E-Cigarettes
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 29th, 2010
Good morning!
Awhile ago Doug and I went to see the movie “The Tourist”. With stars such as Angelina Jolie and especially Johnny Depp, whom I love in any movie, we couldn’t resist. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it was not a great flick.
However, in the movie, while riding the train, “Frank”, (Depp), tells “Elise” (Jolie) that he is smoking an “e cigarette”. To which Elise replies, “I’d rather you be a man who did exactly as he pleased.” I do love that line …but wait…back up…
…Wha’at? An “e cigarette”! Does this really exist? And just exactly what are these vapor sticks?
Interested? Here’s what one of my sources sent me:
“Are E-Cigarettes Better For Your Health? And Why are E-Cig Companies Giving Them Away?”
As part of a new series: “E-Cig science” we examine consumer tips for dieting during a recession
*Mentioned E-Cigarettes Were Provided By: “Direct E-Cig™ E-Cigarette”
We investigate the truth behind this new technological breakthrough.
Electronic cigarettes have recently grabbed the attention of countless tobacco users across the United States. Also known as the “E-Cigarette,” these groundbreaking devices are raising a lot of eyebrows. Are they really a healthier and cheaper alternative to traditional cigarettes? Creators say these devices are very different from the traditional cigarette, and thousands of smokers have already made the switch with hopes the device will be better for their health. But can this clever looking contraption live up to all the hype? Is there any scientific evidence that electronic cigarettes truly are the #1 smoking alternative?
When we first inspected the electronic cigarette, it was easy to see that the device in fact does look and feel like a traditional cigarette. Creators and product users are claiming that you can now enjoy a healthier cigarette without the bad smells, second-hand smoke, or cancer causing chemicals. Plus they claim you can still get your nicotine fix. Sounds almost too good to be true right? That’s what we thought as well. So we had our own Vanessa Michaels test these incredible claims. And the results, to say the least, were very shocking. Here are just a few of the benefits that Direct E-Cig™ electronic cigarettes have been claiming on their website:
- No tar, tobacco, carbon monoxide, or ash.
- Get the same amount of nicotine as a regular cigarette.
- Each cartridge costs less than $2 and is equivalent to an entire pack of cigarettes.
- You can save over $1,000 each year.
- You won’t “smell” like a smoker any longer.
- Different flavors are available.
- No more second-hand smoke.
When Vanessa received her electronic cigarette trial kit, she passed the device around so everyone could take a closer look. Sure enough, the product looked and felt like a cigarette. The device was also very well made and seemed safe to use. When Vanessa took her first few drags on the device, we all stared in amazement. It looked like Vanessa was smoking in the office, but with one huge difference. There was no tobacco smell and no second-hand smoke. Just a harmless vapor.
We were also able to confirm the money savings claims. Each cartridge was equivalent to approximately 1 pack of cigarettes at a cost of only a couple of dollars each, meaning that smokers who smoke 1 pack per day can easily save over $1,000 per year. Since the device satisfied Vanessa’s nicotine cravings, we knew that we had found a product that actually works.
We decided to research exactly what expert medical doctors and product users had to say about Direct E-Cig™ electronic cigarettes. The results were surprising. In fact, the United Health Organization concluded that “In the short time that electronic cigarettes have become popular, the number of people who have been able to quit smoking and stay cigarette free have risen by an estimated 300%. No other methodology has proven so successful in such a short period of time.”
A New U.S. Health Trend?
Four very well known doctors, from the popular TV show “The Doctors”, have shared great insight with us on the topic of the electronic cigarette. The electronic cigarette was featured as one of their top 10 key health trends for 2009.
“The greatest issue with cigarettes is the 500+ other ingredients added, not just the nicotine. Do we recommend this for non-smokers? Of course not, but for current smokers this is the most revolutionary device to date” - Dr. Travis Stork
None of the doctors on the show are smokers, so they used a female smoker, Beverly, as a case study. Beverly had struggled with smoking for 15 years. By day 2, this former “heavy smoker” had eliminated the use of regular cigarettes all together, and was pleased to report that she now only uses her electronic cigarette. She admits that the E-Cigarette is very satisfying and definitely recommends it to other smokers.
How Does The Direct E-Cig™ E-Cigarette Work?
