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It seems that I have been derelict in my list-making duties in the last few days.  This is all my fault, but I expect when you hear my excuse, you’ll be more than willing to let it slide.  For the last two weeks or so, I have been ensconced in my lawyer’s office working on a lawsuit against Joel from Persona Don Dada.  What follows are my top five reasons for pursuing legal action against my fellow blogger:

5) His mindless exclusion of the Inspector Gadget theme in his top ten cartoon theme songs list.

4) His stealing of my “top five list” format.  Make no mistake, I invented the top five list.  Just like Diddy invented the remix.

3) His stealing of my trademarked Facebook status blog-pimping technique.

2) Simple jealousy.

1) Shits and giggles.

But, this is all just in the beginning stages, and we have more important issues to get to, most pressingly today’s list: The Top Five Things To See A Girl Wearing.

This is a list on a topic that is near and dear to my heart: women.  Paradoxically, it’s also about something I don’t care about at all and actually kind of despise: fashion.  I know nothing about clothing, or about style.  My ex-girlfriend used to make me watch Project Runway with her from time to time, and I would just stare slack-jawed at the TV like a guy from the sticks who’s made his first trip to the “big city” and has just come face to face with the fabled “e-lectric candle.”

Despite my lacking understanding of the workings of the world of fashion, I still have a few thoughts about what I like to see a young lady in.  Some of the choices I’ve made may disgust you, some of them might make you think I’m less classy than you once thought I was, but I have to remind you that this list is definitive and rooted in absolute honesty and insightfulness.

Alright, here it comes.  It’s the Top Five Things To See A Girl Wearing.  Let’s get it on.

5) Tubetop

Admittedly, the tubetop is a little tacky, but as best as I can tell, there are few better choices for a top.  First of all, the tubetop highlights a good rack; it makes a good rack even better.  Second, and I may be alone in this thinking, but I enjoy a little midriff, even some belly, showing.  I know tubetops are low-class, but when you get right down to it, I’m a little low-class myself, and my guess is so are you.

4) Nixon Mask

I guess I’m a little bit low-class and a little bit of a perv.  No surprise there.

3) Fishnet Stockings

This is another low-class choice for the list, but again, I’ll be damned if fishnets aren’t hot.  It’s like a tongue ring: it may not necessarily be all that attractive, but you know the person who chooses to sport one is going to blow you.  A girl in fishnet stockings is good to go, and I find that hard to fault.

2) Nothing

Actually, I had a tough time with this one.  I like a girl nude, but (because I’m a weirdo) I find something extraordinarily arousing about a gal in a shirt but no bottoms on, or underwear but no top or bra.  There’s just something about this stage of undress that implies that eventually the rest of it’s coming off, yet there’s still some intrigue.  Either of these mis-matched arrangements would have been #2, but I had no goddamn idea how to explain it in any kind of succinct way.

1) Sweater

As if there was ever any doubt.  I love a girl in a sweater.  Because I’m classy.  A lady in a sweater is a powerful lady.  She knows that she’s ready for just about any situation: dinner party, champaign brunch, clam jam; she can handle it all.  Some of you may be protesting, saying that sweaters aren’t hot, and to those of you, I’d like to point this out: a gal could very easily be sporting a tubetop and fishnet stockings under that sweater, now couldn’t she?  I may have let you all way too deep into the recesses of my mind, as this list might betray my dirty secret: my “girl-wearing-a-tubetop-under-a-sweater-and-fishnets-with-no-panties-and-a-nixon-mask” fetish.  I fear I truly have just told the world about me.

Here's a good article from HomeWord for those of us who are busy in ministry and also have a family at home.  For those of you that don't, this would be a good article to share with busy and overworked parents in your ministry.  Here's the gist...

5 Tips for Helping Busy Parents Reprioritize Their Lives

1. Ruthlessly Eliminate Stress

2. Make Daily Solitude a Priority

3. Develop a “Blank Slate” Approach - in other words, begin and end each day with no agenda.

4. Give Your Family Your Best – Not Your “Emotional Leftovers”

5. Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Do this For You

Read the full article here.

