Two interesting news reports this week, and both have to do with the same thing -- the first one was the fact that Germany's industrial base is short some 38,000 engineers; the second is that the front pages of Japan's news papers are boaming the fact that Japan is losing is edge on "quality" in manufacturing.
What is this telling us about the manufacturing giants of the Industrial Age?
We all know that America's edge in just about everything except for TV/Film, drugs (illegal and legal) and financial has been considerably dull for at least 10 years -- if not longer, and now the other two post-WW2 powerhouses are stumbling.
The countries that emerged from the ashes of Hitler's nightmare and the Japanese aggression have pillaged the planet to the extent that they can't even sustain themselves with any kind of economic drive outside of the intangibles that are endemic to the ethos of the nation.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
By the Power of the Holy Spirit - Smite the Mohammedian Followers
Apparently Benny the 16th set off a global row by quoting at 14th century text in which it was proclaimed -- "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached."
Now if that isn't a swift kick in the ass, then I don't know what is??!?!
Granted the way the most loud-mouthed Muslims in the Arab world have brought condemnation upon the entire religion of late, so this reactionary-right-wing send up isn't entirely without provocation. However, you have to be careful when insulting a religion -- especially when it's coming for a Catholic -- a group that is perhaps the most tainted and blood-stained of all religions in the history of the world. And the thing with Muslims is, they trip at the slightest slight of Islam... remember how they were TRIPPIN'! when a couple of political cartoons mocking Mohammed were published earlier this year!
The thing is you can't really flunk the Catholic Church for dropping incindiary bombs on so-called heathens, as that's been its M.O. for its entire existence.
What is crazy is that the Vatican OBVIOUSLy had people go over and over and over the speach, before it was given and they "didn't catch" the blast at Islam? Hard to believe. To top it off, Benny the 16th was supposed to be going to Turkey next week for some sort of state function -- not a smart move to keep that trip on the schedule. Although Pope Johnny P Deuce was shot and survived another 20 years, who's to say that Benny the 16th couldn't take a bullet and maintain the papal seat for another 5 or 10 years.
We'll see...
Now if that isn't a swift kick in the ass, then I don't know what is??!?!
Granted the way the most loud-mouthed Muslims in the Arab world have brought condemnation upon the entire religion of late, so this reactionary-right-wing send up isn't entirely without provocation. However, you have to be careful when insulting a religion -- especially when it's coming for a Catholic -- a group that is perhaps the most tainted and blood-stained of all religions in the history of the world. And the thing with Muslims is, they trip at the slightest slight of Islam... remember how they were TRIPPIN'! when a couple of political cartoons mocking Mohammed were published earlier this year!
The thing is you can't really flunk the Catholic Church for dropping incindiary bombs on so-called heathens, as that's been its M.O. for its entire existence.
What is crazy is that the Vatican OBVIOUSLy had people go over and over and over the speach, before it was given and they "didn't catch" the blast at Islam? Hard to believe. To top it off, Benny the 16th was supposed to be going to Turkey next week for some sort of state function -- not a smart move to keep that trip on the schedule. Although Pope Johnny P Deuce was shot and survived another 20 years, who's to say that Benny the 16th couldn't take a bullet and maintain the papal seat for another 5 or 10 years.
We'll see...
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Detroit Sucks Its Own Dick!!! Japs and Kruts can only shake their heads...
Ford Motor Company (followed by Chrysler) has just shit on itself once again, by admiting that Toyota is going to surpass it as the No. 2 automaker in the US market -- a position Ford held for over 70 years. Oh, in case you haven't been keeping up Ford shat on itself the first time THIS MONTH by stating that it's flushed away close to $9billion dollars and doesn't expect profitability until 2009
The people at DaimlerChrysler effectively admitted that its nearly impossible to make a profitable subcompact in the United States, and that China or another Asian country is where they'll have to outsource operations.
The big issue is that about a decade ago Detroit's Big failed to make teh major structural shift in its business operations -- mainly make cars that consumer actually want to buy -- and instead focused on making SUVs and light trucks, which made more money per unit.
I'll NEVER buy an American car -- for these reasons, they are designed inside and out, top to bottom like the worst pieces of horse shit imaginable; the companies ran that planned obsolence agenda for decades before the Japanese started whuppin' that ass in the late 70s, and because when I was learning how to drive, Ford had just introduced the Taurus, and we owned one, and was constantly fucking up, looked chump and was a bitch just to sit in -- let alone handle. We had a 1980 Honda Accord, and then moved the Taurus station wagon, so I was used to being driven in a svlet car with nice creature comforts -- even for an inexpensive car, which the Accord was in those days.