Technology has enabled engineers to create a safer cigarette for everyone. Using the device is simple enough. If you know how to smoke a regular cigarette, then you’ll know how to smoke an electronic cigarette.
A Look Inside The Electronic Cigarette Here’s a simplified explanation of the 4 step process that occurs when you enjoy an electronic cigarette:
- Step #1: A flow sensor will detect that air is traveling through the e-cigarette when the user inhales.
- Step #2:Liquid nicotine and flavoring contained in the cartridge goes into the atomization chamber while the Smart Chip controls the amount.
- Step #3:The Heating Vapor Coil “atomizes” the liquid creating a rich vapor very similar to smoke. While this vapor is enjoyed, the indicator light is signaled.
- Step #4: When the smoker finishes inhaling, the LED in the indicator light fades out. The smoker is free to partake in additional drags on the device.
We are pleased to report that all of this occurs in an extremely safe manner. In fact, it is virtually impossible to unintentionally start a fire with an electronic cigarette, another huge benefit that can potentially save lives.
Smoking In Banned Locations
As part of our in-depth investigation, we wanted to study if e-cigarette users would be able to actually smoke an e-cigarette in locations that have been off-limits to smokers like public offices, restaraunts, librarys, etc. We learned that these new devices are not encompassed by most smoking bans and regulations. This is because an e-cigarette are not lit by flame, and no harmful smoke is produced. The smoke you see is simply a harmless vapor mist. In fact, some airports and hospitals have even welcomed indoor electronic cigarette smoking enthusiastically. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that you might catch grief from some security guards or other public building managers.
Many employeers are now even allowing e-cigarette use in the office
Because e-cigarettes do not produce second hand smoke, there is no public health hazard to smoking them in public areas. And there are lowered personal risks to you. We have interviewed many users who report that they are able to smoke in more places and get that same ‘nicotine fix’ they crave. Many of them have completely given up traditional cigarettes…
We have found Direct E-Cig™ to be one of the most trusted and quality suppliers of electronic cigarettes from all the companies we’ve researched. Customer reviews have been consistently positive and Direct E-Cig™ is so confident in their product that they are offering our readers a special Risk-Free* Trial Offer. Click Here to access this exclusive offer. We thank Direct E-Cig™ for providing smokers with the opportunity to try out this product before they buy. We encourage all of our readers who currently smoke to give the electronic cigarette a try for their health, and for the health of their friends, families, and co-workers.
Doug: I do too. We learned a lot about each other during our travels didn’t we? :) I too look forward to a time when you are by my side and travel is in our plans again, here and out there.
Roy: I like your last quote about character. Nice, and very true.
TAO: Maz, thank you for informing us. I am so happy the war is over. It is a day worth celebrating! I look forward to the return of Azza and all of the TAO, as well as hearing the chronicles of your adventures. I HOPE you are well.
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December 29th, 2010 at 9:56 am
Buy a Fridge in May and a Computer in August
Mark Di Vincenzo
The prices of certain products fluctuate by 10% to 75% over the course of a year. Some even vary predictably within a single day or week.
Knowing how to correctly time purchases can save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year.
APPLIANCES & ELECTRONICS
Best time to buy small appliances and electronics: April. Many electronics products are made by Japanese companies, which typically introduce new products and discount older ones soon after March 31, the end of their fiscal year.
Best time to buy a refrigerator: May. Merchants often slash fridge prices in May to clear space in showrooms and warehouses for new models, which arrive each summer.
Best time to buy a computer: August, during back-to-school sales. Prices often drop by $50 or more. Printers and other computer peripherals sometimes are thrown in as well.
Exceptions…
Buy televisions in January, when discounts are common on units that were not sold at the holidays and on products replaced by newer models unveiled at early January’s Consumer Electronics Show. (TVs often are attractively priced during December’s holiday sales as well.)
Buy cameras in February. Most new models come out in January and February. Get a good deal on a year-old model at a Presidents’ Day sale.
Buy portable music players in August or September. These often are marked down in anticipation of the new models, which tend to arrive in September and October.
Best time to buy a lawn mower, snowblower or barbecue grill: Near the end of its season of use.