Another good Q&A article to check out from HomeWord this week: Should Parents Take Away Church Activities -- Poll Results

"Why should I not be here when I was invited."

I turn to my brother, "Is this the person you were talking to on your phone? He's a murderer."

"Lexa!"

"Alexa Lee, come and sit next to this old man." He say this so warmly, so calmly. I join Mr. Kang on the sofa. "Listen to what he has to say. Do not judge without knowledge, without truth."

"I'm sorry about your father Miss Lee, as I'm sorry about my own. I'm sorry about the other two that they found in Busan this morning." I can feel the tension from Mr. Kang's body. I look at my brother, the mental strain in his eyes tell me there's more to what Mr. Kim has just said.

"So it is almost complete," the person with a tired voice next to me say as he slowly stand to his feet.

"Miss Lee what I'm about to tell you must not leave this room. Do you understand?"

"Yes."

"Both our dads and the other two that also committed suicide were a part of a group called the Red-Ink Six. They were assassins." For some reason I laugh.

"Don't laugh Lexa, it's true."

"You're trying to tell me that dad was a killer. I don't believe you; I won't believe you."

Mr. Kang comes and sits by me again. "Miss Lee, it is the truth."

"So your father, my father, the other two, that makes four, who are the other two?"

"The President is going to resign in four days." I look at Peter, he does not look surprise. "He _"

"He's the fifth?"

"Yes."

"There's still one more. Do you know who he is?"

"You are sitting by him."

I quickly get up from the sofa. "Mr. Kang?"

"We had no other choice. Our families were poor, were in debt. We were taken from our homes and trained to do what we did."

"You knew Peter, you knew what dad was?"

"He sent me here to protect Mr. Kang."

"He sent you . . . ." I cannot hold it anymore; my cheeks are wet as my tears trickle down like light rain. This information, all this is too fast for me. He hug me; he hold me tight.

"He left you a letter. It's in my room; I'll get it. He place me by Mr. Kang. I try to compose myself. I can feel that both he and Mr. Kim are staring at me; this is making me more uneasy. Peter return and give me the letter. My hands are trembling as I try to open it. I finally do and read it to myself.

'Alex, you got my letter, then you know dad is no longer here with you. The water has been rough; a foul wind has been blowing and coming my way. Something from the past is now in the present. When ever you hear the truth about me, please do not hate me. I know you will not; how? Because you are my daughter, and I know you. If you receive this letter before your next birthday, please stay the twenty-two year old beautiful flower on earth. Listen to Peter. Look after your mother. And Alex, do not let my murderer go free. Love Papa.'

I give the letter to Peter who read it out loud. He explain to me that dad wrote the same letter every year since he knew trouble was coming, only changing my age with each new year. The old letter was burnt with every new one received.

My emotion basket is full, but one thing I am not doing—crying. "Peter," I say with determination, "we have to find dad's killer."

The Keating 5.

From the AP

Barack Obama's allies warn that John McCain's attacks on the Democrat'a character will lead to the political equivalent of mutual assured destruction: fire your big weapon at your own peril.

Several Obama surrogates said his supporters may start reminding voters of McCain's ties to Charles Keating, a convicted savings and loan owner whose actions two decades ago triggered a Senate ethics investigation that involved McCain as one of the "Keating Five."

Well, it seems that Obama fulfilled the promise and quietly released a youtube video on the subject called Keating Economics.

For those of you that are not familiar, the Keating 5 is a term that refers to a group of 5 Senators that were accused of corrupt dealings with a banker named Keating during the "Savings and Loan Crisis" of the 80's.

The group of Senators was comprised of 4 Democrats and 1 Republican...  John McCain.

Only problem is that John McCain (as well as John Glenn) was completely exonerated of any wrong doing what-so-ever by the Special Prosecutor Robert Bennet and recommended removing John McCain from any further investigation.

