America On The Way to 3rd World Status

Graduation Day
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Do you remember that comic strip/weight-lifting ad in the back of magazines where a skinny guy gets sand kicked in his face by a ripped up bully?

Well I saw it again on the cover of this month's FORTUNE magazine, with this slight twist: the skinny bitch was Uncle Sam and the ripped dude was a Chinese personifcation. The cover story was coming down hard on the impending Chinese threat to America's way of life (best be sure that the valued American standard of living is stalling right now, and soon will be falling -- plunging is more like it).

The author wasn't saying that American can't compete in the global market, because it can. It's the American workers who ain't worth shit! Yeah, and if you think about it that statement has a lot of truth to it. Ever since the mid-70s American education has been steadily declining -- particularly in any hard science field. Across the board education - public and private is steadily falling behind too many countries that American workers need to compete against. Sure, childrenof East Asian immigrants have been making up the slack for whites and Blacks, but why is that the case? The article pointed out that American youth culture is one that sees any kind of "heavy" studying in math, science and computers as being nerdy and uncool -- and in America there is NOTHING worse than being labeled a nerd or being perceived as being "uncool."

The cool, fuck-it-all attitude that arose in the late 60s, took root in the 70s and because a way of life in the 80s (termed the slacker) that was eventually lauded and cheered -- but at the expense . America is already an 80% service economy, what happens when those services can be primarily provided overseas for cheaper (we're already seeing it with Call Centers and other low wage customer service jobs)?

Whites just don't see tech driven education as a way to "get the girl" as it is drilled into the publics brain by lifestyle-commericals, MTV and youth oriented TV shows.

Niggaz never prized education -- any kind of education -- in the first place (which means that cycle has to be broken before Niggaz can begin to embrace tech ed), so you know the hard sciences are eschewed even more by Niggaz! From a certain viewpoint, Black pop culture has signed the death warrant for Black people as a viable economic entity as the 21st century rolls along. And as racism seemingly goes to the wayside (not truth, but...) and the Latino population gorws faster, Niggaz aren't going to get the

What Niggaz do bring to the table is fastily becoming easily mimicable for whites, Asians and Hispanics... so Niggaz aren't going to have place? Except as the permanant underclass that believes they are too good for certain jobs that they were forced to take in the 8 decades after slavery, thus condemning Niggaz to a poverty level, class, societal rank that they won't be able to escape. The ghetto increasingly cramps the mental outlook of those living it and Niggaz will be living in the ghetto more and more, as China continues to bully the U.S. And thanks to the decades of propaganda that portrayed American Blacks as dangerous the Chinese aren't going to want deal with Niggaz either.

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Oprah, yeah you're black, but you're not above it 'cause of your money

Halle & Oprah
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Of course I'm late on this one, 'cause I don't have the time like I used to have to seek out these kind of inane stories. But WAAAY back in June, Oprah Winfery -- arguably the riches Black woman EVER -- was snubbed at the tres chich boutique Hermes in Paris.

There has been talk that it was because Oprah was Black... that's a possibility, however extremely unlikely, as in Paris if you are noticeably an American Black, you'll get much love. If you come up to any place nice looking like you're from Senegal or some other African country -- expect the same kind of treatment white Americans give Mexicans.

Here's a recap of the incident.
Fashionistas and social commentators alike are watching developments as they unfold surrounding Oprah Winfrey's apparent snub at the exclusive Hermès luxury store in Paris on June 14.

The big question: Was Oprah's rejection from the store racially motivated by the Hermès staff, or was she simply turned away because the store had just closed? Number one Oprah is VERY recognizable -- across the globe, so such a racial snub I just don't think would happen.

Winfrey, 51, apparently stopped by Hermès to purchase a watch for Tina Turner before the two had dinner. Though the store had closed about 15 minutes before, Winfrey and three friends – who saw shoppers inside the store – reportedly asked to be let in, only to be rebuffed.

Hermès – which has branches throughout the United States – said in a statement that it "regrets not having been able to welcome" Winfrey to the store, but that "a private public relations event was being prepared inside." Sounds like a convenient excuse -- and maybe that's exactly what it is... but we will ever know?

Winfrey believes the store's staff had identified her, according to a spokeswoman from her Chicago-based company, Harpo Production Inc. According to Winfrey's rep, the talk show queen asked if she could just run in and buy the watch, but was snubbed by a clerk and a manager. Winfrey's friend, Gayle King, who was in Paris with the media queen, told Entertainment Tonight, "I saw it, and it was really, really very bad," then added: "Oprah describes it herself as one of the most humiliating moments of her life." Now this is the part that trips me the fuck out, and where I have no sympathy for the woman! Oprah lives in a gilded life where everyone does for her what ever the fuck she wants -- no questions asked. And Paris, as we all know, loves to rebuke Americans, especially celebrities who think they own the world and can do whatever with impunity. Parisian are probably sick to death of so-called wealthy or celebrity Americans coming over and expecting the red carpet treatment IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY just because they are treated like royality in the most hypocritical country of them all.


Hermès says their version of the story is all documented on a store videotape, although they are not currently releasing it to the press.
This tape could show Oprah being a straight bitch, acting like her money can buy the stink off her shit.

Harpo says Winfrey plans to discuss the incident in the context of race relations on her highly influential show when it returns to the air this fall. Should she call for a boycott of Hermès, the effects could be highly damaging – though it has also been suggested that viewers of Oprah's show aren't really in the market for $6,000 handbags.

Winfrey has often plugged Hermès products – a $135 tea cup and saucer was featured in her magazine in 2001 and was still on her Web site Tuesday, along with the company's phone number, reports the Associated Press. But she has said she will no longer be shopping in its stores.
She'll go back once the whole thing gets taken care off, and notice how it doesn't say that she would refuse any gift from Hermes -- so maybe Tina Turner can do all the shopping for her?"

The Race Card

The Race Card
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What is the Race Card?

I think white people hate the concept of the race card, because Black People.

Sex has No Place in the eyes of Kids??!?!!?

Salma Hayek - Hottest thing going!
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What the fuck is going on in this country? Well, I do know -- it's the rise of Evangelicalism, the religious right and assbag groups like The Parents Television Council.

So what's got me hot today? A
I'll reprint it for your eyes--

Video Game Known for Violence Lands in Trouble Over Sex

By SETH SCHIESEL
Under pressure from Democratic senators, the board that rates video games assigned the latest installment of the Grand Theft Auto series an adults-only label yesterday, effectively removing it from the shelves of most major retail stores.

The decision comes a few weeks after independent programmers uncovered a sexually suggestive scene that the game's creators say was never meant to be seen.

The board's president, Patricia Vance, said yesterday that the move was the first time in years that the group, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, had changed the rating for a game that had already been released. The rating was changed to "Adults Only" from "Mature," which is meant to signal appropriateness for players 17 and older.

Several top video game retailers, including Wal-Mart and Target, said yesterday that they would no longer sell the current version of the game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

Like the motion picture ratings system, the video game's review system is nominally voluntary but usually compulsory in practice. Just as major movie theater chains almost always refuse to exhibit NC-17 movies, most mainstream retailers refuse to stock adults-only games.

The game's developer, Rockstar Games, which is owned by Take-Two Interactive, said yesterday that it would stop making the current version of the game and would release a new version as soon as possible.

Fueled by a mix of freewheeling play and rough-and-tumble urban motifs, the Grand Theft Auto series has become one of the world's most popular game franchises. According to the NPD Group, a market research firm, the game had sold more than 21 million copies since 2001 and had generated $924 million in revenue for Rockstar Games.

Even as game players, mostly young men, have flocked to the series, politicians have singled it out for its violence and sexually suggestive material.

The franchise's latest installment, San Andreas, has sold almost six million copies since its release in October but has drawn close scrutiny in recent weeks after independent game enthusiasts uncovered a sex-oriented "minigame" that had been hidden in the program's code.

To unlock the hidden scene, a user must download a program from the Internet known as Hot Coffee that was created by fans of the game. The scene depicts mostly clothed digital people performing sex movements.

"An artist makes a painting, then doesn't like the first version and paints over the canvas with a new painting, right?" said Rodney Walker, a spokesman for Rockstar Games. "That's what happened here. Hackers on the Internet made a program that scratches the canvas to reveal an earlier draft of the game."

Yesterday's decision by the rating board is sure to fuel tension between game companies and a subset of their players, known as modders, who make modifications for their favorite titles. Many companies, including Rockstar, have traditionally encouraged modders as a way of extending the life and relevance of their games.

But yesterday's action may also encourage publishers to make their games less alterable so that they are not held responsible for the changes that modders make or the old code that they unearth.

In a statement, Take-Two said that it was considering legal action against companies that help game players change the content.

Game players can buy devices on Web sites that allow them to alter games for consoles like Sony's PlayStation 2 that are impossible for normal users to change. On personal computers, users can change their games without special hardware.

Ms. Vance, the board's president, said that the mere presence of the Hot Coffee scene on the game disc, even in locked form, was cause to change the rating.

"This is the first time that we have dealt with a third-party modification and this raises a number of issues that we as an industry will have to deal with," Ms. Vance said.

