63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read by Jesse Ventura

63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read

Does our wonderful government lie to us? Of course. Many times each day. The government lies to us sometimes because we as Americans are too stupid and don't know when to shut our pie holes. Just look at the current state of media. The major news outlets spin news and falsehoods as facts to get our current president elected. Why is this not in James...err. Jesse's book?
Then we have what is branded as reality TV which borders on pornographic tripe that we suck up to make our otherwise dull lives better. Why doesn't James (Yes, his name is James) write about this? Why is the majority of his finger pointing at Republicans?
Since the turn of the century we have had eight Democrats and ten Republicans who have served as president. You might even make the case to say the Nixon and Ford should count as one since they filled only one term. In that time Democrats held majorities for at least forty continuous years. So whose fault is it?
It is the fault of the American people. We elect this human debris and then think we can sit back and do nothing. We are the laziest generation ever and it is getting worse with the mediocre kids we are raising. And what it worse is this poser being allowed to even spews this garbage.
James Janos (his real name) was never, never, and never a Navy SeAL. He was a frogman with the Underwater Demolition Teams. Big difference. He never saw combat from his drunk platform at Subic Bay Naval Base. And even if he were in Vietnam he still would have been lucky to see true combat.
Then he joined one of the worse biker gangs in American...the Mongols. He was not only a member but a full-patched member and the chapter Sergeant at Arms. To become a full patched member you must do something pretty intense or it won't happen. Where the record of this disappeared to we will never know. Maybe it is a conspiracy? Jesse claims that people who get into the presidency have been pre-picked years in advance. Maybe the same thing happened in the case of James Janos (aka Jesse Ventura, "The Body", Mongol moniker).
This book is interesting in that all it does it use old material to show our government has done some not-so-great things in the interest of our national security. Sometimes national security is a scary place to venture Mr. Ventura. Sometimes crazy ideas are floated with no intention of ever coming to fruition. Ideas alone are not a conspiracy to all you nut jobs out there who think it does. Julian Assange is not a hero. He was just the punk kid who got the crap beat out of him during school. All of you nut jobs love to spread the hate of the government but none of you ever has one idea how to protect us from people who don't care how nice we are unless we are dead nice people. Our collective minds do not want to believe that JFK was killed by a lone gunman because we can't imagine how one person could accomplish the task. But we are all too happy to think that our government which can not run the DMV, Post Office, IRS has the ability to conspire to dupe some loser like Oswald. But then we further believe in this spirit of the individual and how they can achieve great things on their own. So what is it going to be? It can't be both.
For special operators Jesse is a joke. He is just another entertainer posing as a substantive person of thought. But after the curtain is pulled back all you have is a steroid abusing, military poser, gang member/criminal and not the second coming. Maybe he is the weak minded person he was talking about in the past. Buy the book to be entertained.

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Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin

Please Look After Mom



Some books change us. They change the way we look at ourselves, the way we interact with those closest to our hearts--the way we’ve loved those people, or the way we’ve missed them or honored them or taken them hopelessly for granted. This is one of those books. This is a book that alters the way we remember.

I’m an author, so this is where my own writerly fail-safes kick-in, warning of hype and hyperbole...but even in reflection...I’m not speaking falsely.

Please Look After Mom isn’t merely a story of familial loss and longing, of the many veils of shame and surrender beneath one roof. This tale is a door, and once you cross its threshold, you’ll never be able to go back to that comfortable place you came from. Your perceptions will be transformed. Permanently.

When Park So-nyo, an elderly mother from a rural town visiting her children on her birthday, vanishes over the event horizon of a crowded Seoul train station, four narratives unfold--four dimensions of loss, anger, blame, and sacrifice--four angles of persistence. (Perhaps it’s no mere coincidence that the number four in Korean is a homonym for “death.”)

But as the four pillars of one family are shaken by this mysterious disappearance, we are also enriched as we learn about the wealth of emotional currency that has been exchanged over one lifetime--tender payments, and the debts owed, from children to parent, from husband to wife, from an aged mother to...herself.

This book is four stories, four echoes, four promises, and four lamentations--that make a whole.

This is your gentle warning, dear reader.

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The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers by Myron Wentz, Dave Wentz

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers

I recently had the opportunity to attend the official book launch of The Healthy Home in Vancouver, BC Canada where Dr. Myron Wentz and Dave Wentz did their first presentaion of the book tour to be in 16 cities in North America. The presentation on stage by the two authors included video, animation, scientific tests done right on stage and quizes that the audience participates in. The book itself is amazing. It is well written and lots of picture type diagrams and comments that are easy to understand. You can read more scientific descriptions in the book as you go along or just read the information in short chapters that take you through each room in your house. It offers quick and easy solutions. You can do it all or just make a few changes here and there. I was blown away by some of the information about toxins and dangers we all live with daily. It can be read in one gulp or pick and choose what room or subject you are most interested in at the time. It is life changing and especially if you get a chance to go to any of the FREE, yes free presentations in a city near you. Also then after purchasing your book, register it online at [...] to assess your home and receive bonus information on subjects in The Healthy Home book. As an added incentive to purchase this book, all profits are being donated to the Children's Hunger Fund. The authors are not receiving a cent. Their mission is for the world to be healthier and free of disease.

 

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5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides) Matthew Inman

5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides) [Paperback]

 5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (and other useful guides) is the first book from The Oatmeal, an eclectic web comic. After a self-titled release, which was more of a magazine publication, the March 2011 edition is a professionally published soft cover book with even more comics and a pull out poster. This book contains all of the web comics published in the first year of The Oatmeal, and over 25 never before seen comics.

