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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Get an Extra Year on your life with Shrooms


Researchers have recently determined that Peyote and some mushrooms can create a long lasting connection to answered prayer that can last up to a year, before it needs to be refreshed.


http://www.sltrib.com/…ci_9926958

I had lasik done on my eyes in order (in part) to save 5 minutes per day from waisting time with contacts. That saved me 2 months of my life!

That's 2 months I can spend with my kids, 2 months I can do things that I want to do, 2 months worth of a key five minutes each day that might enable me to miss traffic jams, get to a meeting on time to clinch a deal, 5 more minutes to make love to my wife, 5 more minutes of snooze to sleep in during the morning, 5 more minutes exercising or taking time to eat a good breakfast.

Now imagine what you can do if you were to get connected with peyote or mushrooms, connected spiritually in a way that maintains that spiritual connection for up to a year. If you attend church, mosque or temple once a week for at least 2 hours and you pray for 5 minutes every day, you could save a year off your life.

If you are 30 years old and have a life expectancy of 80 years. For the next 50 years, you could save 216 days (about 5200 hours) by skipping church, because you are already connected and in contact. You could save another 126 days by skipping prayer every day(assuming you spend 5 minutes at the task), because you are connected real time. No need to pray, you're plugged in and connected in real time, 24/7/365.

By connecting to the cosmos on a real time constant basis with peyote and mushrooms you help god deal with your issues more effectively as your mole hills stop turning into mountains. god can level a mole hill a lot faster than he can level a mountain.

The world has about 8 billion people. If everybody started using peyote or mushrooms once a year, that would be 8 billion years of productivity that would be given back to the world. that's 8 billion mountains of problems that god doesn't have to deal with.

With that increase in productivity on a human level, and with that decrease in drain and strain on god, just imagine what we might accomplish?

Then again, people might just spend some extra money on a big flat panel, hook it on their wall with an LCD mount and never leave the house. That wouldn't do much for global productivity at all!

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Obama Bin Laden - Real Terrorists Support FISA

I'd suggest that if you go by Molly Ivins standard (its funny when you make fun of people with power. its not funny when you make fun of people who don't have power) then Obama is completely fair game for the New Yorker or anyone else that wants to fake being funny on any given day of the week.

Obama has the Daley machine behind him. That may not seem like much on the East or West Coast but it has had substantial impact in Chicago and has screwed up more than one Presidential Election in the past.

Here is Daley the elder's response to Police that were in his opinion taking it too easy on African American rioters in Chicago following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

"I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting."

That's the founder of the political machine that Obama works for and so its not terribly surprising when a number of Democrats today also get a little worried about the type of change that Barack Obama might bring to the White House. He may not appear to fit the mold, but he's got the deck about as stacked as you can get, he's more old school politician than Bill Clinton ever was by comparison.

The thing about satire and humor is that they usually only work when there is some truth behind them. So when a person looks at the New Yorker, if they see no truth in the image, its just not funny. Its pretty much nothing.

If a person looks at the cover and maybe unscrambles the secret code using a captain crunch decoder overlay, and realizes that this is supposedly about the deployment of fear politics against Obama then it might ring true just a bit and some one might find a little humor in it.

Absent any truth or truistic truism however, its just a little portion of complete fiction and in that its a waste of media.

Now as to the claims that various people make against Obama because of his name, his religion etc.

I personally don't care at all.

The reality is that he has the name that he has, and that name brings with it associations with islam even if Barack Obama himself claims no association.

His parents gave him a muslim name and so people are going to contemplate that implication from here until the cows come home. I find it extremely childish on his part that he tries to hide away from the fact that he has a middle name. He makes some pretty good jokes about his last name, but seems to fear joking about his own middle name more than sharing pictures of Michelle posing in sexy nurse costumes.

That seems to highlight a personality flaw to me. Don't get me wrong, everyone is entitled to personality flaws, but in a Presidential candidate having a personality flaw that manifests in a fear of one's own middle name is definitely a weakness that political opponents will exploit.

Its kind of like that grade school bullying technique. If a bully picks on you and you cry, the bully will probably keep picking on you. Well, Obama has shown that when people pick on him about this issue, he will cry over and over again, and that is just going to incite more attacks. Its kind of strange that a person that is so adept in deflecting attack after attack can't seem to rise to the occasion to defend himself over a name that he has probably had to defend his entire life.

I think the New Yorker magazine cover is far less controversial and far less harmful than Barack Obama's vote for FISA. If anything indicates that Barack Obama is a terrorist, its not his name or the way he looks, or the way he tags his wife in public, but IT IS the way he threw the Constitution under the bus and gave George W Bush the signal to hit the gas. That is as much of a terrorist act as I've seen from anyone with a name that rhymes with Obama.

