Invictus, will win an oscar or two

The true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team, Francois Pienaar, to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

This movie Invictus was everything I expected and a little more. From the minute I started watching the movie I forgot that I was watching Morgan Freeman and kept thinking Nelson Mandela. The deep and conceptual thinking of Mandela made me respect him even more as the story unfolded. The precision placement of the music made you want to cry one minute and stand up and cheer the next moment. Clint Eastwood has done it again with his vision to see a story and make you feel it, from beginning to end. Matt Damon was equally impresses as the Francois Pienaar.


I maybe going out on a limb, but after what I saw my words should be etched in stone that this movie will win at least 2 Oscars. One should be for best Actor and Best Director, of course I would not be surprised to see it win more! Make some time and see this one you will be glad that you did. 4 stars ****
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Husband dies on the day of wife funeral

Husband dies on day of wife's funeral

Stan and Mary Trueman on their wedding day.

February 27, 2002

I saw this story about a husband who could not live after his wife had died. I was touched that a man loved his wife so much that he literally will himself to die. You see in today society we live our life by the minute. It very seldom that you see a marriage last 5 years, then again 50 years is inconceivable! If only the world we live in today knew what this kind of love is, it would be a better place.

A DEVASTATED husband collapsed and died on the day of his beloved wife's funeral.

Tragic Stan Trueman died yesterday (Tuesday) as his wife Mary's body was being taken to Stockport crematorium on a horse drawn carriage.

The 76-year-old, who lived with his wife for 50 in Lower Bredbury, had been too sick to attend her funeral. He died at home.

Animal lover Mrs Trueman, 74, spent much of her life caring for animals so it was a fitting send off when her coffin was carried by the horse drawn carriage.

But daughter Mary Wood, who lives on the Bridgehall estate, was devastated after hearing the awful news her dad had died.

She said: "He was really poorly yesterday so we were expecting it. But for it to happen on the same day as the funeral was a real shock.

"He was diagnosed with liver cancer five weeks ago. When they both knew how ill they each were, they seemed to give up."

Mary's mother's coffin was carried on a 100-year-old carriage made by famous Birmingham carriage maker John Marsden. It was pulled by two horses used in the recent funeral of Reggie Kray.

Both the horses and the carriage were specially brought up to Stockport for the day from Cambridgeshire.

The coffin was collected at Unsworth's funeral directors in Bramhall before it was taken to St Joseph's Church on St Petersgate and then down the A6 to Stockport Crematorium.

Mary is now planning an identical funeral for her father - also an animal lover.

She said: "It was a beautiful ceremony and I want exactly the same for my dad because he was also a horse fanatic and loved everything old fashioned. We want to give him exactly the same send off."

Mary added: "The horse drawn carriage was my father Stanley's idea. He was a very old fashioned person who loved tradition so I organised the funeral on his behalf.

"This is the way my mother would have wanted her funeral. She lived for her family and was a devoted animal lover who sponsored horses at the Redwings stables in Norfolk."

Mary's family asked that flowers were not given at the funeral and instead asked for donations to be made to the Redwings stables.

Chris Unsworth, of Unsworth funeral directors in Bramhall, said: "Passers-by bowed and took their hats off as a mark of tribute."

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The 6 Month Rule will never work!

That's right some women believe that you should wait at least 6 months before they have sex with a man. I believe that you should never waited longer that a month?

Why a month, to find out if you are compatible in bed??? Does that sound shallow to you? Lets look at it from this point of view, they have great conversation look good and you have waited a year to find out they are a dude in bed.

Now of course you could terminate the relationship but since you have invested your time and effort you tough it out.

Now Murphy Laws always knows how to throw you the right person at the wrong time and that's where cheating comes in.

Here is the solution if you found out in a week that he or she was a dude you can cut your losses and move on!

Unfortunately we do not live by the same ideals and views that our parents and grandparents live by. So the six month rule sounds good on paper but realistically speaking it only works if you actually found Mr or Ms right. If not you may have wasted your time.

Remember work fast but move slow!

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Lock his ass up!

A So. Fla. Man Asked Cabbie For A Ride To Memphis, Then Refused To Pay

A South Florida cabbie was tricked into making a 20 hour trip from Miami to Western Tennessee over the weekend. And he ended up getting stiffed, not getting a penny for his efforts.

CBS4'S Stephen Stock spoke with the cab driver victim by telephone and his colleagues on the streets about getting shorted on a very long trip.

From 7 at night to 4:30 in the morning, 6 days a week for 29 years Jean Desir has driven a taxi on the streets of Miami.

Despite two robberies, one at gunpoint, and countless riders who've stiffed him on fares, this past year has been toughest of all economically.

"This year has been really really hard," the 54 year-old said, "really hard."

That's what makes the story of Desir's fellow taxi-driver so tough to swallow this holiday season.

