Uh... is this what it has come down to?

I mean come on, now!!!! What the fuck?!?

But of course we know that a nigger can be Prez before a bitch...
Still I don't know if Hillary Clinton in '08 is a good prospect for the Country, much like Obama, Clinton immediately creates polarization amongst the voting populace. Since she's a double lightning rod for the GOP -- a bitch and a Clinton -- it gives the GOP a perfect sounding board for the "Get Out The Vote" campaign that they're going to need for the general election.

As much as I want to see Obama win the ticket, win the White House, I can see the election looking just like the 2000 election when the country was so split down Red/Blue State lines, with Obama potentially taking the popular vote (although highly unlikely, 'cause he's of Nigerian descent) and whoever the GOP prop up with Carl Rove dirty tricks winning the electorial college voting.

The same thing would happen with Hillary, and that's if she can get over the fact that she's a woman. Too many men AND WOMEN operate under the assumption that Women don't have the true-grit mindset to deal the confrontational nature of national and international politics... I think outside of Britain, the Philippines and India, there hasn't been a female leader on the world stage... until that new PM of Germany won oh, so recently. Britain and Germany get a pass, because the systematic debasing of women isn't part of their culture the way it is the land of the free, the home of the brave (my favorite oxymoron in the history of the world).

You have to realize that the GOP are going to capitalize on Hillary's scorned woman persona that she has left behind... not tripping and standing behind her man (good ole Bill) might look like she's soft and will accept being slighted to her core. Imagine the similar questions that were asked of Michael Dukakis about his wife getting raped, being aimed at Hillary? I'm shuddering now, and if she ever just once even has tears welling up in her eyes SHE IS THROUGH, completely and utterly.

The '08 means more to the GOP than it does to the Dems, because if they lose after Dubya's assfucking of the country (Iraw debacle, economy, domestic civil rights policies, sucking Big Businesses dick) then they'll be out of the national power circle for some time. As it's hard to believe that they'll win back the Congress this time around, too. Not to mention any new supreme court appointments.

I just don't want to see the Monica Lewinsky shit get rehashed AGAIN, and it will be. I can see Carl Rove know pulling up the video tape from the archives already, getting ready to smash the prospect of women president -- in general, let alone Hillary -- by showing the bullshit media coverage of "Cigar-in-the-pussy-gate."

The election season just got cranked up to nasty level 12...

I'm single now, so.... who wants to fuck?!

Did you see the Golden Globes on Monday? Yeah, blah, blah, blah, -- nothing exciting except for Helen Mirren (at 60 she still looks sexy, and you know from his recent appearance in the Caligula remake, she's still freaky) but Reese Witherspoon perhaps looked the best, nay the most fuckable that I've ever seen her...

Of course she always looks movie star beautiful when ever she's OUT at events to get photographed, but this is her first time amongst the rich & beautiful since her split from what's his name, and she HAD to look extra hot, to let people know that, "okay, yes, I'm sexy, but I'm not getting sex right now -- so all you hot, young men who want to get down, don't not think of me as the Sexiest MILF you'll get to see.

Considering that she's way under 30, she is probably one of the primest catches in Hollywood at the moment; and since she's done with her first marriage, she's most likely to "do it right" the second time around... which is basically what they say, "the first one is practice."

Return of the Show of Shows

No, not Syd Casear, but the return of Jack Bauer and the gang at CTU! I've been telling people since the very beginning that this is TV best show since the invention of cable TV networks. Sure, THE WIRE and update of BATTLESTAR GALATTICA and SEINFELD fall within the pantheon of great shows, but they're not as captivating and addictive as "24".

"24" is maybe the most gripping piece of televised drama that we'll ever likely see -- the editing style (which changed the game) and the pulse-pounding storylines were finally reward for an industry-insider award -- The Emmy this past fall. While some people complain about some of the logic in the show, "that's not real", I'm like, "fuck off, it's TV" -- because all that TV has to do is deliver 40 minutes of truthful emotions within in believeable scenes, so if any individual scene bends reality but its emotional core is true... then the scene works, and the show wins (for example car bombs that are wired to the ignition, I was reading up on how that happens, and most of the time the victim survives the actual explosion).

The thing about this scene of Jack Bauer's exploits is that we see a broken man tracking down terrorists under the auspecies of a presidential administration that is ready to suspend civil rights & liberities at a moments notice to get the answers that it wants... which closely resembles what's actually going on in the Dubya Bush administration. You have to love the way a TV show can criticize what's going on within the Beltway, and seem like its grandstanding on a soapbox.

What like so far about the latest daily installment is that Bauer, who was used to using torture to extract information, has been the victim of dehumanizing physical & mental abuse at the hands of the Chinese (before this season began) and he's unable to take on the "mindset" to be an effective counter-terrorist... or at least he's unsure of his abilities... which again makes for fantastic drama. And Bauer is initially released from the Chinese, because he's to be traded for information about an Arab terrorist; Bauer tortured and killed a defecting terrorists brother several years ago and now that dude -- in perfect Arabian mode of eye-for-an-eye -- wants to torture then murder Bauer... however, Bauer does escape.

It's an intersting prospect to consider what would happen if the names and addresses of the Haliburton-hired private contractors who ordered or carried out some of the most heinous toruture for info extraction purposes in Iraq, was leaked to terrorist cells operating here inside the US? It calls into question the concept of War Crimes by private citizens... what's the purview for that?

Anyway, the second part of "24"'s season openner is in about 3 hours, so I gotta get back to rousing the rabble on another subject...

Whole Sale Slaughterin'

Niggas cain't help but kill themselves, and over the most stupid things you can think of. I was listening to a report that in the past week in New Orleans there have been 8 murders! 8! The wackest of them all was the murder of the drummer for the Hot Eight Brass Band, because his death was apparently random violence.

Ray Nagan needs to get his ass in gear and put a lock down on that city. If you think about there is more killings per capita in New Orleans than any place else in the United States. The population is so small well under a million people, yet you get a person getting killed everyday - maybe even a few people each day. Over drugs and gold and women... three things that don't mean anything in the grand scheme of things, yet a triumvirate that holds sway over niggas like you won't believe!




And let's not mention Darrent Williams senseless killing on New Year's Eve! And what's even worse is not no one wants to come forward and drop a dime on the killers; who are apparent gangstas with some fear on the street rep. Being a snitch is the worst thing possible in the world of street niggas, because at a certain level one is perpetuating violence, abuse and gangsterism by not fingering dirty, society endangering people. But then again the police are going to do what they gotta do to bring you down, and for Blacks in America the history of getting taken down by Cops with trumped up charges and confessions has been too much.

Aren't You Curious...

So from time to time a serious bout of perversity invades my mental state, and I'm always wondering where the hell did that come from... well this clip below is probably what gave birth to it. It's a trailer to a fictionalized remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula. Take a look and then we'll get back to the good stuff...


When I was a college refreshman there was a lot of talk about FINALLY getting a chance to see the original film starring Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren (who coincidentally shows up in the remake, I wonder what a weekend with her would have been like in her prime?!!) -- we had to get on a waiting list that was like six weeks of people. When my night finally came, I think about 15 to 20 people came to my room and we sat down to watch the film, and slowly minute by minute people began to drift out of the room from the highly, highly perverse and dehumanizing and disgusting sexual acts, sexually-charged violence and outright brutallity until there was maybe two or three people left (I left myself maybe 30 to 45 minutes in, just too disturbing; didn't want those images in my head... at least that's what I thought at the time).

However, here it is 17 years later and after seeing the frank/explicit sexual images in this film clip (which reminded me of the uncut sequence of sexual barbarism -- if you could call it that -- in EYES WIDE SHUT) I have to say that those images and the ideas expressed in Tinto Brass's CALIGULA easily shaped a look of the darker sexual imagations that I have today. Makes me wonder what other films have done to shape the minds of others...

I'll leave you with this: consider this... to be uninhibited about one's own sexual acitvities is not the same as being unshockable...