The Big Three can suck shit out of a straw, because they have YET to learn how to design cars that are appealing. I wouldn't pay more than $8000 for ANY American made car. The manufacturing quality is suspect, so it might be up (per Ford's "quality is Job 1" campaign) or fucked like GM's entire line... yet by far the biggest problem is aesthetics. You can't name me 5 American cars over the past 20 years that can compete with even the basest of European or Japanese visual design. For whatever reason, Detroit focused on selling cars to the people in the focus groups who weren't looking for anything "fancy" -- fuck, get me some fancy ass car that looks like a Benz or a Ferrari or a Porsche!
The interiors are worse -- particularly the stock radio (anything made by AC Delco when it still had dominance was fuckshit, and you can quote me on that) -- even those secondary parts manufacturers weren't worth a fuck. I remember when I was a kid everyone wanted an Alpine indash stereo -- tell me, hard is it to swipe the basic design and change a few minor things, then sell it as as Delco? I mean the Japanese basically stole the Benz and BMW body designs when they hit the luxury car market, and yeah some people cried foul -- but the Japs made strides in that market segment and now practically own it!
You know what's going to happen? Nissan is going to team-up with GM or Ford, then raid the design vaults and reintroduce a bunch of cars that were hits, but with nouveau-retro designs and MAKE A KILLING! Imagine if yøu could have a 64 Impala that actually ran as good as a Toyota, had no engine trouble like a Honda
What kills me is why the American engineers HAVE NEVER been able to make quality engines the way Honda does? Especially when the Japanese effectively adopted the ideas of an American Automotive expert when determine how they'd reinvent their auto industry post WW2.
There's no excuse for the poor American mismanagement of its manufacturing base over the past few decades, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that industry is a slave to Wall Street's quarterly reporting requirements/demands. Sure, you need that check-n-balance, but the need to make corporate profits WITHOUT having a bad quarter, let alone a bad year, has become increasingly detrimental to all things American since the 1987 Stock Market Crash, which ushered in an unprecedented way and means to make outrageous sums of money via the stock market.
Also, we have to recall that the true spirit of American Industry was enabled by guess who? THE ROBBER BARONS -- the ruthless white men who raped and pillaged whenever they could to amass great fortunes that still hold sway over the American way of life over a 100 years later! God fucking damn!
Well, I'm working to set up shop in another country, as I can be around when America slips into the cesspool that it's been hiding for a couple decades now. And I WILL NOT raise children in this influx environment...
The people at DaimlerChrysler effectively admitted that its nearly impossible to make a profitable subcompact in the United States, and that China or another Asian country is where they'll have to outsource operations.
The big issue is that about a decade ago Detroit's Big failed to make teh major structural shift in its business operations -- mainly make cars that consumer actually want to buy -- and instead focused on making SUVs and light trucks, which made more money per unit.
I'll NEVER buy an American car -- for these reasons, they are designed inside and out, top to bottom like the worst pieces of horse shit imaginable; the companies ran that planned obsolence agenda for decades before the Japanese started whuppin' that ass in the late 70s, and because when I was learning how to drive, Ford had just introduced the Taurus, and we owned one, and was constantly fucking up, looked chump and was a bitch just to sit in -- let alone handle. We had a 1980 Honda Accord, and then moved the Taurus station wagon, so I was used to being driven in a svlet car with nice creature comforts -- even for an inexpensive car, which the Accord was in those days.
The Big Three can suck shit out of a straw, because they have YET to learn how to design cars that are appealing. I wouldn't pay more than $8000 for ANY American made car. The manufacturing quality is suspect, so it might be up (per Ford's "quality is Job 1" campaign) or fucked like GM's entire line... yet by far the biggest problem is aesthetics. You can't name me 5 American cars over the past 20 years that can compete with even the basest of European or Japanese visual design. For whatever reason, Detroit focused on selling cars to the people in the focus groups who weren't looking for anything "fancy" -- fuck, get me some fancy ass car that looks like a Benz or a Ferrari or a Porsche!
The interiors are worse -- particularly the stock radio (anything made by AC Delco when it still had dominance was fuckshit, and you can quote me on that) -- even those secondary parts manufacturers weren't worth a fuck. I remember when I was a kid everyone wanted an Alpine indash stereo -- tell me, hard is it to swipe the basic design and change a few minor things, then sell it as as Delco? I mean the Japanese basically stole the Benz and BMW body designs when they hit the luxury car market, and yeah some people cried foul -- but the Japs made strides in that market segment and now practically own it!
