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THE CHRISTMAS MYTH
My name is Alexandria, my friends call me Alex for short, but I’m trying to solve this problem. My parents said Santa was real but my friend, Nicole, her parents said Santa was just a myth to make kids be good before the holiday, Christmas. Well me, myself, I think Santa is real, but what I want to find out if he is real or not. I’ve wanted to find out for years to see if he is a real myth or not. But for right now I have to go to bed. That night I had a dream, my friend, Nicole, and I were flying to the North Pole. When the plane landed we got off and we searched for the North Pole. We walked for hours searching for it, but we finally found it. We looked for buttons on it, but all we found was a piece of paper. On That piece of paper were directions. As soon as I was going to read it my alarm clock went off. I jumped up out of bed and went to get dressed. All day in school I keep thinking of what that note said. During all of my classes, I would set in the back to try to go to sleep, but the teachers would switch a person in the front seat and put me in the front and them in the back. When I got home I was more sleepy than I was when I tried to go to sleep in school. My parents weren’t home so I didn’t have to do any chores. I laid down to take a nap. I dozed off and my dream went right back to where it left of this morning. I was reading the directions and it said,
“Alex, go to your mom
and dad’s room,
and in their bathroom,
there will be a clue in the tub
and,
another clue!”
After I read the directions, Santa appeared and he said,
“Alexandria,
you will find your answer to your question.
When I was a boy, I found my answer,
and so will you…Alex…so will you.”
After Santa disappeared I jumped and fell off the couch, trying to catch my breath. After I caught my breath I jumped up and dashed off toward my parents bedroom. I nearly fell trying to turn into my parents bedroom, but right in the middle of the tub there was the note. There was also an airplane. The directions said,
“The airplane stands for
you to fly to the north pole,
get your friend Nicole to go with you
and tell your parents you will be fine,
your next directions will be waiting on you
at the north pole!
P.S. bring scissors and coats, Good Luck”
When I finished reading the note, I turned around and in the doorway was my parents. They ask me where I got the airplane and what was the note for. I told them I was on a strange, but it will be helpful, mission. I also told them I have to go to the North Pole. By now my parents were looking at me very strangely. They ask me why it involved the North Pole. I said, “because….because….because o-of S-S-Santa Clause.” They said, “HHUUHH!” they looked pretty confused. Well I had to tell them the truth cause if I didn’t Santa, if he is real, would give me a lump of coal and I didn’t want that. My parents thought about it for a day. Then that day turned into a week and then a month. Well after a month and a half they said I could go, only if I took Nicole. Well it worked, and all I have to do is get her parents to say yes. Well after they said yes I ran straight to Nicole’s house. When I made it to her house and told her the news about Santa and everything, she was in total shock, but good, happy shock. After she was un-shocked by the news we went downstairs to where her parents were I told her parents everything that has happened and where I need to go. Her parents thought it over like for 20 minutes and finally agreed. Nicole and I have 1 week to get ready and leave. My mom went to get us tickets for the plane today so we are going to start packing tomorrow. Well me and Nicole have packed we are heading to the airport now. When we get to the airport we go to the airplane that we are supposed to fly on. We finally reach the airplane and get on Nicole takes out her IPod to listen to it. I start to get mine out but then doubts about the whole trip. I tapped Nicole on the shoulder to ask her something. She turned her head and took her earphones out to listen. I said, “Do you think all that stuff that happened to me was just a joke?” Nicole replied, “ No! I mean, come on, the plane in the bathtub, the dreams that went on about Santa, and sure, of course I said he was make belief doesn’t mean I am right, does it?” I answered, “No, I guess not then, but what if I am just making myself dream those dreams?” Nicole stated, “How in the world would you do that?” I paused to think about it and said, “I guess your right.” Nicole interrupted, “You guess or you know?” That’s when it hit me……she was right do I know or do I guess. I replied, “I really don’t know.” That put a smile on both of our faces, then it turned into a giggle and then a huge laugh! After about five minutes or until our faces turned from bright red to our normal skin tones we both put our head phones in our ears and fell asleep. When I woke up the flight attendant was hovering right over my face, and boy did she have s-t-i-n-k-y breath, she was telling us that our designated place to land will be coming up in a few minutes. After the flight attendant left I woke Nicole up and turned off my IPod and gathered some of my stuff up. When our plane landed we grabbed our bags and got off the plane. When we got off we went to our hotel, The McGlothans Hotel and Luxury. We went in and checked ourselves in; our room was the 6th floor, room number 407. When we got to our room, we changed clothes and put on warm clothes like: undergarments, sweatshirts, sweat pants, two layers of everything. After that Nicole and I left to the North, it is in Antarctica where we are. Now we have been walking for two hours in the cold. Nicole stops and says, “Do you know where we are, or even going?” I replied, “Yes well, possibly not really.” Nicole gave me a funny look. “Ok, ok, I don’t know where we are or where we are going,” I said. After that we trudged on for at least ten minutes until I saw something poke up on the other side of the mountain. It was like a white, red, and blue ball coming up. Then all of a sudden the ground under all of us
Keith
I want a luxury villa for 1200 a night with 10 people and bring in a chef, flowers, minister, cake etc. My plan will ultimately cost more but she says that she does not see 10 people in a house together as a wedding. I believe a wedding is what you make it.