From Camp David to Concentration Camps?

Have you read the Peanut Farmer President’s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid”? I’ve haven’t yet, but it’s next in line for me, particularly after reading an article in today’s NYTimes that 14 of Atlanta’s business and civic leaders resigned from the Carter Center’s advisory board on Thursday to protest Jimmy’s recent criticisms of Israel and American Jewish political power.

Their multi-signature letter of “I’m quitting, peace!” dragged the best-selling book through the mud for its [scathing?] criticisms of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. The letter also took issue with comments Mr. Carter has made suggesting that Israel’s supporters in the United States are using their power to stifle debate on the issue.
Here’s a quote from the letter, “It seems you have turned to a world of advocacy, even malicious advocacy,” the letter said. “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or the Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support.” .

Now, Carter has a STRONG point that Israel’s backers in the US do quell any meaningful questioning of the US’ near 60 year unwavering, unquestioning support of Israel – even when it’s damaging to our oil & security interests in the so-called Holy Land region.

Truth be told you can’t criticize the current US-Israel foreign policy, by doing so it is de facto consider anti-Semitic and brings up charges of denying the suffering Jews faced during the 1930s & 40s during the Nazi pogroms...

That's a little problematic in my book, because the security concerns that are plaguing our nation, having all these troops sent to the Middle East to get killed (ranging all the way back to the Beirut bombing in 1984) stems from an unwillingness by the people of the United States and its government to approach the problems of the Holy Land (and the subsequent seepage into the rest of the Western world) with a neutral gaze.

There was a film I saw earlier this year called “Paradise Now” or something like that, it was from the Palestinian Territories and it followed two mid20s Arabs who wanted to become suicide bombers and blow up themselves and good chunk of Israelis in Jerusalem. And I was captivated on the depiction of everyday life in the occupied territories, just the location footage alone was enough to make you say, FUCK...

Is comparing the treatment of the Palestinians in refugee camps for close to 60s years comparable to Apartheid?

I’ma say, “Hell yeah!! ‘Cause muthafuckas who ain’t got no cribs for Big Mama and Big Mama’s mama -- let's be real, now, they had their cribs stolen from them --and are treated like the worst bunch of foul peoples on the face of the planet (that might be that regardless though) smacks of being too close to the P.W. Botha government view of niggas in South Africa.

Maybe it ain’t right to compare these apples and oranges (as the South Africans were extremely docile compared to the rock-thrown-at-tank Palestinians), but there ain't no reason for the issue not to be debated, and if Israel and its US supporters need to be put on Front Street for the hypocracy... then so be it!

Pump Up The Troops! Pump Up The Troops?

Dubya is determined to “win” in Iraq, but apparently his definition of winning is woefully out of date; in fact, it’s a 1950s definition. As “The Decider”, he asinine decision to increase the troops on the ground in Iraq (thereby overextending the military) is perhaps the most hubristic act of military inanity since Hilter thought he could overrun Moscow in the middle of the pre-global warming Russian winter!!

I don’t understand why a bicameral legislature – extremely similar to ours, where one house is proportionally represented and the other is a fixed representation – wasn’t in the “Game Plan” from the beginning. Dubya & Crew invaded the country under the aegis of bringing democracy to these wayward sand niggers, and yet the democracy that they wanted to bring (to a country/region that has no philosophical or actual precedence for it) wasn’t even considered; particularly in a region where the feuds and hatreds have been boiling over since before the concept of democracy existed!!! At least with a government similar to our congress (don’t ask me about the executive branch, maybe the two houses choose or there are general elections), the ethno-religious violence that is beyond out of hand (and approaching dastardly disturbing)

Some people say that we (i.e. the US via the Bush Administration) can’t let Iraq tear itself apart, that the vacuum that would appear if the G.I. Joes pulled out would tumble the region into chaos… uh, wasn’t the region circling the chaos drain during Hussein’s reign of terror anyway? If he wasn’t warring with the Islamic revolutionaries in Persia, then he nerve gassing people within his own borders with Sarin and other neurological goodies. It might do the region good, if Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran gobbled up the country – getting the oil out would be hard, and the price per barrel would skyrocket (although it shouldn’t because how much is the global economy getting out of that forsaken land as it is?), but eventually the region would calm down.

Nobody said that the country HAS TO continue to exist… it’s just that in the last 20 years, we’re used to seeing more countries from internal squabbles than less (i.e. break-up of the CCCP, East Timor, Ethiopia split, Czech Republic and Slovakia…), we’d be hard pressed to believe that the disappearance of country would be a good thing for its people. But let’s face it, the Arab Shi’ites would feel comfortable under Arab or Persian Shi’ia control, whereas the Kurds don’t want to be down with the Turks, but ethnically that’s where they belong. With the annexation by the surrounding countries, there is sure to be great amounts of Arab blood shed, but that’s not my concern – as that’s going to happen regardless of the outcome.

This one pundit last night posited the question, if a Marine scout force stumbled upon a Shi’ite militia versus Sunni insurgent firefight, the Arabs where join forces to eradicate the Marines, then go back to fighting themselves… now if that doesn’t sound hopeless, I don’t know what does…

Mockery of So-Called Justice

I was just reading some shit about how the Shi'ite Government was "investigating" the leak of the cellphone movie of Saddam's execution... like they need to go through that kind of bullshit PR stunt?!??! I guess they're losing sympathy from other Arab states/leaders for the mocking, taunting and jeering that Saddam received before getting his neck stretched.

It just continues to show that Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims trully WANT civil war, so the place can go even further in to the 9th Hell, and suck dry the world's attention, resources and dipolmatic energy.

The Violence Channel - All Violence 24/7, Watch It!

The internet village can't get enough of seeing human slaughter transmitted through fiber-optic signal lines -- ever since beheadings were broadcast from Iraq during the beginning of the current Gulf War, the public keeps clammoring for more and more video of people actually get snuffed.

So we all waited with baited-breath for the secreted, near-stop motion video footage of Saddam getting the noose... and then it was available for us all to see and relive on Google Video 24/7 (close to three million people have seen the killing on that Google site, and it's rated with like 3.5 star??! That's fucking sick, just shows how outrageous we still really are as people -- that many people watching it makes me remember those negro lynching photos for the early and middle part of the 20th century... all the white people (men, women & children) hanging around to see the basest killing of another human. I wonder how many people who witnessed lynchings as kids, actually were scarred by the imagery either to crusade against injustice toward Black people or to become dangerous devil-humans themselves? Beating on their wives or children and what not.

The Iraqi Gallows were in some dank basement that looked like something out of a bad scifi film from the '60s, and somebody JUST HAD TO HAVE a video camera in that room -- regardless of the poor taste, the abuse of power it demonstrated or the sadism that we now have to expect from all Iraqis -- to broadcast the death of a warlord president for the whole world to see, and to let it sink in so the outrage can begin. What was it there for ? To prove that Hussein was actually hanged? Wouldn't his dead corpse on display be enough of a convincing act? Why weren't the black masked guards and hangmen searched?

Saddam was definant to the end, even as the Shi'ite executions and guards shouted the praise of that radical cleric Moqtadha al-Sadr, Saddam was pretty much like, fuck you and the American horse you rode in on. I think that Saddam is now being viewed as a marty, because the Shi'ites just had to kill him so damn quickly. What kills me about these executioners is that they're wearing those maudlin black masks that harken back to the days of Louis XVI and the beheadings during the Reign Of Terror.

I don't understand why the Americans didn't write the constitution when they overthrow Saddam (much like what they did in Japan after ww2), in they outlined what the power structure was going to be - 1/4 voting blocks to each of the groups (Kurd, Shia, Sunni and fourth block that ups for grabs), in which the representational officers that make-up each Block is voted on via democratic elections. Then each power group would have a power base to flex their muscle, and we wouldn't have such bitter reactions toward each other or the absurb sectarian violence that's been de rigur for the past couple year.

