Capitalist Ms. Piggy Saving Money

I'LL DRINK TO THAT!  Why I haven't thought of that?!  Anyway, it does not make any difference.

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LIFE IS FULL OF UNCERTAINTY, BUT THREE THINGS ARE CONSTANT: DEATH, TAXES AND INSURANCE - RALPH NADER, CONSUMER ADVOCATE 

I did not have money sense as a young impetuous spender.  I just spend money as if there's no tomorrow.  I spend my hard-earned money on food, travel, entertainment and collectibles.  The sky is always the limit then and now.  I never paid attention before for life is just too short to be a "keeper."  I may not be here tomorrow.  However, I have come to realize saving a little here and there is good for the state of the economy.  I reorganized and restructured some but not all.

I maximized my deductibles in my auto and home insurance.  According to the consumer guru Ralph Nader, the definition of  "Deductible" is the money that must come out of your pocket after a loss before any money comes out of the insurance company's.  I think I can afford to pay any loss so I take the risk.  Don't do as I do if you're not a risk-taker.

This is nothing new with my life insurance but you may not realize it.  You don't need a life insurance if you're single or married with no children.  You need a life insurance if you're married/unmarried with children as beneficiaries.  They need the money for your funeral costs.  I do not buy travel insurance (I think I did when I first came to America).  Some credit card companies offer free travel insurance.  If an air crash happens because of terrorist acts, my dear family has someone to sue anyway.


Published  2005 ALT MSN Groups
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Am I worried with what's happening around me? Yes and no.  President Obama is spreading the wealth to 95% of Americans.  He and his fellow Democrat elitists  are the sublime reincarnation of Karl Marx.  Media hypes and ads are going to take the whole global economic meltdown out recession or depression, depending where you are standing or sitting.  So I'm not worried at all.  Not at all!
I just opened my mails this morning.  I don't open my envelopes in the evening for if it's bad news it's too late to respond right away and it will ruin my whole night and I'll be in bad mood.  Well, it said in one of the letters my CD is maturing.  I think I'll just forget putting my money in CDs.  The interest is not even enough to tip the waiter.  Giggles.

The Obama Administration has an out of this world stimulus bill.  Part is bailing out homeowners who are being foreclosed and turned their house into ghost house.  Now homeowners should be very, very careful.  A lot of lessons learned this past year in securing home mortgages, subprime and all.

Common sense in buying a house:

If you should buy a house or continue to refinance even if you don't have a job, don't do it.  Don't refinance.  Don't buy a house if you don't have EXTRA money in your savings account.  As a reminder to the 5-10% homeowners who are in foreclosures here are the reasons why you have to have that extra money....

• Utilities - water, gas, electric
• House and car insurance
• Lawn maintenance
• Home repair
• School matriculation
• Unforseen emergency bills 
• Other headaches

I must confess, I don't take money seriously.  For it's only money.  It's meant to be spent, plain and simple. My financial adviser told me many moons ago - watch out for this bad stock market target 7,000 points or so.  Well, it went below.  There you go...no guts, no glory.  Didn't we have a good time while we're flying high?  Money is like that, easy come, easy go.
I go with the flow.

Published 3/4/09  altgroup multiply

Web Page: Capitalist Ms. Piggy

Wedding Photographer

THE ENGLISH WAY OF WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY BEATS IT ALL.  Excellent format, indeed!  A must see.


Video Link  http://youtu.be/jLI6VA40oUs

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Beautiful aerial photography.
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Published 6/19/10  altgroup multiply
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Coming Home

POOR HANDMAIDS OF JESUS CHRIST    UPCOMING EVENTS    SAVE THE DATES!

Register by October 9, 2015   http://www.poorhandmaids.com/cominghome

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LET'S FACE IT....GOOD GENES, BAD GENES, WE'RE MADE TO SELF-DESTRUCT.  BUT THERE ARE WAYS TO LIVE A LITTLE BIT LONGER:

• Good living
• Eating healthy
• Smiling
• Praying

and

• Having the same hairdo (Your friends will say, "You look the same."