"We want to make it very clear to publishers that they must clean up their product before shipping it," she said. "In the past they may have included content on the disc that they never intended the audience to access, but now hackers have sophisticated tools to unlock this stuff and the publishers have to be sure to either disclose the material to us or delete it."

Yesterday's move came as the industry and the ratings board have come under increasing political pressure. After reports about the modification, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, called on the Federal Trade Commission last week to investigate the game's earlier mature rating.

Mr. Walker of Rockstar said the company intended to release a new version of the game without the Hot Coffee code as soon as possible.

Ms. Vance said such a move would restore the Mature rating, and a Wal-Mart spokeswoman said that her company would almost certainly restock the new version.

Nonetheless, Take-Two lowered its financial forecast for its year that ends in October.

The company said it expected net sales for the year of $1.26 billion to $1.31 billion, down from an earlier forecast of $1.3 billion to $1.35 billion. The company said it expected earnings of $1.05 to $1.12 a share, down from an earlier forecast of $1.40 to $1.47 a share.

News Bulletin from CULTURE JAMMERS

I subscribe to a newsletter from that magazine called AdBusters, it's called Culture Jammers and they dropped this bomb about the bombing in London last week. And no, I don't have anything to say about it. It's what you expect you know, from crazies who follow a militant form of Islam, an aggressive imperialist form of Islam. Plus people in London are used to bombings... remember all them IRS suitcase bombs from the mid70s to the early 90s? Oh, you forgot about that? Do some research online.

Anyway, here's the news letter.

Jammers,

Today, millions of people around the world -- in cities from Paris to
Rome to Toronto -- spent two minutes in silence to honor lives lost
in last week's London bombings. It was a fitting, human tribute. It
was also a capstone to a week of extraordinary response, one that may
have opened a whole new chapter in how we understand a War Against
Terror.

From day one, world leaders and commentators publicly debated what
motivated the bombers to commit this terrible crime. Even more
importantly, many have gone on to discuss the real injustices and
inequalities that may have led to such desperate and misguided acts.
This sober, insightful, even introspective thinking shows how far
we've come since 9/11 -- when the range of acceptable reactions
rarely strayed from shouts of "evildoers" and "freedom-haters."

It's a welcome shift, signaling that we may in fact be ready to
seriously tackle the most important question of all: What are the
root causes of terrorism, and what responsibility does each of us
have to do something about them?

Together, over the next few weeks, let's tackle this question head on.

Here's one suggestion on how we can start: Let's recognize we have a
responsibility to treat the deaths of all people in the so-called War
Against Terror with the same solemnity and grief we have afforded the
54 victims in London. Since the coalition invasion of Iraq, tens of
thousands of innocent people have died as a direct result of the
conflict. Are they not equally deserving of two minutes of our time?

Should we, as Culture Jammers, challenge this double standard and
spearhead a day and time for two minutes of silence to remember these
victims? Two minutes of silence, two minutes of contemplation, two
minutes of reflection. Would you be on board? Would you be willing
get on the internet and help spread the word to pull this off? All
80,000 of us could really make an historic step forward in the
process of reconciliation. Send your pledge to:

Of course, there are innumerable other ways to spark this necessary
discussion about the root causes of terrorism. Let us know how you've
decided to contribute, or send us some of the most insightful
analysis you've read or heard in the media. We'll feature the best,
most fearless, most inspiring submissions on our website. Send them
to:

Onward.

If You Can't Say "FUCK" on TV? When can you say? Only In the Bedroom?

Electra - Stuff(ed with cock?)
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ABC apparently let the "f" word slip by its screeners during the Live 8 Concert when The Who took the stage. While the expletive made it into the east coast feed, it was edited out before the mountain and west coast feeds. Not good enough says the complainant - the Parents Television Council (PTC). Who we all know are a bunch of suburban bitches with asses so tight they can turn coal into diamond (guess they need an ass-fucking?) and hen-pecked so-called men... usually GOP loyalists who have their hands in the air with the other cunts... they need to rehumanize themselves.

In the east, the word was uttered during the 8pm hour. While the PTC recognizes and apparently appreciates ABC efforts throughout the broadcast, this "slip" they say still warrants an FCC ruling. Please! Spare me this kind of moral highground crap. Take a look at the economic prognosis of this country, and quit clouding the reality of the future with piddly-ass comments about so-called offensive speach! Shit, Karl Rove's face broadcasted into my living room is offensive AND obscene -- to me, at least. Is the FCC going to rule against CNN and Fox News for their round-the-clock coverage of Rove's Snivelly Whiplash countenance? I thought NOT!

Said the PTC: "This kind of language does not belong on network television, particularly when so many children are in the audience." Apparently, they didn't see the rating. 'cause kids are surfing the net watching German porn where men and women get fisted and laugh with glee about it. Nor do kids in America give a FUCK about the systemic kleptocratic problems in Africa. All American kids give a rat's ass about is - when does PlayStation 3 hit the streets?!

The complaint was files against Allbritton station WJLA, who has an indemnification clause in its network affiliation agreement against any improprieties by the network.

Get Your Terrorism On???

You know the BIG reason that Prescott Bush's grandson is clammoring for increased aid to Africa? Well, it's multifold, but it occurred to me after the Live 8 concerts over the weekend, that the US can't allow any African nation to reach the level of abject loathing of America and its decadant ways that the plethora of countries in the Middle East have. The attempt to uplift sub-Saharan Africa is a shrewed manouever to nip terrorism in the bud. As we've seen in countries like Liberia, Sierre Leone, the Congo and Rwanda -- Africans, when pushed to rabid levels, can be some dangerous, heartless muthatfuckas. And the GOP doesn't want any Nigerian terrorists running wild in the South Bronx or Knoxville or any place else for that matter.

Of course the big difference between African states and Middle Eastern states, in terms of zealous factions of the population, is that African don't hate The Hate that begat their probelms. They recognize the complete rape-n-pillage movement that was colonialism, and they try to deal with it.

See in the Middle East all them shiekdoms and tyrannical so-called Presidents aren't at the level of kleptocracies that are blights to almost every African nation. Yeah, the Saud Royal family GETS OVER, but they don't pillage their own peoples' wealth and infrastructre and food, just to buy some gold jackets and kick it in BMWs. The Middle Eastern rulers don't share the wealth they already amassed. African rulers take all the aid money that receive and dump it into palaces in Spain or bank accounts in the Caymans or fly barbers in from New York City at $5000 a pop for the latest bald-fade. Yeah, Mubutu of the former Zaire was all about doing just that.

No, the current GOP president might have a good intentions, but ultimately the West is gearing up for the next level of rape-n-pillage of the Motherland.

Leaving The Country To Get Fucked

Leaving The Country To Get Fucked
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Man, I can't believe that Sandra O'Connor is stepping down from the highest court in the land, leaving the chump-in-chief to select a replacement. I KNOW he's going to follow in his dad's footsteps and nominate a dangerous person to be part of the Supremes.

This is a test of Prescott's Grandson's convictions and past promises, and his biggest opportunity yet to assure that this Current Dangerous presidency will leave a conservative stamp for a generation to come.

A Generation to come.

Not that it really matters, because America is tearing itself apart at the seams (and we refuse to recognize it), so in the next generation is going to rioting a lot more than we've ever seen. And the Supreme Court just won't have any kind of control.

Still, if there is a chance for the country to survive the MAJOR MAJOR economic shifts that are approaching, then the ability to thwart conservative agendas is paramount. And the best way to do that is on the Supreme Court.

Justice O'Connor wasn't a liberal or a conversative, but more of a pragmatist who did what she thought was right for the country.

The interesting thing is that a new supremor doesn't have to follow the party doctrine at all -- but he or she could easily be a wack-ass like Clarence Thomas, someone who is still so damn young (meaning decades still on the bench) and has nothing to contribute. I don't see why he doesn't step the fuck down!

Will the country really know how to deal with a most conservative Supreme Court?

The selection need not be as devicisive as we all expect. The current commander-in-chief, if he wants to be a unified, will rebuke the party extremists and moderates, and choose someone that will effectively government for the next twenty years. And considering that Billy Reinquist is on his way out, too, the GOP has a chance to consolidate its power more and concentrate the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.

White Women NEED Help

I was reading the Washington Post today (online) and I came across a story about Natalee Holloway -- here's excerpts of it, plus my comments in italics

Someday historians will look back at America in the decade bracketing the turn of the 21st century and identify the era's major themes: Religious fundamentalism. Terrorism. War in Iraq. Economic dislocation. Bioengineering. Information technology. Nuclear proliferation. Globalization. The rise of superpower China.

Every few weeks, this stressed-out nation with more problems to worry about than hours in the day finds time to become obsessed with the saga -- it's always a "saga," never just a story -- of a damsel in distress.This type of yellow journalist drama should be regulated to the grocercy store fishwrap and those chump shows like Inside Edition, but these stories always are the lead on so-called news shows like CNN and Fox News Channel. And it's ALWAYS covered on the three network news channels, plus the othe bevy of cable news channel are up here giving us round the clock coverage -- at the expense of what I would consider real news, real debate and real investigative reporting (if such a thing is possible post-Reagan).

