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I initially typed quite a nice blog detailing my thoughts on this subject, but then thought, “bugger it, better get straight to the point”.

Will all you hijackers that have invaded the blogs please go back (piss off) to the forums that you all ruined with your incessant off topic blabber.

Or at least dont post on my blogs.

So my hair is my crown. My beautiful black mane defines my feminity, personality and perhaps my status or even state of mind. I took out my cornrows a month ago and decided against braids because my sculpt still hurt. So I've been rocking my afro... tangled, uncontrollable and as African as can be. I've noticed people don't look at me the same with my afro. No more lengthy looks from the opposite sex or those I want to be you stares from women? Am I less dedesirable because of my kinky hair?
Less professional, less refined polished whatever?
Well I beg to differ. I chose to keep my kink because it's a choice just like a weave. I'm just as desirable, just as smart just as feminine. So yes I am my hair and I'm okay with not having it straight. But don't judge because it's just crown it adds to my beauty. And never takes away from it.Please don't treat me like it has.

Clearly, Pelosi's aware that the Dems' impeachment articles are paper thin. If the charges were built on anything substantive, she'd be desperate to talk about them all day long. Instead, she changes the subject.

Telling.

Question: How do you know the Democrats realize the impeachment fiasco is hurting them with 2020 voters?

Answer: They’re desperate to change the subject.

Immediately following the release of the phony-baloney articles of impeachment, Nancy Pelosi was out in front of the cameras. This happened very quickly, as in ‘within the hour,’ and was obviously pre-planned. Was she eager to address the effort to overturn the 2016 election? Heck no.

She was announcing that Dems had cut a deal with the White House to pass the NAFTA revamp known as USMCA:



If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that we’ve been writing about Trump’s efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement for a long, long, time. In fact, the measure has been awaiting approval for close to a year. In the meantime, the Dems have been stubbornly opposing it – for no reason – while they work to undermine the President and find an excuse for Hillary’s cataclysmic loss.

So, let’s all sit by the fire and sing a few rounds of “Kumbaya,” while the impeachment charade continues, right? Well… Republicans are happy to take the win on USMCA, but they’re in no mood to forgive Nancy’s impeachment scam.

On twitter, Trump said: “America’s great USMCA Trade Bill is looking good. It will be the best and most important trade deal ever made by the USA. Good for everybody – Farmers, Manufacturers, Energy, Unions – tremendous support. Importantly, we will finally end our Country’s worst Trade Deal, NAFTA!”

But, at the same time, GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was reminding Dems that Conservatives know exactly what she’s doing, and they have long memories…

Clearly, Pelosi’s aware that the Dems’ impeachment articles are paper thin. She is, if nothing else, in love with “TV time.” If the charges were built on anything substantive, she’d be desperate to talk about them all day long. It would take an army of wild horses to pull her away from the cameras.

Instead, she immediately changes the subject. how very telling.

Some people believe that nothing is impossible. While this is a good positive attitude, it is impossible for them to be correct because it will create another impossible situation. It will be impossible for something to be impossible.

You cannot have a wrestling match without rules, because having no rules is a rule in itself.

Exam questions are not difficult at all. It is the answers to those questions that create the problems.

Humans don’t smoke. The cigarette smokes. Humans are merely the suckers at the other end.

So, for the record, some things will always be impossible, there will always be rules, exam questions are not difficult, and humans don’t smoke.

And finally, a few points to ponder:
1. The more similar two choices are, the more time you spend on deciding.
2. If you tolerate intolerance then intolerance will destroy the possibility of tolerance.
3. It seems like you can replace any component of a car, and it is still the same car. So you can replace them all, one at a time, and it is still the same car. However, you can then take all the original pieces, and assemble them into a car. That, too, is still the same car you began with.

May this be a happy day to you all.

We all need to realise that we are all here for a specific reason...Some wants to meet that special one, others are here as they just want to some have fun. Whatever the reason, we need to grasp that even on this site we do have the ability to have a major influence on someone else's life... whether it is to make people smile, share similar experiences, gain some new insights and so forth...

The contrary is also possible...on this medium we can also make people sad ... even evoking feelings of resentment and extreme loneliness. The latter could even be devastating if a chain of events occur or if many people would support a personal 'argument'.

We often focus on scammers, how cold these people are to deliberately harm or fraud others. People who do not take accountability for what they write, not caring for the possible impact their input has on others... is that really so much different from what we could expect from our cold hearted scammers?

My point is thus a request not to underestimate the impact the Cyber world can have on others and to take cognisance of the influence we leave, in this medium, in the life of others.

May you All have a great day/evening on your side of the planet...

It was over twenty years ago that my son produced an essay for school in which he produced evidence illustrating the change in American’s attitude toward taking another persons life. I don’t remember the exact figures but the point of the paper was that over the past 100 years, the percentage of American’s that said it was “OK under certain circumstances to take a life” has steadily increased. His report ended after the Vietnam era at which time over 75% of Americans answered in the affirmative to that age old question. I have little doubt that these days it has risen even greater.

With the most recent events in San Bernardino and the wide reaching press coverage, filled with quite a few conjectures, political coverage, etc, etc, and the follow up articles that continue to suggest that Muslims in the US are not denouncing terrorism it has all the makings of a good old fashion lynch mob. The other evening I read an article that strongly suggested the country needed to round up all Muslims for internment in camps much like we saw in the second world war.

I must admit; from all I have seen and read over the past 15 years, any kind of solution seems out of reach. There is no effort and frankly I haven’t the slightest idea of how you bring the radical factions to the peach table and even begin a dialog on how to stop this. Some want to compare it to another Vietnam, but this is much larger; world wide and the enemy shows no fear of any country and is doing all they can to provoke anyone and everyone. Even the Russians with the famed KGB that was known to do whatever it took to defeat such enemies, is now in the crosshairs of ISIS and it appears they too are balking at exactly what to do.

