There was a item in yesterday’s NPR Morning Edition where Wal-Mart – after getting slammed as being the all-purpose boogey-man for corporate greed by Barak Obama on Monday night’s debates – was announcing plans where it was going to be doing “Public good.”
This is a CROCK OF SHIT!
No corporation ever will do “Public good” unless it’s getting its hand so far up the Public’s skirt that the Public would cry “rape” if it knew what was happening – but every corporation has high quality GHB (i.e. a PR Department) to enable the Public to get fucked and not know it.
WalMart – with its egregiously aggressive drive for lower prices has damaged the American economy wholesale – is up here claiming that they want to do away with hand-written prescriptions and have electronic scripts. This sounds like Big Brother activity to me, and a way to market more worthless shit to you and me.
It’s a grandiose effort of tomfoolery for any corporation to claim in a press conference or press release that it’s acting in the Public good. I’m sure Enron was operating in the “Public good” when it swindle not only its employees but its customers, supplies and shareholders. Now that’s an extreme as fuck case, but it’s representative of the mindset that the Corporate Bigwigs have when it comes to rakin’ in the cheddar.
It’s like whenever there is a massive slaughtering on the Wall Street – like the current one – and the investment companies have the same refrain, put your money back in stocks, the market will eventually rise past the current correction and you’ll make money in the long run. This might be true; however, all these investment types are making money hand over fist when you lose money!!! They be up here steady making money when the stock market goes down, goes up, goes no where – they have their hand in your pocket off of every single transaction; so when the trading volume is huge like it’s been the last week, a lot of people and firms are lining their accounts by siphoning moolah from your retirement account.
Any action that we see a corporation do is something it’s doing to hook itself – in spite of you most of the time, but if there happens to be a confluence WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE the Corp is hooking you, then it’s really getting over.
Have you read that study where it was determined that the so-called “crash position” that they ask everyone to assume in the event of an airplane crash will actually kill you? It’s because the Corporate Bean-Counters know it’s better to have all passengers die than survive so it can be reported that a couple miraculously survived. When in truth, the product liability and negligence lawsuits that would arise if I large portion of the passengers survived would not only kill the airline that had the crash, but smash the entire airline industry with taxes and raises rates to cover mandatory insurance.
Have you ever seen that Michael Mann flick called THE INSIDER? I was peeping it again this morning before getting dressed and I just remembered how this movie pulled the wool off of the stranglehold that corporate interests have on the Public Good. However, that movie was a resounding flop and the story it was based (from Vanity Fair reporting on true, ugly events) was about the tobacco industry flexing its political and legal muscle to get a former tobacco enhancement scientist to shut his fuckin’ mouth!
It’s just a classic example of a Corporation refusing to have the Public’s interest at heart, and to feel the need to dick down whoever wants to try to get Big Business to play otherwise.
Incidentally, I'm sure you all know what pegging means...
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
BLACK & TAN FANTASY
Even though is one of my favorite Duke Ellington songs, I have to posit this post as the fantasy is exactly that – a sham, when it comes to Blacks and Hispanics in America.
The recent Nevada Democratic caucus has underscored something that the media isn’t talking about – which is how much Hispanics want to distance themselves from Blacks, who I think they generally hold contempt for. In fact, I’d wager that most people of color hold American niggas in contempt. Why would the Hispanics want to distance themselves from niggas? Simple, all people of color want the benefits of being a minority but don’t want to be permanently labeled as one... which is what happened to American Blacks.
It’s ironically fitting that I post this on the Martin Luther King Day holiday, where this year also marks the 40th anniversary of his political slaying which was preceded by one of King’s most interesting speeches, the I’ve Been To The Mountain Top speech for the striking sanitation workers – a job category that niggas were working real hard to get away from. Although you do see a good amount of niggas slavin’ to pick up the trash of others (the worst part about it is most of people’s trash ain’t been triaged! At least recycle them water bottles, soda cans and beer!)
The one thing that Hispanics have benefited from tremendously is the water-cannon and dog attacks that Blacks took to enable other People of Color to grab their piece of the American Dream, whereas niggas have been left in extra wet clothing and with still-fresh bite-marks… a lot of good that do ‘em.
The nexus with Blacks and Hispanics or Latinos as they want to be referenced as some of the time, is that they don’t get along. If you look at the race-on-race violence within, say Los Angeles over the past year, there has been a disturbing trend in the straight up murderin’ goin’ on with Latins up here buckin’ down niggas like it was Wabbit Season or somethin’! A lot o’ it is gang initiation ritual and rites o’ passage, but it conveniently leaves the White Boy and the Asian the fuck outta Dodge (if white youth were getting’ kilt the way niggas be gettin’ hemmed up, Mayor Antonio Villariagosa would have the national guard up in this piece!)
What does all this mean? It means that Latinos will not vote for Barak Obama – I didn’t about this until after the Nevada vote, where the Unions backed Obama publicly, but their rank-n-file didn’t get down with the Agent of Change.
Somebody over the weekend put it best, the Soccer Mom votes for Barak and the Waitress Ma votes for Hillary; guess where a huge swath of Latinos fall --especially in the Southwest.
I chalk up the inability of other people of color to trust a Black man with their future to that stalwart of all stalwarts, the Anti-Nigga Machine and its unstoppable, incestuous propaganda that disparaged and continues to disparage Black people. Maybe Hispanics or Latinos claim “white” on census type forms!
What was killing me is how certain Black political leaders are up in the piece claimin’ that Bill Clinton is just as Black, if not more Black, than Barak Obama – and it’s attributable to what? His behavior of cigar-fucking an intern? Eating fried chicken in the Oval Office? Cheating on his wife? And talking her out of leaving his ass? Now, if you saw tonight's CNN debate in South Carolina, you'da seen how smooth talkin' Barak was in answering the inane question on whether or not Bill as the 1st nigga president.
Now, I’m not Clinton hater by any means. Bill Clinton is my boy; yet think there will never be an opportunity for America to put a Black man in office, and a lot of it has to do with Obama’s designate for being An Agent of Change.
As we get closer to Super Tuesady, Barak Obama's putting out his campaign platform -- which is gonna be critical to get white people to vote for him in the numbers to overshadow the Latino vote -- which isn't going to hook a Person of Color, let along vote for a Democrat. It's a known fact that Latins are really under the GOPs thumb, and claim white -- that is if they're not illegal and able to vote in the first place!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA, part one of a series
Last night I was trawling through the Ralph’s on Sunset near La Brea, and after I finished making my selections of butter, marmalade, English muffins and Jameson, I made my way to the check-out station. I couldn’t use the automated one (why don't those things work at night?), so I had to rely on the late shift people. Not one of my favorite things to do, as it takes an inordinate amount of time to scantron your items the later and later it becomes at night.
Anyway, I usually read the weekly news magazines or fitness mags as I wait in line. But I noticed a curious thing – every fucking magazine in the Ralph's was some piece of shitrag gossip tabloid! All booming the same sad, "I-don't-give-a-fuck" story – the mental collapse of that uber-cum dumpster Britney Spears (talk about your walking nuclera waste zone), with such headlines as “Time Bomb” or “Mental Disaster” plastered beneath either the destructive, current pictures of the has-been songbird or next to images of her former squeaky-clean self (which are funny to see now).
The thing about Spears is, she’s not even cute. Just an average bitch who you wouldn’t look twice at if she was standing in line behind you at your local Ralph’s. I mean, even in her heyday, I couldn’t get hard to jack-off to her when I was between girlfriends. Didn’t matter what photo it was, my dick stayed limp - even that so-called hot one fro the cover of Esquire which was a bite of an Angie Dickinson cover (ain't that a name for a hot bitch?).
But back to the plethora of bullshit in the check-out line... there is no excuse for that, none what-so-ever! It all goes back to the fact that Americans are probably the most ill-informed and perhaps overall stupid populace in the entire developed world. And we rejoice in that fact.
What’s the deal with all that? Why do Americans, as a general rule, eschew education, intelligence, quest for knowledge and other things that signify anti-idiocy? Even though the term “the dumb jock” is bandied about with a bit of derision, people still suck the dumb jock’s cock when he’s at the height of his popularity in high school. Someone was telling me the other day that in China 30% of the students in the University level of education are getting math & science degrees, whereas in the US only like 5% of the student body is getting down with the hard sciences.
Come to think of it, all things about the shamelessness of our adult lives stem from the bullshit that takes place in high school. I’m surprised high school isn’t more socially controlled than it is, because too much psychically damaging shit happens during those 4 years that affect the rest of your life the way no other 4 years in your entire existence can or do.
Reap what you sow Amerikka, reap what you sow.
AMERIKKKA'S SINN
You probably wonder why I haven’t weighed in on the so-called Racist remarks that emerged from the Hillary Clinton for President Campaign.
Well, why the hell should I?
It’s expected that I do, and so I’m not.
Of course this backstabbing is just a dangerous foreshadowing of what the GOP are going to do to Barak Obama, should he receive the nomination. I honestly believe that once the Democrats get closer to choosing Barak or Hillary, and the GOP narrows their field to two candidates, GOP media-assassination gangs (like the people who developed the Willie Horton advert or the Swift Boat shit) are going to slowly leak racist and misogynistic negative ads on the internet, so that by the time the Democratic National Convention rolls around there’s going to be an undercurrent of anti-Black and anti-Women throughout the South.
Take a look at what’s being done to Barak Obama right this fuckin’ minute!!! He’s being accused of ibeing of Muslim (which I guess it tantamount to being a card-carrying Communist in the Cold War Days), of clandestinely using a Qu’ran instead of a bible during his swearing in/oath of office ceremonies, and of not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (which is something I haven’t done since I was 15, nor I have I sung the so-called national anthem) at any time! Uh… doesn’t a supreme court justice hold out the bible for swearing in Senators?!?! And hasn’t Barak led the charge in the Senate for time to time when presiding over the Senate, and how could he be a Muslim, when he’s been seen at church??! What happened to freedom of religion? Oh, I forgot if it’s not a Western European approved religion, then you best back the hell up!
These are the type of attacks that are insidious, because they are completely unable to be proved, and yet what do they do? They impugn Obama’s integrity, call into question his patriotism and associate him with “the evil ones” in the minds and eyes of the weak-fucks who believe being a Christian – especially an evangelical one – is paramount to presiding in the Oval Office. Dubya’s debacle of a presidency had “strong Christian values” as one of its cornerstones, yet the pure evil, vindictive attitude and shockingly amoral behavior that was vomited out from his command center is truly oxymoronic; even his 2000 catch-phrase of Compassionate Conservative smacks of embracing a Southern Christian flair. Said flair is close in blind spirit to the Taliban and other foolish Islamic fundamentalists.
The GOP are just sharpening their knives for Hillary and Obama – either one enables the GOP dirty trick purveyors to have a field day. They must be jacking off now (or in the case of Anne Coulter, fist-fucking herself with a dock-workers glove) with glee, because they will challenge themselves by having to be shrewd and not come across as racist or anti-female as the get ready to rip.
Obama's message for CHANGE is what the world needs. For the country not to get behind him means that we deserve everything we get over the next 10 years -- whether it's three more terrorist attacks, a depression fueled from a run on the dollar, trade deficits that are sky high, loss of all manufacturing within the continental United States, mass exodus of money and brainiacs... expect it all and then some.
Well, why the hell should I?
It’s expected that I do, and so I’m not.
Of course this backstabbing is just a dangerous foreshadowing of what the GOP are going to do to Barak Obama, should he receive the nomination. I honestly believe that once the Democrats get closer to choosing Barak or Hillary, and the GOP narrows their field to two candidates, GOP media-assassination gangs (like the people who developed the Willie Horton advert or the Swift Boat shit) are going to slowly leak racist and misogynistic negative ads on the internet, so that by the time the Democratic National Convention rolls around there’s going to be an undercurrent of anti-Black and anti-Women throughout the South.
Take a look at what’s being done to Barak Obama right this fuckin’ minute!!! He’s being accused of ibeing of Muslim (which I guess it tantamount to being a card-carrying Communist in the Cold War Days), of clandestinely using a Qu’ran instead of a bible during his swearing in/oath of office ceremonies, and of not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance (which is something I haven’t done since I was 15, nor I have I sung the so-called national anthem) at any time! Uh… doesn’t a supreme court justice hold out the bible for swearing in Senators?!?! And hasn’t Barak led the charge in the Senate for time to time when presiding over the Senate, and how could he be a Muslim, when he’s been seen at church??! What happened to freedom of religion? Oh, I forgot if it’s not a Western European approved religion, then you best back the hell up!
These are the type of attacks that are insidious, because they are completely unable to be proved, and yet what do they do? They impugn Obama’s integrity, call into question his patriotism and associate him with “the evil ones” in the minds and eyes of the weak-fucks who believe being a Christian – especially an evangelical one – is paramount to presiding in the Oval Office. Dubya’s debacle of a presidency had “strong Christian values” as one of its cornerstones, yet the pure evil, vindictive attitude and shockingly amoral behavior that was vomited out from his command center is truly oxymoronic; even his 2000 catch-phrase of Compassionate Conservative smacks of embracing a Southern Christian flair. Said flair is close in blind spirit to the Taliban and other foolish Islamic fundamentalists.
The GOP are just sharpening their knives for Hillary and Obama – either one enables the GOP dirty trick purveyors to have a field day. They must be jacking off now (or in the case of Anne Coulter, fist-fucking herself with a dock-workers glove) with glee, because they will challenge themselves by having to be shrewd and not come across as racist or anti-female as the get ready to rip.