Before the Runaway Bride, there were too many damsels to provide a full list, but surely you remember the damsel elite: Laci Peterson. Elizabeth Smart. Lori Hacking. Chandra Levy. JonBenet Ramsey. We even found, or created, a damsel amid the chaos of war in Iraq: Jessica Lynch. Are you starting to see a pattern here?

The specifics of the story line vary from damsel to damsel. In some cases, the saga begins with the discovery of a corpse. In other cases, the damsel simply vanishes into thin air. Often, there is a suspect from the beginning -- an intruder, a husband, a father, a congressman, a stranger glimpsed lurking nearby.

Sometimes the tale ends well, or well enough, as in the cases of Smart and Lynch. Let's hope it ends well for Holloway. But more often, it ends badly. Once in a great while, a case like Runaway Bride comes along to provide comic relief.

But of course the damsels have much in common besides being female. You probably have some idea of where I'm headed here.I can see what the Post writer has to pussy-foot around the subject -- all these broads are white, and the majority are blondes

A damsel must be white. This requirement is nonnegotiable. It helps if her frame is of dimensions that breathless cable television reporters can credibly describe as "petite," and it also helps if she's the kind of woman who wouldn't really mind being called "petite," a woman with a good deal of princess in her personality. She must be attractive -- also nonnegotiable. Her economic status should be middle class or higher, but an exception can be made in the case of wartime (see: Lynch).

Put all this together, and you get 24-7 coverage. The disappearance of a man, or of a woman of color, can generate a brief flurry, but never the full damsel treatment. Since the Holloway story broke we've had more news reports from Aruba this past week, I'd wager, than in the preceding 10 years.

I have no idea whether the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida hung on every twist and turn of the Chandra Levy case; somehow, I doubt he did. But I suspect the apostle of "deconstructionism" would have analyzed the damsel-in-distress phenomenon by explaining that our society is imposing its own subconsciously chosen narrative on all these cases.

It's the meta-narrative of something seen as precious and delicate being snatched away, defiled, destroyed by evil forces that lurk in the shadows, just outside the bedroom window. It's whiteness under siege. It's innocence and optimism crushed by cruel reality. It's a flower smashed by a rock.

Or maybe (since Derrida believed in multiple readings of a single text) the damsel thing is just a guaranteed cure for a slow news day. The cable news channels, after all, have lots of airtime to fill.

This is not to mock any one of these cases (except Runaway Bride) or to diminish the genuine tragedy experienced by family and friends. I can imagine the helplessness I'd feel if a child of mine disappeared from a remote beach in the Caribbean. But I can also be fairly confident that neither of my sons would provoke so many headlines.

Whatever our ultimate reason for singling out these few unfortunate victims, among the thousands of Americans who are murdered or who vanish each year, the pattern of choosing only young, white, middle-class women for the full damsel treatment says a lot about a nation that likes to believe it has consigned race and class to irrelevance.

What it says is that we haven't. What it says is that those stubborn issues are still very much alive and that they remain at the heart of the nation's deepest fears.

Non-white men dicking down white woman and then disposing of them (either by leaving while they're sleeping or slicing their throats, although Black men know better because history has taught us not to ever go down that route) ALWAYS gets the tisk-tisk, as they're sharping up the knives and preparing the hot tar.

This Hollaway chick is dead, and lost at sea. There's no other smart explanation, 'cause if she was kidnapped where's the ransom? Now because there are whites and well as people of color involved in the disappearance, the white kid (whose pop is a judge) is going to get the best legal defense... the Aruban niggas, shit they is going to be hung or keelhauled or thrown to the sharks -- whatever they do in that part of the world for the Death Penalty.

Still what's going to irk the fuck out of me is what little girl's face is going to be a banner-ad on the CNN ticker later this summer?

And is it going to be something with a person of color is involved? True or not! Remember that one crazy-ass white women who executed her kids, then said some "nigger did it", remember her? That's gonna happen again, mark my words!

TV? Will it show Its ass or show Its heart?

The other day I got an mpeg of the failed TV pilot for this Warren Ellis comic book turned TV show GLOBAL FREQUENCY, and then I had a chance to read some thoughts on the show by the its TV creater John Rogers (see this site for John Rogers' comments) and I have to say it's too bad this show didn't get picked up.

I would suggest that most people should search TorrentSpy or some other torrent site to find this mpeg of the show and then watch it. It truly is one of those shows that injects faith into the human condition in a way that almost all shows eschew. The concept of the comic and show isn't for me to explain (I'd rather your get the torrent or get the collected graphic novels and experience yourself; eventhough I'm a writer, I don't want to cheapen another QUALITY writer's work by doing secondhand description.)

It would have been an interesting show, but it was slated to go on The WB? Like that channel has any good dramas... It could be a place for challenging TV, like what Fox was doing when it originally came on (and what Rupert Murdock allows on FX).

TV is doing some good shit of late, like OVER THERE and THE SHIELD and the upcoming HBO show ROME. But TV (or whatever episodic filmed entertainment is going to be in the future) needs to be able to address certain issues, ideas, genres and philosophies. GLOBAL FREQUENCY is a SciFi show that wasn't tryinig to be regulated to the SciFi Channel (although the updated Battlestar: Galatica is pretty amazing), it was trying to do what the original Star Trek and Johnnie Quest did back in the day -- attempt to reach the primetime audience with poignant stories or rollicking entertainment.

Damn, why does TV have to be so expensive to continue to produce.

Do they really think they can turn off the Media Spotlight

Pair of Cumdumpsters - The Hilton Sisters
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Our two favorite heiress-cumburpers both claim that they want to avoid the media spotlight in a couple years, that the whole tabloid thing is so gauche, so passe (don't you love how French has all the cool words for wack-as-fuck, without cursing).

Well, these two are probably going to be grossly examined if NBC's new reality-expose show I WANT TO BE A HILTON lasts more than a few episodes. Premiereing tonight, we'l have to see just what it means to be spoiled rich, out of touch with what the bulk of the population deals with and

It's funny, back in the 1920s and 1930s, the movie industry (and Broadway) made tons of films that depicted the lives of America's artistocrats as people with foibles and relationship problems just like the rest of America, only they had fat bank accounts to help them in and out of scrapes that most of the audience found delightful, escapist and chucklesome.

However in the 21st century, being rich and acting like the rules don't apply (they never did, but at least it was kept in the backrooms and behind closed doors) with wanton sexual behavior and crass publicity hogging it seems gross. Sure we all love fucking and many of us have taped ourselves doing, so the sex isn't what is interesting. Somehow seeing Paris adequately swallowing cock in her video tape or acting like a complete slut for Carl's Jr. -- seen the ad? -- has tantalized and tainted our vision of what it means to be young with money.

Is Paris beautiful? Hard to say, we need to see her in the morning?

Is Nikki fun to be around? I don't think so, as we don't she her basely engaging everyone around her when a camera is on.

What about the Mom & Dad? How do they feel about the way they raised their children? Oh, I forgot they didn't raise their kids -- a slew of nannies and others did. Hmm... I guess we'll see if being a Hilton is about shit after tonight.

I Want My Cold Hard Cash

$20 Stacks
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Information theft is THE crimeof the digital age... it's never going to be preventable, just like brick-n-motar crime isn't really preventable. So today when I read about MasterCard International having 40million carholders information jacked, it makes me wish it was a lot easier to get and keep cash.

For the past decade now it has become increasingly difficult to obtain, keep and use cash. Not that we the people don't have money, but that the digital age continues to ask us to rely on electronic means to pay for our goods and services. The digital age wants us to forget about using paper -- of any sort -- for consumer transactions. Consider those Visa CheckCard commercials, which basically tell the consumer don't use the greenback, shit, don't even use a check -- just use that little piece of plastic with the vulnerable magnetic strip on the back.

I figure it's only going to get worse, because ALL consumer information is being transfered to databases -- medical records, bills, banking info, DNA scans, shopping habits, whatever the fuck can be collected, analyzed and collated is going to be converted to one's and zero's whether we like it or not.

Pretty soon consumers, the young of today, will start seeing paper money with some sort of "cheap" stigma to it, opting for plastic, eschewing the lovely, tangible feel of that special U.S. Mint paper in one's fingertips.

Speaking of fingertips, the digital age is pushing to have consumer information embedded in a microchip that will be implanted in one's thumb or forefinger -- something that bums, panhandlers, thieves and street hustlers will no doubt (and easily) cut the fuck off to rob people in the near-future digital age.

The thing about Cash though is that criminals love it the most because it is virtually untraceable. For instance in Europe there is a ���500 note, that is the denomination of choice for the criminal element because it represents so much value in a think piece of paper. The ���500 note is banned in Portugal and soon to be in other Eastern Europe for the obvious reasons.

The biggest problem is that you don't know what information of yours is stolen, but not being used until a later date -- late around Christmas of 2007!

I'm looking to keep all my money in accounts that aren't tied to my debit/credit cards -- that way identity theft susceptiblity is reduced.

