Month: November 2010

European Union Launches Antitrust Probe on Google

EU Tackles Google Dominance in Antitrust Probe

Google Antitrust Probe

BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union has launched an antitrust probe on internet king Google on Tuesday, after complaints the Silicon Valley giant abused its dominant position in the online search market.

European Union competition watchdogs formally announced their investigation, after rivals accused Google of “unfavorable treatment” of their services in both unpaid and sponsored search results, the crucial listings that make the web navigable.

Competition authorities are probing whether Google’s own services – the company has branched out into just about every web domain there is – are getting “preferential placement” when users punch in search queries, some of which may lead to consumer spending.

The official probe will certainly take months, and potentially carries echoes of a decade of antitrust pursuit of fellow computer giant Microsoft over issues from operating systems to web browsers.

An investigation does not necessarily mean legal action will follow, although fines in similar cases have run to many hundred of millions of Euros in the past.

Google’s share of the core US search market grew to 66.1% in September, according to industry tracker comScore.

The company posted a 32% leap in net profit to $2.17 billion between July and September, its latest available results.

One of the complainants, British search site Foundem, said in a statement that its revenue “pales next to the hundreds of billions of dollars of other companies’ revenues that Google controls indirectly through its search results and sponsored links.”

The commission wants to check if Google was “lowering the ranking of unpaid search results” as well as other allegations of advertising interference including imposing exclusivity clauses, restricting ads from competing providers and data on consumer impact.

Google said it would cooperate with the prove, saying: “There’s always going to be room for improvement, and so we’ll be working with the commission to address any concerns.”

It insisted it had always sought to ensure that “ads are always clearly marked.”

Microsoft’s portion of the US market improved a fraction to 11.2% while that of Yahoo! slipped from 17.4% in August to 16.7% in September, comScore reported last month.

Approximately $12.4 billion will be spent in the United States this year on ads on search engines, with Google expected to rake in 73.3% of that cash, according to Marketer.

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Rising Apartment Rentals Report

Apartment Rents Set to Rise, Fueling Inflation: NAR

Jimmy McMillan of the Rent is Too Damn High Party

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US apartment rents are expected to climb next year as the economy recovers from recession, a rise that may fuel inflation, a real-estate industry group said Monday.

Multifamily real estate will star in an overall modest improvement in commercial property markets in 2011, the National Association of Realtors said in an outlook report.

NAR said ailing commercial real-estate markets — office, industrial, retail and rental housing — were flattening out after a steep plunge amid the worst recession in decades.

Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, predicted a rise in demand, as the economy slowly recovers from the downturn that officially ended in June 2009.

The number of people setting up a new home has plummeted amid high unemployment and plunging home values after a housing bubble collapsed more than three years ago.

“Multifamily housing is the one commercial sector that has held on relatively well in the past year, and can expect the best performance in 2011,” he said.

Yun predicted apartment rents could rise by one to two percent in 2011, after having fallen in 2009 and showing no growth this year.

“This rent rise therefore could start to force up broader consumer prices as well,” he said.

The cost of rent or mortgages is the biggest component in the government’s consumer price index, accounting for 32 percent of its total weight, he noted.

Multifamily vacancy rates were forecast to decline from 6.4 percent in the current quarter to 5.8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Consumer price inflation has remained subdued in recent months despite a rise in energy prices, while the core inflation has trended lower, the Federal Reserve noted last week in the minutes of its last policy-setting meeting.

The central bank used weak inflation as a key justification for its controversial plan to buy an extra 600 billion dollars in Treasury bonds to juice the flagging recovery.

Critics, including several participants in the November 2-3 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, have said the plan risks spurring inflation.

NAR said the outlook for the office and industrial markets had improved, with modestly declining vacancy rates expected in 2011, while the retail sector would essentially hold steady.

Vacancy rates stuck in double digits, nevertheless, signal rents would remain under severe pressure.

“High vacancy rates imply falling rents,” Yun said.

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Personal Computer Sales Down

Analysts More Cautious on PC Sales Outlook

Personal Computer Sales Down

BOSTON (Reuters) – Market researchers are scaling back forecasts for global sales of personal computers, blaming an uncertain economic outlook in some markets and competition from tablet devices such as Apple Inc’s iPad.

Research firm Gartner cut its 2010 forecast on Monday, just as the crucial holiday sales season was getting under way for PC makers like Hewlett-Packard Co, Acer, Dell Inc and Lenovo.

Gartner said it expected consumers and businesses to hold off on buying PCs in the near-term as they seek to save money.

It said it now expected PC shipments this year to rise 14.3 percent to 352 million units, and it pegged next year’s growth rate at 15.9 percent. It had previously forecast growth of 17.9 percent in 2010 and 18.1 percent in 2011.

“These results reflect marked reductions in expected near-term unit growth based on expectations of weaker consumer demand, due in no small part to growing user interest in media tablets such as the iPad,” Ranjit Atwal, research director at Gartner, said in a statement.

He said he expected media tablets to displace about 10 percent of PC units by 2014.

Market researcher IDC said it was seeing a similar trend, though a spokesman said sales were still poised to grow in the double digits. IDC will update its forecast in mid-December.

Data from Gartner and IDC are watched closely to gauge the strength of the PC market.

Separately, Gartner said worldwide shipments of servers, or computer systems used by large organizations, rose 14.2 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier. HP led with 32.1 percent of overall revenue in the server market, with IBM a close second with 30.2 percent, Gartner said.

Of the top five vendors, only Oracle suffered a decline in third-quarter revenue, Gartner said. Oracle, the world’s third-largest software maker, has been trying to step up its competitive edge in hardware following its $7.5 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems earlier this year.

(Reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston, Ritsuko Ando in New York and Terhi Kinnunen in Helsinki; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Ted Kerr)

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Wikileaks Just the Facts

Wikileaks the Big Debate

Wikileaks Logo

With all the big bruhaha about Wikileaks, when the smoke clears and the idiots have all gone home, the truth is all the documents released on Wikileaks are actually old, not classified as secret and available to everyone who asks. So the question is, why is everyone so upset and calling for the head of the Wikileaks people? The answer? It’s a ruse. It’s just like dancing with the stars, football and American Idol. It’s to keep you ignorant of what is going on. No national security secret was revealed. No foreign diplomatic exchange was hurt. Nothing, absolutely nothing and noone was harmed in releasing the Wikileaks. I repeat, nothing was actually SECRET. All the documents are still available to you right now to ask for and get on your own, without Wikileaks.

WikiLeaks has released 272 diplomatic cables from a trove of more than 250,000. The remainder are to be dribbled out in coming weeks to provide maximum impact, the website says. A number of foreign diplomats acknowledged that the release could affect some of the most sensitive ongoing global issues and relationships.

1. Many Middle Eastern nations are far more concerned about Iran’s nuclear program than they’ve publicly admitted. According to one cable, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has repeatedly asked the U.S. to “cut off the head of the snake” — meaning, it appears, to bomb Iran’s nuclear program. Leaders of Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and other Middle Eastern nations expressed similar views.

2. The U.S. ambassador to Seoul told Washington in February that the right business deals might get China to acquiesce to a reunified Korea, if the newly unified power were allied with the United States. American and South Korean officials have discussed such a reunification in the event that North Korea collapses under the weight of its economic and political problems.

[Related: WikiLeaks docs reveal U.S. diplomats insulting world leaders]

3. The Obama administration offered sweeteners to try to get other countries to take Guantanamo detainees, as part of its (as yet unsuccessful) effort to close the prison. Slovenia, for instance, was offered a meeting with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions.

