Second-Grader Classroom Sex In Oakland, MTV's Skins Called Child Porn. What's Up?

What's this world coming to? In Oakland, at Markham Elementary school, a two second-grade students were engaging in oral sex while the teacher was present in the classroom. MTV's catching heat for it's new TV program Skins, which features racy scenes of sex, violence and drug use among minors and using real minors in the cast.

While Oakland and the nation expresses outrage, this blogger asks why? Look, we created the environment that allows this behavior to surface, and now we're shocked when it hits the media?

For at least the last five years friends who are teachers in Oakland and in suburban New York have told me about catching kids as young as 13 "in the act" in Oakland and in New York, one girl giving oral to two boys in a closet. Story after story of kids behaving badly and now we're shocked.

But look at what we've done to create this: a society that's actively afraid of disciplining kids in public. A society with a larger number of single-parent families than ever before. A society were kids send "sex-based" text messages in an act called "sexting." With all that, and more, we're shocked.

But the ultimate shocker should be our collective fear of changing society so this stops. We must all get out of our shells, talk to each other, and not fear to step in to tell kids how to behave, even if they're not our kids.

In today's America we leave problem kids to the teachers. In fact, we're doing this in the Oakland case. No one has asked who the parents of these kids are. The punishment should be outing them for public information. After all, it's the parents, and not the teachers, who brought the kids into this World. They can start taking care of them, for a change.

Yes. Parents work more hours than ever. But that's where society can take up the slack: the neighbor next door or down the street. The police officer just giving advice and direction instead of a ticket. We don't have authority figures anymore. We have military weekday warriors. That's not solving the problem.

We have to look at society, and to see it just look in the mirror.

Jesse James Engaged To Kat Von D, Says She's "Best Friend"

Jesse James, the American television personality and CEO of West Coast Choppers (did you know?) but more famous for having been Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock's husband, is now, almost a year after it was revealed he was cheating on Bullock, engaged to one of the women he was having an affair with, tattoo-laden Kat Von D.

And the kicker is he calls Kat Von D is "best friend." Yep.

According to People Magazine James said:

"You know, sometimes the public and press gets it wrong. This is one of those times. 2010 was actually the best year of my life, because I fell in love with my best friend, an amazing woman who stood behind me when the world turned their backs."

Jesse James got it wrong. This blogger, at least, wasn't saying it was a bad year for James, but a bad time for Sandra Bullock. But his statement shows just how zeroed-in James was on his own needs, and not those of Bullock, his wife.

Jesse James cheated on Sandra Bullock, and while she was working her tail off, and with not one but four women (with rumors of a fifth), and now he calls Kat Von D his best friend?

What a slap in the face to Sandra Bullock.

Chevron Ecuador Plaintiff's Information Fraud Continues In 2011

Want an example of The Matrix? The Chevron Ecuador case. Just look at the cultural environment of information fraud that some so-called activists have created around the Chevron Ecuador issue. The lie is that American Oil Company Chevron polluted the Ecuadorian Amazon without cleaning it up between 1968 and 1992. The lie is that Chevron caused $27 billion of environmental damage to Ecuador. The lie is that Chevron is still operating in Ecuador.

Organizations like The Rainforest Action Network keep spreading that lie. They should try telling the truth. Of course, if they did, it would mean whatever funding they get would dry up in a heartbeat. But telling the truth would be a good start toward better community relations.

The truth is that Ecuador itself, and not "a group of Ecuadorians" as Justmeans.com reports, is behind the Chevron lawsuit. The truth is that Ecuador has recently stated that it, and not lead plaintiffs lawyer Steve Donziger, would collect 90 percent of any lawsuit award if Chevron lost the Ecuador case. The truth is that Steve Donziger himself admitted a few years ago that he would get rich from this case.

The fact is that, according to outtakes from the movie Crude, Donziger himself conspired to plan to intimidate the Ecuadorian court, considered issuing a threat to kill a judge, and said he had met with Rafael Correa, the President of Ecuador and the executives of Petroecuador, the state-owned oil company.

The fact is that under Correa, Ecuador has kicked out all American Oil Companies, and embarked on a plan of nationalization of the oil industry, even passing a law to take more revenues under certain conditions.

All of this, while Ecuador's poor stuffers. In Ecuador, the 20 percent of the nations wealthiest people own half the nations total income. And according to the CIA World Factbook, income distribution in Ecuador has gotten worse, not better, in the 2000s all the way up to 2009. In fact, it's so bad, it compares to that of Sub-Saharan countries.

Meanwhile, Chevron has not been active in Ecuador since 1992, yet the so-called activists have created The Matrix, where the truth is met with attack by minions who behave like controlled Androids.

God help them if they're ever released from The Matrix.  They may find the truth of The Real World hard to deal with, and want to crawl back into it.  