Diversification, baby, is what we're all about.

Europeans stealing in Africa -- Again!!!?!?!

nigerians terrorizing oil
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

So it is... in Lagos, Nigeria, Gunmen who seized two German and four Nigerian oil workers are demanding petroleum giant Royal Dutch/Shell honor promises of jobs and benefits in the oil-rich south.

Royal Dutch/Shell controls the oil in Nigeria, not the Nigerians. In effect making Shell a shadow-member of OPEC. The caustic and ugly problem in Nigerian and all African Oil states is that Africans -- who's natural resource the oil is -- don't have the technology (and it and the money required to leverage it are stridently keep from the African regimes) to better their countries.

The kidnappers are dissatisfied with Shell's implementation of an agreement to provide nine communities bordering oil fields with jobs and basic social benefits. Now, if you read between the lines then you'll quickly see that what this means is the Shell, like all Occidental powers, is doing it's most conniving to keep Africans poor and struggling. And I think I know why. See if the states in Africa got their act together like China, then the global economic shift would transfer tons and tons of wealth to Africans -- as their countries are the most natural resource rich ON THE PLANET and the labor costs would undercut even the Chinese.

The World Bank, IMF, Trilateral Commission and the G8 (not to mention all the cats who gather in Davos every year) wouldn't want this to happen.

The Iduwuni National Union for Peace and Development group claimed responsibility for the Wednesday kidnapping of the six employees of a German contractor for Shell.

Jackson - Acquitted, will he change?

Jackson - Acquitted, will he change?
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Okay, so he's not guilty -- at least of these charges, but perhaps the diposed king of pop is guilty of some sort of malfeascene. He's paid money before to make the kid-fucker allegations go away, so whatever Michael does he needs to change his way of living.

Why is it now, after the trial comes out in favor of the defendant, are all the pundits and media talking haeds claiming that the prosecution tried a questionable case, and that they really played themselves with the conspiracy charge (which is the only reason by that bizarre as mother was up on the stand, making a SUPREME fool out of herself).

Everyone claims that the Jacko camp isn't going to go after these people for malicious intent -- I would, starting with that retiring DA who was crusading against Jacko -- I'd go after him to drain his retirement money. Teach him a lesson for holding a grudge when he's sipping gruel at some old folks home in Tijuana ('cause this city is going to implode kind of soon).

Well, this is interesting: first Puffy, then Kobe and now Michael -- star niggas who HAD MONEY ENOUGH to say "fuck off" to the justice system that has habit of chomping at the bit whenever a high-profile nigga gets in trouble.

Next up in the Justice System crosshairs is past-his-prime R&B singer Gerald LeVert (he was arrested in that bitch racist town Cleveland a couple months back for arguing with a copper).

Jacko: Are my kidnappers coming to get me soon...

Jacko: Are my kidnappers coming to get me soon...
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As they say, The Jury Is Still Out... but that doesn't mean that Jacko is going sit through the Verdict Stage or a possible sentencing.

Jacko operates above the law, or at least he believes that he does, for so damn long it's obscene. He's bribed his way out of many a legal scrape in the past (greasing the right palms is a way of life in most 3rd World countries, but it's steadily on the rise in the US, and has always been accepted -- if done right).

Unfortunately for Jackson, the public has already tarred and feathered The Gloved One -- a long fucking time ago. The head-scratching behavior that dude has exhibited for almost two decades now has numbed us to what's going on in Jacko's life. We been bludgeoned with so much "what the fuck is that?" over the years (particularly since Jacko has become a father) that at this point we just want to see what's going to happen, to see how this once-beloved figured swirls down the toilet with bubbly, brown shit percolating in the mix.

It's quite unheard of to have a society celebrant depcited with such abject cruelity, yet fascination and still

Sadly, Jacko's music career is DONE. Unlike people like Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stone and The Eagels, there is no Jacko tours that anyone what's see -- the music videos (an art form he helped create) is THE way we want to remember him. Not this wispy, rag-doll of a bitch-man that keeps showing up in court or on "how could you authorize that" TV specials. I read somewhere that Andre Hurrell (or maybe it was LA Reid) said he would work with Jacko on a music album -- bascially on GP.

I still think that Jacko needs to stage a kidnapping, then show up in Bali or Java late next summer with a whole new persona and then decide not to come back to the United States. All these fallen celebrities (notably the niggas, i.e. Orenthal James) paly themselves by remaining the US. A country that will bring its celebrities to highest pinnacle of fame and attention, but will relish the fall much more than the rise, it doesn't make sense to live out your the rest of your life with that history/baggage. People always asking, looking, pointing, just doing that dumb shit Americans do. Live someplace else where you can make your diminished fortune last longer.

I just want to know what Jacko is going to do once this is over -- what's his appeal going to look like if he does get convicted? What happens to Neverland Ranch?

The next week should tell us.

Vicente Fox - Niggas have no place!

Vicente Fox - Niggas have no place!
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This janky-ass Mexican so-called leader made some caustic-ass comments that stem from a SUPREME level of ignorance of American Blacks and their still-fucked-up treatment in the laughably called "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave" aka the USA.

Lapdog to Prescott Bush's Grandson (the current President) Vicente had caused offence when he said Mexicans did jobs in the US "that not even blacks wanted to do". Those jobs include: picking fruit by hand (perhaps cotton), being janitors and garbage personnel in white enclaves, corporations and buildings, being maids to wealthy, bitchy, fuck-toy, trophy wives of the American upper class, and everyday back-breaking labor. But the connotation is that niggaz aren't capable of doing any higher quality, more value-added work -- except breaking a sweat for peanut wages



While the US and people like Rev Jackson said the Mexican president had expressed regret for his "harmful" remarks, Mr Fox explained he was merely defending the work done by Mexican immigrants.

But the Mexicans illegal or not, who do this work -- this work that Blacks were forced to do for no money, work that is considered the bottom of the barrel and therefore contributes to the sting of the word "nigger." See if you have to work the fields and get whipped for slacking off -- just for a hot second -- then you don't EVER want to have to think about stepping foot in an argriculture commodity field, unless you own it, and you damn sure don't want your children or your children's grandchildren even doing.

As for the urban "slaves" American Blacks don't want those jobs, and cavaliery shit on the prospect of cleaning up after white people in their corporate american offices because -- up until the late 1960s, if you were Black and highly intelligent you might not be able to get any job accept for doing janitorial work. Could be well-read, articulate, and incisive with your thoughts and comments, but still be regulated to the menial, shit-eating jobs -- 'cause white America wouldn't let you make a living, a legitimate living, otherwise. The black market of drugs, prosititution and smuglging was always available, but who wants to be caught in that game?

It's no secret that Vicente Fox has NO IDEA about what American Blacks had and have to go through. Even today, the average Black with a graduate degree makes the same kind of money as white dude with just a high school diploma!!! Hmmm! Chew on that one, Mr. Presidente.

Presidente Fox needs to work on why kidnapping is BIG BUSINESS in his country, I think only the state-run oil monopoly generates more cash. If it and drugs weren't cannibalizing his country's GDP then maybe all those illegals wouldn't be wading across the Rio Grande or getting stuffed into a stifling hot van and secreted across the Sonora Desert to get "slave" labor work in the US.

Mr Fox made the comments last week to express frustration with tough new immigration legislation recently approved by the US Senate.

More to the point about Fox's comments is that he's claiming that American Blacks aren't worth doing much else by doing those slave jobs of old! As if niggas can't get respect in any other field except for the chump work that latin illegals get.

Do You Want A Peek At Heidi?

Do You Want A Peek At Heidi?
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

I was thinking more and more about the Seal & Heidi Klum marriage, and I can't understand why there has been a spike on the readership of this blog where searches are coming in along the lines of "heidi klum nigger" "heidi klum fucks nigger" and so on.

Well, maybe I can -- no one white wants to hear about a gonzo-chested, stunningly beautiful white woman getting dicked down by a Black man, let alone marrying one and having a child. Especially a white women in Germany, the so-called heartland of racial hatred. I think people are mad, because a Black man gets to see, fondle and suckle Heidi's breasts and nipples every night -- whereas no white man is doing that again.

I can't expect the world NOT to be a racist place when it comes to Blacks -- not all people of color, mind you, just those of African descent. As you'll see where ever you go, western and southern Asians give Africans (either from the continent or those from the diaspora) the muthafuckin' finger when they turn their back. Even when they are darker than many American Blacks!!! Don't go into a 7-11 in Los Angeles that's run by Indians or Afghanis or Pakis or Persians and expect primo service.

Ironically, Persian women craving American Blacks -- you'll have to ask their men, why though. I can't tell you. Maybe it's because there is no bass in the voice of Persians (or anyone outside of American Blacks for that matter) and that deep "bedroom voice" that is an act by most men, is just normal takl for American Blacks is seductive from jump?

So it's not just a skin color thing -- it's a race thing; something that jackass thinkers like Kant and his German 19th century ilk sought to codify to keep Blacks down. I guess they did a damn good job, 'cause niggers are still suffering like you wouldn't believe.

Quit starving yourselves, bitches!

