The Real Debate

Edited version of my livestream session on June 28. What did you think about the debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump? When will we see a real debate between a candidate from the Jackass party and a candidate from the Grand Old Party?

Hemp Bill AB 45 in California

Here is an excerpt from a press release, Cannabis Global (CBGL) and Marijuana Company of America (MCOA) Applaud California Assembly Passage of AB 45 Allowing CBD in Food Despite Federal Red Tape, on Yahoo! Finance:

AB 45 is a game changer for companies that market CBD products in the state. While important restrictions on manufacturing remain in place, this is unequivocally positive for any producer of hemp or CBD products targeting end-market consumers in California.

For more on this topic, listen to episode 4 of High Five for Hemp podcast, with Adam Tinkoff and undersigned.

16 YEARS SINCE 911

Is it a malevolent universe?

In the news:

• Saudi government allegedly funded a ‘dry run’ for 9/11 by Paul Sperry - New York Post
• What Is Donald Trump Doing For 9/11? He's Not In New York, For Starters by Graham Lanktree - Newsweek
• 16 years after 9/11, al-Qaeda is back by Zack Beauchamp - Vox
• 10 things you may have forgotten about 9/11 by Ray Locker - USA Today
• Remembering 9/11 Without Obsessing Over It by Doug Mataconis - Outside the Beltway

Have you watched the documentary, Can't We Talk About This?


Related: My post, 13 Years Since 911.

TOWN HALL MEETING INSIDE THE BELTWAY

Is it time for a town hall meeting inside the Beltway? Did you watch the town hall program with John Stossel and Gary Johnson & his running mate, William Weld?

ANNUAL BLOG REPORT XIII

I have now been blogging for 13 years and published 2765 posts. Pageviews so far: 695,844. I will update this post with a podcast session in the near future.

Podcasting will continue to be my main focus during the rest of this year and for the years to come. I haven't been active on this blog lately, and I had thoughts on putting it on hiatus for some time, but then this happened at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas on May 3:

• Texas Police Kill Gunmen at Exhibit Featuring Cartoons of Muhammad - The New York Times 
• Exclusive: "Draw Muhammad" Winner on Growing up in Islam and Defeating the Jihad - Breitbart.com

Please listen to my interview with Bosch Fawstin (September 7, 2011).

Many websites & TV shows aren't showing my prize-winning Mohammad cartoon in their reports. Help fix that by sharing. pic.twitter.com/ghegMe8i2h

— Bosch Fawstin (@BoschFawstin) May 6, 2015

I have now decided that I will update EGO blog on a regular basis, at least a couple of times per week. The main topics (labels) will be: cat, politics and religion.

Related: my post, Annual Blog Report XII.

CIRCUMCISION AND RELIGION

It is time to ban circumcision. This cruel practice is linked to irrational ideas by religious leaders.

Listen to Dr. Leonard Peikoff's answer to the following question:

Do you think the legal guardians of a male child have the right to circumcise him before he is old enough to refuse? www.Peikoff.com, April 25th, 2011.

Check out the Intactivist of the Month (of April, 2011): Penn Jillette.

THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

How did you commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall? Read Scott Holleran's post, Lessons of the Berlin Wall.

13 YEARS SINCE 911

In the news:

• 9/11 commemorations: US remembers victims - BBC News

Thirteen Years Since 9/11. What Have We Learned? - Voices for Reason

• Obama Speech Tonight - Scott Holleran
• Thirteen Years Later - Bosch Fawstin

Related: My post, BOMB THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE.

GONE FISHING

I started my summer blog break with bacon chips and a Margarita drink!



I will be "away" during this month and August, more or less...

What will I do during the summer months, do you ask? ;) Good question. Here are some stuff that I will be busy with:

• Writing on my book on tea - #teaFTWbook.
• Thinking outside the box for my future tea hobby business at Meylah and Tictail.
• Planning for a new podcast show with trend thinker, Lotta Gergils Aston.
• Updating the EGO blog template with a Patreon "tip jar" / support badge, and removing some ad spaces.
• Doing social media activities for the start-up online venture, NetZpider, with Kalle Blomqvist.
• Implementing the to-do app, TeuxDeux, in my daily workflow.

I will not go fishing in the murky waters of Almedalen...

Photo Credit: Angelina Cupcake via Compfight cc

As a "Personal Jesus," I will reach out to my guest bloggers and ask them to write posts on EGO blog.