Published 3/8/06  ALT  MSN Group

Web Page: Healthy Veins

Katrina Disaster

10th ANNIVERSARY OF KATRINA DISASTER.   The way things are going, things are improving in the Big Easy.  New Orleans is always a nice place to visit - having coffee and beignets at  Cafe du Monde,  taking pictures of photogenic St. Louis Cathedral, and going from shop to shop (I bought my first Lladro)  among other things .  A totally old world to first time visitor, unique and a personality of her own.

City of New Orleans Song   http://youtu.be/TvMS_ykiLiQ

Related Blog Page  http://libslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2005/09/nola.html  



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EVERY TIME THERE IS A DISASTER, PEOPLE ASK HOW A LOVING AND MERCIFUL GOD CAN ALLOW SUCH THING TO HAPPEN, ESPECIALLY TO CHILDREN.  Is there an answer to this?  Does God allow these things to happen?

The question that never gets a satisfying answer is one that tries to explain the relationship between good and evil, or between God and the devil.  When bad things happen, we always look to see who is to blame.  We want to know the hows and whys of disaster, as if understanding evil would bring us comfort.  But there is no easy answer.

Of course, indirectly, God allows these things to happen because God created the world and gave us free will and choice.  If God had not created the world, obviously, nothing would happen.  But when bad things happen, it is not God's choice, but rather that God allows things to happen.

Evil, human error, conflict, or the consequence of sin can cause tragedy, pain and suffering.  But God is never defeated by evil, and can bring grace and goodness from a bad event.  The silver lining of suffering is always the healing power of God.  In short, God never abandons us, and through tragedy and disaster, walks with us.  When there is evil, one always finds grace.  In grace, we find hope, and in hope, we find our comfort.

Copied from 2013 Liturgical Publication

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It's no surprise the way the liberal media and Black politicians are turning a great disaster into political and racial issues.  President Bush is not God.  How do you control 25,000 thousand people, the sick and the hungry, in a matter of few days?  The roads were impassable and there's water everywhere.  The tsunami victims did not do any looting and raping like those low-life in New Orleans. 

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With MSN Spaces email straight to your blog. Upload jokes, photos and more. It's free!

Published  9/3/05  ALT  MSN Group

Web Page: Telling like it is Katrina Disaster

Bread

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE BREAD I'M BUYING LATELY?  I have big breakfast everyday - a cup of Folgers coffee, 3 eggs (sunny side-up, plain scrambled, and omelet with tomatoes and onions), 6 bacons and 2 slices of white bread.  Before starting, I smell the slice of bread.  For several months I've been buying different brands of bread just to make sure.  Even the brand that smell bread before.  All of them don't smell bread anymore and there's nothing wrong with my smell.  I think they are using ingredients that's different.

Sliced bread - Best invention ever.

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Bebs, one of the B*U*S*T* Babes, forwarded this email to Budz, another UST hottie babe.  Got this many times but sending this friendly advise again >

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From: Lgemini

Wine vs Water

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia ecoli, (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

 Remember: Water = Poop, wine = Health

 Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.

 There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.

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 Published 6/3/07  ALT MSN Group
 Web Page: Wine vs Water

ISM Round Table IQCP

BE A TECH OF THE ROUND TABLE   Register by September 29, 2015   Tuesday

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SERIES ON LABORATORY ICONS

Before they became famous in the world of laboratory technology, they were just like ordinary people - exploring, experimenting, and testing their new inventions.  They were the ones that laid the foundation of modern technology, inspiring new breed of laboratory scientists to persevere and discover new medical frontiers.  

   

1 ANTON VAN LEEUVENHOEK (1632-1723)

The Father of Microbiology

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was born at Delft, The Netherlands on October 24, 1632.  He considered himself more of an observer than a theoretician.  He was the first to leave written records of his findings in the world of microscopic life through observations and drawings.  Leeuwenhoek prepared hundreds of lenses with hand-grinding techniques and developed lenses with magnifying powers up to 270 diameters.  The amateur and ordinary scientist focused on different materials such as teeth scrapings, blood cells, dirty water, muscle fibers and sperm cells.  He called the tiny things animalcules and he described them as being 1,000 times smaller the eye of a louse.  He most probably saw these moving organisms as Giardia lamblia.  He used it as the standard measurement because its size is almost constant.

