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Gee, I wonder if they were part of a mob family?
Palermo - A 63-year-old pensioner in Sicily has died while inspecting his own grave, local newspapers reported on Tuesday.
According to reports, Giovanni Vittorio Greco visited his local cemetery at the weekend to check how the construction of his family grave was getting on.
Police said the man probably slipped on some steps and banged his head on a slate of marble and died instantly.
Exactly one year ago, another Sicilian died after falling into an empty grave in a Palermo cemetery.
Marcello Petrola, 31, intended bringing some flowers to the tomb of a deceased relative when he was forced to dodge an approaching car.
He put a foot on a marble tombstone, which broke in half and dropped him into the six metre-deep grave which swallowed him up. - Sapa-DPA
Well EX, if my creator gave me 7 palaces with 7 rooms with 7 wifes with 7 bucks each, when I blew my self up in his name, why not? lol
Two terrorists are chatting. One of them has his wallet out and
is flipping through pictures. "Yeah, this is my oldest. He's a
martyr.
Here's my second son. He's a martyr, too."
...There's a pause...
The second terrorist says, wistfully, "Ah, they blow up so fast,
don't they?"
I just got off the phone with the Malibu Film Festival and the guy there said it was just the movie trailer and It kicked ass!
I said I was an investor in the movie and he said, "Oh, you are going to make your money back nooooo problem, the people in attendance response from the movie trailer was outrageous, it was beautiful."
I hope that don't mean we been SHANGHAIED! LOL
"Stella" Awards"
> > > The Stella awards rank up there with the Darwin awards.
> > > Stella Liebeck is the 81 year old lady who spilled coffee on herself
and
> > > sued McDonalds, winning millions of dollars. This case inspired an
> > > annual award
> > > -
> > > The "Stella" Award - for the most frivolous lawsuits in the US The
> > > following are this year's candidates:
> > >
> > > 1. January 2000: Kathleen Robertson of Austin Texas was awarded
$780,000
> > > by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a
toddler
> > > who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were
> > > understandably surprised at the verdict, considering the misbehaving
> > > little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.
> > >
> > > 2. June 1998: A 19 year old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and
> > > medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda
> > > Accord. Mr. Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the
> > > wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.
> > >
> > > 3. October 1998: Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania was leaving
a
> > > house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not
able
> > > to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was
> > > malfunctioning.
> > > He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house
and
> > > garage locked when he pulled it shut. The family was on vacation. Mr.
> > > Dickson found himself locked in the garage for eight days. He
subsisted
> > > on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued
> > > the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue
mental
> > > anguish. The jury agreed to the tune of half a million dollars.
> > >
> > > 4. October 1999: Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas was awarded
> > > $14,500 and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his
> > > next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's
> > > fenced-in yard.
> > > The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might
have
> > > been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who was
shooting
> > > it repeatedly with a pellet gun.
> > >
> > > 5. May 2000: A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson
> > > of Lancaster, Pennsylvania $113,500 after she slipped on a soft drink
> > > and broke her coccyx. The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson
> > > threw it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.
> > >
> > > 6. December 1997: Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware successfully sued
> > > the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the
> > > bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This
> > > occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in
the
> > > ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge. She was awarded
> > > $12,000 and dental expenses.
> > >
> > > 7. And the winner is: Mr. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City. In November
> > > 2000 Mr. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32 foot Winnebago motor home.
> > > On his First trip home, having joined the freeway, he set the cruise
> > > control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the
back
> > > and make himself a cup of coffee. Not surprisingly the Winnie left the
> > > freeway, crashed and overturned. Mr. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not
> > > advising him in the handbook that he couldn't actually do this. He was
> > > awarded $1,750,000 plus a new Winnie. (Winnebago actually changed
their
> > > owner's manuals because of this court case, just in case there are any
> > > other complete morons buying their vehicle.
Spoke,
"See the Surfing Rabbi featured in this year's incredible new surfing film, "Step into Liquid" "
i think since he is in it he may have some inside info ;)
Maybe we should seek wisdom from the Surfing Rabbi :)
Cook the books baby! check out this pic!
