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The Clinton Crinton Foundation was mentioned in one of my recent blogs about former president Donald Trump with his media circus and to be honest, I was just a young 'whipper-snapper' when it all occurred so I have zero understanding about the Clinton Crinton Foundation, who they are and what they do...

Please enlighten me.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVE, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!

Nothing new, same old ‘stuff’? Just a bit older and a bit closer to death? Another year of man-made and natural diseases and disasters? Another opportunity to begin again, to try to do better, to make new friends and meet someone that could be extra special?

Of course, it would mean different things to different people based on one’s hopes, and fears, too. The thing is, I think that this new year would probably be a mix of all of that and more, sadly with more of the negatives than the positives.

But… dwelling on the negatives is no way to start with anything that’s new. If I got a new house, car, job or boyfriend tomorrow I’d only be imagining the possibilities, not the unforeseen problems that could arise. I’d have a smile on my face and a skip in my step, in anticipation of the ‘what’s next’.

“New” usually means ‘better’, so… just maybe… this coming year will be better. If not as it relates to the current global situations, then at least for each one of us in our personal life. Fingers and toes crossed.


Have a fantastic New Year, everyone. Blessings!

I'm ready for 2023. This year has been one of the most crappiest ones I recall. It started off losing my aunt back in January. Then a couple of days after her death, I have the woman whom I happened to have been engaged to start some strange behavior. Apparently she was upset with me for asking her about the car I gave her money to buy off her friend. She had been giving her friend who was selling her the car enough time to get her personal life worked out with various things that had recently popped up. I waited for my ex fpr over a month to start the process of getting that car paid for, and for her friend to order a key for that car because her friend lost the key to it.

Anyway, come August, I had a backed up sewer for over a month. Try to call various places to have work done with digging up the problem out in the yard. In the mean, I'm getting back flow from two of my neighbors sewage. There are four house on the same sewer line. Finally got this resolved with a price tag of $2,600. Then all of a sudden, I get a detached retina two months later.

Then we get hit with a polar vortex on Dec. 23. Happens to be my daughter's birthday too. My water pipes froze, and my floor furnace had to play catch up the next three days.

And then yesterday morning, my garbage was picked up by the city, and for some strange reason, my city issued garbage can is missing. I called them and the woman said that they may have broke it, and that she will pass it along to them to bring me up another 96 gallon garbage can. I was hoping that they would have delivered a another one here at the house while I was at work. But I got home last night and what do ya know, NOTHING! Now I have to put my garbage somewhere until at least Monday since it's now the weekend. And I'm not even sure if the sanitation Dept. will be open Monday since they like to get a off day off as a holiday since this falls on Sunday this year.

Trying to at least salvage the last day of the year. Since I'm off this weekend, i ordered me a pizza. Watched some Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Weekend At Bernie's. Going to watch a couple of big football games here in a bit. I also went outside and shot a little bit of basketball in my backyard. Felt great, but it was a little difficult hitting the basket with my depth perception in my right eye right now as it's still healing from that surgery.

Going to shoot some basketball tomorrow to start the new year off. Here's hoping for a much better year in 2023!

VATICAN CITY, Dec 31 - Former Pope Benedict, who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to resign, died on Saturday aged 95 in a secluded monastery in the Vatican where he had lived since stepping down, a spokesman for the Holy See said.




A theological and spiritual giant to many, Benedict's reflections on the Catholic Church are a roadmap for many seeking to keep the nearly 2,000-year-old institution on the correct path.

Benedict's work is best understood as a long career seeking to guide the Church through uncharted territory. He began his priesthood in the aftermath of two world wars and amid technological, political and s*xual revolutions that threatened to overwhelm religion.

Benedict, born Joseph Ratzinger, was a framer of the Second Vatican Council (also known as Vatican II), which began in 1962 and ended in 1965. The council established no new dogmas but attempted to update spiritual disciplines, aesthetics and styles of worship for the modern, globalized Church.

"To me, the key to Benedict is Vatican II," Bishop Robert Barron of Word on Fire Ministries told Fox News Digital. "He's a man of the council. He was at the council. He helped to write a lot of these major documents. He helped to explain it to the wider world."

Changes at Vatican II included dropping the requirement for Masses to be said in Latin, a greater emphasis on church community, and modification of the liturgy to allow greater participation from the pews.

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TV Journalist Barbara Walters has died at the age of 93.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, her list of accomplishments is a mile long.

She joined ABC News in 1976, becoming the first female anchor on an evening news program. Three years later, she became a co-host of "20/20," and in 1997, she launched "The View."
Her final appearance as a co-host of "The View" in 2014, but remained an executive producer of the show and continued to do some interviews and specials for ABC News.

Who can forget Gilder Radner's Saturday Night Live comedy skits with her as Baba Wawa.

There's so much going on in 'Trump World' I don't know where to start. I guess you can only hold back things so much before cracks in the foundation appear.
Donald did say he would release his taxes... then he claimed he was being audited and couldn't, but that story was debunked.
After several years of legal wrangling, the U.S. House Ways and Means committee released six years of Trump’s tax returns today. Indirectly, he's no longer a liar.
Thank you.

