Hampton Hotels are just one of the large chain of hotels your family could choose to stay at; while on vacation or just taking a road trip to a weekend getaway. The other big hotel chains aren’t offering a chance for you and your friends to stay at any one of their locations for FREE! The nice folks from Hampton are and I will explain more on how you and your closest buddies and family members can enter to win this fabulous Hampton Chain of Friends Sweepstakes. Let me first tell you about the Hampton Hotel’s location I would choose, if I was lucky enough to win this hotel sweepstakes.

My winning sweepstakes entry from Hampton Hotels would take me across the country. I would leave my home in Georgia and head west to California. I would select a historic place in California to stay at on my trip. The historic Route 66 is also the main street in Barstow, California. A long time ago, there was a big gold rush to Barstow, California. Many gold miners packed up and moved to Barstow hoping they would strike it rich. There was a lot of gold found in this area of California and even today the area is still rich in gold.

Barstow is not a travel destination for most travelers. However, I am not most travelers. I am a gold miner and someone who loves to pan for gold. I would love to go here one day and give the area of Barstow, California a try and see if I can find any of the gold, the Old Timers left behind. If I won this Hampton Hotel Sweepstakes, I would be sure to take my gold panning friends with me. I’m sure they would love to go to California too and look for some of that shinny, yellow metal we know as gold! Hampton Hotels just opened a new location in Barstow and this location offers 90 luxurious rooms to guests, who need a place to stay at; while visiting Barstow, California.

Now the grand prize winner for this exciting sweepstakes, will get an entire 100 room hotel for the weekend! You and all of your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, and anyone else you know, could all get a free weekend stay for 2 nights at any Hampton Hotels location. If I won the grand prize, I would have to hold a gold mining convention in Barstow and invite gold prospectors from all over the country, so I could fill up as many of those 100 rooms as I could.

We all have a better chance of winning one of the 100 first place prizes (daily giveaway) and this is a very nice prize too. All first place winners will get a weekend stay at any Hampton Hotel’s location for free and would be able to invite 3 of their friends along. So if you want a free weekend stay at a Hampton Hotels, you need to enter the sweepstakes now. You can’t win unless you enter, so hurry and go register now for a chance to win one of these 100 first place prizes or to be the grand prize winner! I wish you good luck and be sure to come back here and let me know if you won a prize from the online Hampton Hotels Sweepstakes.

Some bloggers praise companies or services they have had success with and no one ever has a problem with this side to blogging. However, when a blogger decides to vent about something in the World he or she doesn’t like, this is not the time to put restrictions on them. I have never held back any of my thoughts or opinions to my readers and followers. I give the straight truth or relay things as the way I see them. Maybe I don’t see things in the right way. If this is the case; then others have the right to create their own blogs and tell their readers how I am making a mistake. No need for governments or local laws to get involved with blogs. Bloggers have shaped the Internet and they have the power to shape the search engines to the best ways they see fit. A lot of help and useful information gets made available to people all over the World, because bloggers take their precious time to make sure this happens.

I read a lot of disturbing things about bloggers and how other states are trying to limit a blogger’s freedom online. It’s time all of us bloggers stand up for each other and defend our rights to blog about anything we want. No blogger is crossing any laws; when they express opinions and this needs to be recognized. Law makers must understand there is a difference between a blogger who tells someone to go jump off a bridge as compared to a blogger who goes out and pushes someone off a bridge. Keep that in mind the next time you want to address the popularity of blogs and the bloggers who make it happen everyday. There are 115 million blogs in the World and this is one of the largest groups in the World. Be careful when you call out a blogger, because calling out just 1 who blogs online, is like talking to millions of others who share their same love for blogging and owning a blog on the World Wide Web.