Discounts can reach 30% to 40% on grills and lawn mowers between Labor Day and November… with similar savings on snowblowers in March. Merchants don’t want to store these bulky, expensive items until their next season.
HOUSE
Best time to make an offer on a house: January. Home buyers face minimal competition during this month because house hunting is no fun when the weather is at its worst.
Less competition means greater odds that a seller will accept a low-ball bid. The weather is no better in February, but by then sellers are more likely to hold out until temperatures and the housing market begin to heat up in March.
The first Tuesday of January can be the perfect day to make an offer. Home owners will have recently made a month-end mortgage payment, a reminder of the high cost of holding onto an unneeded home.
Tuesday also is a great day to make offers in slow housing markets because by then, home owners realize it’s unlikely that other house hunters from the weekend’s showings intend to make offers.
Alternate strategy: Make an offer on Christmas Day. Sellers are happy to receive an offer — even on a holiday — and people are in a good mood on Christmas, leaving them psychologically predisposed to be flexible and generous in their negotiations.
Add a message to your offer explaining that the home would be the perfect place to raise your family — we tend to become very family-oriented on Christmas. You will need a real estate agent who is willing to work on Christmas to do this.
CLOTHING
Best time to buy thrift shop clothing: Soon after area dry cleaners make donations. Some of the best clothing available at many thrift shops is donated by dry cleaners. These are mostly high-end clothes that the dry cleaners’ customers failed to pick up.
Ask a thrift shop employee if the store receives donations from any dry cleaners and, if so, when those donations tend to arrive. Stop by soon after a donation is expected.
Best time to buy new clothing: About a month after you first see it. If clothing hasn’t sold six weeks after it appears in stores, the markdowns begin. Ask an employee how long an item has been in stock if you are not sure.
CAR
Best time to buy a new car if low price is your priority: October through December.
Dealers often discount the current year’s models by as much as 20% late in the year to make room for new models.
October and November are the best bets if you’re at all picky about what you drive — prices can be even lower in December, but by then very few desirable vehicles from the current model year are likely to be available.
Whatever month you buy your new car, shop on one of that month’s final days. Salespeople and dealerships become more willing to offer attractive deals late in the month because they often need to sell cars to meet monthly sales quotas or earn bonuses.
Best time to bring a car to a mechanic for repairs: Thursday. This is the slowest day of the week at many repair shops. Some shops are willing to give discounts of 10% to 20% to customers who are willing to wait until Thursday — if those customers know to ask.
But don’t expect a Thursday discount at a shop that always is busy. Thursday discounts most likely are given to customers who bring multiple jobs to a shop, so consider holding off on having a minor repair done until additional work is required.
MARKETS
Best time to shop at a farmers’ market: Just before closing time. Farmers’ market merchants hate loading unsold goods back onto their trucks.
If fruits and vegetables are already ripe and are unlikely to be sellable in another day or two, point this out. Discounts can be 50%, sometimes more.
Best time to buy at an outdoor flea market: On the last weekend of the season. Outdoor flea markets shut down for the winter in most parts of the country.
Sellers often are willing to accept low-ball offers rather than put merchandise in storage for months.
Bottom Line/Personal interviewed Mark Di Vincenzo, a journalist based in Newport News, Virginia, who interviewed hundreds of merchants and analyzed years of sales data and industry reports for his book Buy Ketchup in May and Fly at Noon:
A Guide to the Best Time to Buy This, Do That and Go There (Harper). http://www.BuyKetchupInMay.com
December 29th, 2010 at 10:24 am
I found this article on CNN today disturbing. I believe everyone should be free to love whomever they wish.
“Rabbi Gilad Kariv, harshly condemned the letter and said, “Israeli society is falling into a deep, dark pit of racism and xenophobia.” Could this really be a new observation on his part?
Please send pink light to the Arabs and Jews and keep them in your thoughts for Peace.
Jerusalem (CNN) — A letter from about 30 prominent rabbis’ wives was causing a stir in Israel Wednesday because it urges Israeli girls not to date Arabs.
The open letter comes three weeks after the uproar caused by another letter, which was written by 50 state-appointed rabbis and told Jews not to rent or sell property to non-Jews.
The latest missive, which was published by some websites and news outlets, says Arab men act polite around Jewish girls and “act as if they really care about you,” but it says that’s a ruse. The men, it says, even change their Arab names to Hebrew forms like Yossi and Ami in order to get close to the girls.