For anyone who hasn’t read The Oatmeal before, it’s an excellent web comic covering subjects like web design, copy writing, and corporate recruiting, but also obscure and hilarious topics like “How to Tell if Your Velociraptor is Having Pre-Marital Sex.” Saying that it’s difficult to describe The Oatmeal is an understatement. There is a simplistic and unique art style combined with witty and intelligent writing, but that isn’t very uncommon as most professional comics are well-drawn with good writing.

What really sets The Oatmeal apart is that these comics have a knack of pointing out those little nuances that everyone can relate to, and even when covering a niche subject, it’s presented in a way that is incredibly entertaining for people who have experienced it firsthand, but it’s still pretty funny for anyone unfamiliar within that niche.

There are a lot of list comics, and they have a tendency to break things down pretty well. For example, take computer ownership. “The Three Phases of Owning a Computer” are: The Honeymoon, where “your new computer is capable of anything.” From there it progresses to The Comfortable Phase where “you and your computer are bffs 4 life. You know all of it’s secrets, and it knows all of yours (including your dirty porn habit).” Finally Phase 3: Behold the Dinosaur, “booting up gives you an idea of how long an ice age can last.” That’s more or less the experience, and The Oatmeal is great at pointing out those little things.

Details like your passive aggressive Facebook friend who posts “well rehearsed retorts without mentioning anyone by name” or what it’s like to hug someone with an awkwardly mismatched height, or even the minor differences between a motorist getting cut off who ragingly curses the person that did it versus a pedestrian being cut off and politely apologizing for stepping in the other person’s way and the polite and forgiving response given to the accident. They are little moments that we have all experienced at some point, but never since George Carlin has someone been able to capture and articulate those everyday moments so well.

In his comics that discuss niche topics, they really resonate with people who are familiar with the niche. Copy writers love comics like “Ten Words You Need to Stop Misspelling” and “How to Use an Apostrophe” which may not sound like funny subject matter, but The Oatmeal pulls them off with spectacular results. Similarly “How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell” provides insight into the web agency world and showcases some very familiar (and annoying) aspects of agency/client relationships. “The 10 Types of Crappy Interviewees” is my corporate recruiter friend’s favorite comic because, like the other comics, the subjects are pretty funny to begin with but when you’ve experienced them in real life they’re really hilarious.

There are also informational comics that just present information about common topics like beer and coffee to more obscure topics like tapeworms and the male angler fish. Some comics are just ideas, like “How to Track, Hunt, and Kill a Unicorn,” that don’t really have anything to do with any industry, but they’re just funny.

All in all this is a great collection, and it’s a great value. The book itself is $14.99 and it comes with the “Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell” pull-out poster which as of this writing is $11.95 from The Oatmeal’s online store, so if you were considering buying the poster, it’s well worth the three dollars to just buy the book unless you’re OCD about folds in the poster or something.

The only criticism I have isn’t for the content as much as the format. Whenever a compilation of web comics is put together for a book, it raises the question “why should I buy this if I can read all of the comics online for free?” The Oatmeal handles it by adding over 20 comics that can’t be found on the site and the free poster which makes it a great value. At the same time, the people who are most likely to buy it are fans of the website which means that they’ve already seen about 70 percent of the book, and after reading the new comics there’s nothing more to check out. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great collection, but it would be even better if the comics were supplemented with excerpts from The Oatmeal blog. In their published books, web comic Penny Arcade provides commentary on where the ideas and inspiration from each comic came from, which provides a lot more to read, and I would love to know the origin of things like the Bear-O-Dactyl and “7 Reasons to Keep Your Tyrannosaur off Crack Cocaine.” Maybe if this book does well, a collection of the second year’s worth of The Oatmeal‘s comics will be released with commentary or blog posts. It all depends on what’s next to come out of author Matt Inman’s mind.

Matt is a pretty humble and down to Earth guy. I met him briefly on his tour promoting the book. For someone that has a book that’s in the top 5 on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and a blog that Time magazine recognized as one of the best in 2010, he doesn’t show an ounce of ego. At the end of the signing he looked pretty tired, but still took the time to sit down and take an interview with someone about marketing and how he promotes The Oatmeal. On his website and in person he is very grateful to fans, and deserves every bit of the success that he’s earned.

If you like the comics on theoatmeal.com there’s no reason not to pick this book up. You’ll chuckle at most of the comics, but then you’ll find that one special comic that really resonates with you and end up laughing hysterically, and it will earn a place in your heart.

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Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

 With Cutting for Stone, Abraham Verghese immediately places himself as a budding new novelist to watch. While he respectfully acknowledges his friend and mentor John Irving as his greatest influence, I would argue that Cutting for Stone could stand with the best of Irving's classic works, if not rise above them.
Cutting for Stone begins with Sister Mary Joseph Praise and how her course was changed to arrive at Missing Hospital in Ethiopia. The compass that led her there is a talented young doctor named Thomas Stone whom she nursed back to health aboard a ship on her way to Africa. They become part of a blessed medical team at Missing only to discover that Sister Mary Joseph Praise is shockingly pregnant, about to deliver twins, and the complications of delivery could kill her.

The story of Thomas Stone and Sister Mary Joseph Praise and the shocking outcome of the birth is only the first third of this breathtaking story. As the two twin boys, Marion and Shiva, enter the world, they will magically compose a new family at this hospital nestled in rebellion torn Ethiopia, a unique mix of people brought together by love and loss. Cutting for Stone is a story that exposes what's missing in all its characters lives and strives to heal with reconciliation and redemption.

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