Obama's message for CHANGE is what the world needs. For the country not to get behind him means that we deserve everything we get over the next 10 years -- whether it's three more terrorist attacks, a depression fueled from a run on the dollar, trade deficits that are sky high, loss of all manufacturing within the continental United States, mass exodus of money and brainiacs... expect it all and then some.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Now that it's 2008, and we can see the end of the Dubya era, I can start back on this blog. First off, I'll put my hat in the ring about who should be president -- obviously it's Barak Obama, but not because he's black and because I happen to be a notorious negro agitator. No, it's not that at all -- it's because Obama represents serious change and that elusive concept of Hope. The public good and the Public's trust in his capacity to do "good" (what ever the fuck that means), and what he needs to do though to guarantee a better shot a getting assassinated on his path to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, is define what it means to be the Spirit of Hope, and not just embody it 'cause "We The People" are so got damn jaded.
The thing about being jaded about the political machine is that is exactly what The über-Class wants -- they want you to be apathetic to what's going on in the world, in the country, in what ever state you live in, in the county and city that you call home and pay taxes into. That's why you're more interested or at least sucked into believing there is something fascinating about the coke-fueled shenanigans of a entertainment industry dilettantes.
Don't think Brittany's meltdown was planned by certain people.
Comments of were Entertainment Is Headed
Please listen to David Lynch, notably director of BLUE VELVET and LOST HIGHWAY, and co-creator of that wacky show, "Twin Peaks".
He is completely right about an audience experiencing a film -- what is immediately lost by watching a film on a smaller and smaller portable screening is that a lot of the new technologies -- that cost money -- are lost, namely sound design and the improved definition from HD video, also the vaunted VFX that make movies so important to today, but date the hell out of them for tomorrow. Let alone all the dap that people want from digital projection, nor will new exciting tech like 3D be experienced at all on the iPhone.
Filmmakers don't want their films to migrate to the small screen -- the ability to affect one's emotions thru the use of various lenses and editing is effectively lost on such a small screen, and I honestly don't believe the audience does either.
However, muthafuckas don't have time to check out flicks at some digital projected cushioned the-ater seating! Like the ArcLight in Hollywood.
But I think that the media conglomerates just want to find continued revenue streams for a product that is ultimately mean for enjoyment, not so much as cash cow. However, think about this so much of what is driving the US economy - hi-tech, based on upon how consumers are going to watch filmed entertainment. All the consumer electronic companies want shit to play on their razor thin screens. If you didn't hear, Panasonic has acknowledged the fact that they need to get in lock-step with the entertainment companies, but not really have any creative input.
The WGA Strike isn't helping things 'cause it's having people find other forms of video entertainment.
I'll keep writing and directing, but all forms of entertainment are getting reduced to the level of a commodity, which isn't good because quality doesn't win out at the point. Not that it has recently, as the "yes" men just churn out whatever they want to see and that is something that has to continue to propagate what's always been.
Take a look at Leon Wynter's book AMERICAN SKIN for some dap on this.
However, money for advertising and celebrity endorsement is what will get people to watch whatever. because I don't think the viral quality of a YouTube clip is worth the emotional commitment you can get from a film. If you notice what gets the big views on YouTube is low-brow comedy and shit that shocks (like Saddam Hussein's execution)
Tune in this time next year.
MEDIA ASSASSIN on HBO
Early this month we saw the return of HBO’s THE WIRE, expertly created by former newspaper man David Simon. This fifth season also happens to be the final season for the most under-appreciated show that has EVER been on television – a show that after four gut-punching seasons has received no industry praise/acclaim – no Golden Globes or Emmys (which means those awards are right up there with the Oscars as shams, rigged jack-off moments for Hollywood and Upper Manhattan) wins, let alone nominations (this I could be wrong about, but I highly doubt it. Only the entertainment press acknowledges that this show is amazing of the public, whetherh it's the NYTimes or Entertainment Weekly or just some kid you talk to in line at the laundry mat the show is a word of mouth show like no other.
This season on THE WIRE the focus of attention is on THE MEDIA, most specifically a fictionalized version of the Baltimore Sun (coincidentally Simon’s alma matter) -- and how they don't have enough money to cover even the most basic of news in a city that has a dwindling readership and a dwindling financial base to provide the money to make the journalist have some morale.
It's interesting to watch the opening chapter of this show each season, because it doesn't tell you AT ALL what the whole series is going to be about. You get reacquainted with the people that you know and love, or just know and respect or down-right hate. And you're introduced to the new people -- this time it's the editor of the City Desk at the newspaper that's going to be forced to kill some key story because of politics; that I can see coming already, because that's the one thing that would kill a newspaper man -- the death of freedom of speech and the deep-sixing of a national news story (which reporters love, because they can get book deals as a result of the celebrity, take a look a Billy Wilder's ACE IN THE HOLE for the type of shit that can happen to a report in his (or her) quest for that one scoop that'll make THEM news (which is what they all eventually want any way).
But what do I know? I'm just a huge fan of this kind of television... more like this kind of storytelling, because it explores the human condition in a way that is unparalleled -- even a documentary doesn't do it as well, because it's dispensing facts as it entertains, as opposed to entertaining whilst sneaking in facts. I'm mean The Wire has the immediacy and heartbreak of that one dope as fuck documentary about inner city youths HOOP DREAMSYou'd be hard pressed to name another piece of filmed entertainment that tells it like it really is.
After "MORE WITH LESS", I was once again hooked with the show -- with the gestalt of the show. Can't pinpoint any one thing at this point, but I'm always happy to see "The Bunk" and "Omar" grace the tube.
In the second episode, the show begins to unfold with signs of a man going down the abyss and liking what he finds there because it serves his purpose of what he believes is a greater good - an ends justifies the means scenarios -- which is going to have nitroglycerin on a bumpy road results.
Check the show out! If you value what entertainment is supposed to be, and not the shit that Hollywood pumps out to keep you dumb; soma has risen from the fiction pages. Believe that!
Also, you might be wondering why I’ve been posting so much recently? Well, I’m not in the homeless situation that I was for such a long period of time. I’m living in a boarding house, so I’m not entirely out of the woods yet – soon though, very soon.
DEATH TO INTERNAL COMBUSTION
Apparently, and this has to be verified, the Toyota Prius outsold a certain model of SUV in the most recent quarter or over all of last year.
This is good news.
The one thing that rankles me about the rise of the hybrid car is that the German automakers haven’t jumped into the mix. I’m never buying an American car, which means most of the upcoming hybrids are American made, and I’m not a fan of Japanese cars either – I’ve never had a “good” ride in one. What they are good for is that they address a shitload of creature comforts, but the seating isn’t good for my back and I get back strain (that Doan's Pills don't help) and become quite tired quickly when driving in a Japanese car (Hondas, Acuras and Lexuses). Hence, why I want a German car... the thing that Porsche should have done is teamed up with Telsa Motors when Telsa was out searching for a car company to put their vaunted electric engine in! Telsa chose Lotus to make the bodies for the Telsa. Granted Porsche would have undermined part of its consumer base and it would have undercut the one key thing Porsche has a rep for – strong as fuck engines – but the auto companies are the part one of the two part firewall that’s blocking the transference away from gasoline powered vehicles.
People need to get with the program and get the fuck off of gas for car transpo, because as oil reaches its peak and then begins to plunge, the one thing that petroleum only needs to be used for is the manufacture plastic.
Just take a quick gander around your house, the room you're reading this in and take register of what is made of plastic or coated with plastic or treated with plastic.
I don't know about you, but I'm looking to put my money behind those who are about diggin up landfills and recycling plastic that's be sitting and moldering for decades.
This is good news.
The one thing that rankles me about the rise of the hybrid car is that the German automakers haven’t jumped into the mix. I’m never buying an American car, which means most of the upcoming hybrids are American made, and I’m not a fan of Japanese cars either – I’ve never had a “good” ride in one. What they are good for is that they address a shitload of creature comforts, but the seating isn’t good for my back and I get back strain (that Doan's Pills don't help) and become quite tired quickly when driving in a Japanese car (Hondas, Acuras and Lexuses). Hence, why I want a German car... the thing that Porsche should have done is teamed up with Telsa Motors when Telsa was out searching for a car company to put their vaunted electric engine in! Telsa chose Lotus to make the bodies for the Telsa. Granted Porsche would have undermined part of its consumer base and it would have undercut the one key thing Porsche has a rep for – strong as fuck engines – but the auto companies are the part one of the two part firewall that’s blocking the transference away from gasoline powered vehicles.
People need to get with the program and get the fuck off of gas for car transpo, because as oil reaches its peak and then begins to plunge, the one thing that petroleum only needs to be used for is the manufacture plastic.
Just take a quick gander around your house, the room you're reading this in and take register of what is made of plastic or coated with plastic or treated with plastic.
I don't know about you, but I'm looking to put my money behind those who are about diggin up landfills and recycling plastic that's be sitting and moldering for decades.
CRIPPLING SoCal AND THE HUGE EXPORT ECONOMY
So the Writers Guild of America Strike continues into its 10 week – with no end in sight, and the affects on the Los Angeles county economy have to be staggering; imagine this, something $150 million off missed payments aren’t been funneled into the narrow economy that comprises La La Land where the ramification of that missed income doesn’t service the debt on one of the country’s most over-heated housing markets. Hundreds of people are missing their mortgage payments and will probably put a fair of the $600K and above homes on the foreclosure list.
The thing about the WGA Strike is that they’ve made a side deal with David Letterman and just today with CBS News, which means that the WGA is looking to stick it to the media robber barons (and who wouldn’t, given the chance?) at the expense of several things – their members, the non-creative people in the industry (by alienating their lot due to lay-offs and award show cancellations), and foreign sales buyers.
To have the Golden Globes get scuttled and the same possibility for the Oscars is quite interesting because of the all the extra revenue those TV broadcasts funnel toward those movies and TV shows (the Golden Globe winners, that is). There’s box office bumps of millions of dollars from the films that are nominated and then win these awards. Yet the real kick in the nuts is to the people who sell Hollywood internationally. Huge sums of money come from the foreign market, huge fucking sums!
Interestingly enough the scuttling of the Golden Globes will cost Hollywood $80 millions from the cancelled parties and other crap that’s required to have the even go on – freelance hair dressers, clothing boutiques, caterers, etc.
Well... no one said sticking it to the Corporate Supercapitalists was going to be easy.
The thing about the WGA Strike is that they’ve made a side deal with David Letterman and just today with CBS News, which means that the WGA is looking to stick it to the media robber barons (and who wouldn’t, given the chance?) at the expense of several things – their members, the non-creative people in the industry (by alienating their lot due to lay-offs and award show cancellations), and foreign sales buyers.
To have the Golden Globes get scuttled and the same possibility for the Oscars is quite interesting because of the all the extra revenue those TV broadcasts funnel toward those movies and TV shows (the Golden Globe winners, that is). There’s box office bumps of millions of dollars from the films that are nominated and then win these awards. Yet the real kick in the nuts is to the people who sell Hollywood internationally. Huge sums of money come from the foreign market, huge fucking sums!
Interestingly enough the scuttling of the Golden Globes will cost Hollywood $80 millions from the cancelled parties and other crap that’s required to have the even go on – freelance hair dressers, clothing boutiques, caterers, etc.
Well... no one said sticking it to the Corporate Supercapitalists was going to be easy.
CAN'T TRUSS IT
So the Vaunted Political Polls were drastically inaccurate in predicting Obama’s smashing of Hillary in the New Hampshire primary (one of them polls has Barak up 13 points! Like that was ever to be believed?! I would have shit on that poll result the minute I saw it).
The innate problem with using matrixes to predict the outcome of anything is that one is dealing with a limited sample, and you can never never never never ever predict the behavior of the surprised –
Even though a certain swath of the American electorate wants Obama, they were not going to allow a nigga whup up on a political stalwart in such a critical time. And most likely throughout the rest of the democratic campaigns, there will but those whites, blacks and other people of color who will subconscious steer away from Obama – will shouting his name, mind you – and his candidacy.
But he's not the only one having to overcome a certain level of discrimination. When Hillary hecklers yelled “Iron my shirt!” at her in Salem on Monday, it stirred sisterhood and she claimed a whole buncha chicks who were thinking about the svelt Mr. Obama – white, black, brown, didn’t matter they all wanted to bask in the glow that is Barak Obama, they HAD to vote for Hillary, especially after she exhibited her "choked up" moment.
The funny thing about Obama is, all the little jokes that Black comedians have been making since Bill Clinton was in office (when he was dubbed the “black president” by some), i.e. eating only fried chicken from the White House kitchen and usin’ Black ‘n Milds as sex toys, don’t seem to work with Obama being the one being dumped on. His blackness isn’t in question, but his ghetto-fabulousness, niggadom most definitely is – and SHOULD be; because that hyper-stylized form of so-called “blackness” might represent what is considered “real” in the hip-hop world, but is suspect in the military-industrial world that churns the nation’s economic backbone.
The innate problem with using matrixes to predict the outcome of anything is that one is dealing with a limited sample, and you can never never never never ever predict the behavior of the surprised –
Even though a certain swath of the American electorate wants Obama, they were not going to allow a nigga whup up on a political stalwart in such a critical time. And most likely throughout the rest of the democratic campaigns, there will but those whites, blacks and other people of color who will subconscious steer away from Obama – will shouting his name, mind you – and his candidacy.