Look what stock got rated in the top ten pick
http://biz.yahoo.com/p/n/nxtv.html
Next Level Communications designs and markets high-speed, high-volume communications equipment that enables telephone companies and others to deliver voice, data and video services over the existing copper wire infrastructure.
we better hurry!
Iraq would become America's 51st state
WASHINGTON (AP) - It was announced today that Iraq would become America's 51st state edging out Puerto Rico in a closely fought contest.
Since the ouster of the dictator Sadam Hussein, who is rumored to be vacationing with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Hilton Hotel in the Black Sea resort region of Russia, the US Congress has had a sudden change of heart over the unilateral action taken by President Bush in the Middle East.
This happened while the President's approval ratings in a new CNN/Time magazine opinion poll went over 100% for the first time to set an all time record for a sitting President.
Sadam, on the other hand, is said to be considering an offer to replace Phil Donahue on MSNBC as a talk show host. It is also said that he may run for "President For Life" in Saudi Arabia.
"Since the value of the oil we now own in Iraq far exceeds the value of all of Puerto Rico, this was a 'no brainer'. And besides, now we don't have to learn how to speak Spanish." said one senior Republican Senator (from Texas) on the condition of anonymity.
"Yes, the oil is important," said the President with a tear in his eye, "but, most important are the three million new registered Republican voters in Baghdad alone. These people were just so damn grateful to be liberated from Sadam that they went right to the Military Police directing traffic in their beautiful city to see where they might sign up to cast their vote in 2004."
It is also rumored that the President will appoint former Vice President Dan Quayle as the interim Governor of the new state. Since Quayle now lives in Phoenix, AZ, the President felt he would be perfect for the new desert state since he was already used to the dry heat.
In a related story, President Bush will be leaving tomorrow morning on Air Force One for Baghdad. He claims that in addition to being able to fill the gas tanks on "that big sucker" for roughly $3.80 while he's there, he would also hold his first Iraqi fund raiser in the Grand Ballroom of the new Marriott Baghdad Hotel, formerly known as the Iraqi Presidential Palace.
He is expected to raise $4.5 Billion in re-election campaign contributions over the weekend.
The President returns to the White House on Monday.
An artical with my wife's company,"Momenta Pharmaceuticals, formerly Mimeon", a good read.
Crane left Millennium this spring to start Momenta Pharmaceuticals, formerly Mimeon, a company that aims to improve existing drugs and develop new ones based on the science of sugars. 'There's no bigger compliment than having a strong alumni of people who build new companies,' Feinstein said. 'The fact that Levin hired so many superstars is a testament to him and to Millennium.'
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/240/business/Forward_thinking+.shtml
(Gross ticket receipts in $millions)
MOVIEWEB/Aug. 25/Aug. 18 Weeks
RANK /Weekend/Weekend Total in
Movie (Studio)(0-10) / Gross / Gross Gross Release
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
2/ 2/ 1. Signs (TO) -.- / $14.3 / $19.4 $173.1 4
1/ 1/ 2. XXX (CO) -.- / $13.3 / $22.1 $106.3 3
3/ 4/ 3. Spy Kids 2 (DI) -.- / $ 7.6 / $11.5 $ 58.6 3
8/ 6/ 4. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (IFC)-.- / $ 7.3 / $ 5.7 $ 63.7 19
--/ 3/ 5. Blue Crush (UN) -.- / $ 6.5 / $14.2 $ 26.5 2
--/--/ 6. Serving Sara (PA) -.- / $ 5.8 / $ -.- $ 5.8 1
4/ 5/ 7. Austin Powers-Goldmember (NL) -.- / $ 5.5 / $ 8.7 $193.9 5
--/--/ 8. Undisputed (MM) -.- / $ 4.5 / $ -.- $ 4.5 1
--/--/ 9. Simone (NL) -.- / $ 3.8 / $ -.- $ 3.8 1
5/ 7/10. Blood Work (WB) -.- / $ 2.8 / $ 4.8 $ 20.2 3
Do you have A.A.A.D.D?
this was sent to me,Iv had days like this lol ....
