YES, VIRGINIA, YOU HAVE A GUARDIAN ANGEL . .

[ignorant bastard]

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Pardon the repetition if you've already read this but it now includes
the follow-up column (halfway down) which I'm sure you're all just
dying to read) . . .
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This column by Ed Conrad appeared in the Hazleton (Pa.) Standard-
Speaker on March 31, 2002 -- Easter Sunday morning.
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The favorable response from readers, who reported that they DID get
their guardian angel's name, was incredible, to say the least.
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By ED CONRAD
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It's Easter morning -- Happy Easter, everyone -- and what a great
morning to touch on a subject that's very, very close to your heart.
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Your guardian angel!
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You've heard mention of guardian angels for years and years --
associated with different religions (naturally), in movies, in books,
o TV- - but few folks, I'm sure, have really given serious thought
that they HAVE a guardian angel.
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(Even the God-denying atheists and evolutionists.)
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Most undoubtedly figure it's nothing more than the figment of
someone's imagination -- and perhaps a bit of wishful thinking.
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But, based on a novel experiment conducted right here at the Standard-
Speaker, it appears that the reality of guardian angels is more than
we could ever imagine.
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For example, it appears that our guardian angels can communicate with
us -- letting us know his or her name.
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Still a skeptic, huh? Then read on . .
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It all began about 10 years ago when my late mother visited the Shrine
of Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown (Pa.).
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Upon returning home, Mom excitedly revealed that she had met an
Italian woman -- a senior citizen like herself -- and they clicked
instantly.
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During one of their numerous conversations, the woman asked my mother:
"Anna, what's your guardian angel's name?"
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My mother was flabbergasted, shocked at the question, for which she
oviously had no answer.
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The woman then explained that everyone can learn the name of his or
her guardian angel simply by asking, then told my mother: "Before you
fall asleep tonight, just say, 'Guardian angel, I know you're with me
all the time but I don't know your name. Please let me know your
name.' "
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Simple! And perhaps a bit far-fetched. Still, my mother tried it.
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The next day, Mom enthusiastically phoned to tell me she had learned
that her guardian angel's name was Noel. She said the name was solidly
embedded in her head when she woke up.
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Rather skeptical that it would work for me, I attempted the experiment
myself that very night. Lo and behold, I awoke the next morning with
the name "Girard" ringing in my ears. I have never known any
Girard's.
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Well, that might've well been the end of the story -- but it wasn't!
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About two weeks ago -- after 10 long years -- I casually mentioned the
incident in the Standard-Speaker newsroom when the subject of guardian
angels came up and, I admit, my story undoubtedly sounded quite hokey
to those listening.
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But the next morning, Annette Rusnock, the newspaper's editorial
librarian, was wearing a broad smile when she strolled into the news
room and proudly announced that she had tried the "experiment" to get
her guardian angel's name and awoke "with Isabella, Isabella,
Isabella."
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"Hmmm!" said Rosella Walker, who works near her. "I'm going to try it
tonight."
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Rosella did and came in the next morning happily revealing that it had
worked for her as well, getting the name Gertrude.
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"And, the thing is, I don't know any Gertrude's," Rosella said. "The
oly Gertrude I know is Gertrude's Chocolates."
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Well, strange things kept happening in the newspaper building.
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Joanna Marsicano of the classified advertising department tried it and
happily revealed that her guardian angel's name: also was Isabella.
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She said when she saw her name in large, bright lights when she woke
up, the last letter "a" in Isabella kept flashing and flashing,
emphasizing that the "a" is to be pronounced.
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"Just like I'm not Joann but JoannA, my guardian angel undoubtedly
wanted me to be sure I knew her name was IsabellA and not Isabell,"
she remarked.
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"To learn I have a guardian angel and, especially, to know her name
has made me very happy," said Joanna. "It really made my day."
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Mark Katchur, a staff writer, said he wanted to know if he could also
gt his guardian angel's name and said he awoke knowing positively it
is Daniel.