But he's not the only one having to overcome a certain level of discrimination. When Hillary hecklers yelled “Iron my shirt!” at her in Salem on Monday, it stirred sisterhood and she claimed a whole buncha chicks who were thinking about the svelt Mr. Obama – white, black, brown, didn’t matter they all wanted to bask in the glow that is Barak Obama, they HAD to vote for Hillary, especially after she exhibited her "choked up" moment.
The funny thing about Obama is, all the little jokes that Black comedians have been making since Bill Clinton was in office (when he was dubbed the “black president” by some), i.e. eating only fried chicken from the White House kitchen and usin’ Black ‘n Milds as sex toys, don’t seem to work with Obama being the one being dumped on. His blackness isn’t in question, but his ghetto-fabulousness, niggadom most definitely is – and SHOULD be; because that hyper-stylized form of so-called “blackness” might represent what is considered “real” in the hip-hop world, but is suspect in the military-industrial world that churns the nation’s economic backbone.
The Assassin's Creed
I wish this was about that new UBISOFT video game for Playstation 3, but unfortunately it’s not. This is about political enforcement because an assassination is quite different that straight up murder. The Assassin’s Creed is simple – your sense of what is right and wrong is sublimated by an exterior code; typically that code takes the form of cold, hard, cash; sometimes that code takes the form of an ideology. Either way one’s sense of morality is circumspect and therefore dangerous.
To that end one has to wonder what is in the mental make-up of an assassin, especially an assassin who turns into a suicide bomber! The news that quite literally rocked the world today was the successful assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was heading up the opposition party to the military regime that’s been running Pakistan for close to a decade. The current Paki Prime Minister Musharef is a military strongman who only recently gave up the army garb for a suit and tie, but we all know that he’s a G.I. Jaleel at heart.
A first hand account of the assassination indicated that Bhutto gave a speech today, and then drove off in her death-proof motorcade. However, following her routine of waving to her crowd of supporters after a speech, Bhutto asked her security to allow her to pop her head through the bullet vehicles sunroof. She was inexplicably granted this request, and when Bhutto stood up to greet her people, at least three shots were fired directly at her. As she tumbled back inside the suicide bomber unleashed his coup de grace assault which rocked the car. It was stated the Bhutto was bleeding heavily from the face, and never regained consciousness as her staff rushed her to a nearby hospital.
The Assassins, the Jackals, the International Bogeymen probably rejoice at the success that which one of their brethren had artful executed a Status Quo Agitator. However, as more and more details spill out from the crime scene, it appears the Bhutto’s people (and her) were woeful negligent with their understanding of the security threat toward the charging politician. Hence, her untimely death.
To that end one has to wonder what is in the mental make-up of an assassin, especially an assassin who turns into a suicide bomber! The news that quite literally rocked the world today was the successful assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who was heading up the opposition party to the military regime that’s been running Pakistan for close to a decade. The current Paki Prime Minister Musharef is a military strongman who only recently gave up the army garb for a suit and tie, but we all know that he’s a G.I. Jaleel at heart.
A first hand account of the assassination indicated that Bhutto gave a speech today, and then drove off in her death-proof motorcade. However, following her routine of waving to her crowd of supporters after a speech, Bhutto asked her security to allow her to pop her head through the bullet vehicles sunroof. She was inexplicably granted this request, and when Bhutto stood up to greet her people, at least three shots were fired directly at her. As she tumbled back inside the suicide bomber unleashed his coup de grace assault which rocked the car. It was stated the Bhutto was bleeding heavily from the face, and never regained consciousness as her staff rushed her to a nearby hospital.
The Assassins, the Jackals, the International Bogeymen probably rejoice at the success that which one of their brethren had artful executed a Status Quo Agitator. However, as more and more details spill out from the crime scene, it appears the Bhutto’s people (and her) were woeful negligent with their understanding of the security threat toward the charging politician. Hence, her untimely death.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
A VICTORY FOR A NIGGA
I wonder what Chuck D of Public Enemy fame said late last night when it was announced that Barak Obama had won the Democratic Iowa Caucasus? I’m sure the epic anthem music from PE’s seminal album Fear Of A Black Planet came cascading into his brain.
The biggest ideological message delivered from the Winner’s Circle, is that Americans – typically apathetic in national elections over the past three decades – came the fuck out and voted for CHANGE. Is change such an alien concept to anybody with a long pedigree in politics? And it’s not just any change we’re talking about, we’re talking about change of the way America perceives itself and the way America is perceived by the rest of the world. The concept of a seasoned political veteran is needed to run the most powerful quasi-democracy in the history of the planet. After 8 years of having an all-but-self-admitting mediocre man be president and wreak HAVOC with the country’s future, the desire to reclaim a sense of greatness has galvanized people to look past the major open sewer of a wound that has plague the United States since its inception – race – and consider what direction the country needs to go.
My argument against anyone who says that, “we have to an experienced leader” in the White House as means to discount Obama’s presidential bid is talking complete and utter boolshit! Dubya had no experience successfully running shit; in fact quite the opposite, old boy was known for running businesses into the ground; which he’s seemingly done with United States and besmirched the Land’s good will. Dubya was, is and will forever be a chump of the highest magnitude. It’s hard to catalog the farce of his presidency, but one this categorically undeniable his had no experience on doing anything and surrounded himself with his Daddy’s friends… like he’s always done. Where Prescott’s Grandson failed as a leader, is his own inability to analyze critical material and make an coherent, informed decision – not a decision that his underlings convince him is the best course of action.
Now that you’ve won a state’s delegates, the first time I think anyone Black has done such a thing, Barak keep your head inside the motorcade’s bulletproofing and hide your family in another country.
The biggest ideological message delivered from the Winner’s Circle, is that Americans – typically apathetic in national elections over the past three decades – came the fuck out and voted for CHANGE. Is change such an alien concept to anybody with a long pedigree in politics? And it’s not just any change we’re talking about, we’re talking about change of the way America perceives itself and the way America is perceived by the rest of the world. The concept of a seasoned political veteran is needed to run the most powerful quasi-democracy in the history of the planet. After 8 years of having an all-but-self-admitting mediocre man be president and wreak HAVOC with the country’s future, the desire to reclaim a sense of greatness has galvanized people to look past the major open sewer of a wound that has plague the United States since its inception – race – and consider what direction the country needs to go.
My argument against anyone who says that, “we have to an experienced leader” in the White House as means to discount Obama’s presidential bid is talking complete and utter boolshit! Dubya had no experience successfully running shit; in fact quite the opposite, old boy was known for running businesses into the ground; which he’s seemingly done with United States and besmirched the Land’s good will. Dubya was, is and will forever be a chump of the highest magnitude. It’s hard to catalog the farce of his presidency, but one this categorically undeniable his had no experience on doing anything and surrounded himself with his Daddy’s friends… like he’s always done. Where Prescott’s Grandson failed as a leader, is his own inability to analyze critical material and make an coherent, informed decision – not a decision that his underlings convince him is the best course of action.
Now that you’ve won a state’s delegates, the first time I think anyone Black has done such a thing, Barak keep your head inside the motorcade’s bulletproofing and hide your family in another country.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Arab Oil Barons smack the US into submission
The cost of a barrel of black gold –literally black gold – topped the $100 mark yesterday, and guess what? We’ll never see it drop below unless a new fuel source is adopted – and pretty damn quick!
The problem with $100/barrel oil is that America WASTES, yeah I said wastes, oil by using it damn near exclusively for transportation – sure we have some electric cars, but they don’t have any market penetration and hybrids still use gas and some modified form of one of the most dangerous inventions known to man – the internal combustion engine. Cars are the worst muthafucking pollutant-producing technology – that doesn’t have to be the way it is, sure it’ll take the auto companies to financial task and the brink of ruin (as if they’re not already there) to create cars that don’t use gasoline or use limited gasoline but why isn’t that on the tip of every presidential candidates tongue? Congress could just pass a law – to sell cars in America you need to have X mpg, but since we all know that Detroit can’t design or manufacture technology of that quality, Detroit should be given a tax break to enable it to produce the updated cars. Japan and Europe won’t be able to get the tax breaks, because they’re not American incorporated companies.
I said in a previous post, gas prices aren’t what people really need to worry about – technology and a mindset shift will get us all on alternatively powered vehicles. Where ever-rising oil prices are really going to slice the planet’s dick off is in the manufacture of plastic.
The fact that recycling isn’t a LAW that has severe financial punishment for non-compliance is a crime in itself. Just last night, I was cleaning up my filthy rooming house bathroom and kitchen, and there was like 5 trash cans with mixed garbage throughout – and at least 30 beer bottles (my housemates waste a LOT of disposable cash on beer and wine, especially considering that one of them is a alcoholic Russian chick who fucks for money and sustenance, but that’s another post) and maybe 12 to 15 soda cans – and as I live in Los Angeles there’s that CA Redemption value on all these recyclable materials. Yet no one thought to cull the items that could generate enough loose change for a bottle of laundry detergent.
Recycling plastic needs to be of paramount important, and finding was to reclaim plastic from landfills or when it’s supposedly non-recyclable is where there needs to be R&D at the major university labs.
You know what’s really FUCKED UP? Americans junk around two millions tons of electronics into landfills
Tech waste is the environmental problem du jour, replacing Styrofoam and disposable diapers. It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation: If recycling it doesn't really result in it being recycled, and tossing it out just clogs landfills, what, exactly, are we supposed to do with this stuff?
That’s a question that Global Warming Environmentalists don’t talk about, and it’s where more and more R&D needs to be spent. In fact computer and electronics manufacturing companies should come up with the solution through some sort of legislation, something akin to the Green House Gas Credits concepts. Or maybe there should be extreme Tax Breaks offered to companies that can come up with ways to recycle all that plastic-coated wire and solder.
Now I might seem like a socialist or an extreme left-wing liberal by proposing all that the flawed, corrupt, “in the pocket of big business like a fascist regime” and bullshit-to-the-core American government pass laws to help with the environment. But let’s not kid ourselves, big business DOESN’T GIVE TWO SUCKS ON A DEAD DOG’S COCK about doing anything but maximizing profits, so fact CEOs can have 10s millions in bonuses.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich stated in his book SuperCapitalism that we are supremely foolish to believe that big business will do anything for the public good. They might align themselves with public sentiment if that sentiment means more cash flow (i.e. the whole jump on going “green”) – otherwise, it’s more raping of the public while the public subsidizes its own sodomy!!!
The problem with $100/barrel oil is that America WASTES, yeah I said wastes, oil by using it damn near exclusively for transportation – sure we have some electric cars, but they don’t have any market penetration and hybrids still use gas and some modified form of one of the most dangerous inventions known to man – the internal combustion engine. Cars are the worst muthafucking pollutant-producing technology – that doesn’t have to be the way it is, sure it’ll take the auto companies to financial task and the brink of ruin (as if they’re not already there) to create cars that don’t use gasoline or use limited gasoline but why isn’t that on the tip of every presidential candidates tongue? Congress could just pass a law – to sell cars in America you need to have X mpg, but since we all know that Detroit can’t design or manufacture technology of that quality, Detroit should be given a tax break to enable it to produce the updated cars. Japan and Europe won’t be able to get the tax breaks, because they’re not American incorporated companies.
I said in a previous post, gas prices aren’t what people really need to worry about – technology and a mindset shift will get us all on alternatively powered vehicles. Where ever-rising oil prices are really going to slice the planet’s dick off is in the manufacture of plastic.
The fact that recycling isn’t a LAW that has severe financial punishment for non-compliance is a crime in itself. Just last night, I was cleaning up my filthy rooming house bathroom and kitchen, and there was like 5 trash cans with mixed garbage throughout – and at least 30 beer bottles (my housemates waste a LOT of disposable cash on beer and wine, especially considering that one of them is a alcoholic Russian chick who fucks for money and sustenance, but that’s another post) and maybe 12 to 15 soda cans – and as I live in Los Angeles there’s that CA Redemption value on all these recyclable materials. Yet no one thought to cull the items that could generate enough loose change for a bottle of laundry detergent.
Recycling plastic needs to be of paramount important, and finding was to reclaim plastic from landfills or when it’s supposedly non-recyclable is where there needs to be R&D at the major university labs.
You know what’s really FUCKED UP? Americans junk around two millions tons of electronics into landfills
EVERY FUCKING YEAR!!!
Can you honestly believe that? The lack of recycling of dead electronics is shameful, because there’s some many chemically dangerous, but no doubt reusable parts in that old PS2 or large screen tube TV that can save on the continued use of raw resources – but NOOOOO, we’re not about recycling that shit. I seem to remember some story in The Economist or maybe BBC Online about how in African countries – the dumping ground for a tremendous amount of dated electronics – people operate slipshod smelting furnaces spewing a noxious smoke cocktail the world is in denial about in their backyards to cull bits and pieces of copper, mercury, coltran (that ever-expensive metal needed for wireless communications) and aluminum; they risk their health for these dangerous metals that were no doubt strip-mined from their country in the first place 24 months prior! Not to mentionTech waste is the environmental problem du jour, replacing Styrofoam and disposable diapers. It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation: If recycling it doesn't really result in it being recycled, and tossing it out just clogs landfills, what, exactly, are we supposed to do with this stuff?
That’s a question that Global Warming Environmentalists don’t talk about, and it’s where more and more R&D needs to be spent. In fact computer and electronics manufacturing companies should come up with the solution through some sort of legislation, something akin to the Green House Gas Credits concepts. Or maybe there should be extreme Tax Breaks offered to companies that can come up with ways to recycle all that plastic-coated wire and solder.