They have finally found a diagnosis for my condition. I have recently been diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder. This is how it goes:
I decide to wash the car; I start toward the garage and notice the mail on the table. OK, I'm going to wash the car. But first I'm going to go through the mail. I lay the car keys down on the desk, discard the junk mail and I notice the trash can is full. OK, I'll just put the bills on my desk and take the trash can out, but since I'm going to be near the mailbox anyway, I'll pay these few bills first. Now, where is my checkbook? Darn, there's
only one check left! My extra checks are in my desk. Oh, there's the coke I was drinking. I'm going to look for those checks. But first I need to put my coke further away from the computer, or maybe I'll pop it into the fridge to keep it cold for a while. I head towards the kitchen and my flowers catch my eye, they need some water. I set the coke
on the counter and there are my glasses. I was looking for them all morning! I'd better put them away first. I fill a container with water and head for the flower pots. Someone left the TV remote in the kitchen. We will never think to look in the kitchen tonight when we want to watch television so I'd better put it back in the family room where it belongs. I splash some water into the pots and onto the floor, I throw the remote back onto a soft
cushion on the sofa and I head back down the hall trying to figure out what it was I was going to do?
End of the Day:
The car isn't washed, the bills are unpaid, the coke is sitting on the kitchen counter, the flowers are half watered, the checkbook still only has one check in it and I can't seem to find my car keys! When I try to figure out how come nothing got done today, I'm baffled because I KNOW I WAS BUSY ALL DAY LONG! I realize this is a serious condition and I'll get help, but first I'll check my e-mail.
Please send this to people that you think need it because I don't remember who I've sent this to. But please don't send it back to me or I might send it to you again!
housands walk through Boston's 'Big Dig'
BOSTON (Reuters) - Thousands of curious Bostonians turned out Sunday to walk through a new tunnel that is part of the city's $14.6 billion "Big Dig," the largest and most complex highway construction project in U.S. history.
After more than a decade of construction work, organizers opened a half-mile stretch of tunnel to give pedestrians a chance to see first-hand what the underground project is all about.
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which manages the Big Dig, said as many as a half-million people were expected to walk through the subterranean highway by the end of the day.
By 2 p.m., the waiting time to get into the tunnel had grown to an hour as tens of thousands of people choked the main street leading to the entrance.
"I'm here because I figure we're spending billions of dollars on this project so I'd better get as much out of it as I can," said Sam Maranto, 36, of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, as he waited in line for the free walk-through.
"Plus, I also want to see it with my own eyes, see that it's actually going to be completed," he added.
The project has been compared to the building of the Hoover Dam or the Panama Canal, but over the years it has become a source of endless frustration for just about anyone passing through Boston.
Designed to replace outdated elevated highways in downtown Boston with sleek tunnels, the Big Dig has produced a seemingly never-ending saga of traffic headaches, political scandals, engineering glitches and billions of dollars in cost overruns.
The tunnel that was opened to pedestrians on Sunday was due to open to vehicles later this year. As for the rest of the Big Dig, it should be dug by 2004, organizers said.
08/25/02 16:04 ET
Don't know if its true but if this bill gets past, Im moving in with PoorBoy!
What a joke!
http://www.conservativealerts.com/082402.htm
Oldest American Dies at Age 114
By MICHELLE MORGANTE
.c The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO (Aug. 23) - Adelina Domingues, who was recognized as the oldest living American, has died at the age of 114.
Domingues died in her sleep Wednesday afternoon, said Rebecca Williams, administrator of Brighton Place, the nursing home where Domingues lived since 1995.
Though Domingues had remained physically active and mentally sharp, her health had declined over the last month.
``I just think at 114, it was just her time,'' her granddaughter Deborah Murphy said Friday.
Domingues was born in the Cape Verde Islands and insisted her birth year was 1887, which would have made her 115 and the oldest person in the world. But a search turned up a baptism date of 1888. The Guinness Book of Records ruled she was 114 with a birthdate of Feb. 19, 1888.