“This behavior is temporary,” the letter says. “As soon as you are in their hands, in their villages under their control, everything becomes different. You can ask dozens of girls who have been there. They will tell you it is all an act.
“As soon as you arrive at the village, your life will never be the same. The attention will be replaced with curses, beatings, and humiliations. Even if you want to leave the village it will be much harder. They won’t let you, they will chase you, they won’t let you come back.”
It urges Jewish girls not to go out with non-Jews or work in places that employ non-Jews.
“Your grandmothers never dreamt that their descendants would do something that will take the next generations of her family out of the Jewish people,” it says.
The letter was initiated by the head of Lehava, an extreme right-wing group that says it aims to prevent the “assimilation of the Jewish people” and works at “saving Jewish girls from Arab villages.”
“It’s known that girls who go out with Arabs are beaten, these girls are in danger. … There is a violent social trend and everyone ignores it,” said the head of the group, Anat Gopstein, in a radio interview Wednesday morning.
The head of Israel’s Reform movement, Rabbi Gilad Kariv, harshly condemned the letter and said, “Israeli society is falling into a deep, dark pit of racism and xenophobia,” according to spokeswoman Yuli Goren.
More than 30 female rabbis from the Reform movement published a counter-letter harshly condemning the one released Wednesday, Goren said. Kariv also called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Justice Minister Yaacov Neeman to speak out against it.
Among the rabbis’ wives who signed the letter is Nitzchia Yossef, the daughter-in-law of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the ultra-orthodox Shas political party. Esther Lior, the wife of extreme right-wing Rabbi Dov Lior, was another signatory.
Rabbi Yosef was one of the authors of the letter written earlier this month that urged Jews not to sell or rent property to non-Jews. It prompted widespread condemnation from politicians, human rights groups and leading rabbis in both Israel and the United States.
The letter, which was distributed to synagogues and published in some religious newspapers, had warned that those who defied the religious ruling should be ostracized. It said if one apartment is taken by a non-Jew, it devalues all the neighbors’ apartments.
More than 800 rabbis from around the world signed a petition against the letter, saying “statements like these do great damage to our efforts to encourage people to love and support Israel.”
The petition said “the attempt to root discriminatory policies based on religion or ethnicity in Torah is a painful distortion of our tradition. Am Yisrael (the Jewish people) knows the sting of discrimination, and we still bear the scars of hatred. When those who represent the official rabbinic leadership of the state of Israel express such positions, we are distressed by this … desecration of God’s name.”
Nearly 1.5 million Arab residents live inside Israel, making up 23% of the population.
December 29th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Hafa Adai, It’s time to celebrate the end of this year and the beginning of a whole new one.
If you are at lost for what to do, here are a few suggestions for places to go for bringing in the New Year with a bang.
The Globe
Las Vegas celebrity deejay Girl 6 Live and Back on Guam Dec. 30, Jan. 1, 6-8. $10 cover charge which includes a select beer. Dec. 31., open 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. for the New Year’s bash. $25 cover charge which includes two drinks, champagne toast at midnight, cash prizes, and money drop at midnight.
Manhattan VIP exclusive party
$50 cover charge which includes free-flowing champagne, free appetizers and exclusive access to the Manhattan bar.
Hilton Guam Resort & Spa at the Tree Bar
It’s Carnivale at the Tree Bar from 9 p.m. to midnight. Salsa the night away to the sounds of Mai Castro and friends, supported by Hypnotic Beatz. $40 cover charge, which includes all-you-can-drink draft beer, champagne and sodas. You must be at least age 21 to enter. Fantasy fireworks will begin at midnight.
Hilton Guam Resort & Spa at Islander Terrace
New Year’s Eve dinner buffet from 6 to 9 p.m., which includes wine, champagne and beer, and complimentary entrance to the New Year’s Eve Carnivale party at the Tree Bar (certain restrictions apply). $55 per adult plus 10 percent service charge.
Hilton Guam Resort & Spa at Roy’s
New Year’s Eve set dinner at 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Included is live entertainment, plus complimentary entrance to the New Year’s Eve Carnivale party at the Tree Bar (certain restrictions apply). $150 per adult plus 10 percent service charge. The a la carte menu will not be available.
