"I remember criticizing him for leaving my car door unlocked. He asked me if I believed my mother whenever she would tell me that 'all things happen for a reason.' I told him that I did. 'Listen to her, then,' he responded. 'Change your vibes. Stop creating reasons for your car to get broken into.'"
-Victor L. Wooten - The Music Lesson

Firefox People vs Internet Explorer People:
"Firefox users are slightly more likely to be male (55 percent) than Internet Explorer users (50 percent). In addition, compared to IE users, Firefox users more likely to have annual household incomes of at least $75,000. Firefox users are significantly younger: They are 69 percent more likely than IE users to be between the ages of 18-24. Firefox users are more likely to be tech-savvy, educated, and engaged with user-generated content."

Awesome.

By the way, I use Firefox. ;)

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"We make a living by what we got. We make a life by what we give."
-Winston Churchill

"Don't let it get you down, don't ever be afraid.
Respond and take control, stare affliction in the face.
When life drags you down, you need only step back up.
Challenges will be faced, but none are strong enough
to tear down your walls, keep them standing high.
Evil should never hold you, despite how it will try.

In this land of bought and sold, stand higher than most I do.
Let everyone everywhere be told, listen here to the truth.
Positivity is the key, a happy life is the reward.
Yet many will not see, the path to blessedness ignored.

Won't let it get me down, won't ever be afraid.
Responsibility has been taken, affliction has been weighed.
When life drags me down, I need only step back up.
All the challenges I'll face will never be enough
to tear down these these walls, they stand up, still high.
Evil will never hold me, despite how it will try.

In this land of bought and sold, stand higher than most I do.
Let everyone everywhere be told, listen here to the truth.
Positivity is the key, a happy life is the reward.
Yet many will not see, the path to blessedness ignored."
-Q

"Challenges are like gum stuck to your shoe. Most of the time you can get rid of it quickly, but sometimes the best way to purge it is to walk with it a while."
-Q

"You get more flies with honey than with venom."
-Louis Aponte

"Sometimes holding your ground is the quickest attack."
-Q

"People have become so self-conscious because people have become so judgmental."
-Q

We all have habits, good and bad. I'll agree, sometimes some can become annoying. But you can't get mad. Why? Think of it this way: You do something over and over. Once you've done it so many times, your body says, "Hey, how about I do this automatically for you, so you don't even have to think about it?" Your subconscious mind then takes over from there. A habit is your body going into autopilot. It's just trying to save you precious thinking time (since we all think so much anyways...). So, don't get mad. Get autopilot. It rules.

Sean and I saw a group playing out at the friz course the other day. They had a small dog with them that had to be no larger than five pounds (guess) and looked like a little, brown fur ball running around. As the group walked away, we watched as the little fella comically trudged along after its masters, trying to keep up. The terrain on this particular hole was once engulfed by the river, so the ground is completely covered with smooth stones. The pup was obviously having a hard time navigating over the landscape. With a laugh and a smile, Sean turned to me and said, "There is no way that is a native animal."

Ever since this incident, I've found myself applying this idea whenever I see an animal. Many pets people own are obviously not made for our area, and it shows. And it's freaking hilarious. Give it a try.

"Cause a hundred years from now all the people will be new.
So there's really only one important thing for us to do,
and it's not from the thoughts of the things that you can't
but the echo from the tiny little seed that you plant."
-Wookiefoot

Speaking of the economic crisis, How about this idea? Whenever an individual wants a new car, they have to take it up with the car manufacturer themselves. If I want a brand new car, I could approach the manufacturer and request it. The factory then orders it, builds it and ships it to my area. An open market is left open for individuals to sell their used vehicles amongst other people. Car lots covered with strings of shiny, new cars would be no more. For new vehicles, demand would meet supply perfectly.

This is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?" This guys kills it.

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Dear Mr. President:

Please find below my suggestion for fixing America 's economy.

Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan.

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.
Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.

2) They MUST buy a new American CAR.
Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage.
- Housing Crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that!

If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and
their constituents pay their taxes...