Link with comments:


Bob says:
Remember when Trump insisted that Obama release his school records, and then refused to release his own school records. His people even went so far as to try to remove the records from the school so they couldn't been seen by anyone.

Not surprising, he lied constantly about his school record:

Trump said he was top of his class at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business program, where he finished his undergraduate degree, but Trump’s name does not appear on the school’s dean’s list or on the list of students who received academic honors in his class of 1968.

Commander Bone-Spurs also claimed that his military academy background provided “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

Alex said:
Paid no taxes ? I already like his accountant more than mine. I’ll look him up. Unless he’s already in the Big House with bars at the windows.

Gene said:
Trump's tax returns are out.

The picture that emerged showed that for all Trump's claims to be a great businessman, his core businesses — a sprawling network of hotels, golf courses and other properties — have lost millions of dollars year after year.

“He’s a staggering loser,” said Steven M. Rosenthal, a senior fellow in the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

Rob said:
What is revealed is that the Trump Organization is basically a Ponzi scheme. Trump was able to keep replenishing it with more and increasingly larger loans until the bankers cried "No more!" (They realized that a guy who could bankrupt multiple casinos was not a good risk.) Then he started refueling by laundering money stolen by oligarchs from the Russian people. The Presidency was a stopgap which enabled him to sucker his followers time after time, grifting millions in small donor contributions. I suspect he is at the end of the road. It will probably all come crashing down in a spectacular fashion!

Sometimes brutally accurate, I always enjoy reading the comments.





The House panel investigating the Capitol riot announced it would withdraw the subpoena it had issued Trump, citing that congressional investigators had run out of time to pursue it.
Some people think of it as a win for Trump. Is having enough lawyers to delay the process could be considered a win? A win of sorts I suppose.
I know it didn't work out in Steve Bannon's favor or the 3 men who conspired to swindle donors to a private group that promised to build a wall along the Mexican border.

There's more... next time!

UNICEF is the acronym for United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, created in 1946. In 1953 their name changed to United Nations Children’s Fund.
What do I know about UNICEF?
Other than the name being some agency that helps children in third-world countries... I really know nothing substantial about them.
What I do know is the number of women who are on CS and claim to be working for UNICEF to be as much as 5% of new membership, only to be beat by hairdressers who work in saloons. (yeah, saloons and not salons)

So, I did a quick check to see a little about UNICEF.
Headquartered in New York City much of their efforts impact the lives of the most disadvantaged children. Prevention of disease, immunization programs, educational and welfare services is what they do.
Their website has a global outreach working in over 190 countries and that sounds like they employ hundreds of thousands of people around the globe.

Looking at the careers, they are always hiring on a contract basis for all positions. That part is legit. So it makes things harder to sift out who is real and who is fake, especially since so many female members on CS claim to be working for UNICEF.

I'm a skeptic and think it's the perfect front for a scammer who claims to travel or be an American working for UNICEF to be on assignment in Zambia, Ukraine or some country different that what the profile really says. She's from Texas but on assignment in Ghana.
You get the picture...

I first remember being complimented as being photogenic whilst in my 20s; at least, I assumed that it was a compliment. To me it meant that I looked great in photos. However, quite recently I heard the term again, but the tone of the commenter implied that it wasn’t a compliment. What??!! Is it that the camera has made me look better than I really do, without it? Which had me thinking…
Could looking good in pictures be one of the problems that some people on CS have with the profile pics of others?

Most recently, there was a post in the forums about a concern over the person that one finally meets in the flesh, matching with his/her profile pics. For men, this may be more of a problem than for women. We women are more often changing things up with our appearance (e.g. hair - length, colour, texture; face - features, eyebrows, lashes, lips; etc), so it’s understandable that we may not ‘match’ with our pics if they haven’t been updated. (I’m currently a buttery/soft blonde, on my way to platinum). However, men seldom make those kinds of changes, sometimes having the same look for decades.

But, with photoshopping (i.e. lighting, filtering, etc) being the latest way of enhancing one’s appearance to make it “photogenic”, it’s easy for some of us to get carried away. Hence convincing someone you eventually meet for a date that you and your profile pics are the same person, might be a challenge. And that’s not just with women, but also with men who ‘seem’ to have lied about their hair, height, weight and physicality (based on the pics on display) or, who didn’t lie but just haven’t updated their pics to reflect their current image.

Perhaps, just as it automatically updates our age, the CS system should be equipped with the relevant modern software to update pics as well? I know that that might cause a riot, especially since some persons age less gracefully than others. Still, even if you’re not naturally photogenic, what about what you’re like on the INSIDE? Shouldn’t that be just as, if not more, important? Yes, it’s easy to get turned on/off by the visual, but being photogenic is mainly about what one looks like, not what one thinks like, lives like or loves like. And that’s really where the problem arises….don’t you think?

I've heard and read about how cold things are for many on here, so here's a little warmth (for your heart, at least). Blessings!