http://abcnews.go.com/business/story?id=5442819.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25846393/.
i read the above articles this morning regarding a guy who was ordered by a court to pay his ex-fiance $150,000 for backing out of a marriage.
Maybe I should start suing all the women who dumped me. It would be like winning a lottery.
W
Could be, Who was that runaway chick? the one with the googly eyes.... she never had to compensate her husband for standing him up. She did have to compensate the law enforcement that was looking for her though. - Preston
http://abcnews.go.com/business/story?id=5442819.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25846393/.
i read the above articles this morning regarding a guy who was ordered by a court to pay his ex-fiance $150,000 for backing out of a marriage.
Well, it's not exactly THAT simple.
"She found a new job, taking a pay cut. Her salary went from $81,000 a year, plus a 15 percent bonus, to $31,000 a year." She made that decision based on a verbal contract.
One of the articles also says:
Gibbs testified that he took Shell on several skiing trips during their renewed partnership, made house payments for her, and gave her $30,000 to pay off some of her credit-card debt. He claimed he got cold feet after learning she had even more debt.
And she was never forced to quit her job. It looks like he was more than generous in their relationship. - Preston
http://abcnews.go.com/business/story?id=5442819.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25846393/.
i read the above articles this morning regarding a guy who was ordered by a court to pay his ex-fiance $150,000 for backing out of a marriage.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=5442819
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25846393/
I read the above articles this morning regarding a guy who was ordered by a court to pay his ex-fiance $150,000 for backing out of a marriage. The interesting thing is that the woman's attorney initiated the case on breach of contract... no contract was signed. If you own a corporation and someone sues you, they can't go after your personal assets, they can only go after the corporation, but in a marriage your personal finances are sometimes segregated in the event the marriage is disolved. Does all of this prove that marriage is strictly a business?
- Preston
http://online.wsj.com/article/sb121755649066303381.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
Preston,
The only reason they are now providing any kind of semi-decent benefits for their employees, is because they have received so much pressure from so many sources.
I don't doubt the pressure, my response shows how big of a stake Wal-Mart has in the election cycle. - Preston
recently there was an uproar about ms lohan's sexuality.. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080802/ap_en_ot/people_lindsay_lohan.
while i am the first to say how disappointed i am in this woman, who played some great disney characters as a child and then turned in to one of those super party whore girls, as an adult.
i actually find the prospect of her being gay, and perhaps settling down a bit ... good.
TMZ must be destroyed.
- Preston
a close relative recently called me verbatim, "a bad, bad, bad apostate and a sinner against the holy spirit" .. the apostate remark didn't bother me, actually it's a compliment when you think about it.. saying i was a "sinner against the holy spirit" that did bother me.
this got me to wondering about all the names, accusations and labels given to people who don't want to be a jw anymore.. doing a quick search in the insight books i came up with a list.. apostates pg.126, antichrist pg.116, man of lawlessnes pg.
310, resurrection - sinning against the holy spirit pg.
apostate
antichrist you are the antichrist (part of the composite)........ didn't know this
man of lawlessnes you are the man of lawlessnes (part of the composite)
son of destruction you are the son of destruction (part of the composite)
satan you are a satan (someone who is set against God and therefore is a satan).....didn't know this
lawless men
oppresive wolves
wolf like men
false teachers
false prophets
resisters
defectors
hypocrites
rebels
back sliders
immitation christians
wicked
wicked opposers of God
wicked class of persons
sons of the wicked one
misled by demons
sinners against the Holy Spirit
those having their consciences seared
men who speak lies
sect creaters
fallen away from the truth
not accepting the love of the truth
pleasure seekers
loose
worldly
materialistic
Jezebel
Judahs's
field of thorns and thistles
Damnitt, I haven't been called half this stuff!
But youre right moomanchu, this is the common sense approach that's been eluding people that were in it for the longest time. If you don't like being a JW just leave.... no meetings, no judiciary hearings, no CIA we've-got-a-file-on-you BS, no sign on the dotted line crap. Just go!
- Preston
i'll throw out the harder they come.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmzuxlkqv8.
fiddler on the roof.
Ennio Morricone's score from "Once Upon a Time in America".
- Preston
there may be spoilers on this thread, so if you haven't seen it yet, don't read any further.. first, i enjoyed the movie.
i think that the reboot of batman was the best thing that could have been done to the franchise.
i love the fact that the last two films are dark, and that the batman literally skates the thin line between justice and criminality.
I'll admit that they had no superpowers in the traditional sense of the word, but you must admit that batman grabbing a woman and hooking a jet airliner and flying away out of a building are not realistic.
As opposed to using a jet pack? Oh wait.... that's already been done. Granted it was more realistic than using Magneto-like powers to stop a plane.
SPOILER! He didn't grab a woman in HK, it was the crooked businessman.
- Preston
there may be spoilers on this thread, so if you haven't seen it yet, don't read any further.. first, i enjoyed the movie.
i think that the reboot of batman was the best thing that could have been done to the franchise.
i love the fact that the last two films are dark, and that the batman literally skates the thin line between justice and criminality.
"The Dark Knight' is the anti-typical hollywood hero/villain film. Probably the best one of its kind.
If you liked Superman, Spiderman, Iron man, or even the original Batman then... this movie flies in the face of all preconcieved plot devices regarding the genre. Thank God the filmmakers chose a different road by crafting a unique film.
No overacting, no people born out of meteors, no scientific substances causing people to have super-human powers.
The Batman and the Joker are... real people, just with names to hide their identities along with the masks that they use. Their main talents for creating change in the world are intelligence, technology, and a philosophical outlook. They do not have this unbelievable mythology to make the characters seem greater than they actually are. As evidence of this, the filmmakers were wise to spend no time whatsoever discussing the Joker's history.
Were you expecting Jack Nicholson using an absurd-looking pistol to destroy the batmobile?
I'd rather my Batman drive a hummer.
- Preston
another convention is taking place in my neighborhood this weekend.
i see them from my office lining up to get in.
what should the sign say?
'Eat at Joes"
- Preston
