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Eva Mendes

By Jocelyn on October 19, 2009
Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, Training Day, We Own the Night and The Spirit.
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nster.com rated her as #10 in 15 Celebrites with Gorgeous Legs.

They are crazy, she should be #1
without a doubt.

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Obama Watched Benghazi Attack From 'Situation Room

Lt. Col. Tony Schafer told Fox News that sources were telling him that the President was watching the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya in real-time. 

Schafer told Fox that "only the President" could have ordered backup for the Americans who were under siege by terrorists so the President was most certainly informed of the situation as it was unfolding.

"I hate to say this," Schafer said, "according to my sources, yes, [the President] was one of those in the White House situation room in real-time watching this. 

And the question becomes, 'What did the President do or not do in the moments he saw this unveiling?' He -- only he -- could issue a directive to Secretary of Defense Panetta to do something." 

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The Experiment

I was a naturally curious kid...it must have been around 1966, my family and I were going to Gallup New Mexico.

We lived on the Navajo Reservation and I think Gallup was about 60 miles away.

We stopped to get gas before the trip and I convinced my mom that I would probably die on the way if I didn't get a bottle of Coke and some Sweet-Tarts.

So, we are finally on the highway, I'm drinking my Coke and eating my Sweet-Tarts like a good little American boy when I have a question for my parents.

"What would happen if I put a Sweet-Tart in my Coke?"

"Don't do it, it would probably fizz and make a horrible mess.'

"Okay."

About five more miles down the road, I couldn't stand it anymore, I had to conduct the experiment.

Plop, plop (I put two in for good measure) guess what happened, yep it fizzed all over the place and made a horrible mess in the backseat of my dad's 1964 Mustang.

The worst part, for me, was that it went all over my pants and it looked like I had wet my pants.

Once we got to Gallup, pride would not let me go into a grocery store looking like I had wet my pants, so I set in the car the whole time.

That's about all I remember about that trip.

Christie Embraces Budget Strategies He Scorned as a Candidate - Hypochristie

 

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Running for New Jersey governor in 2009, Chris Christie hammered the Democratic incumbent, Jon S. Corzine, for using “one-shot gimmicks” to balance the budget, called it “unconscionable” to take away property tax rebates and railed against issuing more debt for transportation projects, promising to “start saying no to spending.”

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But in four years in office, Governor Christie, a Republican, has relied on the same kind of short-term strategies, diverting money for things like affordable housing and property tax rebates to balance the budget, and tapping funds intended for development of new sources of energy to keep the lights on in state buildings.

Mr. Christie made headlines when he declared he was canceling construction of a tunnel under the Hudson River to halt runaway costs, but he has issued more debt for transportation projects than any of his predecessors. Overall spending has risen 14 percent, and while state surpluses nationwide are growing, New Jersey’s has shrunk to its lowest percentage in a decade. The state’s bond rating is among the worst in the country. 

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