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"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." - Anthony Robbins







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"Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming." - Myrna Loy






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Daily Quotes 9-10-10

"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life" - Harvey MacKay






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Today's Quote 9-8-10

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly" - Sam Keen






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Today's Quote 9-7-10

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Brandi Snyder







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Today's Quote 9-3-10

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Robert Muller







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Today's Quote 9-2-10

"They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything." - Bil Keane







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Today's Quote 8-29-10

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Robert Muller







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Today's Quote 8-22-10

"Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again." - Alex Tan







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Today's Quote 8-21-2010

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future." - Ronald Reagan








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Today's Quote

"Don't walk in front of me. I may not follow. Don't walk behind me. I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend." - Albert Camus








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Today's Quote

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill







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Today's Quote 8-18-10

"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." - Tennessee Williams









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Today's Quote

"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things." - Anthony Robbins







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Today's Quote 8-15-2010

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine



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MY FATHER, MY DAD Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles

Today I visited the grave site of Marine Corps CPL Jose D. Aviles AKA My Father. I found out this past Friday July 9, 2010 that on June 8, 2009 My Father passed away in a Veteran Affairs Hospital in Bronx, New York. I haven't seen and/or heard from my Dad since 2001. What makes me feel worse than anything is that in April of 2007 I moved to New York and lived less than 30 miles away from the Hospital where he spent the last minutes of his life. I feel so bad, I feel terrible and now I wonder (think)"Did I do everything in my power to find him?", "Did I exhaust all means to find him?". Those questions are going to be with me forever and I just don't have an answer to them and probably never will have one. Thanks to my awesome Wife I was able to track him down to an address in the Bronx and when I thought that I would find him I got the phone call from the Hospital to answer my questions and later told that he was gone. When I heard that it felt as if the ground was pulled from under my feet, then and only then I realized that the last time I heard his voice telling me that he witnessed the September 11 attacks in New York City was the last time that I heard his voice, that the week he spent with me in late 2000 or early 2001 was the last time that I would see him and now I would give anything to see him again. He was alone when he passed away and was buried with Military honors and a Chaplain and I wasn't there to pay him my respects. He was hardly around when I was growing up but no matter what, he was MY FATHER, MY DAD and I wish I would've seen him again. Today when I saw his name engraved in the headstone I realized that it was true that he was gone (until then I was kind of in denial). No matter what happened through our lives when I was growing up, nothing matters as far as why you wasn't around, what matters to me is that you are gone and will never forgive myself for not finding you earlier, for not doing whatever it took to find you, but above all you were and will always be MY DAD. DAD I LOVE YOU and I MISS YOU.


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Good 4th of July

Well,
Today was a good 4th of July. Didn't do much during the day but in the afternoon my wife and I went to do a little shopping and came back home. I made myself a snow cone with Blueberry syrup and played the Nintendo Wii while my wife watched her favorite TV series on DVD (Charmed). After playing th Wii for a little while my wife and I went to eat at Olive Garden. We came back home and same routine, play Wii and watch "Charmed" (makes me feel like Charmed is more important than me). Now we are laying in the bed watching Charmed while our Puppy Precious is bothering us and walking all over the bed. Precious is bad (in a good, funny sort of way) but fun at the same time. I guess it's until tomorrow.

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Precious won't be still on the bed, maybe it's time for her to go to her own bed.

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Life!!

Well here we are and nothing has changed!!! Why is that? Why is life so difficult? Why is life so complicated? Why is life......life??? I certainly don't know, I would love to know so the quest continues. It is late, real late and here I am thinking about life, thinking if I am the problem, if I am the cause of my own pain. Most of it is self-inflicted pain and some of it is not. What would have happened if nothing happened long time ago? Would I still in the same predicament? Would I still be going through the same? Who knows? All I know is that I want what I had before, I want it and I won't stop until I get it back.

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GEN McChrystal scoop goes viral before Rolling Stone publishes

On Tuesday morning, Rolling Stone's explosive profile of Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal dominated the news cycle. McChrystal's dismissive remarks about President Obama and some senior White House figures are still leading the New York Times and Washington Post websites — and buzzing around Twitter and the blogosphere — at this writing. Politico even published the entire article online. But for many hours, one place you couldn't read about the Rolling Stone piece was on Rolling Stone's own website.

Magazine spokesman Mark Neschis told Yahoo! News that Rolling Stone generally does not put entire national affairs stories online, instead running them only in the print magazine. (One recent exception was Tim Dickinson's investigative piece this month on the BP oil spill.)

While a magazine understandably wants to reap the financial benefits of having a major, deeply reported story only available on the newsstand, the idea of holding breaking news for print doesn't easily mesh with the demands of the 24/7 online news cycle. Not to mention, with McChrystal summoned to the White House to discuss his comments made in front of reporter Michael Hastings, the public is going to want to know what he actually said.

Still, it's not as if Rolling Stone didn't want to generate buzz, as Neschis explained: "I gave an advancer to the AP."

The Associated Press got things going Monday afternoon, in a short piece about McChrystal's frustration with U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, but didn't go into all the gory details that would later surface.

NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell quickly tweeted: "Rolling Stone quotes Gen McChrystal says Amb(ret Gen) Eikenberry 'betrayed' him with leaked memo last yr doubting Karzai story is out fri."

Clearly, competitors can't wait until Friday to pick up a copy, especially when McChrystal has already been summoned to the White House. Neschis said that other news organizations requested a copy, and published more details from the magazine article. However, Neschis said that he did not provide a copy to Politico or to Time magazine's political writer Mark Halperin — but both published the entire story Tuesday.

Still, with the story published on Politico and elsewhere, the genie was out of the bottle. MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski read straight from the text of the article while Rolling Stone Executive Editor Eric Bates sat at the table for an interview. (Rolling Stone itself took a few more hours after the MSNBC broadcast to break down and post the piece on its own site.)

Bates, in the "Morning Joe" interview, said that the magazine had fact-checked the piece over the previous week and that there were no objections from McChrystal before publication. Considering that McChrystal has already apologized, presumably he won't later claim he was quoted out of context.

As to how Hastings got such caustic remarks out of McChrystal, Bates explained that Hastings got "really unprecedented access" with the general and his staff.

"We reported this story over the course of several months," Bates said. "We were with him on a trip in Europe that wound up getting extended because of the volcano in Iceland. So our reporter was kind of trapped with him for about two weeks in Paris and traveling from Paris to Berlin. They couldn't fly, so they had to take a bus. So we really spent a lot of time with him and really got to look behind the curtain, and hear how he and his men, top men, talk among themselves on their own." Sphere: Related Content