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Open Letter to President Elect Obama

Sat, 19 May 2012 04:25:15 -0500

Dear President Elect Obama:As you have hopefully inspired many Afro Americans to aspire to greater goals; I have been inspired by George Bush and Sarah Palin. I now believe that I am smart enough to be President. I realize that there are many people in Congress smarter than I, but few with as much common sense. Please keep this in mind as you read my "vision" for America.Taxes: Generally raising taxes in a bad economy is not a good idea. However, we do have a trillion debt. We can't reduce the debt by lowering taxes. If you do increase taxes on the top don't give it back to me. If you increase taxes for some and give it back in the form of welfare; you haven't accomplished anything. We may be a consumer economy. However, spending beyond our means got us into this mess.A VAT may have been a good idea years ago. I'm retired and living off my savings, much of it already taxed. If we switched to a national sales tax in place of income tax I would be taxed twice. Don't for...

HGH Legal Facts : Beijing Athletes and HGH

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:23:37 -0500

The exciting Olympics that was held in Beijing is already over, but there are still gossips about the non-stop tests made by the International Olympic Committee to make sure that Human Growth Hormone HGH was not used by any of the participating athletes. Before the games were over, the committee was on its busiest days to acquire and examine over blood tests to look for any trace of HGH. In the end, not a single trace of positive HGH was detected.The reason for going through this trouble? HGH is highly publicized to be used by many athletes to improve their performance. Because it is challenging to detect and has very limited side effects, HGH is seen as the most ideal drug for athletes.Body builders will surely enjoy the benefits of HGH if used with other anabolic agents. HGH provides an anabolic effect to users: it gives them muscle mass. HGH supplements increase the body's ability to break down protein, thus increasing muscle mass. It also enhances hyperplasia, whic...

Badminton Into & History & Advance Mint

Thu, 17 May 2012 09:18:34 -0500

Badminton is a game of two or fourpeople. Badminton is the game consists of one player against one player or ateam of two players against another team of two players. Badminton was carefulan Olympic sport since . Players use racket to hit a shuttlecock over anet. The aim of the game is to strike the shuttlecock over the net in a waythat the other player or pair cannot hit it rear before it hits the floor. Ifthe other team was portion, the first team gets to serve. The first player orcouple to reach points wins a game. The victor of the match is the first towin sets. In both singles and double, there is modifying of service when theserver loses a point. In doubles, the first team to serve has one team memberserve. All other times, both players on the team serve. The early stages of Badminton can betraced to mid-th century British India; everywhere it was created by Britishmilitary officers stationed there. Early photograph show Englishmen adding anet to the traditional Englis...

Poor Little Rabbit

Wed, 16 May 2012 04:21:36 -0500

The airwaves crackle with speculation about the Georgia womanwho just couldn't face her long-planned wedding. Law enforcementis deciding if they should prosecute or try to recoup the almost, dollars spent when it was believed that she had beenabducted. What's the problem? Her fiance states that he still loves herand wants to marry her. The vendors for the -guest weddingwill get paid anyway, without any of the work. The families'pride will eventually be restored and their embarrassment erased.What does the hoopla say about the state of our society? Inother eras, without the mass communication apparatus availabletoday, people could just disappear, and often did. When someonedrops out now, we assume foul play because we are so inured toits occurrence. Is it her fault that a manhunt was launched? Herinitial claim that she had been abducted was patently false; herreal act of running away was an emotional jolt to her family butsurely not against the law, nor was it f...

A Biography of President Elect Barack Obama

Tue, 15 May 2012 04:25:15 -0500

Barack Hussein Obama was born on August , in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father was a black man also named Barack Hussein Obama born in Africa and his mother was a white woman born in Kansas.Obama's father and his mother separated and divorced when Obama was a young child. His mother remarried in when Obama was years old to a man named Lolo Soetoro.His family moved to Soetoro's home country which was Indonesia. Obama lived there until he was years old when he returned to live in Hawaii with his maternal grandparents who raised him from then on.Obama moved to Los Angeles for college. After two years he transferred to Columbia University in NYC. Obama graduated from Columbia in .Obama then moved to Chicago where he worked as a community organizer for three years until the age of when he moved to Massachusetts so that he could attend Harvard Law School. In , during his second year, he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review. He was the first black ...