You know what's going to happen? Nissan is going to team-up with GM or Ford, then raid the design vaults and reintroduce a bunch of cars that were hits, but with nouveau-retro designs and MAKE A KILLING! Imagine if yøu could have a 64 Impala that actually ran as good as a Toyota, had no engine trouble like a Honda
What kills me is why the American engineers HAVE NEVER been able to make quality engines the way Honda does? Especially when the Japanese effectively adopted the ideas of an American Automotive expert when determine how they'd reinvent their auto industry post WW2.
There's no excuse for the poor American mismanagement of its manufacturing base over the past few decades, and I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that industry is a slave to Wall Street's quarterly reporting requirements/demands. Sure, you need that check-n-balance, but the need to make corporate profits WITHOUT having a bad quarter, let alone a bad year, has become increasingly detrimental to all things American since the 1987 Stock Market Crash, which ushered in an unprecedented way and means to make outrageous sums of money via the stock market.
Also, we have to recall that the true spirit of American Industry was enabled by guess who? THE ROBBER BARONS -- the ruthless white men who raped and pillaged whenever they could to amass great fortunes that still hold sway over the American way of life over a 100 years later! God fucking damn!
Well, I'm working to set up shop in another country, as I can be around when America slips into the cesspool that it's been hiding for a couple decades now. And I WILL NOT raise children in this influx environment...
Feature this -- how the sausage is made!!!
I was just thinking about my diet today (never a good thing in a country that celebrates obesity like IT was going out of style)... since I've been sleeping on cots and couches and on-the-ground-mattresses of late, my diet has gone to shit. It consists of too fuckin' much ready-made foodstuffs (i.e. fast food or out-the-box-in-the-microwave-food) and I'm wondering if my palette is all fucked up now in that I'll be yeaerning for this slopfood and find quality food to taste foreign and different. I know that filmmaker Spurlock did a flick called Supersize Me a couple years ago where he ate McDonald's for every meal for 30 days, and how it fucked with his body ecostatis -- best believe I'm in that same boat. Ironically, my body doesn't take on weight unless I'm lifting weights in the gym (something I haven't done in close to a year), and conversely a sit-on-my-ass lifestyle causes me to lose weight!!!
I know this is the case, because I was at a friend's for a bbq a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't eat the grilled hamburger that he prepared. Yet I was fiending for an In-n-Out Double Double on the way home... perhaps it's because my friend is white and white people tend to like their hamburger (all red meat in general actually) closer to being prepared like sushi... i.e., rare or extremely rare. You talk about medium or medium well and then look at you like you're fucking up a good piece of meat!
I know this is the case, because I was at a friend's for a bbq a couple of weeks ago and I couldn't eat the grilled hamburger that he prepared. Yet I was fiending for an In-n-Out Double Double on the way home... perhaps it's because my friend is white and white people tend to like their hamburger (all red meat in general actually) closer to being prepared like sushi... i.e., rare or extremely rare. You talk about medium or medium well and then look at you like you're fucking up a good piece of meat!
Friday, September 15, 2006
The Worst of White Women
So I'm talking with Girls Gone Wild producer today at the Car Wash (you know the one in Studio City with the big-ass hand) and he's telling me this recent video shot he worked on where he had 20 African American (which he dubbed "ebony") models have a naked fun-n-frolic pool party that culminated with a pie fight. He was saying that the whole thing was a little difficult because the previous three productions were done with white bitches (blondes, brunettes and a mixed bag), who had no problem doffing of their clothes and running around naked in this fat mansion that he rented.
Yet when it came to the Black girls, they all didn't want to get in the pool 'cause it was going to fuck with their hair (he had to bribe them $50 a piece just to get in the water). But once they got in, it was doper than dope.
Except for the owner's daughter. Obviously the big-ass crib was in Beverly Hills, and the young little, rich white hoe was following around after the Black girls demaning that they not sit any where as they would stain the furniture!!!
I said, "Hold up! You mean to tell me there are still white people who would actively claim that Black people 'stain' fabrics because they have pigment in their skin? The pigment ain't water soluable!!! FUCK!"
The white producer guy was so embarrassed for the white hoe!!! SHe should be slapped with a horse whip, then branded with a "I'ma bigoted beeyatch" on her flat white ass!
