Damm, I missed it. Again

From the Urbandictionary

Steak and Blowjob Day

March 14

Celebrated on March 14th, Steak and Blowjob Day is a holiday for men, celebrated the month after Valentine's Day -- a holiday for women.
The idea is simple: no cards, flowers, candy or other whimsical gifts. Ladies (and gay men), you simply bestow your partner with a steak and a blowjob. Not necessarily in that order.

Dave: "Hey Bob, what did Sally get you for Steak and Blowjob Day?"
Bob: "Well Dave, that would be a big juicy steak, and a big juicy blowjob."

Ahh, Live can be so difficult at times.

There's No Stinken Media Bias round here

I am a home Do-it-Yourselfer, extraordinaire

My tools are: Hammer, Screwdriver(straight and phillips), a channel lock and Duct tape but most importantly is WD-40.

Japan invents speech-jamming gun that silences people mid-sentence

A great Fathers Day gift.

TOKYO (Newscore) - Japanese researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence.

Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable "SpeechJammer" gun that can silence people more than 30 meters away.

The device works by recording its target's speech then firing their words back at them with a 0.2-second delay, which affects the brain's cognitive processes and causes speakers to stutter before silencing them completely.

The black contribution to anti-black racism

I never thought I would be quoting Pravda.

 

24.02.2012 12:47

By Peter Baofu, Ph.D.

Some recent incidents involving black folks against non-blacks in the Western world (to be illustrated below) reveal a disturbing phenomenon that many black folks are quick to blame the institution of white racism for their relative lack of success in some endeavors but are slow to look into their behaviors and mindsets which have so much contributed to anti-black racism in the first place.

A good question here is: Why do many people have the common perception that blacks, on average, are not relatively capable in intellectual and refined endeavors, when contrasted with whites or Asians, for example, although they excel in other endeavors which are more physical, sensual, comic, and the like? The words "on average" and "relatively" are used here with caution, so as to stress that there are variations within a group and that the comparison among different groups is not absolute but relative.

With this caution in mind, only some far-right extremists like Adolf Hitler would deny that blacks indeed excel in certain areas like sports and entertainment, because, when Jesse Owens, a black American athlete, won four medals in track and field in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Hitler was quite upset and refused to shake his hand. And it is quite well known that, in the U.S., black Americans dominate in certain areas of sports and entertainment (e.g., basketball, boxing, football, track and field, rap music, tap dance, jazz, black comedy, and so on).

Still, the common perception is that blacks, on average, do not excel in other domains of human endeavors which are more intellectual and refined (rather than physical, sensual, comic, and the like). Historically, blacks in sub-Saharan Africa (as contrasted with the Arab and Mediterranean folks in North Africa), even well before the modern colonial conquest of the vast continent by the Europeans, had never excelled in producing the masterpieces (or great works) as often seen in major civilizations known in history (like the European, Chinese, Indian, or Arab civilizations, for example), in such fields like mathematics, science, engineering, logic, epistemology, theology, aesthetics, moral philosophy, political theory, architecture, metaphysics, jurisprudence, military studies, and so on.

This is Sweet. Show and Tell.

 

Got to lose some weight

Somebody said they have a new diet for me to try.  Hope this isn't it.

Let Them Eat Cake

I'm sure she was told to wear all black because if she fell or got lost it would be easier for her to be found.  Ya, that's it.

Rep. Allen West

Can't Wait for Summer

OMG. Racism Rearing it's ugly head; again @ ESPN

This guy is working so hard for US he is so exhausted. And we don't appreciate it.

Or maybe he is singing a Barry White song.

The Contraceptive scam

I have been thinking about the contraceptive issue lately and something has crossed my mind about Obamas’ take on this catholic, bashing, as I call it.  I can not see how Obama is going to pick up any more Catholic votes.  He might not lose many catholic votes, he probably will lose some but not many, I don’t believe.  I’m sure he wants to divide Catholics and other groups for his own good.  But the fact he is showing the electorate what his second term will look like is beyond me.  He is showing that he will be going all out with the government taking control of as much as possible until the people stop him and I think he is banking that the majority will not. 