Police say Miami resident Luciolo Perez convinced a cabbie from Flamingo Taxis to drive him to Memphis, Tennessee. That's a 20 hour cab ride to the middle of the country.

Then police say Perez stiffed the driver of $3,000 in cab fare, plus expenses such as gas and meals, which the cabbie paid with his own credit card.

CBS4 News spoke by phone with the cab driver, who drove this taxi half way across the country and back.

His name is Lelis Almeira.

Almeira refused CBS4's request for an on-camera interview, saying he was tired frustrated and angry and, "I just want to put this incident behind me."

"(The money came) out of his own pocket," said Almeira's colleague at Flamingo Taxi, Joel Lubin.

That's why Flamingo Taxi dispatcher Lubin is angry too. He said that a scam such as this hurts drivers especially hard, given the tough economic times they've suffered through this year.

"He didn't have to do it," Lubin said. "He spent all his money for the expenses. He put everything for meals on his credit card expecting to get paid."

CBS4 reporter Stephen Stock asked: "And this happens?"

"This happens," Lubin said. "He's kind of lost faith in humanity. And I don't blame him."

"We ain't going to promise something we don't have," said the woman in Memphis whom Perez had traveled to visit, Nellie Rose.

Rose insists she didn't have the money and made that clear to Perez.

"I don't know why the cab driver and him came on (to Memphis).That's between them," Rose said.

Memphis police arrested Perez and charged him with theft over $1,000.

Now, in addition to trying to find $3,000 in cab fare, Perez must find enough money to bond out of jail.
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Getting paid for tripping over your own son

Well after running across this Stella Awards web site I must admit that I was curious to see more of these outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head and wonder what was the jury thinking but better yet what was on the attorney's mind when this lady limped into his office and told her story that amazed the lawyer so much that he said that we can win this case! Please be advise that this was not number one but number 7, damn.

7TH PLACE :

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son.

Now maybe i am not understanding all of what this case is really bringing to the table. I have a bad ass little kid that is running around the store and I tripped on him and fell, then broke my leg because of my brat! Maybe I missed it does anyone else see anything wrong with this crap? I would have tossed the lawyer and her out of my court room!

Whats next, to sue a company because they did not tell you, you could get excessively drunk if you drinking a fifth of Jack Daniels? I think I smell one coming!
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The Stella Award Winner, Mrs Merv Graziniski

So you don't know what the Stella Awards are? Do you remember back in 1992 when a 81-year-old, Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico where she purchased. You remember..... she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get burned doing that - right?

Well not only did she get burned but she sued Mc Donalds for 1.5 million and won. So that is where the Stella Awards came from... So now when ever someone does something bone headed action sues and wins then they are in line to receive the world famous Stella Award!

This year's runaway First Place Stella Award winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased a new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an OU football game, having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down, $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

The ideal that some individuals have won these Stella Awards because they got paid for their own mistakes blows my mind. So picture this, that a person actually was driving along the highway and put the cruise control on and got up and walked away from the wheel. Now it was not enough that they brought that hell on themselves when they crashed that vehicle, but then they decided that they could sue the manufacture for not being clear in the owners manual... Now that is not the straw that broke the camel back, but finding twelve jury men and women that agreed with the notion is unreal. Some people manage to hit the lottery in their own way, she hit the lottery just by being a dumb-ass, a rich dumb-ass that is!

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Public Health insurance option

A public health insurance option (public insurance option or public option for short) is a proposed health insurance plan that would be offered by the U.S. federal government. In Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), and its predecessor H.R. 3200, it will be a Qualified Health Benefit Plan competing with similar private insurance plans in an Internet based exchange or market place, enabling citizens and small businesses to purchase health insurance meeting the minimum federal standard. Persons covered by other employer plans or by state insurance plans such as Medicare will not be eligible to obtain coverage from the exchange and therefore cannot obtain this form of federal health insurance. The federal government's health insurance plan will be financed entirely by premiums without subsidy from the Federal government. ^[1] The plans stated in the Senate HLP Committee and H.R. 3962, the two that contain clauses establishing a public insurance option, require the repayment of "seed money" to the Treasury over a ten year period.^[2]

I don't know if I agree with this public option ideal, but one thing that I do know is that millions of people are running around this country without health insurance. The word for today is to bring the cost of health insurance down. Conservatives seem to believe that if we can have open competing of insurance companies across state lines, it would drive the cost of insurance down. Reality is that we have needed this years ago... I personally believe that if their was a true regulation on the health cost across the board that insurance could be affordable for everyone. What good does it do to make $50,000 dollars a year and you can not afford to provide insurance for your family. When a man has to make the decision to eat or have insurance, and he choose to eat, when does some one step up and say wait minute that is not right.

Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, anything less than that needs to be changed, by any means possible!

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