*Eye of the Tiger

*Eternal Flame

*Take My Breath Away

*I’ve Had the Time of My Life

*Livin’ On A Prayer

*Total Eclipse of the Heart

*I Want To Know What Love Is

*Sweet Child O’ Mine

*Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now

*I Love Rock N’ Roll

*All Night Long

*Down Under

*99 Luft Balloons

*The Glory of Love

*Another Brick in the Wall

*Purple Rain

*Can’t Fight This Feeling

*Wind of Change

*Never Gonna Let You Go

*867-5309 Jenny

*The Reflex

*Danger Zone

*Sweet Dreams

*Every Rose Has Its Thorns

*Mr. Roboto

*Born In The USA

*Africa

*Man Eater

*Crazy Train

*Final Countdown

*Money For Nothing

*Another One Bites the Dust

*Jump

*Fade To Black

*Footloose

*I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me

All of these great songs and Michael Jacksonwas the 1980′s. Even though MJ would tarnish his career later on, he was the man in the 80′s and his musical videos are legendary. There was no one in the 1980′s music era producing better videos than Michael Jackson. Even today, his music videos stand above any other musical artists or bands. There use to be a time when MTV played nothing but music videos. Those days are long gone now and I’m not even sure MTV plays videos anymore. I don’t think we will ever see a generation like the 1980′s again in music.

Did you like any of the songs I like from the 80′s? Which were some of your favorite songs from the greatest decade of music ever? Please help me to remember some of the songs from the 1980s musical generation. I know I probably left off some good songs, so I want to be sure I get them listed too!

Some artists or bands had more than 1 great song. I only put a song for each artist, so didn’t include all of the great songs they did. Like Duran Duran for instance, they had The Reflex and Hungry Like the Wolf. Both were great 1980′s songs, but I felt The Reflex was my favorite song by them. Pink Floyd had Another Brick in the Wall and Comfortably Numb. I actually like Comfortably Numb better, but felt like Another Brick in the Wall was a more popular song. A band like Guns N’ Roses had a ton of hits in the 80′s, so they would hog up a lot of space, if I named all of their great songs. So try to find a artist or band in which I didn’t name at least one song from them. I know I am missing some really great songs, since there was so many great songs from the 1980′s.

Gold has been all over the news, TV commercials, and online for the way its prices have shot up in the last 3 to 4 years. It’s not a secret anymore that gold is hot, safe, and a very worthy investment for anyone who plans to go this route with their investment portfolios.

Don’t forget about silver either! We are now going on 20 consecutive years; where the world demand for silver is greater than the world can currently produce this precious metal. I realize no one considers silver a rare metal, but at the rate the silver supplies are shrinking up, its fast-becoming a rare metal and who would have believed this 50 years ago? Probably no one, since the U.S. Government was routinely dumping huge supplies of silver on the World Markets, right after the end of World War II. They no longer can practice this silver-dumping method on the markets, because they don’t have any huge supplies to dump anymore. They are out there searching for their own ways to buy silver, just like other investors who seek a precious metals investment.

Just remember if it sounds too good to be true; then chances are it isn’t true. I’m sure a lot of bad people will be coming to the surface with false claims and counterfeit metals, they will try to pass off as the real thing. Avoid these people and make sure these sellers have credentials and a long background history you can check; like the United States Gold Bureau has and provides for each of their customers. They just don’t strive on being honest and helpful to people like you and me, but they’re striving to be America’s Best Dealer in precious metals. So if you are not sure and do have a little doubt about another seller’s merchandise, just walk away and erase all doubts, by calling US Gold Bureau and buying all of your precious metal items from them. More than likely everyone’s gold and silver investments will be turning a profit, so just make sure you have the real thing!

Now more than likely the majority of you now already have a dent into that 30 year plan. But if you think about it, there were a lot of people in Georgia, North Carolina, and around the other 50 states who just signed that paper today. I mean they actually put their name on the dotted line on this Friday the 13th of all days and there journey is only beginning. Don’t you feel sorry for the hundreds or perhaps thousands of new home buyers who just signed 30 years of their hard-working dollars away, just sot they could have a place to hang their hat and rest their head at night.