Eye For Sale, By Owner

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:45:53 -0500

A wire service report this week showed a single mother inBangladesh who had advertised to sell one of her eyes to buyfood for her starving daughter. Try to think about that without your blood running cold: humanbeings selling parts of themselves as a final act ofdesperation. And that woman is only one of the hundreds ofthousands who are slowly starving to death each day. What happened to the concert fundraisers for Bangladesh,Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa? Have we exhausted our capacity tocare and to give? Have we become numb to the plight of millionsbecause the problems are so overwhelming that we don't knowwhere to start? We burn down the rainforests, clear the jungles, despoil theenvironment so that we can create new soil-poor farms to feedmore mouths. There are just too, too many of us but our leadersignore the problem at the root of the world's burgeoningtroubles: overpopulation. And in Rome, the new Pope will continue the traditional churchdoctrine against contra...

The Cult Of Celebrity

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:14:30 -0500

Every day, we are privy to new and ever more lurid details ofMichael Jackson's strange lifestyle. We always knew he lived ina fairy tale world where he honestly believed that he was whiteand mainstream and emotionally healthy. Whether his peccadilloswere as innocent as he maintains is for the jury to decide butregardless of whether he is guilty as accused, his behaviorcertainly never even remotely exhibited any level of maturity orthe ability to make rational decisions beyond the "I want itnow" level of a young child. And yet, daily, his "fans" turn outto support him, even fainting in the courtroom, overwhelmed bythe stress of their idol under siege.What is it about fame and celebrity that so grips us? Do we haveno real life of our own? We live vicariously through our hero'sexistence and eradicate our own individuality to become simply afollowerWould the trial of a no-name alleged child molester pack acourtroom? Of course not. The Jackson trial is important, andconsta...

The 7 Deadly Sins Are Now American Icons

Wed, 09 May 2012 04:42:50 -0500

With the focus of the world on the change of power in Rome, nowseems like an appropriate time to look at some tenets of thatancient faith as developed through the centuries.We all break one of the commandments occasionally, and feelterribly guilty afterwards. The deadly sins are somethingelse: not only do we too frequently display them, but ourculture seems bent on idolizing them! Consider:PrideThe arrogance of believing that our way is the only way andasserting our certainty about how the world should work isexemplified by President Bush and his right-wing minions. Thefact that he won re-election confirms that our citizens have noaversion to excessive pride, no matter what their particularreligious doctrine prescribes.Envy"Keeping up with the Joneses" is a cultural pursuit touching alllevels - we want what others have, we want it now, and we willbuild up our personal debt just like the National Debt to getit. Not only do we crave the expensive toys that confe...

Raven

Tue, 08 May 2012 04:29:00 -0500

"Teach them politics and war so their sons may study medicineand math in order to give their children a right to studypainting, poetry, music and architecture..." ---John AdamsA deep scar runs halfway across my chest and halfway across myface, from brow to lip, unpretty to look at, children cringewhen they see me I am the stuff of their nightmares and for thatI go concealed so that none may see me and fear.I walk alone, sharing company with the winds at peace with theelements I am content, but I'm sad. The sadness, it sips throughmy hooded eyes it is a sadness from within for my physical scarsare nothing compared to my scalded insides.I am disillusioned by what I see why can't people understandthat their fellow human is a being just like them; not a thing.I have walked through many wars carried the infant from themother in a pool of red. I have walked through desolated plainswith that infant, seeking to give it a home. That home I am yetto find. My eyes have dried up o...

Arindam Chaudhuri - China Has a Lot to Teach, Provided We are Ready to Learn!

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:36:47 -0500

On March, when the Chinese Premier gave a landmark speech in the Chinese National People's Congress, it marked the beginning of the third path-breaking era for China, the first being the Revolution led by Mao, and the second when the economic reforms started after Mao's death. So what was special about Wen Jiabao's speech? Well, this time the Chinese Premier assertively put across the vision of growth with equity. The vision of growth with equity is commendable, more so for China as there is no other country forget India! in history that has pulled as many people out of poverty in the last three decades. It is just because of this that in the last years, China came from nowhere to become the epicentre of global economy. Today, it is impossible to imagine global economy without China. She has made herself completely indispensable by making almost everything affordable to the middle and lower middle class populace of the world through the gigantic production machinery of th...