Debby Kaplan Helps With a Better Lifestyle

Debby Kaplan is a Life Agent who has become my personal trainer & nutritionist. Within these weekly posts there will be vlog posts regarding diet and exercise and how to lose weight in a healthy way and be fit for the summer bikini months. This is targeted toward females in college, like myself. There are a lot of unhealthy choices in the college cafeteria and as most college students are not able to buy the most healthy food most are going to Burger King or McDonalds at 10 p.m. looking for a quick fix. There is also a lack of exercise part of this, and sometimes stress can contribute and also lead to this.

Debby Kaplan has given me a detox plan and diet. I will be interviewing other college girls and showing that her plan truly does work - and I shall be the proof. Weekly documenting of this. Debby K has been a long time friend of Zennie Abraham and is all for helping women.

It's hard for girls in college - there is lots of partying, alcohol and this inevitably will also contribute to the "freshman 15" which is not always easy to lose.

So - this will include my own body transformation. Stay tuned. This will include the food eaten that week, the exercises done, interviews with other females, progress made and other insight and facts that will help others achieve results.

Miss Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant In Oakland, CA

Vietnamese Restaurant ? Oakland? In Oakland it's hard to top the food at Miss Saigon Restaurant, at 3345 Grand Avenue.

A local favorite since 1998, Timmy Nguyen, its owner, and his staff consistently serves good, fresh, and lovely-to-look at Vietnamese food, and well into the night. On all week nights except Wednesday, Miss Saigon is open until Midnight.

What this blogger recommends is a combination of the Spring Rolls, a Claypot dish, a Chow Mein dish, noodle soup, steamed rice, and a glass of red wine and a glass of water. Ordering all of that for two, including two glases of wine, is about $50. Want to cut down the price? Order water, only.

But regardless of your budget, you really can't go wrong at Miss Saigon. And, yes, I paid for my meal in full, no comp.

Is Google's Larry Page For Eric Schmidt As CEO Mark Zuckerberg Envy?

In an Internet splash, Google made a change at the top at the right time, just as Google revenues grew in the last quarter of 2010, and the overall future for the giant search firm looks bright. Google Co-Founder Larry Page (in photo) takes over for CEO Eric Schmidt in a move that starts April 4th, 2011.

The basic reason given for the announcement is that Page is ready, or as Schmidt's own tweet reported, "Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!." Here's what Schmidt's blog post reads:

For the last 10 years, we have all been equally involved in making decisions. This triumvirate approach has real benefits in terms of shared wisdom, and we will continue to discuss the big decisions among the three of us. But we have also agreed to clarify our individual roles so there’s clear responsibility and accountability at the top of the company.


Larry will now lead product development and technology strategy, his greatest strengths, and starting from April 4 he will take charge of our day-to-day operations as Google’s Chief Executive Officer. In this new role I know he will merge Google’s technology and business vision brilliantly. I am enormously proud of my last decade as CEO, and I am certain that the next 10 years under Larry will be even better! Larry, in my clear opinion, is ready to lead.

Reading between the lines, this blogger thinks the rise of Mark Zuckerberg, right in Google's San Francisco Bay Area Silicon Valley backyard, has a lot to do with it. In other words, the move is pure and simple Mark Zuckerberg envy.

Look, every entrepreneur, from awful ones like myself to great ones like Steve Jobs, want to be known as the face of their product. And that desire is increased manyfold when the product is something you made by, in this case, programming hand. That's true for Google, for Apple, and for Facebook, and while far less so for Yahoo, which Co-Founder Jerry Yang allowed to spin so far beyond its original identity it may be impossible for it to recover, it's still basically so.

It's ego.

Larry Page wants to be seen as the face of his company Google again. When we think of Facebook, we think of Mark Zuckerberg. Period. That was true before The Social Network, and its more true today after the success of the movie. Google has no such flick about its formation and its early years. Moreover, Facebook has grown faster than Google has over an equivalent amount of time, and is now equal in Internet influence to Google. It's only a matter of time before Facebook extends its reach into consumer electronics.

All of this is Mark Zuckerberg.

While Larry and Sergey share duties with Eric Schmidt, Zuckerberg calls the shot in a business staff that's part friends, part family, and certainly more compact. Over this time, the triplets of Larry, Sergey, and Eric have done some extraordinary things with Google. But over that same time, the "face" of Google was more Eric than Larry or Sergey.

Now, in a full nod to Mark Zuckerberg, who calls the shots at Facebook, Larry Page's calling the shots at Google.  Round One of this epic Internet business cage match has begun.

Stay tuned.

Eric Schmidt Steps Down as Google CEO

CNN Money reports Eric Schmidt stepped down as Google CEO three days after Steve Jobs announced he was taking medical leave. Schmidt announced that he would hand over the CEO job to Google co-founder Larry Page.

Business Insider posts this as their chart of the day:

CNN reports that Schmidt will still be an executive chairman for the company after leaving his role in April, but he will be focusing on deals and partnerships, as well as acting as an advisor to the other two co-founders.

On Twitter Schmidt wrote:

Things seem to be positive though: Google has added more than 1,000 employees and now employs over 24 thousand people.