"Chin up, chin up until it touches the moon sad and forsaken one.
It's you I'm talking to."
-Catch 22

"We will always want what we don't possess."
-Q

While I was feeding my fish in the backyard pond today, a few wasps zoomed by me. I've always been curious but have never actually known exactly where bees go or what bees do during the winter. Surely they're not out and about, I've never seen even one bee during the cold season. So I hit the books. I learned that different species of bees will behave differently during winter, so I stuck with the classic honeybee.

When temperatures fall, honeybees stay in their hives. Some bees will hibernate, but the workers form a huge "bee ball" surrounding their queen. The bee ball is constantly moving, with each bee vibrating his wing muscles to raise temperature. Heat is also generated by the oxidation of the honey that was produced during the warm season. This heat is then disbursed amongst the hive by the wing-fanning of worker bees. These methods warm the hive enough to keep it from freezing. The workers feed on the stored honey and can consume up to 30 pounds of it throughout the winter. And you thought honeybees are working so hard to supply us with honey? Think again, they are working hard to survive!

"We all have problems, we will all face hardships. How we deal with them is what makes us who we are."
-Q

"There will be an answer. Let it be."
-The Beatles

"Time spent on hate is time gone to waste."
-Rise Against

"An eye for an eye only leaves us all blind."
-Sum 41

"Intelligence introduces desire."
-Q

"It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting. Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It’s always our decision who we are."
-Robert Solomon

The Earth can be thought of as one huge ecosystem. It is a physical environment with a community of living, interacting organisms. You have those that roam freely amongst the Earth and those that grow through and from it. There are natural processes that maintain and keep the planet operating. How, then, are our bodies so different from planet Earth? We, too, can be thought of as an ecosystem. We have navigating germs and cells that resemble the roaming animals, growing hair that represents the sprouting plants and vegetation, and bodily functions that represent natural planet maintenance. Inside each of us, we have a whole world of our own.

Planet Earth has opened my eyes! After watching the Jungles episode for close to the sixth time over, I got to thinking: We always think of our planet as having three main living environments: water, land, and sky. But we are missing one, one that isn't so obvious and almost always overlooked. The treetops. Sure, there are many animals that live in the treetops along with another environment, such as birds, but there are some animals that spend their entire lives in the branches of trees miles above the ground. And they never come down. Quite a lifestyle.

"There are two kinds of sufferers in this world: those who suffer from a lack of life and those who suffer from an overabundance of life. I’ve always found myself in the second category. When you come to think of it, almost all human behavior and activity is not essentially any different from animal behavior. The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us, at best, up to the super-chimpanzee level. Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human is greater than the gap between that chimpanzee and the average human. The realm of the real spirit, the true artist, the saint, the philosopher, is rarely achieved.

Why so few? Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress but rather this endless and futile addition of zeroes? No greater values have developed. Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago were just as advanced as we are. So what are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question, and that’s this: Which is the most universal human characteristic – fear or laziness?"
-Louis Mackey

"Be the change you wanna see in the world."
-Buddha

"You humans, most of you, subscribe to this policy of 'an eye for an eye, a life for a life', which is known throughout the universe for its stupidity. Even your Buddha and your Christ had quite a different vision, but nobody's paid much attention to them, not even the Buddhists or the Christians."
-Prot - K-PAX

"Don't hate the process."
-David Dixon

"Your possessions possess you."
-Wookiefoot

"Life's obnoxious, this I know."
-Catch 22

"You wanna be alright, you gotta walk tall."
-Long Beach Dub Allstars

"Check yourself."
-Seeed

"The truth finds all of us eventually."
-Pepper

"Now you could have it all if you learned a little patience.
For though I cannot fly, I'm not content to crawl."
-Nine Days

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, want to leave the nest.
Started learning on my own, no reason not to progress."
-Bloswick

"So I'll let you know if you need somewhere to go,
I'll be listening when you call and I'll be there if you fall off.
If you need someone to believe in you, I'll let you know I will."
-Less Than Jake

"Well, I say it to myself all the time:
Stop living half a life and stop feeling like I'm half alive."
-Less Than Jake

