Setting up a Succesful business in Nigeria

Obama has the lesbian Gay community in an uproar because he selected Rick Warren to be a speaker at his inauguration . They are upset that this minister who is anti gay marriage is allowed a forum, at such a momentous event. I have considered myself liberal to a degree but one area that I don't consider myself a liberal is in my belief. I am not going to stop anyone from being gay or having a gay relationship but that those not give anyone the right to tell me not to associate with someone who disagrees with them. I am even more resentful when the LBGT community equates gay marriage with the struggle for civil rights. I can't tell most gay people when they walk down the street, but everyone can tell a person of color when they see one. My sexual orientation I can hide my racial orientation I can't hide. The rights that black people won was the right to be treated as an equal human. Not a half human. The right to drink from the same water fountain, the right to go to the...

With the election of Barack Obama, stem cells are once more in the gun sights of the religious right. The Catholic church has voiced its opposition to embryonic stem cells. The way this has been talked about you would think that mass murder was being committed by scientists.  In 2001 President Bush signed a decree that prevented federal funds from being used in embryonic stem cell research. He allowed for lines that had been created before his speech to be used and eligible for funding. Most of the research on embryonic stem cells in the US has been done with private money and funding from a few states. (New Jersey is one)  What is the difference between the two and why is one okay while the other is not? I will give definitions of each and you can draw your conclusions. Adult Stem Cells . Those can be from fetuses or adults and are specific. They can be cells from the heart or other organs and can be grown to find cures for specific ailments in those organs. Embryonic stem cells : The...

Whew it is finally over and Barack won. The surprise was my reaction when confronted by my non Nigerian or minority acquaintances. When asked if I supported Barack instead of a yes, I asked what made them ask that? I made some commentary to brush away the subject. The honest answer should have been a yes. I never found it necessary to question my support of a white candidate. In 2000 I supported McCain, Gore (tepidly), Dean, Keyes and many others. I never liked or supported Jackson or Sharpton . They lived too much in the past and like the Republicans were one issue candidates. They did not bring any promises of hope or anything meaningful to their candidacy. They did not excite me. I remember watching family ties in the 80's and young Alex wanted so badly to be a republican. Republicans were intellectuals, educated and successful . I aspired to be a Republican in that mold. The party today has become a symbol of intolerance , that plays on my fears and has chosen a platform that...

11/04/08 Americans made history. They elected a black man to be the leader of the free world. Barack H. Obama the son of a Kenyan explorer and a white dreamer from Kansas was elected as the 44Th President of the United States of America. He won with more white votes than Clinton, Gore and Kerry got in their elections. He won by a majority of votes from Hispanics, Asians, Arabs, the young and the affluent. The patchwork quilt that is America came together as one and in a loud voice voted in a new President. OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA they all yelled. A sea of White, Black, Asian and every color you can imagine. There was a time in this country when all black people wanted, was the right to vote.  The right to vote was won after lives were lost, people were hosed, beaten, jailed and humiliated. The black man felt he deserved to vote if he could die defending his country. I can't tell you how people who grew up in the country feel, because I am not one of them. I can only empathise with them...

The elections are 9 days away and most people have made up their minds as what candidate they will vote for. History has been made. Americans are going to the polls in numbers that have not been seen in a long time. Some are doing it to be a part of history while others are doing it out of fear of the unknown. Either way, the McCain / Palin ticket will be historic in that it will be the 1st time in US history that a woman is Vice President. Should the Obama / Biden ticket win it will be the first time that a man that is of mixed race will ascend to the highest office in the land. My personal experience of the last few days has shown me some things that I had only read about in the news. Last Monday we had our Knights of Columbus business meeting. I was discussing General Powell's endorsement of Obama and the comments he made about Muslims. One of my fraternal brothers made a comment that Obama was a fundamentalist Muslim. I asked why he believed that and he said that it was on t...

As a parent of three boys, I have found it very odd that Governor Palin's baby sleeps very calmly whenever you see him in public. It does not matter how noisy or bright the venue, he is as limp as  a rag doll. This discussion came about when I spoke to a friend yesterday. She told me of very republican middle aged woman who was voting for Senator Obama. Her reason was that she was of the belief that Palin's baby was being drugged. She dismissed the theory until the lady explained that she had family in the medical field who specialized in children with down syndrome. She explained that a common characteristic of the babies was an unusual sensitivity to noise. I am calling on people in the medical field or those that have worked with children and infants with down syndrome to give a qualified opinion on this subject. Is Trig Paxson Van Palin drugged or are they carrying a doll and passing it as a baby?

October is right to life month and as Catholics we pray for the unborn. The sermon by father Michael today took a dimension that bothered me. The church came into my bedroom and I felt intruded upon. The sermon condemned abortion which is okay but it went beyond abortion. It condemned the use of birth control, because sex is for procreation only. By using birth control we were indulging in pleasures which is contrary to the teaching of the church. I even realized that the poor boys that were having wet dreams, were sinning. Those who pleasure themselves have sinned by spilling the seed. So all you men out there can't pleasure yourselves or have sex for pleasure any more. Now I support the programs that the church runs to take care of people who have unwanted pregnancies, but after we raise these kids it is okay to execute them for a crime or send them off to a war to get killed or maimed. I would appreciate the clergy to condemn any form of killing. They can't condemn abortions...