A majority of people have  been through the leftist public schools so they think what Obama and his minions are up to are good for all of us.  Some of them know how he wants to change America and agree with the socialist/communists but some, I believe, think he wants to help us all.  Where is their critical thinking process, that they didn’t learn in the government.

Will update later, I’m using this seat at Starbucks for too long and will open it up to someone else.

Just Lin, Baby! 10 Lessons Jeremy Lin Can Teach Us Before We Go To Work Monday Morning

Lin-sanity has swept up the NBA over the last week. Now it seems like the phenomenon has gone worldwide.

Friday’s 38 point performance by Harvard grad Jeremy Lin for the New York Knicks against the LA Lakers was his greatest performance yet as a starter, since he burst on to the scene and propelled the team to 4 straight wins.

Lin now has over 200,000 followers on Twitter. He’s got over 800,000 on Weibo – including 200,000 new ones in the 24 hour period after beating the Lakers.

But there’s more to this story than basketball. This isn’t just a modern-day, real-life version of the Hoosiers movie. The Jeremy Lin story is incredibly popular because we can all see a little bit of ourselves in this man’s struggles and now successes.

What can all of us learn from this young man — and how can we apply these same lessons to our own lives when we go back to work on Monday morning?

1. Believe in yourself when no one else does. Lin’s only the 3rd graduate from Harvard to make it to the NBA. He’s also one of only a handful of Asian-Americans to make it. He was sent by the Knicks to play for their D-League team 3 weeks ago in Erie, PA. He’d already been cut by two other NBA teams before joining the Knicks this year. You’ve got to believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

2. Seize the opportunity when it comes up. Lin got to start for the Knicks because they had to start him. They had too many injuries. Baron Davis was gone. The other point guards were out. Carmelo Anthony was injured. Amare Stoudemire had to leave the team because of a family death. Lin could have squandered the opportunity and we would have never have noticed. But he made the most of it. You never know when opportunities are going to arise in life. Often, they’re when you least expect them. Make the most of them. Don’t fritter them away.

3. Your family will always be there for you, so be there for them. It wasn’t until a few days ago that Lin got his contract guaranteed by the Knicks for the rest of the season. Before that, he could have been cut at any time. He had to sleep on his brother’s couch on the Lower East Side to get by. His family always believed in him and picked him up when he could have gotten down on himself. That made him continue to believe. If you want your family to believe in you like that, you’ve got to be there for them too when they need it.

4. Find the system that works for your style. Lin isn’t Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant. He’s not a pure scorer. He’s a passer and distributor – who can also score very well. It didn’t work for him in Golden State or Houston – where he was before landing at the Knicks. But Mike D’Antoni’s system at the Knicks has been perfect for him to show off his strengths. You’ve got to do your best to understand what your strengths are and then ensure that you’re in a system (a job or organization or industry) that is a good fit for those strengths. Otherwise, people overlook the talents you bring to the table.

5. Don’t overlook talent that might exist around you today on your team. You probably manage people at your own company today. Are you sure you don’t have a Jeremy Lin living among you now? How do you know that “Mike” couldn’t do amazing things if you gave him a new project to run with? How do you know “Sarah” isn’t the right person to take the open job in London that you’ve been talking over with your colleagues? We put people around us in boxes. He’s from Harvard. He’s Asian-American. Not sure he can play. How many assumptions have you made about talent around you? Don’t be like the General Managers in Golden State and Houston, and let talent slip through your fingers. With all their money, scouts, and testing, they didn’t have a clue what they had in their hands. Do you know what your people (or even yourself) is really capable of? Take off the blinders of assumptions you wear when you look at the world.

6. People will love you for being an original, not trying to be someone else. You’ve got to be you. You can’t be some 2nd rate copy of Michael Jordan. There will never be another Michael Jordan. Just be Jeremy Lin — yourself. Whatever that is. That doesn’t mean you don’t work hard — it just means you find what you’re good at and do it. Fans will love you for being you, just like they love Jeremy Lin. Judy Garland said it best:

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”

7. Stay humble. If you one day are lucky enough to have newspapers want to put you on the cover in order to sell more, don’t let it get to your head. It’s been remarkable watching how humble Lin remains through all this media frenzy. It makes his teammates and fans love him that much more.

