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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was an incredible read. I'm wondering if the movie can even come close?

I thought this was about Sugar Motta, aka Vanessa (Pha-)Lengies (my nickname)from GLEE. Besides finding Brasilian love, you know where this GLEEK's brain is at. I suppose just like Sugar and Forrest, stupid is as stupid does?

Here's a daytime photo. At night, quite a bit scarier. Very convenient with the trough to carry away the spent spooge.

You haven't really lived until you've tried KaDeWe's Lungensuppe.

I was back in the US of Cuh-RAY-zees for three weeks. Every time I heard Perry speak, I just shook my head. How could Texas elect anyone dumber than Bush 2.0? er, or is that dumberer?

Do the kiddies call him Father Father or just hypocrite? However, the church has had many of the "Pope's Nephews" as well as a wonderful recent history concerning Nazi appeasement. Just a great group of guys!

Food Porn...so sorry if I made anyone hungry for a different type of sausage.

OOPS! Start with 1800 kinds of cheese, 1500 meats and sausage and 400 varieties of bread. http://www.eattoblog.com/kadewe-a-foodie-heaven/ http://www.bento.com/phgal-kadewe.html

Kaufhaus des Westens - The most incredible department store - only the highest-quality lines at incredible prices, like the very old Marshall Field's(pre-1965), but with a food floor that would even beat the Food Hall stalls at Harrods in London. Here is a link that only gives a faint description to the Shangri-La/Nirvana for any self-proclaimed "foodie." What I remember best are the sausage and fish counters. Cheese of course as well as the baked goods.

Finally glorious here. Sunny. Hotter. Drying Out. When I came home, had a great view of the "Fingers of God"

My bad! I read the title and thought this concerned TommyGirl's daughter and here successful escape from the clutches of the Scientology Police.

What were you wanting to say?

I have a definite need to visit the top floor of KaDeWe.

The Prefeitura put on a very nice show this evening here on Paqueta. A miniature version of Copa. Stage, light show, separate enclosure for the sound board, airconditioned dressing rooms for the entertainment. Lots and lots of visitors. This year many people brought open-sided tents for some protection from the wet weather. As always, nice views of the fireworks along the western shore of Guanabara Bay from Duque de Caxias all of the way to Flamengo. About 2/3 of the people were wearing white. As always, leaving offerings of white roses, gladioli and mums floating on the water along with illuminated candles.Only this year while carrying an umbrella in one hand. Some religiously roll on the muddy bottom, believing this beach's mud imparts some type of health guaranty for the year to come. Me, not so much. This stuff is not quite like the type Tim Robbins wore in The Player. My dogs have been going nuts for about the past hour. Loud. Loud. Loud. Fireworks still going on 40 minutes after Midnight. The show continues on the main stage until 3:30AM. Now time to take a shower, dry off and pop another Heine.

Isn't he just "ARTISTIC?"

I figured out how it happened. The young studly Czech groom was a little short of funds for the wedding and he asked George Basten what he should do. Unfortunately, his new bride found out how he was able to come up with the extra cash to pay for the wedding... BLOODY CZECH WEDDING AS DRUNK BRIDE, GROOM EXCHANGE BLOWS Czech wedding party ended in tears, bruises and the drunk tank last Saturday as the inebriated newlyweds started a fight outside a restaurant, the police said Tuesday. "The bride and the groom attacked each other. They were both drunk, and they both ended up with bruises," police spokeswoman Jana Mazourova told AFP. The incident between the 31-year-old bride and the 22-year-old bridegroom occurred in the central Czech town of Havlickuv Brod, about 100 kilometres (63 miles) southeast of the capital Prague. "The bride, who refused a breathalyser test, ended up in a drunk tank. The police were afraid she would keep attacking her husband," said Mazourova.("She also kept yelling something about her husband requesting she use a strap-on sexual aid." MY BAD) The couple are facing a fine for the incident handled by the police as a minor offence. Mazourova said she had no information about whether divorce proceedings were under way (with TomCal named as the co-respondent. MY BAD AGAIN)

Something yummy and something yummier, depends what you are hungry for...

Funny Lucky. The comedy of the tragedy that I as well only go to Daddy's for that one forum.

Kugel, Latkes or TSA officers?

He is already done with the first two units. His grammar is excellent. He really studies. And reads in English. His pronunciation could be better. The problem is that his teacher is an Argentinian who spent all of 4 months living in Ottawa ON. So he is learning to speak English from someone with a Spanish accent. Not great. He changes to CCAA in January after our trip to wherever.

After Reveillon, my plan is to take the boyfriend for a week away from Rio proper. My first choice was to Salvador in Bahia and form there, either towards the north for Praia do Forte and Imbassai or to the south towards Ilheus and Trancoso. However, he works a lot of hours per week and of course, doesn't make much as a waiter. Rather than spend 1200-1300 on airfare for two, I'd rather give it to him for 6 months of his English courses at CCAA and just hit a relatively nearby pousada where we can dive and swim in clear waters. Sit on the beach and each freshly-grilled fish. Anyone have any experiences they want to share?

