Whether it’s the characters that creep you out, that you love to hate or that merely intrigue you, who or what are your favorite fictional villains?

Mine in no particular order:

Kevin – Sin City


John Doe – Se7en


Sweet Tooth – Twisted Metal Series


Alien – Alien Series


Kakihara – Ichi the Killer


Pyramid head or The Red Pyramid – Silent Hill franchise


...I tend to prefer the really twisted ones....

I don’t ever post a picture of my female cat Bandit (as in One Eyed Bandit ) because some may find it disturbing to see a one-eyed cat, but she’s beautiful to me. I believe that her original owner abandoned her and left her to starve in the streets. Anyways, she was a skinny little something when she adopted me by coming up to me to rub my leg and meow at me. I began feeding her to fatten her up a bit and now she is a permanent member of the family.

Here she is right here:



I do tend to indulge her with the food now as you can see....

So, how did your animal friends come to be members of your family?

I'm not talking about re-runs of old episodes, but still producing new episodes and new seasons. For me, I wish that Arrested Development and Mr. Show were still on tv. How about you? And good morning!





.... the chicken dance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyk3xYN1jMw

It’s from a 1979 episode of Rainbow, a popular kids’ tv show.

Here is the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyqEPgRc6IE

Here is info about the clip and show:

http://www.rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/ra...
http://www.answers.com/topic/rainbow-telev...

Hopefully you’ve seen it before, but if you haven’t it’s great for a laugh.

Sunday evenings are always my most dreaded nights because they mean that I have to go back to work on Monday --! Who else is not looking forward to tomorrow morning? (It's not that I hate my job or anything like that -- I just want to continue relaxing and doing what I want to do.)

I'm pretty plain. I like to walk in the evenings just before sunset especially in the fall when the air has a little bit of a bite to it. To change it up, I may jog a little.... Also, I like weight-training -- not with gym equipment but with regular old dumbbells.

Holidays tend to throw off my schedule, but I don't mind that much since I get to see family and friends that I don't normally see.... So, what do you like to do?

Baby Panda Sneeze

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtLzvOsQ80k

or

Sleepy Kitten

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmXLPxG6k0

or

Talking Cats and Dogs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXvTg3ISDoQ

or

Other: (Please specify)

Please weigh-in on this very serious debate.

By Carey Gillam

KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - He's known as the "Secret Santa," a white-haired man in a red flannel shirt who gives no name or explanation as he stuffs $100 or more into a stranger's hand.

He's given a couple of hundred to a homeless woman, a little more to a mother of two stranded at a bus station, $1,000 to an elderly man in a tattered sweater and $5,000 to the widow of a fallen firefighter.

The smallest gift was $5, given 26 years ago. The largest gift was $10,000, in 1999. In all, the man who has traveled the United States each holiday season to spread some of his wealth estimates he has handed out about $1.3 million.

"We are all supposed to share our blessings. This is just one way," said 58-year-old Larry Stewart, who is giving away money to fulfill a pledge he made in 1971, when he was hungry and homeless and a stranger gave him $20.

Now a millionaire through investments in cable and telecommunications, Stewart said he has never forgotten how "it feels to be hopeless." He wants his donations to both help people who appear to be needy, and help spread a sense of hope and faith in humanity.

...

Stewart said he had hoped to stay anonymous. But after being diagnosed in April with advanced cancer in his esophagus and liver, he started to share his story, hoping others will pick up the task as he starts a 13th round of chemotherapy in January.

He has four "Santas in training," who will help him give away $165,000 this December, with the first stop in Chicago.

He has also set up a "society of Secret Santas" (http://www.secretsantausa.com /), whose members must pledge to commit at least one "random act of kindness." More than 2,700 people had joined the society within two days of Stewart announcing his goal of encouraging others to give.

...

"This has never been about me," he said. "This is about the kind of giving, random and without the expectation of anything back... that can change a person."

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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.... -2&rpc=92

Thank goodness, I have all the food bought, prepared, and waiting to be cooked. But, I have to finish cleaning up the house – my least favorite task.... So, what are your last minute preparations for Thanksgiving?

and the dental industry to scare you into buying useless appliances and pastes. Now, I've read the arguments on both sides, and I haven't found any evidence yet to support the need to brush your teeth. Ever.