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Joanne Suglia, also in the classified department, tried it and beamed
while telling everyone that she earned her guardian angel's name is
Estelle.
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As the story circulated throughout the building, Lois Ann Hall and
Nadine Kubilus of the business office, Kathy Breznak and Al Danko of
the ad department, and Vicki Gennaro of the newsroom all tried it as
well -- and enthusiastically said it worked!
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Lois Ann excitedly said she had requested the name of her guardian
angel when she went to bed.
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"But I awoke about 6:30 the next morning and was sort of disappointed
that nothing happened," she said. "But I laid down again and fell
aseep and, when I got up, the name Marjorie was "everywhere.*"
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Kathy said she was afraid to try the experiment but, while about to
fall asleep one night last week, finally did so. She awoke with the
name Michael indelibly impressed upon her.
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Danko couldn't believe it when he tried the experiment and learned his
guardian angel's name is Justin.
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Vicki said her question also had been answered when she awoke with a
name ringing in her ears. At first, she admitted she was reluctant to
reveal it but then -- eventually -- she told the newsroom staff the
name she came up with was Azriel.
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The latest to attempt the experiment and discover it really works was
George Fetchko of the composing room.
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He tried it and learned his guardian angel's name is Adam.
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The experiment has worked in the majority of cases but, to be
perfectly honest, it didn't work for two or three people and the
answer escapes us. Perhaps these Standard-Speaker staffers hadn't made
their request with sincerity.
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If there's a fly in the ointment -- to readers still skeptical -- it
would be the name of the guardian angel of Nadine Kubilus, the third
to say she came up with Isabella.
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It means a guardian angel named Isabella popped up three times to
women working at the Standard-Speaker and it's anybody's guess if
there are three guardian angels named Isabella or one Isabella is
working three shifts, for three gals here at the S-S.
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Someone suggested that Nadine -- the third Isabella -- probably heard
that Annette Rusnock and Joanna marsicano both had come up with
Isabella, independent of each other.
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But Nadine insisted that she hadn't been aware of the names that
Annette and Joanna had come up with.
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"In fact, I learned my guardian angel's name before Joanna because it
happened to me last Thursday morning (a day before Joanna learned her
guardian angel's name)," said Nadine. "I just didn't say anything
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I came to work Friday morning."
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One last word: These are sound, sensible people who have held
responsible positions, most for many, many years. There is no reason
they'd be lying or be part of any type of con job.
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You, too, are invited to learn your guardian angel's name, and your
belief -- or disbelief -- in an existence beyond our physical realm
appears to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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"Ask and you shall receive," a Very Wise Man once said.
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In the case of learning the name of your guardian angel, apparently
all you have to do is ask.
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(PS: You DO NOT get your guardian angel's name while asleep. It hits
you like a thunderbolt as soon as you wake up.)
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Now, a most unusual follow-up.
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George Fetchko, who got his guardian angel's name, had attended a wake
a few nights after the above column appeared.
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"It seemed everyone at the wake was huddling around me, asking me how
I did it," he remarked at work the next morning.
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It -- and countless letters and e-mails from readers who performed the
experiment and succeeded -- prompted me to write a follow-up column
which began . . .
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"George Fetchko attended a wake the other night and was astounded that
he was MORE POPULAR than the corpse."
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This is a column by Ed Conrad that appeared in the Hazleton (Pa.)
Standard-Speaker about two weeks after his original column about
guardian angels that had been pubished on Easter morning.
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George Fetchko went to a wake the other night and was astonished that
he was MORE POPULAR than the corpse.
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"People at the viewing were coming up to me and asking how I got my
guardian angel," said George, a Standard-Speaker composing room
employee for decades.
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George said it was quite embarrassing getting so much attention by
earning that his guardian angel's name is Adam.
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He said one person at the wake revealed that he tried it, too, and
also came up with a name.
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Fetchko is just one of many people who tried the simple experiment by
politely asking for his guardian angel's name before falling asleep.
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The response to the column I did on Easter Sunday has been quite
remarkable, to say the least.
