Global Warming and warming up to Sir Richard

Ahhhh, the rain, more rain... raining again.... raining some more..... and our country's leadership along with our healthy consumer cousin south of us says that Global Warming is either exaggerated or non existent.... okay, perhaps some from the Federal level can explain to me why my driveway has sunk and my fields look more like mini lakes.

On to happy thoughts for this dreary day. A lovely friend sent over a link to a cute quiz. Give it a try; the Lipstick Personality Test. Yes I did it - I am personally all over the personality map (I had to go and check my lipsticks) though most put me between a #4, 6 and 7. Given that 'daughter' borrows... it is really hard to know for sure. That's all I'm saying, go do the test for yourself.

George Clooney... hummm, I've read Hot Cherry Review several times, just so George can smile back - that's sick right. So, today I'm going to add another personal fave to the list; Richard Branson.... yeah, a bit older but hey, he's got lots going for him.

Here's the low down on him. At age 56, he's still got it, both in looks (personal opinion but how many 56 year old guys do you know that look like him?) and net worth, which is in excess of $5.5 Billion US - that is a 'b'!

He is the brand champion of 'Virgin' which when I last heard, owned, ran or had direct influence on over 200 different companies. In business he is known as the guy who sees the diamond in the rough and improves on the existing rather than invents the new. There are exceptions of course, one of which being his interest in pioneering space travel for the masses - that's you and I.

He is a Brit, not a bad thing. Owns his own island - Neckar in the beautiful British Virgin Islands (no they didn't name them after him) and makes regular appearances in Canada. Sir Richard dropped out of high school at the age of 16 and has never looked back. To his credit there is; Virgin Records, Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Trains, Virgin Mobile and Virgin Galactic and in the making, Virgin Fuel. He is a philanthropist as much as a business man - on October 12th of this year, he pledged $3 Billion over 10 years to fight global warming. Did I mention he was a pretty hunky 56 year old? Oh, he's married as well, since 1989 to Joan Templeton.

I think this world would be a much happier place with more Sir Richard's kicking around. Here is another funny fact, Mr. Branson has openly admits to smoking bud and would consider selling it in his Virgin record stores, if it ever became legal.... see, happier place.

To learn more about Sir Richard Branson, click here or do as most of us do, Google him.

While we are on the 'star' topic. Last week we set up a post about a Canadian Country Music contest/show - 'Plucked'. Well, I watched the final night of the show - it was pretty disjointed and a bit disappointing. Except of course for the fact that local favorite party band Ambush won. The well deserving act took home a $35,000 credit to produce a new video and will have their current video 'put into heavy rotation'. Good for the boys, its nice to see them get this kind of break.

That's about it for a wrap for this week. We are twisting a few arms in hopes of getting our other contributors back contributing - a quick email from you might just push them along a bit.

Have a wonderful Hot Cherry weekend, stay dry, warm and dream happy thoughts of hunky older men!