Now I might seem like a socialist or an extreme left-wing liberal by proposing all that the flawed, corrupt, “in the pocket of big business like a fascist regime” and bullshit-to-the-core American government pass laws to help with the environment. But let’s not kid ourselves, big business DOESN’T GIVE TWO SUCKS ON A DEAD DOG’S COCK about doing anything but maximizing profits, so fact CEOs can have 10s millions in bonuses.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich stated in his book SuperCapitalism that we are supremely foolish to believe that big business will do anything for the public good. They might align themselves with public sentiment if that sentiment means more cash flow (i.e. the whole jump on going “green”) – otherwise, it’s more raping of the public while the public subsidizes its own sodomy!!!
Friday, November 09, 2007
INTELLECTUAL PROPRETY THEFT
As many of you might have heard the Writers Guild of America is on strike out here in the Land of Broken Dreams. And the big thing is do you really know what the strike is about? Sure you're going to miss your favorite TV shows, and you probably think that Hollywood scribes are overpaid -- and many are, but no more so than any other author that you can think of -- music or book included, yes I'm including songWRITERS in the category -- as they get a nice royalty check anytime a song is played on the radio or a CD is bought or a song is legally downloaded.
Here's a video that breaks down what's really going out and why the so-called high priced writers are on strike.
http://weblogs.variety.com/wga_strike_blog/2007/11/writers-strike-.html
As a WGA member in bad standing (i.e. I haven't paid my dues in over a year, because I haven't had a WGA job in longer than that), I feel for the writers who are losing their jobs, but not that much.
Although the one thing that kills me is how shitty Hollywood producers and executives STILL treat us. Think about it this way -- projects GO FORWARD when the writing has reached a level to attract the necessary talent and to excite the marketing people.
Actors who make $20 million a movie (plus all the other obscene bonuses like first dollar gross and shit like that) forego all the ego-driven shit and will work for scale (roughly a few grand a week) IF AND ONLY IF said talent responds to the words on the page put there by none other than the writer!
Not the wily producer, not the studio executive, not the director (unless he's the writer) and the lawyer or marketing whiz or the D-Girl with the big tits who'd suck someone's dick to get a better job - THE WRITER, the scoffed at person who creates the words that come out of the rugged star's mouth those words that make the heroine swoon and all the women in the audience wet with envy.
Maybe the writer's ARE greedy for wanting $.08 instead of $.04 on EVERY DVD sold - at the retail price. Considering how they got ass-raped by VHS sales and the previous DVD boom (which now ain't shit, as people aren't interested in having movie libraries too much anymore).
The sad thing is that the producers were supposed to pay the writers back from the pay cut they took back in the early days of VHS... and that's NEVER going to happen. that money has been snorted, pissed, smoked, driven and built up, up and away for the rapaciously wealthy producers, actors and studio people.
And they'd all be nothing without the writers concocting stories.
I tell you whats going to happen, is that we'll have another year like 2005 -- when everyone thought that the movie industry was a few steps away from the grave because of ALL THE SHITTY MOVIES that got released in late '04 and throughout '05. See, back in late 2002 there was the threat of a WGA strike, so the studios stockpiled all these scripts and rushed them into production without really getting them ready or just buying shit and doing films so producers could get stuff in the distribution pipeline. Now that strike was averted, but not before some of the worst and expensive films were releases, stuff that was so bad the media were claiming that Hollywood was over.
But all that really happened is that the audiences were sick of gagging on the shit that was being spooled out weekend after weekend with huge marketing campaigns... if you remember during 2005, there were some great films -- BATMAN BEGINS, WEDDING CRASHERS, CRASH... to name a few, that really underscored the point -- if you make a great movie, people will come.
And where does a great movie start, from a writer staring at a blank page deciding where and how to begin.
Drinks On You
Ever notice at those do-it-yourself soda machines people blend up the wildest concoctions of soft drinks? Just this afternoon I was at the Trimana Grill in my office building (incidentally for those who’ve been an avid reader of this blog, I’m no longer homeless and I have a job in tony Century City to pay bills and get back on my feet), and this woman is playing chemist with the soda machine – mixing Hi-C Pink Lemonade with Coke and Fanta orange… yeah, that’s what I said, “Fanta orange?” Maybe Fanta cherry for a poor muthafucka’s Cherry Coke, but caramel flavoring and orange, who knew? Not I, that’s for damn sure!
Friday, October 19, 2007
The Damage Control Presidency
So the 2008 Presidential Race is all about damage control. It's like that one mid80s Marvel Comic called "Damage Control" 
, where the people in the comic were tasked with cleaning up New York City after a superhero whupped the muthafuckin' ass of a super villain.
I was remarking that Benazir Bhutto became head of state in a gender repressive country, and it's tripped out because the US -- the bastion of freedom and democracy -- is having trouble electing a female head of state. And even if Hilary Clinton wins the White House, her presidency will be effectively dealing with the skunkshit that she's going to be inheriting. And if she can't really make heads of the mess, do you think the GOP will allow another female President? Unless it's Anne Coulter!
, where the people in the comic were tasked with cleaning up New York City after a superhero whupped the muthafuckin' ass of a super villain.I was remarking that Benazir Bhutto became head of state in a gender repressive country, and it's tripped out because the US -- the bastion of freedom and democracy -- is having trouble electing a female head of state. And even if Hilary Clinton wins the White House, her presidency will be effectively dealing with the skunkshit that she's going to be inheriting. And if she can't really make heads of the mess, do you think the GOP will allow another female President? Unless it's Anne Coulter!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
An Environmental Nobel Prize
So Al Gore won the Noble Peace Prize a few days ago for his work to educate the global public on the dangers of unbridled human activity (all in the name of greed?), and yet I have to believe what ever he's saying as a persuasive message to get people to change their behavior is falling on deaf ears.
In every house I've been in since his documentary AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH came out last year, I haven't seen anybody use compact fluorescent light bulbs to at least cut down on electrical energy consumption, which would have a trickle up effect. And the number of gas guzzling SUVs - those rude rebukes to anyone claiming "green" status -- hasn't seemed to decrease on the roads of Los Angeles -- where regular gas is now $3.19/gallon!
I work really hard to recycle all the plastic bottles and aluminum cans that I can, and any kind of paper product - because
Although the public is more concerned that Britney lost her children (and doesn't want them back!) or that Jennifer Aniston FINALLY told Brad, "I hate you" (I would have thought knowing he was dicking down Angelina when they were married would have prompted that response! Shows what I know) than paying more than water cooler talk about the environment.
Some how talking about environmental issues falls into the category of politics and religion -- taboo public subjects... and I have to ask myself, what the FUCK is that about? We need to have the most open dialog possible about environment impact issues. But I guess like every other social issue of the day, Americans refuse to have an open public discourse about the environment -- and we do all we can to ignore how bad we're pissing on it with Syphilis-infected urine!
I was taking one of those online quizzes about my carbon footprint, and I have to say it wasn't that good, and I make an effort to reduce wasteful consumption of all sorts of shit. The move is to actively find ways to conserve, not just cut back and then foist those views and behavior modifications on those closest to you, who will listen and won't think you're a quack.
In every house I've been in since his documentary AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH came out last year, I haven't seen anybody use compact fluorescent light bulbs to at least cut down on electrical energy consumption, which would have a trickle up effect. And the number of gas guzzling SUVs - those rude rebukes to anyone claiming "green" status -- hasn't seemed to decrease on the roads of Los Angeles -- where regular gas is now $3.19/gallon!
I work really hard to recycle all the plastic bottles and aluminum cans that I can, and any kind of paper product - because
Although the public is more concerned that Britney lost her children (and doesn't want them back!) or that Jennifer Aniston FINALLY told Brad, "I hate you" (I would have thought knowing he was dicking down Angelina when they were married would have prompted that response! Shows what I know) than paying more than water cooler talk about the environment.
Some how talking about environmental issues falls into the category of politics and religion -- taboo public subjects... and I have to ask myself, what the FUCK is that about? We need to have the most open dialog possible about environment impact issues. But I guess like every other social issue of the day, Americans refuse to have an open public discourse about the environment -- and we do all we can to ignore how bad we're pissing on it with Syphilis-infected urine!
I was taking one of those online quizzes about my carbon footprint, and I have to say it wasn't that good, and I make an effort to reduce wasteful consumption of all sorts of shit. The move is to actively find ways to conserve, not just cut back and then foist those views and behavior modifications on those closest to you, who will listen and won't think you're a quack.
Women In Power Positions
Today former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned to Karachi after 8 years of exile... now it's hard to believe that a woman ran a Middle Eastern Muslim theocracy, but it happened (ironically enough, we'll probably not a see a woman in the White House for at least another decade if Hillary Clinton loses, if she wins and her One Term presidency is a fiasco because she'll be forced to clean-up Dubya's supreme fuck-ups, then we'll probably never have another one in my lifetime -- at least another 50 years!).
But back to Bhutto... apparently she had to come to some sort of "arrangement/agreement" with current military strongman Parviz Musharif, the current Paki president in order to return -- otherwise, her assassination or imprisonment would be all but foreordained.
it's hard to believe that woman was in the position of supreme power in a Muslim state, considering that just next door in Afghanistan women -- under the Taliban rule -- where treated like the worst type of garbage! Truth be told in almost all Muslim states (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria) women are 3rd Class citizens (maybe camels get more love?), it's dictated by the Qu'ran (or so I'm told, I haven't read that tome of freedom masquerading as a tool for oppression).
if you think about a woman on top, it's not such a bad proposition... why? Because they're a little more group oriented when it comes to decisions. My experience is that they consult their peers more than men when it comes to making a decision.
And when a woman's on top she can control men and women... in different ways. They can use their sexuality in ways that men can't to invite suggestion... although female sexuality engenders a greater amount of Haters for irrational reasons.
Does Bhutto represent the future of world politics in the world's most troubled region? We'll only know that when we know what her Side Deal for returning is with the current leader. I would suspect that what ever that deal was, she's going to break it in a matter of months; once she solidifies her power base and re-establishes herself as an alternative voice. And when she gets some clandestine supporters inside Musharif's organizations.
Jail time could occur, but it seems unlikely. However, you can never rule anything out in a Muslim country. Suicide bombers can damn near make anything happen.
But back to Bhutto... apparently she had to come to some sort of "arrangement/agreement" with current military strongman Parviz Musharif, the current Paki president in order to return -- otherwise, her assassination or imprisonment would be all but foreordained.
it's hard to believe that woman was in the position of supreme power in a Muslim state, considering that just next door in Afghanistan women -- under the Taliban rule -- where treated like the worst type of garbage! Truth be told in almost all Muslim states (Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria) women are 3rd Class citizens (maybe camels get more love?), it's dictated by the Qu'ran (or so I'm told, I haven't read that tome of freedom masquerading as a tool for oppression).
if you think about a woman on top, it's not such a bad proposition... why? Because they're a little more group oriented when it comes to decisions. My experience is that they consult their peers more than men when it comes to making a decision.
And when a woman's on top she can control men and women... in different ways. They can use their sexuality in ways that men can't to invite suggestion... although female sexuality engenders a greater amount of Haters for irrational reasons.
Does Bhutto represent the future of world politics in the world's most troubled region? We'll only know that when we know what her Side Deal for returning is with the current leader. I would suspect that what ever that deal was, she's going to break it in a matter of months; once she solidifies her power base and re-establishes herself as an alternative voice. And when she gets some clandestine supporters inside Musharif's organizations.
Jail time could occur, but it seems unlikely. However, you can never rule anything out in a Muslim country. Suicide bombers can damn near make anything happen.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Keeping It Interesting... Part II
As I mentioned in the last post, I'd was going to be talking about injecting a little S&M in a long standing relationship. When I previously wrote on this topic, I wasn't in a serious relationship and any S&M experiences I had where with Pro Dominatrices...
S&M is the ultimate role-playing, and role playing adds a certain spice to a couple's sex life that is not only fun, but creative and re-explores one's inner child.
Unless you're really into kink, then light S&M is the way to go -- who hasn't thought about using handcuffs or ropes to immobilize their partner, so they can have their way with him or her? Imagine tying up your man, and then sitting on his face? He's licking and flicking and sucking and poking for as long as it takes the woman to cum... and maybe she wants a few oral orgasms before sucking the life out of his painfully erect cock or riding him like a jockey in the Kentucky Derby!
Conversely, blindfolding, handcuffing and tickling your woman with a feather will not only get her pussy super-lubed up, hearing her slowly moan with pleasure will stiffen your dick just the way you like.
Other light S&M activities -- including but not limited to -- such as using a crop or a whip or a cat o-nine tails, candle wax, ice cubes, etc., add a different dimension to the sexual encounter.
And who doesn't want to have the encounter be as charged as possible? Who, damn it, who?
S&M is the ultimate role-playing, and role playing adds a certain spice to a couple's sex life that is not only fun, but creative and re-explores one's inner child.
Unless you're really into kink, then light S&M is the way to go -- who hasn't thought about using handcuffs or ropes to immobilize their partner, so they can have their way with him or her? Imagine tying up your man, and then sitting on his face? He's licking and flicking and sucking and poking for as long as it takes the woman to cum... and maybe she wants a few oral orgasms before sucking the life out of his painfully erect cock or riding him like a jockey in the Kentucky Derby!
Conversely, blindfolding, handcuffing and tickling your woman with a feather will not only get her pussy super-lubed up, hearing her slowly moan with pleasure will stiffen your dick just the way you like.
Other light S&M activities -- including but not limited to -- such as using a crop or a whip or a cat o-nine tails, candle wax, ice cubes, etc., add a different dimension to the sexual encounter.
And who doesn't want to have the encounter be as charged as possible? Who, damn it, who?