Maybe they kept here imprisoned until she divulged her Lukshen Kugel recipe? Or with Chanukah approaching, the secret to the lightness of her Potato Latkes?

I like the computer desk myself. If I get hot and bothered looking at something on the screen, there is right above me a nice,, warm spot already waiting for me.

C'mon now, get with the program! The terrorists have run out of younger people willing to sacrifice the balance of their life, so they've been recruiting those whose balance isn't so good. They've moved on from underwear bombers to Depends bombers. They've cleverly found a way to create exploding adult diapers and have used harmless looking little old ladies to deliver the diapers of death on to the aircraft. I suppose my 94 year-old Mom has reasons not to. fly. Oh, wait! She doesn't yet use a walker in which she could hide her explosives. Or hearing aids for those remotely-controlled devices. Or a super-secret, self-detonating, implanted pacemaker. From the NY Daily News: An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort Lauderdale when security whisked her to a private room and took off her clothes. “I walk with a walker — I really look like a terrorist,” she said sarcastically. “I’m tiny. I weigh 110 pounds, 107 without clothes, and I was strip-searched.” TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said a review of closed circuit TV footage from the airport shows “proper procedures were followed.” But Zimmerman, whose hunched back puts her at 4-foot-11, said her ordeal began after her son, Bruce, drove her to the JetBlue terminal for the Florida flight. She lives in warm Coconut Creek during the winter. She checked her bags, waited for a wheelchair and parted ways with her doting son — her only immediate relative. When Zimmerman reached a security checkpoint, she asked if she could forgo the advanced image technology screening equipment, fearing it might interfere with her defibrillator. She said she normally gets patted down. But this time, she says that two female agents escorted her to a private room and began to remove her clothes. “I was outraged,” said Zimmerman, a retired receptionist. As she tried to lift a lightweight walker off her lap, she says, the metal bars banged against her leg and blood trickled from a gash. “My sock was soaked with blood,” she said. “I was bleeding like a pig.” She says the TSA agents showed no sympathy, instead pulling down her pants and asking her to raise her arms. “Why are you doing this?” she said she asked the agents, who did not respond. The TSA claims the footage does not show any sign of the injury. “Our screening procedures are conducted in a manner designed to treat all passengers with dignity, respect and courtesy,” Farbstein said. Zimmerman says a medic arrived to treat her injury. The process took so long that she missed her 1 p.m. flight and had to catch a later one. Her son said he was shocked when his mom called around 9 p.m. that night and described what happened. “She was put through a hell of a day,” he said. Zimmerman, who takes blood thinners, later had a tetanus shot for fear of infection from the walker wound. Bruce Zimmerman, 53, said he can’t understand why the agents targeted his mom. “She looks like a sweet, little old lady,” he said. “She’s not a disruptive person or uncooperative.” Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lenore-zimmerman-85-hurt-strip-search-tsa-agents-jfk-airport-article-1.986198#ixzz1feUwlrQY

The more and more I think about this, even more that I realize that the name of the USA should be the United States of Cah-Ray-Zees. Of course, beside the fact that someone of the caliber of Newt Gingrich could be in the lead for the republican presidential nomination. Herman Cain? Michele Bachmann? How did either even enter the realm of the possible? What about the ideal of the best and the brightest? John McCain? Sarah Palin? Sarah Polley or Sarah Paulson would probably be better choice on the Sarah front. Oh hell. Abraham's wife Sarah, if alive, would probably be a better option. And that even includes the Binding of Isaac nutso stuff. Talking about a real faith-based belief system. Anyone. PHD: Piled higher and deeper. Here goes: CNN) -- Flying fashionistas with a thing for the Second Amendment may want to leave their gun-themed purses and other paraphernalia at home, lest they be flagged as a security risk and miss their flights. As she was flying home after the recent holiday weekend, Virginia Gibbs' gun-themed purse was flagged as a security risk by Transportation Security Administration officials at the Norfolk, Virginia, airport. While Gibbs told CNN affiliate News 4 JAX that she's carried the purse on many flights, the 17-year-old says she was told that the purse "was a federal offense because it's in the shape of a gun. I'm like, 'a design on a purse. How is it a federal offense?' " Purses or belts with gun emblems can fall under a TSA prohibition on replica weapons because they could be mistaken for a real weapon in the X-ray machine or by a fellow passenger. "Security checkpoints may be impacted or closed because replica weapons like toy guns, novelty grenades, fake bombs and other items appear similar to the real thing when viewed through an X-ray machine," TSA spokesman Greg Soule said. "Checkpoint closures cause significant delays, which can be avoided if passengers don't bring these items to the airport." By the time TSA officials figured out that the purse was a fake, offering Gibbs the opportunity to give up the purse or check it, Gibbs had missed her flight and was placed on another to Orlando. Her frantic mother drove from Jacksonville to Orlando to pick her daughter up. Gibbs arrived at security 20 minutes before her flight was due to depart, which may have caused her to miss her flight, according to a security official. The TSA says it's investigating her allegation that the purse has made it through airport security before.