8. When you make others around you look good, they will love you forever. I didn’t know how good Tyson Chandler was, until I saw him playing with Jeremy Lin. Lin has set Chandler up many times over the last week for easy dunks because he drew the defense and then passed the ball. That’s partly why the Knicks are playing so well. They are all working harder to share the ball with others. And it’s beautiful to watch. And when the media swarms Lin, he tells them how good his teammates are. Do the same with your peers and reports.

9. Never forget about the importance of luck or fate in life. Some people believe in God, some in destiny, some in luck. Whatever you believe in, be grateful for it.

10. Work your butt off. Lin couldn’t have seized his opportunity if he hadn’t worked like crazy for years perfecting his skills. There are no short cuts to hard work. Success is a by product of that. If you’ve got a Tiger Mom who’s always pushed you to work hard, great. If not, let your conscience be your own Tiger Mom! Get up early, stay up late. Nobody gave Lin any free passes. Why should you get any? You can only control what you control and that means you’ve got to work harder than anyone else you know.

I hope the Lin-sanity continues. And I hope we all can apply these lessons to our own work and family life.

There’s a great line from a New York Times article on Lin and his faith which is worth it for all of us to remember:

Race Centric

I was reading an article about why hasn't E.T. found us yet and us searching for life on other planets.  At the end of the article was the comments and the first one was the one below.  OMG, they find race in just about everything.  Get a life.  Get a meaningful life.  You poor unfortunate fool. 

Look at how he describes us.  A psychiatrist would have a field day with this guy.

Terry Berry
This universe is to vast a place for you racial, jealous, crazy, war loving, pollution causing humans....
we are out there, and we are watching...

3 days ago, 6:33:30 AM

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Listen Up Wisconsin, Public Sector, Unions!!

Danish workplace

Jennifer Buley   February 10, 2012
Experts see the signs of a sea change in Danes’ expectations about work; staying competitive in the new global marketplace is at stake
Public employees’ paid lunch breaks are likely to be on the chopping block in upcoming negotiations. Below, despite numerous cutbacks, the right to strike is being vigorously defended against a European Commission proposal (File photo: Pamela Juhl)
A significant increase in the working week has been a central theme of the collective bargaining agreement (overenskomst) negotiations currently being hammered out by business leaders and trade unions for some 600,000 employees across all industries.
A longer working week, fewer public holidays, and pay freezes are all on the table. And, remarkably, business and labour appear to be aligned in a plan to work more for less.
Adding to the picture, 2012 began with broad reforms made to the expensive, national early retirement programme (efterløn) and legislation that will gradually raise the retirement age from 65 to 69.
The situation has led to the influential think-tank Mandag Morgen, which specialises in public policy and social trends, concluding that the three-party labour law negotiations between business, labour and the government that are to follow this spring could be the most important Denmark has seen in 25 years.
Over the past quarter century those three-party negotiations have produced some of the most labour-friendly working conditions in the world. But the tide may now be turning.
By the government’s own reckoning, Danes today work fewer hours than citizens in nearly all other EU countries. Among developed nations, only Belgians put in fewer hours per day of paid and unpaid work, according to a study released last year by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
We enjoy one of the shortest working weeks in the world – 37.5 hours – and get five weeks of paid vacation, nearly a dozen public holidays, and a year of paid parental leave.
The evening rush hour starts at 3:30pm and there is more stigma in staying at the office until 6pm (and thus neglecting the family) than in leaving early to take the baby to swimming lessons.
However, while the gross salaries might sound sky-high to the uninitiated, once the 40 to 65 percent personal income taxes are deducted, they are, in fact, comparable to salaries in other EU countries.
But all that could be about to change.
“Let’s be straight. Our competitive position compared to Germany and Sweden is complete bollocks,” Erik Jylling, the chairman of Akademikernes Centralorganisation (AC), an association representing 200,000 professional and managerial workers, told Jyllands-Posten newspaper.
AC’s members were ready to do their part to make Denmark competitive again, the chairman suggested.
“Anyone can see that the trees don’t just grow all the way up to the clouds. That’s why I can imagine accepting, for example, a five-year collective agreement with zero pay rises,” Jylling said.
When annual inflation is taken into account, those five-year pay freezes will actually equate to pay cuts.
“We have to find a solution that won’t only carry us through to the next election, but also through to the next generations. Salary restraints are an important part of that,” Jylling explained to Mandag Morgen.
Other proposals being seriously discussed are eliminating a public holiday or two – such as May 1 or Store Bededag (Prayer Day, held on the fourth Friday after Easter) – and lengthening the working week for public sector employees by eliminating their 30-minute paid lunches.
“The so-called ‘free lunch’ is something public sector employees negotiated for themselves in past collective agreements. In reality, it means they work half an hour less each day than private sector employees do,” Aalborg University professor Flemming Ibsen, a specialist in the labour market, explained to Berlingske newspaper.
“If that’s eliminated, it means that public employees will work half an hour more per day. And they won’t be paid for it,” Ibsen continued. “The point is to get more work out of people.”
Public sector employees comprise more than a third of the labour market. The conservative think-tank Cepos estimates that ending their paid lunches would save the state nearly ten billion kroner annually – a sum that far outstrips the government’s goal of saving four billion kroner per year on labour.
When Helle Thorning-Schmidt (Socialdemokraterne) began campaigning for her job as prime minister last year, she proposed working 12 minutes more per day for pay. Now it appears that people may accept working 30 minutes more per day – and without pay.
But if labour is going to give way on pay and hours, they are expecting business to meet them part way.
Labour is demanding greater influence both on and off the job, in the form of better and more education and skill development, more paid internships for students, and an end to the councils’ dreaded ‘activation’ schemes, whereby the unemployed are forced to attend remedial job-seeking courses in exchange for unemployment benefits.
It might seem like labour and business have lost their will to fight each other in the face of permanent crisis, but the week’s news also brought out a reminder of their fundamental differences – with an ironic twist.
When the European Commission proposed claiming the right to outlaw strikes and lockouts that could threaten the EU’s internal market, both labour and business reacted with a unified and resounding ‘no’, with both sides agreeing to defend their right to disagree.

