Vicky Branson

Well I am glad to see that Selena has her head in a good place, she just posted about using Diamonds as a currency, not talking about how diamonds are a girl’s best friend. I like the fact that Selena takes her time to get herself educated and informed, rather than taking the road many girls I know these days are going, looking for men to replace their lack of means.

I think it is an unusually cool idea to consider gemstones as currency. If everyone was trading gemstones much like the tribes in Africa used beads, as money, then we would have beautiful money rather than this dirty paper we have to carry around, and wewouldn’t have to worry about finding an ATM all the time!

Excerpt from an article via AP/yahoo news:

“In big money cases the White factor has more than doubled the levels of award and it has been said by many that London has become the divorce capital of the world for aspiring wives,” the Court of Appeal said. “Whether this is a desirable result needs to be considered.”

The Charman ruling could be dwarfed by former Beatle Paul McCartney’s split with his second wife, Heather Mills McCartney. Paul McCartney’s wealth is reputed to be around $1.6 billion — but he was already very rich before his second marriage.

Another case that may be more relevant to McCartney is that of Melissa Miller, an American who won a $9.9 million settlement after a 33-month marriage — or about 15 percent of her ex-husband’s assets.

Lord Nicholls, one of five judges who heard that case, noted that Melissa Miller had enjoyed a pampered lifestyle, and “that was not a standard of living the wife would be likely to achieve for herself,” he said.

Despite the appeals court’s concern about London becoming a divorce capital, there are richer pickings in the United States.

Forbes.com speculated last month that the McCartneys will come in at No. 6 on the most expensive celebrity divorce list, at $60 million.

This world is a very strange place these days. With cases like the Anna Nicole smith case and other big name, bigger money marriages, divorces and other scandals, it seems that real life has become crazier than some of the soap operas plaguing the airwaves today.

When are people going to realize that enough is enough and quite whining and fighting for 15 million when 10 million would surely take care of you for some time. Please, girls, you are making us all look bad!

I guess I had not thought much about garbage in recent years, I for one assumed that we had figured this thing out, I mena aren’t we recylcing and sorting? Aren’t we buidling golf courses over waste dumps and pulling the excess methane produced therein into electrcicty? I guess garbage can be a serious issue, and in Naples Italy, apparently it has become a crisis and a helth crisis at that.

From this article via yahoo it seems that choas is erupting in Italy with dumps completely full and trah that has not been collected in weeks, people are burning garbage that contains lethal chemicals and they probably don’t even know that they are making a dire situation even worse. The mob mentalitly and burning cities, all over garbage? Is this really 2007 we are living in?

I guess maybe I am just not the normal average everyday American girl, but if what I am seeing is true, then the average American girl (and guy) is really freaking wierd these days. I mean, Jerry Springer is big, girls gone wild is huge, there are all kinds of hot or not and similar poll web sites including rate my boobs and these places seem to be filled with lots of people joining in these ludacris activities. I think what a waste of time, but apparently many other people are just plain hooked on this mental wave and obviously prefer it to the real world. (not the real world on MTV which does seem to have plenty of people tuning in, I mean the real world, outside the TV box, outside the compute screen, and away from the cell phone).

The cell phone thing is what really got me started on this rant, I was thinking about the adult dating options availabale today and was doing a little research when I came across a blog that is all about mobile dating tech, and found that this crushorfsh site got 100,000 people to sign up in 90 days. That is a lot of people engaging in this hedonsitic, materialistic, shallow type of service, but am I the minority, am I the one out of a million that shuns this whole go mentality that is going around today? From the numbers I’ve seen I am starting to get scared that the moral America I grew up to love has grown out of love with moral and just seems fixated on jack ass manical media, and that mentality seems to be going far beyond the 90 minutes of a DVD, but extending into life all around us.

Wow, I knew Stephanie was a wild child and all, but I did not think that she had become so cold in the process. I don’t know, maybe she is not really cold hearted, but if you read her post about an article where it is stated that most of today’s women are not looking for relationships, but instead spending more time online looking for men with more money than the men they currently have at thier disposal. It makes me wonder about how many women today are looking at disposable men, and where our relationships are going to be for the next generation growing up.

It’s quite a scary thought that women have changed thier whole paradigm and instead of thinking about finding tru love and lasting relationships, would instead use the endless online opportunities to constantly trade one man for another, making them disposable piggy banks rather than people. Has it come to this? Are we just objectifying men in this way, bringing their worth to nothing more than what their bank statement shows and how that compares to the other men out there in the myspace world?

Some girls probably think that it is fair play, and why not, but I see serious issues with our children having very warped relationship perspectives in the future, and maybe this whole online instant communique has gone too far.