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For example, Mrs. Theresa Sporay of McAdoo excitedly phoned to say she
had asked and received -- the name Stephen -- and said she couldn't
be more pleased.
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"In fact, I was SO excited that I called my daughter in Philadelphia
Monday morning and told her," she said. "She told me, 'Mom, I'm going
to try it,' then phoned me back early Tuesday morning and told me her
guardian angel's name is Michael.
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"Then my sister came over she tried it, too and came up with
Gabriel."
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Mrs. Sporay kiddingly added that the phenomena is bound to grow and
grow "because it has now hit Philly."
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All these people had to do to get their guardian angel's name was
simply request it when they went to bed not necessarily on bended
knee.
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There need be no formal manner, just a request in a nice way as if
talking to your best friend.
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Wendy Naprava, our advertising representative, went out to make her
rounds one morning this week and was all aglow upon her return to the
office.
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She said not one, not two, not three but four of the people (all
women) she called on told her they learned their guardian angel's
names.
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Respectively, the names were Frederick, Adrian, Catherine and Lucy.
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The reaction is about the same in no matter what direction we've
turned.
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Francine Mehalshick of Hazleton, the genial postmaster at the Broad
Street sub-station, didn't read the original article but learned about
it two days later.
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She tried it that night and -- Bingo! -- Gabriel.
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"The incredible thing is that the next night I asked my guardian angel
if he could tell me the name of my husband Frank's guardian angel.
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I" awoke in the morning with the name Jason all over the place," said
Francine. "I couldn't get Jason out of my head."
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On and on it went.
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In District Magistrate William Slezosky's office in Mahanoy City, for
example, Victoria (Vicci) Brown of Shenandoah Heights was quite
excited. She had read the article and was a bit skeptical that it
would work.
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She said it indeed worked and learned her Guardian Angel's name is
Ella.
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"And I don't know any Ella's," she said. "Only Ella Fitzgerald (the
famous singer)."
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Over at the First Federal Bank on Broad Street, three tellers
gleefully reported they had hit the jackpot.
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Michelle Sobolowski came up with Ryan, Sharon Cicioni with Chi Chi and
Linda Mantush with Austin.
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The tellers reported that some customers are casually mentioning
having tried the experiment and said it works.
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Sobolowski said a Patti from an accounting office next door to the
bank told her she learned her guardian angel's name is Abigail.
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"And Patti said she never even knows or knew an Abigail," Vicci said.
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Complete strangers have been calling the Standard-Speaker, conveying
the good news.
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Vicki Gennaro of McAdoo, who works here, said a member of her family
tried the experiment and came up with Charles.
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She said it was even more fascinating because he had asked for his
"full name" and got a glimpse of his guardian angel's last name as
well, also being informed that he had been a cartoonist.
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The beat goes on and on!
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Kristen Tragus of Lost Creek, who works for a nursing agency in the
Shenandoah area, was delighted when she came up with Hannah.
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Over in Beaver Meadows, a wife reported that she is a bit saddened
because she tried it and came up empty-handed, which happens. However,
she revealed that her husband, Michael, tried it and learned his
guardian angel's name is Rose.
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It was just another case of a man learning his guardian angel has a
woman's name.
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Longtime and newly retired Standard-Speaker ad man Jack Davis
excitedly phoned to report that he came up with Angeline.
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A female member of the S-S advertising department shy about having
her name used -- said she keeps forgetting to try the experiment but
happily reported that her husband tried it and came up with Mary.
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She was asked how he felt, getting a woman's name.
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She said he was happy and told her he knew a wonderful, kind, old
woman named Mary who was a neighbor while he was growing up in
Freeland.
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She said he wonders -- just wonders -- if his guardian angel just
might be her.
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The following have Twittered to say they have gotten their guardian
angel's name but most are embarrassed to report it's either Lucifer
or
Belsebub .
