You're How Old? 2013? Racism For Money?

Hot. It has started to cool off just a little bit and I think record temps in the mountains and no this is not global warming. I know one thing, I better get use to this heat as it will be with me for a long time as I will not have the pleasure to experience winter this year.

4th of July I celebrated a few days prior with an excellent up close fireworks show and a long day in the heat with Natalia where she had a great time but didn't like the fireworks display as much.

I will jump a little into a controversial topic which is racism and today's headlines. We all have heard of Paula Deen and her controversy over a word she said a while back. A word I hate and never use. A little story I have is a few days ago I was overhearing a conversation of 3 people talking about the story as they were looking at the cover of one of the tabloids and while discussing this that word was used about 3 times. I was praying they would not ask me what I though about the story. This word will never go away as it is used daily by so many people. Mostly from certain groups of people. I ask myself what happened to the so many racial slurs used years prior that are no existent nowadays. Racism is being kept alive by certain groups of people. People that in public despite it but continue to use it and propagate it for an agenda. So in response we will destroy this woman publicly and pull all her products off the shelves. But what about the so many music and movies on the same shelves using this word? Lets pull everything offensive off the shelves using this word. On the same hand we have the Zimmerman case which also is being turned into a racial case. Facts are not needed as the evil that racism is, is being used to control people. Please let this word go into history and realize we are all human beings with the same features. But this will never happen because racism is a big money maker in our current society. Money maker? Why out of the blue is Paula Deen brought out from a word she used decades ago in the "South" where I know this word is very prevalent. Has no other public figure ever used this word? Maybe because she became the spokes person of Diabetes with the firm Novaritis which is in competition with Sanofi. This is the reason the slander. Slander used from another company to gain a foothold in the market with a new drug for Diabetes (NA Show Notes 526).

On a lighter note - I don't know if it started as a joke or some stupid people posting it and it turned into a joke but seems like some believe the United States is 2013 years old. Then we wonder why this nation is in the shape it is in.

Finished reading Camouflage, found it entertaining but short and wanted more from the story. I knew it was short as I kept getting closer to the end with no start to the resolution. But overall a decent read. My next read is Neil Gaiman's new novel The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Rather short and hope it is enjoyable.

Jumped back into gaming and started the new DLC for Borderlands 2 after many days of trying to download the DLC and update. Must say it was just one day of gaming. Maybe more in the next few days.

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