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The skinny as fuck model look is dangerous to your long term health?

It seems so. As researchers from the Institute of Preventative Medicine in Copenhagen found those women with wider hips also appeared to be protected against certain heart conditions.

Women with a hip measurement smaller than 40 inches, or a size 14 would not have this protection, they said.

I KNOW that Black women, who typically have junk in the trunk, have wide-ass hips. I wonder if this means they will live longer? I don't see too many stats on the life expectancy of Black women; it's usually Black men who aren't expected to live psat their 50s!

The researchers say hip fat contains a beneficial natural anti-inflammatory. They said this anti-inflammatory, called adiponectin, prevents arteries swelling up and becoming blocked.

The hourglass figure has been made famous by women ranging from Marilyn Monroe and Sophia Loren to Kelly Brook and Catherine Zeta Jones (see picture of said hot broad) today.

Previous studies have found both men and women with small hips are at an increased risk of developing diabetes, high blood pressure and gall bladder disease.

However the study, which has been published in Obesity Research, found a wider hip circumference was not linked with better heart health in men.

Professor Berit Heitmann, who led the study, said: "It seems that the protection is not a matter of wide hips, it's the detrimental effect of narrow hips with a lack of muscle fat, or bone or a combination of both.

She added: "Fat on hips is different than fat on the abdomen." Which means all you women who have fatback (when the blubber in the area above your ass that peeks out when you're wearing a shirt that is too small, too tight -- loose that! And it's not sexy either.

Movie Review- CRASH

Crash
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Had a chance to see this movie twice over the Memorial Day weekend (a holiday in the US where we celebrate our dead soldiers and other war pubah stuff) -- I had a free pass to see it the second time, and the writer/director was speaking afterwards.

This is a movie I didn't think could get made -- well, not made by an African-American filmmaker (Spike Lee tried to do subject matter like this when $$$$$ wasn't the only game in town, and people in the Black Community didn't want to just laugh or what gangsta violence). Incidently there is a fascinating article in the current Brad Pitt issue of GQ outlining problems with interracial fucking in Hollywood product. I bring this up -- as a round about way of getting back to CRASH -- because the first trully offending scene in the movie is when Matt Dillon's character - enraged by a Black women ignoring his pleas - takes out his anger when he sees what he thinks is a white woman give a Black man a dick-suck while driving.

That's still THE NUMBER ONE hot button issue in the Northern hemisphere today -- the Blackman's dick going inside one of the orificies of a non-Black woman.

It's evidence by the traffic coming to this site in response to uber-model Heidi Klum wedding Black soul singer Seal.

CRASH poses difficult questions and reveals a lot about the simmering "fuck you, man!" that is just beneath the surface in Los Angeles, and probably the rest of urban America.

The acting all around was superb - you kind of forget that Matt Dillon was a major actor 10, 15 years ago -- or that Ryan Phillippe could have been an outstanding actor WHO WE SAW A LOT OF, if it wasn't for a few costily missteps; or that Don Cheadle is maybe one of the most versatile actors working in American Cinema; or that Keith David is one of the most under-used talents in a system that cherishes looks over actually ability; or that Larenz Tate has acting chops that haven't been used since MENANCE 2 SOCIETY.

Interestingly, in the expose of the Black woman and the seemingly endemic and unique behavior pattern of constantly challenging their men to act more "manly" when it comes to swallowing horseshit -- whether it's a person of color or not, who is provoking the challenge.

All in all this is a tour de force in acting and storytelling, eschewing the chump-ass Hollywood storytelling techniques that encompass most flims that Hollywood allows to made and/or distributed. See, it's not only a question of what Hollywood will make, but what they will distribute and put their marketing muscle behind.

I don't think I've seen too many commercials for CRASH, but understandably so because how do you really sell a movie that is a collection of stories about race, violence, intolerance and compromising positions? It can be done, considering that the film is making well over $36million (costing only $6, and maybe another $5 to $10 million in adverts).

See this movie, preferably in the theatre, as the movie watching experience is entirely different than watching on video or on an airplane.

Bow Down Sand N*99er!

MP's Foot On The Neck
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Why did NEWSWEEK retract a story about US Soldiers in Gitmo desecrating the Qu'ran? You know it's true, regardless of the denials coming out of the White House and Pentagon!

Think about it, in the military the enlisted personnel is predominantly under-educated - high school diploma or less -- so they're no doubt ignorant of the world outside of the "peace-loving" United States, and honestly believe that American culture gets a bad rap and is the best thing going! So when these jugheads with guns are put into a position of power/authority over people who's mission in life is to bring choas and destruction to the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave, you can't be surprised or shocked that military personnel is going to behave like despots. And when you throw Islam into the mix, that's a receipe for aggrivated assault.

As these new allegations of GI Joe abuse flood out of Afghanistan, you have to say to yourself: didn't Rumsfeld and the Joint Chief send a memo to the remaining Grunts in the Field: "stop beating the sand niggers' asses!" Did these people fail to get that memo?

If so, how come?!

Hot For Teacher!

Remember that Van Halen song from the '80s? It had a pretty racy (for the time) video depicting a hot-ass, big-titted teacher (obviously blonde) seductively staring down some junior high schooler. That twisted wet dream maybe comes true occasionally, and it usually ends with sorridly.

However, not the case with Mary Kay Letourneau. This broad actually wanted to continue the relationship with the youngest she pussy-whipper (errr raped as the law states it). Letorunear now 43 wed her high school sweetheart (and father of her two children) Vili Fualaau in a secret ceremony this past Friday near Seattle. The couple's two daughters, Audrey, eight, and Alexis Georgia, seven, who lived in the care of Mr. Fualaau's mother until Ms. Letourneau's release, acted as flower girls. Oh yeah, Letourneau was jailed for taking the young Fualaau dick too damn often whilst he was still a minor. Fualaau was 12, not even a teenager when Letournear "beat the dick up".

I remember meeting this cat from Spain a couple weeks ago at a party and he was in his late 20s complaining about the corrupt nature of LA women, and that they're not "ready to fuck" until their late 20s or early 30s. He couldn't understand why the situation was different is Europe, where he could easily snag 16 to 19 years old, dick them down and go on about his business. THAT was a little disturbing to me. However, I was reading this book called 100 Strokes Of The Brush Before Bed about this 15 year old Italian who has wild sexual encounters -- many with men in their 30s and above. The Spanish cat was adamantly against America's Statutory Rape laws. I had to walk away for dude after he said that.

What's up with having sex with a girl under 18, there's a lot of fumbling around and coddling in any event, but wouldn't that seem irritating and sure-way to kill a stiff one if you're in your late 20s?

Maybe the ideal of untainted, soft, nubile flesh is what attracts older men to women in their late teens (an age of consent and marriage in Europe and Asia prior to the 20th century), but the lack of body knowledge, immaturity and coping with the emotional see-saw of a young broad is too much to deal with as you get older. What do you have to talk about -- after sex? ah, I forgot you just go to sleep. Or maybe you just stick a dick in her mouth, that'll prevent her from asking too many questions.

See, if rank nasty and abberant!

Power to the MexiCANs

A.Villaraigosa
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

Ever seen that dumb-ass movie called "Once Upon A Time In Mexico"? There is this cheap-ass bit of dialoge that Jonny Depp vomits out; he asks Danny Trejo: "Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T?"

Well, it looks like Antonio Villaraigosa is a MexiCAN! He kicked Jimmy Hahn the fuck out of office. The first time that's happened to a first term Mayor in LA since the 1970s?!?! And Villaraigosa is the first Latin mayor since the 1870s, two centuries ago!?! Just goes to show you that even though LA is a mostly Hispanic town, they never knew how ot organize themselves to take the political reigns and run shit.

Talk about fucking up, Jimmy! Apparently, the niggas in LA weren't going to get behind Jimmy 'cause he sacked Police Chief Bernard Parks (who is African-American) in favor of William Bratton, the white man who beat the shit out of New York in the 90s (under Guiliani); you know the head of NYPD during the Amadu Dialo shooting and the Abner Luima plunger up the ass trick by white coppers.

Blacks in LA weren't too happy about that [incididently, there have been some pretty fucked up treatment of LA niggas since Bratton came in to power - at least two widely publicized shooting where the cops unleashed well over a 100 bullets on unarmed, under-20 black men], so LA Niggaz stuck it to Jimmy Hahn and dapped up the Mexican. Who might be a good mayor -- but unless he figures a way to deal with the God-awful transportation issues in LA then he's just another hoe-ass the Donkey Party got elected.

Jimmy initially refused to give up the post, thinking that the results could swing his way. He must have been smoking the crack LAPD and the Feds have been piping in the South Central the last two decades.

This marks an interesting turning point for the city that houses the greatest propaganda machine the world has yet seen. But don't expect Hollywood to take notice of the Latins running the politics, they might seek to have those westside communities seperate from LA proper.

I'm surprised that niggas were even considered as a determining factor, 'cause Black people just get taken for granted politically. As they have no true option when it comes to voting. Any Black vote for the Elephant-ass Party is one that signifies "I'm a dumb-fuck who couldn't careless about people, the environment or the future BUT I'm going to claim that I do."

