I don't know. Certain parts of the Western Europe seem to have been paragons of elegance.

No wonder Americans always like to learn European languages.

Now that Facebook has vanquished most consumers' favor,

how long is it going to retain them?

Sometimes bunglers tend to have bigger ambitions than professionals do, because the latter have more experience of this rule: reality checks.

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I for one don't know and can't fathom how much pretense and humbug financiers put on, even when they are dealing with people's retirement money.

And, as for those so-called "financial advisors", many of them merely are SALESMEN of financial products. Their "ADVICES" you take not, my friend.

I haven't been closely following the reporting on the causes of the current financial crisis.

Has there been a cogent explanation beside the sub-prime mortgages?

Do you want to become a maven?

What do frayed jeans indicate?

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Stuff worn by time and your own activities can be claimed as solely yours. Of course, you can expend extra dollars and buy that pair of frayed or ripped denim off the shelf.

I wonder if Mr. Bill Clinton's reputation was really scraped by his Lewinsky scandal.

He still seems to be all influential in American political scene.

How many foreign secret emissaries are there in Canada? And how many ones are in each country?

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Espionage, especially industrial espionage, has never really ceased its existence since the end of the Cold War, I heard.

Humble succor shines glorious humanity.

Dogs gnaw bones

Dogs gnaw bones
Cats smell fish
Humans look for things heartfelt

How come almost everything needs scrambling for in the People's Republic of China?

Law and order, please.

I can't stand any sound of something scraping on a piece of paper at all.

Too abrasive for my conscience.

I admit that Facebook baffles the hell out of me.

On the surface, Facebook web pages tend to be almost full of nonversations and frivolous stuff. I haven't been able to bring myself to invest really sufficient time, which must be a lot, in discovering its true worth for me. So I'm as disoriented and bamboozled as the author of this article: Facebook Plots its Future: Will it Be Our Overlord?

Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook which is a private company valued at US$50 billion by Goldman Sachs, has allegedly vowed to donate half of his wealth to charity.

So, in essence, his money follows the suit of smart money and noble money.

That is a great American tradition. And that, showcases that the United States of America is a GREAT nation, a "kingdom on the hill", although inevitably with its own glitches and shortcomings. God bless it.

Vintage music video - Casablanca - Bertie Higgins

Lyrics: http://goo.gl/8QN1X .

I guess I'll slowly watch few flicks whose cast includes the famous beauty Ingrid Bergman, who was the main actress in the above classic movie Casablanca, in the coming years.

A mind set takes a long time to forge and construct.

But it seems easy to lose. So put it to use, I urge you.

Dimensional English

Short, long. Narrow, wide. (Two dimensions.)

Ditto. Low, high. (Three dimensions.)

High, short. (For describing people who are three-dimensional)

Isn't that amazing?

Being impressed is hard to come by, sometimes.

Yet working hard can make the moment appear and come off earlier.

Tastes whose acquirement cannot be supported directly, or even indirectly, by money are the ones which are the most valuable.