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GWB, Crawford, TX (name withheld by request)
Richard (Don't Call Me a Dick) Cheney
Roger Ailes
Billo Reilly (Whoops! I mean Bill O'Reilly)
Ann "Douche Bag" Coulter
Glenn Beck
Adolph Hitler
Sean "Ins" Hannity
David Iain Greig and The Boys at talk,origin
Lady Gaga
Sonia of Operation Repo
The Grim Reaper
Dr. Death (Jack Kevorkian)
Christie O'Donnell
Rabbi Yehuda Levin
The Darwin great-great grandkids
Richard Dawkins
Wall Street Industrial Averages
Pastor Terry Jones
Smithsonian Institution
Penn State University
60 Minutes
Amerigo Vespucci
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
University of California-Berkeley
Al Einstein
Al Qaeda Al-Qaeda al-Qaida al-Qa'ida
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Stevw Hawking
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sheriff Dengle -- Reno 911 Police Dept.
American Association of Anatomists
American Anthropological Association
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
American Medical Association
Zinkag 41 (Autonomus Unit Zinkag 41, brood assemblage Delta 64)
American Museum of Natural History
The Good Shepherd
Julian Assange
American Civil Liberties Union ACLU
Liz Cheney
American Society for Investigative Pathology
The Smithsonian Institution
American Society of Human Genetics
Wikipedia
Geological Society of America
L'Osservatore Romano
Paleontological Research Institute (PRI)
Billy Graham
Federation of American Scientists
Science Nature Omni Penthouse magazines
Smithsonian Custodial Employees (Local 666)
Sarah Palin
New England Journal of Medicine
Paul PZ Myers University of Minnesota
Michelle Malkin
Worldwide staff of Wikileaks
Geraldo Rivera
The Good Samaritan
British Petroleum BP
Larry King (But you can call me "The")
Pope Benedict XVI c/o The Vatican
Wayne Clough -- Secretary of Smithsonian
The Girls at Mustang Ranch
Sen. John Boner
The Estate of the Leakey Family
American Board of Forensic Anthropology
American Journal of Pathology
Rudy Giuliani
Michele Bachmann
American Medical Association
American Society for Investigative Pathology
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Father Guido Sarducci
Mother Teresa
Association for Molecular Pathology
talk.origins (David Iain Greig, moderator)
Isaac Newton
sci.bio.evolution
College of American Pathologists
Satchel Paige
Viagra Mfg.Co.
C-span
Cornell University Medical College
Wall Street bankers
Gen. Omar Bradley (Ret.)
Forensic Files
International Academy of Pathology
NBC
Rupert Murdoch
ABC
U.S. Geological Survey
Taliban Federation
Predators Socety -- Chris Hansen CEO
Fox News
MSNBC
CNN
New England Journal of Medicine
Opponents of Intelligent Design
sci.med.pathology
Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Tiger Woods
Institute of Human Origins
The Warner Brothers
Society for Medical Anthropology
Kenneth and Gloria Copeland
American Journal of Pathology
Alexander Emmanuel "A-Rod" Rodriguez
Donald Rumsfeld
American Society of Primatologists
Orly Taitz
National Primate Association
La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles
Oral Roberts
British Petroleum BP
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
Gorilla Foundation
The Banana Republic
AAA (Amalgamated Atheists of America)
Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, founder of Wikipedia
Chris Matthews
Rachel Maddow
Google Technicians
Michael Moore
Red Skelton
Bill Maher and His Whole Family
WikiLeaks
Oliver Stone
Smithsonian Snack Shop staff
Time Magazine
President Obama
Anderson Cooper
Pamela Anderson
New York Times
New York Daily News
New York Post
New York Daily Mirror
Newsday
Newsweek
Washington Insider
Benny Hill
Philadephia Inquirer
The Nation
Walmart
Meet the Press
David Gregory
eBay Stores
PBS
Rosie O'Donnell
To Catch a Predator on American Idol
National Enquirer
National Lampoon
Washington Post
Sean Penn
Wall Street Journal
Deepwater Horizon
The View
Jeff Rense
U.S. News and World Report
60 Minutes
Roswell (N.M.) Chamber of Commerce
Arianna Huffington
David Letterman
Charles Manson
Matthew Mark Luke and Jack

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