Now all that needs to happen is to have Michael Jackson be found guilty -- not that I think he is, but I want to see how the drama unfolds if that happens.

I'll Be Back, Trust Me, I WIll!

DaveChappelle_150x200
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

Wow! The latest on Dave is that he's checked into a sanitarium in South Africa!!! [I wonder why not Switzerland? Is South African known for its pyschiatric knowledge?]

I have to believe the $50mil bill contract that Dave signed has to be a contributing factor to what's going on. No other Black comedian has made that kind of money. Shit, no Black Actor (denzel and will included) has made that kind of money -- essentially $25mil a year, plus the DVD revenues!!!! On three seasons of material!!!

I think white people love Dave a lot cause he says "nigger" quite a bit on his show -- and its one of the few places where 'nigger' can be hurtles at Blacks with no reprecussions or reprisals. Tartantino gave whites a chance to revel in that past practice quite a bit, but he's lost his ability to do it. Feel me on this, and here's why: everytime I get into a conversation about Chappelle's Show with someone white they have to bring up one of the skits that bandies about the word "nigger" and these white people -- all who are friends -- can't help but bring up the one skit called "the Niggars" where the white family in the 1950s has that name. White people love to quote that skit VERBATIM to me, or bring up the one about the blind black man who hates "niggurs." White people do the mock imitation of a black man doing a white cracker's voice (that in itself is funny, because it's so damn ironic!!!).

In all seriousness, Dave is a fantastic comedian become he's able to poke fun at the biggest source of misery in this country -- its race relations. The very best of comedians know that misery offers the most delictible bits of info to mined for comedic gold.


We'll see Dave again, shortly I hope. Apparently, Comedy Central has 4 or 5 episodes worth of material that could be aired as a "special." If they can't get Dave back before next Fall.

I'm Dave Chappelle, Beeyitch!

I'm Dave Chappelle, Beeyitch!
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

Contrary to what the billboards say, Chappelle's Show Season 3 IS NOT starting on May 31st. Apparently production on the show has stoppped production.

As much as people love Dave for all his skits, his penetrating commentary of race relations in the country that still champions the antagonist nature of those relations is what the show will probably most be remembered for. Bits like The Racial Draft, Wu-Tang Financial, that one "When Keepin' It Real Goes Wrong" where Dave is the "good little Negro", the racist Black man and the skit where Dave testifies in all the major "black" court cases signify this man's true genius.

Of course Rick James, the Wayne Brady skit and all of Charlie Murphy's Hollywood Stories will have us laughing til we piss our pants, but Dave probably has high aspirations.

What those are? I guess we'll only know if and when the show comes back on. I don't think it'll come back for a 4th season though. Don't care how much money Comedy Central throws at Dave (unless they redesign his DVD royalty... 'cause Season 1 is the #1 selling DVD for 1st Season's of a TV Show, surpassing The Simpsons (and their first season was wack, tame, badly drawn). I figure Season 2 will make Dave on of the most paid Black men in Showbiz -- but don't expect it to give him any additional power to not have his methods questioned by those who run the business and give him money.

I wonder if the dispute in the production is over that? That Comedy Central wanted to foist their "approved" writers onto the show against Dave's wishes. Dave is only successful now, and he's been in Showbiz for at least ten years, struggling his ass off. So with no long track record of being successful, his more experimental (i.e. funnier) choices are no doubt being shit on by the Brass. A lot of times only Black people "get" a certain amount of Black humor; that trenchant biting stuff that comes from generations of living with a foot on your neck and a knife at your back.

Makes me wonder if The Boondocks show is ever going to air with the bite that the comic strip has -- maybe if it was on al-Jazeera, but no US TV network (cable or broadcast) would allow the skewering of the majority (race, society, government, class) that McGruder executes so well in the paper on humanity's greatest persuading communication device.

You know the FCC will crack down on Comedy Central and Dave will half million dollar fines for nebulous profanity use and indescent images/sounds. Who are the people establishing those guidelines?

Seal's Point of View

Heidi Klum
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

German supermodel Heidi Klum and British-born singer Seal have married in Mexico -- obviously a marriage in Germany might provoke some skinhead response.

This is the second high profile/celebrity Black man marrying a white woman in the last year. Curious to note that just like Tiger Woods, the white woman in question is a European.

Why is that of importance? Stunningly beautiful white women WILL flaunt their relationships with Black men in Europe, more so than in the States.

I wonder if that would be career suicide in America? Say if Lindsay Lohan was fucking someone like Pharrell - publically, 'cause they might have done it behind closed doors. I mean career suicide for BOTH!

Urban Rumors - 1st Installment

This was sent to me, I find it hilarious, but hopfully not true.

Unfortunately, the word on the street (which has been confirmed by a probation officer) is that the 60's stole 160 kilo's of cocaine from the Mexican Mafia. In retaliation, the Mexican Mafia and other Mexican gangs have decided to target and kill 400-1000 black men of all ages who are wearing white t-shirts. This is not limited to the freeways..... I understand that this is very real and very serious. Please pass this on to EVERYONE that you know. I suggest you do not wear any white shirts at all if possible. Also, if you have on a dress shirt, consider wearing your jacket over it....

I was the BIGGEST champion to end this robot, slavish, no-style-having craze/fad/phase of urban street gear! The white longboy T-shirt is perhaps the laughable uniform worn in the streets since i don't know when! Hip-hop clothing styles went 180, back in the late 80s it was vibrant color epitomized by Cross-Colors, the 90s and early 21st Century gave way to a blank, soulless, bleached whiter-than-white T-Shirt (usually not even 100% cotton) - not marking, no logos (which is good), not silk screening - nothing.

And now is it really going to be "open season" on these fools who sport this? (I see that white dudebros weren't so into sporting this cheap form of the urban rag)

As Elmer Fudd said, "It's duck season, no wabbit season!" Either way, niggas need to stop wearing this uniform and get their hands out of the air with the other cunts, and rehumanize their street stylistics.

The Roots Crew Give A Free Concert

The Roots Crew
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

Yeah -- just the other day at UCLA, the heart of paid, paid, paid kids from California. Not everyone who goes to that school is paid, but a high percentage is and they were the ones filling up the quad for the concert.

Not exactly the die-hard or even extra enthusiastic crowd -- hardly any Black people in the crowd, too.

The show was amazing. I had never seen The Roots in concert before, and damn! Do they put on a high powered show! They are all truly musically gifted, talented and know how to express their ideas with great ease.

I was particularly impressed by the medley of 70s and 80s music (they did a hella dope rendition of Jacko's Smooth Criminal) that they worked in near the end of their set. But the so-called crowd only "got down" when white boy anthems were played(i.e. a Nirvana song and a Metallica cut, I think). This I know irked the fuck out of The Roots, as they refused to give an encore.

Yeah, they did not drop one song or even hint at returning to the stage. When was the last time you saw? Probably never. I mean chump-ass, no-name bar bands do an encore. I chalked it up to their displeasure at the crowd.

I bet The Roots figured: it's a college, they'll be down as fuck for our music and what we represent. Yet, it was an odd example of how these white people who think they are hip act to a more-than-hip African American music experience.

Sure there are those whites, Asians, and Latinos who are definitely down, but not a crowd of over 500 at a bastion a faux-liberalism, uber-rich joint like UCLA. True, it is a public school in the uneven California secondary education system, but the cost to go to that school - just to live in LA as a student must be fucking draining on the wallet.

So when these guys are doing something to save cats some money, the WRONG group of students show up.

Man, what's next white people showing up at the UCLA Black Wednesday events?

The Pontiff Rises Again - with a new face & name

[Dig that ancient tome, daddy-o? Where'd ya get that?]

So the Vacitican has selected its latest leader - Cardinal Ratzinger, henceforth named Benedict the 16th; who is 78, so I don't think we'll be seeing him at St. Peters for more than 5 years.

Funny thing about the selection of the new pontiff; it reminds me of the "new" incarnations of "The Doctor" in that BBC drama Dr. Who, how each time the series gets renewed their is a new actor playing The Doctor (the show just came back in the UK, with a NEW guy playng the much-loved Time Lord).

Cardinal Ratzinger, er I mean Beeny XVI, has been head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - formerly known as the Holy Office of the Inquisition - since 1981. Office of the Inquisition, yeah the needed to change that name alright. But the fact that it was still around well into the 20th Century is the main reason why Catholicsm and its insitutions are problemic to me.

Benny XVI, when part of the HOI, was stridently against liberation theology, which had gained ground among priests in Latin America and elsewhere as a means of involving the Church in social activism and human rights issues.

He has described homosexuality as a "tendency" towards an "intrinsic moral evil". During the US election campaign, he called for pro-choice politicians to be denied Communion.

Benny XVI praises the media, 'cause he knows he's got to (ab)use it to further his agenda and not be labled a crackpot. Truth be told though, any strict adherence to a religion that originated in the so-called Holy Land makes you a crack pot in my book.

You're Surprised That I Was Behind This?! Come on, now!

