Mayweather vs. Ortiz

The Match-Up

“It’s going to be what it’s going to be.”-Mayweather, Jr. told ABC

Surprisingly, this year’s must see boxing bout doesn’t feature prize fighter, pound-for-pound, and WBO welterweight superstar Manny “the Pac-Man” Pacquiao. The fight to see this year is between two great champions, whose personalities and training styles are worlds apart. As featured in the hit HBO: Boxing series 24/7 – Mayweather v. Ortiz; everything about these two amazing boxers is completely different.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. thrives in a hostel, chaotic environment. His volatile, hour-long, rants- which are mostly aimed at his former trainer and father Floyd Mayweather, Sr. leaves nothing to the imagination when he lashes out. There is nothing humbling about Floyd Mayweather, Jr. either, a character trait he clearly gets from his father. Although Floyd Jr. continues to train in the gym, in which his father helped to make famous, he gives most of the boxing credits to his uncle Roger Mayweather. Who just so happens to be, Floyd Mayweather Sr.’s younger brother.

As it is with the Mayweather clan, Roger Mayweather is no stranger to trouble, and has served prison time for assaulting his grandmother (where he knocked out her two front teeth), beating up several prostitutes and former girlfriends, and starting a riot during the Zab Judah fight, when he came out of the trainer’s corner and punched Zab Judah himself. He has also been arrested for beating up one of his women boxers in Las Vegas. As it was reported, Roger repeatedly started punching his female trainee over a disagreement, and proceeded to choke her, as she was coughing up blood, apparently from internal bleeding. When the police arrived, they literally had to drag Roger Mayweather off the young female fighter, and arrested him on assault charges. However, Roger Mayweather is also a companion fighter, winning the WBC super featherweight and super lightweight championships on the sheer talent of his offensive, technical, fighting, skills.

Roger Mayweather enters into the trainer’s corner, as younger Floyd’s new trainer, when his father Mayweather Sr. was sent to prison in 1993. Floyd Mayweather Sr. maybe be credited for teaching his son his most prized defensive technique the shoulder-roll, which made him famous in the late 1970′s and early 1980′s, however, had to quit his job as Junior’s trainer and boxing manager in order to serve time in 1993 for drug trafficking. It is also rumored about the same time frame, he was running an underage prostitution ring in New Jersey.

1993 – Mayweather Sr. and several others were convicted in 1993 of smuggling cocaine in detergent boxes from 1987-92. Floyd senior received a five-year sentence for trafficking cocaine from Chicago to Grand Rapids. Served 3 years.
Rumor: 1998 – Mayweather Sr., after being released from prison, and unable to reconcile with his son, made frequet trips to Grand Rapids Michigan, to re-engage with his previous drug ‘ring’ connections, in an effort to distribute cocaine in the Las Vegas area. -Facebook

“Vicious” Victor Ortiz is no stranger to hard knocks. Abandoned first by his Mexican immigrant mother for another man, and left by his Mexican, alcoholic father to starve in a ruin down, trailer park in Kansas five years later, was forced to take care of himself and his little brother at a very young age. His family’s bad luck and hard taught life lessons, help to turn Victor Ortiz into the prize fighter and champion he is today.

Victor Ortiz, originally from Garden City, Kansas is the current reigning WBC world welterweight champion. A belt he won with his double-fisted, bam bam, knock-out style. Victor’s boyish charm and good looks makes him a picture perfect prize, and the associated press sports community loves him. Whether he is training or laying low in his downtime, this rather low key champion boxer, surrounds himself with people who love him and want nothing but the best for him. Let’s just say, nobody in Victor’s camp is competing with Victor to be famous. His brother, Temo Ortiz lives in Ventura, California with big brother, and currently is enrolled in college.

