When you feel like giving up

Persevere
Video on someone who perseveres despite all the odds.

The Nick Vujicic Story

Bill Maher on Big Pharma

Exercise or a Pill Neo?

Seth Godin on Curiosity

Interesting piece on curiosity and how it can be lost.

Favorite part:

Fundamentalist considers whether a fact is acceptable to ones faith before they explore.  And it doesn’t have anything to do necessarily with “religion” as we typically think of religion.

Another Reason For Facebook

Federal authorities investigating a group of Somali-Americans who left their homes last year to join a terrorist group overseas say they’ve found some of the missing men — on the popular online networking site Facebook.

For several months the FBI has been investigating at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis area who traveled to war-torn Somalia, where some of them trained and fought with an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group known as al-Shabaab, according to counterterrorism officials.

Now I think I know why the CIA invested in a piece of Facebook. Oh you didn’t know?

They also have their own FaceBook page

“If (the CIA) knows about Facebook, and they have a page on Facebook, it would be surprising if they weren’t using it in other ways,” says Nicole Ozer, civil liberties and technology policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

Start the X Files music…….

Careful…the illuminati is watching;-)

I referenced this investment in The Orgy of Free …..

When the Jesters Rule the World

What a fat, sick, bloated, narcissistic world we live in  when we look towards the “help” for advice.

I Just read a Facebook post that said look at what Will Ferrell thinks of W. Bush. As if I should care what he thinks. I pay money to watch Ricky Bobby. Not Will.

There was once a day that our entertainment was like our gardener, or our Court Jester. They were held at the level of our modern help.

Sean Penn do I give a damn what you think? Dance boy. And when you stop dancing is when you do not exist. You are terrific in your art. But your opinion is not very salient nor well spoken. In fact, the ideas these guy perpetrate are nothing more than shtick. It is part of the act. Streisand, Penn, Gere.

In the days of yore, the king would simply make these non entities not exist. Seriously they wouldn’t exist. Now they won’t shut up despite their lame logic. Today, it is brand. It is falling from A to B list. The most amazing testament to our bloated society is Stuart Smiley, AKA Al Franken who has been caught in more lies than Pinocchio. And he almost won a Senator seat! Only in America can a guy with an opinion (as made up as it is) get to be Senator. Or try anyway.

We live in a made up world of actors and plays. That’s cool in the marketing world where I come from. But when we forget who the help is and who the real thinkers are, that is when we get into trouble.
Unfortunately, the shtick is played by our politicians also. They dance in front of TV with a teleprompter attached to their cornea.