Modern Day Citizen Kane
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

Ah ha!!! Caught redhanded, Mr. Murdoch! And please don't claim a "Bernie Ebbers" and say you had no idea that your underlyings and lackeys where doing dirt, like the Nixon campaign with CREEP!

Have you heard of the organization called Don't Count Us Out? No? That's too bad. You should, just so you can understand how minorities are still used as pawns to get more money for the upper .01%!!!!

Don't Count Us Out (DCUO) describes itself in all of its press releases as a group of grassroots, labor and media industry representatives raising public awareness about the under-counting of minority consumers by Nielsen and its Local People Meters (LPM) system.

Don't Count Us Out is actually a front for News Corp. It seems that the Fox Channels (cable & broadcast, I wager) have been getting lower ratings now that Nielsen (that questionable TV Viewer Ratings company) quit using the paper ballots to determine who is watching what on TV and at what times.

The LPM system is supposedly more accurate, but it smacks of something out of an Orwell novel in the first place.

The outrageous thing about DCUO is that it's supposed to fight for the underpaid, the underprivillaged, the underrepresented -- i.e. Niggas and Wetbacks, whoever do we SEE any additional programing aimed at the two largest minorities in this country? Demographics that actually watch too much fucking TV?!?!

No, we don't.

Yet, News Corp., through its puppet organization wants to include those people in their cut-throat fight for more and more ratings where loud-mouthed pundits like Bill O'Reilly or Sean Hannity can continue to spew bile across the public airways and champion evangellical religious views and morals.

DCUO reminds me of the shit-ass tactics that the CIA and the DoD used throughout the Cold War to forward the nasty "Consumer Over All Else" agenda that the US wanted to inculcate in the rest of the Western Hemisphere and Southeast Asia.

The Occidental Companies that run the countries never get tired of ass-fucking whoever, however, whenever to grab more marketshare and more cash.

LeBron "King" James - Looking to Abdicate?

King James
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

So the Cavs failed to make the playoff, and I'm so entirely sure the northeast Ohio phenon LeBron James is MAD AS FUCKING HELL.

If I'm him, I'm demanding a trade and getting the fuck out of Cleveland. Many of you would be saying, "oh, they'll be better next year."

Uh... no they won't. Cleveland, as a city, disrespects black people like none other. And Cleveland, as a sports franchise, are perennial fuck-ups. They have NO tradition of winning in football, baseball or basketball. Sure, sure they won the World series about 60 years ago, and they won a few AFL football championships -- but that was all before African-American stars were on those teams and could make a difference.

As it currently is, as has always been since I've been around, Cleveland sports team would much rather see their black athletes do bad -- off the field -- than watch the team excel. Check your history, it's all there in the cheap fishwrap called The Cleveland Plain Dealer; over the years Cleveland has failed (either intentionally or accidentally) to celebrate its favorite sons who are African-American. Shit, one of the Levert brothers is about to go to jail for battling a cop (although he's on the hook for that one, 'cause he said to a questioning cop "do you know who I am?" Which opens the floodgates for cops and other low-paid white functionaries to tear down a successful Black man in this country).

Cleveland REFUSES to put up the money to acquire two star players that would lift any of the teams (Browns, Indians, Cavs) to playoff contention.

When the Cavs new owners fired Paul Silas in the middle of the season, they obivously didn't have a plan on how the rest of the season was going to work out, and they sure as shit didn't

Hip-Hip -- The Dirty South is Champ?

Funny thing I noticed in the NYTimes today... an article on hip-hop from Houston. The article shined the spotlight on Mike Jones, who's coming out with a new WB-financed album later this summer.

Music from the South has been hella popular the past half-decade, but I think it gets short shrift in NYC and the City of the Angels.

And Houston is a bombastic music mecca boasting the South-by-Southwest Music Festival in March of every year; where fucking fabulous acts blow up the spot, ripping the speakers on the stage.

So it's no real surprise that Houston music, particularly its hip-hop, is getting pub -- now in the New York Times.

I remember a few years ago I heard something about Houston-based hip-hop (which hasn't really been blowin' up the national scene since the Geto Boys did so in the late 80s and early 90s when Scarface and Bushwick Bill were spittin' lyrics) about what was called "screw music", essentially beat tracks slowed down. The purveyor of this style of music (available on that old, favorite staple - the mixtape) was this cat name DJ Screw, who got drunk off of some weird cough syrup concoction -- the Flying Homer in real life! Life imitating art, or art imitating life? -- but the NPR story mentioned that DJ Screw had passed away.

There's a blog -- Houston So Real that chronicles the Houston hip-hop scene. Check it out.

Yeah, I'm Out! Peace! See Ya, In 7th Heaven!

The Pontiff
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

The most recent Pontiff has bid us all farewell and ado... in my earlier days, I would have said "good ridance!" Now, I have to sit back with my arms crossed and contemplate -- what's next and does the world care?

Europe is no longer the craddle of Catholicism, and the USA never embraced the stringent form of Christianity -- but in the Third World!?!?! Shit, that's were ALL the Catholics are kicking it now. Central & South America and Africa are chock full of Papists. So my questions, does the world care has multiple contexts.

There has been some speculation for the past couple of years that when Pope John Paul II did shrug of his mortal coil that the next pope would be selected from the Third World... most likely South America (as the World would NEVER stand for an African pope -- even those whites who aren't Catholic would vomit, and the "presitge" of Catholicism would be shit on and rubbed in the dirt -- at least in their minds.

In this fascinating book I just started reading called Guns, Germs and Steel, the author proffers the fact that Catholicism has ravaged what is now the 3rd World ever since it was introduced there. So it wouldn't be that bad if the Church was controlled by the descendants of the heathens it strove so hard to eridacate, then convert (in that order!!!).

What's is trully going to be interesting is all the media scrutiny the selection of the next Pontiff is going to bring. I heard on NPR that The Vacitican was going to sweep all the debate chambers for bugs and other kind of surveillance devices. We also get to see a lot of the inner workings of the oldest organization on the Earth. Just look at the ceremony/ritual going on now -- there is going to a Nine-Day mourning period. And then some portion of the that, the body of John Paul II is going to be on display for all sorts of daws to peck at. Then the heady speculation on who is the new Pontiff going to be...

The next few months will have an interesting impact on the globe... so, you can see why I'm sitting back with my arms crossed, observing.

You Must Acquit!!!

My main man who sticks it to The Man has passed away, apparently from an inoperable brain tumor... but whatever the case maybe Johnnie Cochran moved on to whatever the Lord has in store for him.

A couple years ago I reach Cochran's memoir A Lawyer's Life, and it was utterly fascinating. He is a nationally (actually internationally) known figure mainly because of the Orenthal James Simpson Double Mruder Trial, a media-frenzied trial that caused widespread outrage among white Americans after Mr Simpson walked free.

Cochran was accused of playing the "race card" to a largely black jury after suggesting that police had planted evidence in an attempt to frame Mr Simpson because he was a black superstar. Is this true? Well, the one thing we DO know about America is that is has never solved its race problem, particuarly its Nigga Problem.

In his memoir, Cochran steadfastly claimed it was an insult to all African-Americans to think he could convince black jurors to acquit a man they believed to be guilty of two murders just because he was black -- and that the victims were white. It's kind of funny whenever African-Americans are in court in the country, because the whole system is acutely foreign to African-American sensibilities and culture; and niggas typically GO OUT FUCKING BAD when in front of a judge. However, Cochran was one of the few African-Americans who knew how to work the System to a T (I can't remember was his win percentage was, but I believe it was over 80%).


In the wake of the trial, Cochran frequently appeared on television chat shows, got his own court TV series and was parodied in films and hugely popular television shows such as Seinfeld and South Park.

But he also handled some MAJOR, MAJOR cases - particularly winning the largest police brutality lawsuit in the history of nigga-hating NYC. He also cleared Sean "Puffy Daddy" Combs from trumped up gun charges where a white district attorney was looking to "make a name for himself" at the expense of true justice; and that myopia bit that DA in the ass. It was under Cochran's counsel that Combs was advised to tone done his high profile image; thus Puffy Daddy became P.Diddy. Cochran had stated after OJ he didn't want to ever handle a criminal case again (opting to take on cases thta affected broad civil rights issues insteadd), yet Cochran knew that the NYC DA was out to broomstick another high-profile Black man, 'cause that's how this country behaves.

Cochran was no saint though -- an he wasn't expected to be, as he was secretive about his private life [who wouldn't be in cannibalistic media-mad culture that we live in?), but startling details were exposed to the public gaze after his divorce in 1978 from his college sweetheart, the mother of his two daughters.

It emerged that for 10 years he had had a second family, fathering a son with his mistress, who later sued him in a case that was finally settled out of court.

A lot of people thought that Cochran - being a Black LA Defense Attorney -- was extremely anti-police, yet Cochran supported his son's decision to join the California Highway Patrol, despite his frequent battles with police departments in court.