This way the vengance is mine sayeth Muhammed Shi'ites wouldn't be fucking the country with the way it's being governed now.

Does this seem to hard for the old white men who were runnin' shit to understand? You have to factor in the fact that all these white dudes in power have an vindictive arrogance that reered up after the '90s in which the American white man came under attack by so many different ethnic and minority groups (ever notice that since Dubya has been in power all that talk has gotten REAL quite?), and since they've been runnin' shit (into the ground I might add) they've figured we can flex on niggas and people of color at home, why not the rest of the world? Guess again, huh?

Dubya was always against "nation building" but for a so-called country that never knew anything about being a country in the first place, to rule out that kind of systematic laying down the law has been a fatal mistake.

Do you remember this image? It's of Mussolini after the people of Italy got a hold of him and his bitch when they were trying to escape at the end of WW2.

It came to come 'cause our favoriet Iraqi strongmand got his neck stretched last night. Hard to believe he's actually dead... too bad his fucked-up kids didn't get to be publically hanged as well, Uday and Quesay were some right mean bastards.

The funny thing is, what's the difference between what George Bush and Donald Rumsfield did and what Hussein did? They each instigated wars of aggression, and only Saddam is paying for it. I have to imagine that Dubya and Rummy will never be travelling in Europe anytime soon; particularly Germany 'cause they have standing warrants to arrest those fools for War Crimes.

Can we honestly called the "War On Terror" in Iraq a war crime? Possibly, 'cause at least in Afghanistan we were going after a government that supported the 9/11 Attacks. However, no such evidence ever surfaced with Hussein to justify the subsequent invasions and sad, sad, sad occupation of Iraq.

You have to give it up to Saddam though, he held power nearly as long as Castro and raped and pillaged like the best of them. To top it off, he was defiant till the end! Always sitting up in court claiming that those judges had no right to convict him of anything. He was just doing what he felt he needed to do to maintain his power -- I'm sure Lyndon Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover felt they needed to do the same thing when they signed the death warrants to numerous Black Panthers and other uppity niggers in the '60s -- yeah, I said it! When cut out all the bullshit, Hoover, Nixon and Johnson were complict in the execution of numerous notorious negro aggitators... and we never called them murderers. I figure half the original founders and leaders of the OSS and CIA signed the death warrants for a bunch of "undesirables", too, and they were lauded as heroes.

So what I'm trying to say -- it's all bullshit, whoever gets killed by a government. Pinochet never stood trial, yet I'm sure he probably personally killed or oversaw the killing of people in Chile during his brutal reign.

Well, once the Iraqu civil war is over and the country is divided in three, and people begin to write about what happened during the Saddam years, I'm sure will have some interesting books and memoirs -- that is, if any of those people survive the current fuck-shit that's going over there... but is that my problem?! Hell no, 'cause I'd be handling that shit differently. I wouldn't have dismantled the army (like the US did to the Wehrmacht at the end of Nazi Germany), 'cause at lose people had some military training, and they would have had jobs (i.e. food, money and access to contrabad shit) to assuage the anger that instantly turns to violence among Arab peoples... and I would have installed another strongman, who I'd then kill after a few years, and then allow a democratic government. Also, the US should have written the Iraqi constitution the way MacArthur did with Japan -- that way the ethnic power struggles wouldn't be in effect. It kills me that this wasn't part of the plan, the concept of Nation Building is EXACTLY what should have happened there, and yet it didn't for inexplicable reasons -- well, that's not true -- the arrogance of a fundamentalist Christian president and his "we can conquer sand-niggers, no problem" cabinet and staffers thought differently.

I just wish those fucked in the nuts Hussein kids could stand trial, or at least get them to testify in front a psychological review board!

MOVIE REVIEW - LITTLE CHILDREN

Last night I watched Todd Field's latest film (hard to believe it's only his second, but hey) that adultery drama starring Katie Winselt and Jennifer Connelly -- two smoking hot chicks in their 30s, who stiffen the dick pretty much immediately. I'll never forget Connelly's turn in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, when she did an ass-2-ass two-headed fuckstick session in front of a screaming, gaggle of old men... all for a single hit of heroin; talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Anyway, she resurfaces in this film (and BLOOD DIAMOND) during Oscar-season to add the extra oomph that some films need -- however, this was not one of those films. Sure, she was great in the film, but her role was limited although biting. In fact, now that I think about it, shes' perfectly cast -- with those perfectly shaped tits and those legs that go on for days, she inhabits the high maintenance chick perfectly; the kind of chick who is an over-achiever and who can easily emasculate her man (in this case husband) for not living up to the potential that her kind of beauty usually requires to stay satisfied in a relationship. You know the kind chicks, who might not be from money, but because of their looks and brains are courted by the power players of this world.

The film itself was a joy to watch, excellently crafted, written, acted and photographed; there's even this quirky narrator that adds the right amount of spice to an already gripping film.

Boredom in life, particularly domestic life leads to fantasy, and fantasy that is usually borderline perverse, because of the repressed nature of suburbia and the tranquility that a 9-to-5 job inflicts upon you. That boredom is what triggers the illicit affair in the film, and it's quite believable. It's not based upon jealously, but based upon a poor choices that the individuals made before the story began.

Poor choices can and will fuck up your life, so you have to be judicious about the choices you make, and then snap judgements that we then allow to dominate our lives for far too long.

The one thing about this film that sucks, is that we'll probably see less and less of these kind of insights into the human condition, because Hollywood hasn't opted to make a film like this in probably 10 years (minimum) and the independent money that would finance these projects might find better places for a higher ROI, as this kind of intense human drama doesn't mean SHIT to the under 25 set, so for go an enjoy this endangered species of cinematic fiction while you can.

Soon, you'll only be able to see this kind of beautiful writing and acting and musical enhancement of stunning photography perhaps 3 or 4 times a year (in English that is, foreign cinema from Europe hits this mark routinely, but we're seeing less and less of those films coming over here, too) -- never on TV proper (DVD truly did commodify and thereby eviscerate the "meaning" of movies) and perhaps just in art house or when a major studio is gunning for an Award for the prestige business that they are in for that brief period the week before Thanksgiving up to Xmas Day.

Scavengers at The Tower

Yesterday I was down in Redondo Beach area going to a friend's house, and I stopped by a Tower Records that was going out of business; had a "Five Days Left" sign blazooned across the front of the store. I had to stop, maybe there might have been a CD or a DVD that I could buy (I snagged teh 20th Anniversary of PLATOON the other day from the Tower in Sherman Oaks for only eight bills).

I walked in the door and was like, "FUCK" the place look liked a bunch of scavengers in a Mad Max film had looted the place, and recently, too. All the aisles and bins pushed to the side and where picked clean of anything of substance, the workers looked like that didn't give a rat's ass about anything (and why should they? They probably don't have any new jobs lined up).



It was sad to see this store, shit any store, in this state of complete "i-don't-give-a-fuck", because records and tapes and CDs mean a lot to me, nothing can soothe you like music, nothing can set the mood to get some fuckin' done like music, and yet we all have migrated to acquiring our music thru wired digital means -- with no desire to amass CDs anymore. I love album cover art, there's just something potentially cool and interesting about the artist that can be said in a few brief photographs... no all we have to look forward to is, the squared image on iTunes or what ever pose struck their fancy for a Rolling Stone or Vibe photo shoot.

Let's face facts though, mp3 files sound like shit, unless their being played back on those two-way or micro speakers that most computers come with OR over the earbud headphones that came with your iPod or Zune (is anyone even thinking of wasting their money on a Zune? Fuck, Bill Gates, if you ask me; and I don't give a shit that he's giving away his money to needy Africans -- and they need it, too).

But you know what? This is just the beginning, the face of things to come, when all the retail establishments that dispense with crap that we really don't need (yeah we NEED music, but not nearly 75% of SHIT that is recorded and sold to us). Just go to a Third World Country and see if they got music stores there, and then imagine what Tower was looking like when it was one it's last legs, and then look around at the other stores in the shopping centers and burn that image in your mind, 'cause something wicked this way comes...