The problem was that removing John McCain would remove the only Republican from the corruption case and politically the Democrats in power could not afford to have 3 of their Senators sit up there alone, going down in flames for shady dealings.

Against the wishes of the Special Prosecutor, the Democratic Chair of the Ethics Committee kept McCain's name on the list and gave him what essentially amounted to a scowl and a wagging finger.  The committee decided that McCain's actions "were not improper nor attended with gross negligence," about which McCain said...  "I see it as a full exoneration"

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Yeah, so let's tell that story Barry...  about how John McCain is a good and honorable man, yet there were 3 DEMOCRATIC Senators at the center of the "Savings and Loan Crisis."

Yeah, Barry, lets talk about how wonderfully the Democrats have handled the banking institutions...  there couldn't possibly be a parallel to today's problems could there?

I dare you to keep pushing this meme...

Keep talking about the corrupt Democrats and the uncorruptable John McCain.  Yeah, do that...  Keep talking...

I double dog dare you.

Even Saturday Night Live knows the Democrats are the root of the cause...

CLICK HERE

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Oh, and lest I forget about the Keating 3

Three of... the Keating Five have endorsed Obama: Former senators Dennis DeConcini. John Glenn, and Donald W. Riegle. All three are Democrats... and DeConcini and Riegle were among the more deeply implicated officials.

All of this, obviously, is a lie. I live in a bedsit, Coutts won't return my phone calls and HSBC don't apparently offer a money helicopter service (even though I'm a Plus customer! Tch.) The supermodel girlfriend had to be replaced by my cat, and she sadly jumped over the side of the boat and drowned. Willow, you shall be missed.

I could probably also have chosen a better topic for my 50TH EVER POST ON EQFPPP than a one line post saying how truly sorry I am for being such a tit, the reasons for which I'm not going into without some form of reward (monetary or otherwise). I could, I dunno, have written a jaunty recap of all those glorious posts.

WEEP! As I get back from the Misty Moon filled with whisky and despair! LAUGH! As I enumerate exactly how my dear old grandfather literally pissed all his dignity away! SHAKE YOUR HEAD! As I call something or someone a cunt for the millionth time. I know it's only 50 posts on a blog nobody reads, but fuck, if Five can release a greatest hits album after releasing only three other actual albums and only having three number 1 singles ever, then I can have some kind of stupid clip show bollocks. So yeah, here's to another three or four months of whinging and annoyance. Hooray.

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I expect to complete the rest of the caves, hopefully tomorrow, and then complete the whole level design by the end of next week or possibly even earlier. From there I will be able to concentrate on the core gameplay and the scripting knowledge required to complete my game to my expecting standard.

I received inspiration from the example Famous Five games shown to us in today's lectures. The most interesting part was its inventory and map ability. Apparently it isn't much code to setup, but is quite hard to find. What I will use in the inventory, if I include inventory in the game is a torch, wooden stick and map. I will alter my Game Design Document slightly to follow my new additions/changes.

We all know that Gears Of War 2 is going to come with 10 multiplayer maps. Well now Epic have bumped up that number to 15 with the announcement that 5 classic maps are going to be included with the game in the form of a redeemable voucher.

The Flashback Map Pack will included new polished re-makes of Canals, Gridlock, Mansion, Subway, and Tyro Station from the original Gears Of War.

Best of all this is all free, but of course, people who buy the game pre-owned at a later date won't be able to use the code, and there's no information about whether the map pack will also be available to purchase on the XBL Marketplace. Could this be a clever marketing ploy by Epic to make sure that people still buy the game new after launch? Who cares, it's free maps!

I've always wanted to go to the Jungle ever since I watched the Jungle Book.  It was always on my "to do list". I wanted to dance with the animals... they made the Jungle look like an absolute blast!!! A non stop party place... all those singing and dancing animals, it kind of rocked, don't you think? And that odd snake that had hypnotic eyes and a slight attitude problem?! Although from my experience, I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't all talking and dancing BALOO bears that wear bunting style grass skirts.