4. Afghan Vice President Ahmed Zia Massoud took $52 million in cash when he visited the United Arab Emirates last year, according to one cable. The Afghan government has been plagued by allegations of corruption. Massoud has denied taking the money out of the country.

5. The United States has been working to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani nuclear reactor, out of concern that it could be used to build an illicit nuclear device. The effort, which began in 2007, continues.

6. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ordered diplomats to assemble information on their foreign counterparts. Documents in the WikiLeaks cache also indicate that Clinton may have asked diplomats to gather intelligence on U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s plans for Iran, and information on Sudan (including Darfur), Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Iran and North Korea.

7. The State Department labeled Qatar the worst country in the region for counterterrorism efforts. The country’s security services were “hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking reprisals,” according to one cable.

8. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are tighter than was previously known. Putin has given the high-living Berlusconi “lavish gifts” and lucrative energy contracts, and Berlusconi “appears increasingly to be the mouthpiece of Putin” in Europe, according to one cable.

[Related: The Guardian gave State Dept. cables to the NY Times]

9. Hezbollah continues to enjoy the weapons patronage of Syria. A week after Syrian president Bashar Assad promised the United States he wouldn’t send “new” arms to the Lebanese militant group, the United States said it had information that Syria was continuing to provide the group with increasingly sophisticated weapons.

10. Some cables reveal decidedly less than diplomatic opinions of foreign leaders. Putin is said to be an “alpha-dog” and Afghan President Hamid Karzai to be “driven by paranoia.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel “avoids risk and is rarely creative.” Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi travels with a “voluptuous blonde” Ukrainian nurse.

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White House Salaries 2010 Report

Our Tax Dollars in White House Salaries

Obama Makes $400,000/yr

According to the White House’s salary list, Obama and most senior staff did not get a pay raise last year.  The annual White House payroll though is a whopping $39 million.  As of this year, the salary list, which it reports to Congress yearly, was also made available online.  This was the first year this was done.  Aside from the vice president’s office, which is technically an arm of the U.S. Senate, the salary list itemizes the salary and title of every employee in the White House.  Obama’s personal salary is not included in the salary list, which is $400,000 yearly, but is regulated by Congress.  The White House now employees a staggering 469 people.  This number is down 17 positions from last year, 2009.

From 2009 to this year, there was little change, since Obama had capped all salaries of those making more than $100,000 yearly.  Allegedly, salaries in the White House range from $21,000 to about $180,000

Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Twenty-three top aides, press secretary Robert Gibbs, speechwriter Jon Favreau, White House counsel Bob Bauer and senior advisers David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, make the top full-time staff salary of $172,200. (Two health-care policy “detailees” — Michael Hash and Timothy Love — make $179,700.) By comparison, Vice President Joe Biden makes roughly $230,000 a year, according to Senate records.

White House social director Juliana Smoot makes $150,000, which is $37,000 more than her predecessor, Desiree Rogers, who left the administration not long after a scandal involving party-crashers at a state dinner in December. Former Duke basketball star Reggie Love still makes just over $100,000 as President Obama’s body man. Not on the list: actor Kal Penn, who left his job in the White House’s Office of Public Engagement on June 1 to film the third sequel in the “Harold & Kumar” film series.

Most so-called rank-and-file members of the White House staff pull in an average income between $40,000 and $60,000 — including dozens of “staff assistants,” press aides, analysts and researchers. Only three people are listed as working for free.

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Obama Cuts Federal Civilian Salaries But Not Military Salaries

Obama Freezes Federal Civilian Salaries

Obama is Showering Everyone With Cash Except Workers

Monday president Obama froze all federal civilian workers’ salaries.  This is to stay in place for two whole years in an effort to curb federal spending.  Note that this does not affect any military workers’ salaries, which includes a huge pool of workers state-side that never ever see combat.  In making the distinction though Obama tried to smooth it over by saying:

“These are also times where all of us are called on to make some sacrifices. And I’m asking civil servants to do what they always do and play their part.”

Obama tried to say the decision was not easy.  By White House estimates the freeze will save $2 billion for the remainder of 2011 fiscal year, $28 billion in five years and over $60 billion in 10 years, however it does not affect any military personnel.

What is not being said, is why exactly Obama is doing this.  He is to sit down with Republican congressional leaders tomorrow to discuss the economy, the proceeding next two years and other issues.  He hopes the pay freeze will help him negotiate with the congressional fiscal conservatives whom he hopes to count on for some of his White House economic policies, such as extension of the tax cuts for the middle and upper class, defense appropriations and federal funding.

Congressional fiscal conservatives have championed federal salaries as a major sticking point.  Obama hopes that he has headed off nearly all talking points of the fiscal conservatives who had been making an issue of federal spending, including proposing many federal spending cuts.  For its part the media has helped the fiscal conservatives by pointing out how much SOME federal workers are paid.  Some reports have said the number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold in the past five years and doubled since President Obama took office.

Please note that Obama’s plan to freeze ALL federal civilian salaries does nothing to remove any of those $150,000 / year workers’ salaries nor does it touch any military workers’ salaries.

The president had originally announced a plan to raise 2 million federal workers’ pay 1.4 percent.

In context, the pay freeze itself represents only a small fraction of the federal deficit, but it was among the recommendations in the preliminary report from the president’s deficit commission. The commission’s full report is due Wednesday.

In many cash-strapped states around the country, the issue of public employee salaries and retirement benefits has already played out as a major issue:

  • In California, where pension debt is considered the largest driver of the state’s soaring budget deficit, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached agreements with some unions to cut pensions for new state hires.
  • In Minnesota, Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed legislation this year to overhaul public employee pension plans.
  • And in Wisconsin, state workers will soon begin paying into their pension funds instead of having it fully covered by the state.

The truly evil part of all of this, is that this policy:

  • affects even the federal workers who only make $19,000 / year
  • does not remove superfluous federal jobs that were created just to get someone’s nephew a high paying fake job
  • does nothing for the federal deficit spending [ the percentage of the federal deficit spending this affects is so minor as to not even be 1% ]
  • the high paying federal jobs will not go away and more than likely more high paying jobs will be created at tax payers’ expense
  • none of this affects military workers’ salaries [ including those who work right along side of federal workers ]

You either fall for the ruse that Obama is a Democrat and he’s catering to Republicans or you open your eyes and realize that there is no difference between the two-party system, and Obama is simply being as Republican as any former Republican president.  The sooner people wake up, the faster we can remove these jackals and get real people in office and do away with this “duet”.

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Movie Review: Predators

Predators 2010

Predators 2010

Predators (2010) directed by Nimrod Antal, stars Lawrence Fishburne, Adrien Brody, Topher Grace.  It is possibly the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life.  It was boring, one dimensional and added nothing to the franchise.  To say there were plot holes everywhere, would suggest there was a plot of some sort.  After consulting some of the behind the scenes, perhaps the editor of the film itself is to blame, because some of the explanation as to why some characters are doing what in the film made it only to the cutting room floor.

This is no Dark Knight.  Adrien Brody attempts a cool, calm performance with a gruff, raspy voice throughout the film.  Instead of adding color to his character, you just wanted him to go gargle and STOP IT!  I’m not saying the acting was bad but, I’m just saying the acting was bad, or maybe it was the lack of script.

Predators opens up with several humans being dropped on an alien planet, presumably a reserve, predator hunting ground.  The humans all turn out to be various caricatures of earth’s version of “killers”, all except one, or is he?  But, the character has all of 12 lines in the movie so it doesn’t even matter.  There’s a plot twist, there’s that word plat again, but when we realize the “twist” we don’t care, we just want the predator to die and the human to win.

