Friday, June 29, 2007

Phones and hand jobs!


This week iPhone will be launched by Apple.It says to be the next innovative thing and its coming has been heralded like the coming of Christ. Apple is gaining ever so much on the evil Republic of technology i.e. Microsoft, and that is a good sign.

But there is something to be said about phone technology and how consumers are fascinated with this.It seems the cellphone business is one that is ever changing like its big brother the computer. Folks will line up a mile away and empty their life savings to be on the cutting edge.

I'm not hating on the cellphone makers,( I wish I had a business model like that),but I tend to only use a cellphone to make and receive calls.Texting is neat and beyond that I see no other need for all those features.Why would I want to browse the web on such a small screen to worsen my eyesight?All that fancy schmancy, stuff music and this and that with its crappy sound and stuff who needs it.

I am not anti technology but I believe that some tech's purpose is not to advance mankind but to advance a company's bottom line.No useful and practical purpose whatsoever.The cellphone jive is one of them.$500-$600 for a phone, now that's a high price hand job. Most of the time all you have to do is wait a month or two and the price becomes reasonable.


Besides my country's phone system can only handle so much and any Bahamian who would buy one would be a complete idiot and a phony( no pun intended) in my book.But hey,everyone has a right to be an idiot.So as you get your iPhone and you stroke it with your fingertips.Its vibration and sophisticated "bells and whistles" whip you into an orgasmic euphoria.Its smooth sleek design arouses all of your senses.Give me a call and please don't call collect!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Don't Apologize!

Never apologize for who you are or what you believe!

Monday, June 25, 2007

Artificial insemination

Yesterday on CBS' 60 minutes aired a story about artificial insemination but was concentrating on the sperm donation. A lesbian couple was profiled who had partaken in the process and they decided that they wanted to find out who the donor was. Apparently this info is stored on the Internet by an ID code.The donor can specify if he wanted to be reached.

A turn in the story was that they found out that a single mother who didn't live to far from them had used the same donor.So 60 minutes tracked the donor down.He was now a married doctor who had a child on the way.He said that he did it to help alleviate his tuition cost.The doctor said he had given over 100 samples.They also found other cases where one donor had fathered numerous children through sperm donation.

Watching this I didn't know what to think and it seems neither did the reporting.I have traditionalist views about child bearing.My views are shaped by my religious and social background.A child should be produced through intercourse with a father and mother.But every individual has their choice and I respect that.

I couldn't understand why I felt so indifferent,even after the donor said he won't be in the children's lives.I know through the traditional method many children still end up fatherless.So I understand that view.After further thinking about it, something dawned on me. All of us who had been conceived the natural way,as I put it, was done so with some human interactive emotion.

We were conceived between two people who felt either,passion,lust,anger,euphoria,happiness, revenge or some emotion, good or bad.And I think in a spiritual sort of way that has been imparted to us in our souls.Not to say that these children are soulless but just watching them I just couldn't feel no emotion.I don't know if that was done intentionally by the reporting or if my mind just automatically kicked into a biased mode but I just wasn't feeling it.

Whatever the future holds for these children only God knows.Science may have help in creating them but the universe must still watch over them!I wish them all the best.

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Beep, beep, buzzz,shreink!


There are television commercials for a certain credit that shows people making purchases with the card in a mechanical way and everything is running smooth until someone pulls out cash.Then the machine comes to a grinding halt and resumes after that "horrible" cash purchase.

What arrogance!This big company has decided now that we have become slavish and robotic in the use of their product and boldly telling us we can't do without it.Their product makes the world go round!The marketing and advertising people for this company should be fired.


This commercial is an insult to persons who value their personal freedom and liberty.Have we given up the pillars of our individualism for a feeling of being secured?Are we that fearful of cash that we now must be yoked to credit cards and become cogs in the wheel of consumerism?

It is not a coincidence that most of us live in constant fear.Fear is used by our governments, big business ,media houses and advertisers as a weapon in controlling us. Controlling how we think,our responses , what we buy.

I refuse to exchange my soul and spirit for parts, oil,nuts and bolts.Wake up people!Shake of the shackles of fear.Take back your right to be who you are.If not for yourself do it for the next generation.Stop allowing outside forces to shape who you are. Let change come from within.

Thank you for lending me your screen!

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Saturday downtime!

Today is downtime for me .So just going to relax go the beach spend some times with friends.

Friday, June 22, 2007

Sports and the juice!


For years I have been a sports fan! I have turned from an avid fan to a casual fan.Not because of what is going on in sports but because I have found so many other things to do.One topic that seems to be on every sports show is the use of performance enhancing drugs,steroids or my favourite "the juice".

The juice is talked about in most sports thus the constant testing of athletes from all types of sports. The governing body of most sports just don't test for a specific substance they also test for the mask substance or the substance you would take to hide that you was taking a banned substance.If that makes sense.

Fans, team owners,the sports media, sponsors and even governments expect normal human beings to perform superhuman feats.The body was only design to do so much, no matter how much "grit and determination" one has. A certain athlete has won an event so many times and has never come under much scrutiny.He has passed all of his tests but couldn't he have found something that cannot be detected?Other athletes are villains while some are revered.

An athlete is placed under so much pressure,granted most make salaries that could clear some countries national debt,but don't we want them not to be ordinary. We want to see men and women run as fast as locomotives.We want to see muscle bound men crash into each other at phenomenal speeds. We want to see someone hit a ball so hard and high it alters the flight pattern of a passing jumbo jet. We want superheroes.

Isn't Superman powered by the sun.The Hulk a radioactive experiment gone wrong.God made flesh and bones not pistons and fuel injected carburetors. Maybe if less emphasis was placed on how incredible it was that men were playing children's games then the juice may stop flowing.

It is no use telling a kid playing sports, don't take the juice, but you have to leap tall buildings in a single bound if you want to make it.It's all entertainment nothing more,nothing less. Actors use makeup, athletes use steroids. Yes steroids destroys the body,and athletes from high school varsity to the pros know this and they still do it.In a weird sort of way they are doing it for you, the avid sports fan. The fan who cries when their team loses.The fan who riots in the streets when their team wins.In some extreme cases, who murders a player for scoring for the other team.

My belief is that everybody does it just that some get caught and some drugs just aren't illegal.So sports' fan, the next time a modern day athlete is about to break one of your revered hero records under suspicion that he was on the juice, remember he is doing it for you and those million dollar homes and wife he has to maintain. He or she is doing it so that you could live out your childhood fantasy through them.

Just get the juice and let's PLAY BALL!

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Understanding women!

From the tittle of this blog, most women will think this will be long and detailed.While most men will sit up straight and will correctly guess most of this blog's content.

Understanding women has been a challenge for men from the beginning of time.Many philosophers,scientists and men from all walks of life have partaken in this quest for this treasure.The results of these quests have left men unresolved to finding the truth and in most cases,even more confused than before.

But I am here to say that it has taken me a mere 35 years of living with a mother,grandmother,aunts, cousins, girlfriends and a wife ,to understand women!

Here it is! Don't try to understand them, just love them . Your life will be so less complicated!Be yourself and usually that will attract the type of women who likes your type.God took something from us to create them.It is obvious it was the more complicated part and it makes us complete.

Saying that we are trying to understand them is so condescending so I just do my best as I do with everyone to accept people for who they are and love them all the same.Instructions in a manual are simple, understanding another human being,well I like to think that should be a little more complex, beyond my understanding.

Anup Shah, US and Foreign Aid Assistance, GlobalIssues.org, Last updated: Sunday, April 27, 2008