The End

A Rap I Can Live With

US tribe sues breweries over alcoholism

Hey, It makes sense to me.

A native American tribe have sued some of the world's largest beer makers, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota said it is demanding $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, which encompasses some of the nation's most impoverished counties.

The lawsuit filed in the US District Court of Nebraska also targets four beer stores in Whiteclay, a Nebraska town near the reservation's border that, despite having only about a dozen residents, sold nearly 5 million cans of beer in 2010.

Tribal leaders and activists blame the Whiteclay businesses for chronic alcohol abuse and bootlegging on the Pine Ridge reservation, where all alcohol is banned. They say most of the stores' customers come from the reservation, which spans southwest South Dakota and dips into Nebraska.

"You cannot sell 4.9 million 12-ounce cans of beer and wash your hands like Pontius Pilate, and say we've got nothing to do with it being smuggled," said Tom White, the tribe's Omaha-based attorney.

Owners of the four beer stores in Whiteclay were unavailable or declined comment on Thursday when contacted by The Associated Press.

A spokeswoman for Anheuser-Busch InBev Worldwide said she was not yet aware of the lawsuit, and the other four companies being sued - SAB Miller, Molson Coors Brewing Company, MIllerCoors LLC and Pabst Brewing Company - did not immediately return messages.

The lawsuit alleges that the beer makers and stores sold to Pine Ridge residents knowing they would smuggle the alcohol into the reservation to drink or resell.

The beer makers supplied the stores with "volumes of beer far in excess of an amount that could be sold in compliance with the laws of the state of Nebraska" and the tribe, tribal officials allege in the lawsuit.

The vast majority of Whiteclay's beer store customers have no legal place to consume alcohol since it's banned on Pine Ridge, which is just north, state law prohibits drinking outside the stores and the nearest town that allows alcohol is more than 30 kilometres south, explained Mark Vasina, president of the group Nebraskans for Peace.

I remember spending my summers in northern Minnesota in the early '50's and Indians were not allowed to buy beer, firewater, in taverns because they would get trunk and cause trouble.

This is the Sun. Or is this Mad Son of the Sun

Bio of the Mad Son of Sun