The characters, are all one dimensional portrayals of what we think of as killers here on earth, i.e. soldiers, mass-murderers, serial killers, thugs and mafia types.  It would be one thing if this movie could have explored each of these class of “killers” and add some depth to them, but any such explanation was not even touched upon in this 107 minute movie.  The movie was cut so short, as to appear to be a music video, more than a movie.  At any moment in the movie where you think you might see a glimmer of character coming from one of the members of this elite team of humans, they are killed off, almost always in mid-sentence to actually introducing a plot device.  “By the way I know how you can lure predators in because I used to …”kkkkkkkshuk thunkkkkk dead.  In fact my sarcasm is more interesting than any line in the movie.

Lawrence Fishburne Stars as Noland in Predators

Although Lawrence Fishburne gets top billing in the movie he literally has 5 lines in the movie.  Apparently he was on loan, simply to make a cameo and set up a plot… yeah right.  I already told you there was no plot.  I’m guessing someone got the bright idea to have him make a cameo and pay him untold sums of money for it.  You could literally remove his entire scene and the movie would have not been any different.  It’s literally just that bad.  Oh, not Lawrence Fishburne.  He was amazing.  But, his character and dialogue were… inconsequential to anything going on in the movie.  Except for the Japanese guy got a cool samurai sword from meeting him… racist much?  Here’s a guy that’s an expert with handguns, but apparently he wants to throw that away and get a katana, to fight against the 10 foot tall alien with dread locks and energy beam weaponry.  And, we all know crazy Black men, always have an ancient samurai sword laying around their lair … on alien planets?  Who writes this crap?  It’s like 7 degrees of trash.

Thank God there is no sex scene in this movie, because there is, in fact, a woman in it.  I was just cringing, thinking how they were going to work that in the movie.  And, with whom: the serial killer; the mass murderer; or the unemotional, completely detached and devoid of feelings lead character.  Because everyone knows unemotional, completely detached and devoid of human feelings men always desire to have a sexual encounter in the middle of a jungle, while being hunted down by aliens with ridiculously superior technology, to boot.  Surprisingly, Hollywood did let me down, or up.  I can’t figure out what I want, to disappointed that the movie wasn’t as horrible as I feared it would be or that a cliche’, out-of-place sex scene was not included in the God awful movie.

If I were grading the cinematography, this movie would fail so horribly.  Supposedly they are on a “jungle” planet.  But, they movie from Amazon like flora to … birch trees?  REALLY?  I heard of suspending belief, but this is God Damned Ridiculous.  At one point in the movie they are walking on shale rock.  Who was keeping track for them?  Could they not afford to shoot on location in Brazil for the whole movie?  Or has the rain-forest been decimated that much by clear cutting that you can’t shoot an actor walking in it for more than 5 minutes?

A whole lot of stuff just made no sense in the movie.  And, by no sense, I mean it was just meaningless.  At one point they sick predator looking hounds on the group.  The hounds are called off, and the viewer is left pondering what the point was.  Oh, oh, until the lead character “explains” that it’s just a test.  *FACEPALM*  That’s the best explanation they could come up with and excuse to show a CGI dog?  They literally could have had one of the dumber characters just say, “oh man those were wicked looking,” and it would have made more sense.  Because, that’s what the scene was actually about.  “Let me show you how cool these CGI dogs look.”

Who will like this movie?  Probably boys ages 9 – 14.  I can’t see anyone, with a brain, even sitting through this short film.

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MGM: Did the Jews Always Circumcise or Do Full Circumcision?

Jews on Circumcision

Rabbi Performing Circumcision

Everyone seems to think that the Jewish people had 100% circumcision and that they somehow invented the practice of circumcision.  They also seem to think that circumcision was commanded by God Jehovah to be done.  Neither statement could be further from the truth.  Not only did the ancient Hebrews not practice circumcision, nor come up with circumcision, but there is a huge debate surrounding the passage where God tells Abraham to be circumcised and to have his sons circumcised.cite   Let’s consider this for one second, God who created males would demand that males mutilate their genitals by surgical procedure as a means to correct his own invention?  That doesn’t seem likely.  In fact this debate about the story of Abraham’s circumcision is an actual debate because people question the authenticity of the actual scroll this was on, due to the fact that the scroll was “found” 1,000 years after the death of Abraham and 400 years after the death of Moses.cite  Moreover, it was NOT a widespread practice among Jews.cite   Scholars feel that the Jews copied ancient Syria and were a political statement, nothing to do with holy nor being commanded by God.cite

Noone knows how this political movement made its way into cannon in the Old Testament.  Until, it is later revealed that it pervaded and became widespread due to the same factors that led to European use of MGM [ male genital mutilation ], i.e. women who have sex with uncircumcised men will enjoy it more than with men who are circumcised, or MGM leads to far less, 400%, sexual pleasure in men who are circumcised.cite

citeSince circumcision is considered a sacred ritual in various religions, Sami Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh’s works have a special significance because he discusses it in terms of religious arguments. One of his most important works is To Mutilate in the Name of Jehovah or Allah: Legitimization of Male and Female Circumcision (1994); and his book: Male and Female Circumcision among Jews, Christians and Muslims: Religious Debate (khitaan al-zukuur wal-inaath ‘and yahud, wal-masihiyyin wal-muslimin: al gadal al din) (Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, 2000). In this book, the author reviewed the various opinions of theologians in the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam starting from early days of Judaism till the present decade. The author said that the three religions always interacted and impacted each other. The discourse of circumcision progressed from one Holy Book to the other. In the Old Testament, it was obligatory; in Christianity, it was not considered a sacred procedure; and in Islam, it was not mentioned at all in Quran because Islam stressed the concept of divine perfection of creation. Abu-Sahlieh elaborately reviewed the discourse on circumcision in the three sacred books, Prophetic tradition, and the writings of men of wisdom, theologians, and men of Fiqh, all of whom depended on what is stated in Ch. 17 of the Book of Genesis in which Jehovah ordered Abraham to be circumcised and to do the same procedure on his sons. Jehovah promised them the sacred land because they are God’s chosen people. Moreover, they are identified by circumcision. The researcher considered this procedure as a political convention which is carried out by means of surgery, and described it as “Politicization of a Surgical Operation.” Sanctification of male circumcision transfers Jehovah from a divine creator to a simple shepherd who needs a physical sign to identify his people out of all the other human beings; like a shepherd identifying his herd. Other scholars explained that the circumcision of the male child on the 8th day is to purify him from birth pollution. Contact between the child and his mother’s body and after-birth are both considered polluting. In fact, there are laws in Judaism that admit the hazards of infant male circumcision. Therefore, some rabbis exempt some Jews from this procedure, on condition that the child has 2 brothers or a maternal male cousin who died during circumcision. Abu-Sahlieh explained that the Old Testament was gathered together and documented in the 9th century B.C., that is approximately after 4 centuries of Moses’ death and 10 centuries of Abraham’s death. Therefore, it included various other traditions from the different cultures over this period,. That is why some scholars of Judaism doubt the historical origin of the events that took place in the Old Testament. Abu-Sahlieh said that circumcision goes back further than the Old Testament because historical documents were found that proved that circumcision was a procedure carried out in Ancient Syria in the 28th century B.C. and in Ancient Egypt in the 23rd century B.C. In the latter, it was not carried out on all Egyptians but only on the priests. This is proved by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who forbid this procedure on everyone in the 2nd century A.D,, but he exempted the Egyptian priests.