Victor Ortiz’s trainer, Danny Garcia encourages his boxer to continue fighting left handed, although Victor is actually right handed. It is the lethal combinations of his left handed jabs and power punches, which make him an excellent opponent to Mayweather, Jr’s rock-your-world gusto. Danny Garcia began training Victor Ortiz, after Victor had a fall out with Danny Ortiz’s brother and boxing trainer Robert Ortiz of Top Rank, Inc. Robert Ortiz jealous feud with his brother, whose backyard butts up to Danny’s, has gone on for more than five years now. Victor Ortiz left Robert Garcia to train with Danny, after Robert Garcia took on boxer Brandon Rios. Victor Ortiz and Brandon Rios could not get along, and so Victor Ortiz left TopRank, Inc. and Robert Garcia for Golden Boy Productions, and so Danny took over training Ortiz. Ortiz has been quoted as saying that Danny had always been the one who really stood in his corner anyways. So the transition between trainers and boxer was a natural fit.

As promised the fight was this season’s premiere fight. Mayweather full of his usual arrogance, and Victor Ortiz battling levels of immaturity. Victor Ortiz in the fourth round, was overly excited about how the fight was going, the best I could tell. He had defeated Mayweather in 2 of the three previous rounds, potentially making it out to be a stunning victory. Ortiz’s lack of maturity, and Mayweather’s dirty tactics came to the fore front, in the fourth and final round. When Mayweather, backed up against the ropes, was trying to hold Ortiz’s head down as a defensive tactic, when Ortiz’s made a critical error in judgment. He broke loose from Mayweather’s grip, and jumped up to head butt Mayweather in the mouth. Costing him a penalty point, and a stern scathing from the referee.

Victor Ortiz being the kid he is, started apologizing to Mayweather, who naturally was in “over zealous” protest over the initial head butting incident. While the referee was looking away apparently at Ortiz’s corner, Victor Ortiz had his hands down at his side apologizing to Floyd, when the real action presented itself. As soon as Ortiz takes his eye off of his tricky opponent, in a blast of power Mayweather draws back his lethal right hand, and plows his fist into the chin of Ortiz. A dazed and dumbfounded Ortiz, unsure of what just happen, looks to Mayweather. Who, in his quick defensive style precedes for a second time to rock his fist, into the face of Victor Ortiz. The amazing punches not only knocked Victor to the ground, they succeeded knocking out Ortiz, from the fight altogether. The referee, not sure of the events because he was looking away at the time, gave Victor Ortiz a 10 count, and the fight was over. It was a stunning finish!

In the sport of boxing, good rarely prevails over evil. In this sport, it survival of the fittest, and the cunning of a snake that make great photo opportunity, sells seats, and drives it’s competitors.

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The All Time Best Going Green Logos and Brands

Organic Living & the Marketing Potential Behind It Too Making It More Appealing

Source: How to Green your event!

In the spirit of “Going Green”, I thought maybe a little shout out to some of the creative ways people are advertising their own, “Going Going” movements. As many of you know, I’m a history buff, and since the beginning of world mankind has only come together under one cause just a handful of times. However, with the threat of Global warming looming over our heads, more and more people are banding together under the “Going Green” banner. Conservation for the first time that I know of has a real fighting chance to doing something positive for Mother earth. I personally don’t think we have witness such a vast conglomeration a different peoples coming together, since the Holy Wars began in the 10th Century. Now I know that is bit of a stretch, but, seriously I think this movement must be noticed as a real plausibility of rewriting history for our children’s children.

We still face a terrible dilemma. It is hard to effectively make money off the idea of recycling, and conservation without costing a fortune to do it. The movement is “endanger” of imploding on itself, and collapsing if somebody doesn’t begin to effectively change the way we live. I firmly believe that the technology to change the world, end global warming and eliminate the need for fossil fuels has been invented. But, just as we have seen time and time again, until the “Oil Barons” of the twenty first are capsized, there is not much we are going to be able to accomplish, for very much longer. Our world as we know it- is at a crossroads. If we don’t act now, the International commonality we now share have could fall victim to a much graver cause. That’s been the problem all along with the Endanger Species plight. It always seems to get overrun by some other International problem or cause; such as a war in the Mideast, a recession, or worse…………, the animal finally dies out. Simply put, no one has figured out “how to” do something for endangered animals, which won’t cost a fortune or impede a person’s right to earn an income. Or…, come up with a new way of earning an income by not destroying or killing the endangered animal. We simple cannot expect people to give up their only means of many money. What we can do, is to replace that old way of making money and replace it with a more resourceful one. However, nobody is doing that, and it shows. We are most definitely losing the battle.