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Pelosi Pro Impeachment Finally

I have not yet finished turning all of the original articles of impeachment for George W Bush into audio, but there has been some progress made.

Nancy Pelosi now wants the Judiciary committee to take action on the impeachment of George W Bush. This is one of the most positive flip flops I've heard of in recent times and very welcome change of mind given the abundance of new facts about transgressions made by the Bush Administration.

Here's a quick interview also from Dennis Kucinich who has come out with a refined and more focused single article of impeachment to possibly move Congress past a tipping point of for Impeachment.

--- interview follows - -- -

HILL: Why do you think that it may have a chance? I understand you brought 30 articles of impeachment last time — just one this time. What happened to the other 29?

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KUCINICH: Well, this article that — I just came from the Florida House so — where I introduced it. It is very narrowly focused. It's about the communication that the president made to the Congress, a specific message asking for Congress to pass an authorization for the use of force, in which certain representations were made that would induce Congress to vote for the legislation. And categorically, the key representations that were made were false, I stated so, and provided the sources for my article on the floor of the House just moments ago.

HILL: So did you pick the article you thought was the strongest and then just decide to go with that one this time?

KUCINICH: Well, I'll tell you what — yes, let me tell you what the title of it is. It says that Article 1, deceiving Congress with fabricated threats of Iraq's WMDs to fraudulently obtain support for an authorization for the use of military force against Iraq.

So what I said is that all of the talk about weapons of mass destruction — nuclear weapons, biological, chemical weapons — they were false. And the White House had information that indicated that they knew that they were false and they proceeded anyway, so there has to be an accounting. We have to protect our constitution. This country must rely on truth in our communications to the people. And so this process of impeachment will, hopefully, help produce the truth.

HILL: This is one of the times where that the goings on Washington baffle me — many times, they do. But maybe you can help me sort this one out. Last time you brought this up, the Republicans voted to bring it to the floor to actually discuss it. The Democrats voted to basically push it into the closet in a committee. Why?

KUCINICH: I think the Republicans were basically daring the Democrats to move forward with it, sensing that there were some in the Democratic leadership who, at the time, had no stomach for a real debate. But I think that's changed, and I think it's changed because the war grinds on. We have 160,000 troops there. We have — over 4,160 troops have lost their lives. Tens of thousands are injured. The cost of the war go over $3 trillion, and a million innocent Iraqis dead.

I think as people come to accept the enormity of this, they're saying, "Wait a minute, maybe we should find out if that strip was necessary — if, in fact, the war was based on something other than the truth.
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Its not the most light hearted topic generating funny t-shirts left and right and making headlines on The Daily Show, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't benefit from the attention of more people of younger generations. This issue needs some righteous indignation to help fuel it and kick things off. It might just get that as more people head back to college over the next few weeks and get re-engaged in politics.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Not a lot of Gridlock for Boudoir Photography Careers

Warning, this is just kind of whacky.  I was working online today doing some research for a client that has a photography business on the East Coast.  I came across a photography site for what appears to be a very good photographer on the West Coast that specializes in Wedding Boudoir photography?

What is that you might ask?

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Well, its basically when a lady that is getting married wants to give her fiance something special on their wedding night.  So she has some tasteful pictures taken by a very good photographer of her depicted in some sexy poses.  We're not talking about Playboy type stuff here, just sexy poses of strategically covered bodies.

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The concept is that when a woman gets married, odds are she will never be in that good of shape again (it all goes down hill after that point and this is a nice way apparently for women to recognize that even if its not explicit).  So after spending months planning the wedding, dieting and exercising, they get some pictures made for their future husband so that they can remember just how hot they were when they got married.

So anyway, I stumbled upon this niche business and just found it rather humorous.  I doubt you will see many Atlanta jobs posted with this type of career path, despite the international art school located there now (Savannah College of Art and Design 3rd largest art school in the world now).

Now, I've been married for close to 14 years.  Its a bit late in the game for me to consider what I would think if my wife had this made for me, but in retrospect, if she had had something like this made, I think I probably would have liked it.  Many of the site's clients seem to be very happy with the work, and the photographer definitely is very good, which does likely make all the difference in the world.

Bomb in the Back Yard - Common in Japan

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Here is an interesting story in perspective.  I woke up this morning and read a headline on CNN via my cell phone about an evacuation in Japan after the discovery of a 1 ton WWII bomb that had not been detonated.  Apparently some constructions workers had unearthed the rusting bomb and had called in the local bomb squad to help.