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Keeping It Interesting...
As one gets older, one begins to think about the softness of a woman's pussy... and how to keep it the prized place to go and be
As a man you have to ask yourself, do you want your woman to stay in radically good shape throughout her 50s? So you can enjoy sex with her continually? The answers is hell fucking yes!
Doing yoga with your woman (or having her do it on her own) and working on those tantric breathing exercises, probably is the best way to keep her (and you) in the best possible physical shape and in her sexual prime for a lot longer than people realize.
The thing about men, women and sex is that finding ways to prevent it from getting stale is the key to not just making the relationship last, but to continually strengthening and enhancing it.
As humans we're going to be tempted by others outside of our main relationship... that's just going to be it. The way I see it exploring tantric sex, role-playing, some light S&M and If possible) threesomes will most likely add that extra dimension to a couple's sex life to keep it vibrant.
Threesomes perhaps pose the most alluring but potentially damaging sexual adventure -- for obvious reasons; if it's two girls and a guy, you have to make sure that the woman in the relationship has bisexual tendencies and make sure she is comfortable with the fact that another woman (probably of her choosing) will be interacting with her sexual partner. We all know how territorial women are when another woman comes into the mix, so treading lightly is an understatement. Although, to make a threesome most effective both partners in the couple need to have bisexual tendencies.
Why do I say this? Because to explore the sexual energy of a threesome, the couple needs to engage in the activity at least twice -- once with 2 girls and a guy, and the other 2 guys and a girl -- where all participants have bisexual tendencies. The desire, or should I say curiosity, to be with someone of your same sex needs to latent to enable a truly enjoyable and most memorable experience.
Now, if you're reading this and you're a guy, you're no doubt saying to yourself -- I don't want another man's dick around me or my woman. However, if you talk with people who have had homosexual flings, therefore consider themselves "straight" there tends to be a heightened level of intellect associated with the choice to explore that kind of energy exchange.
Here's the thing about sexual intercourse -- it's an energy exchange that leaves and indelible mark on who ever is on the receiving end of it... such that any man who knowingly and willingly accepts another man's cock (or maybe a woman wielding a strap-on) is looking to explore an abnormal sexual energy change. Even though I say abnormal, I say that with most non-judgmental tone -- in that the norm is cock into dick slot (i.e. pussy), so cock into ass (whether its a man's or woman's) is a little abnormal. Also, taking cock in the ass isn't as unpleasant an experience as everyone would claim it to be, otherwise women and gay men wouldn't do it. Nor would it be a staple of many S&M encounters (dominatrix pumping a strap-on into her male sub's willing ass). Sucking dick though... that's another matter.
The down-side to a 2 girls and a guy threesome, is that the man is going to give it hard to the woman outside of his relationship, and probably dick down that new woman in a way his current partner isn't getting the dick (or doesn't remember getting dicked down that way with that kind of intensity). It doesn't have to happen, but it could and if it does then there might very well be resent and budding animosity about enthusiasm to another woman -- when the threesome has broken up.
The extra titillating element of this combination is the girl-on-girl action -- watching a woman eat out another woman... besides being a male (and female) fantasy, the male could learn a thing or two about pleasing his woman from this encounter. The interloper woman will also show the man a good time in a way that the woman in the relationship could learn from.
The down-side to a 2 guys and girl threesome is that the man must see his woman get fucked by another man, sees his dick go in and out of her pussy, and watch her luscious lips devours another man's fuckstick. She might get pleasured in ways he might not know how to do for his woman -- and that can and will spell the anagram of the trouble mentioned above.
It the threesome goes down with energy and excitement and physical bliss, then all is good, and the core relationship is probably heightened and solidified even more than what was thought from the outset... however, this might only happen 33% of the time. It works as an adventuresome experiment if their isn't any staleness in the core relationship, and this jaunt is just that... if the relationship is rocky or isn't as stable as the couple believes, a threesome can expose the weaknesses and perhaps tear the relationship apart.
Bringing S&M into the mix... (that's for the next post)
As a man you have to ask yourself, do you want your woman to stay in radically good shape throughout her 50s? So you can enjoy sex with her continually? The answers is hell fucking yes!
Doing yoga with your woman (or having her do it on her own) and working on those tantric breathing exercises, probably is the best way to keep her (and you) in the best possible physical shape and in her sexual prime for a lot longer than people realize.
The thing about men, women and sex is that finding ways to prevent it from getting stale is the key to not just making the relationship last, but to continually strengthening and enhancing it.
As humans we're going to be tempted by others outside of our main relationship... that's just going to be it. The way I see it exploring tantric sex, role-playing, some light S&M and If possible) threesomes will most likely add that extra dimension to a couple's sex life to keep it vibrant.
Threesomes perhaps pose the most alluring but potentially damaging sexual adventure -- for obvious reasons; if it's two girls and a guy, you have to make sure that the woman in the relationship has bisexual tendencies and make sure she is comfortable with the fact that another woman (probably of her choosing) will be interacting with her sexual partner. We all know how territorial women are when another woman comes into the mix, so treading lightly is an understatement. Although, to make a threesome most effective both partners in the couple need to have bisexual tendencies.
Why do I say this? Because to explore the sexual energy of a threesome, the couple needs to engage in the activity at least twice -- once with 2 girls and a guy, and the other 2 guys and a girl -- where all participants have bisexual tendencies. The desire, or should I say curiosity, to be with someone of your same sex needs to latent to enable a truly enjoyable and most memorable experience.
Now, if you're reading this and you're a guy, you're no doubt saying to yourself -- I don't want another man's dick around me or my woman. However, if you talk with people who have had homosexual flings, therefore consider themselves "straight" there tends to be a heightened level of intellect associated with the choice to explore that kind of energy exchange.
Here's the thing about sexual intercourse -- it's an energy exchange that leaves and indelible mark on who ever is on the receiving end of it... such that any man who knowingly and willingly accepts another man's cock (or maybe a woman wielding a strap-on) is looking to explore an abnormal sexual energy change. Even though I say abnormal, I say that with most non-judgmental tone -- in that the norm is cock into dick slot (i.e. pussy), so cock into ass (whether its a man's or woman's) is a little abnormal. Also, taking cock in the ass isn't as unpleasant an experience as everyone would claim it to be, otherwise women and gay men wouldn't do it. Nor would it be a staple of many S&M encounters (dominatrix pumping a strap-on into her male sub's willing ass). Sucking dick though... that's another matter.
The down-side to a 2 girls and a guy threesome, is that the man is going to give it hard to the woman outside of his relationship, and probably dick down that new woman in a way his current partner isn't getting the dick (or doesn't remember getting dicked down that way with that kind of intensity). It doesn't have to happen, but it could and if it does then there might very well be resent and budding animosity about enthusiasm to another woman -- when the threesome has broken up.
The extra titillating element of this combination is the girl-on-girl action -- watching a woman eat out another woman... besides being a male (and female) fantasy, the male could learn a thing or two about pleasing his woman from this encounter. The interloper woman will also show the man a good time in a way that the woman in the relationship could learn from.
The down-side to a 2 guys and girl threesome is that the man must see his woman get fucked by another man, sees his dick go in and out of her pussy, and watch her luscious lips devours another man's fuckstick. She might get pleasured in ways he might not know how to do for his woman -- and that can and will spell the anagram of the trouble mentioned above.
It the threesome goes down with energy and excitement and physical bliss, then all is good, and the core relationship is probably heightened and solidified even more than what was thought from the outset... however, this might only happen 33% of the time. It works as an adventuresome experiment if their isn't any staleness in the core relationship, and this jaunt is just that... if the relationship is rocky or isn't as stable as the couple believes, a threesome can expose the weaknesses and perhaps tear the relationship apart.
Bringing S&M into the mix... (that's for the next post)
I'm Playing Hookie with the Negroes, Ma!
Well, well, well -- Dubya has just been outed in the WORST possible way. It seems that the transcript to his United Nations script was leaked to the media and there is phonetic spellings throughout the whole damn thing!!!
The kindergarten-esque spelling was mainly for countries and WORLD LEADERS, but still... it makes you think that Prescott's Grandson always needs... needs "assistance" when he gives speeches to the public.
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said it was "not unusual" to include phonetic spellings for various countries in the speech though when asked if the president had a hard time pronouncing some of those country names Perino declined comment saying, "I think that's an offensive question."
Uh, Dan, the fact that Dubya is our president is offensive to me, and more than half of the voting public, not to mention 90% of the rest of the globe!!!
How can you, Dan Perino, sleep at night, fuck your wife or play with you kids while you serve such a gianormous ass-wipe like Prescott's Grandson?
The kindergarten-esque spelling was mainly for countries and WORLD LEADERS, but still... it makes you think that Prescott's Grandson always needs... needs "assistance" when he gives speeches to the public.
White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said it was "not unusual" to include phonetic spellings for various countries in the speech though when asked if the president had a hard time pronouncing some of those country names Perino declined comment saying, "I think that's an offensive question."
Uh, Dan, the fact that Dubya is our president is offensive to me, and more than half of the voting public, not to mention 90% of the rest of the globe!!!
How can you, Dan Perino, sleep at night, fuck your wife or play with you kids while you serve such a gianormous ass-wipe like Prescott's Grandson?
Four Months Later... NBC's HEROES
So the biggest hit of last season returned to the Fall line up, and I was extremely disappointed.
As a serious comic geek there are things about the show that I absolutely love, but then again there are things about the show that I find insulting -- until I realize that 90% of the audience probably didn't read comics (seriously I mean), so they're amazed by the show. And most viewers who are under the age of 25, probably never read a comic.
The things about HEROES as a show is that it's interestingly apolitical, when it really could be -- look at Fox's "24" or HBO's "The Wire" -- shows that tap into the country's zeigeist and exploit one way or another.
In the days of yesteryear, when superheroes were first created they stood for some piece of the American Ideal, the American Dream.
However, in today's age where selfish motivations are the overriding impetus for damn near everything we do, I'm surprised that we don't see a HERO who is doing things for himself, who is essentially a villain because he uses his special gifts for personal gain instead of serving humanity -- and he's not swayed by the so-called voice of reason.
In the new season, we've been introduced to Maya, a Latin American refugee with special gifts, and we already know from the way her story is unfolding she's going to be ending up on the side of "good." This a little ho-hum to me, because she could be like like Hugo Chavez, and have a mindset of a revolutionary, who is looking to use her powers for reasons that don't jibe with the North American halcyon view of things.
That would be cool... will Tim Kring and his people go down that road? Odds are "nah", but we'll see... it would make the show that much more interesting.
As a serious comic geek there are things about the show that I absolutely love, but then again there are things about the show that I find insulting -- until I realize that 90% of the audience probably didn't read comics (seriously I mean), so they're amazed by the show. And most viewers who are under the age of 25, probably never read a comic.
The things about HEROES as a show is that it's interestingly apolitical, when it really could be -- look at Fox's "24" or HBO's "The Wire" -- shows that tap into the country's zeigeist and exploit one way or another.
In the days of yesteryear, when superheroes were first created they stood for some piece of the American Ideal, the American Dream.
However, in today's age where selfish motivations are the overriding impetus for damn near everything we do, I'm surprised that we don't see a HERO who is doing things for himself, who is essentially a villain because he uses his special gifts for personal gain instead of serving humanity -- and he's not swayed by the so-called voice of reason.
In the new season, we've been introduced to Maya, a Latin American refugee with special gifts, and we already know from the way her story is unfolding she's going to be ending up on the side of "good." This a little ho-hum to me, because she could be like like Hugo Chavez, and have a mindset of a revolutionary, who is looking to use her powers for reasons that don't jibe with the North American halcyon view of things.
That would be cool... will Tim Kring and his people go down that road? Odds are "nah", but we'll see... it would make the show that much more interesting.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Play Yourself Like the White Trash You Is
I never would have thought that one of our favorite cumdumpsters would embarrass herself any more than she has than what she did at the MTV VMA's -- a place where she was known to rule the masses, instead she showed her ass -- the pink of it!
The fact that Entertainment Weekly was shouting "The Horror, The Horror" in its best Marlon Brando voice circa Apocalypse Now!, just reinforces the fact that pop loves to rip the shit out of its icons more than it likes to the prop them and seemingly put them beyond reproach.
Truth be told the woman never had any talent anyway, a new fangled Milli Vanilli if you ask me -- just a marketed chick with high sexy appeal -- when squeezed through the manufactured beauty machine.
Is it sad?
It's sad that we care more about her than the credit crisis that will spell the death knell for hundreds of families.
The fact that Entertainment Weekly was shouting "The Horror, The Horror" in its best Marlon Brando voice circa Apocalypse Now!, just reinforces the fact that pop loves to rip the shit out of its icons more than it likes to the prop them and seemingly put them beyond reproach.
Truth be told the woman never had any talent anyway, a new fangled Milli Vanilli if you ask me -- just a marketed chick with high sexy appeal -- when squeezed through the manufactured beauty machine.
Is it sad?
It's sad that we care more about her than the credit crisis that will spell the death knell for hundreds of families.
On the Road To The UN
So President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is coming to the UN to spit vitriol and then he'll head uptown to Columbia University to continue his verbal tirade's only he'll have questioning students assault him with logic and moral understanding... something that he's not presented with in his native Persian empire.
Some people wonder if this man, this dictator, should even be allowed in the country... and maybe he shouldn't as it is US State Department's MO to deny Middle Eastern political player to come to the US in order to address the UN General Assembly.