Are white bitches still afraid of Black bitch's sexuality that they have to degrade them mentally, just to maintain their "edge". If you're blonde and half way decent looking with perhaps fake tits, the world is yours on the platter -- the propaganda job designed to prop up these women to be the most sought after female on the planet is just ugly.
Otherwise, how would the broad above even get any props?
Yet when it came to the Black girls, they all didn't want to get in the pool 'cause it was going to fuck with their hair (he had to bribe them $50 a piece just to get in the water). But once they got in, it was doper than dope.
Except for the owner's daughter. Obviously the big-ass crib was in Beverly Hills, and the young little, rich white hoe was following around after the Black girls demaning that they not sit any where as they would stain the furniture!!!
I said, "Hold up! You mean to tell me there are still white people who would actively claim that Black people 'stain' fabrics because they have pigment in their skin? The pigment ain't water soluable!!! FUCK!"
The white producer guy was so embarrassed for the white hoe!!! SHe should be slapped with a horse whip, then branded with a "I'ma bigoted beeyatch" on her flat white ass!
Are white bitches still afraid of Black bitch's sexuality that they have to degrade them mentally, just to maintain their "edge". If you're blonde and half way decent looking with perhaps fake tits, the world is yours on the platter -- the propaganda job designed to prop up these women to be the most sought after female on the planet is just ugly.
Otherwise, how would the broad above even get any props?
Sunday, September 03, 2006
A Requim For Crescent City
Just finished watching Spike Lee's "When The Levees Broke", his most recent HBO documetnary, and it perhaps is the most damning thing of the white elite that run this government in the Bush administration. Simply because the way the Feds mobilized for Iraq was like some crack force as personified in the movies, and the way the treated the niggas in New Orleans (all the white who got caught up in the aftermath are considered niggers, too, by the likes of Dubya and Mike Chertoff and Mikey Brown).
What's most gut-punching is all the home video footage Lee culled or the international news agency footage that was more hard-hitting that what the US media outlets opted to broadcast to the cowardly general public of the US... as if they know that Americans can't deal with a certain amount of reality, and the purpose of a lot of video news is to assuage potential fears and keep people under control.
Honestly, I don't think the US is the superpower that it wants the world to believe that it is. Everything that the US has touched since George H.W. Bush's invasion of Panama has been a major fuck-up... and guess what? That was the last major military action during the Cold War. It seems as if the US needed the Soviet Union to prove that it was better than something, somebody, anything.
After Bush's recent speaches to Congress demanding that the Geneva Convention be reinterpreted and that Gitmo be set-up as Judge-Jury-&-Execution spot, it makes me wonder what's going to happen to any US soldier or agent is hemmed up while out in the world... I don't think there have been any US POWs in Iraq (shit, they'd get their hands drilled by a Craftsman powertool while their balls are hooked up to a Honda generator, and that's before they have any questions asked of them!).
Spike's flick got me thinking about why Crescent City gets the short end of the stick... has to be because its a nigger city (like Detroit); there was something pointed out in the flick that tripped me out. Apparently, all the taxes and other potential revenue streams that come from the oil off Louisiana's coast don't go to the state or the city of New Orleans, but to Washington, DC and Texas (where the oil company's HQs are). Why the Fed fuck the state like that? Maybe now that the Lower 9th Ward had its ass handed to it, and the niggers are forced the fuck out, Big Business and Haliburtons are the country are going to take control of all that waterfront property.
Only time will tell.
I wonder if Ray Nagan is going to get re-elected after this current term is up. He was defiant to the last about what kind of ass-fucking the city WAS NOT going to take. He needs to be praised for dealing with some outrageousness on the level that no place outside of WWII era Japan and Germany have dealt with in the last few hundred years...
War Writings, Part Trois
Man, the heatwave in LA just won't fucking quit. Sweating buckets beneath a 405 overpass is not fun. At least I'm not having to ask people for money. I like hanging out under the 405 or a I-10 on-ramps, because I'm curious as to how people treat those who do ask for money, and what the response is after the beggar has been denied or gifted... either way, it's the same -- the beggar is nonplussed! If he gets a fifty-cent piece or gets ignored by a blonde bitch who thinks she's too pretty for the people around her. Only thing is, inside she's wondering what happens when her looks falter in the next 3 years.
Speaking of looks faltering in three years, I was searching through the Borders magazine section the other day for some ideas on what's going to be a good real estate investment, when I ran across the British version of GQ magazine (Christina Aguillera is on the cover). So I open it up -- no articles on how fucked up the Iraqi conflict is or how bad the UN is showing the pink of its ass by not knowing how to handle the Israeli war against the crazies in Hezballah. There's an interview with Paris Hilton about her first CD.