Let’s face it, it’s expensive to effectively run any sort of “conservation” project. It took a lot of creative imagination to come up with many of these interesting logos. But not only is the Going Green cause in need of great logos, it is also in desperate need of some real leadership, incentives, and a new business plan. If it is going to stand a chance at surviving, it needs to somehow be turned into something bigger than oil. Were are now at that moment in time, where the “Going Green” movement has to start making money, while being a cost effective adventure, based of mass production with relative ease. Maybe all we need, is to remind ourselves that the need for oil, came from the same inspirations and reasonings.

The Political Arenas of Rush Limbaugh

The bumper sticker that made my day!

Today, while I was driving to the doctors, a car pulled out in front of me. It was an old lady in a gray colored Ford Taurus. Normally I’d take to the action of blaring my horn at her incompetence. But just before my hand reach the center of my steering wheel, I notice the single bumper sticker she had stuck to her car’s tail end. It said, “Flush Rush”. Immediately she went from being a nuisance, to being my new best friend.

I tell you, I never considered myself a left wing liberal, but more of an independent. This last Presidential election was the first time in my life that I voted for a democrat presidential candidate. My ballot always resembles a bi-partisan position, voting for candidates that best match up to my overall principles. Never have I voted along one particular party line or another. I consider myself to be an educated, well informed voter. However, I can’t help but to think of what my positioning would be today.

I seriously don’t think, I’d take the time to research each candidate as diligently as I do. No. Why? Simply because I want nothing to do with Rush, and I want nothing to do with a party that shares his ignorant view points. I’d soon stay as far as I can from the likes of that man. He is an extremists and I feel he is a very dangerous person to have around. As a proud American, I can’t help it but to feel that the party of the people, Lincoln’s party has all but failed. It is my personal position, that do to the recent onslaught of rhetoric that keeps flowing from Rush Limbaugh’s breath, he has single handily turned me into a left wing liberal. Not so much because I agree along party lines, but, more so because I absolutely disagree with Rush, and his hate, war mongering, selfishness. I can’t understand why people follow or listen to him. Just like the bumper sticker I read today, I want nothing more than for Rush Limbaugh to be flushed down a toilet. I don’t think that the GOP understands how destructive Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney outlandish backlashes, and hate filled speeches are, to the might of the Republican party over all. I know I’m not the only who senses a need for friendship between all political parties. Why can’t Rush try to just get along with the rest of us Americans who aren’t as extreme as him? America is exhausted by all the wide dividing lines that our political parties has brought forth between us. We are tired a people hindering a chance at progress. More importantly, we are tired of sore losers ranting and raving, because their guy didn’t win. I hope before it is too late for the GOP, that they somehow try harder to distant themselves from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney. It is not healthy for any government to be governed under the might of one political party. Giving that type of power, to the heads of state in Washington D.C., is like welcoming an ax murder to Thanksgiving, to cut the turkey for dinner .

I often think of engaging people of the past, and compare them to other influential and engaging people of the present. In my quest to discovering possible connections to that of Rush Limbaugh, I was drawn to the deceased Russian President Boris Yeltsin. After reading a detailed history report on Rush Limbaugh’s life, I was even more convinced that these two men were truly and recklessly alike. They glide through life with reckless abandonment, and have taken self righteous intuition to far heights. I invite you to think about some of these comparisons. I ask you Republicans to rethink your positioning by aligning yourself with such a destructive man.

What does Rush Limbaugh and Boris Yeltsin have in common?

• They are both authors. Boris Yelstin wrote two autobiographies. “Against the Grain”, a diary of political life and “The Struggle for Russia” in 1994. Rush Limbaugh’s first book was published was in 1992. “The Way Things Ought To Be” and “See, I Told You So” in 1993.