Ahmadinejad isn't your typical head of state, he's a member of the "revolution" who rose up the ranks and eventually became master & commander. Outside of China's Gang of Five (or Four), I can't think of any leader who was part of the so-called "Revolution" and survived long enough to then become head of state -- I don't think Khruschev was part of Lenin's inner circle or part of the Stalin's gang -- and the idiots in the Khmer Rouge never succeeded Pol Pot because they country disintegrated when VietNam invaded.
Ahmadinejad is a recalcitrant one, though, as he demands Persian nuclear weapons to go along with their obscene and trenchant brand of Shi'ism. Even new French Prez Sarkozy wants sanctions slapped across the mouth of this fool. And when a Frenchie is talking tough -- especially about an Iranian -- then you know the man and his followers/sycophants are really bad for the planet.
Still, I'd be curious to be in the Columbia University lecture hall to hear the man rip the United States and the West in general a new asshole -- the type of dick-slapping of the current regime that would NEVER be allowed in his country, under any circumstances. Because once he's done, he's going to have to answer some questions from the student body and others in the audience... and they're going to break his jaw and shit down his throat... but it a nice way, a way that'll make Ahmadinejad look like an idiot.
Some people wonder if this man, this dictator, should even be allowed in the country... and maybe he shouldn't as it is US State Department's MO to deny Middle Eastern political player to come to the US in order to address the UN General Assembly.
Ahmadinejad isn't your typical head of state, he's a member of the "revolution" who rose up the ranks and eventually became master & commander. Outside of China's Gang of Five (or Four), I can't think of any leader who was part of the so-called "Revolution" and survived long enough to then become head of state -- I don't think Khruschev was part of Lenin's inner circle or part of the Stalin's gang -- and the idiots in the Khmer Rouge never succeeded Pol Pot because they country disintegrated when VietNam invaded.
Ahmadinejad is a recalcitrant one, though, as he demands Persian nuclear weapons to go along with their obscene and trenchant brand of Shi'ism. Even new French Prez Sarkozy wants sanctions slapped across the mouth of this fool. And when a Frenchie is talking tough -- especially about an Iranian -- then you know the man and his followers/sycophants are really bad for the planet.
Still, I'd be curious to be in the Columbia University lecture hall to hear the man rip the United States and the West in general a new asshole -- the type of dick-slapping of the current regime that would NEVER be allowed in his country, under any circumstances. Because once he's done, he's going to have to answer some questions from the student body and others in the audience... and they're going to break his jaw and shit down his throat... but it a nice way, a way that'll make Ahmadinejad look like an idiot.
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Modern Day Citizen Kane
You know I had been avidly following the story behind Rupert Murdoch's battle to acquire Dow Jones, and it's flagship publication The Wall Street Journal, and it just smacked of something out that Orson Welles classic piece of cinema.
it doesn't bode well for the "fairness" of the business press when a far-reaching business owns one of the top international media outlets for so-called "hard news" with a business slant to it.
Will we really see the change in the way news -- particularly news that could adversely affect any of Murdoch's other business ventures -- be covered differently? No, the change in editorially will be glacial and then maybe in 5 or 6 years from now the new face of the Journal will only be apparent those who style mavens who exude a talent for pattern recognition.
it doesn't bode well for the "fairness" of the business press when a far-reaching business owns one of the top international media outlets for so-called "hard news" with a business slant to it.
Will we really see the change in the way news -- particularly news that could adversely affect any of Murdoch's other business ventures -- be covered differently? No, the change in editorially will be glacial and then maybe in 5 or 6 years from now the new face of the Journal will only be apparent those who style mavens who exude a talent for pattern recognition.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Retreat!?!? From what Objective...
Today I was listening to some Veterans of Foreign Wars speak about the much-ballyhooed Pull-Out of American Forces from that nasty quagmire formerly known as Iraq.
What people keep saying is that we can't leave until we've finished our mission, finished our objective... my question is, what the fuck exactly is our mission?
The fact that it can't be pitched Hollywood style in less than three sentences is the reason why it's a cluster fuck in the Middle East and Iraq specifically -- people are dying, money is being wasted, and animosity is being generated, because there really isn't any concrete plans, benchmarks and goal breakthrus for the military, the government or the U.S. citizens to monitor the successes and failures of Dubya's War...
A pull-out just needs to happen, because we can't keep soldiers there for years at a clip... at least rotate people from places like Europe and South Korea to the region, to give those poor souls who are getting heat stroke on the regular a break and a chance to see their families.
It's hard to tell what success in the country would constitute, and since that's not an ideal state to be in, it's best to figure that out so we can then turn tail and run AND STILL save face.
Obviously preventing the ripping apart of the country is the only major goal/mission -- but that's not something the US or anything cabal of countries could prevent from happening IF the Iraqis wanted to happen.
Pull out as soon as possible, eat the shit the Dubya has been concocting in a pot and waiting to serve since instigating the invasion, and see who America withstands feces-breath for years (if not decades) to come... 'cause the Brits are already on their way out, and we'll be the last man standing, holding the lion by the tail as the whirlwind comes a-reaping...
What people keep saying is that we can't leave until we've finished our mission, finished our objective... my question is, what the fuck exactly is our mission?
The fact that it can't be pitched Hollywood style in less than three sentences is the reason why it's a cluster fuck in the Middle East and Iraq specifically -- people are dying, money is being wasted, and animosity is being generated, because there really isn't any concrete plans, benchmarks and goal breakthrus for the military, the government or the U.S. citizens to monitor the successes and failures of Dubya's War...
A pull-out just needs to happen, because we can't keep soldiers there for years at a clip... at least rotate people from places like Europe and South Korea to the region, to give those poor souls who are getting heat stroke on the regular a break and a chance to see their families.
It's hard to tell what success in the country would constitute, and since that's not an ideal state to be in, it's best to figure that out so we can then turn tail and run AND STILL save face.
Obviously preventing the ripping apart of the country is the only major goal/mission -- but that's not something the US or anything cabal of countries could prevent from happening IF the Iraqis wanted to happen.
Pull out as soon as possible, eat the shit the Dubya has been concocting in a pot and waiting to serve since instigating the invasion, and see who America withstands feces-breath for years (if not decades) to come... 'cause the Brits are already on their way out, and we'll be the last man standing, holding the lion by the tail as the whirlwind comes a-reaping...
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Wage Slaves - Man, I Wish!!!!
You know the one thing that is hard as fuck for niggas to do? And is something that white people just don't get it? Getting a job.
If you're non-black and you're reading this, stop and think about the job that you have... how many black people are in your workplace? And don't count the chump-change jobs like the delivery guy or the security guy or the janitor.
Probably not a lot, huh? Probably one or two people on your whole floor and maybe someone working as the receptionist.
Now think about the places you go, like retail establishments and restaurants and movie theaters and gas stations or 7-Eleven clerks (no niggas there!!!).
I'm gonna say that your mail deliver person (USPS or FedEx or UPS) to your house could be a nigga, and there's probably a few cops, not to mention most of the people at the DMV or any mind-numbing government job.
Niggas are typically assed out when it comes to better paying jobs - now I'm not even talking about high paying jobs, I'm talking about jobs that pay over $25K a year BEFORE TAXES!
There was a book about the culture of fear that was discussed in that Michael Moore movie Bowling For Columbine, where the author (a USC sociology professor) stated that the average black man with a college degree and some post-graduate work under his belt with work experience is making the same or less than the average white man who only has a high school diploma!!! A high school diploma, what the fuck is that?
So the term wage slave most likely refers to white peope who WISH they had more high-paying, more flexible jobs.
If you're non-black and you're reading this, stop and think about the job that you have... how many black people are in your workplace? And don't count the chump-change jobs like the delivery guy or the security guy or the janitor.
Probably not a lot, huh? Probably one or two people on your whole floor and maybe someone working as the receptionist.
Now think about the places you go, like retail establishments and restaurants and movie theaters and gas stations or 7-Eleven clerks (no niggas there!!!).
I'm gonna say that your mail deliver person (USPS or FedEx or UPS) to your house could be a nigga, and there's probably a few cops, not to mention most of the people at the DMV or any mind-numbing government job.
Niggas are typically assed out when it comes to better paying jobs - now I'm not even talking about high paying jobs, I'm talking about jobs that pay over $25K a year BEFORE TAXES!
There was a book about the culture of fear that was discussed in that Michael Moore movie Bowling For Columbine, where the author (a USC sociology professor) stated that the average black man with a college degree and some post-graduate work under his belt with work experience is making the same or less than the average white man who only has a high school diploma!!! A high school diploma, what the fuck is that?
So the term wage slave most likely refers to white peope who WISH they had more high-paying, more flexible jobs.
Controlling What Survives In The Market
I was listenin to the Wall Street Journal Report the other day and something very interesting was discussed -- the success of HD-DVD or Blu-Ray DVD, and the WSJ predicted that HD-DVD would be come the standard because WalMart -- in its quest to supply the US consumer with the cheapest possible prices, that is hammering manufacturers to provide cheaper and cheaper wholesale prices -- will be stocking its shelves with HD-DVD and not Blu-Ray; simply because the manufacturing costs and therefore the profit margin for the retails in lower on Blu-Ray than on HD-DVD. T
hus WalMart won't be stocking Blu-Ray, and because of WalMart's market share, buying power and hypnosis of consumers, Sony and its colleagues are going to be assed out.
Now we'll have to see what actually happens, but it's a sure bet by next year this time we'll know about the fate of Blu-Ray.
The problem Sony has is that they bet the farm on the Blu-Ray technology by installing it in its Playstation 3 (the main reason by the platform is so expense and isn't performing that well). So if Blu-Ray crashes, because WalMart won't stock it will Sony have to design a Playstation 3 with HD-DVD? In order to make the platform relevant?
Sony fired the father of the Playstation recently, so no doubt the Playstation 4 (when it comes out a year before the Mayan Calender ends) will use whatever is the agreed upon DVD format of the time or won't even require a removable media option, because all games will be downloaded over the internet (which would lead to unlimited pirating).
However the more indisious thing about this story is WalMart -- the whims of that oppressive retailer will be dictating the success of new products? That's an extremely scary notion. WalMart is known for playing hardball with manufacturers to get prices as low as possible -- many a company will tell you that in order to meet the WalMart price requirements outsourcing and using sweat-shop child labor has become part of the business practice.
In our quest to keep buying whatever the fuck we can think of, we're in effect stiffling innovation and fueling child labor (read slavery) in various parts of the 3rd World. And WalMart is the Pied Piper of Hamlen leading us all to the brink of destruction -- happily!!!
hus WalMart won't be stocking Blu-Ray, and because of WalMart's market share, buying power and hypnosis of consumers, Sony and its colleagues are going to be assed out.
Now we'll have to see what actually happens, but it's a sure bet by next year this time we'll know about the fate of Blu-Ray.
The problem Sony has is that they bet the farm on the Blu-Ray technology by installing it in its Playstation 3 (the main reason by the platform is so expense and isn't performing that well). So if Blu-Ray crashes, because WalMart won't stock it will Sony have to design a Playstation 3 with HD-DVD? In order to make the platform relevant?
Sony fired the father of the Playstation recently, so no doubt the Playstation 4 (when it comes out a year before the Mayan Calender ends) will use whatever is the agreed upon DVD format of the time or won't even require a removable media option, because all games will be downloaded over the internet (which would lead to unlimited pirating).
However the more indisious thing about this story is WalMart -- the whims of that oppressive retailer will be dictating the success of new products? That's an extremely scary notion. WalMart is known for playing hardball with manufacturers to get prices as low as possible -- many a company will tell you that in order to meet the WalMart price requirements outsourcing and using sweat-shop child labor has become part of the business practice.
In our quest to keep buying whatever the fuck we can think of, we're in effect stiffling innovation and fueling child labor (read slavery) in various parts of the 3rd World. And WalMart is the Pied Piper of Hamlen leading us all to the brink of destruction -- happily!!!
Monday, May 07, 2007
Take It With A Broom Stick?
So the head of the Hollywood Skank Mafia has been ordered to serve 45 Days in the Los Angeles County Jail! And apparently the judge said there wasn't going to be any "in lieu of" type of sentencing, that our favorite cum dumpster would have to serve the full 45 days.
From the various news reports about what happened, the Airhead heiress was driving WHILE drunk with a suspended license from another DUI that she was dick-slapped with only a few months prior.
Truth be told I wanna see the bitch get a beat-down in the slam. 'Cause ya know she gonna try hard as hell not to serve no time. I bet the funny sight is gonna be seeing this broad when she gets out 'cause she aint' gonna have her blonde hair dye or any of the much-need beauty products that she hasta use on daily basis just to look like she's a sexy vixen. If you ever get to see this broad up-close-n-personal, you'll see that she needs those beauty product endorsement gigs -- 'cause she's hit!
What would make this story a lot funnier would be to have O.J. Simpson speak out either for or against Paris's stint in LA County. Not to mention his media presence alone would indicate that money doesn't always get you out of every jam -- particularly when you engender such animosity as Paris has with all the dick-smacking that she does to people throughout society.
LA County -- even the female section -- is by no means an easy ride. Unfornately, I don't know if this is going to be a "Magnificent Ambersons" style of cumupence for the Airhear Heiress, because tough-girl Michelle Rodriguez was given a similar sentence for a DUI and only spent around 5 hours in LA County, before the Corrections Officials decided to release Rodriguez. COs have to deal with those over-crowding issues and they're not about to deal with the celebrity circus if they don't need to.
