27 December 2007 - Will she go 97 percent AWAY too?
In case you missed it, Barron Hilton just announced that he is giving away 97 percent of his estate upon his passing. Barron Hilton is worth $2.3 Billion! That means, if he died today, he would give away $2,231,000,000!!
That leaves JUST $69 Million for Barron Hilton's fine family.
What is Paris to do? Apparently, become a gold digger. God forbid she gets a JOB. Seriously, she has already been doing some "work" for a dating website. I think it is one that specializes in finding rich men.
Maybe she is not as much of a dullard as I thought.
Nah!
Look for her to spend as much of grand dad's money as she can while she still can.
Jerry Oppenheimer, who wrote a book about the Hilton's, said that he thinks that Barron Hilton was motivated by Paris and her continued embarrassments to the family name. Really? Oh, Barron Hilton did not comment on Oppenheimer's speculation. The silence is deafening.
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The list of most admired people for 2007 is now out. The most admired man? President George W. Bush! Huh!
The most admired woman? Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton! What????!!!!????
But wait, it is worse. Look at the top five lists from each gender.
Men - GWB, followed by former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, evangelist Billy Graham and finally Nelson Mandella.
Really?
Women - HRC, Oprah Winfrey, Condoleezza Rice, Angelina Jolie and Laura Bush.
Wow?
Here is my view on this. I respect the OFFICE of the President. Often, I find myself not respecting the occupant of that office. To be clear and to be honest, I did vote for Bush, twice. Why? Lesser of the two evils each time. I found Gore to be insincere and as dishonest as his boss. Bush seemed less harmful. I found Kerry to be a dullard and spineless. The evil I know, beat the evil I didn't. I am NOT proud of my 2004 vote, but I felt that the other option was more dangerous.
But Bill Clinton? Really? What is there to admire? If you can think of ANYTHING reasonable (and don't say the economy because he does NOT deserve the credit for anything but the recession of 99-01) to admire about that man, post a comment here. PLEASE!!!
Albert Arnold Gore, Junior, of Washington, DC??? I guess we could admire him for taking the lie of humans causing global warming and turning it into an Oscar win, a Nobel Peace Prize win and a lot of cash.....all while causing a GIGANTIC carbon footprint. I guess I can admire him for turning being a hypocrite into a cottage industry. Oh, wait...that is just politics in general.
I can say nothing bad about Billy Graham. I can understand this pick. But with ALL due respect. And I mean with ALL DUE RESPECT...Billy Graham making this list is as predictable as a beauty pageant contestant wanting world peace.
Nelson Mandella? I guess you can admire the fact that he has not put anyone into a tire filled with gasoline and set it on fire in over 40 years. I suppose THAT is admirable. I know, one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter/political prisoner. No matter how justified he was, and I agree that apartheid is a horrible practice, that kind of terrorism has NO PLACE in our world. I will always view Mandella the same way I view Yassir Arafat.
As for the women, I don't think I need to further go into why Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is a BAD choice.
Oprah? I don't disrespect her. I think she took a fledglinig talk show in Chicago and turned it in to a billion dollar empire. I respect that. I just don't get her appeal and the zeal of her followers. Pied Piper or Jim Jones come to mind at times. But there could be worse people to admire. Like the one who tops this list.
Condoleeza Rice? I can see an upside to her, but the downside is quite large. Secretary of State is the head diplomat of the nation and she has a tough job considering who currently occupies the White House, as well as his immediate predeccessor and damage done by that administration.
Angelina Jolie....this one is a bit more complicated. She HAS ACTUALLY done some good things. Her UN work is about the ONLY decent think the UN has done in a while. But otherwise, more celebrity crap with this pick.
Laura Bush, the bright spot of the family. No problem with this choice. Aside from, like Kathy Kersting, a bad decision when it came to picking a spouse.
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