Nelson Mandela

November 5, 2008

Imagine this moment for him. One thing I remember about him is how he said Princess Diana taught him tolerance. He admitted that he had been less than welcoming to fellow prisoners who had HIV/AIDS but when Diana began her work it changed him. Here are his words from the frist South African black president to the first US president.

"Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place."

Curiosity of the day

An interesting taste twist to condoms: coffee. Gives a new meaning to rise and shine and good to the last drop. According to Mental Floss' MEGHAN HOLOHAN (via CNN), Ethiopians don't use condoms because they can't stand the smell of latex, so DKT International (family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention US nonprofit organization) came up with the idea of coffee condoms - Ethiopia claims to have invented coffee. "The dark brown condoms allegedly taste and smell like the favorite coffee of Ethiopia -- the macchiato, an espresso with cream and sugar." Who did the taste tests?

I wonder what the coffee condom slogan is? Too bad these are already taken:
Folgers: The best part of wakin' up...
Maxwell House: Taste as good as it smells
Brim decaf: Fill it to the rim with Brim
Sanka: One fiddler you won't have to pay
Seattle's Best Coffee: Have it your way. If your way is fast.
Starbucks DoubleShot. Bring on the day
Starbucks Frappuccino. Work can wait.
Nescafe instant: Open up!
Nescafe: One thing leads to another
Nescafe: Start the day with great taste

Happy Halloween...try neon!

Nina Totenberg, 64

I have grown to hate the MSM because of their obvious pro-Obama propaganda and corruption and this lady pisses me off. She snitched on Douglas Ginsberg so he couldn't be a Supreme Court judge and now we have a presidential candidate who admits to that and cocaine. She plagiarized members of Congress and then said: "I have a strong feeling that a young reporter is entitled to one mistake and to have the holy bejeezus scared out of her to never do it again."

And for Ginsberg what did that mean?

On Senator Jesse Helms: "I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will."

On General William Boykin: "I hope he's not long for this world." After a rebuke, corrected herself: "No, no. I mean, in his job. In his job, in his job, please, in his job."

Don't get me started on the hatemonger, Keith Boykin. For a gay man one would think he would be more sensitive to hateful things and the effect it has on both the speaker and the on spoken to.

Anything that gets followed by 'I mean, I meant, that wasn't what I meant, I meant it a different way, I didn't mean to' is more of the lie. You mean what you say and mean = mean in both senses of the word. You are just sorry other people heard it and called you out.