However, I wouldn't put it pass the sentencing judget to instruct the Prison Officials to put up with any and all boolshit that Paris brings to the table in hopes of skipping out on her sentencing. You have to admit that the criminal justice system needs to show that it's not subject to overt or covert bribery and to have a scandal-hound yuothful heir do time (much like Martha Stewart) would be just what the country needs. And unlike Martha who spent time in club fed, Paris will be in the gen pop of LA County where the broom-stick wielding cholas run things in ways that Paris probably never even contemplates.
It would sure humble her in the right way.
So only time will tell...
From the various news reports about what happened, the Airhead heiress was driving WHILE drunk with a suspended license from another DUI that she was dick-slapped with only a few months prior.
Truth be told I wanna see the bitch get a beat-down in the slam. 'Cause ya know she gonna try hard as hell not to serve no time. I bet the funny sight is gonna be seeing this broad when she gets out 'cause she aint' gonna have her blonde hair dye or any of the much-need beauty products that she hasta use on daily basis just to look like she's a sexy vixen. If you ever get to see this broad up-close-n-personal, you'll see that she needs those beauty product endorsement gigs -- 'cause she's hit!
What would make this story a lot funnier would be to have O.J. Simpson speak out either for or against Paris's stint in LA County. Not to mention his media presence alone would indicate that money doesn't always get you out of every jam -- particularly when you engender such animosity as Paris has with all the dick-smacking that she does to people throughout society.
LA County -- even the female section -- is by no means an easy ride. Unfornately, I don't know if this is going to be a "Magnificent Ambersons" style of cumupence for the Airhear Heiress, because tough-girl Michelle Rodriguez was given a similar sentence for a DUI and only spent around 5 hours in LA County, before the Corrections Officials decided to release Rodriguez. COs have to deal with those over-crowding issues and they're not about to deal with the celebrity circus if they don't need to.
However, I wouldn't put it pass the sentencing judget to instruct the Prison Officials to put up with any and all boolshit that Paris brings to the table in hopes of skipping out on her sentencing. You have to admit that the criminal justice system needs to show that it's not subject to overt or covert bribery and to have a scandal-hound yuothful heir do time (much like Martha Stewart) would be just what the country needs. And unlike Martha who spent time in club fed, Paris will be in the gen pop of LA County where the broom-stick wielding cholas run things in ways that Paris probably never even contemplates.
It would sure humble her in the right way.
So only time will tell...
Monday, April 30, 2007
Getting Ass-Fucked
One of the myriad of problems of living in Los Angeles is the near-complete dependence on a car. We all know about Southern California being the car economy, perhaps the most dynamic auto market on the planet -- for a variety of reasons that I'm not going to get into here.
What I'm going to get into here is what happens when one's precious auto, goes on the fritz and needs service/repairs. Your options are to go to the dealer, over-pay and perhaps get quality service... although most likely you'll get C- work on your car. Your second option is to find a reliable mechanic... which in a city of getting over on muthafuckas and dicking people out of their hard-earned cash is a difficult proposition to successfully navigate.
I was a little tired of going to the VW dealer, 'cause I noticed that they wouldn't tell me things that were wrong with the car, i.e. an alignment issue. So I had sought out a reliable and respectable mechanic... a few actually, but none really made a strong impression on me except this one Filipino guy out in Reseda and this Armenian who runs a place called Eurowurx in Burbank.
The worst though came last January, when I felt the car needed a little more than a service... perhaps a tune-up, because the engine was strenuous while idling. I was living deep on the westside of the fucking San Fernando Valley and couldn't get to a good mechanic, nor did I know one (as Eurowurx has moved, or so I thought). So went online to www.cartalk.com ('cause I listen to that NPR radio show from time to time on Sunday mornings when I'm too thrashed to get out of bed) and checked out their "Mechanic Recommendation" boards. I came across a shop called Stuart's German Auto Specialist, which was based in Burbank -- near the Disney studios where I was working at that time.
I go in with an appointment to see ths dude named Stuart Schreiber the owner/sole mechanic... explain to him what I want -- oil change, look at the brakes and see if a tune-up is necessary because of the hard idle. Stuart agrees, and then proceeds to TAKE FOUR DAYS to do this so-called minor service. It's costing me daily rental car fees, and I could only guess what the bill was going to be for his labor.
When I finally do get the car, I'm tempted to stop order the check 'cause Stuart Schreiber cost me so much extra cash. Here's were it turns to shit and I bend over and spread my ass cheeks. I pick up the car on a Saturday morning and drive around all weekend. culminating with a smoking hot date with the girl I was just beginning to date... we come back from a party on Sunday night, and due to other stupid ass circumstances, we can't go up into her place to have sex or go to mine ('cause the owner of the house I was staying at had these two ass-bag bulldogs who weren't really housetrained).
Me and my girl are making out in the car in front her apartment, with the engine idling, and we notice steam coming up from the engine. I look at the engine temp guage and it's deep in the red zone! I shut the car off and let it cool down for about 45 minutes, as we continue to do everything but fuck in the front seat of my car.
When it's about 5am, my girl goes inside and I have to drive back from Hollywood to Woodland muthafucking Hills -- the car is overheating the whole time, and I'm stopping to fill the coolant resevoir up with first coolant and then water every three highway exits.
The next day I call Stuart tell him my troubles and he says he'll do any repairs free of charge, if the problem was something he caused or overlooked. I tell him what about the tow!!?! It's going to cost me about $70 to get the car towed to his garage -- even with AAA!!! He agrees to pay for that, too, if it's his fault.
What I'm going to get into here is what happens when one's precious auto, goes on the fritz and needs service/repairs. Your options are to go to the dealer, over-pay and perhaps get quality service... although most likely you'll get C- work on your car. Your second option is to find a reliable mechanic... which in a city of getting over on muthafuckas and dicking people out of their hard-earned cash is a difficult proposition to successfully navigate.
I was a little tired of going to the VW dealer, 'cause I noticed that they wouldn't tell me things that were wrong with the car, i.e. an alignment issue. So I had sought out a reliable and respectable mechanic... a few actually, but none really made a strong impression on me except this one Filipino guy out in Reseda and this Armenian who runs a place called Eurowurx in Burbank.
The worst though came last January, when I felt the car needed a little more than a service... perhaps a tune-up, because the engine was strenuous while idling. I was living deep on the westside of the fucking San Fernando Valley and couldn't get to a good mechanic, nor did I know one (as Eurowurx has moved, or so I thought). So went online to www.cartalk.com ('cause I listen to that NPR radio show from time to time on Sunday mornings when I'm too thrashed to get out of bed) and checked out their "Mechanic Recommendation" boards. I came across a shop called Stuart's German Auto Specialist, which was based in Burbank -- near the Disney studios where I was working at that time.
I go in with an appointment to see ths dude named Stuart Schreiber the owner/sole mechanic... explain to him what I want -- oil change, look at the brakes and see if a tune-up is necessary because of the hard idle. Stuart agrees, and then proceeds to TAKE FOUR DAYS to do this so-called minor service. It's costing me daily rental car fees, and I could only guess what the bill was going to be for his labor.
When I finally do get the car, I'm tempted to stop order the check 'cause Stuart Schreiber cost me so much extra cash. Here's were it turns to shit and I bend over and spread my ass cheeks. I pick up the car on a Saturday morning and drive around all weekend. culminating with a smoking hot date with the girl I was just beginning to date... we come back from a party on Sunday night, and due to other stupid ass circumstances, we can't go up into her place to have sex or go to mine ('cause the owner of the house I was staying at had these two ass-bag bulldogs who weren't really housetrained).
Me and my girl are making out in the car in front her apartment, with the engine idling, and we notice steam coming up from the engine. I look at the engine temp guage and it's deep in the red zone! I shut the car off and let it cool down for about 45 minutes, as we continue to do everything but fuck in the front seat of my car.
When it's about 5am, my girl goes inside and I have to drive back from Hollywood to Woodland muthafucking Hills -- the car is overheating the whole time, and I'm stopping to fill the coolant resevoir up with first coolant and then water every three highway exits.
The next day I call Stuart tell him my troubles and he says he'll do any repairs free of charge, if the problem was something he caused or overlooked. I tell him what about the tow!!?! It's going to cost me about $70 to get the car towed to his garage -- even with AAA!!! He agrees to pay for that, too, if it's his fault.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Baghdad Wall
Why did this stupid idea remind me of Berlin in 1952? Or Israel's occupied territories last summer?! Or the Rio Grande border anytime recently?
For some reason people honestly believe that putting up a wall between two opposing factions is actually going to work.
The one thing that this Division Wall in Baghdad proved is that the U.S. Military is the most devisive force there is in Iraq -- Sunni and Shia, factions that have been slitting each others throats for the better part of the War in Iraq, abandoned their mutual hatred for a common external hatred -- that of the US Armed Forces in Iraq.
No doubt the so-called SURGE, has proved to be a futiles as any other effort to qwell the chaos in an arab country (now that could be anywhere)... now why is that?
For some reason people honestly believe that putting up a wall between two opposing factions is actually going to work.
The one thing that this Division Wall in Baghdad proved is that the U.S. Military is the most devisive force there is in Iraq -- Sunni and Shia, factions that have been slitting each others throats for the better part of the War in Iraq, abandoned their mutual hatred for a common external hatred -- that of the US Armed Forces in Iraq.
No doubt the so-called SURGE, has proved to be a futiles as any other effort to qwell the chaos in an arab country (now that could be anywhere)... now why is that?
Toyota bitch-slaps GM!
You knew it was gonna happen this year, I knew it was gonna happen this, and not that it happened what do we think about it?
Toyota surpassed GM in sales for the first time in the first quarter of 2007. Toyota’s ascendancy, which many in the auto game had predicted for some time, is another milestone in America’s long decline from unchallenged industrial preeminence. A decline that actually spells, "fuck you, gringo."
G.M. swept past Ford in 1931 in the enormous American car market and in worldwide sales, and barely looked back for seven decades. But a combination of inattention to quality -- the biggest issue with American cars... that and SHITTY-ASS design, strained labor relations, adverse regulatory decisions and a slowness to recognize the potential for small cars eroded G.M.’s seemingly insurmountable lead starting in the mid-1960s.
Emerging from the ashes of Japan’s World War II defeat, thanks in part to American assistance during the Korean War, Toyota established itself through the 1970s and 1980s as the industry’s standard for quality and reliability. It has since built a reputation for technological leadership as well, most notably with the Prius and other hybrid cars. Funny thing is Japanese automakers use techniques developed by dismissed US auto industry players.
Well, I can see Detroit becoming the next Mad Mad wasteland over the next five years and the main industry of that rusting metropolis continues to fail its populace.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Once again the "hip kids" laid the ground work for a youth rampage/massacre... Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were the previous ostricized individuals who decided to become Duke Nuk'em, don militia fatigues and take up arms against their aggressors -- they've been surpassed on the trip down the insane lane by VT Shooter Cho.Cho gets props for using technology to distribute his mayhem manifesto (bigups to QuickTime... as this will surely be the tip of the iceberg for QT rants), because otherwise we wouldn't have actually heard his words or seen his pained face... the FBI would have censored it, or the news media outlets would have only given us the snipets they FELT we should have access to. As I watched clips of Cho's outbursts/rants, it occurred to me... it wasn't a question of what made him snap that fateful Monday -- because obviously he snapped days, if not weeks or months prior -- but how did he keep it together for as long as he did, and why did he choose that Monday to unload his 9mms?
You might be asking why I said the "hip kids" laid the ground work for Cho's impersonatin of Frank Castle aka THE PUNISHER, because it was stated in a background story about Cho that when he moved to the US from South Korea when he was 9, because of his limited mastery of English he became the whipping boy, target of pranks by those kids who think they're too cool for school. Every culture has that same issue with the way young kids interact with "the other" (which is perceived and relative designation) -- some would say it's just part of growing up. However, in a base culture like that of America's where being considered "cool" or part of the "in-crowd" is more important than anything else IN AN ACADEMIC SETTING. The seeds for non-normal social adult life are planted in junior high and high school. If you think back to elementary school, pretty much everybody was on equal ground in terms of the social strucutre... although changes once kids become 10, 11 and 12...
Honestly, I'm surprised that there's not more of these style rampage killings on college campuses and at high schools. Since the repellant rise of Paris Hilton and these new Mean Girl/skank mafia types (Brittany, Lindsay, et al.) over the past three to five years, the pressure to get with a girl to get pussy it EVERYTHING. These days girls are liable to suck a mean dick (see my post on Lipsticking back in Dec. 06) as easily as they would give a peck on the cheek say circa 1999. If you happen to be one of those guys who doesn't falls into the category where your dick can be used in a lipsticking contest or actually get to fuck, then you're going to be mad. Also, if the "in-crowd" does it's best to single you... they become Ego Assassins -- you're going to sink and sink and sink... and ultimately you might rise out of it when you go off to college -- where self-reinvention is staple of the institution -- but the damage has been, and most people don't fully recover... they just fall in to one of those categories that we can all label when it comes to who's who and who's what upon college graduation.
Cho gets no props for what he did, but the pundits and psychologists have an opportunity to indicit the youth culture and sadly they won't. The culture that breads serial killers, now also has the dubious distinction of breading youth rampage killers... that's no accident.
Monday, April 16, 2007
Postscript to Imus Debacle
Here's part of an article from Newsday... My commentary is in bold...
It's more than just Imus
Shaun Powell
SPORTS COLUMNIST
April 12, 2007
In retrospect, outraged people shouldn't have united and screamed "blank you" to Don Imus the last few days. No, instead, we should've stuck out our hand and said, "Thank you."
