The Artful Bras Project

Members of Quilters of South Carolina have created one-of-a-kind bras for Breast Cancer Awareness. The exhibit consists of fifty original works of art which are unique, entertaining, humorous, and beautiful to make the public aware of breast cancer, to memorialize those lost to the disease, and to honor survivors.

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I hate to see the benefit for testicular cancer.

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Tax preparer put refund in wrong bank account

Police say there may be little they can do to help a Des Moines man climb out of tax purgatory where forces beyond his control have swallowed up his tax refund of $2,696.

Harry Rios told Des Moines police that a tax preparer with H & R Block copied his bank account number incorrectly on his tax forms and his refund was deposited into the bank account of another person.

Police Detective Terry Mitchell said the money apparently has been spent or at least moved out of that account.

“They told me to call the police,” he said. Officers took a report that they labeled “fraud – theft.”

The question is who is committing fraud? The person who spent the money may have believed they were spending their own tax refund, Mitchell said.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I’m thankful for my blogging friends.  I haven’t met the majority of you, but you often make my day with your comments and/or emails.
  • I try not to think too much, it makes me constipated.  The last time I thought, I was constipated for a week.
  • It doesn’t surprise me, but I’m often amazed how people can bring divisive political talk when the topic at hand isn’t related to politics.
  • People are passionate when it comes to politics, but a lot of times I find Christians being unchristian when the passion of their hearts start to overflow.
  • This weekend I tried to update the WordPress software for this website, and I failed, miserable.  For a while, I actually lost everything I ever created and then couldn’t get it back to normally.  So as of right now I have the old version of WordPress, and was lucky that I was able to use some old files that I saved to get it back up and running.  Right now when I look at my files I have about three of everything.
  • WifeGeeding and I watched the movie Big Fish this weekend.  It’s a movie I wanted to see over the years, but never really made an effort because it’s a Tim Burton movie, and I’m not that fond of his work; but a few months ago I was able to get it on the Tivo.  Overall, good movie, and it had one absolutely beautiful ending.  For those of you that don’t much about the movie, it’s basically about a dad at the end of his life who loves to tell tall tales every chance he gets and a son who becomes annoyed by the tales and his father.  The movie had WifeGeeding and I tearing up quite a bit at the end.  For her, it made her think of her father and how he has never met a stranger, and for me, it reminded me a lot of not only the relationship I had with my father, but also his death, as I was the only one there when my father died and how I had to make the most difficult call of my life . . . calling Mom after he took his last breath.  Granted, I’ve been through some life events that made this movie special to me so I have some perspective, but if you are looking for one of those movies that will make you appreciate your father, give this one a try.
  • I think another really good “dad movie” is Field of Dreams, especially this scene.  I sometimes tear up when Coster summons up the courage to ask that question.
  • I was just going to link to that one part with the question, but I love that whole scene as it builds up to that moment.
  • That movie is now 20 years old.
  • I thought the woman who played his wife did a good job, but every time I see that movie I always wonder why they didn’t find someone more attractive.
  • The new U2 album continues to grow on me, and I have to thank their performance on Letterman all last week.  Those songs sound so much better live than on the album, and after exploring the lyrics I’m starting to understand the beauty of the new album, especially with all the Biblical imagery.  Thursday’s show was my favorite, it included just about everything in pop culture that I really like: Letterman, Jon Stewart, and U2.
  • Details of their new tour should be released today, and from what I hear it’s going to be great – a 360 degree stage in a stadium atmosphere.  So it looks like they will be playing in the new Cowboys stadium, that is, if that big-over-the-field-HDTV doesn’t get in the way.  If they don’t play there, I imagine they’ll be in the Cotton Bowl.  Man, Jerry should have got them to open up the new place to start off their tour.
  • The one thing I love about U2 is how they make an effort to please the fans.  For instance, the closest seats are the cheapest.
  • It appears that Dora the Explorer is growing up and Barbie can now get a tramp stamp.
  • I found this putting a brick in a dead person’s mouth article a bit interesting.  Link
  • The scariest picture of the Kool-Aid man, ever.  Pic
  • I’ve been wanting another Tivo unit for my workout room, and I was lucky enough to get one at the Circuit City closing for $50.
  • Super Mario was spotted in NYC.  Pic
  • Evil Icicle
  • Here’s a nice story about the Methodist church has an English teaching ministry.
  • A school district made a goof using eBay.  Article
  • A Flickr Clock
  • If you are a YouTube addict, you can add one of these stickers to you TV.
  • A couple of years ago I took a photo of a toilet in Vietnam, thankfully I didn’t have to go at this place.  And in case you are wondering, that comes t0 about $5.70 U.S. dollars.
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