Now, in the United States we rarely come across a situation where we unearth bombs in our back yards.  We've been fortunate to not have most of our landscape bombed at one time or another unlike many other areas of the world from Europe to Africa to Asia and the Pacific Rim.

A Few Recent Headlines on Unearthed Bombs

WWII US bomb forces evacuation in Japan
The Associated Press - 7 hours ago
An explosives disposal unit from Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force safely defused the rusty one-ton bomb in the crowded residential area during a 50-minute ...

WWII US bomb forces evacuation in Japan
KGAN, IA - 5 hours ago
TOKYO (AP) -- More than 5000 people have had to get out of their homes in Osaka, Japan, while army experts disposed of a one-ton bomb believed to have have ...

Mother Nature helps firefighters...Brangelina twins born...WWII ...
KXMC, ND - 7 hours ago
TOKYO (AP) More than 5000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Osaka, Japan, while army experts disposed of an unexploded one-ton bomb. ...

Saturday, July 19
International Herald Tribune, France - Jul 11, 2008
1943 - Allied air force stages first raid on Rome in World War II. 1956 - United States and Britain inform Egypt they cannot participate in financing Aswan ...

Tambun Folks To Evacuate To Allow Police Destroy WWII Bomb
Bernama, Malaysia - Jun 19, 2008
"The bomb cannot be moved as its switch system has been activated," he said, adding that 200 policemen will be on duty to ensure complete evacuation of some ...

Blast from the past: WWII bomb detonated
Malaysia Star, Malaysia - Jun 21, 2008
By IVAN LOH IPOH: The World War II bomb found at Sungai Pinji, Tambun, near here had to be detonated twice before it was completely destroyed. ...

Many people in the US this week are worried about glitches with their new IPhones or wondering if their ipods will ever have the touch functionality of the phones, but in many other countries they have slightly more dramatic day to day problems to contend with.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Obama's Must Read - Avoid Picking Sexist Joking Comedians for Dummies

Barack Obama can't seem to get away from controversy. This time he's in trouble after Bernie Mac made jokes about his wife and daughter (Mac's not Obama's) being Ho's willing to take $50k from the mailman to sleep with them. 

It was a joke, and Bernie Mac is a professional comedian, do not try this at home!

That said Barack Obama is taking flak from his over sensitive Democratic Party, especially those that were Hillary supporters and have witnessed a significant amount of sexist remarks and actions by Obama and many in his camp, of which, most are NOT professional comedians.  So when an actual comedian said the following:

Bernie Mac said his "little nephew came to me and he said, 'Uncle, what's the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?' "I said, ‘I don't know,’ but I said, 'I'll tell you what you do. Go upstairs and ask your mother if she'd make love to the mailman for $50,000.’"

Mac's wife, in the joke, said she sleep "with anyone" for $50,000, and Mac's daughter said the same.

Explained Mac: "Hypothetically speaking, we should have $100,000. But realistically speaking we live with two hos."

ABC news Blog

Barack Obama had to step in and step on the comedians act in an attempt to pander to that part of the Democratic Base that feels slighted over his own nomination.

Obama addressed the issue in his remarks, saying, "We can't afford to be divided by race. We can't afford to be divided by religion, or by region or class. Or by gender. That means, by the way, Bernie, you got to clean up your act. This is a family affair. ... I'm just messing with you."

ABC News Blog

Hmm, maybe next time, Obama or his staff will take sometime to vett their comedians before inviting them to a fundraiser.  Its not like anyone that has ever seen Bernie Mac perform didn't know that Bernie Mac jokes about women being Hos from time to every time.  In fact there is probably a Dummies book on Amazon books right now calling Barack Obama, "Avoid Picking Sexist Joking Comedians for Dummies"

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Can Obama Be Prevented from FlipFlopping?

I came across an interesting story tonight in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/…2fisa.html ). Obama supporters are protesting Barack Obama's expected flip flop on telecom immunity deals against the 3 of the 4 major telecom companies that gave up personal telephone and email information on their customers illegally to the NSA.



Obama was formerly against this Bush Administration act against the citizens of the United States, but now the Democratic Party has negotiated a compromise and wants to give in to the Telecom industry as well as open up FISA so that more illegal (today but not necessarily tomorrow) wire tapping can proceed.



The interesting thing is that Obama's own website is being used as a staging ground to gather support among supporters to call on Senator Obama to hold firm on his original position and not continue with his expected flip flop during a vote next week on Tuesday.



You can check out or sign up for the group with the information below (last count, over 8,000 people had already joined)



You're invited to join a group on My.BarackObama.com:



http://my.barackobama.com/…gainstFISA

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