Karim Alston and Chef Jeff are putting together a new look for Houston. I was fortunate enough to get the call to design the ads. Here they are:

and here is the other one I did, but I’m not sure if the party is a go yet, but why waste a design, eh?

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Waterboarding

What I’m getting at is… Does that justify our government waterboarding a man 183 times after he had already confessed? I’m not sympathetic towards the guilty… what I am saying is… just kill him if you’re going to do all of that.

The problem with all of this is that we lay the claim that we are a nation of laws. We cannot justify torture in our society or we become a tyranny.

The video below is an example of what is like to be waterboarded. The “Shock Jock” host of the “Man Cow Show”, who is republican and a staunch advosary of the Obama administration, said that waterboarding is not torture. He decides to prove it by doing it to himself. Lets watch…

Now… you tell me… What are your views on torture now?

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Every now again I get to surf the internet like regular people. Usually I’m just looking for inspiration to come up with a new project. Sometimes I stumble upon a pretty cool website that has nothing to do with anything. Its sole purpose is to have fun. Not trying to sell you anything, or involve you in what they’re doing (ala NEIM BLOG)… they exist solely to entertain you…

I thought that’s what this site was… but they fooled me. Nonetheless it is a pretty cool site to deliver their artistic style of music. Enjoy… (Click Image)

Harmonic 313

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I really didn’t know much about Star Trek. I mean… I knew the general premise and some of the character names, but not the real story. This new installment will surely garner some new fans and spawn a whole new generation of Trekkies.

The movie captures the idea of Star Trek. The entire movie is one giant space adventure. I highly reccomend that you go see it on IMAX. The scope of some of the shots are amazing and the soundtrack is moving!

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Every year I make my predictions on my blog. This year shall be no different.

Feel Free to Comment and make your own Picks.

Legend

Red= Pick

Yellow= Sentimental Favorite

Green= Honorable mention, but not Oscar

Performance by an actor in a leading role

• Richard Jenkins in “The Visitor” (Overture Films)
• Frank Langella in “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)
• Sean Penn in “Milk” (Focus Features)
• Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Mickey Rourke in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

• Josh Brolin in “Milk” (Focus Features)
• Robert Downey Jr. in “Tropic Thunder” (DreamWorks, Distributed by DreamWorks/Paramount)
• Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)
• Michael Shannon in “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

Performance by an actress in a leading role

• Anne Hathaway in “Rachel Getting Married” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Angelina Jolie in “Changeling” (Universal)
• Melissa Leo in “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Meryl Streep in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Kate Winslet in “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

• Amy Adams in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Penélope Cruz in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” (The Weinstein Company)
• Viola Davis in “Doubt” (Miramax)
• Taraji P. Henson in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)
• Marisa Tomei in “The Wrestler” (Fox Searchlight)

Best animated feature film of the year

• “Bolt” (Walt Disney)

  Chris Williams and Byron Howard

• “Kung Fu Panda” (DreamWorks Animation, Distributed by Paramount)

  John Stevenson and Mark Osborne

• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

  Andrew Stanton

Achievement in art direction

• “Changeling” (Universal)

  Art Direction: James J. Murakami Set Decoration: Gary Fettis

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Art Direction: Donald Graham Burt Set Decoration: Victor J. Zolfo

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

  Art Direction: Nathan Crowley Set Decoration: Peter Lando

• “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films)

  Art Direction: Michael Carlin Set Decoration: Rebecca Alleway

• “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

  Art Direction: Kristi Zea Set Decoration: Debra Schutt

Achievement in cinematography

• “Changeling” (Universal)

  Tom Stern

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Claudio Miranda

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

  Wally Pfister

• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

  Chris Menges and Roger Deakins

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Anthony Dod Mantle

Achievement in costume design

• “Australia” (20th Century Fox)

  Catherine Martin

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Jacqueline West

• “The Duchess” (Paramount Vantage, Pathé and BBC Films)

  Michael O’Connor

• “Milk” (Focus Features)

