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No surprise at  Summerslam. The  crazy Edge burns in Hell. And The Undertaker as done the half of his revenge. As he made clear last friday Mrs. Guererro will loose her soul too. I'm wondering how he will get her. Ok, her bodyguerds of the Familia are no competition for the Phenom but it won't be easy.

An other thing is the  change of Kane. I realy hope we will see the Brothers of Destruction soon by SD!

So let's see where it will guide us in the next few weeks.
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Also keine Überraschung bei Summer Slam. Der mittlerweile durchgedrehte Edge schmort in der Hölle. Somit hat der Undertaker die Hälfte seiner Rache genommen. Wie er ja letzten Freitag klar gemacht hat, will er nun auch die Seele von Fr. Guererro. Nimmt mich nur wunder wie er an die kommen will. Zugegeben die Beschützer oder was auch immer der Familia sind keine wirkliche Herausforderung für das Phenom, doch einfach wird es bestimmt nicht.

Ein weiterer Punkt ist die Veränderung von Kane. Ich hoffe die führt dazu, dass wir die Brothers of Destruction bald wieder bei SD! sehen.

Lassen wir uns überraschen wo uns das ganz hin führt.

Greetings

GiM

It's official. Barack Obama has been OFFICIALLY nominated for President after Hillary Clinton released her delegates to him. 

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Ethel (not her real name) is a friend of mine. I like her a lot. She's early forties, tall,  slim with legs up to armpits, wears specs but could easily whip them off in a “my-but-your-beautiful” kind of way.  She's funny and endearing great company but has no partner and hasn't had a boyfriend for years.

She was married once but has been on her own with the kids for at least a decade.

She'd like to meet a bloke but in the past the ones she met were pitiful so she's not really up for the whole dating, five-things-i-really-like, my 'favourite-colour's-pink-what's-yours,' 'are-you-fond-of-cushions?' kind of ordeal.

I keep telling her to join a rowing club or at least try windsurfing because that's where all the hunky fit guys hang out (cyclists, while they have magnificent legs, are all a bit weird) but she's got a dog and she fears that getting him into the boat or on to the windsurfer might scupper her chances of success.

Or she should seek out men who at first sight seem extremely boring, clerks, accountants, mathematicians, quantum physicists etc and seek to find and nurture their hidden wickedness (assuming there is any).

Or she could take her dog to dog shows. I know one English Springer girl (she breeds  and shows them) who found a wonderful, kind, lovely bloke in Veteran Labradors. He had one. Theirs has been a marriage made in heaven. But that was unusual. Some men who show dogs only like women as friends.

Ethel rather likes younger men. Men in their thirties.  Ewan McGregor-ish but taller. Over six foot, preferably.  And she's quite picky so it might take some time to find someone suitable. Years, even.

Meanwhile, time is ticking away and I think it's a shame that she's throwing away the absolute best years of her sex life by remaining celibate.

Ethel had the peace of the marital double bed for a while and it was dull.  Why should she miss out now when she could be experiencing the hurley-burley of the chaise longue?

So I suggested she should maybe think about hiring a bloke. For the night.

The ideal would be to find a professional;  someone hot who could bestow great joy.

She gave me a look that indicated a spark of interest tempered with a degree of shock.
 
She has children. Would buying the company of a dishy bloke be something to be ashamed of?

I don't think so, providing it's done in a subtle manner. I don't think it could be considered immoral.  Sex without love isn't a crime. Sex is a basic human requirement. In any case, all relationships are trade-offs in one respect or another.

A long-married male friend of mine sighed recently “In the end, we all pay for sex.  Marriage is probably the most expensive option.”

My friend, while not entirely averse to the idea, thinks the practicalities are too off-putting.

Where do you buy a bloke?  Is there a catalogue?  Or an Argos type store where you choose one and they fetch him from upstairs?

Do they bring along copies of their latest health MOTs?  And is there a money-back-if-not-satisfied guarantee?

Neither of us had any idea. We both stared into the middle distance, lost in our own thoughts.

We concluded that she has two options.

She either posts a “Wanted” ad on the noticeboard of the windsurfing club or she signs up for lessons and buys a wetsuit.

The windsurfing would be exhilarating and brilliant and after being out on the board for a few hours, she'd be too tired for further excitements anyway.