Cochran said, but more importatnly knew that many poor (and not so poor) black people feared the police more than they feared criminals. "People in New York and Los Angeles, especially mothers in the African-American community, are more afraid of the police injuring or killing their children than they are of muggers on the corner," he said. In LA, it's a known fact that LAPD was and continues to be "at war" with the Black community. Remember the details of the Rampart Scandal? Where cops received "play" medals of honor for shooting and/or killing niggas?!? In his office he displayed copies of the multi-million dollar cheques he had won for people who said they were abused by police.

And while his greatest fame came from representing celebrities, he said the clients he cared most about were ordinary citizens.

After the Simpson case, Cochran concentrated more on civil cases, but remained an admired figure in the black community for his quest for justice and his philanthropy, which included helping to fund a university scholarship and a low-income housing complex.

T.R.O.N. - I thought that was an '80s Movie!?!

No. it means The Realest Of Niggas! Can you believe that? But more to the point, what does it mean to be a "real" nigga? Who's sitting around with a guidebook/criteria pamphlet determining who's real and who's fake?

That term -- "fake-ass nigga" -- which is so pervasive in hip-pop [see I can't call it hip-hop anymore, because I don't really see the difference between Brittany Spears and Missy Elliot]. As if being a "hip-hop head" gives you the authority to question someone elses sense of individuality.

Being a "real nigga" perhaps means sacrificing singular individual expression for the crass genuflecting to the mass media aspects of hip-hop. There's a great song by The Police called "Rehumanize Yourself" (off the Ghost In The Machine record) with a lyric that says "he's got his hand in the air with the other cunts... rehumanize yourself." In the context of the song, Sting is referencing blind allegiance to a particular mind-state and/or dogma, and then condemning it as the most egregious things a person can do. But hip-hop tacitly asks it's hard-core listeners (which is pretty much everyone these days) to do exactly that. Obviously the bulk consumer - whites - can't be "no real niggas" - despite the fact they really want to some times - so they overtly or covertly maintain a constant seperate identity, even though they might be rockin' the latest Common in a tricked out H2 Hummer (like this white boy I saw in Beverly Hills today).

And then there's this question, is a "LA {Real} Nigga" any more or less a "real nigga" compared to an "New York {Real} Nigga"?

On the previous blog I addressed the reversal of polarity that Blacks are trying to get give the word 'nigga.' I strikes me odd how now a "nigga" isn't just an African-American (for other African-Americans), but a "nigga" is a specific type of Crystal-swigging, gold fronts-having Black. It all kind of goes back to the "Shade Wars" that I touched upon in THE NIGGER FACTOR (but never, never enough), the inherent self-loathing that Blacks have [one of those FUCKED traits of the so-called black community] -- sadly branded upon us.

See this website Willie Lynch - The Making of a Slave.

This is actually a re-post//retooling of one of the few remaining entries from the old blog. I thought about what could be reposted and this came to mind. I'm re-reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X [something that every Black person should read and re-read in their late teens, mid twenties and mid thirties] and what Malcolm recounted about his life, seems STILL to be going on in the current American Black world. Why the FUCK is that?

The Three "I"s

What are the three "I"s? And why are they being written about on this blog?

They are:
Ignorance
Illiterate
Inept

These are systemic psycho-social traits that afflict African-Americans to a high degree, and ultimately contanimate their ability to succeed in 21st Century America.

IGNORANCE -- the fundamental lack of knowledge, education, common sense, wisdom... does that capture what Black People are about? Sadly it does. And WHY? Muthafucka, why? Did you read the cover article of the March 13th issue of The Economist? It's about the digital divide, and it has an African boy using a stone as a makeshift phone! Ignorance has a lot to do with technology transfers; or the lack there of.

ILLITERATE -- the inexplicable lack of the ability to read, write and verbally communicate in a clear, lucid manner. Niggas are so poor in this rubric, a whole new term had to be created to handicap Black peoples woes in this.

INEPT - the lack of ability to successfully complete a task. Unless it's putting a ball in a basket or bootleg consume goods or selling drugs to other low-rent muthafuckas, niggas are poor, poor, poor capitalists. Which means niggas neighborhoods, or as trenchant author James Ellroy put it, Dark Towns around the country continue to stay marginally better than 3rd World conditions with better stocked consume goods at local stores.

Where the Three I's smack niggas the most is in their pop culture. I'm looking at this junk-ass so-called Black Men's magazine called King, and man do I have to say WHAT THE FUCK? This self-styled "hip" jumble of 4-color glossy fishwrap continues to tout ideas and behaviors that Black Men "should be following" that no doubt results in a check-to-check financial existance with brutal behavior toward the "bitches."

That terms "bitches" -- the most ubiquitous sobriquet for Black women (and reference to women in general from Black men) around. Why not call them "nigga bitches"? That seems most appropriate, because if I'm degrading a women by calling her a bitch, then I might as go all the way and degrade her race as well as gender. Don't you think?

White Woman, Black Man -- Why The Hate?

Tiger & Elin
Originally uploaded by Ramses 3rd.

It's quite understandable that American Blacks disdain this combination -- historically it could result in what Billie Holliday called "Strange Fruit" and other types of egregious assaults on Black men.

Because this sexual combination was denied so much, it still generates the most scorn.

Black women are very vociferious about this, claiming that "these White heifers are stealing our men" - with the subtext that Black babies are "being destroyed" in favor of mixed children. And that qualityBlack men -- which are so hard to find -- are opting to erode the struggling Black community by marrying outside their race.

Strangely no other racial mixing carries the same stigmatic weight -- at least not in the United States of America (that corporate puppet country).

In the above referenced photo, we see Tiger Woods (who many a Black would argue that he's "not Black", in that he's not culturally African-American) and his Swedish wife Elin -- by any accounts that woman is pretty, and Tiger is just flexing what his money can buy. Does that sound harsh? Not if you really think about it.

Women want powerful, wealthy men -- that they can relate to. Elin was the nanny for some other big-name golfer's kids, who just so happened to be friends with Tiger Woods. So they were already running in the same circles. His success makes him able to claim just about any girl he wants, also long as she ain't a presumptuous bitch.

Is this a more media-exposed trend? I don't know, but it shouldn't even raise eyebrows -- except for the fact that the US is country that fucked and continues to fuck niggas at each and every opportunity.

Trial Of The Decade (Part IV of A Series)

As the sad, but hilarious Michael Jacko child-fucking trial continues, it seem sthat Jay Leno has been slapped with a gag order (as he's been listed as a witness in the trial) that prevents him from telling jokes about Jacko.

To circumvent the absurdity of the circus, Leno brought in "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Brad Garrett to read the inane cracks Leno wrote. He's an example of Leno's tawdry humor - "Today, Michael Jackson's lawyer said that he will not play the race card - mainly because he can't figure out what race Michael is."

How many other celebrities are going to be called to the stand to air the down-n-dirty about the Gloved One? There has to be some people who have helped secure butt-boys for Jacko, but where are they?

I can't decide if I believe if Jacko is going to the slammer or not? Check back in a few days after more of the Prosecution's Attack comes out.

The Trial Of The Decade - Part 2
The Trial Of The Decade - Part 1

Don't Know What Fun Is Anymore

There was an article in the February 23rd edition of the NYTimes about the collapse of speciality toy stores, you know places like Toys 'R Us and F.A.O. Schwartz and Kay-Bee. The article mainly hits on the fact that low-cost outlets like Wal-Mart and Target are beating down the toys-only stores. That maybe true, but I tend to think that kids today don't give a fuck about toys the same way as kids did say 15 years ago.

Video games are the predominant form of entertainment for kids under the age of 30. For the under 12 set, that's the main for of "having fun;" sitting in front of a TV screen maniupaling a hand-control, watching images that have been loving cobbled together with polygons and painted in Photoshop by 30-year olds (who grew up on Fisher-Price and LEGO and Playmobile).

Do children today even really know what it means to have fun? Are they bombarded by TV and Internet images to such an extreme that they are being told what "fun" is, as opposed to finding out what fun is on their own? "Fun" that is dictated to you is a style of enjoyment that is rife with subliminal messages of what is hip, what is cool, what is geeky, what is lame, what is awesome, what is wack, what is chump.

As the giant Toy stores that were once a staple of the youth experience of America dwindle away, and the "direct" buying of toys at Wal-Mart and Target become the methodology of finding toys. I say buying, not shopping because shopping denotes the act of going to a retailer and browsing; nothing in particular is part of the task. Didn't you ever go to the toy store looking to get the latest LEGO set, but stumbled across at boardgame like Stratego or Operation? And then begged and pleaded with your mom to that game instead of the LEGO? Or kicked and screamed on the floor because the Hot Wheels car that you wanted was sold out, only to have your father assuage the whole situation by purchasing the latest Mego Captain American Action Figure? During the whole ride home as you salt-water tears dried on the side of your face, you envisioned thousands and thousands of new scenarios where Batman escaped the clutches of a Decepticon? Sure those two toys weren't in the same pantheon, but you didn't give a fuck back then, you just wanted to have some "fun," goddamn it!

Alas, Xbox and PS2 (soon to be PS3) rule the day -- that elusive element of all fun - IMAGINATION -- simplity disappears; replaced by more and more heightened simulation.

Is that when thought-control starts to get secreted into the binary code?

You tell me?