The Jews used circumcision politically over the years. It was a procedure that was carried out on a relative basis and not done on everyone. Historians state that this procedure was not obligatory to Jews except after their return from exile in the 6th century B.C. A group of Jews made an agreement with surrounding nations in the 2nd century B.C. They stopped observing circumcision, and hid the signs of the procedure by pulling down the skin of the penis to cover its head. They could do so because in ancient times circumcision did not include a complete amputation of the prepuce, as is the case now. It was the outer layer that was cut only. The anti-circumcision trend appeared again in the 2nd century A.D. The rabbis, though, created a new way of circumcision by amputating the two layers of the prepuce as a counter reaction to the mentioned trend. Moreover, in 1842, a group of German Jews questioned the obligatory imposition of circumcision; but they retreated under pressure of conservative Jewish clergy. In 1869, Jews who had emigrated to the United States started to discuss the exemption from circumcision of men who converted to Judaism as adults. The exemption was authorized in 1892 because it was said that in the Old Testament, when Abraham was ordered to undergo this procedure, it was not an obligation to all Jews throughout history, and also because of the fact that Jews are identified by their maternal ancestors, regardless of whether they are circumcised or not. Thus, a circumcised Jew cannot be considered a Jew if his mother is from another religion. These modernists also viewed that circumcision did not comply with other Old Testament instructions that forbid harming the body. Modern Jewish feminists noticed the patriarchal political nature of male circumcision. Abu-Sahlieh quotes some of them. One of them is Miriam Pollack, who refutes that circumcision has a religious significance. She says that it has a political background in general and is specially significant to gender.

“Circumcision is based on men’s domination of women. By this procedure, the child is separated from his mother who does not have any authority on him any longer. This harms the child, for at this stage he needs his mother most and she cannot defend him, in spite of the fact that they are attached to one another at this early age. The knife that is pointed to the child is in fact pointed to the heart and soul of the mother. Circumcision is actually an injury to the mother; it is humiliating to her since it implies that ‘Your authority over males is limited; moreover, this child belongs to the male community.’ In this manner, the relationship between man and woman is disturbed and similarly the relationship between mother and child. The child’s separation from the mother is a preparation for his separation from her when he is recruited by the army.” (Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, 2000)

Seham Abd el Salam

Everyone simply assumes that the Jews invented and practiced circumcision, neither point is fact in history. As shown above, the ancient Jews were not the ones that proscribed MGM, it was the far later German Jews that started the practice and to the “full extent”, i.e. full circumcision of the prepuce, and for non-sacred reasons to boot, i.e. to curb sexual drive in both women in men. When the very scrolls that are supposedly in Torah are in question, then one clearly sees the foundation of the barbaric practice crumbles. The premise over the past century is that “it’s in the bible”. So if we then turn a careful eye to the very passage where it was written and find it was written not by God, but by man for political reasons, then we see the entire argument fails.

Circumcision Was in Egypt Before Hebrews

Also, as shown above, the procedure that was practiced in ancient times is nowhere near as intrusive as it is today, i.e. the very rim of the prepuce being cut, versus the full prepuce being removed in today’s procedures. The ancient Jews understood the procedure to be symbolic, not an actual surgical procedure, ergo they did something symbolic and not a fully invasive surgical removal which could lead to tremendous complications, to the point of losing one’s life or being horribly disfigured.  Furthermore, there are countless passages in the same Old Testament, predating the story of the Abraham circumcision that commands all Jews to never harm the body, in fact it is in no less than 3 of the 10 commandments.

Milah: Symbolic Circumcision of Covenant
The original Biblical circumcision of Abraham’s time was a relatively minor ritual circumcision procedure in which only the redundant end of the foreskin extending beyond the tip of the glans was removed. This was called “Milah”. It is from this term that the Jewish Religious Covenant circumcision ritual Bris Milah or Brith Milah got its name.

Following “Milah”, a penis so circumcised would still contain a considerable portion of the foreskin and the penis would have continued to go through its natural development since most of the foreskin would have remained intact. Protection of the glans would still have occurred. The foreskin would not be stripped back off the glans and would naturally separate from the glans gradually as the child matures, much as it would had the child not been circumcised. The sensitive frenulum would not have been disturbed or moved, and the foreskin remaining would continue to cover and protect a substantial portion of the glans, especially when flaccid, and the glans would appear as uncircumcised. There would be minimal loss of sensitivity or intended protection.

This type circumcision continued throughout the ages and during the time of Christ. The circumcision of Christ would have been this type circumcision as referred to in the bible. Indeed, biblical reference to circumcision is strictly this form of circumcision. It continued into the New Testament. It has been argued that Michelangelo’s David should show David as Circumcised. Interestingly, Michelangelo presented David precisely as he should have appeared following an infant “Milah” circumcision. His glans is essentially covered with only the tip of the glans showing.

Changes to the Ritual Circumcision Procedure:
No other feature was added to the religious ritual until about 140 AD when a second step to the ritual circumcision procedure was introduced.

Periah: The laying bare of the glans
After performing “milah”, the cutting back of the end of the infant’s foreskin, a second step, periah was then performed. Periah consists of tearing and stripping back the remaining inner mucosal lining of the foreskin from the glans and then, by use of a sharp finger nail or implement, removing all of the inner mucosal tissue, including the excising and removal of the frenulum from the underside of the glans. The objective was to insure that no part of the remaining penile skin would rest against the glans corona. If any shreds of the mucosal foreskin tissue remained, or rejoined to the underside of the glans, the child was to be re-circumcised.

This is a much more radical form of circumcision. It was dictated by man, and is not the biblical commanded circumcision rite. [Italics mine] Its introduction has a bizarre history. The rabbinate sought to put an end to the practice of youths desiring to appear uncircumcised by stretching the remainding foreskin for social economic benefits and for sports competitions. By introducing the painful and debilitating “Periah” they would obliterate the foreskin completely such that proper circumcised Jew could not disguise “the seal of the covenant”. From this point in Jewish history, the male’s glans is directly affected by the circumcision procedure, and the denuded glans and traumatized infant will heal with considerable nerve damage and loss of sensitivity. Again, it is important to note that this is not the Covenant circumcision of Abraham defined in the Bible. [Italics mine]

Metzitzeh: (Mezzizza/Mizizah) The sucking of blood from the wound
During the Talmudic period (500-625 A.D.), a third step was added to the Orthodox circumcision ritual. It was not universally adopted by all Jewish groups, but became a practice of the more Orthodox groups. This third step was called “Metzitzah”. During “Metzitzah”, the mohel takes the now badly bleeding penis into his mouth and sucks the blood from the wounded pant. This was most probably adopted to collapse the major blood vessels to stem bleeding and to extract any induced bacteria from the wound and blood system. In effect, it often introduced infection, such as tuberculosis and venereal diseases, with very serious and tragic consequence, as reported throughout history. More modern day mohels use a glass tube placed over the infant’s penis for suction of the blood when performing metzitzah. In many Jewish ritual circumcisions this step of Metzitzah has been eliminated.

The introduction of Routine Infant Circumcision:
Routine Infant Circumcision was introduced during the late 1800’s and throughout the 1900’s on the pretext that it offered health and hygiene benefits, would stop the habit of masturbation, and proffered an endless list of presumed cures for a variety of ailments and diseases. As mother’s opted to use physicians to give birth in hospitals or clinics, rather than using a midwife for home birth, the practice of routine circumcision of male infants blossomed and became nearly universal.

As one would expect, many of those experienced in the procedure were Jewish physicians and mohels. They taught new physicians to perform the surgical procedure as was practiced by Jewish ritual circumcision procedures. This meant that most infants underwent a fairly radical complete form of circumcision. What was performed was the Jewish “Milah” followed by “Periah”, with most if not all of the foreskin being removed and the frenulum either severely damaged or completely removed. This remains the routine infant circumcision procedure to this day. Many males throughout these past decades have suffered the lasting physical, psychological, and sexual dysfunctional consequences of routine circumcision, which they did not choose.

