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Three months ago, under the guidance of Demetricia Patterson, Consignment Furniture Etc. opened its doors with its mission to provide one half of the profits toward funding a foundation which gives drug assistance to senior citizens.

Demetricia Patterson is the owner of the consignment store and the creator of the Demetricia C. Patterson Foundation, a non-profit drug assistance program for people age fifty plus.

Ms Patterson says she established the foundation because she has witnessed  people in her community who must choose between purchasing necessary medication or buying food. (more…)

A new foundation is the theme presented by President Barack Obama in (more…)

Over the past weekend the White House Correspondents held their annual dinner.  Only 14 presidents, beginning with President Calvin Coolidge in 1924, have attended this grand affair.

The White House Correspondents Association is in charge of the planning of the event. After all it is their dinner where reporters receive awards for journalism and students receive scholarships. They choose the hotel venue, the menu and the evening’s comedy host. It is a tradition since the 1940s for the correspondents and their guests-usually actors and other  entertainers along with politicians to be entertained by the witty observations of the evening’s featured hired speaker. (more…)

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, YouThinkWhat has video from California documenting the destruction of homes.

These homes have been destroyed  because of the decision by the bankers. That’s right… bankers. The decision was made by the bankers,  encouraged by avaricious politicians to destroy new homes. You may wonder why the bankers and the politicians are demolishing homes when so many are being dispossessed of their homes, but students of U.S history and especially the history of the Great Depression will understand that while people were starving in the Great Depression large oversupplies of food grown were being dumped into the ocean.

There are more than 100,000 people who are homeless in the City of Los Angeles alone. It is very strange that all this talk of surplus and excess homes seems to result in more and more people dispossessed.

If you believed the hype there should be two homes for everyone, at least that would make more sense than knocking them down, but not when you have bankers to rescue.

Here’s the story as reported by Patrick Thatcher of VVDailyPress.com
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Read details of the life and death of beloved actor Ricardo Montalban.

The new private jet charter airline Million Airways announces “hassle-free flying” for your flight travel convenience.

That’s right, no more standing in line while listening to the oft-repeated announcement that passengers are only permitted to take on board three ounces or less of liquid…any liquid in a see-through plastic container. No more worries that your designer fragrance at $70 an ounce will be confiscated and tossed into a plastic bin with hundreds of other captured cosmetics. Now you can fly on charter flights and never again worry about the Department of Homeland Security inspections. (more…)

General Motors Acceptance Corporation,  GMAC,  is now a bank.

On Wednesday, December 24, 2008 The New York Times published a report stating Federal regulators have approved the section of General Motors that handles financing, for cars and for homes, to become a bank in order to access billions of dollars of government subsidies, an action believed by the Fed Res to be a crucial step to insure the company’s survival. (more…)

There’s news about Paris Hilton, our favorite hotel heiress and actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Get the details here.

One of the things we enjoy the most about this time of year is Alek’s Controllable Christmas Lights. You may recall last year we told you about Alek and his lovely wife Wendy how they raise money for Celiac Disease research at the University of Maryland. They do this because they have two sons who live with the disease,  a digestive disorder in which foods containing gluten cause an immune-mediated toxic reaction if eaten. The disease affects almost one percent of Americans, though it is believed to be under-diagnosed.

Over the years millions around the world have viewed the Komarnitsky’s lighting display. This year so far  they count viewers from 148 countries have seen the more than twenty thousand *lights used in the displays.

*Note for the ecologically minded: The lights are wind powered and carbon neutral.

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We’re sending holiday blessings along with best wishes for the season to our friends at the Love and Charity Mission in Racine, Wisconsin and Love and Charity Mission II in Memphis, Tennessee.

picture credit: Jim Bovin-Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mother Louis Hunter-Milligan is the founder and leader of the mission, who for  more than forty years has made a positive and lasting impression upon hundreds, if not thousands of less fortunate men, women and children, people who have passed through the doors of this charitable mission. (more…)