• Boris Yelstin opposed NATO expansion, citing it was American. Rush Limbaugh agrees, “NATO forces, that’s us.” – September 24, 2008

• Before 1997 Yelstin built his reputation on honesty, impatience and authoritarian leadership. In 1994, Rush is named as an “Honorary Member of Congress” by newly elected freshmen Republican Congressmen. Rush Limbaugh was honoured for his honesty, impatience towards liberals and authoritarian leadership that paved the way for the Congressman’s election.

• They both had Radio Broadcasting experiences.  Rush Limbaugh enters the world of radio in 1972 as a music Radio Announcer. In 1979 he quit the radio industry to become Directer of Public Relations for the Kansas City Royals baseball team. Then after a nasty divorce, Rush accepted a job with 1530 KFBK Radio Station in Sacramento, California. His show was promoted as a National Syndicated Broadcast in 1988. The American Armed Forces picked up his show and aired it three times a week. In 1991 Boris Yelstin makes his first Nationally Speech from a top a Russian tank, aired to Russians by American radio.

• They both have appeared on television. Most notable is Boris Yelstin’s resignation aired in 1999. Rush Limbaugh gives his first Nationally Addressed GOP speech February 28th, 2009.

• Boris Yelstin was known for his impromptu speech style. Mostly in part for complaining, name calling and accusation. Rush Limbaugh affirmed he possess the same traits in his first nationally televised address in 2009.

• Yelstin is often cited for his immaturity and arrogance. Republican National Committee Chairman Mr. Steele said that Mr. Limbaugh’s rhetoric was “incendiary” and “ugly.” In October 2003 Rush Limbaugh is fired from ESPN’s NFL Countdown for making rude racial remarks.

• Boris Yelstin was rumored to be an alcoholic and in 1997 he publicly asked for rehabilitation. October 3, 2003 the National Enquirer broke the story of alleged drug use by Rush Limbaugh. After other news outlets confirmed the story Rush admitted he was a drug addict October 10, 2003. He immediately asked for rehabilitation and entered a 30 day rehab center.

• Both men made political speeches and held news conferences to clarify the state of their mental and physical health.

• One of Rush Limbaugh’s favorite lines to use is, “Before you have a heart attack now.” Boris Yeltsin had had two major heart attacks before his death in 2007.

Some of the comparisons are far stretches of the imagination. But hardy undeniable is the similarities in their personalities. Both of these men were self-starters and self-made men. The one true fact pertaining to these two men, is how they both are victims of there own propaganda and success. Yeltsin reveled being the target of smear campaigners and creative administrator in starting them. The same can be said for Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh has built a multi million dollar industry off bashing politicians. Yeltsin was no different.

Boris Yeltsin’s rise to power began after his hospitalization and attempted suicide in 1987. Between 1987 and 1991 Boris Yeltsin took time to regain his health and status as a strong leader. Around or about 1990, Boris started a smear campaign against Mikhail Gorbachev in order to discredit him, his Vice President and wife, Rasia’s Gorbachev. The timing couldn’t have better. In 1990 Gorbachev establishes his Congress of People’s Deputies. Boris Yeltsin wins a land slide victory in Moscow and was elected to Congress as a Delegate and gain a seat on the Supreme Soviet. Boris didn’t waste any time in criticizing Gorbachev for his slow pace and lack of commitment to reform in Russia. With Gorbachev career ending, Mikhail makes an attempt to secure his preferred successor, Nikolai Ryzhkov, the position to be Russia’s first elected President. He does so by launching his own trashy smear campaign against Yeltsin. It backfired. Boris Yeltsin’s popularity only grew. On June 12, 1991 he became the newly elected Russian President. He won the election with a whopping 57% approval rating. By the end of Yeltsin’s career, corruption followed by his ailing health were his ruin. Yeltsin left office December 31, 1999 just minutes before the bells began to ring in the new century. Like Yeltsin, Rush started as a man of the people. He broke his silence in the early 1990′s and began to be the unified, spoken voice of conservatism. During decades of liberalism and in a time of a liberal congress. He was a true American hero. He was once my hero. But what has happen to this man from humble beginnings? He is nothing more than a mere image of his former self. The years of success have definitely taken their toll on Rush. It is hard to find the man I once admired as a true American leader. Often times his talk show is filled with ugly rants and racial byproduct snarling.