Lipsticking????

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Quit denying it! Civil War is already in Effect!!!

See what's damn fucking hilarious to me is that everyone in the US and British government is hoping to AVOID a civil war in Iraq. But guess what? It's already in effect!

I know I'm not the first one to say this, particuarly since I'm late to make a comment after the ISG Report (which I want to read, but have no time to do).

The laughing-stock Iraqi so-called government doesn't know how to govern two dogs fucking, so how would they know how to govern the country or recognize the fact that it's all gone to hell as a result of the Arabic barbaric cultural artifact called Hammurabi's Code.

A memo was leaked recently that disgraced and dismissed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, expressed an opposing view on the Debacle in Iraq than Dubya's "stay the course."

Rumsfeld wrote, "In my view it is time for a major adjustment. Clearly, what US forces are doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough."

Nor did Mr Rumsfeld seem confident that the Administration would easily develop an effective alternative. To limit the political fallout from changing course, he suggested the Administration consider a campaign to lower public expectations.

"Announce that whatever new approach the US decides on, the US is doing so on a trial basis," he wrote. "This will give us the ability to readjust and move to another course if necessary and therefore not 'lose'. Recast the US military mission and the US goals [how we talk about them] - go minimalist," he said.

Now if you think about it... that's amazingly astute political strategy for any kind of bad public policy AND it goes to show you that Rumsfeld was ass-fucked by Dubya's desires to win in Iraq at all costs. The problem with Dubya losing and being forced to retreat, er I mean, redeploy, is that Dubya exposed the strength of America -- and the rest of the world learned that America isn't all that powerful to do anything on the global stage anymore. The War in Iraq -- not the War on Terror -- was the superpower showing the pink of its ass, and that's never good.

To be known as the president who actively shattered America's place in the geopolitical power structure is something I think Dubya will have a hard time swallowing (although he needs to get used to swallow jizz, because that's all the next two years are going to be) as he grew up during a time (and SEVERLY benefited from) when America was considered unstoppable -- and during Dubya's reign America has lost that label, and I think it stings someone who grew up with a silver spoon so far up his ass, because he knows that it'll be entirely different for his children (and are those some dumbass girls, one is cute though, but they're going to have to marry some really smart players to continue to live the life they are accustomed to).

LBJ had to resign when he fully grasped how bad he was fucking up, and Nixon had China to save his legacy (from being dipped in cat shit), but Dubya has nothing -- and Nancy Pelosi, the vindictive little bitch that she'll show everyone you have to be to be speaker of the house, is going to make it back-breakingly difficult for Dubya to close up his asshole and pull up his pants.

Social Class in a Classless Society?

I'm always one who finds the differences in the social classes in America the most defining and dividing aspects of its society. Travelling back and forth between the social classes is very fluid in America -- unlike anywhere else on the planet, in the history of the planet.

So whenever I come across material (articles, interviews, concepts in books) that detail what's going with America's social class and the way Americans contemplate such a heady, yet rarely talked about subject, it gets me jazzed up.

There is a socio-economist name Fussell, who is a "determinist", which means that he considered it relatively difficult for anyone to achieve a significant move in social (I'm a real, live case that would refute that stance, but there are exceptions to every rule). The curious thing about Fussell's determinist stance, is that America's social ethos is built on the fact that we CAN move from social class to social class. Although, you could argue that just because you made or lost a lot of money doesn't mean you've escaped the social codes of the social class you lived for most of your childhood and early adult life.

Fussell also, smartly, claimed that most Americans exhibit some degree of class anxiety or insecurity. Pointed out in the 1960s song by the R&B group The Temptations, "Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down."

Below is a breakdown of the various social classes, as defined by Fussell and others of his type.

Top out-of-sight: the "Old Money" wealthy who avoid public exposure (in part, due to experiences during the 1930s, when it was not to one's advantage to be wealthy). [True be told, I don't know enough about the 1930s to know what happened to wealthy people who didn't lose their money, but I'd like to know what their so-called "plight" was.

Upper Class: a group of those who are not only wealthy, but usually born into the wealth, and who espouse a different set of values than wealthy middle-class people or "proles". [Proles, as in proletariats, people who have to work for a living, and usually under someone else's fucking watchful eye.]

Upper-Middle Class: much better off than the majority, this class still lives primarily off earned income derived from professional status requiring expensive education: doctors, attorneys, upper-middle management, and so forth. Dentists and accountants are somewhat more problematic. This class is characterized by intense interest in higher education, and is generally the target audience of elitist, yet mainstream publications such as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and so forth.

Middle Class: most "white collar" workers, including many of the self-employed, and a group most afflicted with status anxiety and confusion, envying the refinement of the upper-middle class and the leisure of the uppers.

High Prole: skilled, often wealthy manufacturing or service workers, who may out earn middle and even upper-middle class people but maintain a distinctively "lowbrow" culture.[Now this, this is fascinating, and we ALL know people who fit this bill. People who eschew any sense of upward class mobility -- even though they have the money -- because it would cause them to have to behave in a way that they have seen to be more disgusting to them?]

Mid Prole: an intermediate level of often poor workers, but with stable employment and relative security.

Low Prole: the working poor, with difficulty finding steady employment.[Guess who fits in here? Me! That's right damn it all to hell. What ever I do in what I'm passionate about, continues to keep me in the most fucked up of economic circumstances...]

Destitute: the homeless underclass. [What's really fucked up is that currently, this is where I am. I don't have a job, the place I'm staying in is REALLY fucked up because it's not my house and the owner has these dogs that get high priority on the living conditions.]

Bottom out-of-sight: those incarcerated in prisons, or otherwise outside the purview of sociology; like top-out-of-sights, they fall so low in society as to become effectively invisible.

So you can see there is more to the social dynamics of America than super rich, upper, middle and lower class -- each group has it's own traits that cultivate the socializing behavior of those who are in the group. What's interesting about the social codes of each group is how difficult it is to shed the codes of your previous class when you move, and how difficult it is to pick the codes of the new class. Also, it is a lot easier to degrade yourself as you fall down the social ordering. Whereas, you might never be accepted in the class that you climb to, particularly when it comes to the serious moneyed classes.

Oddly, the denizens of the uber-rich don't have the same kind of respect for someone who makes the huge paydays in their life time, whereas these muthafuckas got their immense wealth, usually, from some poor son of a bitch who made a look of fucking money in their 30s thru 50s, and then had a bunch of kids, grandkids and great grandids who just suckle of the sloppy old tit of the man who came from little in the first place.

In America, you become part of the ruling class, the so-called royal class, by maintain obscene wealth for probably two or more generations. Isn't that funny?

Always and Forever White Man's Entertainer!

There was an article/news story that I can across this evening that came out of Tempe, AZ. It's where a white gun & badge man (you know a cop) told two young Black men (who were driving a Benz) that they could escape a littering ticket if they rapped for the cop!

He said, "my gun and my badge make me right," as he proceeded to garner the rap from these stupid-ass negroes (the kind that would have had their necks slit in that play "A Soldier's Story").

What stuns the fuck out of me is this was a new story where there was actual video footage -- the cop and the cooning semi-hoods KNEW they were on tape and still acted like thiw as an everyday thang in Tempe.

Leave it to the NAACP to lash out and put its foot in the ass of the Tempe Police Department, but why didn't the producers at the news station have any editorial restraint and pull this fucking "make niggers look bad" story from the program schedule. Oh, I just said it, didn't I!

It's all about continuing to make niggas look like monkeys, buffons, and criminals in the media.

Score One for The Stormfront supporters!!!

Citizen Murdoch Denounces Confessional!

The one thing about Rupert Murdoch -- our modern day Charles Forster Kane -- is that he knows how to wield his power. You have to know that he pulls the plug on the OJ Simpson media circus just to show OJ that, "no nigger, you don't have any power, sway or anything else that you think might be considered influence."