With his simple microscope he explained how he discovered bacteria and other minute organisms not visible with the naked eye.  He much opposed the popular thinking that living things can arise from dead matter.

  

Published 9/30/06  ALT MSN Group
Web Page:  Laboratory Icons  Leeuvenhoek

Wedding Ring

I WONDER WHAT'S THE MOST EXPENSIVE ENGAGEMENT / WEDDING RING EVER BOUGHT IN THE WORLD?  Gotta search the internet and will post it in this page.

Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com 

The Wedding Song By Peter, Paul and Mary
http://youtu.be/RrTfNTzAvYY

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Subject: Operator - Chinese Caller


Caller : Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan ?

Operator : Yes, you can speak to me.

Caller: No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!

Operator: You are talking to someone! Who is this?
Caller: I'm Sum Wan, and I need to talk to Annie Wan! It's urgent.
Operator: I know u are someone and u want to talk to anyone! But what's this urgent matter about?

Caller: Well just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother, Noe Wan was involved in an accident. Noe Wan got injured and now Noe Wan is being sent to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan is on his way to the hospital.

Operator: Look if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital from the accident that isn't an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I don't have time for this!

Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?
Operator: I'm Saw Lee.

Caller: Yes! You should be sorry. Now give me your name


Published  9/7/06   ALT  MSN Group 
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Cordova Spain

HANGING FLOWERS   OF CORDOVA    Who's watering?

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For once in my life as a Constant Traveler I'd like to visit Venice before it sink (hopefully not) and I did many years ago.  I was so lucky, because one or two weeks later, the whole of Piazza San Marco got flooded up to the knees. 
Josie PL, another world traveler, e-mailed me this beautiful slides show.



Carnivale de Venezia
Music: Andrew Rieu
Fullblast your speakers!

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Published 3/14/10  altgroup multiply
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Pope Francis The Lab Technician

 WITHOUT MUCH INTRODUCTION, POPE FRANCIS - THE HOLY LEADER OF 1.2 BILLION ROMAN CATHOLICS - WAS ONCE A LAB TECHNICIAN WHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER. 

Pope Francis's Job Resume

He attended the technical secondary school Escuela Tecnica Industrial N 27 Hipolito Yrigoyen and graduated with a chemical technician's diploma.  He worked for a few years as a food chemist, running lab tests at Hickethier-Bachmann laboratory where his boss was Esther Ballistrino.  

Before joining the Jesuits at age 21, he worked as a bar bouncer and as a janitor sweeping floors.  He suffered from life-threatening pneumonia and three cysts and had a part of a lung removed.  Bergoglio is a fan of tango dancing and traditional music of Argentina and Uruguay.

He became a novice Jesuit priest at age 22.  In between, he became an activist teacher/theologian, Slum Priest, got involved in the Argentinian "Dirty War" and was exiled to Cordoba, Argentina, by the archbishop. He was not allowed to say mass and only allowed to hear confessions.  Father Bergoglio, after all that happened learned his lessons to be obedient and humble.  Since then he begun telling his family and the faithful "To Pray For Me."  Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 1991 ?   on February 21, 2001.   The rest is history.

Wow!  From lab technician to pope.  Who would ever believe?  It goes to show with God everything is possible and nothing is impossible.

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http://altgroup.multiply.com
A one of a kind group of hospital laboratory technologists from countries like the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Colombia, Guatemala, and the United States,

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Published 1/29/09  altgroup multiply
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites

JUST ADDED.  UNTIL LAST WEEK,  I JUST ASSUMED THE ALAMO IN SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS AND THE LIBRARY OF CELSUS  IN EPHESUS, TURKEY, WERE IN THE LISTS OF UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES.  BUT THEY WERE NOT.  I was a bit dumbfounded.

