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Applied Perspective To Obama's Speech in Cairo, Egypt

Now I can’t recount every word the US president said in his speech when he visited the Egyptian capital Cairo, but it will make a whole lot of sense if you can listen to it yourself, in case you have not heard or seen it yet. It’s easily accessible on Youtube.com I think all the issues addressed by the US president, in this thought provoking and to me most powerful speech yet, is as much as relevant to the people he was speaking to, as it is equally relevant to the Nigerian nation ,even if we are not the ones being addressed directly in Cairo. The key issues of US/Western world and the Moslem world relationship, the Israeli, Palestine’s conflict, Democracy and democratic governance, Religious freedom, Women rights, education and empowerment and finally Economic development and opportunity stretches into the Nigerian situation in many ways than one. Now some of these issues looks like it has nothing to do with the Nigerian situations, however if you are familiar with the Nigeria...

Bad Advice

Sharon Stone recently gave this awful advice to teens, Sharon Stone recently offered this bit of advice to teenage girls: if they don't want to have sex and they're feeling pressured, just offer oral sex instead.An article in Contact Music UK reports Stone as saying: Sharon Stone –“Young people talk to me about what to do if they're being pressed for sex? I tell them: oral sex is a hundred times safer than vaginal or anal sex. If you're in a situation where you cannot get out of sex, offer a blow job”. It's hard to imagine advice that could possibly be worse than this, not even in our Gallery of Bad Advice. Never mind how many STDs can be transmitted via oral sex. Teens really do have the right to say no--entirely--to sex. This may seem novel nowadays, but isn't it better to give them the tools to say no, if that's what they want to say, instead of sending them the message that they'd better have some sexual favor to offer? What about their ...