Supreme Soviet:   A one-chamber legislature functioning along similar lines of the former USSR Supreme Soviet. Which was dissolved March of 1990. They and they only had the power to pass constitutional amendments.

The Plight of Freedom

So you saw it too, “Dad I’m an Addict.”

As one addict to another, Jake’s confession followed by Capt. Phil Harris rolling eyes, broke my heart.  I wanted to hug my television set, and reach out to Jake in a loving embrace.  That is what us mothers do, should do, and need to do.  Children never grow too old, that they are not in need of us, our wisdom and our guidance.

My first thought I said to myself,  “Ah Jake, no, oh Jacob…….., not you.”  I would have hugged him immediately, and focused in on what he was saying.  See, I feel things like drug and gambling addictions are somewhere in the  “Oh no…” category, the same as if they have just told me, they had been diagnosed with cancer or AIDS.  However, Captain Phil was apparently too mad to see, the hidden reality to the task that would soon be laid out before him. It is our job to think before we speak, and to realize that if our children are stealing from us, there is an awful reason.  To be blind to that reality, is just as irresponsible as the act of thievery, in which Phil’s son Jake had lowered himself to do.

After watching the show, Deadliest Catch as long as I have, you know that Phil’s last argument with his son Jake, did not go so well.  Captain Phil said some things I do not think he should have, especially since he was an ex-druggy himself.  Nevertheless, he said things like “Jake when we get off this boat, you go your way, I’ll go mine.”  And, “I want nothing to do with you ever again.”  The typical stuff that all mad, hot-tempered parents say, when their children have done something wrong.  Like catching your son stealing pain pills, which possibly ruined his day.  Moreover though, Phil did not even take a moment to possibly realize, that Jake was on a mission.  That there had to be a possible reason for his son to sink so low, and one of those reasons being, that Jacob obviously needed them.  It was quite apparent to me, that he was stealing the drugs to help with his drug withdrawals.  Phil being the “ex partier” should have recognized Jake’s signs and symptoms.  I did immediately, and I was not even there to witness Jake’s sweating perfusion.  However, you knew it had to be, because the sweat was pouring out of Jacob, even though the temperature was consistent for the month of February, on the Bering Sea.

I have been in Jacob’s shoes before, strung out and hurting from drug withdrawals.  I could easily rationalize why he would need his father’s pain pills, and why he would then try to steal some.  I am in no way condoning Jacob’s bad behavior, for tempting the fate of his father’s wrath, and being caught taking his father’s pain medication without asking.  With that said, we all know as parents that kids make stupid mistakes.  You did, I did, we all do.  That is what kids do.   However, what happened next impressed me the most.  With his dad, crab boat Captain Phil Harris ready to shove his fist down his son’s throat, Jake turned and looked straight into his father’s eyes, and said, “Please, dad…., I’m an addict.”  With that said, Captain Phil rolled his eyes and looked away.

What was said between them, only the Discovery television show producers, cameramen and Jacob really know.  Whether it was an editing error, or not……, I can honestly say I was disappointed in Captain Phil Harris.  As a father and a parent, he had let his son down.  I think that what so many of us parents do not realize, is that it is at those moments, we need to embrace our kids, and show them a little compassion.  It is always at those moments in our parenting lives, that we are to be there for our children, and strap in for a very long ride.  I think in time, Captain Phil would have apologized to Jake.  The last thing he would have wanted to do, was to let down one of his sons.  It breaks my heart that this all happened, right before Phil’s death.  However, God has a funny sense of humor, and situations like these come and go, as he sees fit.

Still though, my heart went out to Jake.  I have been there were he was at that moment, and I know firsthand the repercussions of such mistakes.   This is my review of Captain Phil’s last argument, shown live on camera with his son Jacob, or Jake as Phil was known to call him.  Phil had caught his son Jacob, stealing pills out of his cabin, on their crab boat the Cornelia Marie.