It's one of the reasons why I wanted to see the book and the TV special, just to see what kind of power OJ Simpson still holds... apparently still quite a lot, because the announcement of the event sure has hell riled up those simmering crackers who will never and have never stopped hating that nigger for killing that lilly white woman.

My brother was claiming that there is/was some correlation with the Michael "Kramer" Richards incident and the OJ Simpson spotlight grab, that Michael Richards was internally fuming about the potential that OJ -- a black man who surely would have been hung by the neck until he was dead, then tarred and feathered and dragged around by an Edsel if what he was accused of doing happened say in the mid 1950s....

The one thing about Michael Richards that is very fucked up is -- he was never a known stand-up who worked the circuit and paid his dues and made a name and career and profession for himself, because those guys and gals don't let the audience's boolshit get to them. Hell, it's part of the game to deal with heckler and the audience not thinking you're any good and busting your ass! Remember the old image from the Looney Tunes where muthafuckas throw tomatoes and cabbage at bad performers when they stunk it up but good? Well that's what happened; fucking with your act is something that taught you to be better. Sure, it was a bitter lesson, but show business is a bitter back stabbing business.

Michael Richards obviously couldn't taken the piss getting taken out of him, and he erupted with his true 57 year old white man feelings toward Blacks. However, it's true he's not a racist -- per se, only because we don't know if he fucks with Black people for the hell of it on a regularl basis over chump-change shit. I'm sure that after making like 30 million dollars, he might only converse with 10 black people a year. And yet he still has the disrespet for niggas up in him to show the pink of his ass when a Black man claimed this non-comedian was not funny. Fuck, when is he ever supposed to have been funny to be able to make people laugh in a comedy club -- arguably the hardest venue in show biz?

So maybe the OJ mayhem stirred up the pot at Holllywood Hills cocktail parties, and the vitriol that has never left this city burped up to the surface of one dude's mental state. I wouldn't call him racist, just showing his true colors. As many many many many many white people still think the way he does.

I've said it before, it's not that slavery fucked the hell out of Black people, it was the dehumanization of Blacks peoples and the continued debasement of Black people AFTER slavery that established the perpetual dick-slapping of Black people. Just the fact that Black people were akin to cars and other pieces of INANIMATE personal property hasn't really trully been shaken from the psyche of American society. And don't think it'll change when all those people are dead and gone, because the media images re-inforce those thoughts constantly -- people overseas dislike American Blacks because Hollywood has told them to do just that, and be afraid of the Black man all he wants to do is fuck (odd, because what man doesn't want to fuck all the time?).

To call it disgusting is just plain stupid, it's just pulling back the curtain on what's really going on in the minds of the super rich...

A Rehash of the LOOK Magazine Confession

What do you know about the Emmitt Till case? That landmark civil rights murder, you know the one where the KKK killed Chicago native Emmitt, and the murderers skated!!! Then to add insult to fatal injury, the suspects damn-near confessed to the crime in that now-defunct photo magazine LOOK (where Stanley Kubrick got his start). Nothing ever happened to those good ol'boys until recently when the case was revisited and those bastards finally got their cummupence!

I bring this up because I still can't get over the fact that OJ Simpson is making another grasps at the spotlight with this book/2-part TV event in which he explores, kinda like Geraldo Rivera, what possibly happened that one fatalful night in Brentwood, California (a tony suburb/enclave if there ever was one). Not to put my vote in the "He Did" or the "He Didn't" basket, but damn NIGGA! why can't you live out your days in France! Or someplace in Europe where you can still get some dap! Europe harbored the likes of God knows how many African strongmen/mass murderers, and those people got on with their lives and didn't cause a stink (to my knowledge) in the public view.

Granted this fool claimed to continue looking for the "real killers" steadfastedly after he skated in LA Superior Court and then took it on the chin in Ventura County Civil Court.

The thing about OJ that boggles my muthafuckin' mind is why hasn't some really pissed-the-fuck-off white person hasn't pulled a Jack Ruby on his ass!?!?! Do lone gunmen theories only work with Presidents and Presidential Candidates? Imagine some crackpop Thai dude who wasn't even in America (or spoke English) when the OJ shit went down, and he just rolls up on OJ, pulls a Glock and starts bucking?!?!

So OJ's Fox special could get him in serious trouble as you don't know what flames will be fanned by this activity... another big question is, what sponsors are paying for the programming? ReganBooks is publishing the "What If" book of "What If" books, and I bet they make a killing. I have to assume that OJ doesn't take any payment, but funnels all proceeds to his children's trust funds (otherwise Goldman's pop's would have his hand out... the little bitch; I say that 'cause he's only mad that he cain't get his pound of flesh).

I know Johnnie Cochran is spinning in his grave; 'cause this move just tarnished his legacy (as OJ's can't be tarnished any further) and he was a great man.

See the thing about killing White Women (especially a blonde) is that society at large holds that designation up to the highest level of lauding. And to nearly behead such a sacrosanct personage AND NOT TAKE THE ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS just smacks the mouth of the sinister "undercurrent" of Power, Prestige and Privellege in this so-called Great Nation of "ours." You have to really give Cochran his props for handing the LA DA's office their ass. Because it wasn't a matter of how much money was spent on the case, but what kind of blow to society the "not guilty" verdict struck! If you ever get a chance to rummage through some old TV footage of people avidly hanging over their TV sets in HUGE groups awaiting the verdict (like some damn movie), notice how the niggas are just rejoicing -- either explosively or cautiously/silently and then notice the agog expressions on the rest of the races and ethnic groups in the country...

I wonder who is going to watch the show? Or just TiVo it? Better yet, who is going to admit to watching it?!?!! I know that I'll peep... under the auspecies that I can fire off a missive about it later on.

Admission Applications Must Contain Donation Checks

A place in the incoming freshman class at the elite universities are up for sale to those with the deepest pockets.

There was story about how Ralph Lauren's kids got wined & dined by a university stringpuller named Joel Fleischman at Duke University, and eventually Lauren pledged a six figure sum to Duke and Stringpuller Fleischman got a seat on Lauren's board of directors!!!!

They have these things called "development admits" -- students who have poor academic marks, but a high propensity for a financial donation from the family -- these muthafuckas get up in to schools pretty much no questions asked, just as long as a blank check was written.

The elite have unprecendented access to the avenues to the power centers in this country (doesn't matter if it's Hollywood, the Beltway, Wall Street or Madision Avenue) it's the same select group for people who continue to run shit, shape shit, design shit and choose who gets ignored...

And yet we CLAIM to live in a country where the "power of the people" means something. That line of propaganda has to be broadcast high and wide, 'cause the Average Joe would be rioting in the streets more often, and demanding peoples heads on stakes the way they did during the French Revolution...

Tell All Memoir?!?!

Jailed Juice
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

The big media news from Hollywood today revolves around that old standby of celebrity justice - Orenthal James Simpson; everyone is talking about how Fox is looking to claim the November sweeps week by broadcasting a two-part special with OJ that is tied to his upcoming book If I Did It, Here's How It Happened!!!

Not one to hate, but damn nigga isn't this taking it a little too far? Or are you just trying to jab your finger at Nicole Brown's chump father?

In the scabarous tabloid Simpson employs the "if I did it" fig leaf to detail the 1994 slasher murders of his wife, Nicole Brown, and Ronald Goldman, a waiter at a nearby restaurant in the upscale Brentwood, California, neighborhood where the near-beheadings took place (incidently since we've subsequently seen beheadings of people broadcast from Iraq and Afghanistan, we know it takes a lot of time to slice through someone's kneck -- all that muscle and gristle, shit, that's time consuming).

OJ walked away scottfree from those two murders in a televised criminal trial, led by the ever-marvelous Johnnie Cochran.


OJ was found liable in a subsequent civil suit for the deaths; obviously Cochran didn't handle that suit.