We should feel indebted to a shriveled, unfunny, insensitive frog for being so ignorant that he actually did us all a favor. He woke society the hell up. He grabbed it by the throat, shook hard and ordered us to take a long, critical look at ourselves and the mess we've made and ignored for much too long. He made us examine the culture and the characters we've created for ourselves, our impressionable young people and our future. The piss-poor pop culture and its icons that have grown out of the so-called equalizing of Blacks throughout the 90s via hip-hop... is one the most extreme lies that have been believed by the masses.
Had Imus not called a bunch of proud and innocent young women "nappy-headed hos," would we be as ashamed of what we see as we are today?
Or, to quote Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer: "Have we really lost our moral fiber?"
And our minds as well?
I'm not sure if the last few days will serve as a watershed moment for this MTV, middle-finger, screw-you generation. Probably not, according to my hunch. A short time from now, the hysteria will turn to vapor, folks will settle back into their routines, somebody will pump up the volume on the latest poison produced by hip-hop while Al Sharpton and the other racial ambulance chasers will find other guilt-ridden white folks to shake for fame and cash. How does Al Sharpton make his living anyway? He ran for president in 2004, so he's obviously make some illegit cash... only I can't figure it out... I mean yeah, he is a Reverend, so he' s liable to be skimming from the church he fronts. In five minutes, the entire episode of Imus and his strange idea of humor will be older than his hairstyle. Lessons learned will be lessons forgotten.
I wish I were wrong about that last part. But I doubt it, because any minute now, black people will resume calling themselves bitches and hos and the N-word and in the ultimate sign of hypocrisy, neither Rutgers nor anyone else will call a news conference about that.
Because when we really get to the root of the problem, this isn't about Imus. This is about a culture we -- meaning black folks -- created and condoned and packaged for white power brokers to sell and shock jocks like Imus to exploit. Can we talk? The pre-packaging of the worst of Black culture for white power brokers and financiers to cull more money than modern-day adjusted slavery reparations would be worth
Tell me: Where did an old white guy like Imus learn the word "ho"?
Was that always part of his vocabulary? Or did he borrow it from Jay-Z and Dave Chappelle and Snoop Dogg?have to say that he borrowed it, like damn near everything else considered "pop"
What really disappointed me about that exhausting Rutgers news conference, which was slyly used as a recruiting pitch by Stringer, was the absence of the truth and the lack of backbone and courage. Black women had the perfect opportunity to lash out at their most dangerous oppressors -- black men -- and yet they kept the focus on a white guy.This is the god's honest true... Black men oppress each other and Black women on a level that is highly inappropriate and continues to the be race's Achilles' Heel.
It was a tremendous letdown for me, personally and professionally. I wanted Stringer, and especially her players, many of whom listen to rap and hip-hop, to take Nelly to task. Or BET. Or MTV. Or the gangsta culture that is suffocating our kids. They had the ear and eye of the nation trained upon them, and yet these women didn't get to the point and the root of the matter. They danced around it, and I guess I should've known better, because black people still refuse to lash out against those black people who are doing harm to us all.Sad thing about Stringer and her charges is that no one was there to "coach" them the way Imus was obviously coached, and the way you need coaching in today's PR'd and Spin Rx culture... and with Al Sharpton rallying the troops, at least a deeper social message could have and should have been said. Granted it is hard to be the one Black who points fingers, because the term "Uncle Tom" I believe has no equivalent in any other ethnographic grouping.
Honestly, I wasn't holding my breath for Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, a pair of phony and self-appointed leaders, because they have their agendas and financial stakes. I was hoping 10 young women, who have nothing on the line, who are members of a young culture, would train their attention to within the race, name names and say enough is enough. But they didn't, and I was crushed.
You should walk around the playground and the elementary and high schools today and listen to how young black people speak to each other, treat each other and tease each other. You'd be ashamed.The cycle of self-hate continues unabated, in fact enhanced by the lack of financial freedom that the majority of Blacks suffer from, the inability to cast a wider net on what is consider socially accetpable, i.e. "what it means to be black?" and by the images pushed by the media... a media that no Black has the ability to even guide their image.
Next, sample some of their CDs and look at the video games they're playing. And while you're at it, blame yourself for funding this garbage, for allowing your kids to support these companies and for not taking a stand against it or the so-called artists making it happen.
Black folks, for whatever reason, can be their own worst enemy. The criminal beauty of slavery is the Niggas ARE and WILL ALWAYS BE their own worst ankle-cutters... the crabs in a barrel concept isn't something that's misladenThe last several days, the media had us believe it was Don Imus. But deep down, we know better.
It's more than just Imus
Shaun Powell
SPORTS COLUMNIST
April 12, 2007
In retrospect, outraged people shouldn't have united and screamed "blank you" to Don Imus the last few days. No, instead, we should've stuck out our hand and said, "Thank you."
We should feel indebted to a shriveled, unfunny, insensitive frog for being so ignorant that he actually did us all a favor. He woke society the hell up. He grabbed it by the throat, shook hard and ordered us to take a long, critical look at ourselves and the mess we've made and ignored for much too long. He made us examine the culture and the characters we've created for ourselves, our impressionable young people and our future. The piss-poor pop culture and its icons that have grown out of the so-called equalizing of Blacks throughout the 90s via hip-hop... is one the most extreme lies that have been believed by the masses.
Had Imus not called a bunch of proud and innocent young women "nappy-headed hos," would we be as ashamed of what we see as we are today?
Or, to quote Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer: "Have we really lost our moral fiber?"
And our minds as well?
I'm not sure if the last few days will serve as a watershed moment for this MTV, middle-finger, screw-you generation. Probably not, according to my hunch. A short time from now, the hysteria will turn to vapor, folks will settle back into their routines, somebody will pump up the volume on the latest poison produced by hip-hop while Al Sharpton and the other racial ambulance chasers will find other guilt-ridden white folks to shake for fame and cash. How does Al Sharpton make his living anyway? He ran for president in 2004, so he's obviously make some illegit cash... only I can't figure it out... I mean yeah, he is a Reverend, so he' s liable to be skimming from the church he fronts. In five minutes, the entire episode of Imus and his strange idea of humor will be older than his hairstyle. Lessons learned will be lessons forgotten.
I wish I were wrong about that last part. But I doubt it, because any minute now, black people will resume calling themselves bitches and hos and the N-word and in the ultimate sign of hypocrisy, neither Rutgers nor anyone else will call a news conference about that.
Because when we really get to the root of the problem, this isn't about Imus. This is about a culture we -- meaning black folks -- created and condoned and packaged for white power brokers to sell and shock jocks like Imus to exploit. Can we talk? The pre-packaging of the worst of Black culture for white power brokers and financiers to cull more money than modern-day adjusted slavery reparations would be worth
Tell me: Where did an old white guy like Imus learn the word "ho"?
Was that always part of his vocabulary? Or did he borrow it from Jay-Z and Dave Chappelle and Snoop Dogg?have to say that he borrowed it, like damn near everything else considered "pop"
What really disappointed me about that exhausting Rutgers news conference, which was slyly used as a recruiting pitch by Stringer, was the absence of the truth and the lack of backbone and courage. Black women had the perfect opportunity to lash out at their most dangerous oppressors -- black men -- and yet they kept the focus on a white guy.This is the god's honest true... Black men oppress each other and Black women on a level that is highly inappropriate and continues to the be race's Achilles' Heel.
It was a tremendous letdown for me, personally and professionally. I wanted Stringer, and especially her players, many of whom listen to rap and hip-hop, to take Nelly to task. Or BET. Or MTV. Or the gangsta culture that is suffocating our kids. They had the ear and eye of the nation trained upon them, and yet these women didn't get to the point and the root of the matter. They danced around it, and I guess I should've known better, because black people still refuse to lash out against those black people who are doing harm to us all.Sad thing about Stringer and her charges is that no one was there to "coach" them the way Imus was obviously coached, and the way you need coaching in today's PR'd and Spin Rx culture... and with Al Sharpton rallying the troops, at least a deeper social message could have and should have been said. Granted it is hard to be the one Black who points fingers, because the term "Uncle Tom" I believe has no equivalent in any other ethnographic grouping.
Honestly, I wasn't holding my breath for Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, a pair of phony and self-appointed leaders, because they have their agendas and financial stakes. I was hoping 10 young women, who have nothing on the line, who are members of a young culture, would train their attention to within the race, name names and say enough is enough. But they didn't, and I was crushed.
You should walk around the playground and the elementary and high schools today and listen to how young black people speak to each other, treat each other and tease each other. You'd be ashamed.The cycle of self-hate continues unabated, in fact enhanced by the lack of financial freedom that the majority of Blacks suffer from, the inability to cast a wider net on what is consider socially accetpable, i.e. "what it means to be black?" and by the images pushed by the media... a media that no Black has the ability to even guide their image.
Next, sample some of their CDs and look at the video games they're playing. And while you're at it, blame yourself for funding this garbage, for allowing your kids to support these companies and for not taking a stand against it or the so-called artists making it happen.
Black folks, for whatever reason, can be their own worst enemy. The criminal beauty of slavery is the Niggas ARE and WILL ALWAYS BE their own worst ankle-cutters... the crabs in a barrel concept isn't something that's misladenThe last several days, the media had us believe it was Don Imus. But deep down, we know better.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Lynching Imus
So Don Imus got his nuts sliced off today. Too bad... not because I like the guy or loathe him, but because it's free speech being curtailed in an era of corporate control of the media. CBS just showed that they have no balls, no freedom because they're enslaved by those groups that boycott huge corporations when ever somebody says something objectionable and that someone is being sponsored by some NASDAQ-listed company who wears a chain and collar that leads all the way over to Madison Avenue.
Imus didn't say anything that white people (and other non-Blacks) say amongst themselves when microphones and n*ggers aren't around. I'm not saying that all white people trip out and drop racial bombs all the time, but it does happen -- who doesn't say wild outlandish from time to time. Frustration will cause racial hated -- the bete noir that has no expiration date for Americans -- to boil up and
As a shock-jock similar to Howard Stern, Imus was known for being offensive, bigot and misogynist -- his poison lyrics made him and CBS radio millions of dollars over the years. However, as the 21st Century marches on and Americanism loses its prominence, off-the-cuff "keep a nigga down" remarks or ANY kind of ethno-hate speech 'causes the kind uproar that refuses to allow cowardly advertising dollars from backing a stance that our country claims to have as a founding principal.
You might say, "well, Ramses, why should Gm or Procter & Gamble fund the vitriol that spews out of Imus' piehole?" How 'bout they back the rest of the bullshit images, messages and concepts that continue to have acting like sheep. It's only when act is so base, so harsh to the core (i.e. Michael Richards' outburst) do people sit up and notice. When Budweiser is trying to get you to suck down as much of its suds as it can with it's really subliminal life-style advertising. Now that is the true crime!
The problem with this is corporate lynching of past his prime court jester is that, people are NOT going to like certain groups that are different, particularly when the difference bread an entire lingua franca of degradation. I mean a few weeks ago, the lunatic president of Iran was claiming that the filmmakers behind the hit movie 300 were trying to disparage Persians -- as if the Battle of Thermopalye was some made up shit that didn't happen or that the Persians beat the Greeks into submission at that trully epic battle!!! I was like, and this man thinks it's ok to have nuclear bombs at his finger tips?
FUCK!
ME!
Imus' ability to say whatever the hell he wanted to say (within the FCC) is why he was successful, why he got stiff-ass white people to relax and speak candidly.
So just like cable TV vs. Network TV, broadcast radio has lost out -- questionable if it lost a talent, but it lost its relevance, its independence -- if had any left, once the news divisions of the networks were forced to make a profit.
Imus didn't say anything that white people (and other non-Blacks) say amongst themselves when microphones and n*ggers aren't around. I'm not saying that all white people trip out and drop racial bombs all the time, but it does happen -- who doesn't say wild outlandish from time to time. Frustration will cause racial hated -- the bete noir that has no expiration date for Americans -- to boil up and
As a shock-jock similar to Howard Stern, Imus was known for being offensive, bigot and misogynist -- his poison lyrics made him and CBS radio millions of dollars over the years. However, as the 21st Century marches on and Americanism loses its prominence, off-the-cuff "keep a nigga down" remarks or ANY kind of ethno-hate speech 'causes the kind uproar that refuses to allow cowardly advertising dollars from backing a stance that our country claims to have as a founding principal.
You might say, "well, Ramses, why should Gm or Procter & Gamble fund the vitriol that spews out of Imus' piehole?" How 'bout they back the rest of the bullshit images, messages and concepts that continue to have acting like sheep. It's only when act is so base, so harsh to the core (i.e. Michael Richards' outburst) do people sit up and notice. When Budweiser is trying to get you to suck down as much of its suds as it can with it's really subliminal life-style advertising. Now that is the true crime!
The problem with this is corporate lynching of past his prime court jester is that, people are NOT going to like certain groups that are different, particularly when the difference bread an entire lingua franca of degradation. I mean a few weeks ago, the lunatic president of Iran was claiming that the filmmakers behind the hit movie 300 were trying to disparage Persians -- as if the Battle of Thermopalye was some made up shit that didn't happen or that the Persians beat the Greeks into submission at that trully epic battle!!! I was like, and this man thinks it's ok to have nuclear bombs at his finger tips?
FUCK!
ME!
Imus' ability to say whatever the hell he wanted to say (within the FCC) is why he was successful, why he got stiff-ass white people to relax and speak candidly.
So just like cable TV vs. Network TV, broadcast radio has lost out -- questionable if it lost a talent, but it lost its relevance, its independence -- if had any left, once the news divisions of the networks were forced to make a profit.
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