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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu

Congratulations are in order to journeyman National Basketball Association, (NBA), player Jason Collins. After months of hints from sports reporters, social commentators and others, along with sly suggestions from professional athletes in other sports of the possibility there may be an active professional athlete in the National Football League, (NFL),  Major League Baseball, (MLB), or the NBA who may one day in the near future courageously disclose his sexual preference for other men.

Jason Collins, who is nearly seven feet tall, plays center and made public his choice of lifestyle in the current issue, May 6, 2013, of Sports Illustrated Magazine. He’s the cover story. It’s a very interesting read of how he wishes to be “to be genuine and authentic and truthful.”

“Though I’m coming out to the world, I intend to guard my privacy. I’m making this blanket statement in part to keep rumors and misunderstandings at bay. I hope fans will respect me for raising my hand. And I hope teammates will remember that I’ve never been an in-your-face kind of guy. All you need to know is that I’m single. I see no need to delve into specifics.” ~ Jason Collins, NBA professional player on announcing he’s homosexual.

Personal choices, public discussions…of who and what a person prefers for the most intimate of relationships/acts is somehow to us out of order. We believe what is private should remain private. (more…)

Be afraid…be very afraid…That is the message being transmitted to the residents of the United States of America.

Since September 11, 2001 people living in the U. S. of A. have been living in a state of constant fear. For those old enough to remember, for those who were alive, this current period is in some ways reminiscent of the 1950s when fear was in vogue. Fear of communists, the Red Scare; fear of Negroes, the Black Scare. (Sadly fear of Negroes,  coloreds or blacks continues in our society.)

The government, with the support of the mainstream media, has fostered a culture of fear. We believe it is to control the masses, when and if they ever decide to protest the abuses they suffer at the hands of the militarized police, restaurants and food outlets; corporate employers, banksters, educational institutions, state and local government agencies. Whatever institution citizens of the U.S. must interact with daily there is abuse and disrespect, manipulation of the bad kind, thus more fear, more dread, the existing apprehension is augmented to guarantee further compliance.

As a public service YouThinkWhat provides a list of people,  items and situations the average U.S. citizen fears…

Our list begins with Arabs, or anyone of Middle Eastern ethnicity. Since September 11th 2001, anyone of Middle Eastern heritage, (except Christiane Amanpour who works for CNN, and is perceived by the public as being aight), is suspect for committing terrorist acts.

Any person of swarthy, brown skinned complexion with or without the traditional keffiyeh headdress is to be feared. This description includes homegrown Black Americans of African, or Hispanic descent. (The darker they are the more trepidation expressed.)

Muslims are next on the list of people feared by those living in the U.S. of A. Muslims and any aspect related to Islam…in fact the words, “Muslim” and “Islam” strike fear and loathing in the hearts of many red blooded all Americans. Even some black people in the United States are afraid of anything associated with Muslims…mosques, Korans, prayer five times daily, ethnic clothing; any and all of these items cause the condition of being afraid!

Envelopes received in the mail laced with white powder are dangerous. Never mind the powder may be harmless talc and not anthrax  at all. Remember all those envelopes received in the mail following the disaster in New York City in September 2001.? (We refer to 9/11 as the modern day false flag incident which killed more than 3,000 people.) Soon after there were those horrendous shootings in the DeeCee Metro area found to be perpetrated by two guys in a very old car; one of them was installed in the trunk of the vehicle to shoot through a hole in the trunk lid. Really? Another incident of instilling fear, causing people to be afraid when there is no justification for the dread.

Shoes are an item so dangerous, the Transportation Security Administration, (TSA), requires passengers, for domestic as well as international flights, to remove theirs before being approved to board the aircraft. This requirement comes  following the attempt by then 28 year-old Richard Colvin Reid, a British citizen, aka The Shoe Bomber, to interrupt an American Airlines international flight from Paris to Miami by lighting his shoes which are said to have contained plastic explosives. (??) Is the American public so gullible as to believe terrorists from the Middle East are so primitive as to detonate their shoes filled with plastic explosives with the old school match or Bic lighter? Who’s the provincial in this picture? (more…)

 On April 28, 2012, comedian, tv personality and writer, Jimmy Kimmel said and did this at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. when he was the featured act:
“I also want to thank Mr. Mills, my 10th grade high school history teacher, who said I’d never amount to anything if I kept screwing around in class. Mr. Mills, I’m about to high-five the President of the United States.”    Kimmel then high-fived the President, Barack Obama,  returned to the podium, and concluded with, “Eat it, Mills.”

Around here, at YouThinkWhat, our staff often pose the question in jest, particularly after conversing with someone who doesn’t know what they do not know:

“Do two people who do not know what they’re talking about know more or less than one person who does not know what he is talking about?”