*please note that we will only stay one week at the house with the guest the remaining two weeks will be the two of us alone. Week in Europe and and Island on the way back home to the west coast.
I do not want to be cheap, selfish or disregard what she wants. Bring peace back to this house. Where is our happy medium? Thank you to all who respond.
Larry
Ideally I would be able to travel from the UK to one of the major airports easily enough.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Peter
BOSTON - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who rails against the “cesspool” of pornography, is being criticized by social conservatives who argue that he should have tried to halt hardcore hotel movie offerings during his near-decade on the Marriott board.
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Two anti-pornography crusaders, as well as two conservative activists of the type Romney is courting, say the distribution of such graphic adult movies runs counter to the family image cultivated by Romney, the Marriotts and their shared Mormon faith.
“Marriott is a major pornographer. And even though he may have fought it, everyone on that board is a hypocrite for presenting themselves as family values when their hotels offer 70 different types of hardcore pornography,” said Phil Burress, president of Citizens for Community Values, an anti-pornography group based on Ohio.
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a leading conservative group in Washington, said: “They have to assume some responsibility. It’s their hotels, it’s their television sets.”
During a recent Associated Press interview, Romney said he did not recall pornography coming up for discussion while he was on the Marriott board from 1992 to 2001. Despite being chairman of the board’s audit committee, he also said he was unaware of how much revenue pornography may have generated for the hotel chain.
Romney said his current concern is not about pornography per se, but children unwittingly stumbling upon it on the Internet or television.
“I am not pursuing an effort to try and stop adults from being able to acquire or see things that I find objectionable; that’s their right. But I do vehemently oppose practices or business procedures that will allow kids to be exposed to obscenity,” the former Massachusetts governor said.
Pornography is a lucrative business for various hotel chains. Estimates vary widely, up to $500 million annually industrywide by one opponent, John Harmer, who served as California’s lieutenant governor under Ronald Reagan.
Marriott and other major hoteliers say they offer pay-per-view pornography because their customers demand it and entertainment service contracts require it to underwrite first-run movies and free television.
“It certainly would have been wrong to impose his own personal beliefs if they were contrary to the financial interests of the company,” Marriott spokesman Roger Conner said of Romney.
Marriott had a contract with On Command Corp. for its television and movie services during Romney’s board tenure. Conner said the contract was signed in 1991 — the year before Romney joined the board. He served until 2001 and was paid $25,000 annually, plus stock.
When Romney left to take over the 2002 Winter Olympics, a Marriott statement described him as an “active, hands-on director.”
Marriott refused to say if its contract with On Command was ever discussed or voted upon by the board, saying the directors’ votes and meeting minutes are proprietary.
Marriott now contracts with LodgeNet Entertainment Corp., which bought On Command last year.
Gary Glenn, president of American Family Association of Michigan, a conservative group, said: “The Marriott Corporation may be tap dancing around this subject, but a candidate for president should not be able to.”
Marriott International has more than 500,000 hotel rooms and annual revenues exceeding $10 billion. While the Marriott name is on more than 2,800 buildings, the corporation owns only about a dozen hotels. The rest are owned by franchises, lessening corporate control over their activities.
Romney, 60, has close links to the corporation, which opened its first hotel in 1957. Not only did he serve on its board of directors, but his given first name — “Willard” — is in honor of the hotel chain’s founder, J. Willard Marriott. Marriott and Romney’s father, former Michigan Gov. George Romney, were friends and rose through industry together.
In June 2000, J.W. “Bill” Marriott Jr., the son of Marriott’s founder, defended the distribution of pornographic movies, saying they were inseparable from the rest of the chain’s TV offerings.
“The in-room entertainment operators who provide our systems rely upon a certain volume of movie types in order to be economically viable,” Bill Marriott wrote to Bill Johnson, executive director of the Michigan-based American Decency Association. “If we were to eliminate the ‘R’ and non-rated offerings, the systems would not be economic.”
No all hotel chains have the same policy. Omni Hotels announced in late 1999 it would no longer offer pay-per-view movies in its rooms. Ritz-Carlton, the hotel name synonymous with luxury, also does not offer in-room pornography — even though it is owned by Marriott International.
Daniel Weiss, media analyst for James Dobson’s “Focus on the Family,” said this week in a radio broadcast to Focus members: “If (Romney) made money off pornography in the past, is he going to turn a blind eye to it if he’s president? Because as chief executive of the nation, it’s his responsibility to make sure our nation’s obscenity laws are efficiently and vigorously enforced.”
Romney linked the prevalence of pornography to the Virginia Tech shooting spree that left 33 dead.
“Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games,” Romney said May 5 during a commencement address at Regent University, the evangelical Christian school run by Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.
“The Virginia Tech shooter, like the Columbine shooters before him, had drunk from this cesspool.”
Albert
MUMBAI, India – Commandos who stormed the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-orthodox Jewish group found the bodies of five hostages inside, including a New York rabbi and his wife, officials said, as a fresh battle raged at the luxury Taj Mahal hotel and other Indian forces ended a siege at another five-star hotel.
More than 150 people have been killed since gunmen attacked 10 sites across India’s financial capital starting Wednesday night, including 22 foreigners — four of them Americans, officials said.
Here’s the link http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_india_shooting
Whatever terrorist group is responsible, they’re targeting foreigners. 4 Americans were found dead. 
This is really bad.
Lloyd