If you come by this blog post in the next day or two or even if it’s a few weeks from now and you have signed your name on the new house payments for 30 years and did this on Friday the 13th in August 2010; please be sure to reply and tell your story. I’m sure there is a lot of signing and dating on these contracts and documents for big 30 year loan and I imagine after you signed Friday the 13th on a few things, you would clearly remember your first day on this long, long road to getting that big 30 year loan or 360 months! A person will basically have to pay $750 and up on every single day for a whole entire year. Since the monthly payments do equal 360 and there are 365 days in a year.

While Friday the 13th in August of 2010 is a lot of people’s starting point for a brand new home. I’m sure there are just as many others out there, who sent their last payment off today and now they have completed the 30 year cycle! For those who now officially own their own home and it became official on Friday the 13th; then I believe this unlucky number and day, might just hold a little luck for you!

Don’t get too down if Friday the 13th is only the starting point for you; while others are celebrating this as the end of the journey. You have to keep in mind, these people celebrating today, had to have a Day 1 too and I’m sure on their Day 1; which was 30 years ago, there were other home owners who were celebrating their final day for the final home payment too. And on one glorious and beautiful day in the late summer of 2040; you will have your chance to celebrate your 30 year journey to becoming a home owner!

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Even after a thrilling comeback in extra innings, where catcher Brian McCann hit a grand slam in the 10th inning, to seal the win for the Braves over the Astros; Simpson was still not happy. He’s become a fan of individual players and not of the team and it shows very much on the air.

For some reason Joe Simpson put Alex Gonzalez on a defensive mountain for shortstops. Saying how this guy could do things most other shortstops couldn’t do. Mainly trying to point out Gonzalez was so much better of a baseball player than Yunel Escobar, the Braves former shortstop. Oh how we forget so soon, how Escobar carried the team in 2009 and was easily the MVP of the Atlanta Braves last year. He got put out on an island and no coaches, players, or TV announcers were there to stand up for him. Gonzalez has been directly responsible for costing the Braves wins with his glove and we never got that with Escobar. Tommy Hanson and Troy Glaus both showed up the former Braves shortstop on the field, in what they felt was lack of effort and concentration. Since that time, Glaus can’t buy a hit and has made numerous errors at first base and doesn’t hustle at all. Yes, he is a slow player, but he could still hustle out there. Then Hanson was the one who dropped the ball in a run down play with the Astros Michael Bourn; in which Bourn got back to 2nd base successfully.

The two biggest problems with this Braves team over the past 6 weeks has been Troy Glaus and Tommy Hanson. These two don’t belong on the team and are both spoiling the good chemistry in the ATL. Trading away the shortstop from a 1st place club and getting a Toronto Blue Jays shortstop is already proving to be a big mistake. Why no one is calling the Gonzalez a bad trade yet is beyond me. This trade may very well prove to be the difference in the final NL East standings with the Philadelphia Phillies. One thing is for sure. The Braves or Phillies will win the NL East Pennant. It’s a two team race and replacements for Glaus and Hanson have to be in the thoughts of every player and coach wearing a Braves uniform right now. Let’s go ahead and cast these two aside too. No sense in standing up for them, since no one in Braves country was “brave” enough to to it for the new Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar.

There are thousands of programs to choose from when looking for a show to watch in HD on Directv but for me the choice is easy. I love watching shows that take you to interesting new places and introduce you to the food and culture of that place. This is why I am always happy to catch a new episode of Samantha Brown on the Travel Channel. This program is designed to show you how to travel to new countries and experience the best things they have to offer there. She is always full of great trips and has a great understanding of the local people.

This show is amazing in High Definition because it allows you to truly see the beauty of these foreign destinations. You almost feel like you are right there along with Samantha as she takes you for a stroll through the village, out into the wilderness or on a cruise to a beautiful lagoon. The pictures are clear and the colors are stunning.

Another aspect of this show is that you are treated to all of the local specialties and best places to dine. I am a big food lover so this part of the show is just as important as the scenery. The food looks so delectable you can only just imagine how wonderful it smells and tastes.