This ad from Apple dropped into my inbox yesterday with the subject line: "Experience life on the go with a Mac". I naturally assumed before opening it that this referred to the MobileMe sync service that replaced .mac earlier in the summer. If you've been on Mars for the last few weeks, MobileMe has been an unmitigated disaster for Apple.

The synchronising of iPhones and Macs did not go smoothly

Launched as a service to sync everything on your Mac and iPhone, users complained early on about being locked out of their accounts for days on end while more recently many peoples' contacts simply disappeared from their supposedly synchronised devices. Apple recently extended everybody's subscription to the service by 60 days as recompense for
the disastrous launch.

Despite the subject line, the advert makes no mention of MobileMe, instead concentrating on the fun to be had with a MacBook, iLife and some accessories. Having waited for over a week for a contact entered into my iPhone to appear in my MacBook Pro address book, Apple's retreat from its recent hubris over MobileMe at least saved my blood pressure.

• Por fin entendi...
• ahora ya entendi alguien mas ocupa mi lugar,
• mejor dicho siempre estuvo ahy,
• la realidad es q yo solo fui la intrusa
• el trampolin hacia una nueva ilucion,
• llegue a ti cuando mas me necesitabas
• y te aferraste a mi...
• como salvacion a tu dolor y sufrimiento
• ahora q esas heridas an sanado
• te retiras y emprendes el vuelo
• con la persona  a la q tu amas,
• vuela, vuela,
• pero esta vez no te dejes derrotar tan facil
• lucha por ese amor
• la vida nos da segundas oportunidades
• pero uno tiene q poner la fuersa necesaria
• para q el sueño se aga realidad
• demuestrate a ti mismo
• q el amor existe
• y q la desilucion q tuviste
• fue solo una pauta en tu destino
• q ayudo a poner en orden tus sentimientos
• y aprender a como manejarlos
• para q por fin disfrutes al maximo del AMOR
• Ahora yo me quedo aqui.. con la descarga de emociones
• sin saber como reaccionar... ante esta situacion
• sin saber donde depositar este sentimiento,
• tan especial q despertaste en mi.. se q sufrire por un momento
• y con gusto acepto mi sentencia
• ya q es una forma de recordarme
• q el amor llego a mi vida por un tiempo
• y q debo de ESTAR AGRADECIDA CONTIGO
• por haberme dado la oportunidad
• de no seguir en este tunel de desolacion
• mi corazon sufrira por dentro.. y tardara para sanar
• pero no importa eso, ya q por nada cambio
• los momentos maravillosos q disfrute contigo,
• Tu mi amor..El amor q espere por tanto tiempo
• y aunque ahora ya esta terminada
• esta historia de amor entre tu y yo
• ahora ya formas parte de mi vida
• aunque tu no lo quieras
• me quedare con lo mejor
• de lo q sucedio entre los dos
• este sentimiento tan maravilloso
• llamado AMOR.
• Y es por eso q no insitire mas en esto
• lo q hare cada noche es pedir por ti
• resare por ti para q seas feliz
• como estoy segura q lo sere yo
• ahora digo hasta pronto..ya q estare siempre aqui
• por si llegaras a necesitarme una vez mas
• sera un gran honor volver hacer tu confidente
• ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Tere ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Remain in trust

   If I set all these things below me :
The birds, the beasts, the rivers, mountains high ;
   The sky, the moon, the sun, the stars themselves ;
And contemplate what beauties shine above me ;
   I see thy spirit radiating nigh.
If I may wrench my sight from this fair vision,
   Does not my understanding reach beyond
The seeming topmost bound that has been set
   To inward senses?  perceive the transformation
That completes the promised holy bond?
   Then stay, fair soul!  Stay high in my domain
Where neither time or declination reign!
   And trust our God will grant us peace again.

This was a reply to an article, in a South African newspaper where the previously disadvantaged (Blacks) stated that it's not too late for the previously advantaged (including whites, Indians and Coloureds) to apologise for apartheid.

It's not too late for whites to say sorry for apartheid.

‘To the Previously Disadvantaged:

We are sorry that our ancestors were intelligent, advanced and daring enough to explore the wild oceans to discover new countries and develop them.