I glance through it, but my eyes stop on a line where she denies dancing on table tops. She corrects the interviewer with statements that she dances by whatever means necessary off the dancefloor because she hates sweaty bodies... to which the interviewer inquired why most American women have a problem with sweat. This hit home with me, because a lot of American women that I know have that same issue. It has to go back to their childhood, when their moms told them it was bad news for their pussy to sweat as it would stink like the rest of their bodies when sweating.
Of course, you have to wonder what's up with having sex if you don't like sweating? Best part of the interview was when the Interviewer asked Paris if she thought she was good in bed -- as he watched her famous sex tape right before the interview. I can imagine the look on her face! She claimed she hasn't fucked more than a couple of boyfriends -- yet, she sucks dick like working girl at the Chicken Ranch outside of Las Vegas.
It's hard to believe that when Paris was kicking it with Nicole Ritchie they were fucking fucking fucking day and night! Speaking of Nicole Ritchie, why the fuck is she so damn skinny? I find it doubly ironic that the one thing that plagues Western women who are rich so much is their weight! Does anyone know if there is a study or stats on how many poor women suffer from eating disorders? You'd think Nicole was hanging out with Black East Africans.
All the food at your disposal, and you choose not to eat... why not get disciplined and not the hoards of unhealthy poison that the American food industry wants us to eat, use Lionel's money to eat the best quality foods possible and take a trip to the Sudan's Darfur region and see what it means not to be able eat when and what you want -- anytime you feel the urge.
I'm serious about finding out how many non-whites suffer from eating disorders, particularly if those non-white chicks are part of the underclass. I bet it's one of those similar disproportionate figures like how many niggas constitute the prison population. I can't remember seeing any news story where Black girls where afraid of eating. Shit, Black girls love to eat -- they don't want to be fat, but they can rock it with pride if it does happen (I've spoken on this before, white women feel like failures if they're overweight by more than 30 pounds. Not so for women of color, they can be sexy with poundage).
Speaking of looks faltering in three years, I was searching through the Borders magazine section the other day for some ideas on what's going to be a good real estate investment, when I ran across the British version of GQ magazine (Christina Aguillera is on the cover). So I open it up -- no articles on how fucked up the Iraqi conflict is or how bad the UN is showing the pink of its ass by not knowing how to handle the Israeli war against the crazies in Hezballah. There's an interview with Paris Hilton about her first CD.
I glance through it, but my eyes stop on a line where she denies dancing on table tops. She corrects the interviewer with statements that she dances by whatever means necessary off the dancefloor because she hates sweaty bodies... to which the interviewer inquired why most American women have a problem with sweat. This hit home with me, because a lot of American women that I know have that same issue. It has to go back to their childhood, when their moms told them it was bad news for their pussy to sweat as it would stink like the rest of their bodies when sweating.
Of course, you have to wonder what's up with having sex if you don't like sweating? Best part of the interview was when the Interviewer asked Paris if she thought she was good in bed -- as he watched her famous sex tape right before the interview. I can imagine the look on her face! She claimed she hasn't fucked more than a couple of boyfriends -- yet, she sucks dick like working girl at the Chicken Ranch outside of Las Vegas.
It's hard to believe that when Paris was kicking it with Nicole Ritchie they were fucking fucking fucking day and night! Speaking of Nicole Ritchie, why the fuck is she so damn skinny? I find it doubly ironic that the one thing that plagues Western women who are rich so much is their weight! Does anyone know if there is a study or stats on how many poor women suffer from eating disorders? You'd think Nicole was hanging out with Black East Africans.
All the food at your disposal, and you choose not to eat... why not get disciplined and not the hoards of unhealthy poison that the American food industry wants us to eat, use Lionel's money to eat the best quality foods possible and take a trip to the Sudan's Darfur region and see what it means not to be able eat when and what you want -- anytime you feel the urge.
I'm serious about finding out how many non-whites suffer from eating disorders, particularly if those non-white chicks are part of the underclass. I bet it's one of those similar disproportionate figures like how many niggas constitute the prison population. I can't remember seeing any news story where Black girls where afraid of eating. Shit, Black girls love to eat -- they don't want to be fat, but they can rock it with pride if it does happen (I've spoken on this before, white women feel like failures if they're overweight by more than 30 pounds. Not so for women of color, they can be sexy with poundage).
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