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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MOVIE REVIEW - LITTLE CHILDREN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scavengers at The Tower

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

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



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

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

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

Lipsticking????

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Social Class in a Classless Society?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Always and Forever White Man's Entertainer!

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

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

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

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

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

Score One for The Stormfront supporters!!!

Citizen Murdoch Denounces Confessional!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Rehash of the LOOK Magazine Confession

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Admission Applications Must Contain Donation Checks

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

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

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

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

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

Tell All Memoir?!?!

Jailed Juice
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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

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

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

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


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

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

Bitch-slappping the GOP

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Death Sentence!!! Take That Dick In The Mouth

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

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

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

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

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

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

I degress.

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

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

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

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

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

To The Ends Of The Earth

Jailed Juice
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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

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

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

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

Public Radio Snobs??

Sylvia Saint
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SHAMELESS PLUG

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

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

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

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

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

Election Practices... Reminds Me of Jim Crow

Birth of Fade Nigga Nation
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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

WHY? Somebody please tell me why!

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

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

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

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

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

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

01.20.09

Bush with Clean Hands
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pop Music: A Euphoric Drug with a Sinister Purpose

Angelina Jolie - Orgasmic
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Not On My Watch"

IraqiGunman
Originally uploaded by Phalanx.

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

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

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

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

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