James E. Peron, Ed.D.

Finally the authenticity of the passage of Abraham’s circumcision is questioned because it was found so much later than other such scrolls.  All scholars agree on the date the scrolls were found and the debate is over if it was even something that actually happened, versus a passage describing traditions other people had.

MGM: Mail Genital Mutilation what you’re up against:

  • As it stands now circumcision in just America alone is a $300 million a year industry.  There is no way in hell you will ever be able to get people to stop propagating circumcision as something: healthy; proper; nicer.  
  • Securlar circumcision is pointless altogether.  
  • No doctor would ever seriously tell you that circumcision is medically necessary for anything, unless it is in some extremely rare case, i.e. 1 in a million.  However an obstetrician can make $1,500 weekly alone in performing circumcisions. 
  • Yearly 150,000 baby boys die from circumcision alone.  
  • Two million circumcisions are performed yearly in America. 

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    Shakaama’s Genital Mutilation Week

    Genital Mutilation Week

    Genital Mutilation

    This week, I’d like to call your attention to something that goes on every hour on the hour in America: genital mutilation.  So to stress how important this issue is, I will be writing all week about genital mutilation.  I hope in raising this issue that those who read it will stop allowing their children to have their genitals mutilated.  I am sure some of you are wondering why anyone would allow their children’s genitals to be mutilated and the answer is quite simple: money.  No, I do not mean that the parents of these children are receiving money for allowing their children’s genitals to be mutilated, I mean there is huge profits, around $300 MILLION yearly, in genital mutilation so the impetus to allow your children to have their genitals mutilated is there.  Not only are people told complete lies about genital mutilation, but they are even given religious reasons why genital mutilation is acceptable.  After this week, I hope every U.S. parent and soon to be parents would stop this practice of Genital mutilation and allowing themselves to be bullied into allowing their children’s genitals to be mutilated for profit.

    Shakaama’s 2010 Sexy Rating by Boy / Girl and Race

    Sexy Rating by Race and Sex

    This is the annual Sexy Rating by gender and race.  If any one person is offended, then you’re doing it wrong.  If it doesn’t apply to you, then you’re doing it right.  This is done by scientific method.  Many ghetto fabulous pollers hit the pavement in search of people’s attitudes of who people think are sexy, not sexy and just plain a mess.  Buckle up because it is no holds barred.  Most people did not hold back when giving their opinion.  Some had to be beat down to get them to shut up.  Ghetto fabulous pollsters never call the cops, so a beat down, Grand-Theft-Auto-IV-style, was the normal method of getting people to shut up.  Noone was seriously hurt in the process and we got a lot of data.  A lot of answers were almost the same response.  We immediately noticed a trend in most answers.  Here we go:

    The question was:

    “Of the following list, who would you date or not date, for a serious relationship and why or why not?”

    The list of course was men / women and broken down into racial categories, and no LATINO is not a race, idiot people.  For purposes of defining race: central and southern Americans are considered European white mixed with Native American.  Haitians are considered Black.  Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Brazilians are considered Black mixed with European whites and/or Native Americans.  For purposes of the questionnaire then, the break down of the Americans south of Texas were considered Black or white, depending on their dominant racial make-up.

    Responses

    White Chicks

    • not worth dating
    • nice to look at
    • too expensive and demanding
    • gives up the vagina too easily
    • gets fat almost overnight

    White Dudes

    • not worth dating
    • looks range from dorky to hill billy
    • money ranges from broke to rich
    • no fun to be around
    • gets fat after 25 years old

    Black Chicks

    • not worth dating
    • not nice to look at
    • while they don’t demand a lot of money, their attitude disqualifies them, noone wants to deal with their attitude
    • gives up the vagina too easily
    • gets fat almost overnight

    Black Dudes

    • nearly across the board the hands down favorite
    • nice to look at
    • money ranges from broke to rich
    • fun to be around
    • if they’re not fat when you meet them, they hardly ever get fat

    Asian Chicks

    • nearly across the board the hands down favorite, except they hardly ever date outside their race. the positive responses then were, in my opinion, people thinking how they were, since hardly anyone ever dated one.
    • nice to look at, except their body parts are usually more petite [ breasts and derriere ]
    • they are not demanding and act out quite the traditional lady / woman role
    • they do not give up the vagina easily, so it is a more traditional circumstance of dating one, they trend towards looking to get married,
    • they hardly ever get fat and nearly none are fat to begin with

    Asian Dudes

    • nearly noone ever dated an Asian Dude, except Asian Chicks, there was nearly noone that responded to Asian Dudes [ I have soooo many Asian guy friends.  I found this fact funny. ]
    • no data
    • no data
    • no data

    Native American Chicks

    • 2nd favorite across the board to date, while there were a lot of negatives for these chicks, the overall response was that they were dating material and not trash material
    • while they weren’t generally considered nice to look at, they did have larger body parts than Asian Chicks
    • they are not demanding and act out quite the traditional lady / woman role
    • they give up the vagina easily, this was a huge negative for dating, but even still, because of their very nice attitude a lot more men, across races, still wished to date them.  While they weren’t as conservative as Asian Chicks, they also were far more approachable.
    • gets fat almost overnight
    • tend not to speak English

    Native American Dudes

    • 2nd favorite dude to date.  they have some flavor [ like Black Dudes ] but they aren’t as snobby as white dudes, and treat their women very nicely
    • nice to look at, ranges from bad skin to a whole lot that look nice, however they are all nearly too short.  fashion became an issue, they all trend towards a non-traditional American look, which is off-putting
    • money is a problem, they nearly all have entry level jobs, which, while they have spending money, it’s never enough to constantly keep a white girl-friend or even a Black girl-friend
    • fun to be around
    • if they’re not fat when you meet them, they hardly ever get fat
    • tend not to speak English

    Results:

    1. Black Dudes were the hands down favorite dude to date.  And, that is date, not just screw.  Everyone responding to dudes, said they all had had sex with the dudes, except a large minority of white dudes, people had not had sex with. [ I’m assuming these were nerds or maybe they were homosexual ]
    2. Asian Chicks were the hand down favorite chick to date.  And that is date, not just screw.  Everyone responding to chicks did not have sex with the chicks.  [ so i guess, some chicks are still keeping their legs closed.  Good for them. ]

    Conclusion

    The shock was that white girls and white guys were not the favorite.  In fact a lot of people accused white chicks and white dudes of copying other races’ behaviors.  So, instead of dating a white dude that acts like a Black dude, they’d prefer to just date the Black dude.

    A small percentage of people said that white dudes tended to be pervy, and therefore creepy and not dating material. A small percentage of people said that Asian dudes tended to be pervy, and therefore creepy and not dating material.  Therefore, I conclude that being more boring in bed, makes you better material for dating and people aren’t afraid to strike up a relationship with you.

    Almost everyone felt very secure and easy about dating all the different racial groups.  Only white respondents, to the questionnaire, said they did not date outside their race, more than any other group.  Other races said they had never dated an Asian chick or Asian dude, but neither Asian chicks or Asian dudes saw any problem with dating outside of their race personally.  Meaning, people who are not Asian, don’t think Asians date outside their race, but Asians personally felt comfortable dating outside their race.  I guess it’s all about perception.

    A large minority of Black chicks responded that they would not date other races, but the majority did not say that, they felt comfortable dating outside of their race. 