The oldest known living person is Kamato Hongo of Japan, who was born on Sept. 16, 1887.
According to the Gerontology Research Group, the organization which helped authenticate Domingues' age, John McMorran of Florida is now the oldest American. Born on June 19, 1889, he is 113.
Born to an Italian sea captain and a Cape Verdean woman, Domingues was 18 when she married Jose Domingues, a whaling captain. The couple moved to New Bedford, Mass., in 1907. They raised four children while Adelina worked as a seamstress.
After her husband died in 1950, Domingues moved to Southern California to be near her son Frank, who died in Palm Desert in 1998.
Murphy, the daughter of Frank Domingues, said his passing was devastating to her grandmother, who lost her first son when he was 2 and another son and a daughter when they were teenagers.
``She asked why she would still be alive and have to bury her last child,'' said Murphy, of Hookstown, Pa. ``That was the hardest thing for her, to still be alive and having buried all four of her children and her husband and brothers and sisters.''
Domingues lived on her own until she was 107. She voted well into her 100s, and often wrote admiring letters to Ronald Reagan.
``She was just our feisty little Portuguese sweetheart,'' Williams said. ``She was quite opinionated, very clear in her wants and needs.''
Domingues herself never tried to offer a secret for her longevity, though she ate a diet rich in fresh fruits and vegetables, and abstained from alcohol and tobacco, Murphy said.
``She never took any credit for anything she achieved in life. She always gave credit to God and to his plan and purpose in life,'' Murphy said.
Domingues is survived by six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
It would be cool if one of us won the contest, what ever it is lol
And something cool about Movie making
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/hiltzik0902.asp
Ultrawideband: Promise or Peril? Is this us?
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/focuson0902.asp
This is from on of MIT's magazines
Ah, but it was News to US :)
Yesterday's PR did not show up on any of my news services.
My Dad told me one time that when I was 3 years old I heard the Priest ringing the bell for communion, I yelled out, "Ice cream man!!! Ice cream man!!!" LOL
Church Stories, funny :)
A little boy was in a relative's wedding. As he was coming down the aisle, he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd. While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar. So it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR, all the way down the aisle. As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing so hard by the time he reached the pulpit. When asked what he was doing, the child sniffed and said, "I was being the Ring Bear."
One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up" during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just before reaching the safety of the foyer, the little one called loudly to the congregation, "Pray for me! Pray for me!"
One particular little four-year old boy prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."
Another little boy was overheard praying, "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am."
As they were on their way to church service, a Sunday school teacher asked her little children, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?" One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping."
A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, looking at the old pages as he turned them. Then something fell out of the Bible and he picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked. With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "It's Adam's suit!!"
The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mike and, as he preached, he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mike cord as he went. Then he moved to one side, getting wound up in the cord and nearly tripping before jerking it again. After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the third pew leaned toward her mother and whispered, "If he gets loose, will he hurt us?"
Six-year old, Angie, and her four-year old brother, Joel, were sitting together in church. Joel giggled, sang and talked out loud. Finally, his big sister had had enough. "You're not supposed to talk out loud in church." "Why? Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked. Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, "See those two men standing by the door? They're hushers."
My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo, while I asked, "No, how are we alike?" "You're both old," he replied.
A ten-year old, under the tutelage of her grandmother, was becoming quite knowledgeable about the Bible. Then, one day, she floored her grandmother by asking, "Which Virgin was the mother of Jesus? The Virgin Mary or the King James Virgin?"
A Sunday school class was studying the Ten Commandments. They were ready to discuss the last one. The teacher asked if anyone could tell her what it was. Susie raised her hand, stood tall and quoted, "Thou shall not take the covers off thy neighbor's wife."
I had been teaching my three-year old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she would repeat after me the lines from the prayer. Finally, she decided to go solo. I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer, "And lead us not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver us some E-mail. Amen."