I've always claimed the OJ wasn't the sole killer, perhaps the multiple killer theory will come up in the book, which you know is airport reading for the upcoming holiday season, it's actually a great stocking stuffer. I'll have to buy it in the airport anyway, 'cause that will be a Scarlett Letter type of purchase here in SoCal 'cause people will never forgive that NIGGER for supposedly seriously dicking down, then killing a Barbie doll cute (although a coke head) white girl. Brock Peter's character in "To Kill A Mockingbird" laid the template on just how far we HAVE NOT come...

Bitch-slappping the GOP

WHAAA-HOOOO!!! The House the Newt built has finally fuckin' collapsed (although not with a resounding thud...)! All the scandal and thievery and ass-fucking (whether it was paid for or of little boys) actually did those suckas in (whereas they tried to cut Cliinton off at the knees for merely dicking down -- conscenually, I might add -- of an early 20s FEMALE intern!) Bitch-move people like Pombo in CA, Foley in FL, and Weldon in PA all got their asses handed to them. Take that, sucka MCs!

What the Democrats need to have on their agenda is taking Dubya to task for lying out right to them, the American people, the United Nations and the entire planet about his ability to effectively lead the dominating financial & cultural force in the planet's history.

So now that Rummy has stepped down (he had to because Dubya knew the Donkey Controlled Congress would be fucking with Rummy and the Pentagon for the final 800+ days left in Dubya's grandstanding activity). As they say, "his whole style is CHUMP!" But is his successor going to do about Iraq?



Well, here's a trick they could do... they could fall back, retreat, "re-deploy", cut & run -- whatever you want to call it... in doing so, the US Military would have to pull back down South, move toward Kuwait and exit comfortably out of Kuwait's ports.

Now we know that retreating by land will bring at least 85% of the insurgents and al-Qaeda forces to surge toward the convoy, where they'll rain down jihadist bullets and motars and rpgs -- and that's fine, that's exactly what I want to happen.

Not that I want to see anymore American soliders bite the bullet in old skool Babylon, but because all these little fucks who hide out amongst the civilians and take potshots at the troops or squirrel away those IEDs will emerge from their holes and attempt to take it to the "defeated and retreating infidel-defilers", and that's when they'll get their asses handed to them. Why? 'Cause they'll be out in the open to get swiftly executed -- G.I.Joe style -- the same way the chump Republican Guard got faded in the both the Gulf Wars.

The way I figure a retreating U.S. Military is too ripe a target for all the terrorists, insurgents, Sunni militia with an axe to grind, and overzealous & over-barbaric Shi'ite gun-toting fools to pass up -- they'll coming flying out of the wood-work to get their jihad on... fish in a barrel. Although, it would tricky to get the public and the military on the ground to actually buy into such a tactic. However, it should be considered, 'cause how else would the US effectively leave them bitch-bastards hanging in the wind?

Then with the Iraqi armed fuck-ups thinned out quite a bit, maybe their joke of a government can restore some order. Although order is a relative term in Iraq, because the cabal of ethnicities over their have proven to be ungovernable in a collective. Perhaps it's best to let the country fall into civil war, to splinter the country and have the borders redrawn... sure the Sunnis will probably get SHIT, but who's problem is that? Not the Western worlds!

The sticking point though is that Prez 43 stormed into Iraq with a modern day version of Blitzkrieg under the pretext of regime change... which kind of means installing a stable government to replace to hoe who used to run things.

Oh, did you hear how today the German High Court is going to present "War Crimes" charges against Donald Rumsfeld? NOW THAT IS SOME BOLD SHIT!

Death Sentence!!! Take That Dick In The Mouth

The Iraqi Strongman - Fighting For His Life
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Yo!!! So muthafuckin' Sadam is gonna get hanged by the neck until he's dead!
That's some wild-ass sheeyit, if you ask me. I mean, yeah, he was gonna get found guilty regardless of how dope or fucked-up the prosecution's case was gonna be, so no biggie that he's going down.

But he's going down by the gallows, that's quite barbaric... well, perhaps not for a country that holds host to someof the most hypocratic killing motivations imagination (i.e. because you have a freezer that was around during the time of Muhammed, therefore I must smight you with these bullets from an AK-47). Truth be told, to really show how unbelievablly bitch-ass the Iraqis are, they need to pull a page from Hitler's play book; any why not? Hussein has been compared to Hitler numerous times.

What am I talking about? Because Hitler's play book of the barbaric has a lot of "no-he-didn't" material in it. The one items that surfaces in the gray matter is the multiple hangings that Hitler demanded. By multiple hangings I mean on the same few people. See there was a group of would-be assassins who were rounded up and hanged two or three times, yeah, you heard me right. Muthafuckin' Unkle Adolf had these conspirators marched out on the gallows, the nooses fitted tight around their necks and then the man in the black mask cranked up a winch pulling these poors sods into the air. They choked and kicked and spittled and yelped and shitted in their pants and pissed their drawers and finally died -- well, not quite. A few moments before this inept killers kicked the bucket, Hitler had them cut down, and medical doctors revive them AND THEN HE HAD THE HANGED ONE MORE TIME. I think this cycle repeated twice, so these people were hanged three times total -- can you imagine the absolute horror of having your neck stretched, blacking out and then waking up with that mad man staring down at you, chuckling, and preparing you to "die" more time!

FUCK is right! God damn that man was crazy. But ya see, ya can't put nuthin' past a muthafucka who's into the occult; as Hitler was.

Which brings me back to Sadam. This muthafucka has like two or three more trial to go... more crimes against humanity bullshit charges. I say bullshit, because many of the things American industry has done over the past 50 years could also be considered crimes against humanity, but The Hague isn't fucking wit dem! Henry Kissinger comes to mind, both George Bushs, Jack Welch, anyone who worked at Haliburton.

I degress.

Back to the Iraqi Strongman. Is this fool going to get tried posthumously or are they going to hang him, then cut the rope when he's like 43 seconds from death, take him to the hospital, revive him (clean the shit out his pants), and put him back in a cell to await the next trial?

IMHO, putting Hussein on trial is a mockery of justice. When has a dictator ever stood trial? Hasn't happened! In fact, it shouldn't happen, because these people are heads of state and they should be allowed to run amok WiTHIN IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY however they see fit. Why? Because given the right circumstances, Hussein would still be in power if the US didn't oust his ass (although they kept his monkey-ass in power, didn't they?) and unless the people of a given country can actively put you down, the SuperPower shouldn't arrange a rigged court. Imagine of Hitler or Mao or Stalin or Marcos or Pinochet or Pot or Castro or Noriega or M'Butu ever went on trial within their own country without outside assistance? The country would tear itself apart!

Oh, I forgot that's what's happening in Iraq. These countries would tear themselves apart, because a huge stake of the population is instrumental in keeping strongmen in power. Dictators don't rule alone, they make decisions alone, but how many people carry out their orders?

Those Iraqis are probably all killed or exiled at the moment, and they should also be on trial...

Well, let's see how the bitch-ass Shi'ites handle this turn of events.

To The Ends Of The Earth

Jailed Juice
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Did you know that Ronald Goldman's dad lost some court fight against The Juice this week? Yeah, Goldman -- who is STILL seeking the $38million wrongful death verdict imposed on O.J. -- was seeking some publicity money streams that the Juice has been collecting by appearing as a slasher in some mock event.

Number one, Goldman will never get shit! Rich people who can escape prison when the cards are stacked against them so high, can surely prevent their assets from being seized by anybody or anything except for the Federal government.

Still the "Slasher" gag is true, then O.J. is slapping Goldman with his dick. I have to imagine that the 12 years since his daughter's death, Goldman has forced to taste O.J.'s dick more times than maybe Nicole did, certainly more than he ever wanted to.

Go out and vote on Tuesday and UNSEAT THE GOP. Those scandalous bitches don't deserve to have any political power -- they've proven that they can't be trusted with the keys to the country; they'll just fuck things up for 80% of the citizens, line their pockets extensively while their at, fuck young boys (and girls, but that's expected so it's never news) and denouce legislation that could change the course of the country and get it off the downspiral it's on right now!