Hilton Guam Resort & Spa at Fisherman’s Cove
New Year’s gale dinner from 5:30 to 9 p.m., with a special four-course menu with champagne. $60 plus 10 percent service charge. A la carte menu will be available.
Now you have no excuse. So come on out!
Anna
December 29th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Great article Michelle. I recently quit smoking, it is so hard. I could use a second option.
Levi
December 29th, 2010 at 11:56 am
We are about to enter a new year and we are all at least a year older. This quote by Doris day rings true for some of us.
“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you will out grow it.” – Doris Day
December 29th, 2010 at 11:58 am
We in Beijing wish you Michelle, your blog members and the rest of America HAPPY NEW YEAR.
December 29th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Here in Qatar when we women read about the discrimination by Jews in Israel against arabs it is
disheartening.
But we are 100% behind the Jewish mothers who tell their daughters not to date arab men. Arab men have no respect for the human rights of their women. They treat arab women like property. Their animals have more freedom of movement than we do.
Bahran Chah
December 29th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
I agree with the jewish mothers who advise their daughters not to date arab men. I am an arab mother and I wish I could advise my daughter not to “date” arab men.
“Dating” is a nonword to arab. They are forced into marriages with arab men and then spend the rest of their lives in sexual slavery and fear of death for any reason by their husbands.
I do not agree with taking it farther than advising your daughters not to date arab men. Discriminating because someone is not of your nationality for reasons other than self protection is terrible.
Not all arabs are violent. Most are content to live side by side with jews as long as they are treated with the respect the jews expect for themselves.
Nawzad
December 29th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
Bharan and Nawzad, let me apologize to you for my naivity and short-sightedness. Unfortunately, I am a romantic and it often clouds my thinking. For me, the exposure I have had with Arab men while in America has been overwhelmingly positive. I have been treated very gently and respectfully, often much better than I have been treated by English or American men. I dislike generalizations. However, as an American, I was dating and “giving up” what they couldn’t find at home so perhaps that is why my experience was positive. Peace to us all.
December 29th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Free2love that is the point. You can be “a romantic.” Arab women are prisoners in their countries. We have no freedoms except those given to us by our men or rather masters, because that’s what any male is to a female under the Koran.
They use religion to give them legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the world. Where in the Koran does it say that women are to be the slaves of men?
So Free2love, arab women can’t give what you can give to an arab man because we can’t date. He is a hypocrite because he is out seeking what he refuses to allow his women to seek or give.
My question to you is what kind of self-esteem allows you to feel comfortable in a relationship with a man who is living a lie? The next time you lay down to give him what he can’t find at home ask him why he feels it necessary to keep arab women as virtual sex slaves while he fornicates where he pleases.
Is he so afraid that he will not be attractive to arab women so he must force her to accept him through an arranged(forced) union that he calls a marriage so that he can beat, rape, or kill her at will.
Every muslim country is a place run by pimps and pedophiles who use religion to legitimize sexual slavery. Sure I would be killed by my father, uncles, brother, cousins, or any male who learned I said this.
BUT EVERY WORD IS THE TRUTH!
Thank you Michelle for providing a forum for all women to vent.
Lashkar Gah
December 29th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
When one talks of the Koran, one is forced to give that book reverence it does not deserve. How good is a religion that forces its believers into its beliefs and punishes freewill to leave with death that can be carried out by any other member without legal penalty?
That by every other definition that is a cult. But because the West needs our oil, they look the other way at our plight and call it a religion. Even your Pope, another misogynist, kisses their rumps by giving legitimacy to the cult.
What else would you expect from a religion that reserves the top spots for the men. It is interesting that the women are called “Nuns.” They are nothing but servants for the men who get to be the priests.
With this type of indoctrination it is easy to see why a “free2love” would be “naive” to the plight of arab women. Dating arab men because she would be “giving up” what they couldn’t find at home is only a short step from dating married men because their wives “don’t understand” them.
It is often said that one would never go broke underestimating the stupidity of the american white woman.
I’d wager more than a few coins that “free2love is an american white woman.