And sadly, so very sadly, our own American news media continues to do their part to beat the drum and report only that which is “news worthy” rather than any kind of factual portrayal of all the news. Almost immediately after the San Bernardino shootings Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles, said, "The Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with our fellow Americans in repudiating any twisted mind-set that would claim to justify such sickening acts of violence." Tahmina Rehman, president of Buffalo's Women's Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, criticized the shootings, noting that those who are truly faithful to the Quran live lives of peace and humility. Roshan Abbassi, an assistant imam at a San Bernardino mosque, said: "We are all against terrorism. ... We all want peace." Saira Khan, the sister of the shooter, said, "I believe that that's not Islam. Islam condemns killing or hurting of anybody. Any person."

This year, the black Friday gun sales, as reported by the FBI and backed up by a number of outlets reporting on retail sales, were up over 40% with a record of 185,345 background checks run on Friday alone. That doesn’t begin to record the number of sales through unlicensed sellers. In October over 1.9 million background checks were processed.

If there were a World Paranoia Clock similar to the Doomsday Clock, I would have to say we are fast approaching a mark similar to the One Minute to Midnight that the world faced at the brink of the 1962 Cuban missile crises. Unfortunately with so many social media outlets world wide, the ability to stabilize the situation through diplomacy is all but, if not already, impossible.

Are we to the point of our own Arab Spring? Were the prepper’s right all along? Are you like the rest of us red necks and have plenty of guns and ammo stashed in every room of your house? Are you praying every night and are you praying for peace or just a faster draw? Do you know where every Muslim lives and where their Mosque’s are?
By the way, as of this moment the Doomsday clock has moved ahead two minutes.
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Narkissos was a hunter who was known for his exceptional beauty. He treated those who fell in love with him badly because he thought he was better than everybody else.

Nemesis, the god of vengeance, noticed this behavior and lured him to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love himself. Blinded by his love, he jumped into the pool to get to his own reflection and drowned.

According to the Greek mythology, this story can have several endings. In one such ending, one of his victims named Liriope, a beautiful river nymph, was overwhelmed by her grief. She decided to join him in death by jumping into the pool after him. She drowned but her soul was trapped in the water. Once again, the gods intervened. Her soul was immortalized into a flower bulb, which took root at the edge of the pool.

Not only the origin of a beautiful flower in the daffodil family, but it also gave rise to another term. Narcissus is the Latin form of Narkissos and is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself and one's physical appearance.

Some of the symptoms:
1-Hypersensitivity to any insults or imagined insults
2-An obvious self-focus in interpersonal exchanges
3-Vulnerability to shame rather than guilt
4-Flattery towards people who admire and affirm them
5-Detesting those who do not admire them
6-Pretending to be more important than they really are
7-Bragging subtly but persistently
8-Denial of remorse and gratitude
9-Self lamentation and looking for attention when insulted

Before this starts a new series of self-lamentations, this blog is not aimed at anybody and I categorically deny having called anybody a narcissist. Don't wear a shoe if it does not fit.

That title is reserved for only me. After all, the mirror in my passage kisses me every time I walk by. All I need to do is to bend over towards it to kiss back.


Have a wonderful day!

A look back.
By Nicholas Wade | May 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: The political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel.

In what follows I will sort through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened, and provide readers with the evidence to make their own judgments. I will then try to assess the complex issue of blame, which starts with, but extends far beyond, the government of China.

By the end of this article, you may have learned a lot about the molecular biology of viruses. I will try to keep this process as painless as possible. But the science cannot be avoided because for now, and probably for a long time hence, it offers the only sure thread through the maze.

The virus that caused the pandemic is known officially as SARS-CoV-2, but can be called SARS2 for short. As many people know, there are two main theories about its origin. One is that it jumped naturally from wildlife to people. The other is that the virus was under study in a lab, from which it escaped. It matters a great deal which is the case if we hope to prevent a second such occurrence.

I’ll describe the two theories, explain why each is plausible, and then ask which provides the better explanation of the available facts. It’s important to note that so far there is no direct evidence for either theory. Each depends on a set of reasonable conjectures but so far lacks proof. So I have only clues, not conclusions, to offer. But those clues point in a specific direction. And having inferred that direction, I’m going to delineate some of the strands in this tangled skein of disaster.

A tale of two theories. After the pandemic first broke out in December 2019, Chinese authorities reported that many cases had occurred in the wet market?—?a place selling wild animals for meat?—?in Wuhan. This reminded experts of the SARS1 epidemic of 2002, in which a bat virus had spread first to civets, an animal sold in wet markets, and from civets to people. A similar bat virus caused a second epidemic, known as MERS, in 2012. This time the intermediary host animal was camels.

The decoding of the virus’s genome showed it belonged a viral family known as beta-coronaviruses, to which the SARS1 and MERS viruses also belong. The relationship supported the idea that, like them, it was a natural virus that had managed to jump from bats, via another animal host, to people. The wet market connection, the major point of similarity with the SARS1 and MERS epidemics, was soon broken: Chinese researchers found earlier cases in Wuhan with no link to the wet market. But that seemed not to matter when so much further evidence in support of natural emergence was expected shortly.

Wuhan, however, is home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a leading world center for research on coronaviruses. So the possibility that the SARS2 virus had escaped from the lab could not be ruled out. Two reasonable scenarios of origin were on the table.

From early on, public and media perceptions were shaped in favor of the natural emergence scenario by strong statements from two scientific groups. These statements were not at first examined as critically as they should have been.

“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” a group of virologists and others wrote in the Lancet on February 19, 2020, when it was really far too soon for anyone to be sure what had happened.

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