Public Radio Snobs??

Sylvia Saint
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Why do NPR listeners have an aura of being snobs? I listen to it quite a bit, because I like the coverage and the interviews. And is there any other type of news radio? Besides the shit on AM that carries the likes of Larry Elder and Sean Hannity? I don't think you can call that news, more like propaganda and hang-wringing.

Although, NPR listeners probably lament the most that most entertainment outlets cater to the strictly under 25 set -- but they're the ones who are kind of responsible for that. If people over the age of 30 went to see more intelligent movies, bought less overly manufactured pop music and supported music artists who have trully worked on their craft or watched the kind of TV that wasn't so the MTV/WB/CW target demographic, then maybe the

Oh, another thing about NPR. I heard a story today stating that George Lucas gave USC's cinema school a $175 million grant, but then he said that LucasFilm was getting out of the film business and getting into the TV business! Citing that movies are too expensive to make and the risk is too large. Well, if you're looking to continue "making" the utter BULLSHIT that he's been turning out since the Raiders of the Lost Ark (arguably everything after that has been cheap rehash of the same idea -- Episodes V and VI of the first Star Wars, the yak-shit of the second trilogy, the underwealming Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, the recycled Willow, the weak 2nd through 4th installments of the Indianan Jones films, oh and who can forget Howard the Duck and Radioland Murders; never mind the so-called updating of the effects in the Star Wars movies), all the while driving up the costs of cutting edge special effects so the video game division of Lucas's empire can doublebill the development expense... then sure movies are too fucking expensive and wildly out of control gambles.

Truth be told George Lucas isn't a very dramaturgical creative person, he was just someone who jumped into the film game at a time when the space age was filtering all of its advances to the consumer world and he figured why not bring computers to film production. Just look at his output since he was seduced by silicon and binary code -- shody at best.

But it seems to me that movies can be made for half the price of the original Star Wars flim and still be damn good. There was a Russian film that came out called "NIGHT WATCH", which supposedly cost $4million and the effects work rivaled anything Industrial Light & Magic has done for ten times the budget (by that I mean the effects budget).

I fail to see how a show like "Battlestar Galatica" at $10mil an episode is less risky and more captivating than a film like CITY OF GOD with its barely $3million budget... truth be told budgets are relative. It's marketing costs, and the one thing Lucas did very well was learn how to create a brand that sells product as interesting as rotten chicken gizzards, and the public laps it up like it was the best French ice cream.

Every filmmaking center OUTSIDE of the United States can make highly entertaining AND smart films the cost of Tom Hanks' salary on a project. Although, maybe you wouldn't know about that if you only got your news and free-thinking expression for big media controlled outlets...

SHAMELESS PLUG

So the scuttlebutt around Hollywood these days is that "Studio 60: Live on the Sunset Strip" is on the verge of being cancelled.

This might be the stupidest thing that NBC-Universal has done (next to deciding not to have expense programing in the 8pm hour) since GE combined the two companies and they lost Stacy Snider as the head of universal.

TV has been outstanding as entertainment, surpassing movies because movies became "product" whereas TV is all about selling product... and Sorkin's incisive wit and commentary on what's hip for pop culture beyond the Paris/Brittany set. Sure the show is about what goes on at someplace that people don't get or maybe wanna get, but the pressures of creating the material that entertains the general audience is indeed compelling drama. The battle between art and commerce probably doesn't mean SHIT to 95% of the viewing audience, but they love it when art edges out business just for a second and engaging material is the result (whether it's TV, books, movies, theater or music). And obivously it's not The Office, which is perhaps the most familiar TV known to have been conceived, but not everyone can make light of the world of the Wage Slave that far too many of us suffer(ed) under.

People love to read biographies of famous people who bucked the odds, but those people are usually famous from doing something in the realm of "art" (i.e. Coco Chanel, Liz Taylor, Picasso, Jennifer Aniston), not bold-faced commerce and Sorkin's examination of the trials and tribulations of "putting it together" is pulls back the curtain to a certain extent. However, not as shameless as any "making of" supplement on the most recent of DVDs.

True, the in-show comedy sketches need to be better (i.e. hire some writers strictly for that purpose alone), but the human condition plumbed on Monday nights at 10pm is worth more people watching. So get out the Vote, and set your Nielson boxes or deluge NBC's email box with "keep this show" spam bombs. Whatever it takes. Sorkin is worth it -- I don't know how many people adored the West Wing, but I doubt it was the same huge number of fans by the end of the first season as it was at the beginning.

Election Practices... Reminds Me of Jim Crow

Birth of Fade Nigga Nation
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

I was listening to an NPR story this evening about the problem with electronic voting machines, and how some weak-as-fuck sonsabitches are strident proponents for these new fangled contraptions.

WHY? Somebody please tell me why!

In an age when anything and everything electronic is patently not safe, to entrust the cornerstone of the country's saving grace smacks of sucking your own dick. Sure you could do it, by bending yourself out of shape, but what fun is it? And it sure isn't as satisfying as if it was done right!

But of course, America (particularly the America that GOP supporters and Traditionalist as defined by Bill O'Reilly in his egregious book Culture Warrior) doesn't really want to be a democratic society any more -- if it ever wanted to be one since the Fall of Hitler. Remember, before Hitler the IRS and other governmental practices, institutions and clandestine activities were the exception of oppression. Now, we live in a so-called country that props up Democracy the way a pimp props up his pretty bitch at the beginning of the night -- eventhough he WHUPPED her ass the night before! He does it, 'cause it's the best way to keep business going and to have the illusion continue, yet the reality is torn up and disrespected like you wouldn't believe.

My issue with electronic voting machines is that like computers they can probably be hacked with the greatest of ease by another who has a C++ rules & regulations manual.

The worst offender is the Ohio Secretary of State, a fool who's changing the voting rules time & time again to enable his GOP's dick sucking ass to win the election in a state that has for the last 11 presidential elections been critical/key/paramount to rolling on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Hard to believe a slump-shouldered state like Ohio has so much clout in national politics. I mean there ain't shit in the whole damn state except for the Cleveland Clinic that really has any value. Ohio is one of those state's that could be hit by Kim Jong Il's nuke arsenal and what happens? (in a world where there's no fall out that is?) Biggest problem with OH elections is that they do a mighty fine job for a nothern state at keeping the niggas from casting ballots (in rigged elections anyway).

The fact that any Federal Election governing body refuses to step in -- wait a minute, wait a fucking minute that would mean trampling state's rights, obivously something that we are supposed to hold higher than all things but the Constitution itself; but something that's overrated as fuck when a single state's voters get raped with a hot iron by the GOP swindlers makes me rethink the entire concept of the US's vaunted democracy.

We shit on Ben Franklin's creation at home like it's nobody's business, and yet we're fighting a war to give it to straight-dick-wads who don't want it and/or don't give a flying dead dog dick yank about it in the first place; a war that's lasting nearly as long as the European campaign in WW2...

01.20.09

Bush with Clean Hands
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

That's Prescott's Grandson's final day to fuck the country, at least on an active scale 'cause we all know that the dick-slapping he's given the country will have these cosmic ripple effects that we won't begin to see the catastrophic effects of until sometime in the middle of the next decade.

There is something like 816 days left, until we can usher out the most dangerous president in the history of the game -- nay, the history of the planet moves out of office.

Did anyone read the current of Rolling Stone? The one that has a cartoom of the Capitol Building on the cover? How could you miss it? In the bottom right corner there is a drawing of a Congressman chasing a little boy (an seriously funny jab at child-dick sucker Mark Foley), the article inside is extra good at describing the painfully undemocratic (yet not unpatriotic) methods, activities and abuses that the GOP controlled Congress has partaken in since Newt "the hoe" Gingrich led the charge for the Republicans to control both houses of Congress.