"A tool may help, but it is the worker behind it that really makes the difference."
-Q

"Those who avoid and run from their hardships are on a carousel of ineducation and immaturity. They are unable to realize that they are headed straight back to the miserable waters they began in."
-Q

"Free time is wasted time."
-Q

"Text messaging is not an instantaneous form of communication."
-Q

"Perfection is fictitious. There's always room for improvement."
-Q

"Nervousness, anxiety, depression, embarrassment, anger, hate, fear, and even pain, are just feelings. You can overcome feelings."
-Q

"You're gonna lively up yourself and don't be no drag."
-Bob Marley

As many of you know, Michael Richards (better known as Kramer) semi-recently got into some trouble after he made some racial comments in one of his comedy acts.  His defensive speech he gave in court was absolutely stunning, so I had to share it with you all:

Proud To Be White

Someone finally said it. How many are actually paying attention to this? There are African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Arab Americans, etc..

And then there are just Americans. You pass me on the street and sneer in my direction. You call me 'White boy,' 'Cracker,' 'Honkey,' 'Whitey,' 'Caveman'... and that's OK.

But when I call you, Nigger, Kike, Towel head, Sand-nigger, Camel Jockey, Beaner, Gook, or Chink .. You call me a racist.

You say that whites commit a lot of violence against you... so why are the ghettos the most dangerous places to live?

You have the United Negro College Fund. You have Martin Luther King Day.

You have Black History Month. You have Cesar Chavez Day.

You have Yom Hashoah. You have Ma'uled Al-Nabi.

You have the NAACP. You have BET... If we had WET (White Entertainment Television), we'd be racists. If we had a White Pride Day, you would call us racists.

If we had White History Month, we'd be racists.

If we had any organization for only whites to 'advance' OUR lives, we'd be racists.

We have a Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a Black Chamber of Commerce, and then we just have the plain Chamber of Commerce. Wonder who pays for that?

A white woman could not be in the Miss Black American pageant, but any color can be in the Miss America pageant.

If we had a college fund that only gave white students scholarships... You know we'd be racists.

There are over 60 openly proclaimed Black Colleges in the US . Yet if there were 'White colleges', that would be a racist college.

In the Million Man March, you believed that you were marching for your race and rights. If we marched for our race and rights, you would call us racists.

You are proud to be black, brown, yellow and orange, and you're not afraid to announce it. But when we announce our white pride, you call us racists.

You rob us, carjack us, and shoot at us. But, when a white police officer shoots a black gang member or beats up a black drug dealer running from the law and posing a threat to society, you call him a racist.

I am proud... But you call me a racist.

Why is it that only whites can be racists?

"There is no good without evil. There is no courage without fear. There is no truth without falsehood."
-Q

Greetings everyone.  I recently learned a lot about the wonderful fruit, bananas.  They are one of the healthiest fruits (foods, for that matter) around.  Read on, and I shall educate you.

Why I Love Bananas So Much & Why You Should Too

Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose, and glucose combined with fiber.  A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.  Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout.  It then makes sense that the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.

Bananas are extraordinary in that they can help us prevent or overcome a substantial number of illnesses and conditions.  I'll lay them out for you:

Depression:  According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana.  This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood, and generally make you feel happier.

PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana.  The vitamin B 6 it contains re gulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood.

Anemia: High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia.

Blood Pressure: Bananas are extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure.  So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke.

Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert.

Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.

Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness.

Mosquito Bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system.

Ulcers: he banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

Temperature Control: Many other cultures see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature.

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan.

Smoking & Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal.

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.

Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%.

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out.  Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape.

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals . It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around. This is why I absolutely love bananas, and why you should too!

"Indecisiveness is just appreciating your options."
-Q + RB

"Honesty leads to understanding."
-Q

""Just because I don't look like you or act like you
doesn't make me any better or worse."
-The Suicide Machines

"For many things, organization leads to progression."
-Q

"I wanna thank you hard times in my life.
I wanna thank you good times in my life.
I wanna thank you bad times in my life.
Because I wouldn't be the same person today without you,
so thank you."
-Bloswick