Jimmy Kimmel, one of our favorite late night comedians, provides the answer to the question in his regularly featured comic segment, “Lie Witness News”; it’s a series of comic video sketches which spoof the news format, Eye Witness News, created in the 1960s by teevee news executive Al Primo.  He’s also the innovative  genius who brought to the world of television news, “happy talk”. “Happy talk”, as Primo named it is what news anchors and weather or sports presenters are doing when they chit and chat with one another like old friends at a cocktail party or other social events, before, during and after delivering the news of the day . (We think “Lie Witness News” is what viewers are getting everyday from the mainstream media. All the networks serve daily lies created by and promulgated for the governments.)

In a two to three minute video featured in Kimmel’s “Lie Witness News” segment, a question is asked of the man/woman on the street being interviewed; typically the person(s) has no clue, however the respondent forges ahead with a made up answer in order to appear hip, happenin’, informed, and socially acceptable, while not realizing they’d be better off being socially awkward, admitting they are uninformed on the topic, rather than looking the total fool as they endlessly bloviate about a topic of which they know absolutely nothing. The result is two to three minutes of great comedy.

In the following example we see people telling us about bands they enjoy at this year’s Coachella Music Festival held annually in Fornicalia. On the face of it their responses sound credible…except the bands are made up! They do not exist. Jimmy Kimmel explains as he introduces the piece. (more…)

This will make you laugh…it made us laugh when we looked at this page of alleged security for one of the major US banks…oh what the heck…it’s Wells Fargo that is perpetrating a fraud.

Banksters continue to provide the “illusion of security” to their internal customers as well as their external customers. Like most everything being done by 21st Century financial institutions, the ones considered by federal regulators Too Big To Fail, Too Big to Sue, Too Big To Charge with Malfeasance or even cause any one individual to be accountable by limiting, even curtailing the criminal activities of the so-called experts in the industry, this page and others like it are a sham fake not real. (more…)

During the most recent session of the United States Senate Committee on Banking Hearing, Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat senator from Massachusetts, reported on the illegal activities of HSBC; formerly The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation one of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world. It serves around 60 million customers through four Global Businesses.

According to its web site, HSBC, the British financial company describes itself as:

“An unrivalled international network with a presence in all of the world’s major developed and faster-growing markets…”

Last December, 2012, HSBC  admitted to laundering nearly one billion US dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels; additionally the company was found to have repeatedly violated US economic sanctions against Iran, Cuba, Libya, the Sudan as well as Burma, known as Myanmar. The US Treasury Department imposed a fine, recorded as the the largest fine ever imposed by the department for HSBC’s illicit actions. (more…)

On Sunday evening, February 25th 2013 in Hollywood, California at the annual American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the 85th time they are convening, actors, movie stars, technicians of very craft will be present to see who receives the coveted Oscar for outstanding achievement in various categories of the motion picture industry.

The following video created by Nelson Carvajal shows 84 Best Picture winners… (more…)

With this entry we are providing our readers with a kind of info-edu-tainment special. It’s Black History Month and Oscar season.

The following video interview conducted by reporters from the Washington Post web site The Fold  features two-time Academy Award winner Russell Williams…who is also Distinguished-Artist-in-Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C. (more…)

Here’s some interesting video footage taken last month during a manta ray night dive off the Kona coast of Hawaii. The video shows a bottlenose dolphin, tied up in fishing line, “asking” a human diver for help.

The dolphin swam into the lighted areas where scuba dive instructors, among them Keller Laros, noticed fishing line was restricting the dolphin’s movement. (more…)

Randy Newman, the multi-award-winning composer and singer-songwriter has recorded a new song in reaction to the latest shenanigans of the Republican Party. “I’m Dreaming of a White President” is sung to the Christmas classic “White Christmas”.

The staff of You Think What understands and we appreciate many of the cleverly written farcical lyrics and melodies created by Newman in the past…tunes like, “The Great Nations of Europe”, or “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” from the “Toy Story” series of Disney/Pixar animated films.

Newman has joined some other popular composers like the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, or the iconic Bob Dylan, and equally prolific creator, Ry Cooder in putting pen to paper to express their political feelings…ridicule, mock, ludicrous, lampooning, being sardonic… (more…)

The YouThinkWhat staff wish to congratulate Gabrielle Douglas, and her family, upon achieving the titles Champion, Gold Medalist, Olympian. The Best!

As if all the time, energy, money, sweat, tears, injuries and sacrifices made by the 16 year-old athlete, and her family, to successfully train for this occasion isn’t enough, and apparently it’s not enough for some people,* and you know who you are.* There are, as always, “some” who are envious, “they” are finding fault, and talking about her hair. (more…)