  Danny Glicker

• “Revolutionary Road” (DreamWorks, Distributed by Paramount Vantage)

  Albert Wolsky

Achievement in directing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  David Fincher

• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)

  Ron Howard

• “Milk” (Focus Features)

  Gus Van Sant

• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

  Stephen Daldry

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Danny Boyle

Best documentary feature

• “The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)” (Cinema Guild) A Pandinlao Films Production

  Ellen Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath

• “Encounters at the End of the World” (THINKFilm and Image Entertainment) A Creative Differences Production

  Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser

• “The Garden” A Black Valley Films Production

  Scott Hamilton Kennedy

• “Man on Wire” (Magnolia Pictures) A Wall to Wall Production

  James Marsh and Simon Chinn

• “Trouble the Water” (Zeitgeist Films) An Elsewhere Films Production

  Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Best documentary short subject

• “The Conscience of Nhem En” A Farallon Films Production

  Steven Okazaki

• “The Final Inch” A Vermilion Films Production

  Irene Taylor Brodsky and Tom Grant

• “Smile Pinki” A Principe Production

  Megan Mylan

• “The Witness – From the Balcony of Room 306″ A Rock Paper Scissors Production

  Adam Pertofsky and Margaret Hyde

Achievement in film editing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

  Lee Smith

• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)

  Mike Hill and Dan Hanley

• “Milk” (Focus Features)

  Elliot Graham

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Chris Dickens

Best foreign language film of the year

• “The Baader Meinhof Complex” A Constantin Film Production – Germany
• “The Class” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Haut et Court Production – France
• “Departures” (Regent Releasing) A Departures Film Partners Production – Japan
• “Revanche” (Janus Films) A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production – Austria
• “Waltz with Bashir” (Sony Pictures Classics) A Bridgit Folman Film Gang Production – Israel

Achievement in makeup

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Greg Cannom

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

  John Caglione, Jr. and Conor O’Sullivan

• “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” (Universal)

  Mike Elizalde and Thom Floutz

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Alexandre Desplat

• “Defiance” (Paramount Vantage)

  James Newton Howard

• “Milk” (Focus Features)

  Danny Elfman

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  A.R. Rahman

• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

  Thomas Newman

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

• “Down to Earth” from “WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

  Music by Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman Lyric by Peter Gabriel

• “Jai Ho” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Gulzar

• “O Saya” from “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Music and Lyric by A.R. Rahman and Maya Arulpragasam

Best motion picture of the year

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.) A Kennedy/Marshall Production

  Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin, Producers

• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal) A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production

  Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Eric Fellner, Producers

• “Milk” (Focus Features) A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production

  Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, Producers

• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company) A Mirage Enterprises and Neunte Babelsberg Film GmbH Production

  Nominees to be determined

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight) A Celador Films Production

  Christian Colson, Producer

Best animated short film

• “La Maison en Petits Cubes” A Robot Communications Production

  Kunio Kato

• “Lavatory – Lovestory” A Melnitsa Animation Studio and CTB Film Company Production

  Konstantin Bronzit

• “Oktapodi” (Talantis Films) A Gobelins, L’école de l’image Production

  Emud Mokhberi and Thierry Marchand

• “Presto” (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production

  Doug Sweetland

• “This Way Up” A Nexus Production

  Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes

Best live action short film

• “Auf der Strecke (On the Line)” (Hamburg Shortfilmagency) An Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production

  Reto Caffi

• “Manon on the Asphalt” (La Luna Productions) A La Luna Production

  Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont

• “New Boy” (Network Ireland Television) A Zanzibar Films Production

  Steph Green and Tamara Anghie

• “The Pig” An M & M Production

  Tivi Magnusson and Dorte Høgh

• “Spielzeugland (Toyland)” A Mephisto Film Production

  Jochen Alexander Freydank

Achievement in sound editing

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

  Richard King

• “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment)

  Frank Eulner and Christopher Boyes

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Tom Sayers

• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

  Ben Burtt and Matthew Wood

• “Wanted” (Universal)

  Wylie Stateman

Achievement in sound mixing

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Mark Weingarten

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

  Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo and Ed Novick

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke and Resul Pookutty

• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

  Tom Myers, Michael Semanick and Ben Burtt

• “Wanted” (Universal)

  Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño and Petr Forejt

Achievement in visual effects

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton and Craig Barron

• “The Dark Knight” (Warner Bros.)

  Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Tim Webber and Paul Franklin

• “Iron Man” (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment)

  John Nelson, Ben Snow, Dan Sudick and Shane Mahan

Adapted screenplay

• “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (Paramount and Warner Bros.)

  Screenplay by Eric Roth Screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord

• “Doubt” (Miramax)

  Written by John Patrick Shanley

• “Frost/Nixon” (Universal)

  Screenplay by Peter Morgan

• “The Reader” (The Weinstein Company)

  Screenplay by David Hare

• “Slumdog Millionaire” (Fox Searchlight)

  Screenplay by Simon Beaufoy

Original screenplay

• “Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classics)

  Written by Courtney Hunt

• “Happy-Go-Lucky” (Miramax)

  Written by Mike Leigh

• “In Bruges” (Focus Features)

  Written by Martin McDonagh

• “Milk” (Focus Features)

  Written by Dustin Lance Black

• “WALL-E” (Walt Disney)

  Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter

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Ok, I know there are going to be a ton of NYE parties, but few will be free (outside of House Parties) and few will have the atmosphere we always bring. The Tipping Point presents their 1st annual New Year’s Eve Celebration at M4 (@ 410 Main St downtown). Its free, its live, its on! After Party at The Living Room!

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I know where I am going for my New Years After Party Mayhem…

The Living Room

I gotta hand it to my girl Brook. She put together a pretty nice looking afterhours club. Usually you go to an afterhours and it just feels grimey! Not this one.

Inside the Living Room

The interior decorating was well thought out to give you that cozy/sexy feel as you relax and wind the night down or dance the night away on the dance floor. So if you’re not ready for the night to be over… step into The Living Room and you won’t be disappointed.

Don’t take it from me… See for yourself.

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Host: Brandye & Crystal, Brandon & Lorielle, Cedric, Jerrel, Natashia, & NEIM

Location: Mansion @ 1302 Harold StHouston, TX US
When: Saturday, December 20, 9:00PM

For those of you who have been to our parties before, you don’t know how we do it because this one is going to be CRAZIER than ever! We’re mixing Hollywood and Houston. How?? The party is at a sick ass MANSION this year! We will have body painted bartenders to set the tone! Yes, we said body painted bartenders! Open Bar! The hottest DJ in Houston! And it is super exclusive! This party is invitation only. If you’re getting this, you need not worry, YOU ARE INVITED. Please do not come if you are not prepared to shake that ass, get drunk off your ass, and party like it’s HALLOWEEN & NEW YEAR’s combined!!!! The address of the location will emailed to all RSVP’s 1 day prior to the party. We’re not trying to be bougie (bourgeois), we just don’t want people fucking up our shit!!!

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I believe its official. the long anticipated launch of WeOwnDaNite.com. My client from New Orleans has finally decided to launch the website I built for him from scratch. Here is a mini version of it. Some of the features won’t work because its been reduced so go and visit the site yourself by clicking on the link above!

PLEASE COMMENT on what you think.

Thanks,

NEIM

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Well I finally got tired of answering all of the questions about what the hell it is I have on my left hand all the time. It is called the Tri-Cap or 3Cap. It is an original design by the acclaimed French jewelry designer, Valou.

When I first donned the ring it was only in 3 places in the world. Paris, New York & LA. I decided to bring it to Houston, TX. It has very much become apart of my sty lo. Its hard to catch me out without it on. Its a real conversation piece and it always brings attention. People usually compare it to brass knuckles and ask me if I’m a fighter, but then say that its cool once they see it up close. People try it on and everything.

