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Archive for November, 2008

Love Sex Marriage: Relationship Advice

Posted by tothewire on November 30, 2008

marriageLove Sex Marriage Advice for Married Couples On How To Avoid an Unhappy Marriage

A marriage is a union between two people and has many very different components to it: love sex marriage family. Married couples create a home together in order to share their lives, finances, interests, family, leisure time and sometimes work too.

When you consider how multi-faceted two people can be and how much synergy is needed for them to live together for decades, is it any surprise that so many unions fall apart?

But you need to know that a happy marriage is possible. However, as you probably already know, it doesn’t just happen all by itself. Just because you are no longer a youth and dating doesn’t mean you don’t have to make an effort to keep your relationship healthy. A couple has to work at a marriage for it to have any chance of succeeding.

Sex is an important part of any loving relationship. It isn’t always as important once a relationship is established as it is in love’s first flush but it can’t be ignored either. Sex isn’t just about lust, it creates intimacy and intimacy is the foundation of any loving relationship. Read the rest of this entry »

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Black Friday sales gain seen as a one-time gift

Posted by tothewire on November 30, 2008

new1More shoppers visit stores and websites than last year, but experts doubt it’s a turnaround for beleaguered retailers.Bargain-hungry consumers gave the nation’s retailers a much-needed early holiday boost with surprisingly healthy sales on Black Friday that tapered off Saturday and Sunday.

“It was a retail manager’s dream,” said Marissa Marks, store manager at the Beverly Center’s L’Occitane boutique, which saw Black Friday sales double to $4,000 from last year. But, she added Sunday, “yesterday and today are not so good.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Love of my life…

Posted by lawman2 on November 30, 2008

perfect-marriage-t-shirt_tp Our regular readers (our blog is almost 2 months old) already know I have been chasing tothewire for some time now…for those that haven’t followed us from SNL post to here, I am Lawman2 AKA the caveman! (you can get to know us better by clicking on the page about us) I am 47 years old never married and have no children. Love is complicated… but simple enough for this caveman to know not to let it slip through my hands. This friday I am taking the love of my life to Eurika Springs Ark. and we are getting married.  Hell if I can talk her into it we will go sooner!  Tonight after many years of my asking for her hand in marriage she has agreed to carry my name! That’s right the caveman from SNL post takes a wife!

Tothewire will soon be tothelawman2!

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India-Pakistan relations strained as Mumbai attacks probed

Posted by tothewire on November 30, 2008

t1home_lone_gunman_apMUMBAI, India (CNN) — The terrorist attacks that killed more than 180 people in Mumbai last week has strained India’s already tenuous relationship with Pakistan, as India investigates its neighbor’s alleged ties to the massacre.

Pakistan says India has yet to offer any proof.

“So far what has been shown has been unjust,” Rehman Malik, head of Pakistan’s Interior Minister, told CNN.

A captured suspect has told investigators that he is Pakistani, Indian officials said. Read the rest of this entry »

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8 year old boy vowed 1,000th spanking would be last (story and video)

Posted by tothewire on November 29, 2008

8-year-old-kills-dadAn 8-year-old Arizona boy charged with double-homicide may have kept a written record of spankings by his parents, vowing that the 1,000th would be his limit, according to a police records.

A search affidavit by Sgt. Lucas Rodriguez says the child ‘‘is believed to have made ledgers and or communicated in the form of writings about his intentions. (The boy) told a CPS (Arizona Child Protective Services) … worker that when he reached one thousand spankings … that would be his limit. (The boy) kept a tally of his spankings on a piece of paper.’’ Read the rest of this entry »

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Child abuse – Muslims vs. Christians

Posted by tothewire on November 29, 2008

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Americans Have Lost Their Appetite for Spending

Posted by tothewire on November 29, 2008

AS the holiday shopping season begins, American consumers say they are less interested in consuming than at any other time in the past four decades.1129-biz-chartsweb

That negative outlook, brought on by the credit crisis and recession, has led retailers to push sales harder than ever before, hoping to use amazingly low prices on some items to draw customers into their stores.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has that name because it is supposed to be the day that gets retailers out of the red ink of losses and into the black ink of profits. But black can also symbolize disaster and mourning, images that may be more appropriate this year. Read the rest of this entry »

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Out of the Spotlight, an Industry Copes With Crisis

Posted by tothewire on November 29, 2008

At David Gerrard’s truck dealership in Chicago, would-be buyers “can’t get financing,” he said.

At David Gerrard’s truck dealership in Chicago, would-be buyers “can’t get financing,” he said.

When you live and work in New York, it is easy to succumb to the fallacy that the financial crisis is all about us. It’s about giant, New York-based institutions failing or coming close to failing. It’s about high-stakes weekends in the offices of the New York Federal Reserve. It’s about credit-default swaps and mortgage-backed securities and the wild swings of the New York stock exchange. It’s about Jamie Dimon and Richard Fuld. Read the rest of this entry »

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