I also used to love Tarzan when I was younger. I always wondered how Jane kept herself looking immaculate in such high humidity, but maybe in the Jungle one didn't have to try too hard to impress?....(Unlike today's pressures of dating!).

The Jungle is a beautiful yet mystifying place, and flying over the Guyanan Jungle was like looking at a huge furry green carpet that just goes on for miles and miles as far as the eye can see. It is stunning and extremely breath taking and is a memory firmly fixed in my mind forever.

It is a place a million miles away from leafy surburbian London, and I would thoroughly recommend it....I have never even camped out before!  In fact the closest I have got to camping is putting a sheet up over the sofa and the chair in our front room when I was a child.  Although hardly roughing it, when your only in it for about ten minutes until tea time.

The Jungle humbled me as a person, and made me realise how much "stuff" we actually all take for granted.....I feel like I have learn't more about myself in the two months I was away than in the 33 years I have lived.

Bye for now x

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5 Things Under $5.00 I Can't Live Without

• water
• Trader Joe's Joe Joes
• butter split wheat bread
• peanut butter
• jelly (without food, we die, and this is all food my son will eat, no question)

5 Favorite Movies

• Gone With the Wind
• Roman Holiday
• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2
• Across the Universe

5 Baby Names I Love

• Boys ~ Michael, Nicholas, Daniel, Joshua & Matthew
  
• Girls ~ Rachel, Addison, Isabelle, Samantha & Elisabeth

5 Songs I Love

• "Daughters" by John Mayer
• "Now That You Got It" by Gwen Stefani
• "A Day In The Life" by the Beatles
• "No Other Way" by Jack Johnson
• "The Only Living Boy in New York" by Simon & Garfunkel

(and anything else by any of these bands)

5 Life Changing Moments (in no particular order)

• Surprise, your pregnant!
• I now pronounce you man and wife.
• It's a boy.
• Willkommen in Deutschland.
• I present to you the graduating class of 2005!

5 Current Obsessions

• blogging (duh)
• blogging
• blogging
• blogging
• blogging

5 Places I Want to go to

• Niagara Falls (preferably the Canadian side since I haven't been there either)
• The Grand Canyon
• Disney with MM
• Europe (seriously, anywhere is fine)
• To visit (sort of meet) my mother...

5 Appliances/kitchen tools I can't live without

• Oven / Stove
• Coffee Maker
• our Santoku knife and cutting board
• our new fruit colander
• and I like Amy's answer and concur, my husband is the most useful thing IN my kitchen, period

Ladies, I’m afraid that this list is not going to be up your alley.  It’s a well accepted fact that both men and women use the bathroom.  Everyone poops, everyone farts, but for the most part, only men seem to think that these things are hilarious.  And, as you may have put together by now, today’s list is on the Top Five Times To Take a Poo.

Some of you may think that this list topic is somehow immature or childish, and I have a few things to say to you of this opinion.

First, I don’t come up with the topics of my lists.  That’s not my gift.  My gift is the ability to make perfect and infallible lists, not come up with good topics.  I require an assistant, a partner, to come up with the topics, preferably someone of sound mind and a burning desire to resolve age-old questions.  I have my assistant in the part of my dear friend The Crain Train, and I’ll allow no man to impugn his topic assigning abilities.

Second, it’s very closedminded of you to assume that this list is going to be immature just because it involves poo.  The question of when you should take care of your business and get your evacuation our of the way has been pondered since the beginning of time, and I for one believe that it’s high time to put this one to rest.

Alright, it’s the Top Five Times To Take A Poo.  Let’s get it on.

(Please forgive my nonsensical pictures.  I didn't think it would be appropriate to just post five pictures of poop.)

5) Middle of the Night

Some of you may think that this is a horrible time to take a poo because you have to get out of bed.  I agree that you have a reasonable point, and due to this inconvenience, the middle of the night comes in at number five.  The reason it’s on the list at all is because when you get up late at night to take a shit, you’re often disoriented, and you tend not to remember having pooed when you wake up in the morning.