While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his five-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said, "Glory be unto the Faaaather....and unto the Sonnn......and into the hole he gooooes."
hi p, YOU DA MAN !!!!!! Yes
Top executive in Enron pleaded guilty Wednesday
HOUSTON (Aug. 21) - A former top executive in Enron Corp.'s finance division pleaded guilty Wednesday to money laundering and wire fraud, becoming the first to be convicted in the aftermath of the former energy behemoth's implosion last year.
Michael Kopper, 37, was managing director of Enron Global Finance under former chief financial officer Andrew Fastow. He quit the company months before its collapse to run one of several partnerships created by Fastow that have been blamed for the company's failure.
As part of his agreement to cooperate with the government, he agreed to surrender $12 million in illegally obtained assets.
In his written pleading, Kopper said his activities were conducted under the direction of Fastow and in some cases in concert with Fastow. He said that in at least two of the transactions he kicked back money to Fastow.
He also addressed the judge in court, outlining his actions in a low monotone. In response to a question, he said he had sought counseling in the past year for stress-related anxiety and took medication to help him sleep.
Kopper's cooperation represents a potential watershed in the investigation, given his knowledge of Enron's innermost workings. It also is a drastic shift from February when he invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to testify before Congress.
''Michael has admitted that he has misused his position at Enron to enrich himself and others, and in so doing, violated his duties as an Enron employee,'' David Howard, Kopper's attorney, said in a statement. Kopper stood beside Howard and made no comment.
Kopper remains free after posting $5 million bond set by U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr.
Sentencing was set for April 4, leaving prosecutors eight months to determine how helpful his testimony is before deciding what sentence to seek. Kopper could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and fined up to double the amount determined to have been fraudulently gained. That could amount to millions of dollars.
The government also said Wednesday it is seeking the return of about $23 million in illegally obtained money from other people, including about $12.8 million in accounts held by Fastow and his family.
Investigators are looking into whether Enron managers, from former chairman Kenneth Lay and former chief executive Jeff Skilling on down, knew the network of partnerships - largely backed by Enron stock - was being used to hide debt and inflate profits.
Former federal prosecutors say Kopper, as a one-time top lieutenant to Fastow, will be able to lead investigators through the complex web of accounting and financial transactions that prompted Enron's dizzying crash, leaving the company bankrupt, thousands of workers jobless and millions of investors with nearly worthless stock.
''He embodies the perfect cooperating witness because he is not viewed by the public as being one of the most culpable defendants, but at the same time he has a vast array of knowledge and can point the government in the right direction,'' said Robert Mintz, a former Justice Department prosecutor.
Fastow was ousted in October, days after Enron admitted a $618 million third-quarter loss and wrote down $1.2 billion in shareholder equity, exposing years of inflated profits and hidden debt.
When Enron filed for bankruptcy in December, it was the largest such filing in U.S. history. Millions of investors lost money and thousands of current and former Enron workers lost the bulk of their retirement savings.
It also led to the unraveling of Arthur Andersen LLP, the auditing firm convicted of shredding documents to obstruct a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of Enron's accounting practices.
Since then, executives of Andersen and other major companies, including WorldCom and Adelphia, have been accused of improper accounting.
Fastow ran partnerships that allowed Enron to shift debt from its books. He also negotiated deals with Enron on the partnerships' behalf.
Kopper became a focus of investigators because of his involvement in Enron-financed partnerships. An investigation by Enron's board determined Kopper and his domestic partner used Enron partnerships to turn a $125,000 personal investment into $10.5 million in less than three years.
Kopper had not been charged. In a plea agreement, the government generally brings charges just before a guilty plea is entered in court.
Kopper ran a partnership called Chewco, named for the ''Star Wars'' character of Chewbacca, until he left Enron in 2001 to run another Fastow-created entity called LJM2.
Ken Johnson, spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said Kopper likely is the first of many executives who will be charged.
''Clearly this is just the first shoe to drop, based on the information our committee has in its possession,'' Johnson said. ''We have a wealth of information in our possession suggesting a number of people at Enron took part in fraudulent activities.''