The Big Secret of Age

Sat, 05 May 2012 04:32:22 -0500

Think back to when you were a child. Pick a time when you wereaware of the world and starting to notice things around you,perhaps or years old. Most of us had aging individuals inour lives: grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers. We may haveloved them dearly but they were different to us: they were old.As we grew up, inevitably some of those people died. We were sadthat they had gone but comforted by the knowledge that they hadenjoyed a good, long, interesting life. Our unspoken assumptionwas that they felt old, were ready to go, were prepared for theend.It is only when we ourselves mature that we finally discover thebig secret: that no matter our biological age, WE DON'T FEEL ANYDIFFERENT. We think of ourselves as personally indestructibleand immortal, just as we did as carefree children. We look inthe mirror and see the wrinkles, the thinning hair, the ravagesof gravity to a once taut jawline, but we still see us. We walkaround and look out at the world through t...

A Cultural Change We Desperately Need

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:24:48 -0500

In his immensely popular book, "The Purpose Driven Life", one ofthe major points that Pastor Rick Warren tries to make is thatpeople must change the way they think before they can change theway they live. I believe the same principle applies to cultures.As I've mentioned many times before, I do not believe moralitycan be legislated. All the laws in the world against everyimaginable immoral act will not make any culture or nationbetter or more righteous. Instead, we need a cultural changethat comes as a result of modifying our opinion about certainthings in our society. Specifically, we must change the way weview violence, theft, foul language, and personalresponsibility. Sadly, the culture of violence is so ingrainedinto American culture that the two have become almostinterwoven. We have come to accept violence as a fact of life.We wink at it. We even laugh and make jokes about it. I believethis attitude stems from the fact that, for many centuries, wehave blithely acce...

Examining Your Own Attitudes About Age

Wed, 02 May 2012 05:51:56 -0500

A common complaint of the mature is that, in American society,there is far too much focus on youth. We collectively spend afortune on attempting to look younger and fighting the naturalresults of gravity, sun exposure, and the poisons that haveseeped into our bodies through years of unhealthy eating,drinking, smoking, lack of exercise, and self-neglect. "Getting old is the pits" we are wont to mumble as we get upslowly from the floor, recalling how we used to spring uprightwithout a second thought. We feel more secure in lower heels andoften forget the principles of good posture, our shouldersrounding forward into an aging stoop.We walk past a shop window and are shocked by the figure we see:"That can't be me. It's my mother father!"We can fight the biological ravages of aging only so far.Depending upon our budget, we can buy anti-aging creams,vitamins, cover-ups, special makeup, have HGH injections at afew thousand dollars a shot, or a complete makeover by anexclusi...

Behind the Scenes

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:39:46 -0500

The Bush presidency has gone from lame duck to cooked goose. It happens to every second term and sometimes first term incumbent presidents. They are written off as gone, done, over with and no longer a threat to ones future career; however, with Barack Obama, this concept has been taken to a new level. Obama is the force behind the scenes many of them. Everyone at the weekend Economic Summit wanted to meet the president-elect, but, Obama is being especially cautious about the economic summit, letting President George W. Bush represent the nation. But in the Democratic radio address Saturday, Obama subtly made the point that the summit was only a beginning. "I'm glad President Bush has initiated this process because our global economic crisis requires a coordinated global response," he said. The operative word is "initiated". Obama will finish it. Then there's the Congress that's being called back into a post election session. Congressional leaders are making it clear that any massi...

The Five Most Deplorable Wastes of Human Life

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:36:14 -0500

God created life and therefore it is precious. It should not betaken away without just cause. It should not be endangered in aflippant or careless manner. It should be nurtured and protectedto the fullest extent of the law. All too often, though, humanlife is treated as expendable by governments and averagecitizens alike. Convenience, pleasure, revenge, power, politics,and even outright indifference sometimes get a higher prioritythan human life. Due to those kinds of attitudes, human life iswasted on a daily basis. Every waste of human life is shameful,but there are five particularly deplorable ways in which it isdestroyed. I would like to briefly discuss each of them. Abortion. If abortion is not a deplorable waste of human life,there aren't any. Obviously, there are exceptions like cases ofrape, non-consensual incest, and situations in which the life orhealth of the mother is at stake. Abortion for any other reasonis nothing but legalized murder. No, convenience is...