4) 45 Minutes After Taking An Ambien

Ambien is simultaneously my favorite and least favorite drug.  It’s a quality sleeping pill, and often works in putting you to sleep, but often has the negative side effect of making you black out if you don’t fall asleep.  Now, sometimes, this leads to people doing horrible things (like driving their car through a neighbor’s fence or destroying their friends’ weed-smoking tent).  Other times, it can lead to you simply forgetting a particularly painful and traumatic shit.

3) First Thing In The Morning

Nothing says “hello” to the new day like a good evacuation.  My mornings are a blur of bagels, coffee and cigarettes, so I tend up building up quite a poo by the time I take off for class.  I’ve found that my best days are the days when I empty my bowels immediately upon waking up, leaving nothing in my fart tank for the coffee and cigarettes to mess with.

2) Immediately After Returning Home From Somewhere

This is that “just at the last minute” shit.  This is when you are out somewhere and you feel the shit coming, and you’re worried that you’re not going to make it home on time.  You want to run home, but you’re worried that running would only shake the poo out faster.  You make it home and you feel the poo peeking out from behind your ass-curtains, and you make it to the toilet just in time.  There’s nothing quite like that relieved release.

1) At Work

As if there was ever any doubt.  There is nothing better than taking a shit while you are on the clock.  If it takes you ten minutes to poo, and you’re pulling in 9 bucks an hour, you’ve just been paid $1.50 to shit!  You can’t beat that.  When I worked at the hell-hole that I lovingly call “Office Depot,” I made a point of spending at least half an hour a day in the bathroom.  Part of that was due to my horrible diet, but the bulk of it was that the bathroom was a great place to hide, but still get paid.  I recommend you all implement this practice into your schedule.

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1. Solve customer’s problems.
2. Treat customers with respect.
3. Connect with the customers.
4. Make customers feel they are being played fairly.
5. Save customers time (take them to the express train of happiness, no confusions).

Of course this isn’t any Harvard B-School material, but do check out this great video to have details on these pillars. You'd love it!

HA NOI — Viet Nam continued their good form at the 32nd Southeast Asian Shooting (SEASA) Championships when they bagged five more gold medals yesterday.

In the women’s individual 10m mixed air rifle, markswoman Dang Hong Ha, who scored 367 points to take the gold medal in the women’s individual 10m air rifle on Wednesday, scored 297 points to take home another gold.

Kham La of Laos was the runner-up with 285 points.

In the women’s team 10m mixed air rifle, Laos lifted the gold and Viet Nam came second.

In the women’s individual 25m pistol, Dao Thu Thuy took home the second gold medal yesterday when she scored 770 points. Singapore’s Fan Xiao Ping and Huang Yi Lin of Chinese Taipei scored 769.9 and 764.5 points and took silver and bronze medals, respectively.

In the women’s team 25m pistol, Viet Nam overcame Singapore and Laos to bring home the gold medal.

Vietnamese sharp shooter Le Cao Kien continued his excellent form and scored 691.7 points in the men’s individual 50m prone rifle to take gold. Viet Nam also won the gold medal for the team event.

In the last event yesterday, Chen Shih Wei of Chinese Taipei scored 153 points to snatch the gold medal in the men’s individual trap shooting. Vietnamese marksmen didn’t win any medals in this event. The silver and bronze medal went to shooters from Malaysia and Singapore, respectively.

The 32nd SEASA championships is underway at the National Shooting Range in the National Sports Training Centre in Ha Noi, co-hosted by the Sports General Department and the Viet Nam Shooting Association.

Shooters from 10 teams from regional countries and territories are competing for 44 medals

Seventeen international umpires, including two from Viet Nam, are judging the event.

Vietnamese shooters will be awarded VND25 million (US$1,500) for each gold medal, VND20 million ($1,200) for each silver and VND15 million ($900) for each bronze. —