18/11/2006 23:12 - (SA)

East London - A 24-year-old man has been arrested at Butterworth for carrying a human head in his luggage at a bus rank in the Eastern Cape town on Saturday, said police.

Captain Jackson Manatha said the man was arrested about 11:00 after a tip-off.

The man had already been on a bus when police found him and was taken to the police station where a human finger was found in his pocket.

During questioning, the man told police he was going to Cape Town and his luggage was still on the bus.

"Police chased the bus to Ndabakazi station.

"The man was ordered to fetch his luggage and when he opened it an old woman's head and her two arms were found," said Manatha.

...

"It is alleged the man murdered his 85-year-old grandmother on Friday by cutting her throat like a goat in a village near in Butterworth."

People in the area became suspicious when someone saw the man pulling "something" towards a secondary school about 10pm, said Manatha.

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http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/...

Don't be afraid let it ALL hang out!



Notice the lack of icons on the desktop, but the million minimized windows. I'm an in-born multi-tasker at heart!

**Don't know how to capture a screen shot here is a quick tutorial: (Sorry Mac users )

1. Press Print Screen button (PrtSc) to capture your full computer screen
2. Select Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint. The Paint application opens.
3. Press Ctrl + V to paste the screen shot into Paint. If you receive a message that says: "The image in the clipboard is larger than the bitmap. Would you like the bitmap enlarged?" click Yes.
4. Select File > Save As. The Save As dialog opens.
5. In the Save in field, select a location to save the file, such as your Desktop.
6. In the File name field, type in a name for the bitmap.
7. In the Save as type field, select .bmp, .gif, or .jpg.
8. Click Save.

Executed prisoners' body parts are sold

By Mark Magnier and Alan Zarembo, Tribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published November 18, 2006

BEIJING -- After years of denial, China has acknowledged that many of the human organs used in transplants here are taken from executed prisoners and that many of the recipients are foreigners who pay hefty sums to avoid a long wait.

Speaking at a conference of surgeons in the southern city of Guangzhou, Deputy Health Minister Huang Jiefu called for a strict code of conduct and better record keeping to stem China's thriving illegal-organ trade, state media reported.

"Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners," Huang said, as reported by the English-language China Daily newspaper Thursday. "The current organ donation shortfall can't meet demand."

Acknowledgment of what had been an open secret on the Internet, in local magazines and among people waiting for transplanted organs came weeks after China announced tighter oversight of death-penalty cases. Legal experts say requiring the country's highest court to approve death sentences could reduce the number by a third.

...

Americans are among the foreigners who have headed to China for transplants as the waiting time for kidneys and livers has grown in the United States. U.S. transplant doctors say the majority seem to be patients of Chinese ancestry who feel comfortable navigating the medical system there.

More than 11,000 organs a Chinese transplant doctor, Dr. Zhonghua Chen, said at a conference in Boston in July that Chinese doctors had transplanted 8,102 kidneys, 3,741 livers and 80 hearts in 2005.

...

China has faced a growing call for change from reform-minded lawyers and academics. It also has been embarrassed by a chorus of overseas criticism, including a campaign by Falun Gong, a spiritual movement banned in China that Beijing condemns as an "evil cult."

In July, a report by Canadian human-rights lawyer David Matas and David Kilgour, a former parliamentarian, concluded that hearts, kidneys, livers and corneas have been taken from Falun Gong practitioners and sold for large sums. The movement says its members are executed on trumped up charges to supply the organ trade. Beijing has denied the charges.

"Based on what we know, we have come to the regrettable conclusion that the allegations are true," the report said.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...

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Putting the gun in his pants was first mistake
BY STAN FINGER
The Wichita Eagle

Maybe it was karma.

Three men attempted to kidnap a teenager in a dispute over stereo speakers shortly before 4:45 p.m. on Monday, Wichita police reported. One of the three pulled out a gun and fired it at the teen in the 1000 block of South Wichita.

The shot missed the teen. But then the shooter jammed the gun back into the waistband of his pants -- and it went off.

The bullet struck the 23-year-old man in his left testicle, causing him to cringe -- which caused the gun to fire again.

The second shot struck him in the left calf.

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