AP-NY-08-21-02 1506EDT
Dealer sold mentally feeble man 18 cars in 14 months
Saturday, August 17, 2002
By JULIA ANDERSON, Columbian staff writer
A Vancouver car dealer who sold a mentally impaired man 18 cars in 14 months last year has agreed to pay $32,000 in civil fines and attorney fees after an investigation by the Washington state Office of the Attorney General.
The conclusions of the case were filed in Clark County Superior Court on Friday.
According to state attorneys, the dealer, A&D Auto Sales, doing business as Vancouver Mazda/Dodge, allegedly violated the state's Consumer Protection Act by misrepresenting trade-in values and lease terms in the transactions and by misrepresenting the optional nature of various financing and insurance products available to consumers.
The transactions "depleted the man's retirement savings," investigators said.
Pretended to be his friend
According to state documents, the dealership's managers and sales people pretended to befriend the 69-year-old man in order to get him to buy vehicles at retail prices and then trade them in days or weeks later at lower, wholesale prices.
Meantime, said state investigators, the dealership kept the difference.
In order to build trust and make the man believe they were his friend, dealership staff provided the man with a monogrammed director's chair in the dealership's showroom and treated him to dinner while secretly using his money to pay for everyone's dinner, state investigators said.
Separate settlement
Ron Anderson, the dealership's principal owner, said this week he ordered the car sales stopped when after six months of aberrant behavior the dealership's general manager told him what was going on. Anderson said he should have recognized the problem much sooner.
The settlement with the Office of the Attorney General is separate from a private settlement between the dealership and the man's Vancouver lawyer, Sam Gunn, that restored the man's savings and left him with a new vehicle. Gunn was not available for comment Friday.
I got this email and I sent them NVEI research links for them to spend their 9 million on, LOL
ATTN: CEO/PRESIDENT.
l am sorry for the embarrassment this my letter might
cause you as we have not had any correspondence before
this letter.l got your address through the Nigeria
Chamber of Commerce lndustry and Minning during my
research for a reliable and trustworthy partner who l
can do business with though l did not disclose the
nature of the business l intend to do with whoever is
recommend for me.
l am DR.MRS MARIAM ABACHA,wife of the late Nigeria
Head of State,General Sanni Abacha who died on the 8th
of June,1998 while still on active duty.l am
contacting you in view of the fact that we will be of
great assistance to each other likeness developing a
cordial relationship.l currently have within my reach
the sum of Nine Million US Dollars (US$9,000,000.00)
cash which l intend to use for investment, like Real
Estate Development specifically in your country.
This money came as a payback contract deal between my
late husband and a Russian Firm on our countries
multi-billion dollars Ajaokuta Steel Plant.The Russian
Parters returned my husband's share of
USD$9,000,000.00 after the death of my husband and
lodged in my husband's security company of which l am
director, right now the new Civilian Government have
intensified their probe on my husband's financial and
oil company.ln view of these, l acted fast to withdraw
the US$9,000,000.00 from the company's vault and
deposited it in a private Security Company in Accra
Ghana. l have since declared the Security Company
bankrupt.
No record ever existed concerning the money traceable
by the government because there is no documentation
showing that we received the money from the
Russian.Due to the current situation int the country
concerning government attitude towards my family, it
has become quite impossible for me to make use of
this money within.The present government in Nigeria
had frozen and seized all our bank accounts both here
in Nigeria and abroad.Thus consent,l shall expect you
to contact me urgently to enable us discuss in detail
about this transaction. Bearing in mind that your
assistance is needed to transfer this fund, l propose
a percentage of 15% of the total sum to you for the
expected service and assistance and 5% for offsetting
minor expenses incurred in the course of this
transaction.
Your urgent response is highly needed as to stop
further contacts. All correspondence must be by the
email address above.l must use this opportunity to
implore you to exercise the utmostindulgence to keep
this matter extraordinarily confidential whatever
your decision while await your prompt response.
Best Regards.
DR. (MRS) MARIAM ABACHA.
