AND THE WINNER IS...

INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL

From its opening on Thursday, through the 3-day Memorial Day holiday, it racked up $151,958,445 in ticket sales. Thats just in North America. Globally, its an estimated $312 million for just Friday, Saturday and Sunday (including the $127 million from North America those 3 days). Thats about what Bill Gates earned over the same period. Here are the Top-20 films of this past weekend.

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"Bond. James Bond."
The creator of that long running literary and cinematic series, Ian Fleming, was born 100 years ago today. JFK once commented that Fleming was his favorite author.

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The actor(?) Sharon Stone has succeeded in doing something no one else has ever accomplished. Pissing off 1 billion people with a single sentence. I wonder in the Guiness Book of World Records has a category for that?

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When White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, left his position in April 2006, our (still) President Bush, at a press conference announcing McClellan's departure, said:

"One of these days, he and I are going to be rocking in chairs in Texas talking about the good old days of his time as the press secretary, And I can assure you, I will feel the same way then that I feel now, that I can say to Scott, job well done."

I wonder if (still) President Bush will feel the same way after he reads McClellan's new book. Which lays bare all of Bush's lies, skullduggery and any other two-bit "mal" word you can assign. Another nail in Dubya's legacy.

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The Pentagon has announced that, in 2007, the number of solders diagnosed with PTSD jumped roughly 50%.

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I am very tired. Almost have everything sorted out for my move. A lot of emotions when opening boxes that have been shut away for years and finding a bit of nostalgia here and there. Thats where those forgotten pics came from yesterday.

I hope your day is productive and profitable. Thank you very much for the time you can spare to spend here. I do appreciate it. Back later with more. Until then...

Mahalo

Aloha

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