We are sorry that those who came before us took you out of the bush and taught you that there was more to life than beating drums, killing each other and chasing animals with sticks and stones.

We are sorry that they planned, funded and developed roads, towns, mines, factories, airports and harbours, all of which you now claim to be your long deprived inheritance giving you every right to change and rename these at your discretion.

We are sorry that our parents taught us the value of small but strong families, to not breed like rabbits and end up as underfed, diseased, illiterate shack dwellers living in poverty.

We are sorry that when the evil apartheid government provided you with schools, you decided they'd look better without windows or in piles of ashes.

We happily gave up those bad days of getting spanked in our all white schools for doing something wrong and much prefer these days of freedom where problems can be resolved with knives and guns.

We are sorry that it is hard to shake off the bitterness of the past when you keep on raping, torturing and killing our friends and family members, and then hide behind the fence of 'human rights' with smiles on your faces.

We are sorry that we do not trust the government. We have no reason to be so suspicious because none of these poor hard working intellectuals have ever been involved in any form of corruption or 'irregularities'. We are sorry that we do not trust the police force and, even though they have openly admitted that they have lost the war against crime and criminals, we should not be negative and just ignore their corruption and carry on hoping for the best.

We are sorry that it is more important to you to have players of colour in our national teams than winning games and promoting patriotism. We know that sponsorship doesn't depend on a team's success.

We are sorry that our border posts have been flung open and now left you competing for jobs against illegal immigrants from our beautiful neighbouring countries. All of those countries that have grown into economic powerhouses having kicked out the 'settlers'.

We are sorry that we don't believe in witchcraft, beetroot and garlic cures, urinating on street corners, virginity testing, slaughtering of bulls in our back yards, trading women for cattle and other barbaric practices.

Maybe we just grew up differently.

We are sorry that your medical care, water supplies, roads, railways and electricity supplies are going down the toilet because skilled people who could have planned for and resolved these issues had to be thrown away because they were of the wrong ethnic background and now have to work in foreign countries where their skills are more needed. We are so sorry that we'd like this country to fulfil its potential so we can once again be proud South Africans.

The Previously Advantaged'

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Now that Russia has formerly recognised South Ossetia as an independant country, will we see them similarly throwing their weight behind Scotland, Wales, the Basques, or even advocating the same for Chechnya and Kosovo?

Aqui estamos.

Hi my name is Devin. I'm knew to coven space. I found out about this from a friend. I'm still trying to find her on here. ADRAN WARE ARE YOU!!!!! I hope she seea this

For those of you who don't read Guido's blog (www.order-order.com) I have to repeat this, which was sent to him

"I was one of the lucky BA passengers who got to fly home with the Olympians - an incredible honour. We were thrown off first and after we walked down the steps and past the paparazzi I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the Prime Minister standing in the doorway shaking hands with my fellow normal pasengers. I walked up to him and shook his hand and asked where we went to collect the bags. He was dumbfounded and the wifey minister* standing beside him with the t-shirt said rudely to me "that is the Prime Minister, ask someone inside". It wasn't as though I asked him to carry my bags. She is one ugly cow."

*Tessa Jowell

Bliss. thanks, Guido

If we stop and think about the wonders of the technology that enables us all to gather here on My T we will not fail to note that not very long ago this luxury, so freely available now, was in its infancy.

It is safe to say that for the majority of bloggers here on My T the computer became a household name in adulthood. Unlike the current generation we were not born amidst hard drives and suchlike. We had to acquire the knowhow of this phenomenon, as life suddenly seemed to depend on it, well into adulthood and do quite a bit of catching up.  Some people went on extensive courses while others taught themselves, learning by trail and error.