    [ this is all a joke. nothing was intended to harm anyone. ]

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    Shopping While Black (video)

    The Aweful Truth of Who Steals in Stores

    Shopping While Black

    1. “May I help you?” she said as I looked through the top-of-the-line, non-stick pots and pans. I had been there 20 minutes looking and deciding If I should get the whole set, which would replace some pieces I bought only recently from other name-brands. Of course it would be a waste, but buying the set seemed more economical than buying the missing pieces from my kitchen set. I turned to her and observed she wasn’t looking to be useful, but said it as a warning to get out. “No I’m just looking,” I said nonchalantly. She stood there blocking my view now. She said nothing else and simply stood there like a Catholic nun shooing me off with her look.

        Racial profiling in stores is so prevalent that researchers have even given it a name — Shopping While Black. When it happens, black shoppers are made to feel both unwelcome and under suspicion

    2. I walked into the electronics store. I had just received a bonus at work out of the blue and felt I should treat myself to some new gadget. I wasn’t prepared for the astonishing amount of new gadgets on display. The labels with the price tags did not help either since they were written in store codes only the clerks could understand. I stood looking puzzled for 10 minutes. The clerks were gathered around the desk talking to each other about what they did last night. I noticed they would occasionally look over and sigh in my direction. A Black customer was walking out and said over his shoulder, “maybe someone should help this man, he has several expensive suits in his hand, obviously he wants to spend money.” Finally a clerk comes over and says, “yes!” But, just then a white customer walks in and she greets them and asks can she help. All the other clerks also greet the customer. Then another white customer walks in and they all greet him too. I am paralyzed with disgust. I simply leave and go to a shop that doesn’t treat me like a pariah.

        “Most retail inventory loss statistics have show that [sic] the majority of shoplifters to be of the Caucasian race. To concentrate surveillance on minority customers is not only improper, but is an ineffective method of controlling shoplifting losses at most locations.”

    3. I’m looking at the underwear section digging through the sizes and not having a good time. For every time I find my size, it’s not the color I want. And, there are so many that my digging is tedious and time consuming. Suddenly, I feel eyes on my back. In my peripheral vision, I see a husky man to one side and a husky unattractive woman to another side. They are painfully pretending to shop. As I move to the shirts section, they mirror me. I’m not one given to being stalked though and so I leave, putting back everything I had picked up to buy. This would seem like a rare incident, but it happens immediately when I enter stores and very very often. As soon as I open the door it seems the stalkers are there. I haven’t done anything suspicious except walk in the store and I’m immediately being shadowed and followed.

        “Statistically, the most likely person to steal from a store is a store employee. The next most likely to steal is a college educated white male. Hmm — could it be that the real reason that store employees and white managers make such a point of targeting black shoppers is that it creates a perfect smokescreen for their own dishonesty and greed — not only can they rob the stores blind, they can then point the finger of blame at a visually conspicuous victim.”

    One more note: if the media weren’t so racist, racism would die out — the media is the single most culpable institution when it comes to racial stereotyping. Turn on the news, open a newspaper and SHOW me the stories where blacks (or latinos for that matter) are portrayed in an accurate, positive light. There’s a lot of money at stake in maintaining this racist atmosphere — prisons, for instance, are huge sources of revenue; and ensuring a perpetual underclass of minorities means less competition in the job market for white people.

    The country is clearly ready for change — witness the election of President Obama — but until and unless the media starts serving the population as a whole, rather than an entitled and greedy subsection of it — we won’t see any real change in this country. The frightening thing about this is that not content with corrupting this country with racism, we also sell our racist television shows to other countries in order to spread the poison further. Anytime you do come across a rare show that features inter-racial couples whose primary focus is the actual relationship and not their race, you can pretty much count on that show being canceled. Think “Wonderfalls” or “Firefly” or any one of a dozen more amazing shows. What planet are the people in charge of programming living on? They are so far out of touch with reality, they might as well be living on Saturn. Look around you. The color of this country is not just changing. It has already changed. Ratings are falling for a reason. 

    Race still sells in the news.  And, telling republicans that Blacks are crooks and thieves, still gets viewership.   Telling democrats that the Blacks they have hated for nearly a century now, since the beginning of the KKK, which was started by southern DEMOCRATS, still sows fear into nice white democrat homes.

    Meanwhile Black entrepreneurs are suffering mega-setbacks by not being able to open Black owned stores.  Couple that with a staggering 25% unemployment amongst the Americanized Africans in this country and you continually see the widening of the economic gap between whites and Black, and yet you do NOT see a spike in theft among Blacks in this country.

    The larger firms that know security and research loss prevention all point to whites as the largest purveyor of store shrinkage.  Yet, the news and media continues to fuel the fires of thinking Blacks have somehow cornered the market on theft.  Peruse and court papers for any length of time and you’ll see it is not even remotely true.

    For Blacks: Do Not Burn Your Bridges

    What is Burning Bridges?

    The Secret of Relationships (click here)

    Burning a bridge was originally something that an army would do so that the enemy could not possibly get to you.  Don’t confuse this with the army action of destroying a bridge, which simply means you come to a bridge destroy it, so that supplies can’t get to your enemy.  Specifically burning a bridge meant that you cut off all avenues of someone else getting to you.  They turned this military action into a figurative, relationship action later on by ascribing someone’s bad behavior with burning bridges.  In essence, if you make it so that you will be so unwelcome around another person or group of people, you are figuratively burning the bridge of the relationship.

    I notice that Black people, and I only care about Black people … other races my do it, I could care less, burn their bridges all over the place.  It seems to be an act of desperation and a complete lack of wisdom and maturity.

    Imagine for a second that you hate a low paying job, that takes up all of your time, to such a degree that you cannot even go and find a higher paying job.  Instead of you quietly putting in a nice MONTH’S notice, and quitting, you get SO frustrated that you get mad one day and in a complete rage, blow up at a customer or boss and storm out saying how you quit, or get fired on the spot.

    The problem with the scenario is that you are not in control.  The whole rage, drama, cursing someone out is you losing all control and letting someone else control you and your emotions.  When you rage-quit you are putting your life and finances into someone else’s hands.  You are literally saying, some random person, whom you don’t even know, is so important that you are giving control over to them.

    How Not to Burn Your Bridges

    In a Personal Relationship:  Instead of you blowing up at your boyfriend/girlfriend, take control of the relationship and ask for a time-out from the relationship.  This isn’t a carte blanche to go and sleep with the neighbors, this is a brief respite to take a breather and search yourself, to see if the person you’re with is a positive or negative in your life.  If they cannot give you a time-out period, then clearly that person isn’t the one for you, to begin with.

    Tantric Sex (click here)

    Someone that truly loved you, would not cling so tightly to you that they cannot loosen their grip to let you breathe. The mature suitor [yes i still believe people date to seek out a potential wife/husband, not just screw around] would let you have some space to determine if you are ready for him/her.  It might also give them a chance to notice that you’re too fat / bald / skinny / bad breath / broke / cheap / annoying for them too.

    So if you ask to take a break from someone, you take control of your life and your relationship.  You cannot just live for other people, who may or may not be a very bad influence on you.  Also with an avenue out it will save you from an abusive relationship. 

    Furthermore if you ask for a break and the person then proceeds to act like a mad banshee, stalking you can acting super jealous, then you know that is not the one for you.  You do not want to be around someone that loses control and is unsure of their own relationship status that they have to resort to checking up on you.  Nor, do you want to be acting jealous because you asked for a time-out and cannot cope with being away from the person.  The time-out is for you.  To pull yourself together and take stock of what is going on in your life and your relationship.

    Finally, if you ask for a time-out and the other person starts sleeping around, then you know for sure that, he  / she is not the one for you.  The time-out is simply a break for being around each other all the time.  It is not an end of the relationship.  Make sure both parties understand clearly that the relationship is not over.  If you or your suitor cannot understand what a time-out is, then perhaps you or they need to do a little bit of growing to figure out what adults do in relationships.  I would prefer you not sleep with your suitor, but that’s just me.  And, if your suitor insists that you need to sleep with them to have a relationship [cuz all the cool kids do it] then you know that’s not the one for you.  There is a right way and wrong way to do a relationship.