NB: Because of the security being mounted on the
members of my family,l have decided that this
transaction exist between you and my
attorney,BARRISTER WILIFRED KANU.You can reach him on
Tel- 234 1 4729514 OR FAX:234 1 2882497, OR
Email:barrister-wilifred@earthling.net.Remember to
include your private tel/fax or mobilenumber for easy communication
LEBANON, Ind. - A package that sat in a hidden vault since 1945 has finally reached its intended recipient.
Kenneth F. Perkins of Lebanon received a package last week containing after-shave lotion, talc and hair dressing.
It was postmarked Dec. 13, 1945.
Construction workers discovered Perkins' package during July renovations at the federal courthouse in Indianapolis.
The courthouse once housed the post office and when workers moved a shelf, they discovered the vault containing some undelivered mail, said Kim Yates, a U.S. Postal Service representative.
Officials tracked down Perkins, now 79, through the military. The package was sent to him while he was serving in the Navy.
While stationed in Florida, Perkins began a friendship with a Chicago woman named Rosalie Tellerman who was vacationing in Miami. The two continued a long-distance friendship until her letters stopped.
``She probably got mad at me for not sending her a card thanking her for the gift,'' Perkins said.
Some Scary Statistics!
Think about this:
a. The number of physicians in the US is 700,000.
b. Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year is 120,000.
c. Accidental deaths per physician is 0.171. (US Dept. of Health & Human
Services)
Then think about this:
a. The number of gun owners in the US is 80,000,000.
b. The number of accidental gun deaths per year (all age groups) is 1,500.
c. The number of accidental deaths per gun owner is .0000188.
Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun
owners.
FACT: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GUN, BUT ALMOST EVERYONE HAS AT LEAST ONE DOCTOR.
Please alert your friends to this alarming threat. We must ban doctors before
this gets out of hand. As a public health measure I have withheld the
statistics on lawyers for fear that the shock could cause people to seek
medical attention.
JH Email
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Q. What are you thoughts about this Last Mile Solution?
A. Al,
This is an example of squeezing more juice out of the same orange. It is
still ADSL.
John
How far wold you go for greed? LOL
LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (Wireless Flash) -- A deceased cattle rancher in Bozeman, Montana, took care of his heirs by installing an automatic teller machine in his tombstone.
Cattle rancher Grover Chestnut died earlier this year at the age of 79. However, before he cashed in, he installed an ATM at his tombstone and gave ten heirs debit cards, and told them were allowed to withdraw $300 per week from the grave.
Chestnut apparently figured the tombstone ATM was the best way to make sure his grave had regular visitors.
It seems to be working. Joel Jenkins, who helped create the "cashing-out" machines, says one of Chestnut's granddaughters recently gave up a promising acting career in New York in order to cash in on Grandpa's money-making tombstone.
Although Chestnut's grave is currently the only one with an ATM, Jenkins thinks others will be trying it soon.
Iv seen Blue Crush Movie posters in the men's room on the stall doors at the mall.
I was stunned to see that.
Maybe they should make "Step in to Liquid" toilet seats, when you sit down on it plays Wipe out and when you Flush, it says in a "Jeff Spicolli voice," hang ten dude!
What is better than Killing those Bastards?
Suing them!
You don't have to stoop to their level, Its moral, its legal and you got some spending money.
Q. How do you turn a Prince in to a Nomad over night?
A. You sue him. Bwaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaahaaaaa!!!!!
good one!
Oh and Ya, Hand over OPEC, 25¢ a Gallon !!!!
WASHINGTON (Aug. 15) - Vowing to avenge the murder of their loved ones, relatives of about 900 people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks filed a lawsuit on Thursday against three Saudi princes, several foreign banks and Sudan's government for allegedly funding Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network.
''The terrorists were wrong, but the people who aided and abetted and allowed them to do this are more wrong,'' said Matthew Sellitto, a plaintiff in the lawsuit, whose 23-year-old son died in the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11.
