“If fashion were porn, this dress would be the money shot.”– Gabourey Sidibe
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Looks just like my 8th grade English teach, Mrs. Howard… red marker and all.
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To some he is a Orca. To others he’s a Killer Whale. Depends on who you ask I guess.
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WASHINGTON — Actor Wesley Snipes, who has tax problems of his own, had a blunt reaction to news about a software engineer who crashed his plane into an office building with nearly 200 IRS employees inside. In an interview Friday with the Associated Press, Snipes asked, “What’s new?” Authorities say A. Joseph Stack III, who was furious with the Internal Revenue Service, crashed his plane into an Austin, Texas, building on Thursday. Stack and one other person were killed.
Snipes said tax problems have been an issue in the U.S. from the very beginning. As the actor put it: “I think it was an issue even for the early colonists and the British, so what’s new?” Snipes, 47, was convicted in 2008 of not paying taxes for three years. He was sentenced to three years in prison and is appealing. Despite his legal troubles, Snipes said, “All is very well. We’re very positive, we’re very confident that things will work out to our benefit and to our favor.” He brushed off the experience as just another part of living. “These are the bumps and bruises of life. They build character and you learn from it as you move on.” Snipes says he still doesn’t understand why the IRS pursued him. He added, “I’m not a politician, I’m not saving the world, I haven’t created a cure for cancer, I make movies …” In 2006, “Survivor” winner Richard Hatch was convicted of not paying his taxes and spent more than three years in jail. He complained that the IRS used him as an example. In Snipes’ opinion, “they were successful.”
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In order to provide what it calls “an additional layer of security,” the Transportation Security Administration said that airline passengers can expect to face occasional checks for explosive residue in other parts of the airport besides the security checkpoints. The so-called Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) technology involves taking a swab from a traveler’s hands or luggage and analyzing it in a special piece of equipment on a mobile cart to see if the individual has been handling bomb-making materials lately. It has been tested in recent weeks at the Raleigh-Durham, Atlanta and Orlando airports, as well as two smaller airports in North Carolina. “Passengers can now expect to see the increased random use of ETD technology in areas where TSA currently conducts screening such as the security checkpoint, as well as in the checkpoint queue and boarding areas,” TSA said. “To ensure the health of travelers, screening swabs are disposed of after each use. Since it will be used on a random basis, passengers should not expect to see the same thing at every airport or each time they travel.” According to a security expert interviewed in USA Today, the ETD technology possibly could have caught the failed Christmas Day “underwear bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab; but he noted it is so sensitive it will also single out persons who have taken nitroglycerin heart pills or who have recently fired a gun.
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I understand this fellow is seventy years old. Having spoken to him casually, he’s very personable as well as hard working as we can see (and noted by the fact that he actually has a second part-time job he holds a few days a week). I wondered: if he’s there for fun? A way to pass idle time? Are there no more enjoyable diversions for one who certainly has earned their time in life to take it easy and relax? Is this a hint at my retirement years?
It doesn’t seem as though it’s been thirty years ago, this job and others like it were rarely performed by someone over the age of twenty-one. I’d never imagine a senior citizen asking me “if I needed help to my car with the groceries?” I know they can do it, I’m not suggesting they can’t. And if they want to, it would be far from me to deny them. So maybe the question should be, where are the kids? Seems the usual answer is “they don’t want to work.”
Indeed. Todays high schooler probably is more concerned with being the next LeBron James or Paris Hilton. Heaven forbid working a part-time job, saving money for a car, or buying their own clothes. Just hit mom and dad up for the money, buy this super outfit so I can’t look cute when I’m discovered, or buy these $100 sneakers and a basketball and swagger sway around until that scout for the Lakers comes by. Either way, hardly work the time thinking about it.
Will there be a time someone says “retirement… what’s that?
Pink put on a show that was worthy of a true showman at Sundays Grammy Award show in Los Angeles. Not just singing a song, or performing with dozens of choreographed human props (that’s so “Rhythm Nation” old), but an actual performance. And she did it beautifully. The music, the actual singing live instead of lip-syncing, and the surreal tone she set with beautiful and graceful flowing moves was spellbinding. That live performance should be nominated for an Emmy. Wait and see.
Tom Bihn TriStar Carry On
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