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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”  And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something…almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.  Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking that you have something to lose.

- Steve Jobs, college dropout and CEO of Apple Computer

This is a video that everyone needs to see! Please watch it with an open mind and try to regurgitate all the BS that we’ve been force fed. It’s time to start using common sense and realizing that there are people out there that want to keep us ignorant and stupid. This HIV/AIDs phenomena affects everyone, whether you think it does or it doesn’t. Sit back for a minute and think about it. A positive result on an unreliable “test” has the power to take away job opportunities, housing, and ruin relationships. Not only that, you may be forced to undergo treatments using a highly toxic and dangerous drug called AZT that WILL kill you. After you think about that, think about this. They are pushing for legislation to make these tests MANDATORY. Hmmmm….

~Open Your Eyes~

~Pog~

Check this out. Now we have a white catholic pastor, Father Pfleger defending Reverand Wright (Obama’s former pastor) on the Fox News program “The Factor”. He even defends Luis Farrakhan. LOL. Good stuff!!! I’m pretty sure that reporter had no idea what he was in for. He totally got shut down and all he could do is keep repeating the same kinds of questions over and over again.

This is a very interesting clip folks, check it out…

Here are some funny videos that I found while surfing the net.  These had me cracking up:

Reporter Pwned By Kitty

Bjork Pwns a Reporter

Tiny Lizard Pwns Reporter

Pwned By a Bucket of Grapes

Reporter Double-Pwned By Wife and Husband

Okay, okay, I know I’m a little late on this. But I’ve been nursing a cold and haven’t been motivated to post anything. Well, unless you have been living under a rock we’ve all seen the tremendous speech Senator Obama gave on race. It was a beautiful speech, see for yourself on the youtube video. And it seems that not only are Americans taking notice that Obama is THE candidate for the next president, but people overseas as well. Upon review of the youtube comments I’ve noticed that Obama has more support amongst people internationally than people in his own country. WTF!! Are we Americans so stupid that we can’t see this man’s greatness right before our eyes. We sit here and dwell on these distractions like the whole Rev. Wright thing who, honestly in my opinion, was mostly speaking the truth. When is America going to open it’s eyes? I don’t know. But anyway, here are some of the comments and reactions to the youtube video, check them out.

wow I caught this late (my parents told me to check it out and I’m 44) and I have to say I’m damn well impressed. I’m a Nader guy (have been since ‘96) but this guy is so good I might just jump. what a stirring and INTELLIGENT speech. something seriously lacking from so much of what I watch as potential candidates go. sorry.

“am not even american n i am diggin him”

“True, here in the Caribbean we really want him to win. I wander if Americans realize how interested the world is in this race & how much they want this guy to win!”

“My friend if you heard the complete sermon in the entire context then you would be able to understand that he wasn’t encouraging hate, instead he was preaching that governments can fall because of actions that they do onto others. He doesn’t hate America at all, but it is hard for good people like yourself to understand that if you are only given snippets instead of the full speech. The media is trying to portray him as a man who hates white people when white people attend his Church.”

“Hi everyone!
As I saw the lenght of this video, I thought “omg I don’t wanna watch this”
But as I heard his words and the issues he’s talking about, and the way how he talks to the “crowd”, I just couldn’t close the Firefox-window!
If I were an American I’d vote for him.
Greets to you guys from Austria (UEFA EURO 2008) - not Australia.”

“Impressing words, says a German citizenship!”

“I’m from Europe, but i think obama is the best choice America ever had for president and for a peaceful future.”

“Great man!! Great speech. I feel there is hope for America and ALL of its people.”

“If i were an American, i would vote for him. I am usually a rather cynic person, especially as far as politicians are concerned. But with Obama, i feel like he is really believing in something higher. And not like Bush who is just a nutcase.”

“I am really sad that I am not a citizen. I wish he was from my country because I feel we need a leader like him so desparately. It saddens me that so many people in the US do not see it. In my eyes this should not even be a race. Obama is clearly the best candidate America has produced in a very long time. It would be a shame if America wasted this opportunity.”

“Suddenly we are seeing a lot of international comments, especially from Germany and Britain. Why this sudden increase? Was there an article in some journal or newspaper? A TV profile?”

“I think this is just another indication of the extraordinary quality of this man. Compared to the mediocrity of Merkel, Blair, Brown, Schroeder, Sarkozy, Putin etc, Obama stands out for his intellect, honesty, and integrity. We need more leaders like Obama, and not just in the US!”

“This is the greatest speech ever. I am white and from the south. I am going to vote for him. He is going to help making the United states a real union. I used to vote for the Republicans but I have to say it is time for thoughts such as he has just shared with us.”
JOE

“its kinda sad that you just see a handful of those kinds of politicians in a lifetime, but HEY heres one , good luck to the obama campaing, Greetz from Germany PS: its amazing how the world community is interested in this man”

“Wouldn’t it be great to hear a president such as this man, speaking on TV for the next four years - rather than the superficial and obvious pandering coming from Hillary and McCain. My god, every time Hillary comes on TV, I just change the channel. She’s like a Stepford wife, reading from the Clif notes with no soul. And John “bomb bomb” McCain is just another Bush Jr. We’ve heard it all before - the war mongering, fear, etc…. Nothing new. We need obama!”

