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To: Road Walker who wrote (442729)	12/26/2008 11:06:54 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575191

I actually do not like hot weather....will be happy just to get back into the 40s.

To: Road Walker who wrote (442729)	12/26/2008 11:48:53 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

Citi just called and encouraged me to use my Citi card. I thought they didn't want people to run up their cards? <g>

To: Road Walker who wrote (442729)	12/26/2008 11:50:31 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575191

Citi just called and encouraged me to use my Citi card. I thought they didn't want people to run up their cards? <g>

To: Road Walker who wrote (442729)	12/26/2008 3:26:32 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

Brother: Madoff suicide investor lost own money 1 hour, 25 minutes ago (AP:PARIS) The French financier who killed himself after losing more than $1 billion of his clients' investments to Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme also saw his own family's money disappear, his older brother told The Associated Press on Friday. Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet and his business partner Patrick Littaye were "totally ruined," Bertrand Magon de la Villehuchet said. Bertrand said his brother had "invested his own fortune" with Madoff _ up to several tens of millions of dollars _ along with money from friends and family. Rene-Thierry, 65, was found dead at his desk in New York on Tuesday, both of his wrists slashed. A box cutter and a bottle of sleeping pills lay nearby. Police say it was a suicide. Rene-Thierry had begun investing with Madoff three or four years ago and had a total of $1.4 billion invested with him when the scandal came crashing down, according to Bertrand. "At first he thought he'd be able to get the money back. He was very determined. Gradually he realized he wouldn't be able to," Bertrand said in a telephone interview from his home on Paris' chic Place des Vosges. "My brother was a man of simple tastes," Bertrand said. "He was a very modest man." Madoff was arrested Dec. 11 and allegedly told FBI agents he had masterminded a $50 billion fraud. news.ino.com

To: Road Walker who wrote (442729)	12/26/2008 3:57:57 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

Now the weatherman is fukking with us. It was supposed to be raining today......instead its snowing.....again. And to show you how messed up people are getting.....another neighbor is outside sawing something. This is a house so perfectly maintained it doesn't need any sawing. Nonetheless, he found some sawing to do as the snow drifts down.

To: Road Walker who wrote (442729)	12/26/2008 4:48:57 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575191

Military adapting Wii controller for combat 12/26/2008 @ 8:56 am rawstory.com Filed by RAW STORY Military contractors are planning to use a popular video game controller to control combat robots. The application of the "Wiimote," the Discovery Channel reports, is being given a new look by scientists from the Idaho National Laboratory in collaboration with engineers from the US Army, Foster-Miller and iRobot. The accompanying video report was broadcast on CNN's American Morning on December 26, 2008.