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Dalai Lama: Sex = Trouble
He’s right of course, but that doesn’t mean we are going to listen to him.
The Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual and temporal leader, on Friday said sex spelt fleeting satisfaction and trouble later, while chastity offered a better life and “more freedom.”
“Sexual pressure, sexual desire, actually I think is short period satisfaction and often, that leads to more complication,” the Dalai Lama told reporters in a Lagos hotel, speaking in English without a translator.He said conjugal life caused “too much ups and downs.
“Naturally as a human being … some kind of desire for sex comes, but then you use human intelligence to make comprehension that those couples always full of trouble. And in some cases there is suicide, murder cases,” the Dalai Lama said.
He said the “consolation” in celibacy is that although “we miss something, but at the same time, compare whole life, it’s better, more independence, more freedom.”
Considered a Buddhist Master exempt from the religion’s wheel of death and reincarnation, the Dalai Lama waxed eloquent on the Buddhist credo of non-attachment.
“Too much attachment towards your children, towards your partner,” was “one of the obstacle or hindrance of peace of mind,” he said.
Revered by his followers as a god-king, the Dalai Lama arrived in Lagos on Friday on a three-day visit following an invitation from a foundation to attend a conference. He has made no political speeches in the west African country.
He leaves Friday night for the Czech Republic and then on to Brussels to address the European Parliament before heading to Poland, where he is due to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The 73-year-old Nobel Peace laureate has been a mainstay on the diplomatic stage ever since he fled his native land for neighbouring India in 1959.
Still based in northern India, the Dalai Lama has increasingly been in the spotlight since protests in Tibet turned violent in March this year, just months before the Chinese capital Beijing hosted the Summer Olympic Games.
Regarded by his many supporters outside China as a visionary in the vein of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his accent on non-violence to achieve change.
However, he is reviled by the Chinese government, which has branded him a “monster” and accused him of trying to split the nation.
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Little XXX House on the Prairie
I love this, just because I grew up watching Little House. I even had chickens named after the characters.
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland has rated the DVD release of the much-loved children’s television series “Little House on the Prairie” suitable for adult viewing only.
To save money, Universal Pictures decided not to submit the series to state inspection, the company’s Finland marketing manager Meri Suomela told Reuters on Wednesday.
Finnish authorities charge 2 euros ($2.57) per minute for assessing the correct age limit on films and television series. Distributors who forego this can only sell their shows with a sticker saying “Banned for under-18s.”
“Long series can get quite expensive to check, and some use this exemption in the law to their advantage,” said Matti Paloheimo, Director at the Finnish Board of Film Classification.
“Such unchecked material should not be shown to children publicly,” he added.
Little House on the Prairie, which ran from 1974 to 1983, portrayed life in the U.S. West in the late 1800s and was based on the Laura Ingalls Wilder’s children’s book of the same name.
It remains popular in Finland, and is still shown weekly on Sunday mornings on state-owned broadcaster YLE.
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Non stop talkers, tea vs. crime, Drew is single (and so am I), we should take a ride in a flying saucer. Obama already is.
Have you ever had a conversation with one of those people that just won’t stop talking? Or worse yet, someone who seems to be having a conversation with you, but in fact does not react or respond to anything you say but only doggedly keeps talking about whatever it is that comes to their minds or pops out of their mouths? You know like:
Talker: “Hey Chris, I planted a new garden”
me: “Cool. I’ve been meaning to ask you why you are parking your car in front of my living room and blowing leaves into my garage”
Talker: “Yah, totally, I’ve got tomatoe and peas…”
me: “And I dont’ appreciate you stealing my bicycle and locking it up with your lock..
Talker: for sure…and you should see my lettuce…off the hook…
Okay this is a slight exaggeration, but my next door neighbor is an old woman who seems to be having a conversation without actually having one…and there are other people like this in my life too. Check out what one woman in Germany had to do to get rid of one.
Of course conversation can be useful, as in the case of a Japanese woman who talked a knife wielding thief into not robbing her…over a cup of tea.
Speaking of tea, I’d love to have a cup of tea with Drew Barrymore now that she is single again. Just one first date will be enough though…thanks. I think I am quirky enough for it to work out in the long run. Just imagine…she and I could take a ride in the new flying saucers.
We could even bring along Obama and his flip flop drive:
I will pull the troops out, I’ll think about the troops coming out, they will come out, they won’t come out, I mean they will but they may have to stay a while before they do but I mean what I said about the troops coming out and I didn’t flip flop, not really, I mean it was the same thing I said almost, just a little different and really I am the least worst choice you can choose for President anyway.
Vote Nader.
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Watermelon Viagra, Weight loss through sex, Dollar dysfuntion, and a sad story too.
Turns out Watermelon eaters make better lovers…here’s why…(did I mention I love watermelon?)
Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body’s blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas, one of the nation’s top producers of the seedless variety.
Found in the flesh and concentrated in the rind of watermelons, citrulline reacts with the body’s enzymes when consumed in large quantities and is changed into arginine, an amino acid that benefits the heart and the circulatory and immune systems.
“Arginine boosts nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vessels, the same basic effect that Viagra has, to treat erectile dysfunction and maybe even prevent it,” said Bhimu Patil, a researcher and director of Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center.
Speaking of Watermelon, I ran into my friend Wally Amos (Famous Amos of Famous Amos Cookies) the other day when I was doing an eco-tour in Kailua. Wally stopped my van and chatted with my passengers for a while. They were confused about who the friendly black man in the watermelon hat was until I told them when we left. Turns out they all love his cookies.
To bad the dollar can’t eat some watermelon…it is suffering from severe erectile dysfunction since Bush came to power. It has declined 41% against the Euro in that time. Cute, huh? The U.S. now has $9.5 trillion debt — up from $5.7 trillion when Bush took office — and this has driven down the currency. The decline was accelerated by the subprime crisis that plunged the U.S. into an economic tailspin.
Here is a cute picture with a tragic story attached and it isn’t what you would think:
In this undated photo, Ram Singh Munda, 35, rides a bicycle with his pet sloth bear Rani in Gahatagaon village, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Bhubaneswar, India. When wildlife officials learned of Munda, who brought the orphaned bear cub home from the forests of eastern India, where it became part of the family, he was arrested and jailed for violating wildlife laws, the bear was sent to a zoo where it’s refusing to eat and his abandoned six-year-old daughter has been shipped off to a state-run boarding school.
(AP Photo)
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Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darkness
That’s 264 sex acts (involving a condom) per couple.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year’s supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday.
Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them.
The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter.
“Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable,” Henriksen told the Southland Times newspaper.
About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness.
Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before darkness | Reuters
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