    In a Job Relationship: Instead of you going off on a customer or boss, take control of your life and finances and hand in a resignation with a month’s notice.  2 weeks is not enough to find a replacement for you, and a kindly worded letter that is purely professional, i.e. not a letter talking about how you feel bad about Suzy stealing your lunch every day or how Brenda’s breath smells or how you have a hard time finding a baby sitter for the random night shifts you have to pull.

    Do not include personal drama in your letter.  Make sure you say only great things about the company and be extremely vague about why you need to leave.  Get it?

    • praise the company
    • be vague about why you’re leaving
    • work quietly before you hand in your resignation, during the resignation period and up to the day you leave

    By doing this, you take control of the situation.  That very same job you so hate, might have to be there if your circumstances change.

    Now notice I did not say, “don’t quit your job without finding another job.”  Why didn’t I say that?  Seems logical and the best possible policy for your financial safety.  I didn’t say that for one reason?  Experience!  I have had no end of low end, entry level jobs that take up all of your god damned time and don’t allow you to even get dressed and go look for a better job that pays twice as much, has benefits and room for tremendous growth.  You cannot have only Sunday’s off and be expected to find a job, carry out interviews and land the job.

    I will say this.  When you realize that you hate your job, don’t immediately put in your month’s notice. No no no!  You reduce all your expenses, and yes you got expenses you don’t need, cuz that’s how all Americans are right now, buying crap they cannot afford and thinking they’ll worry about paying it later.  Cut that crap out.  Reduce all your expenses except necessary bills:

    • food [cook your own damn food, don’t eat at McDonalds, it’s not only unhealthy, but it’s damned expensive now. if you’re too lazy to cook your own damned food, then you probably aren’t even reading all the way down here in the article to begin with.]
    • power [gotta have a/c and heat]
    • internet [yes it is now necessary] NOT CABLE T.V. [don’t be a pussy and say you gotta have cable t.v.]
    • cell phone [yeah they got us on cell phones finally, but I say get the cheapest plan possible and use it only for job contacts, you don’t give it out to friends who wanna talk about “girl you will not guess who I saw Suzy kissin on at the mall today, and Ronny at home with the baby”]  You need a mobile phone to get employers to call you.
    • transportation [your best bet is to actually buy the oldest, cheapest, 2nd hand car you can find. the bus is a terrible idea as a method of transportation.  if you ever need to be somewhere in 30 minutes, relying on city transport of any kind is just not a viable means of transportation.  HOWEVER, be careful when driving, cops are out to get money out of you, any chance they get.  You can use the bus to do stuff like go to the movies or go see a friend across town.  I would seriously limit your time in your own car. It is far more economic to use the bus for personal trips, than it is to use your car for everything.  Limit car use to job and shopping, when you need the space to carry groceries.]

    So instead of you just getting mad at your job and throwing in the towel, even if it’s a nicely worded resignation, first save enough money to take care of ALL your expenses for 3 months, while you look for a job. This way if you don’t find a job right away, you don’t have to panic about it.  Or, if you’re the type that cannot control yourself if you have $5,000 in the bank, go ahead and prepay your bills for 3 months.  Trust me the power company and cell phone company will NOT give you back your money telling you, you over-payed. LOL!

    This way, you are in control of your finances and your life.  Burning bridges is a bad thing.  We have to be twice as good as the next guy and wiser than our boss.  I won’t go into my whole speech about Black people only getting jobs and not owning their own business right now.

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    What’s the Damn Point of Libertarians and the Libertarian Initiated Tea Party Campaign When Republicans are Claming Credit

    Republicans Marginalizing Libertarians

    Libertarian Party Website

    A republican does not equal a Libertarian and a Libertarian does not equal a republican.  Yet, we have republicans taking over every Libertarian initiative.  And, the Libertarians are just laying down and taking it.  You have complete con artists like Wayn Allyn Root, weaseling into the Libertarian party and dictating policy.  The man should be in jail.  He is a black eye on the most constitutional party, since John Hancock signed his name.  You have Dick Army taking over the Tea Party, which was originated and conceived of by the Libertarian Party.

    The Republican party is the most disorganized mess since fall of the Roman Empire, and yet somehow the Libertarian party is worse.  What party, in the history of the country, fields absolutely no candidates for any local and state offices at a time when the country is reeling from both main parties giving the country the ole ‘what for’ without so much as a reach around?  I mean the country is ripe for a 3rd party that espouses complete economic healing for the masses, and yet the Libertarian party is nearly silent and stymied.  They let Fox friggin News take over the Tea Party for God’s sakes.

    California is trying to pass a decriminalizing marijuana law, a victimless crime, and yet the Libertarian Party is completely silent.  The Libertarian Party should be all over this, taken credit for getting this started, and galvanizing the country on this very issue.  That is, if what’s on their website is actually true of what they believe:

    1.5    Crime and Justice

    Government exists to protect the rights of every individual including life, liberty and property. Criminal laws should be limited to violation of the rights of others through force or fraud, or deliberate actions that place others involuntarily at significant risk of harm. Individuals retain the right to voluntarily assume risk of harm to themselves. We support restitution of the victim to the fullest degree possible at the expense of the criminal or the negligent wrongdoer. We oppose reduction of constitutional safeguards of the rights of the criminally accused. The rights of due process, a speedy trial, legal counsel, trial by jury, and the legal presumption of innocence until proven guilty, must not be denied. We assert the common-law right of juries to judge not only the facts but also the justice of the law.

    If an obscure hedge fund manager can go from zero name recognition to being the number 3 republican candidate for senate, by himself, – yes I’m talking about Peter Schiff – then how come an entire battalion of so called libertarians can’t field a Libertarian candidate?

    A Republican is Not a Libertarian

    Why is it no news organization ever ran a story on Libertarian candidates during this very heated campaign season.  This was the most active off year campaign in the history of modern campaigns.  Obama’s approval rating is dropping faster than a fat man’s weight on high intensity interval training, yet the Libertarian party is silent.  Everyone hates Obamacare, and where are the Libertarians to put the Democrats nose to the grind?

    Ron Paul and Rand Paul are great and all, but they are NOT running as Libertarian candidates.  Stop putting your token into their slot.  Get your own candidate and stand behind him.

    It’s like this: A friend of mine works as a doorman to a fairly popular night club here in town.  One night people kept coming to the door and looking in and leaving.  Finally he turns to me, counter in hand, and says “had any of them stayed for more than 5 minutes we would have had 1,000 patrons in the club, more people than any of the big named clubs in town put together.”

    This is exactly what the Libertarian party is doing.  They are putting their tokens into the hats of Republicans, thinking they are the same as Libertarians, when if they just fielded their own candidates and stuck by them, they’d have a firm grasp on the political arena.  There are so many people that are awakened to the shenanigans and the complete illegality of the house and senate, yet the Libertarians are silent.

    Libertarians Don’t Know Jack About Politics

    You Expect Republican / Democrats to Just Let You In

    Harry Reid beat out Repulican candidate Sharon Angle for the U.S. Senate seat for Nevada.  He was down by 4 points in every poll across the board.  He called in favors and got nearly every casino to bus their non-english speaking employees to go vote for him.  He called in favors to get the teachers union to have a 5 day furlow for “teacher’s conferences” lasting up till Wednesday, so they could vote for him.  He called in favors to give teachers raises, when the local and state budgets are empty, so they could vote for him.

    This is politics.  Not completely legal, but you don’t go to jail unless you get caught.