Orgun
December 29th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
The point that stands out for me in free2love’s comment is that Jewish women are free to have a different opinion from that of their men. I would be killed if it is learned that I am saying this.
Arab men are brutal and consciousless about what they do to their females in the name of following the teachings of the koran. I feel no sympathy for the discrimination the jews wish to impose on such men.
Why should I weep for their sadness when they impose incalculable sadness upon me and other arab women every day of our lives. Yet they go out and weep to the world that they are being discriminated upon by Israel.
The United States enters the fray with unclean hands. They have some nerve telling the jews how to treat the foreigners in their country when this pile of shit run by white men murder their OTWS almost at will.
It is often pointed out to us that white america is a vast sea of hypocrites. Ones that deliberately discriminate against their OTW citizenry and the ones that know that it is being done but deny or look the other way.
I think that Israel should do what it thinks is best for its people.
Qalat
December 29th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I agree with Qalat. The US should stay out of our politics. Here in Israel we are surrounded by ignorant arab men who blindly follow the teachings of a book of sick misogynists.
America made up a case of weapons of mass destruction and bombed hundreds of millions of people back into the stone age. Is anyone their weeping for the dead and mutilated?
It was criminal warfare at best and calculated murder of millions at worse. Iraq has had its entire catholic population murdered or driven out of the country because of the invasion of the war criminal bush. And that is but one of many ethic and religious groups that have been wiped out to a family.
What does white america do? They rush to put back into power the same party. HYPOCRITES is too nice a word to use to describe those racists bigots.
As far as I am concerned white america and the arab terrorist deserve each other. If only they would kill each other off and leave the rest of the world to find peace.
Keep your hypocritical politics out of Israel.
Dafne
December 29th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Interesting discussion. Men will take what they can get in the who should be in charge department. If women truly want to be a man’s equal she will have to commit to a daily struggle of nipping in the bud all the little attempts we float as trial balloons to get an edge or advantage in the who’s in charge department.
As for the hypocrisy of the american white male. I also agree it knows no bounds. Take for example This article in the Huffington Post in which Turker Carlson says that Michael Vick should have been executed for killing dogs.
He can say something like that because as
December 29th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
He can say something like that because he knows that white america will not chastise him for denigrating an OTW. He can say that while defending the murder of millions of innocent Iraqi men women and children by a criminal president.
He can say that while defending the murder of a young black man by a Bart policeman and condemn the jury for finding him guilty of basically a misdemeanor. He, like most of white america, wanted the cop set free with no penalty.
This is a country turned upside down because a black man got elected President of the United States of America.
White America is willing to put the party back in power who literally bankrupted the country because they don’t want a second term of a black man as President. That is it in a nut shell.
The Country or their personal welfare be damned! They will not support a party that is offering a black man as its candidate for President of the United States of America. The fact that he has done more in 2 years than any of the 43 did in 8 will fall on deaf ears.
HE IS BLACK! And that is all that matters to most of white America.
So for the rest of you out there from other countries looking to America for justice here is a link that should give you pause. Tucker Carlson: Michael Vick ‘Should Have Been Executed’ (VIDEO)
or
huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/29/tucker-carlson-michael-vi
December 29th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
I may be a white girl but I know that America has been a deep white pit of racism and xenophobia for centuries.
I live in Colorado, but my parents were born and raised in Tennessee. They are die hard bigots.
December 29th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Scary what you can open up when you comment on this blog, eh free2love?
But it has been interesting reading. So people hate us. What else is new? Sure we are not perfect, but who can find a better place to live on the planet?
Even our niggers, slopes, and wetbacks have to admit that.
Kent
December 29th, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Thanks Kent for some perspective. Robert you are a pompous ass. Bring that mouth to South Carolina and we will straighten you or your neck out.
Mindy
December 29th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
My family has plenty pictures depicting the hanging of niggers. Now I see why it had to be done.
Niggers like Robert attempt to stir up the minorities. He is a communist rabble rouser of the worst kind. If you don’t like the country white men built, get the fuck out.
And take any of the slopes, grease balls or illegals that feel the same way with you. On second thought take them regardless of how they feel.
This is God’s country made by and for white men.
December 30th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Michelle:
I can appreciate your open forum but sometimes your posters are a little raw. I hope the rest of the world that reads them don’t think that all white men are as racist or bigoted as some of the above, or all white women are as “naive” as Free2Love.”