I remember my initial encounter with the world of computers; of course at work. Having done some mindless ‘VDU' work I was keen to learn more. This was noted by a lady at work who had, taken the initiative and taught herself quite a bit. Anne introduced herself to me as a Russian Jew, spoke of her difficult early life and said she would understand how I may at moments feel like an outsider. I had no real idea what she meant at the time. Anne was of the age I am now, give or take a few years. IBM was the rage in those days, no one had a clue of Bill Gates.  I rather aspired to be like the very few people who knew how to operate the system DOS, I think it was.  Work was a multinational corporation with state of the art equipment so I would proudly tell friends and family that our screen display was in green on black and not the boring white on black.  Anne offered to help. She ran one to one courses after work. It was winter and she was just by Old Street tube station. I have a rather hazy memory of a broom cupboard of an office in a rather dingy looking office complex. Anne charged rather a lot of money for her lessons, but then her knowledge was so new, so cutting edge! She would provide photocopied notes on whatever was taught. Once a week, we would leave together for Old Street after work, have the lesson and then I would leave for home across the entire city of London on the tube in what seemed the middle of the night. I remember I preferred to be the only person at Old Street station at that time of evening; it was very unnerving to have the odd another person lurking around. This was in the early eighties. I have no idea what Old Street station looks like in the evening now. Regardless, I would not have the nerve to make the journey I did then. I used to be petrified but my enthusiasm to learn surmounted. The course only lasted a few weeks. It would be churlish to admit but I do not remember what Anne really taught me, but I know she gave me the confidence I needed to move ahead.

Some of you here are such experts at IT. Despite trying I still lag behind. Would you like to share your story of how you were introduced to and embraced the world of computers? How and where did you take the steps to incorporate this technology into your daily life? Pray tell.

The Government is going ahead with plans to enable parents of children of sixteen or younger to ask their employers for flexible working hours, as from next April. It is not a ‘right', but employers will have to give good business reasons for denying an application. The belief behind this move is that ‘flexible working makes employees happier and more productive'. If that were true, why have employers not themselves introduced flexible working hours as a means to improving productivity? Perhaps it is because the belief is cobblers.

As someone who has employed staff, unlike the politicians responsible for this tosh, I have discovered many employees who were perfectly happy being unproductive. It was only when they were asked to be productive that they became unhappy. Furthermore, one has to ask which employees will be happier with this move. The number is unlikely to include those who do not have children of the qualifying age, but whose workload increases because a colleague does not work on Fridays perhaps.

When will politicians, who support economic globalisation, recognise the implications of that support. Capital is now footloose and firms can move to anywhere that offers better conditions for their enterprise. By loading firms with this sort of legislation as if they were branches of Social Services the Government is discouraging direct investment in Britain at a time when they should be working to attract it.

They say football is the new religion...


Blind faith: West Brom fans sing at The Hawthorns despite loss

Soccer is not normally associated with acoustic excellence, but the West Brom support seemingly turned The Hawthorns into a cathedral with their soaring songs on Saturday.

Seduced by the intoxicating excitement of a return to top-flight football, the sound of booming terrace anthems reverberated throughout the stadium all game. And yet, judging by the worrying way West Brom's defence capitulated in the second half, and Tuesday night's Carling Cup calamity at the hands of Hartlepool, their supporters will need blind faith this year.

Baggies fans, do you feel like your team are living on a prayer this season, or will West Brom prove the doubters wrong and survive to sing about another season?

I heard today how the Duke of Sutherland is kindly offering some of his paintings to the Nation at half price - fifty   million   pounds each.

No painting is worth that. To a great extent they are, and always have been, mere status symbols. A form of snobbery.

Art Galleries should have images of all these great paintings. These days, the standard of photography is more than capable of providing information on the brush strokes of the genius who created the artwork, so modern artists can learn how it was done.

These images could be produced at any time, anywhere, providing the necessary information for which the galleries are required. The enormous costs of security and insurance would be instantly removed permitting the museums and galleries to expand without an unseemly one-upmanship scramble to beat each other for one item, denuding themselves of funds for others.

I know there are reasons for having the originals at times - I enjoy having originals by my grandmother and great-grandfather, both 19^th century professional artists. But my satisfaction is from the fact that they are by my forebears hands as well, not from just enjoying the subjects of the paintings.

As I say, most artwork is held as merely status symbols. A bank clerk couldn't afford to have one of these, they wouldn't even have the wall space for many of them! You would struggle to put a 20 x 16 foot painting on the outside wall of many of today's houses, let alone the cost of insurance. The painting is on the same lines as a Lamborghini - the clerk would not be able to put the damn thing on the road.

They are often owned in a dog-in-the-manger mode. I've got this, you have to come to my museum, or be a friend of mine, or you don't see it.

Art should be for those who appreciate it and understand the value of it, not solely for those who appreciate the cost of it!