I am a person who always looks at the little details, as the key design factor to a much bigger and larger  picture.  I feel that it is within these details, that so much can be mistaken.  That in these small moments, we take things for granted and do ugly things that might hurt the people we love, and create more damage.  As parents it is our job folks, to recognize these lasting moments, for what they really are.  An event, and nothing more than that.

As with all things in life, an event can be a certain time, a person, situation, or place.  However, like each passing day “the event” will too soon pass; with the dawning of each new day.  But how we are left standing, defines us as parents.  Our reactions measures us people as parent, and eventually tells our kids how deeply we love them.   It is vital to children that they can count on their parents, no matter the cost.  I honestly do not think that parents, fully understand how important, the role in which we choose to play, directly effects our kids on an overwhelming, emotional, level.  Especially if your child, happens to be  helplessly caught up in a fatigued-ridden moment, and completely dependent on something heavier then they are.

Nevertheless,  however your child came to existence,  they are a  part of you and always will be.  Therefore, whatever role the child played in your life, you owe them something to hold onto.  Kids do not ask to be born.  They are truly the innocent ones.   You, the parent,  are ultimately responsible for your own sexual endeavor, playtime, or love making.  Remember that, when they come to you because they feel accountable to you, since you were and are their most tangible maker.

Troubled children, whether 5 or 100, reach out to parents because they are in need, of your help and loving guidance.  Whether you caught them in the act of stealing, or in the act of homosexual behavior; this is your child, you are being judged solely on that merit.  I do not believe for one second, that God would ever want a parent to abandon their child, by making  condemning innuendos, spoken in a condescending, disrespectful manner.  That is right, I am writing of respect for them, and so too respecting the role we play, as parents in our kids’ life.

It is my opinion, that Captain Phil got completely caught up in the “event,” and not in the reality that his good natured son, was stealing from him.  I was completely lost to why, he was quick to mark his son as an irresponsible demon, to be reprimanded by cutting out of his life and existence.  With that said, even I know as a viewer of the show, that Jake is a good boy.  He is strong, bright, and hard working.  Attributes that any parent would be proud of.  However,  in that moment, the loving father that Phil Harris claimed to be,  unintentionally put conditions on his love for Jake.  Therefore, in his anger he let it be known to the world, that if either of his sons did something wrong, the terrible price would to be excommunication.  With that all said, I guess the price was too unbearable for Jake, I could see panic set into Jake’s eyes.  What made it worst, it was made public in the front of television cameras, that aired the episode to over a million Discovery channel viewers.  A situation that I think, should have been handled better and in private, between a father and a son.

If we can learned by Captain Phil’s last mistake as a parent, it should be that, regardless of what our kids might have done, they are still our kids.  We owe it to them to continue to love them, and not steal that love away, whenever they might have sinned against us.  As parents, we must realize that the ultimate judgment is not up to us, and that our job is to stand beside them, help them, love them, and guide them in the best way we can.  I ask each parent out there, whether you disapprove of your kids behavior or are emotionally disappointed with them, step back for a moment.  Focus in on the best ways to help them, and guide to be the ideal kids you have raised them to be.  Remember the saying, “You reap what you sow.” That can not be more true of our children, they are what we make of them.  They are only as good, as we are at being solid, supporting, and loving parents.

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Obama’s Foreign Policy Review

by RKHenry

An American Review

Amidst the AIG scandal, GM’s bankruptcy and all the other avenues effecting the economy, Obama’s Foreign Policy is at last in the news again. It appears that many American hopes were answered after the clear success of the Obama European tour.and G-20 Summit. Advancing towards his campaign promises with vigor, American tourist travel to Cuba is on the rise, and so to came his announcement concerning open communication with the Muslim nations. Has Obama already surpassed many American voters hopes and desires? Could the one thing that America was needing most from their president, was a man who was and is capable of communicating properly, responsibly, and effectively?