I’m saying this because I believe it will become a popular jewelry piece in the near future. I’m offering you a chance to be ahead of the curve before mainstream gets a hold of it. Soon, then I will have to move to the next version of it The women’s versions look better than the men’s so check them out at Valou’s website. Get one and tell her I sent you… she may hook you up.

Tri-Cap (3Cap)

Get one or 3

You saw it here 1st.

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Finally its here! The entire footage of the 1st game. You must be registered to view this content though. Its Free and fast so just do it real quick if you’re not already logged in.

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“Start spreadin’ the news…”

I thought I’d share my 1st New York trip with the world… enjoy!

Day 1: The Arrival

August 13th, 2008. I haven’t slept purposely so that I can sleep on the plane. It helps me reduce the anxiety of flying. Its about 9 a.m. and my plane leaves at 11:30ish. I haven’t packed. I just realize that some of my clothes are in the cleaners. I haven’t arranged a ride to the airport either. Hell I just got an ID (lost my old one) 2 days prior. I call moms. She talks to me on the phone still sleep. Then she asks me to get her some special type of Coffee from a store that’s not up the street. WTF! I am forced to agree.

Somehow, we get outta there by around 10:30 and to the airport at about 11. I like to travel in the middle of the week to avoid the crowds. I’m traveling cheap though so I don’t arrive to New York until about 7:30. On the plane ride I got the birds eye view of the Statue of Liberty. She seemed small, but I guess I was high in the sky. At the airport I meet up with ol Kevo and we catch a cab to Hasan’s place. While in New York we stayed with Hasan. Big ups to my homey for showin’ us love.

The cab driver must have been a retired Arab race car driver or something because homeboy was gettin it! We arrive in Midtown, Manhattan in what must have seemed like 15 minutes in traffic! By far the best cab driver I have ever seen. Scary though.

Hasan stays in a great area on 37th St & 9th Ave.

We settle down at Hasan’s. Then we get lucky and Hasan had some chicken he needed to cook so he threw down for his boys. Check it out:

Click here to view the embedded video.

After we ate we were tryin to figure out what to do. It was wednesday and “Tropic Thunder” just came out. (Check out my review over on XtraButter.com.) The fellas were talkin bout goin to this premier strip club with some hot Dominican dancers. I don’t enjoy teasin myself all that much so I decided to go to the movie instead. I thought I persuaded Kev & Hasan to check it out to, but then they ditched me right at the box office. I guess I’m lame. I just prefer a good movie over strip clubs. Call it what you want.

Day 2: The Jew

Hasan shows us this corner store across the street where they make these great bacon egg & cheese croissants. They were damn good! Its Thursday and I needed to work on the computer while Kev and Hasan went shopping. This became a familiar pattern because I needed to finish up some stuff while in NY.

Fast Forward to later that night. My friend, Hasan’s sister, Chandra’s husband Jameel’s friend the coordinator from “Making the Band 4″ was having a birthday at this little Kareoke spot. We were having drinks and enjoying ourselves. Jameel gave his rendition of Prince’s “Purple Rain.” He was rather good. It was funny at the time to me because I had already signed up for another Prince song off of the same album “Beautiful Ones.” At the beginning of the song I was not doing so well. The mic was terrible and it wasn’t picking me up. I should have done a mic check 1st.

Click here to view the embedded video.

I kept thinking that if I could only get to the bridge I’d be ok. Once I got to the middle of the song I started groovin. I felt the crowd pick up a little bit and so I started flowin with them. I dropped to my knees in some parts and was on the floor trying my best to mimic Prince in that scene in the movie Purple Rain:

I joined the crew back at the table and then we took a pic.