''The banks, so-called charities and the individuals named in this action have the blood of my son on their hands,'' he said, his voice breaking, during a news conference announcing the lawsuit. ''And they have the blood of more than 3,000 other precious, irreplaceable people on their hands. And we will hold them accountable.''
In a civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, relatives of hundreds killed in the attacks and some Sept. 11 survivors accused seven international banks operating mainly in the Middle East, eight Islamic foundations and charities, the government of Sudan and a number of individuals of helping fund terrorist activities.
The lawsuit, filed by individuals from across the United States and at least six other countries, asked for damages exceeding one hundred trillion dollars. The lawyers said they were seeking ''hundreds of billions'' of dollars in damages.
Individuals named in the suit included Saudi-born extremist Osama bin Laden and several of his relatives, as well as three members of the Saudi royal family: Turki al Faisal al Saud, Sultan bin Abdul Aziz al Saud and Mohammed al Faisal al Saud.
The United States has blamed bin Laden and al-Qaida for the Sept. 11 attacks that killed more than 3,000 people.
Lead attorney Ron Motley, who said intelligence agencies from five countries had helped provide information used in the suit, said the plaintiffs had ''no delusions'' about the case, recognizing that it would be a long struggle to win in court and stop the financing networks.
'THE TRUE ENABLERS OF TERRORISM'
''This civil action seeks to hold those responsible for a more subtle and insidious form of terrorism, that which attempts to hide behind the face of legitimacy,'' the lawsuit said. ''These entities, cloaked in a thin veil of legitimacy, were and are the true enablers of terrorism.''
''The financial resources and support network of these defendants -- charities, banks and individual financiers -- are what allowed the attacks of September 11, 2001, to occur,'' it said. ''Terrorists like Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network cannot plan, train and act on a massive scale without significant financial power, coordination and backing.''
The banks named in the suit were: Al Baraka Investment and Development Corp., National Commercial Bank, Faisal Islamic Bank, Al Rajhi Banking and Investment, Al Barakaat Exchange LLC, Dar Al Maal Al Islami and Al Shamal Islamic Bank.
Charitable groups named included: the International Islamic Relief Organization, Sanabel Al Kheer Inc., Muslim World League, Saar Foundation, Rabita Trust, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
''It's up to us to bankrupt the terrorists and those who financed them so they will never again have the resources to commit such atrocities against the American people,'' said Deena Burnett, whose husband Thomas Burnett died on the hijacked airliner that crashed into a Pennsylvania field.
''By filing this lawsuit, this is our only source of retribution, our only source of action to help stop them.''
The 259-page lawsuit alleged that members of the Saudi royal family were implicated in the Sept. 11 attacks. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who commandeered airplanes on Sept. 11 were Saudi nationals. The lawsuit alleged that Saudi money has ''for years been funneled to encourage radical anti-Americanism as well as to fund the al-Qaida terrorists.''
Saudi Arabia has denied any involvement and repeatedly has said its relations with the United States remained strong. Top Bush administration officials have said publicly that ties between the United States and Saudi Arabia were excellent.
Reuters 18:24 08-15-02
How to wash a cat
1. Thoroughly clean toilet.
2. Lift both lids and add shampoo.
3. Find and soothe cat as you carry it to the bathroom
4. In one swift move, place cat in toilet, close both lids and stand on lids so cat cannot escape.
5. The cat will self-agitate and produce ample suds. (Ignore the ruckus from inside the toilet, cat is enjoying this.)
6. Flush toilet 3 or 4 times. This provides power rinse, which is quite effective.
7. Have someone open outside door, stand as far from toilet as possible and quickly lift both lids.
8. Clean cat will rocket out of the toilet and outdoors, where it will air dry.
Sincerely,
The Dog
That song is the best Ex! EOM
What can I say but,WOW! Excellent Job Pengy!!
Will there be a PR?
Oh, and did they do the test in Poland Maine so no one can find them?
Mikeygold asked an elderly man sitting on his porch, "Can you tell me where New visual will be doing the field test on their tech?"
The old man says, "You can't get there from Hea"