    Libertarians have zero inclination about what politics are.  They are not connected to the global elite.  They are not connected to big business.  In fact all of those groups run counter to anything remotely smacking of constitutionality.  The entire point of a Libertarian party is to get the government out of bed with business and big business in particular, and yet they have no clue how to go about it.  You can’t say you want to be a fox while wearing a rabbit suit, heck, they don’t even come to the fox games toting a fox hunting gun, either / or would be fine.

    I just don’t get it.

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    For Blacks: Black Men Like Natural Hair

    Real Black Men Like Natural Hair

    The Natural Hair Style

    Turn on the T.V. and all you see are Black women with permed, blond, weaved hair down to their butt, fake nails longer than their own fingers, and boobs the size of basketballs, standing at attention higher than their own necklace.  They are just fake fake fake.  If we are to ever overcome the stereotypes hoisted on us, we need to first embrace that we are in fact AFRICANS.  I know so many people, I went to school with, at an all Black University, that would go into full pits of hell mode if you called them anything remotely relating to African.  The fact is, we came from Africa.  We are a transplant just like the white people so many of our lost sheep idolize.

    By embracing our Blackness, we also need to embrace our hair.  We have curly coiled hair.  And, what is great about our curled coiled hair, is that we can do so much with it, unlike straight lifeless hair that other people have.  I have seen so many beautiful African godesses walking around with natural African hair that I’ve wondered at why any Black woman, worth her salt, would dare perm and damage and prematurely bald her own head.  It is a travesty.  And, for those that say it’s easier to comb, you’re not very good with math, nor finances.  Combing your natural hair takes no time, and no money, versus perming your hair takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money.

    Black by Nature

    The Afro

    Black men, for the most part, who are self hating, love a Black woman with natural hair and nothing false on her body.  Heck, I’ve seen Black women without makeup that I had love at first site with.  No Black man worth his salt would ever tell a Black woman to perm her hair.  Men in general do not even think like that.  So who are you trying to get with permed hair?  Black men?  Yet, Black women complain they can’t get a good Black man.  Maybe your fake hair is driving the real Black men away and you’re getting the pick up a pie that’s not that tasty to begin with.

    Black women complain about their hair not growing.  It’s not true.  First of all most Black women, in general, that I know and just happen to see, have zero nutrition.  They are severely overweight and eat crap, and i literally mean they are shoveling poop into their bodies and expecting miracles.  What Black woman you know that eats 6 helpings of vegetables, 5 helpings of essential fats from natural meats and poultry, protein from grass fed cows, meat free range chickens, and eggs from free range chickens, has bad hair?  None!  You know why?  Because she nourishes her body and consequentially her hair.  If you’re as a big as a house, and eat fast food, or eat out in general, and don’t ever cook your own stuff in a natural fat like butter or pig grease, how else if your hair going to turn out?  And, none of them take a raw food vitamin to supplement their already, crappy, diet.

    Afro Curled Coils

    A small percent are talking about biotin and other “hair” vitamins.  But, what they don’t get is, if you’re not doing the basics, like in the above paragraph, the biotin and stuff is not going to have any impact.  They murder their hair and kill their roots by perming their hair, then turn around and take biotin while eating fast food.  It’s an exercise in insanity.  Trust me, if you eat real old south, home cooked meals, and take raw vitamins, your hair will have no end of growing out, and fast.

    Ok now that they growing excuse is out of the picture and since we’ve established that real Black men prefer natural hair on their Black women, you have no excuses left as to perming and destroying your beautiful African hair.  Beyonce and Rhianna are not the role models you should be looking up to.  Women like Dr. Angela Davis, should be your beauty role models.

    Let white women be white women.  Let spanish women be spanish women.  Let asian women be asian women.  You, be a Black woman, because there is only one of you.  It seems, from the outside looking in, that you don’t like your own skin when you have a perm or wear a wig.  I’d prefer you put on a baseball cap, before you perm or wear a wig on your head.  Let the sistahs be sistahs.

    And, I’m not the first Black man to say this.  This entire story, has been done by sooooooo many Black men.  And, Black women aren’t listening.  I’m here to tell you, listen damn it.

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    Police Murder Kid and Try to Cover it Up: Danroy Henry

    Police Arrest Friends for Cover Up

    Danroy Henry

    Three college football players who saw a teammate get fatally shot by police outside a suburban bar were brutalized by officers and arrested when they tried to help their mortally wounded friend, their lawyer said Wednesday.

    One player knows CPR and begged the police to let him try to save Danroy Henry, but instead “they put a gun to his ribs and they told him to back … up or he would be next,” attorney Zelman told The Associated Press.

    She said the other two teammates were zapped with stun guns when they tried to intervene. They said Henry, “was on the pavement, handcuffed and dying, and no one was helping him,” she said.

    Kieran O’Leary, a spokesman for the Westchester County police, which made the arrests, said the department had received no formal complaint regarding excessive force. “If we received one, we’d look at it,” he said.

    Zelman did not make allegations against specific officers, claiming some of them covered their badges.

    by Barry Leibowitz  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBS/AP) Four, Pace University, football players who were arrested after teammate, Danroy Henry, was fatally shot by police want an immediate dismissal of the charges against them.

    Their attorney, Bonita Zelman, calls the charges a cover-up for police brutality. She successfully opposed prosecutors’ request to postpone Thursday’s scheduled court appearance, saying, “If they don’t have enough evidence now to bring the case…they didn’t have enough to charge them.”

    A spokesman for Westchester District Attorney Janet DiFiore said Wednesday that the judge in the case had denied a request for a two week delay.

    Prosecutors say the four students’ cases are part of an ongoing investigation into the Oct. 17 shooting death of the 20-year-old Henry, of Easton, Mass. The junior was shot to death in his car near the scene of a disturbance outside a bar in Thornwood, about 25 miles north of New York City.

    Police say Henry sped away and hit two officers after another officer knocked on his car window. Michael Sussman, a lawyer for Henry’s family, claims that witnesses, including passengers in the car, contradict the police account. The district attorney is coordinating an investigation.

    The teammates were arrested in the chaotic aftermath of the shooting. Three allegedly interfered with getting medical aid to Henry and one was charged with breaking a store window.

    Zelman said last month that her clients – Daniel Parker, Joseph Garcia and Yves Delpeche, all 22, and Joseph Romanick, 21 – were brutalized by officers at the scene. Police say they have received no brutality complaint.

    After the shooting, Henry was handcuffed and placed on the pavement by officers. Mount Pleasant police Chief Louis Alagno said last week that Henry received treatment from officers within three to five minutes of the first report of a shooting.

    But some witnesses have alleged that Henry was neglected for up to 15 minutes after he was shot. Zelman said last month that Parker, of Lauderhill, Fla., knows CPR and begged police to let him try to save Henry, but instead “they put a gun to his ribs and they told him to back … up or he would be next.”

    Zelman said she’s seeking dismissal so “these false criminal charges won’t be hanging over the heads of these innocent kids any longer.” She also said some of the defendants’ relatives have arranged to fly in from out of state.

    [my take on the story]
    Frankly this is just monstrous and thank God there were so many witnesses to completely block the police’s story on this. So many people, blatantly and blindly believe the police when they say, someone ran or fled the scene of a crime. The fact is, police lie all the time. I would say, according to a policeman who was giving an instructional speech at law school, that police lie 90% of the time. They have NO obligation to tell the truth, nor do they have to tell you your rights, all of them, under the law. You are obligated to know your rights on your own. Ignorance is no defense, under the law. Therefore, police can lie through their teeth and get away with it. They don’t have to tell you anything and they can falsify whatever they want, and do.

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