said the couple got each other puppies for Christmas and went so far as to bring the pug and the poodle-Maltese mix to De la Vega's mother before leaving town.

"I thought they loved them more than us," the boy said.

Holden said she tried calling Calero, but couldn't reach him. Worried, she consulted friends and finally decided to call authorities.

Officers began calling Calero's cell phone Saturday, but he didn't call back until Tuesday.

They flew from Las Vegas early Wednesday and were arrested at Oakland International Airport and jailed in Contra Costa County.

The exact charges were not immediately clear. Authorities scheduled a late afternoon news conference.

Joshua said it wasn't the first time he and his brother were left home alone. Last fall, his dad and stepmother kept him out of school for a week so he could baby-sit his brother while they went away, he said.

Calero and De la Vega are both cosmetic dentists in Santa Clara.

*** Sad ain't it?

Elmo gone psycho killer?!?!?!

A mother in Dallas is one of several parents complaining about a new interactive book for toddlers in which Sesame Street character Elmo asks "who wants to die?" according to a Local 6 News .

Family members said 16-month-old Miranda Boll's new book, "Potty Time With Elmo," was supposed to teach an interactive lesson using voice commands. However, when the book's buttons are pressed, it reportedly says something it is not supposed to -- "who wants to die"It's a sick joke," mother Angela Bolls said. "If it's a joke then it's a bad one, you know? And it's not necessary. It's inappropriate." Bolls said she checked another copy of the same book and found that it says something completely different; "Who wants to try to go potty?" The company that makes the book said it has had several complaints concerning the book, according to the report. Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

*** What's next? Cookie Monster cursing? Oscar the Grouch as a bank robber?!?!?

The leader so far for DUH!!! statement of the year~

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Police in a Vancouver suburb reminded residents on Tuesday it was not a good idea to play with a loaded gun while using the bathroom, after a man accidentally shot himself.

A 21-year-old North Vancouver man was facing numerous weapons charges after he shot off one of his fingers while apparently playing with a gun on New Year's Day, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

"Perhaps, our mothers never explained to us that it was not a good idea to play with handguns whilst using the restroom. But then again, maybe that was supposed to be a given," the Mounties said in a press release.

*** That is just too funny!!!

Fantasies can get ya in trouble some times!!

Wis. college editor publishes rape fantasy

January 2, 2006

MILWAUKEE -- A college newspaper that printed a photo essay depicting an editor's sexual fantasy of being raped created such a backlash on campus that a task force is being formed to focus on the problem of violence against women.

Some women's advocates have called for harsh penalties, such as tossing the UWM Post out of its free office space at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus, because of the photo essay that ran Nov. 23 and appeared to depict then-photo editor Sara DeKeuster being attacked in a parking garage.

But UWM Provost Rita Cheng said that while the administration disapproves of the decision to run the essay, it can't take action against the Post because the newspaper receives no university funding, only the free office.

'Guilty and rejoiced'

''They see themselves as an independent newspaper, and we treat them as such,'' Cheng said. ''This is a very sensitive issue of independence and freedom of speech.''

Still, Cheng said she is using the incident to form a task force that will examine the climate for women on campus -- something that has been discussed for several years but never done.

''Particularly with this controversy, there was concern about whether women feel comfortable,'' Cheng said.

The staged scenes in the photo essay, titled ''Bedtime Stories,'' show DeKeuster slammed against a car by a man and forced into what captions call ''unexpected intercourse,'' leading to her feeling ''guilty and rejoiced.''

Rejecting 'feminist constraints'

A note to readers by graduate student Diego Costa, the Post's arts and entertainment editor, said he and DeKeuster conceptualized the essay ''in order to explore the age-old repressed female sexuality in its attempt to strip itself of social and feminist constraints.''

Costa, who took the photos, said in a follow-up article that the work was an ''art piece'' expressing DeKeuster's ''guilt-ridden sexual desire of getting raped.''

After it appeared, students flooded the newspaper with angry letters and some urged businesses to pull ads that fund the Post.

''All my friends were absolutely appalled,'' said senior Amy Phipps, a member of the College Feminists. ''A lot of times when women are raped or harassed, people use the defense that she wanted it. This piece can be seen as validation of that and as a mockery of women who have been assaulted.''

*** Dear Sara DeKeuster, I think you are a great person and think you are being unfairly punished. Should you want to be fairly punished please contact me!!!

Never take scissors to a pellet gun fight...

WICHITA, Kan. -- A woman who died after a car crash had been shot in the heart minutes earlier with a pellet gun that her 14-year-old son received as a Christmas gift, police said. Police said the teen was protecting his grandfather from his mother, Elizabeth White. She was threatening the grandfather with a pair of scissors, according to authorities. The death was ruled a justifiable homicide, said Capt. Randy Landen of the Wichita Police Department. White, 40, of Salina, had spent the weekend in Wichita after she was invited to spend Christmas at the house where her 73-year-old father and her 68-year-old mother were raising her children. Police said the altercation happened after White returned to the home Tuesday. Armed with scissors, White threatened to kill her father, who had only a cane to defend himself, police said. When the argument moved into the front yard, Landen said the teen's grandfather tripped over a planter. As his mother moved toward her fallen dad with the scissors, police said, the teenager stepped onto the front porch and aimed, striking his mother in the heart. After throwing the scissors at her son, White took off in a car, police said. Authorities think the wound caused her to lose control of her car. She died at a hospital after undergoing emergency surgery after the crash. White, who has been in and out of prison during the past 16 years, has convictions for drug offenses, prostitution, writing bad checks and making threats, according to state records.

*** I remember when I was young my dad telling my brother "If you take a chain or knife to a fight you better hope it's made out of chocolate. You may have to eat it!" I thought that was sage advice!!!

I've soiled myself ... PAY ME!!!

A MAN tried to sue the council after he soiled his own trousers, it emerged today.

He blamed the embarrassing accident on the council's decision to close a public lavatory at a bus station, and claimed he was owed the cost of a new pair of trousers.

The bizarre claim was among thousands of public liability claims which cost local government and insurance firms an estimated £250 million per year.

Public sector insurer Zurich Municipal said many claimants are genuine but exaggerated and spurious claims are an increasing problem.

The firm compiled a list of other ludicrous and dubious claims.

It includes a man who claimed to have injured his arm after slipping on steps owned by a housing association. In fact, he had jumped out of his window to avoid being caught with another woman when his girlfriend returned home unexpectedly.

It also features a bin man who made a claim against his council after being "startled" by a dead badger which fell out of a bag, a shoplifter who sued because she fell down stairs while running from the scene of a crime, and a motorist who claimed he did not see a traffic roundabout in broad daylight - despite the fact that it had a large tree in the middle.

Perhaps the most bizarre claim was made that made by one man against several local authorities and the Archbishop of Canterbury "on behalf of all the homeless people in Britain".

Zurich Municipal claims director Iwan Borszcz said that while some of the claims raise a smile, they cause serious problems for genuine claimants.

He said: "Whether a claim is exaggerated or completely fraudulent, it is the genuine claimant that suffers.

"We work on behalf of customers to ensure genuine claimants receive the service they deserve, but considerable time is often wasted dealing with what turn out to be spurious, and even imaginative, claims.

"We are constantly amazed at some of the excuses people use to try to claim against public bodies. It just goes to show that working in insurance is more interesting than people may think."