*Top to bottom left to right (NEIM, Kev, Tarv, Hasan, Chandra)

After that night of drinking etc. I decided to not sleep so I could on the plane… didn’t happen. I over slept and realized I lost my bank cards in the cab on the way home. In my drunken haze I didn’t feel them slip out of my slacks! I missed my flight and had to catch stand-by. It was $15 to check my bag which I did not have because of the bank card situation so I had to use my FedEx account to ship my big bag. I was at the airport around 6am and didn’t get home till around 10pm. So, I guess it had to even out.

Last thing… You will see why in the next post of the Athletic Challenge… Kev still hasn’t spoken to NEIM. I wonder why.

New York I love you! Special thanks to Hasan, my brother from another mother. Jameel, your mentoring and hospitality is priceless. Chandra, I’m so proud. Tarv, you’re still great! Hugh & Blyss my surrogate family. I will miss NY, but you know I’m comin baaaack! To stay… to be continued.

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I haven’t been blogging lately because I’ve been a little busy with projects. Here is a preview of some of my latest work.

The Tipping Point is a sneaker boutique that I made a website for.

I also designed a cover for a client for her scho

ol project. She needed something for the young girls that she’s working with to become entrepreneurs. She wanted to loosely derive it from the cover of this book called “Got it Goin On” and a previous design that I did.

This is one of the versions that I came up with that we eventually went with. She wanted colorful and feminine.

I also got the chance to do some advertising for Bangkok Chef. This was a slight change from the usual work I do, but I try to stay versatile. I’m

working on their website also that I hope to have up by this week.

BKChef.com

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What up people?! I haven’t blogged in over a month! Had one great weekend though, followed by a really good week so I am in a writing mood.Friday was Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content.

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Barack Obama. Barack… Obama. Is Obama the new face of America? Has America been so blinded that we do not see what we have become? I myself have been so ashamed of saying that I am an American that I usually just say I am a man. I have , or should I say had, aspirations of leaving this country in search of a place that I can one day have a family that is proud of where they come from.

My peers would say, “You can’t find a place as good as America. You’re gonna want to come home.” In the immortal words of my man Isiah Whitlock Jr. (Sen. Clay Davis of “The Wire”) “Shiiiiid.” There are plenty of places in this world that I can escape the threat of war or a “terrorists” reaction to an oppressive government. I can most assuredly find affordable… oh wait, FREE health care abroad that is just as good if not better than the one I could possibly go bankrupt here for paying outrages fees and deductibles. I know you’re not going to tell me that my dollar is worth more than a number of currencies across the globe. Would it be so bad to live in a society that stresses family and common wealth instead of the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. That was until I started listening. Listening to Barack.

Change. Sure, all of the candidates are saying it. Hillary Clinton says the same thing, but do we really believe her? Just being a woman isn’t a significant enough change. She comes off more to me as someone that just has personal aspirations of being the most powerful woman on earth. Sure she can lean on the Universal Health Care issue, but lets look at it more in detail. How will she achieve this universal health care? It will be mandatory by law. Kinda like car insurance. Sounds good you say? Look a little deeper.

Massachusetts has already tried this approach. The problem with this is that many citizens just can’t afford it. I don’t mean the poor people who can take advantage of medicaid and subsidies. I’m talking about those who make just enough where they are excluded from such subsidies and have to pay this insurance every month involuntarily. What happens to those who cannot afford it? They get fined! 1st offense is just a couple of hundred dollars. The next one is upwards of over $1,000! This is crazy! Will this effect people’s credit? Will the government garnish wages?! The main benefactor of this will be the insurance companies and not the people!

Obama on the other hand offers a way of making health-care affordable and available to all. Obama understands that health-care is just not in the budget for some families because of the cost. People shouldn’t have to be forced to cough up money they don’t have. This too does not completely solve them problem of health-care in this country, but it at least gives you an option. It still amazes me that we live in a country where its government can spend billions of dollars a year to wage a war in the Middle East over oil but it cannot afford to take care of its own citizens! Health Care should be free! Plain and simple. Doctors, insurance companies and drug manufacturers should all just make a little less money to benefit the whole. Like I said before, we live in a country that values money over anything else.