Thank God that we have men like Doug to balance the scales with their intelligent contributions to your blog.
I am a proud white American woman and I think for myself. You are one and you write this blog.
So I hope those that are leaning towards evaluating white Americans based on the actions of the racists or bigoted whites who get the press or write in on this blog with their hatreds and vitriol of OTWs will understand that America, like your blog, gives everyone the right to free speech.
But the right to say what you please doesn’t extend a right to do that thing. We are a country for the most part of a fair justice system.
It could use some work, but that is what a free and independent country is about. Working to give all its people equality.
I will admit that presently the country is in the hands of a few organized racists and bigots. But we have been there before and come out of it.
America still stands for Freedom and Justice for All.
Lois
December 30th, 2010 at 8:03 am
Hafa Adai
Greed and corruption is running strong in the Guam police department.
The GPD purchased 14 new Crown Victoria cars from only one particular vendor even though the rules of supplying the department require independent bids to get the best price.
Did we get the best price? That we will not know but for certain we know that we got lemons because former police chief Frank Ishizaki changed the bids multiple times until it was finally awarded to one particular vendor. A vendor who sold the Guam Police Department cars, Crown Victorias, that will be discontinued next year.
How much of a kick back do you think he got for that deal? And there is no word on how much more GPD will have to pay to outfit the 14 new Crown Victorias so they are street ready.
And what explanation does the GPD give to us for buying cars that will not have a dealer source for repair or replacement parts?
The GPD tells they would use old parts from inoperable cruisers to maintain their current fleet. Duh!
Why buy obsolete vehicles in the first place for the only police department on the island? why indeed unless, it was profitable for the ex chief?
One would think that the Guam legislature who is charged with investigating possible criminal acts by heads of departments in just this type of situation would do their jobs and INVESTIGATE.
But this appears to be another case for us to shrug and say OOG. – Only On Guam.
Peter
December 30th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Robert, I found the Tucker Carlson article. It was deplorable that he was allowed to use Fox as a forum for his bigotry.
But it is equally deplorable that you would use his act to imply that all white men are as disgusting as he was.
Daniel
December 30th, 2010 at 8:23 am
“Equally,” huh Daniel?
That’s his point. Most white males have no conscious about what they do to OTWs. So to you calling white men racists is equal to calling for the death of a black man by a white man.
So for you why not call for the death of a black man for killing a dog while calling for the release of a white man for shooting a handcuffed black man in the back by an armed and trained white police officer? Or rather a thug with a badge as they are so often referred to on this blog.
How easy it is for white males to get angry with what they perceive as derogatory statements about their race while denigrating others on a daily basis and expecting them to just “suck it up.”
I can understand why members of the arab world want to kill them on sight. What I can’t understand is why the OTWS of America continue to want to die for them.
I agree with the writer who said let them kill each other off. The world will be better, much better for it.
This white woman can think for herself, too.
Melissa
December 30th, 2010 at 8:33 am
Personally, I think that E-cigarette is just another attempt by the chief drug pushers in America to continue their run.
They want to continue the string of nicotine junkies. It is so profitable that they have come up with a way to provide a syringe that delivers the drug directly to their junkies.
Penny
December 30th, 2010 at 8:38 am
Ditto Penny.
Nicotine is a 100 times more addictive than any illegal drug on the streets. Yet, they are allowed to continue pushing it.
One can not legally smoke weed. But it is legal to smoke a product that can kill or maim those who are not using the drug but are in the vicinity of someone who is.
As a white woman, I hate to say it but this is another example of white male leadership.
Liza
December 30th, 2010 at 8:48 am
All-Natural Supplements for Erectile Dysfunction (ED) May Be Dangerous
Elizabeth Miller, PharmD
US Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
The ingredients in products such as “Blue Steel” and “Hero,” two dietary supplements sold online as natural ED treatments, may dangerously lower blood pressure, especially among men who take medication to control diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol or heart disease.
These supplements have not been proved safe and are not approved by the FDA.
Best: If you are having ED problems, see your doctor.
Personal interviewed Elizabeth Miller, PharmD, team leader of the Internet and health fraud team, US Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Silver Spring, Maryland.