Do you want to "touch" my readers? Reach out to me on the social web and I will send you an invitation to become a contributor of EGO blog.

Cheerio and so long! :)

ANNUAL BLOG REPORT XII

I have now been blogging for 12 years and published 2756 posts. Pageviews so far: 576,140. Before you listen to my podcast on SoundCloud, 12 Years of Blogging - EGO Blog, please read my post, Annual Blog Report XI.



Show notes:

• Podcast - EGO Netcast
• Listen to John Jantsch's interview ("Creating Audio Authority One Interview at a Time") with John Lee Dumas.
• Cats
• Tea For The Win Book
• Shout-out to supporter / sponsor: Body in Mind.
• Post on Libsyn (Liberated Syndication) by Ms. Ileane.
• Is Spreaker an alternative to BlogTalkRadio?
• Should I upgrade my podcast on Audioboo to a Plus account?
• Should I upgrade my podcast on BlogTalkRadio a Premium account again?
• Future advertising on GOT-Tea-Party.com?
• Hej5 Studio ("High 5 Studio")

• Are You Prepared for a New Prepper Podcast?
• What would America fight for? - The Economist, May 3, 2014.

• Gunboat diplomacy
• Read “Just War Theory” vs. American Self-Defense by Yaron Brook & Alex Epstein - The Objective Standard.
• Americanized website banner commission by John Cox.

SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE ARMPIT OF AMERICA

With a guy like Chris Christie running for President, the United States of America will stink for a long time...

Who's News: Chris Christie

Should the citizen journalists in New Jersey ask Old Spice for help?

FEMALE BEAUTY IN THE NEWS

Dwayne Bell of Body in Mind has informed me about the campaign against the "Page 3 girls" of The Sun.

Is burkini the next thing?

BASHAR AL-ASSAD

I am back from my summer break! Who is in the news? Bashar al-Assad...

Bashar al-Assad

ANNUAL BLOG REPORT XI

I have now been blogging for 11 years and published 2705 posts. My intention is to continue to publish stuff on EGO blog for at least 11 more years..., but I must admit that I have been thinking of putting the blog on a temporary hiatus. One reason for taking a blog break is that during the years of blogging, I have been adding new blogs to my content creation portfolio. At the moment, I am publishing additional content at the following places:

• EGO Sole Trader
• GOT-Tea-Party
• TeaParty.nu
• AtlasAnd
• Objective Argentum
• Americanized
• EGO

It could be hard to update all the above mentioned blogs on a regular basis. I will ask my fellow bloggers and contributors to write guest posts now and then. You will soon be able to read posts by a new guest blogger, Daniel Adetunji of Infowland.

As I wrote in my post, ANNUAL BLOG REPORT X, the main thing for the future will still be my EGO podcast on BlogTalkRadio. I have an idea to start a new site focusing on new media broadcasts in contrast to the mainstream media stations out there.

Pajamas at the Gate

I am planning to contact Influads for facilitating sponsorships of my podcast show.

One For You, New England (The SSP)

What kind of stuff will I publish in the future? I will go back to the philosophical core of EGO and write more posts on epistemology (reason), ethics (egoism) and politics (laissez-faire capitalism), but I will also mix it up with funny cat meme material, due to the fact that "Internet is made of cats"...

Internet Is Made Of Cats


As an ending note, I want you to stay tuned for my new project, Americanized.org. Please go to John Cox's post, Website Banner Commission, and read the comment thread and you will get "insider information" about the work of art.

JESUS, SOCIALISM AND HUGO CHAVEZ

From Time magazine:

“Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ — who I think was the first socialist — only socialism can really create a genuine society.” — Chávez, on Christ’s economic views, in 2006.
(Time.com, March 5, 2013.)

Illustration by John Cox.

EGO PODCAST FOR THE WIN

Please listen to my first EGO podcast show in 2013.

Listen to internet radio with Lyceum1776 on Blog Talk Radio

You can subscribe to the RSS feed in order to get notified of new episodes in the future. If you have an iPhone, I recommend you to check out the podcatcher, Downcast app and then add my podcast to it. Do a search on "EGO Blog Talk Radio" and you will find it.

I would appreciate it very much if you could take some time and go to the show page on iTunes and give some stars and write a short review of my podcast. :)

Please feel free to add a comment on the show episode by using your Facebook login credentials and go to EGO podcast Facebook page and continue the conversation!