Obama inspires Americans though. He wants to change that line of thinking. He understands that America was great because of her ideas not its wars. Obama, spending 4 years studying abroad, understands that to make America great again is to renew those ideas of freedom and equality. He understood that when he opposed the war in Iraq vehemently before it all began. Do you ever stop to ask yourself, “Why in the hell are we over there period?” If you come to any other conclusion than OIL then you are sadly disillusioned. If it is hard for you to understand why “terrorists” hate us and plan to attack us then let me help you out.

Imagine that America was extremely rich in oil. Lets say that there is an abundance out in Texas and Arizona. Would we allow foreign countries to come in and say that our ways of government are unjust and we need to change or else. Then allow them to come and occupy Texas and Arizona under the false assertion that we had WMD’s (We have over 9,000 nuclear warheads) intended to do them harm. There would be know F’n way we allow that! We wouldn’t stand for them to be in the waters near our country nor in our neighboring countries of Canada and Mexico. So I ask you, what gives us the right to do what we do? We are so wrong its shameful.

We occupy foreign countries under the guise of spreading democracy as if we were in a medieval crusade to spread Christianity. All we did was cause chaos in an already chaotic region of the world for control over… OIL. Get this… Americans control it and we the people suffer for it. Exxon, Shell, Mobile and all of the other oil and gas companies have had their best years ever! They are making more money than any other company in the world and we are paying record high prices at the pump! So let me get this straight… thousands of Americans are dying and getting wounded (physically and mentally) every day for a few companies vested interests in crude oil that strains our countries economy by making everything cost more because of the cost of a barrel of black gold?!

That’s why I listen to Obama. He was adamantly against the war because he somehow had the foresight to see the bad direction we would go in as a result. He’s not thinking of personal gain, but his actions are reflecting his concern for his American people. Obama isn’t running for office because he wants personal gain. He is running because he loves and still believes in the idea of America that seems to be fading away. Obama seems to have gotten my attention and inspires me to believe again that one day I can be proud to be an American. He talks of using diplomacy instead of brute force to try and live in peace with the rest of the world instead of crushing it. Obama understands the steps we must take to free ourselves from the tierney of oil and in turn help reduce greenhouse gasses.

Obama has encouraged me to stick around and get involved in this process of healing this country. I can’t say that for the rest of the candidates. Hell, me writing an article about it in my blog is proof enough of inspiration. Maybe Obama’s message of hope and prosperity through means of action can reflect a renewed idea of America the Beautiful. I certainly hope so. I don’t want to be governed by the same fear tactics and greed that this government imposes upon its people. I want the true idea of freedom.

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The Chinese New Year was yesterday and for some reason I felt a renewed sense of vitality. That was before I knew it was the New Year. January was an extremely trying month for me and I have to admit it has affected me. I haven’t been bloggin, I lost a client for the 1st time, and I haven’t shaved in nearly 2 months!! Not to mention my car got booted and towed (what a mess!). If you have unpaid parking tickets… don’t park downtown! I haven’t even been social. I have sort of disappeared.

Well I think everyone is entitled to a bad month from time to time. C’est la vie. That withstanding I have decided to dedicate myself this entire year for taking the next step in all the phases of my life. By doing so, I hope to inspire those around me to reach for greater things. I’m going to get my writing projects done. Finish my website. Improve upon my business model and solidify a steady client base.

I’m dedicated to this purpose. Let this be written evidence of the commitment NEIM is taking to become great at what NEIM does.

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I’ve stumbled on a pretty interesting show on the Internet that I want to share with you. It is a light-hearted way of reporting the otherwise serious news of world events in less than 3 minutes!

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Marta Costello is AWESOME in my humble opinion. She has the courage to start her own show from meager beginnings. I’m sure with her passion and fervor she will take it as far as she is willing to go. I always admire the people who have the gumption to do what it is that they really want to do instead of just dreaming and talking about it. She’s witty, charismatic and cute too! Good for you Marta!

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