This featured article was first written as a preamble to the G-20 Summit timeline. It reported Obama’s secret letter to Russian President Dmitry Mevdelev, and how it was rebuked by the Kremlin. Establishing that there was simply no trust between the two nations. What had been there, crumbled with Al Gore in 1995. While George W. Bush, trampled out what was left between the two nations, during his endless eight year reign. America enacted a long six year policy, that failed to give Russia the credit it deserved. Bush’s Russian foreign policy was based on the idea that Russia’s political power was unequal to America’s on the world scene. It appears with relations on the mend and the success of the G-20 summit, America’s current relations with Russia has a promising future. President Obama’s understands the will and might of the American government, and the importance of not over reaching across the boundaries. In return, the world has been receptive towards American ideas and appreciative of America’s growing change on the world stage. The respond has been without a doubt, very positive.

For the past several days now, the news community is buzzing about how Obama is willing to open up direct dialog with Muslims. The relationship shared between Iran and Russia, is similar to that of the United States and Israel. The Christian Science Monitor recently reported that the Director of The Independent Center for Energy & Security Studies, Anton Khlopkov said, “But our ties with Iran are very important, and separate from our relationship with the US…. But from the Russian perspective, Iran is not for sale.” Yevgeny Satanovsky, a pioneer of Middle Eastern Studies, says “There is no doubt that Obama’s expressed readiness to talk with Iran pushes away the threat of war, and is an extremely positive signal in the development of US ties with Russia.” Iranian Supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stands firm and believes America has a long way to go in changing their relationship. However, Obama is fully aware that caution is needed in these volatile times. A reservation shared by most Americans.

For the past several years, the implemented policy of the United Nation Security Council, at the bequest of American President George W. Bush, was tough sanctions and NO tolerance policies. A policy that isolated not only the leader of Iran, but the Iranians themselves and several other Muslims countries. President Obama recognizes the needed support of Russian friendship, to open any productive lines of communications with Iran. Though many Americans, still share the sentiment of the former President. A bigger majority of Americans see the need to reform America’s foreign policy towards the Middle East. With the tough sanctions placed upon Iran during the Bush Administration, Germany and China have become partners with them in trade goods. America is approaching a golden opportunity here. If all is handled correctly. For example, a vast majority of Americans are clueless to the priceless, beautiful wilderness beholden to Iranians. When thoughts of Iran approaches American mind sets, their consciousness festers on the ideas of a state of brutality and death, resonates through their minds. What many do not realize is how incredible the country is. Much like America, Iran is full of national treasure and historical landmarks. Iran’s mountainous terrain are littered with many remarkable ski resorts. Their immense desert is a spread of golden shimmers, bustling full with life. Within their desert terrain, magical oasis’s appear from nowhere to take your breath away. In the foreseeable future, Iran could be a futuristic tourism site for Americans.

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The Lizard Spock and Hit Series,

“The Big Bang Theory”

A GREAT Show to Watch

By RKHenry

CBS 2008 hit show Big Bang Theory is now in it’s third season.  It is quickly becoming a new fan favorite for all who view it. I was addicted for the moment I saw it. Try it. You may just end up hooked like the rest of us are. The show is created by Chuck Lorre. Chuck Lorre is also the Co-Creator of the hit television show, Two and Half Men and the former hit series the Rosanne Show. Former Child actor and Belgium born Johnny Galecki, who also starred on the Rosanne Show, was selected as one of the lead roles.   His character name is Leonard.  This makes it twice now that Johnny Galecki and Chuck Lorre have paired up to make a CBS sitcom highly successful. The show revolves around two brilliant theoretical physicists (Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons as Sheldon.) Their neighbor Penny (played by Kaley Cuoco), lives across the hall from them. Penny is a slightly dingy, out-of-work actress, who shows Leonard, Sheldon and their two friends Howard Wolowitz and Kunal Nayyar just how little they truly know, about life and the happenings of the real world. The show is incredibly funny, with great comedic satire.

 

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The Cast of CBS’s Hit Series

The Big Bang Theory

• Kaley Cuoco: Penny
• Johnny Galecki: Leonard
• Jim Parsons: Sheldon
• Simon Helberg: Howard Wolowitz
• Kunal Nayyar: Rajesh Koothrappali
• Sara Gilbert: Leslie Winkle

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