Alamo visitors

Library of Celsus

Lists of UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES   

http://whc.unesco.org 

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list

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ANCIENT WONDERS  All gone except the Pyramid

1  Temple of Artemis

2.  Colossus of Rhodes

3.  Great Pyramid of Giza

4.  Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

5.  Hanging Garden of Babylon

6.  Zeus of Olympia

7.  Lighthouse of Alexandria

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Moore,
Princess (Tenesa)

pmoore@mednet.ucla.edu

UCLA

Department
of Pathology

(310)
825-8182

(310)
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Good thoughts  . . 
      

SEVEN  WONDERS OF
THE 
WORLD


A group
of students were asked to list what they thought were the
present
"Seven Wonders of the
World." Though there were some disagreements,
the
following received the most votes:
1. Egypt's Great Pyramids 2.
Taj Mahal 3. Grand Canyon 4.
Panama Canal  5. Empire State
Building   6. St. Peter's Basilica   7.
China's Great
Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one
student
had not finished her paper yet. So she  asked the girl
if
she was having trouble with her  list. The girl
replied,
"Yes, a little.  I couldn't quite make up my
mind
because  there were so many."

The teacher said,
"Well, tell us what you have, and
maybe we can help. "The girl
hesitated, then read, "I think the
'Seven
 Wonders of the World'
  are:

1. To
See

2. To
Hear

3. To
Touch

4. To
Taste

5. To
 Feel

6. To
Laugh

7. And
to Love."


The room was so quiet you could have heard a pin
drop.
The things we overlook as simple and ordinary and that
we
take for granted  are truly wondrous!
 A
gentle reminder --
that the most precious things in life

cannot be built by hand or bought by
man.
don't
be too busy to pass this along  

May
you find peace within you. May you trust God that you are exactly
where you are meant to be.

Published 5/27/05  ALT MSN Group

Web Page: 7 Wonders of the World

Diana

PRINCESS DIANA PASSED AWAY ON AUGUST 31, 1997 IN A CAR ACCIDENT IN PARIS, FRANCE.  

Diana was invited by the then president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois to visit the school in July of 1996.  The campus was just a few blocks away from my house so why not one of the many excited greeters.  She was the only real princess that I had ever seen in person.    When I visited Paris in 1998, my group saw the scene of the accident.  It was just like any underpass in my opinion.   The driver must be driving at a super-speed.

Mercedes-Benz wreckage

So many flowers never seen in a lifetime

People's Princess

Princess Di being greeted by Northwestern University students

Listen to one of  Diana's  favorite songs  http://youtu.be/iAczi8DsqBQ

Walk of Life by Dire Straits

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Doreen wrote: Hi Lib, your CD came today.  Walt and I sat right down
and watched it.  How wonderful, you must tell me how you did it.  It
is just GREAT.  It is so nice having those pictures.  What a wonderful
trip.  We are going to Hawaii in March; have never been there.  Keep
in touch.

Dear Doreen:  I'm glad you finally received the
film CD.  A gift is not a gift until you receive it.  I mailed it more
than 2 weeks ago with more than the proper postage and you just got it
now?!  When I mailed a film CD I created of my college reunion to my
professor he got it in 6 short days.  That's the United States Postal
Service at your service - absolutely, positively late!  Why, just the other
day I received a Bush-Cheney '04 letter envelope that as if someone in the post
office stomped on it a hundred times that the the envelope was so dirty. 
Must be a Bush hater in the Democratic Republic of Evanston.  How I did my
film CD?  I'm glad you enjoyed watching it.  I just clicked on my
Windows Movie Maker and followed what's to be done in visual effects and
transitions.  As you might have noticed I was so carried away and it ran
too long.  I had to cut it in 3 parts and so the timeline was messed
up.  Thank goodness, I'm not up for Oscar Award and it was just made for my
fellow travelers for their fun and enjoyment.  Really and truly, MSN
Windows Movie Maker is always one step of the future and so far advance that it
helped me a lot.  I'm not up to date but probably MS has gone beyond to the
outer space and here I am lagging 2 years behind since I bought my Windows
XP.


Published 8/23/04  ALT MSN Group
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