Here are some show notes:

Baby 2013 cartoon by John Cox.

• Beyond 2012: Why the World Didn't End - NASA

• New Year's Resolutions - my post, WRITING DOWN NEW RESOLVING THOUGHTS (December 27, 2007)

• Tips on guests, topics...

• Schedule in the future: once a month, starting in February, later on fortnightly and then every week. I will do podcasts now and then with other tools too, e.g., Audioboo and Soundcloud.

• The word, podcast = (i)Pod + (broad)cast. WikiPedia, CommonCraft, HowStuffWorks.

Description of the show:

Reason - Egoism - Laissez-Faire Capitalism

• How to use social media in a rational way.
• Apply the trader principle in your business philosophy.
• Capitalize on the good things in life.

• Who First Coined the Phrase Laissez faire? - Adam Smith's Lost Legacy blog by Gavin Kennedy.

• Happy New Year by Myrhaf.

Please feel free to add your thoughts in the comment section! Stay tuned for the next EGO podcast!


SP mic.

BUSINESS AT HEART AND IN MIND

It could be hard to concentrate on your daily business, thinking about the outcome of the election ("with four more years") in the United States of America, and watching an "elephant in the Middle East room."

I got a wake up call the other day when I did an oxidative stress test and an arterial pulse waveform analysis. The conclusion is that I need to take better care of my body, including my heart. I will increase my intake of antioxidants and a basic amino acid called arginine.

Have you calculated your ideal body weight? It looks like that my weight of 57 kg is the common average and the medical recommendation is between 47 - 62 kg. Do you have any tip on how to measure the calorie intake (1839 calories)?

  by  Alan Cleaver 

BOMB THEM BACK TO THE STONE AGE

How about "bombing them back to stone age," instead of spending money on a "public service announcement"?

Talking about "stones," could you see the link between the "stoning" scene in Life of Brian and the reactions to the trailer for the film (uploaded by "Sam Bacile" on YouTube in July, 2012), Innocence of Muslims.


Stoning

Reading material:

• On the Freedom to Offend an Imaginary God by Sam Harris.
• Egyptian Blogger Arrested: Alber Saber - CyberDissidents.org

Listen to my podcast, Remember 911.

THE SOCIAL QUARTER-HOUR

Here is the new episode of EGO podcast show. The title, the social quarter-hour, is a homage to The Social Hour with Amber Mac & Sarah Lane.

• Philosophy - Paul Ryan versus Ayn Rand.
• Social Media - new media fatigue?
• Good Life - chile pepper.
• New type of broacast...

Show notes:

• Further Thoughts on Why Objectivists Should Actively Campaign for Romney-Ryan by Craig Biddle. - The Objective Standard.

• Ayn Rand And The 2012 Presidential Campaign - The Diane Rehm Show at 11 AM ET. Hat tip: The Harry Binswanger List.

• Anil Dash of Dashes.com: Blogging & Business Then And Now by Brent Leary. - Small Business Trends.

• The Age of the Platform by Phil Simon.

• "Kick it up a notch!" - Emeril Lagasse on WikiPedia.

Jalapeno sauce with Tequila

• Cinch.fm mobile audio service shuts down, demonstrates troubles of when you bet on services you don’t control by Robert Scoble - Scobleizer. [Editor's note: My material on Cinch.m and SoundCloud.]

• David's tips for online show hosts: how to narrow down your topic like a champion by David Siteman Garland - The Rise To The Top.

INTERVIEW WITH BOSCH FAWSTIN

Listen to my interview with Bosch Fawstin. You could subscribe to the RSS feed and download the audio file (MP3). You could find EGO podcasts on iTunes.

Listen to internet radio with Lyceum1776 on Blog Talk Radio

I will update the timeline with more show notes in the near future.

• Bio introduction.
• Praise for The Infidel #1.
• Black & White World by Cox & Forkum.
• Mr. A by Steve Ditko.
• Talk in L.A. on September 27.
• Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
• Iran is at war with us. "I ran"
• The Warner - John O'Neill.
• Towering over Islam - Twin Towers Go Global.
• Penn Jillette: "Bullshit!"er.
• Amy Peikoff's blog, Don't Let It Go.
• Holy Terror by Frank Miller.
• Never Give In, Never, Never, Never by Winston Churchill.

The Unavenged