DIVERSITY IS A STRENGTH! – No pork or alcohol in NY grocery line when a Muslim is at register

This Week’s Exploding Cigar: Obama, the Dog Eater

image“With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

tumblr_m2sdrdFkaT1ru80w0o1_400 (1).jpgYep, that’s Barack Obama, writing about his childhood with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro in Indonesia, from Chapter Two of his bestseller Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of an article in Advertising Age magazine in which a marketing consultant named James Vicary admitted to advances in psychological science: the idea of subliminal advertising

In 2005 scientists arranged for a group of volunteers to watch as the brand name “Lipton Ice” was flashed subliminally before their eyes. After the exposure the volunteers were given a choice of three beverages, one of which was Lipton Ice Tea; 85% of the subjects chose Lipton, as compared to only 20% of those who had not been exposed to the subliminal message.

SUBLIMINALS ARE USED IN ARCHITECTURE

SUBLIMINALS ARE USED ON MONEY

NO EXPLANATION HERE, I JUST LIKED THE PICTURE.