“How can americans be so stupid that they don’t vote for a once in a lifetime candidate.”

The greatest fraud of our time is the social conditioning that leads us as individuals to operate out of our own personal self-interest and nothing more.

Materialism, Poverty, War, Genocide, Manipulation, Crime, and Corruption are the results.

The removal of the grand illusion known as “seperation” is the true ‘activism’, as everything else is a mere result of the consequential ‘elitism’ inherent in the need for self-perpetuation

Theistic Religion, Nationalism, Corporatism and the political social systems that are born from them, are the underlying institutions that continue to perpetuate this lie, generation after generation, paralyzing the growth of our human family.

No More.

Today, we begin a new transition: To unify the world in the understanding that WE ARE ONE social organism, and that the symbiotic relationship we share with each other and nature itself is, in fact, the true governing philosophy for our functionality on this planet.

CLICK THE MOVIE BELOW TO WATCH

(first part of the movie is a guy talking and it’s pretty boring…fast forward to 4:00 to see the real start of the movie)

Here is an update of where I am with the PPBV stock.   I got into this stock about 3 weeks ago and I’m already up 32%!!!  Told ya this stock was going to take off.  Get in now before it’s too late.

In light of the recent sex scandal involving New York Governor Spitzer, I thought I’d share a passage from a book that I’m reading titled “Casanova Complex” by Peter Trachtenberg. A very interesting examination of why men do the things that we do. I know that you women don’t believe it but it’s true. In the words of my man Eddie Murphy, “You have to have a dick to understand”. LOL. This is pretty long but VERY interesting. Please try to read the whole thing if you have time.

~Pog

Sons Of The Sheik

A 1968 survey of 807 human cultures found that 708 of them - more than 75 percent - were polygynous, with one man enjoying the sexual and childbearing services of several wives or concubines. There are those who argue that polygyny is the “ideal” male evolutionary strategy, for it enables men to mate with as many women as possible in order to produce the maximum number of offspring. In practice, of course, only those who have the means to support several of their offspring - can truly afford polygyny. It remains the option of the wealthy and powerful, of tribal chieftains, Arab sheiks and the Mormon elders of the previous century.

The polygyny of the powerful gave birth to two institutions. The first was the harem, in which a wealthy man kept his wives and concubines, usually under the guard of eunuchs. The object was not only to house the women but to guarantee their fidelity and ensure that his children were indeed his own. But if the harem represented a sexual monopoly of older, more prestigious men, there had to be some outlet for those too young and too poor to support even one wife, let alone many: the alternative was rape and relentless class and age warfare. Thus the harem bred its antithesis, the brothel, where several men could enjoy the sexual services of a single prostitute. As John Money has observed, the division of women into Madonnas and whores begins with these twin structures, the one devoted to procreation, the other to what we now call recreational sex.

The polygyny of the powerful is, of course, a part of the Judeo-Christian tradition as well. It was the ethic of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, of David and Solomon. For all His sternness, the God of the Old Testament tolerated all sorts of sexual misconduct among the forefathers of Israel, as long as that conduct was fruitful. Lot could lie with his own daughters and Jacob could bed Leah and her sister Rachel without provoking divine punishment. The Seventh Commandment, prohibiting adultery, seems to have been intended less as a curb on male sexuality than as a way of ensuring the purity of Israel’s bloodlines, which were then still reckoned patrilineally. It certainly didn’t keep the kings of Israel from taking new wives when they wanted sexual variety or favorable alliances with other tribes or wished to father more children. In the New Testament, we find both the courtesan Mary Magdalene and a reference to eunuchs (Matthew 19:12), which suggests that the brothel and the harem were fixtures in Hebrew society. For the Jews, polygyny endured into the Middle Ages: it was not outlawed by the rabbinates of the West until A.D. 1000.

Theoretically, monogamy has been the standard - and the only approved - form of marriage in the West since the Christian era. The Christian fathers listed adultery and fornication among four sins against the body. But in practice Western monogamy has been a kind of sieve, riddled with loopholes that admit men but until recently were sealed to double standard as “strict fidelity demanded of the wife, relative fidelity accepted for the husband” and claims that it satisfied the cultural requirements of pre-industrial Europe: “it meant that one knew who one’s mother was, while one’s paternity was a matter of belief.” Although the Catholic Church construed fornication and adultery as offenses for which men and women were equally punishable, it seems to have enforced its marital and sexual codes selectively: men, at least continued to enjoy sex before and outside marriage without much interference.

The harem vanished in the West, but the brothel endured in spite of intermittent crackdowns. In fifteenth-century France, for example, prostitution was not only tolerated but enshrined as a public institution. Most towns had a municipal brothel or bathhouse. In the larger cities, entire districts dedicated to recreational sex were officially protected. The women who worked there enjoyed the status of public servants, and prostitution was considered a respectable occupation for women of the lower and middle classes, even if they were married. While these municipal brothels were theoretically closed to local husbands, there was nothing to prevent a married man from visiting the prostibula of a neighboring town. Courtesans were among the chief citizens of sixteenth-century Venice. These erotic technicians not only produced and controlled much of the city’s wealth but shaped its mores and etiquette, leading the writer Aretino to observe, “A good pair of buttocks is possessed of greater power than all that has ever produced from philosophers, astrologers, alchemists and necromancers.”