One of the main federally sanctioned country-rape&pillage, James Sennesenbrenner DEFINITELY needs to be voted the fuck out of his congressional seat. Will it happen? Hard to say, as incumbents -- even ones as shady as his ass -- tend to win unless they egregiously fuck up. I'd laugh to see him lose, but it would be a short chuckle as the jaw-dropping pillaging and general bitch-slapping of America that he's done is damn near unfixable.

In fact, I'd wager that all the "bitch, take that!" tactics that the GOP has executed in the last 14 years won't ever be undone.

Only SEVEN DAYS left to see about changing the world as we know it... baby steps at a time.

Pop Music: A Euphoric Drug with a Sinister Purpose

Angelina Jolie - Orgasmic
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

I was having a conversation with my younger brother over the last couple days via our Crackberries (he's in London working on a new job and I'm back in the San Fernando Valley in a half-way house) about the differences in UK culture and American culture. What came up in the conversation is how the American public by in large is conditioned to be ignorant, in fact to relish in that ignorance.

I revived a theory that I had came up with a long time ago about how pop music (the culture it stems from) is much like at public control drug in Aldus Huxley's "Brave New World" called Soma. Pop music is controlled by the mega-corporations that have strong ties to the controlling forces in the U.S. Government. We all know that the Record Companies have done everything they can to take away the independent power of the various pop music movements over the past 40 years -- ranging from the rebellous nature of rock in the 60s (it all became corporatized), the raging, questioning zeitgeist of punk in 70s and early 80s, the "fuck the Man" nature of rap in the late 80s and early 90s -- and turned all that artist expression for questioning authority into money-making machines that made the marketing economics of the game more important than anything the artists were trying to do or say to their audience.

And at what expense? Everything those fringe music movements had going for them once they started becoming mainstream was stripped out of them like a Roman Soldier raping a Germanic tribeswoman.

Each of these musical movements became 'mainstream',became 'pop' as the major record labels started offering the artists scandalous amounts of money for control of their artistic destinies, and how much radio play any given artist would strive for/get.

The payola scandals that continue to this day have determined what mindless music blasts out of the FM dial, the MTV broadcast, and the XM satelite stream (mark my words, XM and Sirrus are taking cash, how can they not and get this -- they're beaming out info via satelite to anyone -- the FCC would put a stop to "serious seditious" sounds if they wanted to) is all designed to make you feel good when you're listening.

When you're feeling the euphoria that music conveys as it tickles the same pleasure sensors in your brain to cause your dick to get hard or your pussy to get wet, don't you wonder if it's causing you to not have rational thought?

Take a rave for example: drugs, sex and music -- the combination that can control the youth market at anytime and/or anyplace -- are the cornerstone to the success of those fantastic experiences. But the drug aspect violates each and every aspect of the War of Drugs policies from the early Reagan Administration -- don't you think those things would be shut the fuck down if they really posed a so-called threat? Cops and other law enforcement know all about that shit! How can they not? They just need to spread around some greenbacks and/or drugs and hopped up kids are jabbering away about the location and the ringleaders. The powers that be figure, keep the majority of kids high and thinking about everything else by the society that they're about to inherit...

You can't knock the orgamic power of music -- we all fuck to it, or at least we want to fuck to it, and the subject matter of a lot of music is about fucking; and everybody knows that when fucking is on the brain little else matters...

"Not On My Watch"

IraqiGunman
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

Why is it that the phrases - "not on my watch" or "never again" are the most hot air any politician can breath?

Let's take a look at what is happening on George W. Bush's watch -- now although it's veracity could be called into question, American and Iraqi health officials estimate that some 655,000 Iraqis have died since Hussein got the boot. If that's true, it only half of that number is true, then we're looking at something akin to... akin to... Darfur! Where at least 250,000 Sudanese have been slaughtered.

Curiously that puts a potential death toll -- for stoppable, avoidable violence, upwards of 1 million people. Kind of reminds me of the wholesale genocide in Rwanda about a decade ago.

I'll tell you something though, what's the deal with reform? I've spoken earlier about the need for a Reformation in Islam, much like what we saw in Christianity and Hebrew teachings. Now here's something I learned recently about even the calls for reform -- in an Islamic state/society those calls are a crime punishable by death. And believe you me, there would be NO shortage of so-called protectors of the faith brandishing Black & Decker drills and other hardware tools to dismember who ever was speaking out. I guess it has to do with the fact that Muhammed told muthafuckas that what he was doing was the final correction -- ain't nothing else is need.

I link this to what's going on in Sudan and Iraq, because they are both Islamic societies (at the ruling party in Sudan is) and they're causing problems globally... can we all wish for the day when religious violence based on some crap from the so-called Holy Land is only read out in out-of-print history books?

JACKASS PARTY SLITS ITS OWN THROAT

I can't help but chuckle and giggle at the G.O.P. these last few weeks -- the Foley Fucking Underage Pages Sex Scandal is absolutely hilarious. The one thing the stories about Foley's predatory predilections is that we don't if he actually bedded down other aides... I mean was he just constantly soliciting and never got it going, or did he actually score a few times over the past few years?

What's quite interesting about this shaken-to-the-core scandal is that since Newet Gingrich ushered in the NeoCons back during Clinton's first term, we have seen a rise of the Evangelical Christian Right and their need to shape the moral center/compass of the country. And yet, during that same time the level of sexual scandal, the level of raping and pillaging of the country, the level of monumental waste from Federal Government spending, the increase of drug use and decay of the urban centers (I don't give a FUCK what the stats say I know more people know than ever before who casually use drugs that it's silly) and the fact that America has effectively turned its back on a good 10% of its population (all the niggas living in the inner city or straight rural South -- ignored like they're homeless men holding a Feed Me sign at a 405 Freeway on-ramp!) has all increased, perhaps in direct correlation with the Grip on "what is morally right" that the Rapture nutcakes have been preaching.

The G.O.P. is no doubt rigging elections -- you can't believe otherwise. Why? Because that's what happens in countries where the Middle Class is basically non-existent or on its way out, and the rich and powerful run the show. You think that America has lost its ability to be democratic on the local, state and national, then you'd be thinking correctly! You don't see it now, because it is not pervasive. it doesn't need to be, all that needs to happen is election rigging needs to happen in Key States that can tip the balance in the fucked-up Electoral College System that we use over here.

And don't be fooled into thinking that America is all about spreading democracy across the Globe -- maybe for other white peoples, but not People of Color. In every place where the people aren't white and they FINALLY have an open, if not free election and the result is something that doesn't benefit the U.S.'s global empire agenda, the US protests the results and sends out the Jackals (CIA hitmen and Consulting Company mesmerizers) to find every way possible to reverse the results of the election. Case in point, The Gaza Strip/West Bank -- Hamas is what the people wanted. What's the problem with that? Let the Palestinians fuck themselves for a few years, they'll vote out the bitches -- if they prove to be bitches. I mean, imagine if the rest of the world wasn't down with our choice of President (as most of the world leaders did NOT want G.W. Bush re-elected, and yet economic sanctions and tariffs weren't levied against the US, why not?) Back in the early 70s, the US didn't want Chile to be ruled by Allende and his Communist passions, so they orchestrated his death -- and the dictator of all South American Banana Republic's ran that country just as bad as Sadam Hussein, just not as long, and he then changed his tune as he got old as fuck (Pinochet's in his 80s, Hussein in his 60s, meaning that when Pinochet was installed into power, he was already in his mid50s -- just at that point when you get tired of the fighting... so he was going to be giving it up by the mid80 -- like he did -- for the get-go.

I guess I'm disappointed that I'm still young and the world I'm inheriting from the Reagan & Bush years is perhaps the most catastrophic possible, because it signals the decline of the Pax Americana -- AND I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO ACT LIKE A PAID WHITE MAN, LIKE A FOOL! To do so now is completely irresponsible.

Leisure Time?!? Fuck That!!!

Leisure Time?!? Fuck That!!!
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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.

By the Power of the Holy Spirit - Smite the Mohammedian Followers

Benny the 16th
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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...